Category: NTS English Past Papers MCQs

(A) heretical
(B) disobedient
(C) contrary
(D) inattentive
(E) harried

The answer is: (C) contrary
Hamid viewed Maria to be contrary; she seemed to be against any position regardless of its merits.

In the late seventeenth century, a transformation began that would make coffee one of the most popular drinks in Europe. The coffeehouse-meeting place of bankers, dissidents, artists, merchants, poets, wits, and rogues-was in some ways the cradle of modern Europe. Coffee would change, in less than a century, ________ drink of a few princes and a few paupers ________ chief social beverage of the rising middle class.

Q. The word “transformation” is closest in meaning to:
(A) trend
(B) event
(C) custom
(D) change

The answer is: (D) change

Q. Fill in the blanks:
(A) from the, to the
(B) because, became
(C) since, for
(D) none of these

The answer is: (A) from the, to the

(A) ethical
(B) honest
(C) vicious
(D) upright

The answer is: (C) vicious
The opposite of moral (good behavior) is vicious (bad behavior).

(A) door: jamb
(B) yard: sidewalk
(C) seed: hull
(D) head: halo

The answer is: (C) seed: hull

(A) is more pleasing
(B) are more pleasing
(C) is most pleasing
(D) have most pleasing

The answer is: (C) is most pleasing
The decoration of the new office block, including the furniture and curtains, is most pleasing.

(A) stenographer : typewriter
(B) painter : brush
(C) lawyer : brief
(D) tailor : scissor

The answer is: (D) tailor: scissor (A carpenter uses saw to work, and a tailor uses scissor to work)

(A) goose : geese
(B) painter : brush
(C) lawyer : brief
(D) sky : stars

The answer is: (A) goose : geese (Clowder is a group of cats, and geese is a group of goose)

(A) won
(B) had won
(C) has had won
(D) was winning

The answer is: (B) had won
By the time she was thirty, she had won many medals.

(A) was
(B) were
(C) had
(D) have had

The answer is: (A) was
The number of tourists at the national park was amazing.

(A) interest
(B) interested
(C) interestingly
(D) interesting

The answer is: (D) interesting
The newly installed mobile application sounds very interesting.