All Free English MCQs with Answers

131. Complete the analogy: SCALPEL is to SURGEON as CHISEL is to

• A. stone
• B. sculptor
• C. hammer
• D. carving

Explanation: The relationship links a tool to the specialist who uses it, so the chisel belongs to the sculptor. Stone is the material and carving is the product, neither of which matches the relationship. Naming the link explicitly before checking the options is what prevents these errors.

132. Complete the analogy: DROUGHT is to WATER as FAMINE is to

• A. food
• B. hunger
• C. crops
• D. disease

Explanation: Each first term names a severe shortage and each second names the thing in short supply, so famine is a shortage of food. Hunger is the consequence rather than the missing resource, which makes it the strongest distractor. Matching the exact form of the relationship is the whole skill.

133. Complete the analogy: CARDIOLOGY is to HEART as NEPHROLOGY is to

• A. nerves
• B. kidneys
• C. lungs
• D. liver

Explanation: Each branch of medicine is paired with the organ it studies, and the Greek nephros means kidney. Nerves belong to neurology, lungs to pulmonology and liver to hepatology, all of which are offered to test the whole set. These roots recur throughout medical vocabulary.

134. In the sentence "The symptoms were benign and required no treatment", benign means

• A. not harmful
• B. painful
• C. contagious
• D. chronic

Explanation: The clue is that no treatment was required, so the symptoms cannot have been dangerous. In medicine benign is the opposite of malignant, which describes a tumour that invades and spreads. In everyday use benign simply means gentle or kindly.

135. In the sentence "The drug is contraindicated in patients with liver disease", contraindicated means

• A. strongly recommended
• B. advised against because it would be harmful
• C. available only on prescription
• D. given in a smaller dose

Explanation: The prefix contra means against, so a contraindication is a reason not to use a treatment in a particular patient. The word appears constantly in drug information and in MDCAT passages. Indicated, its opposite, means the treatment is appropriate.

136. One word substitution: a person who is easily deceived.

• A. credible
• B. gullible
• C. sceptical
• D. cynical

Explanation: Gullible describes someone who believes claims too readily and is therefore easily fooled, and it is close in meaning to credulous. Sceptical and cynical describe the opposite disposition, and credible applies to the claim rather than to the person. This pair of near opposites is examined frequently.

137. Choose the word most similar in meaning to TENACIOUS.

• A. persistent and determined
• B. fragile
• C. temporary
• D. generous

Explanation: A tenacious person holds on and refuses to give up, so dogged and persevering are synonyms. The root comes from the Latin tenere, meaning to hold, the same root as in tenant and retain. Its opposite would be irresolute or yielding.

138. Choose the sentence with correct parallel structure.

• A. She likes swimming, cycling and to run.
• B. She likes swimming, cycling and running.
• C. She likes to swim, cycling and running.
• D. She likes swim, cycle and to run.

Explanation: Items joined in a list must share the same grammatical form, so three gerunds are consistent while mixing a gerund with an infinitive is not. The alternative correct version would be to swim, to cycle and to run. Faulty parallelism is one of the most commonly tested writing errors.

139. Identify the dangling modifier: Walking to the hospital, the rain began to fall.

• A. The sentence is correct
• B. Walking to the hospital wrongly appears to describe the rain
• C. began should be begun
• D. the rain should be a rain

Explanation: The introductory phrase must describe the subject of the main clause, but here that subject is the rain, which cannot walk. Correcting it means naming the walker, as in walking to the hospital, I felt the rain begin to fall. Dangling modifiers produce sentences that are grammatically neat but absurd in meaning.

140. Choose the correctly written sentence.

• A. The doctor told the patient that he needed rest, which was true.
• B. Being tired, the exam was difficult.
• C. To pass the test, hard work is required.
• D. Having studied all night, the paper seemed easy to him.

Explanation: Only the first sentence keeps every modifier attached to something that can logically perform the action. In the others, an exam cannot be tired, hard work cannot pass a test and a paper cannot study all night. Rewriting each with a human subject would repair them.