1. Toni Morrison is the author of …..
(A) Little Girls Wiser Than Men
(B) Once Upon a Time
(C) Gillu
(D) The Pace for Living
| Answer ⇒ B |
2. Civilization has changed and grown in ….
(A) England
(B) Amercia
(C) Africa
(D) India
| Answer ⇒ D |
3. “Old woman, I hold in my hand a bird” is from:
(A) Once Upon a Time
(B) Me and the Ecology Bit
(C) Gillu
(D) The Pace for Living
| Answer ⇒ A |
4. Slow thinkers are handicapped in the business of getting
(A) a living
(C) respect
(B) wealth
(D) amenities of life
| Answer ⇒ A |
5. ……….. has been one of the most significant developments of our times :
(A) painting
(B) competition
(C) agriculture
(D) cinema
| Answer ⇒ D |
6. The people of Buma sacrificed everything in the pursuit of a ……….. Buma.
(A) happy
(B) autocratic
(C) democratic
(D) monarch
| Answer ⇒ C |
7. ……. is the most amazing aspect of Indian culture.
(A) myth
(B) courage
(C) vitality
(D) logic
| Answer ⇒ C |
8. The cinema also combines the cold ………. of science.
(A) art
(B) logic
(C) technology
(D) experiments
| Answer ⇒ B |
9. The speech The Unity of Indian Culture has been deliv ered by ………
(A) Toni Morrison
(B) Leo Tolstoy
(C) Aung San Sui Kyi
(D) Humayun Kabir
| Answer ⇒ D |
10. One of most remarkable features of Indian culture is …….
(A) Many religions
(B) many languages
(C) various feastivals
(D) spirit of underlying unit
| Answer ⇒ D |
11. The girl in ‘Once upon a Time’ offers bread and pieces of ……
(A) chicken
(B) fruits
(C) cheese
(D) meat
| Answer ⇒ D |
12. Aris in ‘Acceptance Speech’ says that the Noble Peace Prize epitomizes the ideals of ……
(A) democracy
(B)humanism
(C) autocracy
(D) peace
| Answer ⇒ D |
13. Civilization is the organization of ……… which creates the condition of culture.
(A) family
(B) office
(C) school
(D) society
| Answer ⇒ D |
14. Who told the crowd that the two little girls were wiser than them ?
(A) a passerby
(B) neighbours
(C) Akoulya’s grandmother
(D) Malasha’s grandfather
| Answer ⇒ C |
15. The splendour of your lamps; but they eclipse’ ….. is from:
(A) Polythene Bag
(B) God Made the Country
(C) Thinner than a Crescent
(D) The Empty Heart
| Answer ⇒ B |
16. The poet in ‘Ode to Solitude’ wants to live unseen and ……
(A) unknown
(B) quietly
(C) unheard
(D) peacefully
| Answer ⇒ D |
17. The polythene bag does not get ……
(A) decomposed
(B) dissolved
(C) soiled
(D) sullied
| Answer ⇒ B |
18. ‘You ask her one thing, She speaks of another is from:
(A) Polythene Bag
(B)Koel
(C) The Empty Heart
(D) Thinner than a Crescent
| Answer ⇒ D |
19. ‘The shades of mangoes burn!’ is from:
(A) Koel
(B) Ode on Solitude
(C) The Empty Heart
(D) God Made the Country
| Answer ⇒ A |
20. The rich man left home because he wanted to earn more
(A) knowledge
(B) respect
(C) money
(D) gold
| Answer ⇒ A |
21. The children used to listen to Martha, lying on their …..
(A) elbows
(B) hands
(C) bed
(D) backs
| Answer ⇒ B |
22. The green garden …….. the Koel’s heart :
(A) teases
(B) chases
(C) mocks
(D) burns
| Answer ⇒ D |
23. ‘Her tears carved a river’…….. who is ‘her’ that the poet is referring to ?
