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

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

Q.185 Either my mother or my father._____________ coming to the meeting

A. IS

B.are

C. are being

D. has

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Category: English Tenses and Sentence Structure

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

NUMS 2016
English
Tenses and Sentence Structure
Elimination Tool:

A) The remains of the body were thrown into the sea.

B) The remains of the body was thrown into the sea.

C) The remains of the body were thrown to sea.

D) The remains of the body was thrown into the sea

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Category: English

Q.197 Either my father or my brothers_____________going to sell the car.

A. is

B. are

C. were

D. was

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Category: English Fill in the blank

A/An ______ egg foetid the cake.

PreMedPK MDCAT Mock 2
English
Fill in the blank
Elimination Tool:

A) Addled

B) Fermented

C) Rancid

D) Acidulous

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Category: English Spellings Correction

Choice Correct Spelling

Censure

Cansure

Censore

Sensure

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Category: English – Synonyms and Antonyms

Choose the word most opposite in meaning to “Outset”

Origin

Rise

Source

Conclusion

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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.

AGHAST

PreMedPK MDCAT Mock 1
English
Key Vocabulary
Elimination Tool:

A) Critical

B) Reluctant

C) Happy

D) Horrified

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Category: English

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

WILD:

NUMS Mock 3
English

A) uncivilized

B) cultivated

C) domestic

D) cultured.

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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.

EMBELLISH:

NUMS 2016
English
Key Vocabulary
Elimination Tool:

A) Adorn

B) Nominate

C) Finish

D) Weaken

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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 Fill in the blank

Select the best word or words to complete the sentence.

In her free time, Veronica loves __________, reading, and trying new recipes.

NUMS 2015
English
Fill in the blank
Elimination Tool:

A) dance

B) dancing

C) to dance

D) to dancing

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Category: English Grammar

in a little-publicized deal, Pepsi, Cola has– the entire soft drink market In Afghanistan

Occupied

Conquered

Swallowed

Captured

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Category: English – Synonyms and Antonyms

Choose the word closest in meaning to “Accord”

Cord

Concurrence

Disunity

Pack

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Category: English

Select the word or phrase which is closest in meaning to the underlined words.

Due to his continuous mischievous activities, he has become a rogue person.

NUMS Mock 4
English
Key Vocabulary

A) Thief

B) Honest

C) Dishonest

D) Sharp

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Category: English

The word closest in meaning to bewilderment is:

NUMS Mock 1
English
Key Vocabulary

A) Surety

B) Bedazzled

C) Confident

D) Epiphany

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Category: English Fill in the blank

Choose the correct option:

Knowledge and wisdom ____ no time for connection.

PMC 2020
English
Fill in the blank
Elimination Tool:

A) Has

B) Have

C) Had

D) Are

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Category: English Key Vocabulary

Choose the lettered word or phrase that is most nearly opposite in meaning to the word in capital letters.

ASSERTION

NTS 2011
English
Key Vocabulary
Elimination Tool:

A) statement

B) denial

C) claim

D) unrest

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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 a person believes that wearing some kind of charm will prevent him from having bad luck, he will wear it.

B) If a person believed that wearing some kind of charm will prevent him from having bad luck, he will wear it.

C) If a person believes that wearing some kind of a charm will prevent him to have bad luck. He will wear it.

D) If a person believed that wearing some kind of charm will prevent him from having bad luck, he would wear it.

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Category: English Grammar

I listened, but I had no Idea what he was — about.

Saying

Talking

Telling

Discussing

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Category: English Fill in the blank

Several times during the session the director _____ to tell his success story to the other promotion:

NUMS 2014
English
Fill in the blank
Elimination Tool:

A) Asked he

B) Asked who

C) Asked him

D) Asked his

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Category: English – Synonyms and Antonyms

Choose the word closest in meaning to “Morose”

Uplift

Jovial

Gloomy

Heartening

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Category: English Grammar

Man does not live by alone

Food

Bread

Meals

Diet

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Category: English – Synonyms and Antonyms

Choose the word closest In meaning to “Negligible”

Seize

Momentous

Hefty

Trivial

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Category: English

The peon will not ___ the bell.

NUMS Mock 1
English

A) Has rings

B) Had rung

C) Have rung

D) Ring

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Category: English Tenses and Sentence Structure

‘She always carried an umbrella’. The sentence indicates ____ tense.

