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PART - A
1. Peter’s mother called him in the early fall d) Mr. Hudson and watson
of ______.
e) Answer not known
a) Morning b) Noon
5. A traditional story that teaches a moral les-
c) Affternoon d) Evening
son is called
e) Answer not known
a) Epics b) Fables
2. How many siblings peter has?
a) 3 b) 2 c) 4 d) None c) Fairy table d) Sages
e) Answer not known e) Answer not known
3. In the story “The little Hero of Holland” 6. Usually, the characters of fables are
who looked anxiously along the dike road a) Animals b) Birds
many times since sunset? c) Human being d) Wild animals
a) Peter’s mother b) Peter’s father
e) Answer not known
c) Peter’s friend d) Strang man
7. The moral of the poem “The Ant and the
e) Answer not known
Cricket” is
4. “In your friendship, certainly but facts are
a) Hardwork and Planning
facts” Here whose relationship was men-
tioned here? b) Helping mind and Social work
a) Holmes and watson c) Live life happily
b) Holmes and meek d) Save food for future
c) Penrose and watson e) Answer not known
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8. He mused upon this curious, case. d) Little River
Here ‘He’ refers to whom? e) Answer not known
a) Author b) Sage 15. Match the following:
c) Sages friend d) Reader Idioms Meanings
e) Answer not known A. blood runs thicker 1. boring, uninter
9. Figure of speech: than water esting
And up and down and in and out. B. to be as fish out 2. family members
of water have stronger
a) Oxymoron b) Simile
obligations with
c) Alliteration d) Personification each other than
e) Answer not known with people outside
10. Match the following: the family.
A. Vanity Fair 1. Rudyard Kipling C. dull as dishwater 3. naturally. with ease
B. Kidnapped 2. 1895 D. as a duck takes to 4. to be uncom
C. Started Career 3. Victorian age water fortable in a par
ticular situation.
D. The Jungle Book 4. Scottis poet
A B C D A B C D A B C D A B C D
a) 1 2 3 4 b) 4 3 2 1 a) 2 4 1 3 b) 1 2 3 4
c) 2 3 1 4 d) 3 4 1 2
c) 3 4 1 2 d) 2 1 4 3
e) Answer not known
e) Answer not known
16. The word Sonnet is derived from ____ word
11. Write down the order of the Indian Season? Sonetto
a) Summer, Spring, Antumn, Rainy a) Russian b) Italian
b) Rainy, Antumn, Summer, Spring c) Greek d) Germany
c) Antumn, Summer, Spring, Rainy e) Answer not known
d) Summer, Rainy, Spring, Autumn 17. “We must work to a bigger scheme”
e) Answer not known Here we refers to whom?
12. Find out the poem: a) Animals b) Plants
All if the sights of the hill and the plain c) Humans d) Enemies
Fly as thick as driving rain; e) Answer not known
a) My Reminscence 18. For the battle is _____ or the battle is _____,
b) From a Railway carriage by the spirit of the team.
a) Win, won b) Lost, lose
c) Thing of Beauty
c) Lost, won d) Victory, defeat
d) Little River
e) Answer not known
e) Answer not known
19. Poet laureate of Michigan ______.
13. And there is the ______ for stringing the a) E.A. Guest b) Robert Frost
daisies.
c) Robert southey d) John Masefield
a) Green b) Red e) Answer not known
c) Yellow d) Blue 20. “They may sound your praise and call you
e) Answer not known gred,
14. Each a flimpse and gone for eves, They may single you out for fame”.
This line taken from, Figure of speech?
a) My Reminscence a) Simile b) Anaphora
b) From a Railway carriage c) Alliteration d) Personification
c) gone for ever e) Answer not known
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21. Which is the thing not had by Hauser? A B C D A B C D
a) Old primer b) Three cornered hat a) 1 2 3 4 b) 4 3 2 1
c) Great spectacles d) Iron ruler c) 4 3 1 2 d) 2 1 4 3
e) Answer not known
e) Answer not known
29. Find out the meaning of underlined phrase:
22. What is born of despair with a sudden
Idioms Meanings
spring?
A. come hell or high 1. to be active but
a) Tree b) Courage
water without making
c) Cowardice d) Anger
progress or falling
e) Answer not known farther be hind.
