Sales Assistant Exam General English Questions


1. Arjun had been living here ______ five years.
(A) since    (B) for        (C) before (D) by
Ans: B

2. Karthik speaks English in fluently, _______?
 (A) does he  (B) do he    (C) doesn't he  (D) Don’t he
Ans: C

3. Elephant is the _______ animal of land
(A) biggest          (B) bigger           (C) big        (D) none of these
Ans: A

4. I have got headache.
Correct the sentence as:
(A) I have got a headache   (B) I got a headache
(C) I had got headache       (D) None of these
Ans: A

5. Tom asked the stranger, where did you go"?
The sentence can be reported as Tom asked the stranger:
(A) where he has gone   (B) where he had gone
(C) where he went          (C) where he had gone
Ans:B

6. An example of compound word:
(A) seriousness   (B) table cloth   (C) horizontal       (D) parallel
Ans: B

7. A synonym of pleasant:
(A) cheerful      (B) beautiful      (C) rival             (D) colourful
Ans:A

8. Success and _______ are two sides of a coin.
(A) Grace   (B) Willingness   (C) Failure   (D) Fragrance
Ans: C

9. One who hates mankind is:
(A) Optimist    (B) Pessimist   (C) Misanthropist   (D) Rationalist
Ans: C

10. Correctly spelt word is:
(A) Counsilor   (B) Counselor    (C) Counsellor   (D) Counsoler
Ans: C

11. A litter of:
(A) Cats    (B) Bats      (C) Cows   (D) Puppies
Ans: D

12. Noun form of evaporate is:
(A) Evaporatant            (B)  Evaporance  
(C) Evaporation             (D) Evaporated
Ans: C

13. A fish out of water means:
(A) to be in an uncomfortable position    
(B) to be in comfortable position
(C) to be in an easy way   
(D) none of these
Ans: A

14. Everything is in order refer to:
(A) allright     (B) alright    (C) allready    (D) already
Ans: C

15. Plural form of goose is:
(A) goose  (B) gooses   (C) geese  (D) geeses
Ans: C

16. One of the men ________ attended the meeting
(A) have (B) is    (C) has (D) are
Ans: C

17. I prefer chocolates ______ nuts.
(A) than    (B) to      (C) less than     (D) more than
Ans: B

18. Yesterday I met _______ old man.
(A) an     (B) a     (C) the    (D) none of these
Ans: A

19. If you study well, you:
(A) will succeed               (B) succeed 
(C) will have succeed      (D) would succeed
Ans: A

20. Rahul usually ______ newspaper in the morning.
(A) read      (B) reads   (C) has read      (D) reading
Ans: B