This post contains 1st Year English Chapter 10 A Mild Attack of Locusts Synonyms MCQs for Class 11 students. This is the 10th Short Story in the 1st Year English Book 1. I have already shared notes of 1st Year Short Stories on ilmihub. However, students can get 11th Class Notes of all subjects as well as 1st year all subjects books PDF. Visit this for complete 1st Year English Notes. I have taken these notes from Kips Notes. You can tell us in the comment section if you need any specific book in PDF or notes.
Class 11 English Lesson 10 A Mild Attack of Locusts Synonyms MCQs
Here are some Multiple Choice Questions based on Synonyms of A Mild Attack of Locusts, chapter 10 from 1st Year English. All questions contain 4 possible answers, find out the correct answer.
They all stood and gazed.
(A) dazed
(B) walked
(C) stared
(D) gossiped
Over the rocky levels of the mountain was a streak of rust-coloured air.
(A) surfaces
(B) bluffs
(C) caves
(D) slopes
Over the rocky levels of the mountain was a streak of rust-coloured air.
(A) cloud
(B) fog
(C) mist
(D) strip
Old Stephen yelled at the houseboy.
(A) glared
(B) shouted
(C) whispered
(D) stared
The cook boy ran to beat the old ploughshare.
(A) part of bell
(B) part of drum
(C) part of plough
(D) part of tin
The old ploughshare was used to summon labourers at moments of crisis.
(A) beat
(B) harness
(C) punish
(D) call
The old ploughshare was used to summon labourers at moments of crisis.
(A) pleasure
(B) rejoicing
(C) happiness
(D) catastrophe
The farm was ringing with the clamour of the gong.
(A) bells
(B) noise
(C) brilliance
(D) calls
The farm was ringing with the clamour of the gong.
(A) alarm
(B) shouts
(C) tin can
(D) swarm
They could see the labourers come, pouring out of the compound.
(A)shambling
(B) crawling
(C) clambering
(D) rushing out
Fifty miles over the countryside, the smoke was rising from myriads of fires.
(A) hills
(B) farmland
(C) rock
(D) meadows
It was strange darkness, for the sun was blazing.
(A) cooling
(B) settling
(C) burning
(D) rising
It was like the darkness of veldt fire.
(A) pungent
(B) grassland
(C) jungle
(D) wild
The sunlight comes down distorted.
(A)sharply
(B) exactly
(C) completely
(D) deformed
Oppressive it was, too, with the heaviness of a storm.
(A) burdensome
(B) cruel
(C) brutal
(D) spontaneous
Behind the reddish veils in front, the main swarm showed in the dense black cloud.
(A) insects
(B) guards
(C) covers
(D) clouds
Behind the reddish veils in front, which were the advance guards of the swarm. The main swarm showed in the dense black cloud.
(A) soldiers
(B) frontline
(C) spies
(D) frontline attackers
The main swarm showed in a dense black cloud, reaching almost to the sun itself.
(A) clear
(B) thick
(C) vague
(D) obscure
Looking out, all the trees were queer and still, clotted with insects.
(A) heavy
(B) strange
(C) green
(D) burdened
Locusts were crawling everywhere.
(A) flying
(B) creeping
(C) laying
(D) humming
With a bit of luck another swarm would not come travelling down this way.
(A) group of insects
(B) group of animals
(C) group of fish
(D) group of birds
The old man said emphatically “We’re finished”.
(A) vehemently
(B) psychologically
(C) emotionally
(D) naturally
This devastated and mangled countryside was a ruin.
(A) destroyed
(B) decorated
(C) uncultivated
(D) unfertilized
As she watched, the sun was blotted out with a fresh onrush of locusts.
(A) distorted
(B) kicked
(C) punched
(D) covered
A tree down the slope leaned over and settled heavily to the ground.
(A) erected
(B) slipped
(C) bowed
(D) hitched
The men ate their supper with good appetites.
(A) heartily
(B) like poor people
(C) with a sad heart
(D) against their will
These beggars can eat every blade off the farm in half an hour.
(A) ploughshare
(B) leaf
(C) spike
(D) cutting tool
There were seven patches of bared soil.
(A) cleared
(B) fertilized
(C) harvested
(D) ploughed
As she watched, the sun was blotted out with a fresh onrush of locusts.
(A) flood
(B) swarm
(C) retreat
(D) uproar
They were throwing wet leaves onto the fires to make them acrid and black.
(A) dark
(B) unpleasant
(C) rust-coloured
(D) myriad
Locusts were going to be like bad weather, from now on, always imminent.
(A) impossible
(B) impending
(C) inviting
(D) insatiable
The new mealies were just showing, making a film of bright green.
(A)blades of grass
(B) young locusts
(C) ears of corn
(D) small shoats
Around each patch of bared soil drifted up thick clouds of smoke.
(A) expanded
(B) penetrated
(C) engulfed
(D) floated
Piles of wood and grass had been prepared.
(A) heaps
(B) patches
(C) splinters
(D) stems
Everywhere smoke was rising from myriads of fires.
(A) mealies
(B) patches
(C) lots
(D) swarms
Every farmer hoped the locusts would overlook his farm.
(A) skip
(B) gaze
(C) attack
(D) observe
The evening air was clear blue, with a pattern of insects whizzing this way and that.
(A) buzzing
(B) crawling
(C) advancing
(D) laying
Then came a sharp crack from the bush – a branch had snapped off.
(A) bent
(B) broken
(C) leaned
(D) straightened
Through the hail of insects, a man came running.
(A) clamour
(B) veils
(C) swarm
(D) storm
It was a half-night, a perverted blackness.
(A) clothing
(B) horrible
(C) unnatural
(D) reddish
Relevant Notes
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