These TS 10th Class English Important Questions Grammar Choose the Correct Word Question Number 23 to 28 will help the students to improve their time and approach.
TS 10th Class English Grammar Choose the Correct Word Question Number 23 to 28
(1) Read the following passage and fill up the blanks choosing the correct words from the brackets and write them in your answer booklet.
However the poorest rural folk are (23) (is/ are) landless labourers, who (24) (who/whom) get neither farm loans nor waivers. Half of the small and marginal farmers get no loans from (25) (in/from) banks and depend entirely on money – lenders Besides (26) (Beside/Besides) rural India is full of the family holdings rather than individual holdings. The family holdings will typically be much larger than (27) (than/with) two hectares even for (28) (for/ as) dirt-poor farmers.
(2) Read the following passage and fill up the blanks choosing the correct words from the brackets and write them in your answer booklet.
Mankind has seen (23) (have seen/ has seen) rapid transformation in the last 150 years because (24) (because/ as) of the mass manufacturing techniques resorted in western nations and later (25) (later / latter) taken to new levels of efficiency by Japan. Mass production and production for the masses became the basis (26) (basis/bases) of new business strategies. Largescale consumption by all with (27) (with/ to) the social benefit of removing (28) (remove/removing) poverty became the dominant economic strategy.
(3) Read the following passage and fill up the blanks choosing the correct words from the brackets and write them in your answer booklet.
Rich countries usually help (23) (help/helps) poorer ones like African countries through (24) (through/with) donations and aid. Their attempts are not always successful (25) (success/successful) as loans are not used for the projects for which (26) (which/that) they are sanctioned. China, however has found a different way to help (27) (to help/helping) Africa by trading with (28) (with/by) the countries.
(4) Read the following passage and fill up the blanks choosing the correct words from the brackets and write them in your answer booklet.
Though (23) (Though/ As) the US prides itself on being a leader in the world community, a recent report says (24) (say/says) that it lags far behind than (25) (than/ to) other countries in (26) (in/ on) meeting the needs of its youngest and most vulnerable citizens The (27) (The/A) US has a higher infant mortality rate, a higher proportion of low birth weight babies, a smaller proportion of babies immunised (28) (immuned/ immunised) against childhood diseases.
(5) Read the following passage and fill up the blanks choosing the correct words from the brackets and write them in your answer booklet.
It is said that the character of a city is reflected (23) (responded/reflected) in the manner its traffic moves. If that is the case (24) (example/case), Delhi could top the charts. Recent statistics released (25) (released/release) by the traffic police reveal that mindless driving (26) (drive/driving) with disregard for traffic rules has now become a norm. So what is the reason (27) (result/reason) behind the increasing number of accidents (28) (events / accidents)?
(6) Read the following passage and fill up the blanks choosing the correct words from the brackets and write them in your answer booklet.
Everywhere Governments realise the importance of trees, it is difficult (23) (different / difficult) for it to pursuade (24) (pursuade /pursuaded) the villagers to see this. The villager wants (25) (wants/want) wood to cook his food with, and he can earn money by (26) (by/at) selling wood. He is usually too careless to plant and look after (27) (look into / look after) new trees. So, unless the Government has a good system of control, or can educate (28) (eradicate/ educate) the people, the forests slowly disappear.
(7) Read the following passage and fill up the blanks choosing the correct words from the brackets and write them in your answer booklet.
Cooperation is highly valued. The value placed on cooperation is strongly rooted in the past, when (23) (where/when) cooperation was necessary for the survival of family and group. Because of strong feelings of group solidarity, competition within (24) (within/ without) the group is rare. There is security in being (25) (for/being) a member of the group and in not being singled out and placed in (26) (on/in) a position above or below others. Approved behavior includes (27) (include/includes) improving on and competing with one’s own past performance, however. The sense of cooperation is so strong in many tribal communities that (28) (which/that) democracy means consent by consensus, not by majority rule.
(8) Read the following passage and fill up the blanks choosing the correct words from the brackets and write them in your answer booklet.
The Earth’s past climate – including (23) (including/include) temperature and elements in the atmosphere—has recently been studied by analyzing ice samples from (24) (from/ of) Greenland and Antarctica, the two land masses lying at the two far ends of (25) (on/of) the sphere. The air bubbles in the ice (26) have (has/have) shown that, over the past 160,000 years, there has been a close correlation (27) between (among/between) temperature changes and level of natural greenhouse gases carbon dioxide (28) and (and/yet) methane.