(A) Mitra
(B) Radha
(C) Rukmini
(D) Laxmi
| Answer ⇒ B |
24. ‘Illantamiza’ has been written by ……
(A) Periasamy Thooran
(B) Durga Prasad Panda
(C) Vidyapati
(D) Puran Singh
| Answer ⇒ A |
25. ‘The sight of mango-blossoms fires me all the more!’ is from ………
(A) The Empty Heart
(B) Ode on Solitude
(C) Koel
(D) Martha
| Answer ⇒ C |
26. ‘Yugvani’ was edited by:
(A) Puran Singh
(B) Periasamy thooran
(C)Alexander Pope
(D) Laxmi Prasad Devokota
| Answer ⇒ A |
27. Quality’ is about the quality of ……….
(A) boots
(B) chicken
(C) sweets
(D) fruits
| Answer ⇒ A |
28. The cook in the story ‘Sun and Moon’ is ………..
(A) Sun
(B) Minnie
(C) Moon
(D) Florie
| Answer ⇒ B |
29. The narrator in ‘Love Defied’ realised that he was not ……. enough to become an IAS officer.
(A) intelligent
(B) determined
(C) hardworking
(D) strong
| Answer ⇒ A |
30. In ‘The Bet’, the prisoner read only ……….. after the tenth year.
(A) Shakespeare
(B) Eliot
(C) Gita
(D) The New Testament
| Answer ⇒ D |
31. The drawing room in ‘Sun and Moon’ was full of …..
(A) servants
(B) guests
(C) labourers
(D) priests
| Answer ⇒ B |
32. The daughter in ‘Two Horizons’ feels a huge …….. inside :
(A) happiness
(B) storm
(C) emptiness
(D) burden
| Answer ⇒ A |
33. Moon’s shoes were ………. in colour.
(A) black
(B) brown
(C) grey
(D) white
| Answer ⇒ D |
34. The mother wants her daughter to seek ……. within her self.
(A) solace
(B) fulfilment
(C) peace
(D) happiness
| Answer ⇒ D |
35. Making shoes, according to Mr. Gessler, is a/an …….
(A) Ardt (art)
(B) skill
(C) profession
(D) performance
| Answer ⇒ A |
36. The terms and conditions of the bet were decided by the banker and the ………
(A) doctor
(B) lawyer
(C) cashier
(D) teacher
| Answer ⇒ B |
37. Passive Voice of ‘Can he break this stick ?”
(A) Can he broken this stick?
(B) Can this stick be broken by him ?
(C) He can break this stick ?
(D) Stick can be broken by him?
| Answer ⇒ D |
38. Active Voice of ‘I was shocked at this news’.
(A) This news shocked me
(B) News was shocking for me
(C) News has been shocking me
(D) Shocking was this news
| Answer ⇒ A |
39. Passive Voice of ‘Everybody knows me’.
(A) Knows me everybody
(B) I am known by everybody
(C) I am known to everybody
(D) Everybody me knows
| Answer ⇒ B |
40. Active Voice of ‘The needy should be helped’.
(A) Needy must be helped
(B) We should help the needy
(C) Help the needy
(D) One may help the needy Direction :
| Answer ⇒ C |
41. He said, “You are a great fool.”
(A) He said that he is a great fool.
(B) He said that he was a great fool.
(C) He said that he had been a great fool.
(D) He says that he is a great fool.
| Answer ⇒ C |
42. He said to me, “The man will come tomorrow.”
(A) He said to me that the man can come tomorrow.
(B) He is saying that the man would come tomorrow.
(C) He told me that the man would come the next day.
(D) He says that the man should come tomorrow.
| Answer ⇒ C |
43. Rita said to me, “Please help me.”
(A) Rita says to help her.
(B) Rita ordered me to help her.
(C) Rita asked to help her.
(D) Rita requested me to help her.
| Answer ⇒ D |
44. He says to me, “You are my best friend.”
(A) He tells me that I am his best friend.
(B) He says that I am going to be his best friend.
(C) He stated that I am his best friend,
(D) He told that I was his best friend.
| Answer ⇒ A |
45. I ………… in the morning.
(A) walk
(B) walks
(C) walking
(D) walked
| Answer ⇒ A |
46. He never ………… a lie.
(A) telling
(B) have told
(C) will tell
(D) tells
| Answer ⇒ D |
47. I ………… this place before he comes.
(A) will leave
(B) leaving
(C) left
(D) leave
| Answer ⇒ A |
48. He is ………… to buy a flat.
(A) went
(B) going
(C) gone
(D) go Direction
| Answer ⇒ B |
49. Come and sit ………… me.
(A) with
(B) for
(C) at
(D) by
| Answer ⇒ A |
50. He is bent ………… taking revenge.
(A) to
(B) on
(C) for
(D) through
| Answer ⇒ B |
51. He prohitied me ……….. going to movie.
(A) at
(B) by
(C) from
(D) in
| Answer ⇒ B |
52. Hard work is key ……….. Success.
(A) of
(B) to
(C) from
(D) for
| Answer ⇒ A |
Direction 53-56 choose the correctly spelt world.
