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  • 1. He ...... in wearing the old fashioned coat in spite of his wife's disapproval.

  • Options
  • A. insists
  • B. persists
  • C. desists
  • D. resists
  • Discuss
  • 2. She ...... a brief appearance at the end of party.

  • Options
  • A. put on
  • B. put in
  • C. put across
  • D. put up
  • Discuss
  • 3. Life is to death as pleasure is to ......

  • Options
  • A. poverty
  • B. suffering
  • C. anguish
  • D. pain
  • Discuss
  • 4. This, partly, explains how the Mehta family has been able to ...... its lavish lifestyle in recent times, despite the fact that all its assets have been ......

  • Options
  • A. keep, removed
  • B. afford, attached
  • C. develop, liquidated
  • D. keep up, destroyed
  • Discuss
  • 5. The machine is difficult to build ...... easy to maintain.

  • Options
  • A. but
  • B. and
  • C. for
  • D. if
  • Discuss
  • 6. If you work beyond your capacity, you will naturally feel ......

  • Options
  • A. drowsy
  • B. tired
  • C. confident
  • D. giddy
  • Discuss
  • 7. If you persists in telling lies to me I shall sue you ...... slander.

  • Options
  • A. to
  • B. on
  • C. for
  • D. with
  • Discuss
  • 8. His father-in-law ...... him up in business.

  • Options
  • A. put
  • B. made
  • C. set
  • D. built
  • Discuss
  • 9. ...... works of reference are valuable as Encyclopedia, Brittanica.

  • Options
  • A. A few
  • B. Few
  • C. The few
  • D. Fewer
  • Discuss
  • 10. This book is quite similar ......

  • Options
  • A. with the "Treasure Island"
  • B. of that film we saw at school
  • C. to the one I read last week
  • D. than a story told by our teacher
  • Discuss

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