1. 'Cock and bull story' means--

a fable

a tragedy

a false story

a wonderful story

2. Fill in the blank with the appropriate idiom and phrase: I know nothing about the language, it is all ----- to me.

English

Bengali

Greek

Hindi

3. What do you mean by the phrase 'sit on the fence'?

watch over the fence

sit idly

remain neutral in a dispute

sit on a height

4. 'Capital punishment' means--

imprisonment

freedom

immunity

death penalty

5. The pharse 'loaves and fishes' means--

personal gains

personal loss

bread with fishes

fishing net

6. What is the correct meaning of 'by all means'?

meaningless

meaningful

certainly

uncertainly

7. What is the meaning of the expression 'bottom line'?

the final step

the end of a road

the last line of a book

the essential point

8. What does 'three score' mean?

thirty times

three hundred times

three times twenty

None of these

9. Birds fly --- in the sky.

at a stretch

at large

largely

all along

10. Black sheep----

a costly item

dark shiny object

an unworthy person

funny man