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The Professionals’ Academy Of Commerce
Assessment of Fundamental Competencies Stage Examinations
Mock Examination Winter2017
Mock # 3 (100% Syllabus) 50 marks – 1.5 hours

Mock Roll #: ___________________ Student’s Name: _____________________________

Functional English
1. Insert the most appropriate idioms / proverbs in the blanks.

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1. The driver ________ to justify his long leave of absence without the permission of his employer.
a) ate the humble pie c) created a cock and bull story
b) went back to his words d) put on airs

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2. A large contingent of the police was called to the scene, but it was just ________ as all the strikers

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dispersed peacefully after registering their grievances

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a) the clam before the storm c) A storm in the tea cup
b) a flash in the pan d) A rank and file exercise

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3. The children were getting out of control until the teacher ________ and made them all sit in their
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places.
a) put a foot wrong c) put his foot down
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b) put his foot in it d) put his best foot forward
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4. A miss is as good as mile means ________.

a) If you want to be successful, be careful about efficiency.
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b) Almost having done something is the same as not having done it all.
c) Winning a race is what matters most.
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d) Be proactive for completing assignments.

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2. Identify the underlined words as part of speech.

5. The top tourist attractions in Benidorm are the three beaches that line its arena.
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a) Noun c) Adjective
b) Verb d) Adverb
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6. The yellow flicker of the lanterns spun round and round and tossed the shadows in masses.
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a) Noun c) Adjective
b) Verb d) Adverb

7. Nuclear power is neither safe nor clean.

a) Noun c) Preposition
b) Adjective d) Conjunction

8. Children today face growing up in one of the most media – saturated periods of history.
a) Noun c) Adjective
b) Verb d) Adverb

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9. The hour to prepare lessons has arrived.

a) Subject c) Attribute
b) Predicate d) Complement

10. Wounds made by words are hard to heal.

a) Subject – word c) Object
b) Attribute d) Complement

Name the appropriate kind / type of sentence.

11. The professor punished the boy for disobedience
a) Simple sentence c) Complex sentence

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b) Compound sentence d) Mixed sentence

12. The more ignorant a man is, the less modest he is

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a) Simple sentence c) Complex sentence
b) Compound sentence d) Mixed sentence

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13. How can man die better than facing fearful odds?
a) Assertive sentence c) Exclamatory sentence
b) Interrogative sentence
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Identify the underlined phrase.
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14. It lies near his heart.

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a) Noun phrase c) Adjective phrase

b) Adverb phrase d) None of the above
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15. To win a prize is my ambition

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a) Noun phrase c) Adjective phrase

b) Adverb phrase d) None of the above
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16. Suggest a collective noun for lions, scouts, monkeys

a) Troop c) Crowd
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b) Troupe d) School
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17. Suggest a collective noun for goats, cattle, deer, elephants, buffaloes
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a) Group c) Gang
b) Herd d) Team

18. In ________, the events of the past week seemed trivial and overly dramatic.
a) memory c) reflection
b) retrospect d) pondering

19. This medicine is supposedly ________. It is able to cure all sorts of illness.
a) omniscient c) omnipotent
b) omnipresent d) infusible

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Choose the best synonyms for the underlined word.

20. Nina’s opulence did not stop her from mixing with the poorer kids in the neighbourhood.
a) poverty c) position
b) status d) wealth
21. If we procrastinate, we will not find time to do important tasks.
a) proceed c) infer
b) delay d) be calm

Choose the sentences with appropriate punctuation and capitalization.

22.

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a) Shazia said Sara didn’t eat the cake.
b) Shazia said Sara “didn’t eat the cake”?
c) Shazia said, “Sara didn’t eat the cake.”

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d) Shazia said, “Sara didn’t eat the cake”.

23.

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a) Raza the neighbor next door told me that the exhibitions of his paintings will be held in Karachi
and Islamabad.

