PART - A

1. A figure of speech in which a part is made to a) Metaphor b) Simile

represent the whole or vice versa. c) Alliteration d) Personification
a) The western wave was all aflame e) Answer not known
b) But inside it has a ton of space 8. Find out the figure of speech:
c) Both (a) and (b) And what is so rare as a day in June?
d) She is lioness, don’t mess with her. a) Simile
e) Answer not known b) Rhetorical question
c) Alliteration
2. Find out the figure of speech:
d) Personification
To bring peace we must war.
e) Answer not known
a) Paradox b) Oxymoron
c) Sympolism d) Metaphor 9. Fill ups:
e) Answer not known Santa filled his ______ with candies, and car-
ried a _____ of ribbons.
3. British English for “Fall” a) Packet, Pocket b) Pocket, Pocket
a) String b) Autumn c) Pocket, Packet d) Packet, Packet
c) Monsoon d) Summer e) Answer not known
e) Answer not known
10. The shepherd ______ the cry of his sheep
4. The house seems to be a bit brighter on this a) Heard b) Herd
warm summer day in ______. c) Ride d) Rise
a) March b) April e) Answer not known
c) May d) June 11. Both El Nino and La Nina are opposite _____
e) Answer not known of the same phenomenon.
5. _______ verbs do not indicate tense and time a) Effects b) Affect
of a actions. c) Fond d) Found
a) Non-finite b) Finite e) Answer not known
c) Transitive d) Intransitive 12. Two shillings and six pence equal to
e) Answer not known a) 12 1/2 P b) 13 1/2 P
c) 12 1/4 P d) 14 1/2 P
6. Find out the compound form:
e) Answer not known
a) In the event of not consulting a doctor, you
cannot recover 13. Who is narrator of conan doyle’s story?
b) Raghav was old yet he walked fast a) Mr. Watson b) Peter
c) Due to heavy downpour, the match was c) Seagull d) Prospero
cancelled e) Answer not known
d) As soon as the children saw the teacher, 14. Find out the figure of speech:
they stood up. It just sits there, never getting small or ever
e) Answer not known growing tall.
7. Figure of speech: a) Synecdoche b) Metaphor
Some crickets have four legs, and some have c) Transfer Epithet d) Paradox
two. e) Answer not known

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15. Who was the contributor of St. Nicholas? c) The bird flying in the sky is the lark
a) Louisa may Alcott d) The running boy came to me
b) Robert Frost e) Answer not known
c) Tagore 22. Find out the error sentence:
d) Caroline Ann Bowles a) The whole class is attentive
e) Answer not known b) Five miles is a long distance
16. Who calls the see “angry waters”? c) Human values is of great importance
a) Peter b) Peter’s father d) My sister and friend have come
c) Mary d) Peter’s brother e) Answer not known
e) Answer not known 23. Vive la France! refers
a) Patriotism b) Anty Nationalism
17. “Remember, No men are strange, no countries
foreign” c) Secularism d) Humanism
e) Answer not known
This repetition emphasizes the core message
of the 24. Angelus is a roman catholic devotion com-
a) Oneness of mankind memorating the incarnation of Jesus and in-
b) Oneness of brotherhood cluding the _____ said at moring, noon, sun-
c) Oneness of neighbourhood set.
d) Oneness of Enemyhood a) Vincint lady b) Jenifer Mary
e) Answer not known c) Hail Mary d) John Mary
e) Answer not known
18. The word “Metaphor” comes via
a) French and Latin b) Latin and French 25. Match the following:
c) Dreek and French d) Latin and Dreek A. Go far 1. Explode
e) Answer not known B. Blow up 2. Succeed
C. Show up 3. Reveal
19. Line taken from A B C A B C
“A labour not different from our own.” a) 1 2 3 b) 3 1 2
a) This spider and the fly b) A c) 2 1 3 d) 3 2 1
psalm of life e) Answer not known
c) No men are Foreign d)
Life 26. “Will they make them sing in ______ even the
e) Answer not known pigoons?”
a) German b) Frence
20. Complete the conditional Sentences: c) Greek d) Latin
If I had time, I _______ (go) shopping with you. e) Answer not known
a) Would done
27. Match the following:
b) Have done
A. Call on 1. Submit
c) Will done
B. Break off 2. Finish
d) Would have done
C. Knuckle under 3. Require
e) Answer not known
A B C A B C
21. Which is not participle? a) 1 2 3 b) 3 2 1
a) Sita is sleeping c) 2 3 1 d) 1 3 2
b) She is a retired principal e) Answer not known