(9) Read the following passage and fill up the blanks choosing the correct words from the brackets and write them in your answer booklet.
One recent analysis from Greenland (23) showed (showed/shows) that at the end of the last glacial period – when the great ice sheets began to retreat (24) to (too/to) their present position, temperatures in southern Greenland (25) rose (rises/rose) from 5 to 7 degrees in about 100 years. Air bubbles are not the only method (26) of (of/to) determining characteristics of the Earth’s ancient climate history. Analysis of dust layers from ancient volcanic activity is (27) another (another/other) such method; as is the study of ice cores, which interpret past solar activity (28) that (which/that) may have affected our climate.
(10) Read the following passage and fill up the blanks choosing the correct words from the brackets and write them in your answer booklet.
Before video cameras (23) were (are/were) widely used, home and business owners had to rely only (24) on (upon/on) written reports and photos as a way to document (25) their (there/their) valuables for insurance purposes. This form of documentation was difficult for some insurance policy holders. They found it was easy to lose lists (26) or (and/or) forget to add new items they purchased, or delete items they no longer had. As a result these insurance inventories were often inaccurate While (27) (When/While) videotaping is not an option for every home or business owner, (28) this (these/this) kind of insurance documentation is helpful for some.
(11) Read the following passage and fill up the blanks choosing the correct words from the brackets and write them in your answer booklet.
French physicist Charles Fabry found (23) (identified/found) ozone gas in the atmosphere in 1913. Ozone is all around us. After a thunderstorm, or around (24) (round/around) electrical equipment, ozone is often detected as a sharp odor. For much of the second half of the nineteenth century and well into the twentieth, ozone was considered a healthy component (25) (component/element) of the environment by naturalists and health-seekers. Naturalists working outdoors often (26) (off/often) considered the higher elevations beneficial because (27) (due/because) of their ozone content. Seaside air was considered to be healthy because of its believed ozone content; but the smell giving rise to this belief is in fact that of (28) (that of/of) halogenated seaweed metabolites
(12) Read the following passage and fill up the blanks choosing the correct words from the brackets and write them in your answer booklet.
Two men were (23) (are/were) walking along one summer day. Soon it became too hot (24) (heat/hot) to go any further and seeing (25) (seeing/seen) a large tree nearby they threw themselves on the ground to rest (26) (rest/resting) in (27) (on/in) its shade Gazing (28) (Gazed/ Gazing) up into the branches one man said to the other : “It doesn’t have fruit or nuts.”
(13) Read the following passage and fill up the blanks choosing the correct words from the brackets and write them in your answer booklet.
Mobile phones are changing (23) (change/are changing) the world we live (24) (live/are living) in Kenya was regarded (25) (regarded/was regarded) as a poor country lacking (26) (lacked/lacking) hospitals, running water, electricity, education and roads. Mobile phone technology has changed (27) (changed / has changed) all this. Today 92 percent of Kenyans access (28) (access/accessed) the Internet using their mobile phones.
(14) Read the following passage and fill up the blanks choosing the correct words from the brackets and write them in your answer booklet.
We should recognise (23) (recognise/be recognised) the indebtedness of the country to its farm families who (24) (who/ which) toil to safeguard national (25) (nation/ national) food security. Loan waiver is the price we have to pay (26) (to pay/paid) for the neglect of rural India over (27) (over/from) the past several decades. There has been (28) (is/has been) a gradual decline in investment in key sectors related to agriculture such as infrastructure.
(15) Read the following passage and fill up the blanks choosing the correct words from the brackets and write them in your answer booklet.
The idea behind staging the World Cup in South Africa was changing (23) (to change/ changing) how the world thought about (24) (about / of) the country. While to the world, South Africa was thought (25) (thought / regard) as a country of (26) (of/with) wars and famines. South Africans prepared for the event by building (27) (build/building) stadia and airports. They opened (28) (opened/have opened) their homes and cities to visitors.
(16) Read the following passage and fill up the blanks choosing the correct words from the brackets and write them in your answer booklet.
