PREPARATORY QUESTIONS

PHRASE/WORDS REPLACEMENT

PREPARATORY SET-87 (OLD PATTERN)

Direction (Qs.1-5): In the given sentence, an idiom/phrase is given in bold. Choose the option which best expresses its meaning.

 

Question No : 1

The way you behaved with everyone at the party yesterday showed that you do not have a spark of decency.

(1) A very decent person

(2) Not having manners

(3) Emitting sparks of fire

(4) Being illiterate

(5) Being boring

Question No : 2

Kelsey is considered to be a genius in History of medicine, but some her antics presented at the conference, shows she is not playing with a full deck.

(1) Not along with his colleagues

(2) Not with full concentration

(3) Not with proper reference

(4) Not with utmost care

(5) Not mentally sound

Question No : 3

After he was done noting the prepared remarks for the students, colleagues came up to him to chew the fat for the next half hour.

(1) Listen to his lecture

(2) Share troubles

(3) To gossip

(4) To bribe

(5) To compel him to talk

Question No : 4

Life is not worth living if I were out, and the game is now not worth the candle.

(1) Cakes are not required at charity events

(2) The game should be played

(3) The game is not worth the effort put

(4) The game aught to be avoided out of cowardice

(5) The game is serious

Question No : 5

The police set up the car thief using a hidden camera.

(1) Narrated

(2) Bullied

(3) Tricked

(4) Extorted

(5) Summoned