English Practice Test 2

English Practice Test 2 is designed to help students strengthen their reading, grammar, vocabulary, and comprehension skills for competitive entry tests like MDCAT, NUMS, AKU, UET, ECAT, NTS, as well as FSC Board Exams. This test covers topics including sentence correction, tenses, analogies, synonyms & antonyms, and reading comprehension passages, helping students improve accuracy and confidence.

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Category: English Tenses and Sentence Structure

They have painted their house purple. The sentence is an example of:

NUMS 2020
English
Tenses and Sentence Structure
Elimination Tool:

A) Monotransitive

B) Ditransitive

C) Complex transitive

D) Reflexive transitive

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Category: English Key Vocabulary

Choose the word most similar in meaning to the capitalized one.

FORBID:

NTS 2018
English
Key Vocabulary
Elimination Tool:

A) Prohibit

B) Chide

C) Permit

D) Constraint

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Category: English Spellings Correction

Choice Correct Spelling

Presumably

Prisumably

Presamably

Presumibly

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Category: English Tenses and Sentence Structure

Choose the correct sentence from the following options:

NUMS 2018
English
Tenses and Sentence Structure
Elimination Tool:

A) If he studied more, he would have pass the exam.

B) If he were studying to a greater degree, he would have been able to pass the exam.

C) Studying more, he would have been able to pass the exam.

D) Had he studied more, he would have been able to pass the exam.

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Category: English Identify errors in sentence

Identify errors in sentences:

PreMedPK MDCAT Mock 5
Identify errors in sentence
Elimination Tool:

A) The city police have decided to take stern action against drivers which attempt to overtake on the left side in the city roads.

B) The city police have decided to take stern action against drivers who attempt to overtake on the left side on the city roads.

C) The city police has deciding to take stern action against drivers who attempt to overtake on the left side on the city roads.

D) The city police have decided to taking stern action against drivers who attempt to overtake in the left side on the city roads.

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Category: English Tenses and Sentence Structure

Choose the correct sentence from the following options:

NUMS 2018
English
Tenses and Sentence Structure
Elimination Tool:

A) I remember going to British Museum one day.

B) I remember to go to British Museum one day.

C) I remember to go to the British Museum one day.

D) I remember going to the British Museum one day.

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Category: English Fill in the blank

Select the best pair of words to complete the sentences.

Every Saturday, Oscar likes ____ go skiing in the mountains. Allie likes skiing, ______.

NUMS 2015
English
Fill in the blank
Elimination Tool:

A) to; too

B) too; to

C) two; to

D) too; two

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Category: English Key Vocabulary

In the following question, four alternative meanings of a word are given. Select the nearest correct meaning of the word given.

INVIDIOUS:

NUMS 2016
English
Key Vocabulary
Elimination Tool:

A) Unbreakable

B) Interesting

C) Unpleasant

D) Fair

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Category: English – Synonyms and Antonyms

Choose the word closest In meaning to “Amend”

Exacerbate

Deteriorate

Impair

Improve

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Category: English Fill in the blank

Fill in the blank with the correct option:

He was ____ of theft in the court.

NUMS 2016
English
Fill in the blank
Elimination Tool:

A) charged

B) reported

C) blamed

D) accused

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Category: English Fill in the blank

Fill in the blank with the correct option:

The traveler ____ a long tour to water the camel.

NUMS 2016
English
Fill in the blank
Elimination Tool:

A) took

B) saw

C) sought

D) made

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Category: English Analogies

Cells : Cytology

Worms : Ornithology

Diseases : Physiology

Insects : Entomology

Tissues : Morphology

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Category: English – Synonyms and Antonyms

Choose the word closest In meaning to “Soggy”

parched

Dull

Sodden

Desiccated

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Category: English Grammar and Punctuation

Which of the following sentences is grammatically correct?

NUMS 2015
English
Grammar and Punctuation
Elimination Tool:

A) After Dave started saving money, he became financially independent.

B) After Dave started saving money, he became finance independent.

C) After Dave started saving money, he became financial independent.

D) After Dave started saving money, he became fiscal independent.

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Category: English – Synonyms and Antonyms

Choose the word closest In meaning to “Nadir”

Bottom

Pinnacle

Apex

Root

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Category: English Grammar and Punctuation

In the following question, four alternative sentences are given. Choose the CORRECT option.

UHS 2019
English
Grammar and Punctuation
Elimination Tool:

A) I was been to America for a medical check up.

B) I had being to America for a medical check up.

C) I have been to America for a medical check up.

D) I has been to America for a medical check up.

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Category: English Grammar and Punctuation

In the following question, four alternative sentences are given. Choose the CORRECT one.

PreMedPK MDCAT Mock 3
English
Grammar and Punctuation
Elimination Tool:

A) In my experience, the awakening of that clear judgemeent as to what the college is for, is not as difficult as is often supposed.

B) In my experience, the awakening of a clear judgement as for what the college is for,is not as difficult as is often supposed.

C) In my experience, the awakening of a clear judgement as to what the college is for, is not as difficult as is often supposed.