53. (A) Progress
(B) Progres
(C) Proggres
(D) Prograce
| Answer ⇒ A |
54.(A) Opportunity
(B) Oporchunity
(C) Oportunity
(D) Auportunity
| Answer ⇒ A |
55. (A) Addapted
(B) Adipted
(C) Adapted
(D) Adipted
| Answer ⇒ C |
56. (A) Simpathy
(B) Sempathy
(C) Simpaethy
(D) Sympathy
| Answer ⇒ D |
57.दरबाजा बंद करो ।
(A) Shut the door
(B) You shut the door
(C) Door be shutted
(D) Door should be shut
| Answer ⇒ A |
58.रोगी को बचाया नहीं जा सकता ।
(A) Saved cannot the patient
(B) The patient cannot be save
(C) Patient must be saved
(D) The patient would not be saved
| Answer ⇒ B |
59. सड़क के दोनों ओर पड़े थे ।
(A) Both sides of the road were trees
(B) All sides of roads were trees
(C) Trees were there beside road
(D) Therte were trees on either side of the road
| Answer ⇒ A |
60. हमलोग मैच जित सकते है ।
(A) The matches can be won
(B) Matches were won
(C) Matches must be wion
(D) We can win the match
| Answer ⇒ D |
61. Who didn’t dislike the rapid movemnt of life ?
(A) corn-merchant
(B) the author
(C) nephew of corn-merchant
(D) wife of com-merchant
| Answer ⇒ B |
62. Where was Mrs. Greene pilling newspapers ?
(A) Next to her garbage bag
(B) Anywhere in the campus
(C) In the corner of the garden
(D) In the flower pot
| Answer ⇒ A |
63. Which tribe did the author belong to in ‘The Pace for Living ?’
(A) fast thinkers
(B) steady thinkers
(C) slow thinkers
(D) lazy thinkers
| Answer ⇒ C |
64. What does Mr. Williams actually mean to say to Jim in ‘Me and the Ecology Bit’ ?
(A) Compost is not suitable for plants
(B) Compost is not environment friendly
(C) Compost spoils the kitchens
(D) Compost stinks in the whole street
| Answer ⇒ D |
65. How many wounds did the squirrel have in ‘Gillu’ ?
(A) One
(B)Five
(C) Two
(D) Seven
| Answer ⇒ C |
66………. University conferred an honorary doctorate on Satyajit Ray.
(A) Cambridge
(B) Oxford
(C) California
(D) Mumbai
| Answer ⇒ B |
67. Aung San Suu Kyi is a ………..
(A) revolutionary
(B) classical dancer
(C) pro-democracy activist
(D) poetess
| Answer ⇒ C |
68. When did Toni Morrison receive the Nobel Prize ?
(A) 1990
(B) 1992
(C) 1993
(D) 1994
| Answer ⇒ C |
69. What is the name of the political party headed by Aung San Suu Kyi ?
(A) National Congress
(B) National League for Democracy in Burma
(C) Myanmar League
(D) Myanmar Congress
| Answer ⇒ B |
70. ………… were considered the earliest invaders of India.
(A) Aryans
(B) Turks
(C) Greek
(D) Afghans
| Answer ⇒ A |
71. Where does the koel conceal itself ?
(A) In the forest
(B) In mango-leaves
(C) In the leaves
(D) In peepal-leaves
| Answer ⇒ B |
72. What does the porter’s body emit ?
(A) coloured lights
(B) radiation
(C) sulphur like smell
(D) fragrance
| Answer ⇒ C |
73. The author in ‘Allergy’ talks about different types of ……..
(A) allergies
(B) doctors
(C) medicines
(D) diseases
| Answer ⇒ A |
74. ‘Two Horizons’ has been trnaslated from Oriya into English by ……..
