DELHI POLICE HEAD CONSTABLE ENGLISH QUIZ

Question 1:

Directions: In the following question, out of the four alternatives, select the alternative which is the best substitute of the phrase..
A person who preserves skin of animals

Biloquist

Philologist

Taxidermist

Oculist

Question 2:

Choose the option that is the direct form of the sentence.
I told them to be quiet.

I said to them “Be you quiet!”

I told to them, “You must be quiet.”

I told them, “Be quiet!”

I said them, “You be quiet.”

Question 3:

Choose the option that is the indirect form of the sentence.
“I’m hungry” said the child to his mother.

The child said his mother that he is hungry.

The child said to his mother that I am hungry.

The child told his mother that she was hungry.

The child told his mother that he was hungry.

Question 4:

Select the most appropriate meaning of the following idiom.

Apple of one's eye

Someone who plays all sports

Someone very precious or dear

Someone who behaves courteously

Someone with great respect

Question 5:

In the following questions, a sentence with four highlighted words indicated by a, b, c and d are given. More than one of these four words are either wrongly spelled or inappropriately used. Find out the words which are wrongly spelled or inappropriate (if any). If all the words given in bold are correctly spelled and appropriate in the context of the sentence, (All are correct) as your answer.
India’s anxities(a) over ungovarned (b) spaces and lawless Afghanistan turning into a significantly (c) source of internal security threat (d)are gradually turning into reality.

Only a and d

Only b and c

Only a, b and c

Only b, c and d