Question No : 1

The doctor was sure that there were no side ____ of the medicine that he had prescribed.

(1) Effects

(2) Affects

(3) Affecting

(4) Effecting

(5) Effected

Question No : 2

The Eastern Ghats, spread across Odisha, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu, have lost almost 16% of its forest area over a _____ of 100 years, a recently published study shows.

(1) Track

(2) Cross

(3) Interval

(4) Span

(5) None of the above

Question No : 3

More and more land worldwide is being urbanised or ______ to agriculture, resulting in smaller and more fragmented “wildland” - areas that burn during a wildfire.

(1) Specialized

(2) Ratified

(3) Converted

(4) Treated

(5) None of the above

Question No : 4

Unfortunately, current developments are _______a general fear of what artificial intelligence could become in the future

(1) Stringing

(2) Generating

(3) Existing

(4) Hanging

(5) None of the above

Question No : 5

Today, chemical contamination is such that we are all _______ to hundreds of chemicals, few of which have been fully tested for their toxic effects.

(1) Exposed

(2) Induced

(3) Spaced

(4) Survived

(5) None of the above

Question No : 6

The government ________ a controversial law under which it could take any land it wanted.

(1) On the ball

(2) Get his act together’

(3) So far so good

(4) Brought in

(5) None of these

Question No : 7

Wise investors should resist the urge to flee, reduce their holdings of risky assets and ________ the bear.

(1) Stare down

(2) Let someone off the hook

(3) Speak of the devil

(4) Time flies when you are having fun

(5) None of these

Question No : 8

She got the go-ahead from her board to ________ a new youth book chronicling the history of Tucson’s projects.

(1) Off-base

(2) A sitting duck

(3) Spilling the beans

(4) Start up

(5) None of these

Question No : 9

The lights were off and everything was quiet so we ________ as quietly as we could.

(1) Spur on

(2) Sign out

(3) Stole up

(4) Spin out

(5) None of these

Question No : 10

The discovery of penicillin was a major ________ in the treatment of infections.

(1) Spit it out

(2) Splash down

(3) Step forward

(4) Hit the hay

(5) None of these