(A) Binapani Mohanty herself
(B) Giridhar Jha
(C) Jayanta Mahapatra
(D) John Galsworthy
| Answer ⇒ C |
75. ‘Love Defiled’ is a story about the narrator and his ……
(A) brother
(B) girlfriend
(C) father
(D) sister
| Answer ⇒ D |
76. ‘The Empty Heart’ tells us about ………
(A) greed
(B) poverty
(C) sickness
(D) over-eating
| Answer ⇒ A |
77. In the poem “Polythene Bag’, what keeps coming again and again ?
(A) Anxiety of the future
(B) Comfortable feeling
(C) Pain cuased by the hurt
(D) Fits of depression
| Answer ⇒ C |
78. Who is the author of “Little Girls Siser Than Men’?
(A) Bladimir Narakov
(B) Maxim Gorki
(C) Leo Tolstoy
(D) Katherine Mansfield”
| Answer ⇒ C |
79. According to the poet of ‘God Made the Country’, who made the town ?
(A) God
(B) NGOs
(C) Government
(D) Man
| Answer ⇒ D |
80. According to Pope, a man is happy if he is ….
(A) rich
(B) contented
(C) famous
(D) poor
| Answer ⇒ D |
81. Which work of Premchand was banned by the British Government ?
(A) Godan
(B) Soje Vatan
(C)Nirmala
(D) Gaban
| Answer ⇒ B |
82. ‘It was ……….. to go to him (Mr. Gessler) very often.
(A) not possible
(B) occasionally possible
(C) possible
(D) maybe possible
| Answer ⇒ A |
83. Like a conjurer Walter De La Mare creates an atmosphere of……
(A) mystery
(B) town
(C) school
(D) country
| Answer ⇒ A |
84. Radha’s friends were ……… about her.
(A) angry
(B) happy
(C) worried
(D) ecstatic
| Answer ⇒ C |
85. Passive Voice of ‘When do you take milk” ?
(A) When is milk taken by you ?
(B) When has milk taken by you ?
(C) Is milk taken by you ?
(D) You have taken milk ?
| Answer ⇒ A |
86. Active Voice of ‘My watch was stolen’.
(A) Stole my watch.
(B) Someone stole my watch.
(C) Watch is stolen.
(D) Watch was stolen.
| Answer ⇒ B |
87. “Who has done this work?” said Ram to Shyam.
(A) Ram asked Shyam who had done that work.
(B) Ram asking Shyam who did the work.
(C) Ram has asked Shyam about who did the work.
(D) Ram will ask Shyam as who will do the work.
| Answer ⇒ A |
88. He said, “I like this song”.
(A) He says that he likes this song.
(B) He said that he liked that song.
(C) He is saying that he likes this song.
(D) He may say that he likes this song.
| Answer ⇒ B |
89. It………….. since last evening.
(A) is raining
(B) has been raining
(C) will rain
(D) rains
| Answer ⇒ B |
90. Have you …………. her ?
(A) see
(B) seen
(C) saw
(D) will see
| Answer ⇒ B |
91. I saw him ………….. for you.
(A) waited
(B) will wait
(C) wait
(D) waiting
| Answer ⇒ A |
92. They were invited ………….. lunch
(A) of
(B) on
(C) for
(D) By
| Answer ⇒ B |
93. He is ………….. his office.
(A) at
(B)in
(C) on
(D) by
| Answer ⇒ B |
94. Take care ………….. your health.
(A) of
(B) with
(C) in
(D) to
| Answer ⇒ A |
Direction 95-97 choose the correctly spelt world.
95. (A) Convinse
(B) Cunvince
(C) Convense
(D) Convince
| Answer ⇒ D |
96. (A) Probelam
(B) Problem
(C) Prublam
(D) Preblem
| Answer ⇒ B |
97. (A) Describe
(B) Deescribe
(C) Discribe
(D) Daescribe
| Answer ⇒ A |
98. धार्मिक पुस्तकों का अध्ययन करो ।
(A) Studying religious books.
(B) Books study religious.
(C) Study religious books.
(D) You should study religious books.
| Answer ⇒ A |
99. मोहन इतना मोटा है की वह दौड़ नहीं सकता ।
(A) Mohan is so fat that he cannot run.
(B) Fat is so Mohan that he can’t run.
(C) Running is difficult for Mohan.
(D) Mohan is just fat that he cannot run.
| Answer ⇒ A |
100. अभी दो बजे है ।
(A) It was two o’clock.
(B) It is two o’clock
(C) It has been two o’clock
(D) It will be two o’clock
| Answer ⇒ B |