23. Who are all have to be courage within his B. You never miss 2. to criticize or
soul?
the water till the stop some thing
a) Who would fight for life well runs dry that some
b) Who would be ready for fight people are
c) Who would strive for a distant goal enhusiastic
d) Who would win the battle about
e) Answer not known C. pour cold water 3. People are not
24. Which is not a creature of flickered hope or on something grateful for what
the final tug at a shapping rope? they have until
a) Bravo b) Anger they lose it.
c) Courage d) Fight D. tread water 4. no matter what
e) Answer not known happens
25. Fill in the blank with the suitable article : A B C D A B C D
a) 4 3 2 1 b) 1 2 3 4
Veena plays ----- violin everyday.
c) 2 3 1 4 d) 1 4 3 2
a) The b) An e) Answer not known
c) No article d) A 30. Fill up:
e) Answer not known And the flung spray and the blown spume,
and the _____ crying.
26. “It is part of a man when His skies are _____
a) Sea gull b) Whale
It is part of him when he has work to do”
c) The poet d) Fellow rover
a) Blue b) Red e) Answer not known
c) Green d) yellow 31. Fill in the blank with suitable article :
e) Answer not known He studies in ----- sixth standard.
27. “It is written in victory and defeat”
a) No article b) A
Figure of speech:
c) An d) The
a) Simile b) Oxymoron
e) Answer not known
c) Personification d) Alliteration
32. Figure of speech:
e) Answer not known
“And all I ask is a merry yarn from a laugh-
28. Match the following: ing fellow-rover,
A. John masefield 1. Hyperbole And quiet sleep and a sweet dream when
B. All I ask 2. Keats the long trick’s over”.
C. Moutains of a) Simile b) Personification
information 3. Assonance c) Metaphor d) Alliteration
D. Surgeon 4. 1930 e) Answer not known
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33. “Speak gently! - He who gave his life 40. What is a joy forever according to John
To bend man’s stubborn will keats?
When elements were in fierce strife, a) A thing of beauty
Said to them, peace be still”. b) A thing of love c) A thing of desire
Here “He” refers whom? d) A thing of want e) Answer not known
a) Christ b) The poet 41. A thing of beauty will never pass into noth-
ingness, Here pass into nothingness means?
c) Old people d) Poor people
a) Protect
e) Answer not known b) Saved from enemies
34. Figure of speech: c) Fade away into emptiness
“The sands of life are nearly run” d) Never fade away
a) Simile b) Metaphor e) Answer not known
c) Personification d) Alliteration 42. Odd one out:
e) Answer not known a) Grace b) Courage
35. How did the computer act absent minded? c) Glimpse d) worthy
a) it forgets to save e) Answer not known
43. Who heard the swish of mother bird’s wing?
b) Forgests to store it away
a) Mother seagull b) Young seagull
c) Makes the work vanish in the most
c) Father seagull d) Brother seagull
dreadful way
e) Answer not known
d) All the above 44. Who was standing on a little high hump on
e) Answer not known the plat eau?
36. Having a friend is like planting a flower show a) Mother seagull b) Young seagull
love and _____ it one day will bloom. c) Father seagull d) Brother seagull
a) Kindness b) Tenderness e) Answer not known
c) Friendship d) Relationship 45. Fill in the blanks using suitable prepositions:
e) Answer not known This picture was drawn ____ the girl _____
charcoal.
37. Figure of speech:
a) In, On b) Of, In
“And one day, my naughty computer,
c) By, With d) And, In
Actually gobbled a worm”. e) Answer not known
a) Personification b) Simile 46. Who could be commanding the winds, and
c) Metaphor d) Alliteration the waves of the sea?
e) Answer not known a) Ariel b) Prospero
38. Lines taken from: c) Caliban d) Sycorax
“I repect you and you respect e) Answer not known
I think of you and you think of me” 47. How did prospero portrayed his living place
as?
a) River b) Poison Tree
a) Cell b) Cave
c) On killing a tree d) Lessons in life
c) Island d) house
e) Answer not known e) Answer not known
39. Odd one out: 48. Fill in the blanks using suitable prepositions:
a) Bloom b) Deserves He told me in detail _____ the incident.
c) Kindness d) Squirm a) On b) About c) At d) Of
e) Answer not known e) Answer not known
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49. Shakespeare was born in _____. A B C A B C
a) 1564 b) 1565 c) 1566 d) 1567 a) 1 2 3 b) 1 3 2
e) Answer not known c) 2 1 3 d) 2 3 1
50. “Speak gently to the little child! e) Answer not known
Its love be sure to gain 58. Identify the compound sentence from the
Teach it in accents soft and mild options given below:
It may not long remain” a) I am healthy. I exercise everday
a) aabb b) bbaa b) Ram is too poor to buy a bicycle
c) abab d) baba c) You consult a doctor otherwise you
e) Answer not known cannot recover
51. What is the plural form of daughter - in - d) As Varun is a voracious reader, he buys
law? a lot of books
a) daughters b) daughters - in - law e) Answer not known
c) daughters in laws 59. Identify the Poem in which these lines oc-
d) in laws e) Answer not known cur.