The largest use of ozone is in the preparation of pharmaceuticals, synthetic lubricants, and many (23) ( much/many) other commercially useful organic compounds, where it is used to (24) (used/used to) sever carbon-carbon bonds. It can also be used for bleaching substances and for killing microorganisms in air and water sources. Many municipal drinking water systems kill bacteria with ozone instead of (25) (in spite of/instead of) the more common chlorine. Ozone does not form organo-chlorine compounds, nor (26) (nor/not) does it remain in the water after treatment. This gas is also highly reactive. For example, rubber insulation (27) (installation/insulation) around a car’s spark plug wires will need to be replaced eventually, due to the small amounts of ozone produced when electricity flows (28) (flows/ flow) from the engine to the plug.
(17) Read the following passage and fill up the blanks choosing the correct words from the brackets and write them in your answer booklet.
Many people who have (23) (has/have) come close to death from drowning, cardiac arrest or other causes have described near-death experiences—profound, subjective events that (24) (that/which) sometimes result in dramatic changes in values, beliefs, behavior, and attitudes toward (25) (toward/towards) life and death. These experiences often include a new clarity of thinking, a feeling of well being, a sense of being out of the body, and visions of bright light or mystical encounters. Near-death experiences have been explained (26) (have been explained/were explained) as a response to a perceived threat (27) (treat/ threat) of death (a psychological theory); as a result of biological states that accompany the process of dying (a physiological theory); and as a foretaste of (28) (of/for) an actual state of bliss after death (a transcendental theory).
(18) Read the following passage and fill up the blanks choosing the correct words from the brackets and write them in your answer booklet.
In most cases little (23) (few/little) birds lay little eggs. The kiwi is an astonishing exception to this rule—it is a smallish bird that lays a big egg. The kiwi, a flightless bird found (24) (discovered/found) in New Zealand, weighs about four pounds, and it’s (25) (its/it’s) egg weighs, believe it or not, about one pound. That is one-fourth of the bird’s body weight! If an ostrich lays (26) (laid/lays) an egg that was in the same (27) (same/ some) proportion to the ostrich as the kiwi egg is to the kiwi, an ostrich egg would weigh a whopping seventy-five pounds instead (28) (instead/installed) of the usual three pounds.
(19) Read the following passage and fill up the blanks choosing the correct words from the brackets and write them in your answer booklet.
Jazz is a (23) (the/a) peculiarly American contribution to Western culture. It was born (24) (bone/born) out of the unique experience of American Blacks. Although its history is not entirely clear, jazz obviously has roots in the rhythm (25) (rhyme / rhythm) patterns and melodic lines of Africa, the tradition of Christian spirituals as sung by slave communities. Jazz has proved to be very (26) (very/vary) difficult to define, since it encompasses such a wide range of music. Attempts have been made (27) (are made/have been made) to define jazz from the perspective of other (28) (another / other) musical traditions, such as European music history or African music.
(20) Read the following passage and fill up the blanks choosing the correct words from the brackets and write them in your answer booklet.
There (23) (There/Their) are two kinds of jewelry that I do. There is (24) (are/is) commercial jewelry—class rings, necklaces, the (25) (a/the) kinds of things most people wear. I sell these items to meet (26) (meet/meat) my expenses for raw materials, supplies, and to make my living (27) (life/living). The other, more creative work I do makes (28) (make/ makes) me feel that I am developing as a craftsperson.
(21) Read the following passage and fill up the blanks choosing the correct words from the brackets and write them in your answer booklet.
Some actors and rock stars are paid (23) (paid/are paid) almost 100 times as much per year as school teachers. Not to downgrade the role (24) (role/roll) of entertainment in our lives, but (25) (and/but) these people are not the valuable social resource that educators are. As another example, professional athletes earn vastly more than the nation’s firefighters. Again, there is little doubt that the lower paid group contributes a more vital function to (26) (to/for) communities. Finally, dress designers, who can make unto (27) (unto/up to) $50,000 for a gown, far out-earn police officers, whose very presence makes our cities and towns livable (28) (lively /livable).
(22) Read the following passage and fill up the blanks choosing the correct words from the brackets and write them in your answer booklet.
Before the invention of automobiles and airplanes travel (23) (travel/journey) was a slow (24) (low/slow) process. The first mode of transportation was (25) (is/was) walking. Sometime later humans began to domesticate (26) (domesticate/domestic) animals for use in transportation. When traveling long distances families would be out of communication until (27) (unless/until) the travelers reached their destination. Sometimes people lost touch with (28) (among/with) each other permanently.
(23) Read the following passage and fill up the blanks choosing the correct words from the brackets and write them in your answer booklet.
