Section 1

1. What is the feminine noun of 'Lion'? 10. Neither my son nor my husband could lock the
door. Here, 'neither' is a/an____________
(a) Lioness (b) Lionel
(a) possessive adjective (b) demonstrative adjective
(c) Lilady (d) Bull
(c) interrogative adjective(d) distributive adjective
2. What is the plural of 'Sash'?
11. Fill in the blank with the correct collective noun.
(a) Sashs (b) Sashes
_________ The were on the march-for several days.
(c) Sashies (d) None of these
(a) officers (b) armies
3. Fill in the blank with suitable personal pronoun.
(c) soldiers (d) cadets
My views are quite different from
12. __________he was watching T.V. (Use the
(a) you (b) your
suitable clause in given blank)
(c) yourself (d) yours
(a) When I reached home(b) Though I reached home
4. She succeeded due to her work. Use correct
(c) That I reached home (d) As soon as I reached
comparison of adjectives
home
(a) most hard (b) more hard
13. Wow! That parrot is beautiful!
(c) harder (d) hard
(a) Interrogative (b) Exclamatory
5. If you had followed the rules, you disqualified Fill
(c) Declarative (d) Imperative
the blank with suitable alternative
14. At (1)/it (2)/take (3)/once (4)/ away (5)
(a) will not be (b) would not be
(Form the meaningful sentence)
(c) will not have been (d) would not have been
(a) 32514 (b) 32154
6. Your father used to be the principal of this college,.
(Use suitable question tag) (c) 14352 (d) 23514

(a) did he ? (b) does he? 15. Change the sentence as directed. You cannot
succeed without working hard. The complex form of
(c) didn't he? (d) doesn't he?
the given sentence will be
7. Find the adverb of time in the following sentence.
(a) Unless you work hard you cannot succeed.
Even when he is having a bad day. Scott never gets
angry. (b) Unless one works hard one cannot succeed.

(a) Even (b) Having (c) Unless you work hard you can succeed.

(c) never (d) Angry (d) Unless you work hard you would not succeed.

8. A mechanic was sent for __________our car broke 16. Improve the underlined part of the given
down. Use appropriate conjunction sentence. The artist had finished hardly by that time.

(a) since (b) as soon as (a) hardly finished (b) finished well

(c) until (d) because (c) that time finished (d) No improvement

9. Fill in the blank with suitable interjection. 17. I worked as a medical representative for eight
________what a good idea!" months. Find out which part of the sentence given,
has an error.
(a) Hey! (b) Le!
(a) I worked (b) as a medical
(c) Wow! (d) What!
representative
(c) for (d) eight months (a) the (b) an

Directions (Q. Nos. 68-70) Read the following (c) a (d) No article
passage carefully and answer the questions that
25. The phrase 'Get away' means
follow. An old man with steel-rimmed spectacles and
very dusty clothes sat by the side of the road. There (a) To escape (b) To face
was a pontoon bridge across the river and carts,
trucks, and men, women and children were crossing (d) To reach (c) To pass
it. The mule drawn carts staggered up the steep bank
from the bridge with soldiers helping to push against
Section 2
the spokes of the wheels. The trucks ground up and 1. Find out which part of the sentence has an error.
away heading out of it all. The peasants plodded
along in the ankle-deep dust. But the old man sat (a) you will (b) be persecuted
there without moving. He was too tired to go any (c) for bringing seeds (d) into Australia
farther.
2. He would not have been successful in the project,
18. What was the old man wearing? but........ my help. (Insert suitable preposition)
(a) Iron-rimmed spectacles (a) of (b) with
(b) An old shirt and pant (c) for (d) off
(c) White clothes 3. Identify the type of verb of the given word. Ellen
(d) Steel-rimmed spectacles and very dusty clothes nodded to the audience and sang her song.

19. Mention those which crossed the bridge besides (a) Transitive (b) Intransitive
human beings. (c) Linking (d) Auxiliary
(a) Mules and horses (b) Men, women and children 4. "Ask her if she has finished her homework", which
(c) Carts and trucks (d) Soldiers and carts is the auxiliary verb in the given sentence?