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b) Raza the neighbor next door, told me, that the exhibitions of his paintings will be held in
Karachi and Islamabad.
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c) Raza, the neighbor next door told me, that the exhibitions of his paintings will be held in
Karachi and Islamabad.
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d) Raza, the neighbor next door, told me that the exhibitions of his paintings will be held in
Karachi and Islamabad.
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24.
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a) She said, “Hurry up or we ll miss the bus.”

b) She said, “Hurry up! Or we’ll miss the bus.”
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c) She said, “hurry up or we’ll miss the bus!”

d) She said, “Hurry up or we’ll miss the bus.”
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Change the voice of the given sentences.

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25. Please lend me your camera.

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a) I request your camera to be lend to me.

b) I request your camera be lent to me.
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c) I request your camera to be lent to me.

d) I request your camera be lend to me.

26. I shall have left this place.

a) This place shall have been left by me. c) This place is being left by me.
b) This place will have been left by me. d) This place would have been left by me

27. My advice was acted upon by her.

a) She acted upon the my advice. c) She act upon the advice.
b) She acts upon the advice. d) She acted upon my advice.

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Change the narration of the given sentences.

28. He said, “It was raining yesterday.”
a) He said that it rained yesterday.
b) He said that it was raining yesterday.
c) He said that it has been raining yesterday.
d) He said that it had been raining the day before.

29. I requested him to excuse me as I was too tired to go out.

a) I said to him , “Please excuse me. He is too tired to go out.”
b) I said to him, “Please excuse him. He is too tired to go out.”

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c) I said to him, “Please excuse me. I am too tired to go out.”
d) I said to him, “Please excuse him as I am too tired to go out.”

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30. Salim said to his friend, “Let me do my work please.”
a) Salim said to his friend let him do his work please.
b) Salim said to his friend please let me do my work.

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c) Salim requested his friend that he may be allowed to do his work.
d) Salim requested his friend that he might be allowed to do his work.

Choose the best answer.

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31. What _______ beautiful scene this is!
a) a c) the
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b) an d) x
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32. A stitch in time saves _______ nine.

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a) a c) the
b) an d) x
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33. Time makes _____ worst enemies friends.

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a) a c) the
b) an d) x
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34. Contentment is essential ________ happiness.

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a) with c) for
b) to d) of
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35. Although he was bred ______ the law, he become a successful journalist.
a) to c) for
b) with d) from

36. ________ he was industrious, I encouraged him.

a) Even though c) As
b) Although d) If

37. We ________ a new book for the last six months.

a) not read c) would not read
b) did not read d) have not read

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38. We ________ all day and now we are exhausted.

a) had been shopping c) have been shopping
b) shop d) have shopped

39. When she _______ an important letter the telephone rang.

a) is writing c) wrote
b) was writing d) writes

40. He ________, if he had known.

a) went c) would have gone
b) would go d) will have gone

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Choose the correct sentences.

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41.
a) When asleep, a thief picked his pocket.

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b) When he was asleep, a thief picked his pocket.
c) When sleeping, a thief pickrd his pocket.
d) When slept, a theif picked his pocket.

42.
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a) Has everybody brought their walking shoes?
b) Has everybody brought everybody’s walking shoes?
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c) Has everybody brought our walking shoes?

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d) Has everybody brought his walking shoes?

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43.
a) He talks as if he is a scholar.
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b) He talks as if he was a scholar.

c) He talks as if he is being a scholar.
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d) He talks as if he were a scholar.

44.
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a) She gave me a ten rupees note.

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b) She gave me a ten rupee note.

c) She gave me a ten rupee notes.
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d) She gave me ten rupee note.

45.
a) I had scarcely gone out that the rain started.
b) I had scarcely gone out as the rain started.
c) I had scarcely gone out when the rain started.
d) Although I had scarcely gone out, the rain started.

