Q1Prepositions
She is very good ----- swimming.
- aat
- bon
- cof
- dfor
Answer (a): The adjective "good" takes the preposition "at" when we talk about skill: good at swimming.
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Answer (a): The adjective "good" takes the preposition "at" when we talk about skill: good at swimming.
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Answer (c): With the future perfect, "by" a time means "not later than" that time: by 8 pm.
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Answer (b): "Honest" starts with a vowel sound (the h is silent), so we use "an".
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Answer (b): The passive of "Who did it?" is "By whom was it done?". Of the options, "Who was it done by?" is the only well-formed passive.
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Answer (c): We stop "at" a point such as an entrance or gate.
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Answer (c): The correct spelling is "vacuum" (double u).
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Answer (a): "Ox" has an irregular plural: oxen.
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Answer (b): A male deer is a stag and the female is a doe.
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Answer (c): Third conditional: if + past perfect, main clause takes "would have" + past participle.
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Answer (a): Goats make the sound called bleating. Dogs howl, lions roar, and mowing is cutting grass.
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Answer (b): A positive statement takes a negative tag with the same auxiliary: have, so "haven't they?".
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Answer (b): "Put out" means to extinguish a fire or cigarette.
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Answer (c): "Give in" means to surrender or stop resisting.
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Answer (c): "Quite" is the adverb meaning very or fairly. "Quiet" means silent and "quit" means to stop.
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Answer (a): Recurring means happening again and again, that is, occurring repeatedly.
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Answer (c): The opposite of the switch word "on" is "off".
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Answer (c): The two clauses contrast with each other, so the concessive conjunction "Although" fits.
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Answer (a): A yes/no question becomes "asked + if/whether" with normal word order, the tense shifts back (am to was), and "to me" gives the object "me".
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Answer (c): The causative pattern "have + object + past participle" needs "stolen".
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Answer (c): "Look forward to" has "to" as a preposition, so it is followed by the -ing form: seeing.
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Answer (a): "Stationery" (with -ery) means writing materials, which a pen store sells. "Stationary" means not moving.
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Answer (b): "Adjective + enough + to-infinitive" is the correct pattern: wide enough.
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Answer (a): The word "than" signals a comparative, so we need "more serious".
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Answer (b): The device used to put out a fire is a fire extinguisher.
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Answer (a): After "I am" the standard tag is "aren't I?".
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Answer (a): Seeing things that are not there is called hallucination. Bronchitis and tonsillitis are infections.
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Answer (b): "Is" needs an adjective, and the comparative of "bad" is "worse".
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Answer (a): After a past-tense verb (sold), the purpose clause with "so that" takes "could".
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Answer (b): Second conditional: if + past simple, main clause takes "would" + base verb.
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Answer (b): "Sensitive" means easily affected, which fits catching cold easily. "Sensible" means practical.
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Answer (b): Purgatory is a place of suffering and punishment, so "hell" is the closest option.
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Answer (c): A creek is a small stream, a rivulet.
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Answer (b): The word "than" needs the comparative, and the comparative of "well" is "better". "More better" is a double comparative.
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Answer (a): "Look forward to" is followed by a gerund: seeing.
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Answer (c): "Call off" means to cancel.
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Answer (a): "Break out" is used for the sudden start of a disease, war or fire.
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Answer (c): $22=6\times3+4$, so the remainder is 4. (8 gives 2, 12 gives 0, 29 gives 5.)
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Answer (d): Product $=4\times4=16$ and quotient $=4\div4=1$, so the sum is $16+1=17$.
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Answer (a): The even numbers between $-4$ and $5$ are $-2,0,2,4$. Their sum is 4, so the average is $4/4=1$.
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Answer (d): The first five primes are 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, and $2+3+5+7+11=28$.
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Answer (a): The sum has only one term, $n=10$: $(-1)^{10}=1$.
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Answer (c): Check $14\times16=224$. The other pairs give 288, 168 and 360.
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Answer (a): $x^2+5=14$ gives $x^2=9$, so $x=3$ (the positive option).
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Answer (b): One plate is 2 glasses, and each glass is 3 spoons, so one plate is $2\times3=6$ spoons.
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Answer (a): In an $m\times n$ matrix each column has $m$ entries (one per row). Here $m=5$.
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Answer (a): From the second equation $y=4x-3$. Then $3x+16x-12=7$, so $19x=19$, $x=1$ and $y=1$.
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Answer (c): The terms are squares of odd numbers: $1^2,3^2,5^2,7^2,9^2,11^2$. So $x=49$.
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Answer (c): Average $=\frac{a+b+c}{3}=\frac{c+c}{3}=\frac{2c}{3}$.
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Answer (a): $-2x-8<9$ gives $-2x<17$, so $x>-8.5$. The least integer is $-8$.