52. Choose the correct from of Tense: “The only other sound’s the sweep
I _____ here since last week. Of easy wind and downy flake”
a) Am here b) Have been a) On killing a Tree
c) Has been d) Had been b) The river
e) Answer not known c) Sea fever
53. Plural form of syllabus. d) Stopping by the woods on a snowy
a) Syllabity b) Syllabi evening
c) Syllab d) Syllabus e) Answer not known
e) Answer not known 60. Identify the meaning of the underlined
54. “Gaunt” means: phrasal verb.
a) Illness b) Disease They went to see off their son.
c) Lean due to illness a) Start off / to begin a journey
d) Nauseatic e) Answer not known b) Leave a bus or train etc
55. Who is called England’s National Poet. c) Take lead
a) John Masefield d) To go to station or airport to say good
b) E.A. Guest bye to someone
c) William Shakespeare e) Answer not known
d) James Fulconer kirkup 61. Select the correct tense:
e) Answer not known Yesterday at noon, I ______ lunch.
56. What is meant by serene? a) Was eating b) Were eating
a) Anxious b) Heavy c) Eat d) Is eating
c) Calm d) perfect e) Answer not known
e) Answer not known 62. Fill in the blanks with appropriate tags:
57. Add prefix: He hardly works, ______ he?
A. Noon 1. Un a) Does b) Did
B. Happy 2. After c) Doesn’t d) Don’t
C. Patient 3. Im e) Answer not known
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63. Add suffix: 68. “Your _____ are green and purple - there’s
A. Child 1. Ship crest upon your head; your eyes are like the
B. Relation 2. Hood diamond bright, but mine are dull as lead!”
C. Danger 3. Ful Fill in the blank with correct option from
D. Wonder 4. Ous the poem “The spider and the Fly”.
A B C D A B C D a) Wings b) Robes
a) 1 2 3 4 b) 4 3 2 1 c) Eyes d) Head
c) 3 4 1 2 d) 2 1 4 3 e) Answer not known
e) Answer not known 69. Match the following:
64. Match the following: A. Spanish + English 1. Motel
A. Simple sentence 1. Let the flowers B. Binary + Digit 2. Helipad
not be plucked C. Motor + Hotel 3. Bit
B. Active voice 2. Give me the book D. Helicopter + Pad 4. Spanglish
and I will read it A B C D A B C D
C. Positive sentence 3. Inspite of her illness a) 2 4 3 1 b) 4 3 1 2
Radha was not c) 4 1 3 2 d) 1 2 3 4
hospitalized.
e) Answer not known
D. Compound 4. Prabhu is as
70. Fill in the blanks with appropriate tags:
sentence young as Raj
They seldom speak, _____?
E. Passive voice 5. She has written
a) Do they b) Did he
a novel.
c) Haven’t they d) Have they
A B C D E A B C D E
e) Answer not known
a) 2 3 4 5 1 b) 3 5 4 2 1
c) 3 4 5 2 1 d) 4 3 5 1 2 71. Harshini _______ her mother in making
rangoli in the yard for last one hour.
e) Answer not known
a) Is helping b) Has helped
65. Ornithologists refer to people _______.
a) Who study bones b) Who study teeth c) Has been helping
c) Who study eyes d) Who study birds d) Helps e) Answer not known
e) Answer not known 72. Where was [Link] Achrekar worked
as a cricket coach?
66. “Any tradition, however ancient, it incon-
sistent with morality, is fit to be banished a) New English school
from the land. Untouchability may be con- b) Shardashram Vidyamandir
sidered an ancient tradition”. Who said this? c) Orchids International School
a) Jawaharlal Nehru b) Rajaji d) National School
c) Gandhiji d) Rani of Jhansi e) Answer not known
e) Answer not known 73. “I often tried to emulate the mannerisms
67. Which of the following is correct regarding of my favourite players.”
Kalpana Chawla? Here ‘emulate’ means
a) Chawla always spoke about travelling to
a) Surpass typically by imitation
the states
b) Chawla was assigned as a helper b) challenge c) encourage
c) Chawla was assigned as Mission d) discourage e) Answer not known
specialist 74. ______ Salim Ali was Honored with Padma
d) Chawla’s inspiration to take up flying was Bhushan Award.