D) In my experience, the awakening of a clear judgement as to what the college is for, is not as much as difficult as often supposed.

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Category: English Reading Comprehension

unsinkable Ship Naval architects never claim that a ship is unsinkable, but the sinking of the passenger•and-car ferry Estonia in the Baltic surely should never have happened. It was well designed and carefully maintained. It carried the proper number of lifeboats. It had been thoroughly inspected the day of its fatal voyage. Yet hours later, Estonia rolled over and sank in a cold, stormy night. It went down so quickly that most of those on board, caught in their dark, flooding cabins, had no chance to save the natives. Of those % who managed to scramble overboard, only 139 survived. The rest died of hypothermia before the rescuers could pluck them from the cold sea. The final death toll amounted to 912 souls. One can understand from the reading that .

a) The lifesaving equipment did not work well and lifeboats could not be lowered

b) 139 people managed to leave the vessel but died in freezing water

c) Naval architects claimed that the Estonia was unsinkable

d) Most victims were trapped Inside the boat as they west' In theiir Cabin

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Category: English Passage

Questions 7-8 are based on the following passage.

The fact that we were all as safe as kittens under a cook-stove did not, however, assuage in the least the fine despair and the grotesque desperation which seized upon the residents of the East Side when the cry spread like a grass fire that the dam had given way. Some of the most dignified, staid, cynical, and clear-thinking men in town abandoned their wives, stenographers, homes, and offices and ran east. There are few alarms in the world more terrifying than The dam has broken! There are few persons capable of stopping to reason when that clarion cry strikes upon their ears, even persons who live in towns no nearer than five hundred miles to a dam.
Identify the phrase in which the people of the East Side experienced one of the deadliest fears of their lives:

PreMedPK MDCAT Mock 5
English
Passage
Elimination Tool:

A) "The dam has been destroyed"

B) "The dam is safe"

C) "The dam has broken"

D) "The dam has not broken"

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Category: English Grammar and Punctuation

Which one has proper use of preposition?

NUMS 2015
English
Grammar and Punctuation
Elimination Tool:

A) "If I am lying, the curse of Allah be on me and may I be drowned in some period. May I even be deprived from a decent burial!"

D) "If I am lying, the curse of Allah on me and may I be drowned in some period. May I even be deprived of a decent burial!"

C) "If I am lying, the curse of Allah be on me and may I be drowned in some period. May I even deprived off a decent burial."

B) "If I am lying. the curse of Allah be on me and may I be drowned in some period, May I even be deprived at a decent burial!"

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Category: English Analogies

Implicate : Incriminate

Involvement : Malpractice

Embezzlement : Charge

Exonerate : Acquit

Perjury : Fraud

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Category: English Passage

Questions 7-8 are based on the following passage. The fact that we were all as safe as kittens under a cook-stove did not, however, assuage in the least the fine despair and the grotesque desperation which seized upon the residents of the East Side when the cry spread like a grass fire that the dam had given way. Some of the most dignified, staid, cynical, and clear thinking men in town abandoned their wives, stenographers, homes, and offices and ran east. There are few alarms in the world more terrifying than’ The dam has broken! There are few persons capable of stopping to reason when that clarion cry strikes upon their ears, even persons who live in towns no nearer than five hundred miles to a dam.

The phrase “spread like a grass fire” means

NTS 2011
English
Passage
Elimination Tool:

A) rapid spread

B) fire fighting

C) grass growth

D) dreadful sight

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Category: English Spellings Correction

Choice Correct Spelling

Mathematics

Mathimatics

Mathemetics

Methematics

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Category: English Tenses and Sentence Structure

Choose the correct passive voice:

How did she defraud him of his savings?

PreMedPK MDCAT Mock 5
English
Tenses and Sentence Structure
Elimination Tool:

A) How had he been defrauded of his savings?

B) How had he been defrauded by her?

C) How was he defrauded of his savings?

D) How was he defrauded by her of his savings?

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Category: English

John ____ to be a doctor.

NUMS Mock 4

A) Wants

B) Wanting

C) Is wanting

D) Have wanted

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Category: English Grammar and Punctuation

Choose the correct sentence from the following

PreMedPK MDCAT Mock 2
English
Grammar and Punctuation
Elimination Tool:

A) The cheery trees stand over the woodland ride.

B) The cheery trees stand about the woodland ride.

C) The cheery trees beside about the woodland ride

D) The cheery trees stand on the woodland ride.

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Category: English

Either my father or my brothers __________ going to sell the car.

NUMS Mock 1
English
Fill in the blank

A) Is

B) Are

C) Were

D) Was

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Category: English Tenses and Sentence Structure

Complete the sentences by choosing the most appropriate option, from the given lettered choices (A to D/E) below:

The road is wet. It must ______ raining.

NTS 2018
English
Tenses and Sentence Structure
Elimination Tool:

A) have been

B) had

C) has

D) have

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Category: English

Choose the correct answer:

NUMS Mock 2
English
Grammar and Punctuation

A) A friend of him told us the sad news of his father’s demise.

B) Friend of him told us the sad news of his father’s demise.

