MDCAT Past Papers - DUHS - English - Chap No 1 Quiz

1. Although most of the lucrative jobs in Pakistan will require a college degree, many of the new jobs require knowledge other than gained in college or university. For workers in those jobs, good basic skills in reading and mathematics play an important role in getting a job & developing a career. From the information given above, what can be validly concluded that in today's economy.

Extra knowledge is an added benefit for career development
People should train their children technical work
Skills in reading , communication and mathimetics play an important role in developing a successful career
All Colleges and universities are worthless

2. After seven years of suggestion from the environmental department, the Sindh legislation has finally passed an antipollution ordinance. From a reading of the language, the legislation promises to be one of the most effective bills in the history of province. Which of the following can be deducted from the passage?

Pollution is not now a problem in the country.
To reduce pollution, the legislation must now be enforced.
The pollution will be reduced in the country.
The pollution problem will be eliminated in the province.

3. Scientists recently published that influenza spreads around the world more efficiently in the modern era due to commercial air travel. Flu symptoms are severe enough that the sick would likely cancel or reschedule air travel, but an infected person can travel across the globe before the first signs appear. Further, the virus easily in the enclosed and closely packed environment. Which of the following would best minimize the role air travel can play in the spread of influenza during a pandemic?

Refusing to allow children, the elderly, or others who are especially vulnerable to the travel by air during a pandemic
Requiring all air travelers to wash their hands before bounding a plane
Requiring air travelers to receive flu vaccinations far enough in advance of the trip to provide protection against the disease.
Installing air filtration systems in the planes to kill any flu virus particles flowing through the filters

4. Owing to his bad luck, he got into an accident on the eve of his examination. What type of sentence is this?

Complex sentence
Simple sentence
Compound sentence
Complex-compound

5. Choose the sentence which is correctly structured:

If we had found him earlier, we could have saved his life.
If we had found him earlier, we have saved his life
If we had found him earlier, we had saved his life
If we had found him earlier, we could save his life.

6. Choose the incorrect sentence structure:

Justice, as well as mercy, allows it.
In him, was centred their love and ambition.
The wages of sin is death.
Fire and water don't agree.

7. This is the (very) thing we want. The underlined word is a/an:

Emphatic pronoun
Emphasizing adjective
Reflexive pronoun
Exclamatory adjective

8. During the heavy rain, the sky (grew) dark. The underlined verb is:

Non-Finite
Transitive
Di-transitive
Linking

9. The soup ________ good.

Taste
tastes
is tasting
has taste

10. Pick the sentence with correct punctuation.

"He did his best that was all anyone could do in any job"
"He did his best, that was all anyone could do in any job.
"He did his best: that was all anyone could do in any job"
"He did his best; that was all anyone could do in any job"