Cleopatra, the most (23) (much/most) attractive queen of the ancient world, was (24) (were/was) in reality a short, fat and ugly woman, says a forthcoming exhibition at the British Museum. The swathing portrait emerged with the rediscovering (25) (rediscovered/rediscovering) of 11 previously unrecognized images of the queen – all statues carved (26) (carves/carved) in Egyptian style. They depict the alluring (27) (alluring/allure) and ambitious queen of the Nile as an (28) (an, the) ordinary looking woman.
(24) Read the following passage and fill up the4>lanks choosing the correct words from the brackets and write them in your answer booklet.
There were many (23) (more/many) whales swimming in the ocean a long time ago. Then they were (24) (was/were) hunted and killed by Native American tribes. They hunted the whale for (25) (from/for) food, oil, and other items. Seventy years ago, they (26) (they/there) were told to stop killing them because the number of whales was (27) (was/were) decreasing. Now the Native Americans have been told they might (28) (might/will) start hunting them again.
(25) Read the following passage and fill up the blanks choosing the correct words from the brackets and write them in your answer booklet.
Scuba diving is the most (23) (much/most) exhilarating experience I have ever had. The first time I went, the dark mirror of the water beckoned me to drop from (24) (from/ form) the side of the boat. I jumped feet (25) (feet/foot) first and entered a brightly colored world populated with (26) (of/with) fish, plants, and objects I had never dreamed of. The experience left me feeling serene and mellow. Being submerged under water, with heavy weights pulling you down, I was surprised to note (27) (note/not) that there was absolutely no gravitational pull (28) (pull/push), despite the heavy weights and gear I was wearing. All I had to keep in mind was that I had to continuously blow air to neutralize the water pressure but I hadn’t had enough.
(26) Read the following passage and fill up the blanks choosing the correct words from the brackets and write them in your answer booklet.
We know controlling expenses is easier said than done (23) (done/doing). However hard you may (24) (might/may) try, there will be some expense that will gobble up the surplus and prevent you from saving. The solution lies (25) (lays/lies) in automating your savings. Ideally, the savings should flow into an investment option that do (26) (do/ does) not allow easy withdrawals. This is one of the reasons (27) (reason/reasons) that make the Provident Fund such an effective tool for long-term savings. Every month, the employee’s (28) (employee’s/employer’s) contribution is deducted from the salary and deposited into his PF account. The money keeps growing till the person retires.
(27) Read the following passage and fill up the blanks choosing the correct words from the brackets and write them in your answer booklet.
Some natural (23) (nature/natural) fragrances are easily synthesized; these include (24) (include/includes) vanillin, the aromatic ingredient in vanilla, and benzaldehyde, the aromatic ingredient in (25) (in/of) wild cherries. Other fragrances, however, have dozens, even hundreds of components. Recently has it been possible to separate and identify these ingredients by (26) (by/buy) the use of gas chromatography and spectroscopy. Once the chemical identify (27) (identifies /identify) is known, it is often possible to synthesize them. Nevertheless, some complex substances, such as the aroma of fresh coffee, have still (28) (stale/still) not been duplicated satisfactorily.
(28) Read the following passage and fill up the blanks choosing the correct words from the brackets and write them in your answer booklet.
Jenny gulped, startled (23) (startled/started). Ten years from now it was a quiet (24) (quiet/ quite) different kind of young lady she intended to be. For a moment (25) (moment/movement) there was a sick little ball of consternation down near her midriff, a clammy fear her mother might be (26) (be/was) right—and then she was furious. She wasn’t gawky and she wasn’t know-nothing. She could do (27) (do/have done) fractions and percentages and draw the map of North America with her eyes shut. Her mother to talk, who only last Sunday when she was writing a letter had to ask how (28) (who/how) to spell ‘necessary’!
(29) Read the following passage and fill up the blanks choosing the correct words from the brackets and write them in your answer booklet.
Fired by the idea of turning Gardner’s story into (23) (onto/into) a movie, dayman showed the 20/20 clip to the producers at Escape Artists, who then sent it to Will Smith. “It (24) (It/Its) made people come together and say, ‘Let’s go all out,’ ” says Todd Black of Escape Artists, which produced “The Pursuit of Happyness” (the curious spelling comes (25) (come/comes) from a sign that Gardner saw when he was homeless). Gardner flew out (26) (from /out) to Smith’s home in L.A. for dinner so that the actor could study him, an experience Gardner describes as (27) (as/so) “surreal.” He spent as much time as he could on the set during (28) (while/during) the 59 days of shooting, though some scenes were difficult to watch.
