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Q1-10. In the following questions four alternatives are given for the idiom/phrase. Choose the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the idiom/phrase and mark it as your answer.
Q.1. A bee in one’s bonnet
A. To be very enterprising
B. To be very timid and shy
C. To have an impractical idea
D. To have a particular idea which occupies one’s thoughts continually
Q.2. To take a rain-check
A. To decline an offer but promise to accept in later
B. To go through the weather report
C. To proceed on sightseeing
D. To take to farming as a source of livelihood
Q.3. To go for the jugular
A. To work very hard for the success
B. To make a fierce destructive attack on the weakest point in an opponent’s argument
C. To go in for the costliest thing
D. To go in for dishonest means
Q.4. To follow the primrose path
A. To follow one’s objectives very steadfastly
B. To go on wandering
C. To trek to the mountains
D. To go in for pursuit of pleasure or an easy life
Q.5. The world is one's oyster
A. One feels that nobody in the world would help him/her
B. The feeling one gets when he lands in an unfamiliar country
C. All opportunities are open to someone
D. When one has an uphill task to perform
Q.6. To plough a lonely furrow
A. to work without help or support
B. to work just to pass time
C. to work for something that is unattainable
D. to do something impossible
Q.7. To gain ground
A. about to die
B. to control
C. to over eat
D. To become popular
Q.8. A close shave
A. a nearby place
B. a narrow escape
C. to keep at hand
D. at the last moment
Q.9. A brown study
A. an important study
B. a study of ancient India
C. dreaming
D. to study day and night
Q.10. To kick one’s heels
A. A difficult problem
B. To wait with nothing to do
C. to get disappointed
D. to repair
ANSWERS:
1. (D)
2. (A)
3. (B)
4. (D)
5. (C)
6. (A)
7. (D)
8. (B)
9. (C)
10. (B)