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Read the following passage and pick the most appropriate answers.
We have just returned after completion of an important mission in Ukraine – taking around 17
journalists from 18 countries with us to Chernobyl, nearly 25 years after the nuclear catastrophe. It
was one of the largest media trips Greenpeace has organized. These seasoned journalists asked critical
and insightful questions, none of them were easily moved.
But many of them were deeply disturbed by what they saw and heard – often by the mundane details
that were mentioned matter – of – fact by the interviewees.
Like how every year the Ukraine government needs to spend between six and eight percent of the
fiscal budget to cope with the consequences of Chernobyl.

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Like how tens of thousands of Ukrainian children need to be sent away every year to uncontaminated
areas for at least a month, in order to allow the body to get rid of some of the caesium – 137
accumulated through eating everyday food like milk, mushrooms, berry jam and meat.

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Like how food sold in every market needs to be tested for radionuclide like cesium and strontium.
Like how the local health and sanitary stations in some areas need to make to make maps to tell local

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communities where the radiation hotspots are and it’s thus unsafe to go.
Like how in school, children are taught the practical steps of radiation safety, and do emergency drills

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with gas masks.
Like how young expectant mothers get advice about what food they need to avoid, in order to
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minimize radionuclide uptake, which causes deformity in the developing fetus. They need frequent
checks and if the fetus develops serious deformity then it may have to be aborted.
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The consequences of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster lie in these mundane everyday facts. Life for
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these communities is brutally distorted, for centuries to come.

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However, when I returned from Ukraine, I was hit by another distorted reality. Nuclear proponents
now claim that – despite the fact that the situation in the Fukushima nuclear plant is still not under
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control, despite the massive amount of radioactive water dumped into sea with unknown
consequences – Fukushima proves that nuclear energy is safe, because so far no one has been killed
by the radiation.
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I want them to say that to the Ukrainian doctors and parents who are told that the state can now only
afford to send children away for breaks in clean areas for 18 days per year. Nuclear supporters
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probably don’t know that it takes 50 days for the body of a child (100 days for adult) to get rid of half
of its radioactive cesium – 137.
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I want them to say that to the public health officials who are struggling to find funding to continue
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monitoring food contamination.

I want them to say to the young woman who told us her favorite fruit is the blueberries from the
forests. She knows they are contaminated by cesium but she cannot help eating them sometimes.
I want them to take human life more seriously. There are 442 nuclear power plants in the world today
and the majorities are ageing. There will be leaks, power outages, human errors, design flaws. The
nuclear industry has no solutions to the radioactive waste problem. How many more life – crippling
nuclear disasters will it take before the world gets rid of this outdated, dangerous and unnecessary
technology?

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46. What is the main theme of the passage?

a) The writer wants us to realize the gravity of nuclear accidents.
b) The writer wants the nuclear proponents to abolish the existing nuclear plants.
c) The writer wants the nuclear industry to get rid of outdated and dangerous technology in
order to be safer and more benefitting to humanity.
d) The writer wants to ask insightful questions about nuclear catastrophe.

47. The ill effects of cesium – 137 can be accumulated in a human body.
a) By eating dairy products, manufactured food products and some plants.

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b) By consuming only the raw agricultural produce like fruits.
c) By consuming all kinds of dairy products.
d) Only through a pregnant mother to young fetus.

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48. The “distorted reality” according to the writer is that
a) Fukushima proved that nuclear energy is safe as nobody was killed by radiation.
b) Fukushima plant was still not under control.

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c) Fukushima nuclear plant could never be as disastrous as Chernobyl plant.
d) Greenpeace was spreading rumors about nuclear industry.
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49. The meaning of “mundane” according to the passage is
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a) Tragic
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b) Factual
c) Shocking
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d) Dull and boring

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50. Spending how many days in clean air can rid an adult of radioactive cesium – 137?
a) 100 days a year
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b) 200 days a year

c) 50 days a year
d) 75 days a year
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(The End)
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