Test: AFCAT Past Year Papers 2/2015 - AFCAT MCQ

DIRECTIONS: Which word or words explains the meaning of the following idioms.

A bull in a china shop

DIRECTIONS: Choose the word that best defines the given phrases.

To hold something in leash

DIRECTIONS: Choose the word that best defines the given phrases.

To talk through one's hat

DIRECTIONS: Choose the word that best defines the given phrases.

To throw up the sponge

DIRECTIONS: Choose the word that best defines the given phrases.

To get into hot waters

Choose the correctly spelt word.

Choose the correctly spelt word.

Choose the correctly spelt word.

Choose the correctly spelt word.

Choose the correctly spelt word.

DIRECTIONS: Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below it.

Patience is better than wisdom; An ounce of patience is worth a pound of brains. All men praise patience, but few can practise it. It is a medicine which is good for all diseases, but it is not every garden that grows the herbs to make it with. Many people are born crying, live complaining and die disappointed. They think every other person's burden to be light and their own feathers to be heavy as lead, and yet if the truth were known, it is their fancy rather than their fate that makes things go so hard with them. Many would be well off than what they think of.

Q. Which of the following is the most suitable explanation to the author's remark that "anounce of patience is worth a pound of brains"?

DIRECTIONS: Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below it.

Patience is better than wisdom; An ounce of patience is worth a pound of brains. All men praise patience, but few can practise it. It is a medicine which is good for all diseases, but it is not every garden that grows the herbs to make it with. Many people are born crying, live complaining and die disappointed. They think every other person's burden to be light and their own feathers to be heavy as lead, and yet if the truth were known, it is their fancy rather than their fate that makes things go so hard with them. Many would be well off than what they think of.

Q. Which one is the most likely explanation , among the following, of the author's metaphorical statement that "It is not every garden that grows the herbs to make it with"?

DIRECTIONS: Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below it.

Patience is better than wisdom; An ounce of patience is worth a pound of brains. All men praise patience, but few can practise it. It is a medicine which is good for all diseases, but it is not every garden that grows the herbs to make it with. Many people are born crying, live complaining and die disappointed. They think every other person's burden to be light and their own feathers to be heavy as lead, and yet if the truth were known, it is their fancy rather than their fate that makes things go so hard with them. Many would be well off than what they think of.

Q. The writer's remarks, "They think every person's burden to be light and their own feathers to be as heavy as lead" is very significant. It means

DIRECTIONS: Choose the word which is nearest in meaning to the given word.

Anathema

DIRECTIONS: Choose the word which is nearest in meaning to the given word.

Debilitate

DIRECTIONS: Choose the word which is nearest in meaning to the given word.

Penchant

DIRECTIONS: Choose the word which is nearest in meaning to the given word.

Nebulous

DIRECTIONS: Choose the word which is nearly opposite in meaning to the given word.

Insolent

DIRECTIONS: Choose the word which is nearly opposite in meaning to the given word.

Sceptic

DIRECTIONS: Choose the word which is nearly opposite in meaning to the given word.

Refractory

DIRECTIONS: Choose the word which is nearly opposite in meaning to the given word.

Acrimonious

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Q. Select the most appropriate word from the options no. 25

Life is an (25) series of challenges and opportunities to be seized. You have to plan for exercising the right career choices and (26) the right opportunities. Planned (27) rather than a hasty decision is (28) as far as your career is concerned. You need to (29) what occupational groups, (30) and type of organisation are suitable for you

Q. Select the most appropriate word from the options no. 26

Life is an (25) series of challenges and opportunities to be seized. You have to plan for exercising the right career choices and (26) the right opportunities. Planned (27) rather than a hasty decision is (28) as far as your career is concerned. You need to (29) what occupational groups, (30) and type of organisation are suitable for you

Q. Select the most appropriate word from the options no. 27

Life is an (25) series of challenges and opportunities to be seized. You have to plan for exercising the right career choices and (26) the right opportunities. Planned (27) rather than a hasty decision is (28) as far as your career is concerned. You need to (29) what occupational groups, (30) and type of organisation are suitable for you

Q. Select the most appropriate word from the options no. 28

Life is an (25) series of challenges and opportunities to be seized. You have to plan for exercising the right career choices and (26) the right opportunities. Planned (27) rather than a hasty decision is (28) as far as your career is concerned. You need to (29) what occupational groups, (30) and type of organisation are suitable for you

Q. Select the most appropriate word from the options no. 29

Life is an (25) series of challenges and opportunities to be seized. You have to plan for exercising the right career choices and (26) the right opportunities. Planned (27) rather than a hasty decision is (28) as far as your career is concerned. You need to (29) what occupational groups, (30) and type of organisation are suitable for you

Q. Select the most appropriate word from the options no. 30