20. Who were helping to push the mule drawn carts? (a) ask (b) has

(a) Mules (b) The villagers (c) finished (d) homework

(c) The horses (d) Soldiers 5. Which tense is used in the following sentence? You
are visiting English club.
21. Give the correct word 'Brutal'. antonym of the
(a) Present Continuous (b) Present Perfect
(a) Gentle (b) Inhuman
(c) Present Simple (d) Present Perfect
(c) Cruel (d) Barbarous Continuous
22. Find out the synonym of the given underlined 6. Complete the following sentence with an
word. Soon he felt uncomfortable, for the coach was appropriate tense form. This time tomorrow, I...... on
now moving over a rugged road. the beach.
(a) Rough (b) Narrow (a) am lying (b) will lie
(c) Dusty (d) Sturdy (c) will be lying (d) lying
23. It is our duty to get. Truth_________ the Use 7. She said to the girl, "Did you do this?" In reported
suitable preposition speech, the above sentence will be
(a) to (b) over (a) She asked the girl that she did that
(c) into (d) at (b) She asked the girl if she did that
24. Fill in the blank with suitable article. It is (c) She asked the girl if she had done that
_________ unit of measurement.
(d) She told the girl that she had done that
8. Pick out the correct passive voice of the following. (a) Why had you not call
The Principal has granted to him a scholarship.
(b) Why you did not call
(a) A scholarship has granted to him by the Principal.
(c) Why not did you call
(b) He has been granted a scholarship by the Principal.
(d) No improvement
(c) He has granted a scholarship by the Principal
Directions (Q. Nos. 66-69) Read the following
(d) A scholarship was granted to him by the Principal. passage carefully and answer the questions that
follow.
9. Had he taken his degree five years ago he...... got a
promotion by now. (Use suitable modal verb in the Last year I suffered a stroke I had to be hospitalised. I
given blank) was put in a general ward for there was no room in
the intensive coronary care unit.
(a) may (b) might
Not far from my bed was a patient in obvious
(c) would have (d) should have
indigent circumstances and on hospital diet. For
10. Fill in the blank with suitable word. breakfast, he used to get two eggs, besides other
things.
refers to the second mentioned thing of two things.
The man was regularly visited by a twelve year old
(a) Later (b) Latter boy, perhaps his son, dressed in worn-out clothes.
(c) Letter (d) None of these The man always kept one egg for that boy when he
arrived soon after the doctors had done their rounds.
11. Choose the most appropriate alternative.
One day was a shortfall in the supply of eggs to the
The football players kilometers every day. five hospital and the man got only one egg. He looked at
(a) run (b) running it for a long time, turning it over in his hands and
then put it away. He thought the boy's need was
(c) was running (d) were run greater than his perhaps.
12. Choose the correctly spelt word. 16. Why was the author hospitalised?
(a) Exagerate (b) Exadgerate (a) Because he wanted a routine check-up
(c) Exaggerate (d) Exeggerate (b) Because he suffered a stroke
13. Rearrange the following in the correct sequence. (c) Because he wanted to encash his medical
insurance
A: he did not take revenge on Ravi
(d) Because he liked the hospital life so much
B: though he had
17. What does the given passage focus on?
C: as he was magnanimous
(a) Paternal affection of the man
D: done great harm to him
(b) Poverty of the man
The correct sequence should be
(c) Poor condition of the hospital
(a) BCAD (b) CABD
(d) Poor condition of the boy
(c) BDAC (d) ADCB
18. What does it mean by 'indigent circumstances' as
14. The idiom work on someone' means
used in the passage?
(a) influence someone (b) cheat someone
(a) Miserly personality (b) Rich background
(c) gather information (d) dispose something
(c) Miserable condition (d) Poor condition
15. Improve the underlined part of the given
19. From which disease, the author is suffering in last
sentence. I don't understand why did you not call me
year?
last night.
(a) Fever (b) Cough life. So he called his favourite disciple and asked him
what he would do for his guru in return for all he had
(c) Stomach pain (d) Stroke
received. The disciple said he would do whatever his
20. Childhood is the best part of life. Here, 'childhood guru asked him to do.
is.........
Having received this promise, the guru said, "Then
(a) Collective noun (b) Common noun this is what I'd like you to do for me. I've just learned
that when I die, which will be very soon, I'm going to
(c) Proper noun (d) Abstract noun be reborn as a pig. Do you see that sow eating
21. The simple form of sentence given below will be garbage there in the yards"?
Tell me where you live. I'm going to be reborn as the fourth piglet of its next
(a) Tell me where you put out litter. You'll recognise me by a mark on my brow.
When that sow has littered, find the fourth piglet
(b) Tell me your address with a mark on its brow and with one stroke of your
(c) Tell me the place where you stay knife, slaughter it. I'll then be released, from a pig's
life. Will you do this for me?" The disciple was sad to
(d) You live where tell me hear all this, but he agreed to do as he had promised.
Soon after this conversation, the guru did die.
22. Choose the correct synonym of the word
'comprehend'. And the sow did have a litter of four little pigs. One
day, the disciple sharpened his knife and picked out
(a) Agree (b) Understand
the fourth little pig, which did, indeed, have a mark
(c) Reprieve (d) Settle on its brow.