PMC 2020
English
Tenses and Sentence Structure
Elimination Tool:

A) Present Simple

B) Past Simple

C) Past Perfect

D) Present Perfect

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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 Key Vocabulary

Choose the lettered word or phrase that is most nearly opposite in meaning to the word in capital letters:

DISTRESS:

NTS 2014
English
Key Vocabulary
Elimination Tool:

B) Lash out

C) Noisy

D) Upset

E) Happiness

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Category: English

Q.196 I advised her _drink it.

A. Don't

B. not to

C. to not

D. to don't

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Category: English Spellings Correction

Choice Correct Spelling

Evedently

Evadently

Evodently

Evidently

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Category: English

The new teacher showed no _____ about hitting the students.

NUMS Mock 4
English
Fill in the blank

A) Quakes

B) Qualms

C) Quarrel

D) Quotation

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Category: English Spellings Correction

Choice Correct Spelling

Factitious

Fictitious

Fictetious

Fictitous

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Category: English Fill in the blank

The headmaster ____ to speak to you.

PMC 2020
English
Fill in the blank
Elimination Tool:

A) Wants

B) Is wanting

C) Was wanting

D) Want

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Category: English

Q.197 Choose thr Correct sentence

A) The teachers told the students that hard work pays off the students bacomo passionate to hoar this.

B) The teachers told the students that hard work pays oll, the students became passionate to hear this.

C) The Teachers told the students that hard work pays oll; but the students became passionale lo hear this.

D) The teachers told tho students that hard work pays oll, and the students becarle passionato lo hear this.

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Category: English

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

NUMS Mock 3
English
Grammar and Punctuation

A) After breaking the glass, Ruby said "Please don't tell on me".

B) After breaking the glass Ruby said: "Please don't tell on me."

C) After breaking the glass, Ruby said: "Please don't tell on me."

D) After breaking the glass Ruby said: please don't tell on me.

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Category: English – Synonyms and Antonyms

Choose the word closest in meaning to “Hasty”

Kind

Slow

Wise

Impulsive

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Category: English Tenses and Sentence Structure

The sentence which has one dependent and one independent clause is called a:

PreMedPK MDCAT Mock 2
English
Tenses and Sentence Structure
Elimination Tool:

A) Compound sentence

B) Complex sentence

C) Compound complex sentence

D) Exclamatory sentence

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Category: English Grammar and Punctuation

Select the word with correct spelling:

PMC Sample 1
English
Grammar and Punctuation
Elimination Tool:

A) Benefited

B) Benefitted

C) Benifited

D) Benifitted

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Category: English – Synonyms and Antonyms

Choose the word closest in meaning to “Juxtaposition”

Distance

Remoteness

Proximity

Abroad

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Category: English

Antonym of Adapt will be:

NUMS Mock 2
English
Key Vocabulary

A) Approve

B) Applaud

C) Shed

D) Reject

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Category: English

Demonstrate the correct use of articles and prepositions:

___________ man is mortal.

NUMS Mock 4
English
Fill in the blank

A) A

B) An

C) The

D) No article needs to be used

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Category: English Grammar

Rida and Raa are twin but they do not look

Unique

Different

Alike

Likely

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Category: English Analogies

Teeth : Chew

Mind : Think

Sweater : Heat

Food : Taste

Eyes : Flicker

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Category: English Grammar

Success in this examination depends hard work alone.

a) At

Over

For

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Category: English – Synonyms and Antonyms

Choose the word most opposite In meaning to “Abandon”

Difficult

Forsake

Hold

Dispose

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Category: English Grammar and Punctuation

Which one is correct? Read carefully.

PMC Sample 2
English
Grammar and Punctuation
Elimination Tool:

A) Here is the paper clips you requested.

B) Here's the paper clips you requested.

C) Here are the paper clips you requested.

D) Here are the box of paper clips you requested.

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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) It is always to the detriment of their health.

B) It is always for the detriment for their health.

C) It is always with the detriment on their health.

D) It is always detrimental to their health.

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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

Choose the nearest meaning to the following word:

Relinquish

NUMS Mock 2
English
Key Vocabulary

A) Use

B) Surrender

C) Increase

D) Retain

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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.

BOURGEOIS:

NUMS 2016
English
Key Vocabulary
Elimination Tool:

A) Belonging to the bureaucratic class

B) Belonging to the middle class

C) Belonging to the upper class

D) Belonging to the lower class

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