(30) Read the following passage and fill up the blanks choosing the correct words from the brackets and write them in your answer booklet.
Is it useful to compare (23) (comparing/to compare) the works of the greatest artists? It is, indeed, true that there is a relative merit, that a peach is nobler than a black berry (24) (berry/bury). But in each rank of fruits, as in each rank of masters, one is endowed with one virtue, and another with another (25) (other/another); their glory is their dissimilarity, and they who propose in the training of an artist that he should unite the coloring of Tintoretto, the finish of Durer, and the tenderness of Correggio -some greater and masterly works- are no wiser than (26) (from/than) a horticulturist would be who made (27) (made/make) it the object of his labor to produce a fruit which should unite in itself (28) (its self/itself) the lusciousness of the grape, the crispness of the nut, and the fragrance of the pine.
(31) Read the following passage and fill up the blanks choosing the correct words from the brackets and write them in your answer booklet.
India is home to a billion people, more than 16 languages and upwards of 36 distinct cuisines. What binds together (23) (together/gather) the culinary diversity of this nation is something small but alluring: its spices. A part of Indian culture for 3,000 years, these spices is (24) (are/is) legendary for their medicinal properties, not to mention (25) (mention/ maintain) their delightful flavours and (26) (and/yet) food-preserving powers. From sweet, fragrant cardamom to the world’s spiciest chilli pepper, from smoky cumin to pungent mustard seeds, bold, aromatic spices add character and a rich bouquet to Indian dishes. While there are numerous spices to choose from (27) (from/form), you can bring a taste of India into your home by focusing on just a few basic ones. Think of spices as musical notes (28) (notes/knots). Get to know a few main players, and your dishes will sing with flavour.
(32) Read the following passage and fill up the blanks choosing the correct words from the brackets and write them in your answer booklet.
All societies have (23) (has/have) legends. Most legends began as stories about (24) (about/above) the heroes of a particular region, occupation, or ethnic group. For example, John Henry was a legendary hero of (25) (from/of) black Americans, and Casey Jones of railroad workers. Overtime (26) (Overtime/Overtime), however, these figures have become national heroes. The legends of the superhuman accomplishments of Paul Bunyan and Pecos Bill are imaginary, while (27) (when/while) the legends about Washington and Lincoln are mostly exaggerations of real qualities those two presidents had (28) (have/had).
(33) Read the following passage and fill up the blanks choosing the correct words from the brackets and write them in your answer booklet.
The term “neon light” was originally applied to (23) (for/to) a particular type of vapor lamp using the inert, colorless gas neon. A long (24) (large/long) tube was filled with neon, which then became luminous at low pressure when an electric current was passed through (25) (through/on) it. The lamp then emitted the characteristic reddish- orange light of neon. Today, the term “neon light” is given to lamps of this general type which may be filled with a (26) (no article/a) variety of gases, depending on the color that is desired. Argon, for example, is used to produce blue light. Colors can also be altered by (27) (by/buy) changing the color of the glass tube. The tubes must be quite (28) (quite/quiet) long in all these lamps to produce light efficiently.
(34) Read the following passage and fill up the blanks choosing the correct words from the brackets and write them in your answer booklet. (March 2018)
One day, a farmer’s donkey fell into a well by accident (23) (accident/accidently). The donkey was frightened (24) (frightening/frightened). He tried with all his might to jump (25) (jump/trot) and come out, but in vain. He started crying (26) (cry/crying) loudly for hours together. Hearing his cry, the people (27) (peoples/people) living nearby came and looked down into the well. The farmer who (28) (which/who) came in search of his donkey, at last found him and brought the donkey out.
(35) Read the following passage and fill up the blanks choosing the correct words from the brackets and write them in your answer booklet. (June 2018)
The solar system has been a complicated wonder for the astronomers. This is a question to which we may never (23) (ever/never) have the exact answer. Man has wonder about the age of the Earth since (24) (since/for) ancient times. There were all kinds of stories that seemed to have answer. But man could not begin to think (25) (think/thought) about the question scientifically (26) (scientific/scientifically) until about 400 years ago. When it was proved that the Earth revolved around (27) (around/surround) the Sun and the Earth was a part of solar system, then scientists knew (28) (knew/new) where to begin.