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28. Find out figure of speech: 34. Odd one out:
We can see and hear and count read and write. a) Quite b) Before
a) Imagery b) Personification c) Never d) Cleverly
c) Simile d) Alliteration e) Answer not known
e) Answer not known
35. ______ he is ninety years old, he is in the pink
29. Match the following: of health.
A. We are greater than the a) When b) Since
Peoples and the Kings - Metaphor c) Though d) But
B. We can pull and haul and e) Answer not known
push and lift and drive - Connotation 36. They faced many hardships ______ they are
C. Greater than the people always cheerful.
of the Kings - Hyperbole a) Although b) Although
D. Though are smoke may hide c) Otherwise d) Yet
the heavens from your eyes e) Answer not known
- Personification
A B C D A B C D 37. Odd one out:
a) 1 2 3 4 b) 3 2 4 1 a) Attempt b) Change
c) Control d) Intense
c) 3 4 1 2 d) 2 3 4 1
e) Answer not known
e) Answer not known
38. Match the following:
30. Which is not distributive pronoun?
A. The Jungle book 1. 1887
a) Each b) Every
B. A study in scarlet 2. 1947
c) Either d) All
C. The drowned sailor at the downs 3.
e) Answer not known
1894
31. Rhyme Scheme: A B C A B C
My heart was so light a) 1 2 3 b) 2 3 1
that I sang day and night c) 3 1 2 d) 1 3 2
For all nature looked gay, e) Answer not known
“You sang, sir, you say”? 39. Odd one out:
a) abab b) bbaa a) Blood b) Loss
c) aabb d) baba c) Sell d) Speech
e) Answer not known e) Answer not known
32. Who is miserly? 40. She gave the poor some food.
a) Machines b) Ant a) SVDOIO b) SVIODO
c) Spider d) Cricket c) SVOV d) SVDA
e) Answer not known e) Answer not known
33. World Elders day observed on______. 41. My father is a farmer in thiruvarur.
a) Dec 20 b) Dec 21 a) SVIODO b) SVOA
c) Dec 22 d) Dec 23 c) SVCA d) SVOC
e) Answer not known e) Answer not known

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42. The summer of life she’s ready to see in spring 51. choose the synonyms for underlined word:
a) Metaphor b) Simile Asif quarreled with his friend.
c) Alliteration d) Personification a) Fought b) Differ
e) Answer not known c) Peace d) Fun
e) Answer not known
43. _______ play football?
a) You can b) Can you 52. choose the synonyms for underlined word:
c) Have you d) You could He stood astounded
e) Answer not known a) Happy b) Surprised
44. A _______ of fish swam past our boat. c) Shocked d) Excited
a) School b) Herd e) Answer not known
c) College d) Colony
53. Match the following: (Antonym)
e) Answer not known
A. Concentrate 1. Incomplete
45. A _____ of bees had settled on a mango tree.
B. Inevitable 2. Distract
a) School b) Herd
C. Occasional 3. Wise
c) Swarm d) Pair
D. Complete 4. Continual
e) Answer not known
E. Insane 5. Preventable
46. I ate a _______ of grapes.
A B C D E A B C D E
a) Pair b) Bunch
a) 1 2 3 4 5 b) 2 5 4 1 3
c) Box d) Bottle
e) Answer not known c) 3 2 5 1 2 d) 5 3 4 1 2
e) Answer not known
47. The airhostess instructed the passengers to
54. Is your mother ______ home?
wear the seat belts during the _______.
a) Take b) Take of a) Of b) At
c) Take off d) Set out c) For d) An
e) Answer not known e) Answer not known

