ENG001 — Elementary English — Midterm Past Papers & Solved MCQs

Q1. A message’s success depends upon the fulfillment of the following points:

• A.Understanding, Social contacts
• B.Investigation, Reusability and Analysis
• C.Understanding, Social Contact, Common Medium, Transmission✓ Correct
• D.Common Medium, Transmission, and Understanding

Q2. Select the correctly punctuated sentence.

• A.Spain is a beautiful country: the beaches are warm, sandy and spotlessly clean.
• B.Spain is a beautiful country; the beaches are warm, sandy and spotlessly clean.✓ Correct
• C.Spain is a beautiful country, the beaches are warm, sandy and spotlessly clean.
• D.Spain is a beautiful country; the beache's are warm, sandy and spotlessly clean.

Q3. Which type of paragraph is used to describe spaces?

• A.Spatial order paragraphs✓ Correct
• B.Multi-paragraph composition
• C.Time order paragraphs
• D.Order of importance paragraph

Q4. Which type of writing does engage its readers through original insight and precise language?

• A.Interesting✓ Correct
• B.Monotonous
• C.Dreary
• D.Tedious

Q5. How many people are going to school?

• A.declarative
• B.imperative
• C.exclamatory
• D.interrogative✓ Correct

Q6. What a rainy day!

• A.Exclamatory sentence✓ Correct
• B.Imperative sentence
• C.Interrogative sentence
• D.Declarative sentence

Q7. Which one of the following punctuation marks is used to introduce a series?

• A.The semicolon
• B.The colon✓ Correct
• C.The comma
• D.The period

Q8. A transitional expression between independent clauses is preceded with a ------------and followed by a comma.

• A.dash
• B.colon
• C.semicolon✓ Correct
• D.period

Q9. Choose the best option to complete the sentence. Brazil is _____ England.

• A.biger than
• B.bigger as
• C.bigger than✓ Correct
• D.biger as

Q10. Choose the correct preposition(s) to fill the gaps. Have you read the article _____ Time magazine ____ Google?

• A.In - on✓ Correct
• B.on - on
• C.from – on
• D.to - on

Q11. Choose the best option. The police caught the thief _____ the corner of Cascade and Plum Streets.

• A.in
• B.at✓ Correct
• C.from
• D.by

Q12. Choose the best option. My best friend, John, is named ______ his great-grandfather.

• A.in
• B.about
• C.to
• D.after✓ Correct

Q13. Choose the best option. Grandpa stayed up ______ two in the morning.

• A.for
• B.until✓ Correct
• C.in
• D.since

Q14. Choose the best option. My parents have been married ______ forty-nine years.

• A.to
• B.until
• C.for✓ Correct
• D.since

Q15. Fill in the blank with appropriate verb given below. She .........trying to pass her driving test but fails every time.

• A.had kept
• B.is keeping
• C.keeps✓ Correct
• D.kept

Q16. Choose the option that best completes the sentence. Camels store water ___________ of fat in their humps.

• A.form
• B.by the form
• C.in the form✓ Correct
• D.with the form

Q17. Which of the following statements is NOT correct?

• A.Capitalize the first word of a sentence
• B.Capitalize the first word of a quoted phrase.✓ Correct
• C.Capitalize proper nouns and words derived from them.
• D.Capitalize the first, last, and all major words in titles and subtitles or works

Q18. Choose the option that best describes the underlined word. His hair was unkempt.

• A.dull
• B.untidy✓ Correct
• C.greasy
• D.long

Q19. Choose the option that best defines the 'Courteous':

• A.Detestable
• B.Odious
• C.Offensive
• D.Considerate✓ Correct

Q20. Which one of the following options is NOT a search engine?

• A.iWon
• B.Google
• C.Encarta✓ Correct
• D.Yahoo

Q21. _______ are phrases that have been exhausted to the point where they have completely lost originality.

• A.Clichés✓ Correct
• B.Redundancy
• C.Euphemism
• D.Slang

Q22. Transition word can be used to link _______ from different sentences.

• A.Verb
• B.Ideas✓ Correct
• C.Euphemistic expressions
• D.Redundant expressions

Q23. My brother wills _______ money from me.

• A.Borrow✓ Correct
• B.Borrowed
• C.Borrowing
• D.None of the above

Q24. My house is as _______ as your house.

• A.Bigger
• B.Biggest
• C.Big✓ Correct
• D.The biggest

Q25. Select the correct option. He meet me as _______ though the door.

• A.Will come
• B.Had come
• C.Was coming✓ Correct
• D.Come

Q26. Choose the option that correctly fills the blanks. I refused to _______ the fact that the ring is lost.

• A.Accepted
• B.Accept✓ Correct
• C.Except
• D.Axccept