23. Determined the underlined clause in the given Just as he was about to bring down his knife to slit its
sentence. Children who ate chocolates are throat,' the little pig suddenly spoke. "Stop"! Don't
uncommon. kil me!", it screamed. Before the disciple could
recover from the shock of hearing the little pig speak
(a) Defining relative clause
in a human voice, it said, "Don't kill me. I want to live
(b) Non-defining relative clause on as a pig When I asked you to dispatch me. didn't
know what a pig's life would be like. It's great. Just
(c) Noun clause let me go."
(d) Adjective clause 1. Why was the disciple shocked?
24. Choose the correct antonym of the word (a) The guru refused to be killed
'Terminate'.
(b) The guru wanted to remain like a pig
(a) Begin (b) Stop
(c) The guru was not reborn
(c) End (d) Halt
(d) None of the above
25. Find out which part of the sentence has an error.
The Reason Navita felt exhausted was if she worked 2. What did the guru foresee?
non-stop for 12 hours
(a) His and his disciple's next life
(a) The Reason (b) Navita felt exhausted
(b) He being reborn as a pig
(c) was if she worked (d) non-stop for 12 hours
(c) What a pig's life is like
Section 3 (d) Not mentioned in the passage

Directions (Q. Nos. 51-55) Read the following 3. When the disciple was about to kill the pig, why
passage carefully and answer the questions that did the guru say 'Stop'?
follow.
(a) The disciple had picked up a wrong pig
One day, a guru foresaw in a flash of vision that he
(b) He had changed his mind
would die shortly and what he would be in his next
(c) He did not want to be reborn (c) 54321 (d) 24531

(d) Not mentioned in the passage 11. What is the feminine of "Bachelor?

