Microsoft Word Question Bank Sem I. docx

24. 

 Eight dollars _________ (is/ are) the price of a movie these days.  

25. 

 There _________  (was/ were) fifteen candies in that bag. Now there  _________(is/ are) 

only one left! 

Connotation   

1.Select the word with the appropriate positive connotation to complete the following sentence.  

Most teachers think that Blanche is a very _________ young woman.   

 

 

Tenacious     stubborn  

determined     obstinate 

 

2. Select the word with the appropriate positive connotation to complete the following sentence. 

As the boys played video games, their parents _________ them. 

 

 

glared at    

scrutinized        

studied    

watched 

 

3. Select the word with the appropriate positive connotation to complete the following sentence.  

My history teacher gives very _________ assignments.    

 

 

Challenging     taxing     

perplexing       demanding  

4. Select the word with the appropriate positive connotation to complete the following sentence.  

After graduating from college, my best friend has very _________ plans for his future.      

 

Pretentious            ruthless           

grandiose    

    ambitious 

5. Select the word with the appropriate neutral connotation to complete the following sentence. 

The teacher's job is not as objective as it may seem at first; in fact, it is quite _________.   

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Unfair     

slanted    

biased    

subjective 

 

6. Select the word with the appropriate neutral connotation to complete the following sentence.  

Given the recent _________ college standards, it seems as though anyone can get an advanced 

degree, nowadays.     

 

Plummeting          

plunge in              

decline in    

   demise of 

 

7.Select the word with the appropriate denotation to complete the following sentence. 

Some of the books we read are full of _________ claims, so they are difficult to absorb in just 

one reading.    

 

Complicated         

complicit         compliant          

complex 

 

 

8. Select the word with the appropriate denotation to complete the following sentence.  

_________the course work is rigorous, but the teacher tries to make it accessible.    

 

 

For all interested purposes     

For all intense purposes 

 

For all intensive purposes      

For all intents and purposes    

9.Select the word with the appropriate denotation to complete the following sentence.  

Our professor's false British accent is a humorous _________ 

  Infect 

 

 effect 

 

 

  

affect    

 

prefect  

10. Select the words with the appropriate denotation to complete the following sentence.  

Just because you have _________ change in the school system does not mean you will always 

achieve your desired _________.      

 effected/effect 

effected/affect    

affected/affect