C) A friend of his told us the sad news of his father’s demise.

D) A friend of him told the sad news of his father’s demise.

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Category: English Analogies

Shoes : Cobbler

Spectacles : Optician

Education : Teacher

Oxygen : Plant

Food : Kitchen

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Category: English Fill in the blank

Shakespeare, a (an) ______ writer, entertained audiences by writing many tragic and comic plays.

PreMedPK MDCAT Mock 1
English
Fill in the blank
Elimination Tool:

A) Numeric

B) Obstinate

C) Dutiful

D) Prolific

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Category: English – Synonyms and Antonyms

Choose the word most opposite in meaning to “Incomparable”

Unique

Rival

Attire

Routine

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Category: English Grammar

If you work beyond your capacity, you will naturally feel —

Drowsy

Tired

Confident

Giddy

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Category: English

Q.191 Although the evening air was no longer black and thick, but everything else was gone under the brown masses.

A.longer

B.but

C.was gone

D. masses

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Category: English Analogies

Elevated : Exalted

Dirty : Filthy

Raise : Commensurate

Disorderly : Unfaithful

d) Promoted : Excellence

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Category: English

Q.194 In the world of today, not only is there not enough food, but each year there are many people eating

A.not only

B. not

C.but

D.eating

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Category: English Spellings Correction

Choice Correct Spelling

Relevance

Relivance

Relavance

Relovance

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Category: English

Demonstrate correct use of articles and prepositions.

What do you usually have for ______ breakfast?

NUMS Mock 3

A) a

B) an

C) the

D) no article

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Category: English Tenses and Sentence Structure

Choose the CORRECT sentence from the following options:

NUMS 2019 Reconduct
English
Tenses and Sentence Structure
Elimination Tool:

A) The players were often punished by the referee’s lack of alertness who penalized all those who were involved in fighting, regardless of who had instigated it.

B) The referee’s lack of alertness often caused him to penalize all those who were involved in fighting, regardless of who had instigated it.

C) The players were punished by the lack of alertness of the referee who penalized often all those who were involved in fighting, regardless of who had instigated it.

D) Lacking alertness, the referee’s choice was to penalize often all those who were involved in fighting, regardless of who had instigated it.

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Category: English Key Vocabulary

In the following question, four alternative meanings of a word are given. Select the nearest correct meaning of the word given.

DISCERNMENT:

NUMS 2016
English
Key Vocabulary
Elimination Tool:

A) A system of controlling a country

B) The ability to show good judgment

C) The act of encouraging somebody

D) The ability of show no concern

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Category: English

The parents were stunned when they saw that children had created complete _____ in the bedroom.

NUMS Mock 4
English
Fill in the blank

A) Knack

B) Groggy

C) Dank

D) Mayhem

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Category: English Fill in the blank

The chess master promised to ______ havoc upon his opponent’s pawn for taking his bishop.

NUMS 2015
English
Fill in the blank
Elimination Tool:

B) Placate

C) Ensue

D) Warrant

E) Wreak

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Category: English Tenses and Sentence Structure

Choose the correct sentence from the following options:

NUMS 2018
English
Tenses and Sentence Structure
Elimination Tool:

A) There is always a good number of undergraduates whose heads are turned.

B) There are always goodly number of undergraduates who’s head are turned.

C) There are always goodly number of undergraduates whose heads are turned.

D) There are always a goodly number of undergraduates whose heads are turned.

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Category: English

What type of sentence is this?

When I go swimming, I have to keep my eyes closed underwater.

NUMS Mock 3
English
Tenses and Sentence Structure

A) Complex

B) Simple

C) Compound

D) None

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Category: English Tenses and Sentence Structure

Choose the correctly structured sentence:

PMC 2020
English
Tenses and Sentence Structure
Elimination Tool:

A) Had he lived in England he would miss his family.

B) Had he lived in England he would have missed his family.

C) Had he lived in England he had missed his family.

D) Had he live in England he will missed his family.

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Category: English Grammar

My uncle decided to take and my sister to the market.

a) I .

Mine

d) Myself

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Category: English Grammar and Punctuation

Demonstrate correct use of articles and prepositions. Demonstrate correct use of the subject-verb agreement. Demonstrate correct use of writing conventions of spelling, capitalization and punctuation to clarify meaning.

Had you worked hard (A)/ from the beginning (B)/ of the term (C)/ you will have passed. (D)

PreMedPK MDCAT Mock 3
English
Grammar and Punctuation
Elimination Tool:

A) Had you worked hard

B) from the beginning

C) of the term

D) you will have passed

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Category: English Key Vocabulary

Should I wear my joggers or my _______?

PreMedPK MDCAT Mock 5
English
Key Vocabulary
Elimination Tool:

A) Cardigan

B) Shorts

C) Scarves

D) Trainers

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Category: English Analogies

Chair : Carpenter

Grass : Gardener

Medicine : Doctor

Bridge : Engineer

Radio : Radiologist

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Category: English Spellings Correction

Choice Correct Spelling

Liqor

Liquor

Liqur

Lequor

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