4. Which of the following is not true in the context of (a) Gentlewoman (b) Heroine
the passage?
(c) Dame (d) Spinster
(a) The disciple was sad to know that his guru was to
12. I respect the beliefs of my astrologer. The
die soon
underlined word is
(b) The guru took promise from his favourite disciple
(a) a noun (b) an adverb
(c) There was a mark on the brow of the fourth piglet
(c) an adjective (d) a part of the verb
(d) The disciple changed his mind about killing his
13. Choose the plural form of the given word 'Ass
guru
(a) Asses (b) Asss
5. Which of the following can be the best reason for
the guru taking the prior promise from his disciple? (c) Ass (d) Assess
(a) The favourite disciple otherwise do not obey 14. Fill in the blank with suitable pronoun. Abha is
more beautiful and intelligent than
(b) Prior promise is needed for sharing divine things
(a)। (b) me
(c) The guru did not have any confidence in his disciple
(c) myself (d) mine
(d) The act was such that in the absence of such a
promise the disciple could have no 15. Each of the girls....... good on stage. (Use suitable
word in the blank)
6. Do as directed. She was so tired that she could not
sleep. (Use too' in the sentence) (a) look (b) looks
(a) She was too tired not to sleep (c) looking (d) are looking
(b) She was too sleepy and tired 16. Fill in the blank with correct alternative. His
performance is the....... this year.
(c) She was too tired to sleep
(a) good (b) best
(d) She was tired and too sleepy
(c) better (d) None of the above
7. Find the proper noun in the given sentence. The
children ate lunch at Taco Bell. 17. Fill in the blank with suitable alternative. You.....
so tired now if you had slept more last night.
(a) Taco Bell (b) children
(a) wouldn't have been (b) wouldn't be
(c) lunch (d) ate
(c) won't be (d) mustn't have been
58. In the sentence "come here!", the verb is
18. Fill in the blank with appropriate conjunction. I
(a) imperative (b) transitive
asked him..... he would help me.
(c) subjunctive (d) intransitive
(a) that (b) if
9. Fill in the blank with suitable tense form. Phone
(c) unless (d) or
me when you....... time.
19. The teacher is ill and …........ is unable to come to
(a) have (b) would have
school. (use suitable adverb)
(c) will have (d) should have
(a) due to (b) so
10. Form a meaningful sentence from the given
(c) therefore (d) because
jumbled words. him (1)/the (2)/ to (3)/ charge (4)/
handover(5). 20. Use suitable question tag for the blank given
below. The hotel was not too expensive
(a) 51342 (b) 52431
(a) was it? (b) wasn't it question : "Can education and tolerance,
understanding and creative intelligence run fast
(c) is it? (d) isn't it?
enough to keep us abreast with our own mounting
21. Fill in the blank with the suitable capacity to destroy?" This is the question which we
interjection. ........ well played my boys. will have to answer one way or the other in this
generation. Science must help us in finding the
(a) Fiel (b) Bravo! answer, but ultimately the main decision lies within
(c) Shh! (d) Alas! ourselves.

22. Choose the adjective in the given sentence. The 1. According to the author, the real enemy of
first book of author is about mankind is not science but war, because

poverty. (a) science during war is very destructive

(a) first (b) author (b) science merely invents the weapons with which
war is fought
(c) book (d) paverty
(c) the weapons that science. invents necessarily lead
23. Fill the blank with suitable clause. I couldn't to war
believe it took them to process my application.
(d) the weapons invented by science do not cause war
(a) how much (b) how many though they make it more destructive
(c) where (d) how long 2. According to the author, the solution lies in
24. Fill the blank with suitable modal verb. When I (a) preventing scientists from participating in
was a boy, I.... walk forty miles in a day. destructive activities
(a) could (b) shali (b) abolishing war
(c) might (d) should (c) stopping scientific activities everywhere
25. I hope the. is fine. (Fill the blank with correct (d) stopping science from reflecting social forces
alternative).
3. The expression 'bring to the doorstep of doom'
(a) whether (b) wither means
(c) weather (d) None of the above (a) lead us to threshold of a new destiny

Section 4 (b) introduce us to an unpredictable future

Directions (Q. Nos. 51-53) Read the following (c) carry us close to death and destruction
passage carefully and answer the following questions (d) take us step by step to ruin
by choosing the most appropriate option. The
greatest enemy of mankind, as people have 4. He plunged into the turbid waters of the stream.
discovered, is not science, but war. Science merely Select the correct antonym of the underlined word
reflects the social forces by which it is surrounded. It
(a) Deep (b) Muddy
is found that when there is peace, science is
constructive, when there is war, science is perverted (c) Clear (d) Fresh
to destructive ends. The weapons which science
5. Our success or our failure largely depend upon our
gives us don't necessarily create war, these make war
actions. Identify the incorrect part of the sentence.
increasingly more terrible. Until now it has brought
us to the doorstep of doom. Our main problem, (a) our success (b) or our failure
therefore, is not to curb science but to stop war. This
is a job in which everybody must participate (c) largely depend (d) upon our actions
including the scientists. But the bomb of Hiroshima 6. The reward was not commensurate the work done
suddenly woke us to the fact that we have very little by us. Choose the most appropriate preposition for
time. The hour is late and our work has scarcely the given blank.
begun. Now we are face to face with this urgent
(a) for (b) on (a) Mumbai (b) Busiest