48. Venkat felt happy to ______ the neighbours in 55. There is unity in diversity ______ the people.
the new locality. a) Among b) Between
a) In accordan with b) on behalf of
c) Within d) Before
c) Set out d) Get along with
e) Answer not known
e) Answer not known
56. He discussed the problem _____ his parents.
49. There will be a _______ next week in the of-
fice. a) With b) To
a) Shut up b) Shut down c) For d) On
c) Shut in d) Shut off e) Answer not known
e) Answer not known
57. As a ______ of his hard work, he achieved the
50. choose the synonyms for underlined word: target.
I am living in the outskirts of the village. a) Instead of b) Result of
a) Border b) Outpost
c) Apart from d) Incase of
c) Center d) Region
e) Answer not known
e) Answer not known
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58. Failure is often the ______ negligence. 66. Which can be placed before ‘light’?
a) Effect of b) Consequence by a) Try b) Sun
c) Reason of d) Affect of c) Horse d) Cat
e) Answer not known e) Answer not known

59. The parents must be informed ______ any in- 67. Which can be placed after ‘Safe’?
discipline conduct of the of their wards. a) Chair b) Guard
a) Because of b) In case of c) Shop d) Van
c) In the event of d) b & c e) Answer not known
e) Answer not known
68. What are the procedure to design a machine?
60. The climate of the city ______ mild and pleas-
a) wrought, cast, hammered
ant most of the time.
b) Cast, wrought, hammered
a) are remaining b) Remains
c) hammered, cast, wrought
c) Were remaining d) Is remained
e) Answer not known d) Cast, hammered, wrought
e) Answer not known
61. Lines taken from,
“It’s part of his hours, his days and his years, 69. Find the suitable British or American English:
Back of his smiles and behind his tears.” Chips
a) Team work b) A tragic story a) Candy b) Ice cream
c) Courage d) Life c) French fries d) Ice chips
e) Answer not known e) Answer not known
62. Lines taken from, 70. “What a trouble must I have been to you
“We must work to a bigger scheme, then”!
And the thing that counts in the world to-day” Who said this lines?
a) The comet
a) Prospero b) Ariel c) Miranda
b) Making life worth while
c) A thing of beauty d) Team work d) Antonio e) Answer not known
e) Answer not known 71. Prospero’s daughter miranda was a ____ young
63. From a very early age, I played ______ cricket lady
with my colony friends. a) Very cleaver b) very beautiful
a) Tennis - ball b) Cricket ball c) very handsome d) very arogant
c) hockey ball d) Volleyball e) Answer not known
e) Answer not known
72. Sycorax imprisoned many good spirits in the
64. He is still sleeping, _______.
bodies of large ________
a) Is not he? b) Isn’t he?
a) Cave b) Box c) Tree
c) Wasn’t he? d) Weren’t he?
e) Answer not known d) Water e) Answer not known

65. Which can be placed after ‘Soft’? 73. “you are ignorant” Said by Prospero
a) Play b) Ware Here “you” refers,
c) Run d) Cycle a) Miranda b) Aila c) Ariel
e) Answer not known d) Caliban e) Answer not known

