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41.Our school maintains ____ uniform for ____ students.
A.a, the
B. an, a
C. the, the
D.No article,a
ANSWER: A
SOLUTION:’Uniform’ is general and unspecific. ‘Uniform’ begins with a consonant sound ‘yoo’. Hence, ‘a’ will be used in the first blank.
‘Students’ is specific and therefore definite article ‘the’ will be used.
42. You cannot doubt ____ honesty of these men.
A. a
B. an
C. the
D. None of these
ANSWER: C
SOLUTION:Here, honesty (abstract noun) is followed by preposition ‘of’. Hence, ‘the’ article should be used.
43.____ red and ____ white rose look beautiful.
A. a, an
B. a, a
C. an, an
D. No article, a
ANSWER: A
SOLUTION:A red and a white rose look beautiful.
44. Honesty is ____ best policy.
A. a
B. an
C.the
D. None of these
ANSWER: C
SOLUTION:Option C is correct as ‘The’ is used with words with superlatives. ‘Best’ is superlative.
45.Shall we go for ____ walk?
A. a
B. an
C. the
D. no article
ANSWER: A
SOLUTION:Here, ‘walk’ is something general and not specific. Indefinite article ‘a’ will be used as ‘walk’ begins with consonant sound.
46. ____ meat you cooked tasted good.
A. a
B. an
C. the
D. no article
ANSWER: C
SOLUTION:’You cooked’ indicates a particular person that cooked the ‘meat’. Hence, ‘the’ article will be used.
47. We cannot take ____ U-turn from her.
A. a
B. the
C. an
D.None of these
ANSWER: A
SOLUTION:’U-turn’ is general but begins with a consonant sound ‘yoo’. Hence, indefinite article ‘a’ will be used.
48. Have ____ great weekend.
A. the
B.an
C. a
D.None of these
ANSWER: C
SOLUTION:Here, the sentence talks about the ‘weekend’ as general class of things. Since we are referring to general things, we need to use the indefinite article ‘a/an’. ‘Great’ begins with consonant sound and therefore ‘a’ article will be used.
49. It is ____ one man show.
A.an
B.a
C.the
D.no article
ANSWER:B
SOLUTION:Even though the word ‘one’ begins with the vowel ‘o’, it’s pronounced as ‘won’ and thus has the sound of consonant ‘w’. Thus, we use ‘a’ instead of ‘an’.
50. ____ Bhagavad Gita is a holy book of ____ Hindus.
A.a,an
B. an, the
C. the,the
D.No article,a
ANSWER: C
SOLUTION:Here, ‘Bhagavad Gita’ is a specific book and ‘Hindus’ are a specific class of people. Hence, definite article ‘the’ will be used before both the blanks.