(c) with (d) upon (c) City (d) India

7. Give me ………… umbrella which you bought 16. Put it………. you can find it later. (Choose the
yesterday. Choose the correct answer. correct conjunction)

(a) the (b) an (a) if (b) where

(c) a (d) No article (c) because (d) as

8. Frustrated with the official's call, Ethan underlined 17. Has someone made all the necessary
the bench, Identify the type of underlined verb. arrangements? (change into passive voice)

(a) Intransitive (b) Participle (a) Has all the necessary arrangements been made by
someone?
(c) Transitive (d) Infinitive
(b) Have the necessary arrangements been all made
9. If I hadn't come along at that moment,
by someone?
Rahim ........the one arrested instead of the real thief.
Choose the most appropriate. option. (c) Have all the necessary arrangements been made by
someone?
(a) might been been (b) may have
(d) All the necessary arrangement have been made by
(c) can have been. (d) could have been
one?
10. They said, "We have lived here for a long time".
18. If you………….. me, we both would have been
Choose the correct reported form of the sentence.
happy.
(a) They said they have lived there for a long time.
(a) marry (b) married
(b) They said they lived here for a long-time.
(c) had married (d) will marry
(c) They said they had lived there for a long time.
19. All felt that he…………….. a cheat
(d) They said they have lived for a long time.
(a) may be (b) can be
11. Choose the correct spelling.
(c) might be (d) will be
(a) Puerille (b) Puerrile
20. The valley is known for its ………………. growth of
(c) Puerile (d) Purrile vegetation. Choose the most appropriate word.

12. The correct synonym of the word 'Gloomy' is (a) luxurious (b) luxury

(a) Misty (b) Obscure (c) luxuriant (d) luxuriously

(c) Murky (d) Shadowy 21. I…………. the movies with some friends last night.
Choose the correct answer.
13. Mr. Pathak found me running
(a) have gone (b) went
(a) fast (b) lately
(c) am gone (d) am going
(c) before (d) fastly
22. Rearrange the following words/phrases to make
14. Write down the address lest you may forget. a meaningful sentence.
Choose the edited form of the underlined words
from the given options. bag (1) you (2) seen (3) | have (4) | my (5)

(a) you may not forget (b) you cannot forget (a) 43512 (b) 42351

(c) you should forget (d) No improvement (c) 42153 (d) 21435

15. Mumbai is the busiest city in India. Identify the 23. Arrange the four parts of a sentence given below
adjective in this sentence. in the correct order to make a meaningful sentence.
A spoken in China (c) will go (d) would go

B: many characters 6. Choose the plural form of the word 'cuckoo'.

C. in the Mandarin language (a) Cuckoos (b) Cuckoos

(a) DBCA (b) ADCB (c) Cuckos (d) None of these

(c) BCDA (d) CADB 7. Find the error part in the following sentence.

24. Choose the alternative, which best expresses the (a) There were (b) a number
meaning of the idiom/phrase, given in bold. After
(c) of man (d) in the park
getting a severe scolding from his mother, Raghu got
down to business. 8. Identify the pronoun in the given sentence. You
should help your friends in the class.
(a) started a business
(a) you (b) help
(b) became businesslike
(c) friends (d) in
(c) began to work seriously
9. There were clouds in the sky so we could not see
(d) joined his father's business
…………sun. Choose the correct article.
25. The phrase 'To get wind' means
(a) the (b) a
(a) to forget (b) come to know
(c) an (d) No article
(c) to tell (d) to fly
10. Fill the blank with correct form of adjective. This
Section 5 is the…………….. made. painting he ever

