ECAT — Engineering College Admission Test (UET)

ECAT English — Prepositions, Articles and Conjunctions (Set 6)

Take the ECAT English — Prepositions, Articles and Conjunctions (Set 6): 30 multiple-choice questions (40 minutes) with instant scoring and a full answer…

What this test covers

30 ECAT English

Sample questions with answers

The first 5 questions of this test, with the correct answer and explanation.

Q1. Choose the correct option to fill in the blank: The new fee structure is not consistent ___ the rules approved by the board.
- A. with ✓
- B. from
- C. for
- D. to
Answer: A. with
Explanation: 'Consistent' takes the preposition 'with'.
Q2. Choose the correct option to fill in the blank: After a three-week trial, the court acquitted the clerk ___ all charges of fraud.
- A. of ✓
- B. from
- C. for
- D. on
Answer: A. of
Explanation: 'Acquit someone of a charge' is the standard collocation.
Q3. Choose the correct option to fill in the blank: She is averse ___ taking unnecessary risks with her savings.
- A. to ✓
- B. for
- C. with
- D. at
Answer: A. to
Explanation: 'Averse' is followed by 'to'.
Q4. Choose the correct option to fill in the blank: The mayor was charged ___ embezzling public funds.
- A. of
- B. with ✓
- C. on
- D. for
Answer: B. with
Explanation: A person is 'charged with' an offence.
Q5. Choose the correct option to fill in the blank: A good reader learns to differentiate ___ a writer's facts and his opinions.
- A. among
- B. between ✓
- C. with
- D. against
Answer: B. between
Explanation: 'Differentiate between X and Y' is the idiom.

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Q6. Choose the correct option to fill in the blank: He prides himself ___ never having arrived late to work.
- A. on
- B. for
- C. of
- D. in
Q7. Choose the correct option to fill in the blank: The villagers were deprived ___ clean drinking water for nearly a month.
- A. off
- B. from
- C. of
- D. with
Q8. Choose the correct option to fill in the blank: Quite ___ few volunteers turned up despite the heavy rain.
- A. the
- B. no article is needed
- C. a
- D. an
Q9. Choose the correct option to fill in the blank: We waited for half ___ hour before the doctor appeared.
- A. an
- B. no article is needed
- C. the
- D. a
Q10. Choose the correct option to fill in the blank: In the wholesale market, eggs are sold by ___ dozen, not singly.
- A. the
- B. a
- C. no article is needed
- D. an
Q11. Choose the correct option to fill in the blank: ___ poor are often the first to suffer when food prices rise.
- A. no article is needed
- B. A
- C. An
- D. The
Q12. Choose the correct option to fill in the blank: What ___ pity that you missed the final match!
- A. the
- B. no article is needed
- C. a
- D. an
Q13. Choose the correct option to fill in the blank: Her cousin, who works at the bank, has ___ MBA from the Institute of Business Administration.
- A. a
- B. the
- C. no article is needed
- D. an
Q14. Choose the correct option to fill in the blank: The little boy looked at the sweets as ___ he had never seen them before.
- A. if
- B. than
- C. such
- D. so
Q15. Choose the correct option to fill in the blank: I will lend you the book ___ you return it by Friday.
- A. provided
- B. unless
- C. although
- D. whereas
Q16. Choose the correct option to fill in the blank: Poor ___ he was, he never begged for help from strangers.
- A. when
- B. as
- C. if
- D. since
Q17. Choose the correct option to fill in the blank: Keep the receipt ___ the shirt turns out to be the wrong size.
- A. even if
- B. so that
- C. unless
- D. in case
Q18. Choose the correct option to fill in the blank: The mechanic cleaned the filter again ___ the engine would not overheat on the long journey.
- A. in spite of
- B. so that
- C. unless
- D. whether
Q19. Choose the correct option to fill in the blank: The hotel is cheap; ___, it is only five minutes from the station.
- A. however
- B. instead
- C. moreover
- D. otherwise
Q20. Choose the correct option to fill in the blank: Wear a helmet on the motorbike; ___ you could be seriously injured in a fall.
- A. otherwise
- B. likewise
- C. moreover
- D. hence
Q21. Choose the correct option to fill in the blank: While clearing the attic, he came ___ a bundle of letters from his grandfather.
- A. across
- B. over
- C. along
- D. through
Q22. Choose the correct option to fill in the blank: The deal fell ___ at the last moment when the buyers withdrew their money.
- A. away
- B. off
- C. behind
- D. through
Q23. Choose the correct option to fill in the blank: The girl takes ___ her mother in looks as well as in temperament.
- A. after
- B. over
- C. up
- D. on
Q24. Choose the correct option to fill in the blank: Residents of the flats had to put ___ with the noise of construction for months.
- A. up
- B. on
- C. off
- D. out
Q25. Choose the correct option to fill in the blank: It turned ___ that the witness had never been in the city on that day.
- A. over
- B. up
- C. off
- D. out
Q26. Choose the correct option to fill in the blank: The assignment must be submitted ___ Friday at the latest.
- A. in
- B. until
- C. at
- D. by
Q27. Choose the correct option to fill in the blank: The guards waited ___ midnight and then left the gate unattended.
- A. by
- B. until
- C. at
- D. in
Q28. Choose the correct option to fill in the blank: The path runs ___ the river and the railway line for about two kilometres.
- A. amid
- B. between
- C. among
- D. across
Q29. Choose the correct option to fill in the blank: The workshop was cancelled ___ the unavailability of the chief guest.
- A. owing to
- B. because
- C. in spite
- D. owing
Q30. Choose the correct option to fill in the blank: She was appointed ___ principal of the college in March.
- A. a
- B. some
- C. an
- D. no article is needed