Hunger and Population Explosion Test No 9 | Idioms 201-220 English Part II

9| Hunger and Population Explosion

Q#1 Choose the right synonyms of the following       (10)

1. The early hunter suffered grave shortages.

A) crucial                 
B) normal           
C) heavy                
D) little

2. Widespread disaster was only averted.

A) breaking               
B) dreadful           
C) extensive           
D) few

3. Widespread disaster was only averted.

A) avoided                 
B) spread             
C) damaged            
D) hailed 

4. You forgot all about those hunger pangs.

A) pain                     
B) pleasure         
C) crises               
D) broken

5. Modern medicine and epidemic have controlled the death rates.

A) genocide               
B) patients           
C) nervous             
D) scourge

6. The sufferer becomes depressed and feels very ill.

A) suppressed           
B) dispirited                   
C) happy               
D) enormous

Choose the correct option

7. He has watched a movie last night.
A) He watched a movie last night.
B) He watches a movie last night.
C) He is watching a movie last night.
D) He is watch a movie last night. 

8. Run fast lest you may miss the train. 
A) Run fast lest you should not miss the train.
B) Run fast lest you may not miss the train.
C) Run fast lest you should miss the train.
D) Run fast lest you may missed the train.

9. He is not known ____ me.  

A) with
B) to
C) of
D) by

10. Only hard work is a key ____ success.  

A) with
B) of
C) to
D) by 

Q#2 Answer any 5 questions of the followings: (10)

i.  What does hunger mean on a large scale as viewed by the author?

ii. How do famines occur?

iii. What is meant by birth rate and death rate, & how do they affect the population?

iv. How did Robin Hood help the poor during the local food shortages?

v.  Why is the birth rate not so high in the more advanced countries?

vi. How does the author describe the Kenyan children?

Q.3 Make Sentences of (any 5) Idioms: [10]

to get rid of
give a false colouring to
a hard pill to swallow
hand in glove with
hue and cry
hard and fast

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