(a) more beautiful (b) beautiful

1. Do as directed.
(c) beautier (d) most beautiful.
Can a leopard change his spots? (make assertive)
11. 'Shaken' is the …………….. of 'shake'.
(a) A leopard can change his spots.
(a) first form (b) second form
(b) His spots a leopard can change.
(c) third form (d) participle
(c) A leopard cannot change his spots.
12. Fill the blank with suitable modal verbs. you tell
(d) A leopard may change his spots.
me the way to the post-office, please?
2. What is the feminine of Earl?
(a) Will (b) Shall
(a) Countess (b) Baroness
(c) Need (d) May
(c) Waitress (d) Seamstress
63. Choose the most appropriate alternative.
3. Which is the base form of the verb?
Neither he nor I
(a) am (b) be
(a) is going (b) am going
(c) was (d) None of these
(c) were going (d) has gone
4. In the sentence "I was working all day", working is
14. Identify the type of given sentence. Please lend
a
me some money.
(a) past participle (b) present participle
(a) Declarative (b) Imperative
(c) gerund (d) Infinitive
(c) Interrogative (d) Exclamatory
5. Fill in the blank with suitable tense form. I will
15. Use the comparative degree in the sentence
follow you wherever you
given below. Dogs are the most faithful animals.
(a) go (b) goes
(a) No other animal is as faithful as the dog. life. There is something in our older cultural heritage
too. I have particularly in view that enduring strength
(b) Dogs are more faithful than any other animals.
in Indian life which can best be described as respect
(c) Dogs are more faithful than any other animal. for human personality and the spirit of tolerance.

(d) Dogs are more faithful than any animal. I have no doubt in my mind that it is only by methods
of persuasion and mutual accommodation and by a
16. Fill the blank with the correct clause. Until my constant search for areas of agreement as the basis
brother went to Brazil last year, he States. outside for action, that democracy can work. It is in this spirit
the United that I shall devote myself to the duties and
(a) has never been (b) wasn't responsibilities of the office I have been called upon
to fill. Of all the problems facing us, none is more
(c) had never been (d) won't be distressing than that of dire poverty in which tens of
17. Choose the suitable question tag for the given millions of our country men continue to live. It is my
blank. Saree is the most graceful Indian dress great desire to be able to lighten in some measure
………………….. ? the burden of poverty on our people. In this, I
remember particularly the claims of most backward
(a) is it not (b) is not it sections, like scheduled castes and scheduled tribes,
who have suffered neglect and have had to endure
(c) isn't it (d) did it
disabilities for many centuries. It would be my proud
18. Fill the blank with suitable interjection. a student privilege to work for the establishment of a more just
and afraid of book. social order.

(a) Hurrah! (b) Bravo! 21. Shri Nehru was deeply attached to

(c) Fie on you! (d) Pshaw! (a) democracy as a way of life

19. Which of the following is a homonym pair? (b) democracy of the western

(a) Chess-Chaise (b) Sun-Son (c) democracy which emerges from our culture

(c) Review-Revenue (d) Sick-Six (d) the Indian way of living

20. Identify the wrongly spelled word from the 22. What is the permanent trend in Indian life?
following.
(a) Respect for human personality
(a) Righteous (b) Strenuous
(b) Love for animals
(c) Manageable (d) Merciless
(c) Worship of nature
Directions (Q. Nos. 71-75) Read the following
(d) Hero-worshipping
passage carefully and answer the questions that
follow. 23. The author believes that democracy can work
Among the major tasks before us, none is of greater (a) if leaders are honest
importance for our strength and stability than the
task of building up the unity and solidarity of our (b) if people participate
people. Our country often stood like a solid rock in (c) if method of persuasion and mutual adjustment
the face of common danger and there is a deep are employed
underlying unity which runs like a golden thread
through all our seeming diversity. There have been (d) if people have faith in democracy
occasions when unfortunate and disturbing divisions, 24. The writer wants to work for
some of them accompanied by violence, have
appeared in our society. Political democracy and the (a) just economic forces (b) just social order
way it has functioned in our country is surely a great
(c) democratic forces (d) None of these
achievement. Here again we owe an immeasurable
debt to Shri J.L Nehruji for his deep attachment to 25.. The writer thinks that
democracy as a form of government and as a way of
(a) we have never faced dangers

(b) in our country there is unity. underlying diversity p