All Free English MCQs with Answers

1791. A person who renounces the world and practices self-discipline in order to attain salvation:

• A. Sceptic
• B. Ascetic
• C. Devotee
• D. Antiquarian

Explanation: An ascetic renounces worldly pleasures and practises strict self-discipline for spiritual purposes. A devotee may be religiously devoted but need not reject worldly life.

1792. One who eats everything_________?

• A. Insolvent
• B. Irrestible
• C. Omnivorous
• D. Omniscient

Explanation: An omnivorous person or animal eats both plant and animal matter, or broadly eats everything. Omniscient means all-knowing, not all-eating.

1793. Fear of disease__________?

• A. Ochlophobia
• B. Paedophobia
• C. Pathophobia
• D. Peniophobia

Explanation: Pathophobia is an abnormal fear of disease or illness. Ochlophobia is fear of crowds, paedophobia fear of children, and peniophobia fear of poverty.

1794. Fear of death __________?

• A. Toxicophobia
• B. Theophobia
• C. Scelerophobia
• D. Thanatophobia

Explanation: Thanatophobia is derived from Thanatos, the personification of death in Greek mythology, and means fear of death. The other terms refer to fear of poison, gods, or crime.

1795. Fear of darkness ______________?

• A. Nyctophobia
• B. Ophthalmophobia
• C. Magalomania
• D. Mysophobia

Explanation: Nyctophobia is the fear of darkness or night. Mysophobia concerns germs or contamination, while ophthalmophobia concerns eyes or being stared at.

1796. The available information amounts to very little 'in toto'. Here 'in toto' is?

• A. Adjective
• B. Adverb
• C. Preposition
• D. None of these

Explanation: “In toto” modifies the extent of the verb phrase “amounts to,” so it functions adverbially. It is an adverbial Latin phrase rather than a single preposition.

1797. He met a man who lived in USA last year. What is " who " according to grammar here?

• A. Interrogative Pronoun
• B. Distributive Pronoun
• C. Relative Pronoun
• D. Reciprocal Pronoun

Explanation: “Who” refers back to “a man” and introduces the relative clause “who lived in USA,” so it is a relative pronoun. An interrogative pronoun would ask a question, as in “Who came?”

1798. The Alphabets others then (a e i o u) are called ____________?

• A. Vowels
• B. Consonants
• C. Phrase
• D. None of these

Explanation: The five vowel letters are a, e, i, o, and u; the remaining letters are consonants. “Phrase” is a group of words, not a type of alphabet letter.

1799. The plural of sheep is __________?

• A. sheeps
• B. sheepers
• C. sheeves
• D. sheep

Explanation: Sheep has the same form in both singular and plural: one sheep, several sheep. The ending “-s” is not added.

1800. The selectors made Babar Azam captain. In this sentence 'captain' is ________?

• A. Noun
• B. Object complement
• C. Verb compliment
• D. None of these

Explanation: Captain is an object complement because it renames or describes the object Babar Azam after the verb made. It completes the meaning of “made Babar Azam,” rather than functioning as the main verb.