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74. Which country David Rittenhouse was be- 82. We have been living in chennai _____ eight
longed to ? years.
a) America b) Africa c) Australia a) Since b) For c) Then
d) Canada e) Answer not known d) On e) Answer not known
75. What is the man’s greatest invention ? 83. “The woods are lovely, dark and deep
a) Wheel b) gravity lawc) Evolution But I have promises to keep”
d) farming e) Answer not known Who does ‘I’ refer to?
a) The poet b) The bell
76. According to Isaac what was not discovered
c) The horse d) The woods
by him ?
e) Answer not known
a) Bountiful ocean b) boundless ocean
c) low of maths d) law of science 84. What did Sachin’s Father do just to make
e) Answer not known Sachin happy?
a) bought a new bat
77. River, River, little river the figure of speech
b) bought an helmet
used here is
c) treated him with a special fruit cocktail
a) Assonance b) simile c) Metaphor
d) treated him with a Vadapav
d) Repetition e) Answer not known
e) Answer not known
78. Lines taken from, 85. The woods one lovely, dark and deep
“Sea that line hath never sounded, a) Imagery b) Repetition
“Sea that sail hath never sounded. c) Assonance d) Anthropomorphism
a) The comet b) Sea fever e) Answer not known
c) A thing of duty d) The river
86. “Don’t waste your time playing insane games
e) Answer not known
with these kids. Cricket is waiting for you at
79. When did sir Isaac Newton born on the nets. Practice hard and see what magic
a) 25 Dec 1642 b) 25 Dec 1641 c) can transpire”
25 Dec 1640 Whose words is this?
d) 25 Dec 1643 e) Answer not known a) Sachin’s coach b) Sachin’s friend
c) Sachin’s father d) Sachin’s brother
80. In the story “The Little Hero of Holland” who e) Answer not known
tended
the gates in the dikes called sluices? 87. “And quiet sleep and a sweet dream when the
long trick’s over.
a) Peter’s Friend b) Peter’s Father
a) A Tragic story b) Sea Fever
c) Peter’s Brother d) Peter c) Your space d) The stick - together
e) Answer not known families
e) Answer not known
81. What was the position of peter’s friend?
a) Specially Challenged b) W e l l - k n o w n 88. “Persistence is the key to everything”
player a) I am Every woman
c) Sick boy d) Busy at his work b) Life
c) making life worth while
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 d) Lessons in life there.
e) Answer not known Who is the speaker?
a) Abraham Lincoln b) Gandhi
89. “For all nature looked gay”
c) subhash chandra bose d)
For all nature looked gay”
Rani of Jhansi
a) The spider and the fly
e) Answer not known
b) The House on Elm Street
c) The Ant and the cricket 96. “To all the little girls who are watching this,
d) The secret of the machines never doubt that you are valuable and power-
e) Answer not known ful,
and deserving of every chance and opportu-
90. “It plays with your mind”. nity
a) The House on Elm street in the world to pursue
b) The River and achieve your own dreams”. who said this
c) The comet a) Mary clinton b) Aung san suu shi
d) The secret of the machines
c) Hillary Clinton d) Melinda Gates
e) Answer not known
e) Answer not known
91. Who was a ceaseless crusader of women's
97.”Feminism isn’t about making women stronger,
equality?
Women are already strong,
a) Jancy Rani b) Abiraham lincoln
It’s about changing the way the world
c) Gandhi d) Kalpana chawla
perceives that strength.” who said this
e) Answer not known
a) Gandhiji b) G.D. Anderson
92. Whose autobiography is "An Autobiography - c) Nehru d) A. crips
The story of My Experiments with Truth"?
e) Answer not known
a) Gandhi b) Nehru
c) Indhra d) Kalpanachawla 98. “A woman with a voice is, by difinition, a strong
e) Answer not known woman.” who said this
a) Melinda Gates b) Malala yosufsi
93. The book of Indian birds ________
c) Indra Nooyi d) Smirthi rani
a) 1939 b) 1940
e) Answer not known
c) 1941 d) 1942
e) Answer not known 99. “A feminist is anyone who recognizes the
equality and full humanity of women and men.”
94. Who is the speaker of line:
who said this
‘I was not born for one corner, the whole world
a) Mary clinton b) Melinda Gates
is my native land’.
c) Nehru d) Gloria Steinem
a) Indhra b) Kalpana chawla
e) Answer not known
c) Gandhi d) subhash chandra
bose 100.”Educate a man and you educate an individial.
e) Answer not known Educate a woman and you educate a family”.
95. “Every family in the land is crushed with sor- who said this
row; but they must not each come to me for a) A. Cripps b) Ruskin bond
help. I have all the burdens I can carry. Go to c) Rudyard kipling d) Gandhiji
the war department. Your business belongs e) Answer not known

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