her brother. a) 1956 b) 1957 c) 1958 d) 1958
e) Answer not known e) Answer not known
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Directions (75 - 78) Indentify the poems in a) spoke b) spoken
which the lines occur c) speak d) speaking
75. And all I ask is a merry yarn from a laughing e) Answer not known
follow rover, 81. How many days the summer camp was
And quiet sleep and a sweet dream when happened?
the long trick’s over.
a) 60 b) 61 c) 55 d) 57
a) Sea Fever
e) Answer not known
b) From a Railway carriage
c) Stopping woods on a snowy evening 82. Identify the gerund form from the options
given below:
d) No men are foreign
a) Keeping left is always safe
e) Answer not known
76. “Come you back unto the fireside and be b) To find fault with others is easy
comrade with your kin”. c) David wants to study Biology
a) The stick - together Families d) He likes to read science fiction
b) No men are foreign e) Answer not known
c) Tragic story 83. When did summer sessions start?
d) Special Hero a) 7.30 am to 4.00 pm
e) Answer not known b) 7.00 am to 4.30 pm
77. “An endless fountain of immortal drink, c) 7.30 am to 4.30 pm
Pouring unto us from the heaven’s brink”.
d) 6.30 am to 4.30 pm
a) Making life worth while
b) A Thing of Beauty e) Answer not known
c) Lessons in Life 84. Rhyme scheme:
d) The house on Elm street “Having a friend is like planting a flower
Show love and kindness it one day will
e) Answer not known
bloom
78. With buzzy wings, she hung aloft,
Let’s be aware as we walk on this plant
In this line ‘she’ refers,
Even the tiniest creature needs room”.
a) The spider b) The fly a) abab b) abac c) aabb d) abba
c) The Ant d) The Poet e) Answer not known
e) Answer not known 85. “The good, the joy, which it may bring, eter-
79. What give Sachin an immense satisfaction nity shall tell”.
and concentration even when physically a) Your Space b) The Comet
drained? c) The River d) Life
a) practice matches e) Answer not known
b) Morning practice session 86. The spider turned him round about and
c) Evening Practice session went into his den,
d) Winning the one rupee coin Here the word “den” refers,
e) Answer not known a) Spider’s web b) The fly’s house
80. Change the following Sentence from the c) The ant’s web d) The cricket ‘s web
Passive Voice into Active Voice. e) Answer not known
Not a word was spoken by Latif. / Latif did 87. “Let us remember, whenever we are told
not _______ a word. To hate our brothers, it is ourselves”.
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a) The spider and the cricket Who is the speaker?
b) No men are foreign a) The poet b) The horse
c) The Ant and the fly c) The owner d) The village person
d) Making life worth while e) Answer not known
e) Answer not known 94. “It‘s the breath of life and a strong man’s
88. “And heaven a surer heritage”. creed”.
a) Making life worth while a) Courage b) Team work
b) A Thing of Beauty c) The stick - together families
c) Life
d) A poison tree e) Answer not known
d) The comet
95. “Let me care for the one’s who’re near”
e) Answer not known
Here “me” refers whom?
89. Which one of the following sentences has a
participle in it ? a) Woman b) Girl
a) He had lost his passport and applied for c) Neighbours d) Reader
a new one. e) Answer not known
b) Having lost his passport, he applied for 96. Sun + light
a new one. a) Noun + Verb b) Noun + Noun
c) His passport had been lost, and hence c) Noun + Adjective d) Noun + Adverb
he applied for a new one. e) Answer not known
d) His passport was lost and he had 97. What are the common in south India?
appliedfor a new one.
a) Well b) Canal
e) Answer not known
c) Stream d) Rainfed tanks
90. Pick out the sentence that contains a ger-
und : e) Answer not known
a) Protecting children is our Duty 98. The author compared water with
b) After finish the work, he went on a a) Blood in the human body
vacation b) Eyes in the human face
c) Hearing the noise, the boy woke up c) Breadth of the heart
d) Having rested, we continued our d) Vain in the human body
journey
e) Answer not known
e) Answer not known
99. Which is the word’s largest collection of
91. Find out the figure of speech
floating trash?
O’er the yellow pebbles dancing
a) Great Pacfic Garbage
a) Imagery b) repetition
c) epithet d) simile b) Great Antartic Garbage
e) Answer not known c) Great Atlantic Garbage
92. Mary Ann Evans lived between d) Great Artic Garbage
a) 1819-1880 b) 1820-1880 e) Answer not known
c) 1880-1900 d) 1821-1810 [Link] plays are categorized un-
e) Answer not known der______ heads.
93. “My little horse must think it queer a) 1 b) 2 c) 3 d) 4
To stop without a farm house near” e) Answer not known
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