Direction (Qs.1-5): In each of the following questions, a sentence is given with a word/group of words highlighted in bold. Select the idiom from the options given below that can replace the word/s in bold grammatically, while conveying the same meaning, and mark that option as your answer.
Question No : 1
When you are out of college and into the working environment, it is time to organize yourself.
(1) Have a blessing in disguise
(2) Cry over spilled milk
(3) Fly off the handle
(4) Bury the hatchet
(5) Get your act together
Question No : 2
By working part-time and looking after her kids two days a week she managed to get different opportunities at the same time.
(1) back to the wall
(2) Achilles heel
(3) ball and chain
(4) the best of both worlds
(5) on the blink
Question No : 3
Fuel these days is very expensive.
(1) comes to a head
(2) is a can of worms
(3) costs an arm and a leg
(4) is cloud on the horizon
(5) dodges a bullet
Question No : 4
In the given questions below, change the degree of comparison of the phrase in bold and mark the answer accordingly, without changing the meaning of the given sentence.
My house is the largest one in our neighbourhood.
(1) No other house is as large as ours
(2) House is one of the largest houses in the neighbourhood
(3) My house is larger than the house of our neighbours
(4) No house is larger than ours in our neighbourhood
(5) No house is as small as ours in our neighbourhood
Question No : 5
Traditional, researchers built timelines of human prehistory based on fossils and artefacts, which can be direct dated with methods such as radiocarbon dating and Potassium-argon dating.
(1) tradition, direct
(2) traditional, directness
(3) traditional, directness
(4) Non-traditionally, direct
(5) No improvement required