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Answer (b): Write $y=\frac{2x-9}{4}=\frac12x-\frac94$. The slope is $\frac12$.
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Answer (c): A horizontal line has no rise, so the slope is .
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Answer (d): $\frac35\times80=48$ and $0.3\times80=24$, so the difference is $48-24=24$.
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Answer (c): $5%$ of wage $=40$, so wage $=40\times\frac{100}{5}=800$.
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Answer (c): Match digits to letters: C=1, E=2, N=5, T=4, U=3, R=7, Y=6. Then 7=R, 3=U, 5=N gives RUN.
Answer (b): Each row adds to 15 (2+7+6, 9+5+1), so the last row needs $4+3+?=15$, giving $8$.
Answer (a): Let girls $=g$. Then boys $=2g$ and $3g=48$, so $g=16$.
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Answer (d): $x=0.8x+5$ gives $0.2x=5$, so $x=25$.
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Answer (c): Parts are $2k$ and $3k$ with $5k=30$, so $k=6$ and the numbers are 12 and 18. (The pair 18, 12 has the ratio 3:2.)
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Answer (b): Sum $=85$, and $85\div5=17$.
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Answer (c): The star has 6 small triangles at the points and 2 large triangles (the two big overlapping ones), a total of 8.
Answer (b): Standard value: $\cos60^\circ=\frac12$.
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Answer (a): This is the Fibonacci series, where each term is the sum of the previous two: $8+13=21$.
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Answer (d): Any multiple of 2 is even, so $2n$ is always even. The others depend on $n$.
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Answer (c): $255=3\times5\times17$, so the largest prime factor is 17. (45 and 25 are not prime.)
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Answer (a): The standard formula is $1+2+\dots+n=\frac{n(n+1)}{2}$.
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Answer (c): Discriminant $D=b^2-4ac=64-192=-128<0$, so the roots are imaginary and unequal.
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Answer (d): $x^2-y^2=(x+y)(x-y)=12\times6=72$.
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Answer (c): $x=7$, so $x+12=19$.
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Answer (b): Factor: $\frac{6^3(6-1)}{5}=\frac{6^3\times5}{5}=6^3$.
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Answer (a): The four terms give $\frac{16}{a}=16$, so $a=1$ and $4a=4$.
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Answer (b): Rewrite as $y=-\frac ba x+b$. The slope is $-\frac ba$.
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Answer (d): $2x=8y$, so $\frac{2y}{8y}\times100=25%$.
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Answer (c): Price per kg $=270/9=30$, so $390/30=13$ kg.
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Answer (a): $20$ dollars $=2000$ cents, and $2000/50=40$ groups of 3 bananas, which is $120$ bananas.
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Answer (b): $\frac57=\frac{15}{x}$ gives $x=\frac{7\times15}{5}=21$.
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Answer (a): Gain $=\text{SP of }30$, so $\text{CP of }150=\text{SP of }120$. Gain percentage $=\frac{30}{120}\times100=25%$.
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Answer (c): $SP=5\times1.2=6$.
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Answer (b): The cardinal number is the count of elements, which is 5.
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Answer (b): $a^4=81=3^4$, so $a=3$.
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Answer (a): $\sqrt{\frac{18}{72}}=\sqrt{\frac14}=\frac12$, which is rational.
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Answer (c): $\frac17$ of the number is $1025/5=205$, so $\frac37=3\times205=615$.
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Answer (a): $1\frac13$ h $=80$ min $=80\times60=4800$ s.
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Answer (b): Floor area $=8\times3=24$ m$^2$. Carpet length $=24/4=6$ m.
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Answer (d): Total $=7+26-1=32$.
Answer (c): Each girl writes 1 page in 3 minutes (3 girls, 3 pages, 3 minutes), so one girl writes one page in 3 minutes.
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Answer (c): The Gorkha earthquake struck on 25 April 2015, which is 2072 Baisakh 12.
Answer (b): The Constitution of Nepal was promulgated on 20 September 2015, which is 2072 Asoj 3.
Answer (a): Ek Chihan (1971, 2027 BS) is a novel by Hridaya Chandra Singh Pradhan (1916-1960), a social realist work against ethnic discrimination.
Answer (a): Charles Babbage designed the Analytical Engine in the 1830s, the first general-purpose computer design.
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Answer (a): MySQL is a database management system. Excel is a spreadsheet, Word a word processor and Outlook an email client.
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Answer (b): LCD stands for Liquid Crystal Display (printed as "Cristal" in the option).
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Answer (a): Nepal Bank Limited, founded in 1937, is the first bank of Nepal.
Answer (a): Nobel Prizes are given in Physics, Chemistry, Medicine, Literature, Peace and Economics. There is no Nobel Prize in Computer Science.
Answer (b): The 2015 constitution divides Nepal into 7 provinces.