Read questions carefully and select the appropriate options:

1. What are locusts?

(A) wild animals that destroy standing field crops
(B) insects that fly in big groups and destroy crops
(C) reptiles that infest fields
(D) airborne particles that destroy crops
2. Why did he stick to his resolution?
(A) He didn’t want to shake Lencho’s faith in God.
(B) He didn’t want to disbelieve the postman.
(C) He didn’t want to disbelieve in God.
(D) He liked Lencho’s belief in God.
3. What is a chevron?
A) ‘Z’ shaped C) ‘C’ shaped
B) ‘V’ shaped D) ‘S’ shaped
4. Identify the correct noun form.
A) precise C) precisely
B) précised D) precision
5. What shows Anne's love for her grandmother?
(A) she still thinks about her (B) she misses her
(C) she let her birthday pass with little celebration (D) both A and B
6. What does ‘a fairly successful hand’ mean?
(A) skillful at work (B) good at painting
(C) tactful in thieving (D) talented in cooking
7. For which idea men and women were putting their lives at risk?
(A) An idea to abolish poverty from Africa.
(B) An idea to end gender discrimination.
(C) An idea to fight for the freedom and rights of black people.
(D) Both A and C.
8. What is courage according to Mandela?
(A) Absence of fear.
(B) How to triumph over fear.
(C) Stand up against torture without breaking.
(D) Showing strength and resilience.
9. How does the guard show a sign of humanity to Mandela when he was in prison?
(A) He encouraged him to keep on his struggle.
(B) He helped him to relieve him from the prison.
(C) He supported him by taking part in his struggle.
(D) He helped him to reprieve his punishment
10. Find out the synonym of the word ‘defy’
(A) Torture (B) Disobey
(C) Accept (D) Break
11. The argument that made Mr Keesing laugh was:
(A) Talking was a birth right
 (B) Talking was a fundamental right
(C) Talking was a trend
(D) Talking was a student’s trait
12. The topic of the second essay was:
(A) An Idiotic chap
(B) An Incorrigible Chatterbox
(C) Quack, Quack, Quack, Said Mistress Chatterbox
(D) A Chatterbox
13. The character traits of Anne were:
(A) talkative and quarrelsome (B) patient and panicky
(C) smiling and cheerful (D) talkative and patient
14. The word ‘incorrigible’ means
(A) that can’t be fooled (B) that can’t be judged
(C) that can’t be corrected (D) that can’t be made
15. What is enlightenment?
(A) A state of high spiritual knowledge (B) A state of meeting God
(C) Able to see with eyes closed (D) Able to foretell future
16. Who has penned the story?
(A) Gavin Maxwell (B) Betty Renshaw
(C) Lucio Rodrigues (D) Lokesh Abrol
17. The elders in Goa are nostalgic about .......
i) Good old Portuguese days ii) Portuguese language
iii) loaves of bread iv) Portuguese rule
(A) i), iv) (B) i), ii)
(C) i), iii) (D) ii), iv)
18. What tells us that bread making still continues ........
i) Those eaters of loaves might not have vanished.
ii) Makers are still there.
iii) Mixers, moulders and bakers are still among us.
iv) The time-tested furnaces still exist.
(B) i), ii), iii) (B) i), ii), iv) (C) i), iii), iv) (D) ii), iii),
iv)
19. 3. Find out the word from the passage which means ‘announcing’.
(A) reminiscing (B) extinguished
(C) exist (D) heralding
20. Give the adjective form of ‘family’.
(A) family (B) familial
(C) fame (D) None of the above
21. How did Valli collect sixty paise?
a) by saving stray coins that came her way.
b) by taking few coins from her father.
c) by requesting few coins from her mother.
d) by opening her piggy bank.
22. What is meant by thriftly?
 e) Have just enough money b) Spend money lavishly
c) Spend money carefully d) Have only enough coins
23. Give the verb form of ‘strangely’.
C) estrange C) strange
D) stranger D) strangeness
24. _______ was the only aeroplane flying in the storm.
v) Stranger’s Dakota C) Narrator’s Dakota
vi) Strange black aeroplane D) Strange black helicopter
25. Why did the narrator ask about ‘another aeroplane’ to the lady?
C) He wanted to know when it landed.
D) He wanted to know why it had no lights.
E) He wanted to know where it was parked.
F) He wanted to thank the pilot for assisting him.

Fill in the blanks choosing the correct words given in the bracket. Write only
answers.
(commented, laughing, faith, tapping)

The postmaster — a fat, amiable fellow — also broke out _____(5)______,

but almost immediately he turned serious and, ___(6)_____ the letter on his
desk, ____(7)_____, “What faith! I wish I had the ____(8)_____ of the man
who wrote this letter. Starting up a correspondence with God!”

(teaching, dive, skim, perfecting)

That was twenty-four hours ago. Since then nobody had come near him. The
day before, all day long, he had watched his parents flying about with his
brothers and sister, ______(5)______ them in the art of flight,
______(6)______them how to ______(7)______ the waves and how to
______(8)______ for fish.

(reigned, flickered, extinguished, wayside, hopeless)

Kisa Gotami become weary and ______, and sat down at the ______, watching the lights
of the city, as they _____ up and were ______ again. At last the darkness of the night
_______ everywhere.
(town, mail, fields, letter)
Lencho was an ox of a man, working like an animal in the (5), but still he knew how to
write. The following Sunday, at daybreak, he began to write a (6) which he himself
would carry to (6) and place in the (7). It was nothing less than a letter to God.
(aged, sick, monk, twenty-five, twelve)
At ____(6)____, he was sent away for schooling in the Hindu sacred scriptures and four
years later he returned home to marry a princess. They had a son and lived for ten years
as befitted royalty. At about the age of ____(7)____, the Prince, heretofore shielded from
the sufferings of the world, while out hunting chanced upon a ____(8)____ man, then an
____(9)____ man, then a funeral procession, and finally a ____(10)____ begging for
alms.
(laughing, walked, looking, overcome)
They were all _______5_________ at Valli and ______6________ with the conductor.
Valli was _____7______ with shyness. Avoiding everyone’s eyes she ____8______
quickly to an empty seat and sat down.
(few, carefully, various, regularly)
Over many days and months Valli listened ....(5).... to conversations
between her neighbours and people who ....(6).... used the bus, and she
also asked a
....(7)... discreet questions here and there. This way she picked up ....(8).....................small
details about the bus journey.

[one, grass, sparse, blue, kittens]

Wisps of old ____6____stuck up here and there along the pathway like thin
_____7_____. The house and its _____8_____ little yard looked shabby but
clean. It reminded Maddie of Wanda’s ____9_____ dress, her faded
_____10_____ cotton dress, shabby but clean.

Select the correct figure of speech from the options given:

There is a languid, emerald sea, where the sole inhabitant is me – a mermaid
drifting blissfully
i) Metaphor ii) Metonymy iii) Internal Rhyme iv)
Tautology
A) i, ii, iii, iv C) i, ii, iii
B) iii, iv D) ii, iii

On pads of velvet quiet, in his quiet rage

A) Climax (B) Apostrophe (C) Oxymoron (D) Irony
Belinda was as brave as a barrel full of bears
A) Litotes (B) Simile (C) Metaphor (D) Anastrophe
B) To jungles in the east.
a. Metaphor b) Metonymy c) Anastrophe d)
Alliteration
C) I am Rapunzel, I have not a care.
a. Simile b) Metonymy c) Litotes d) Both B
and C
11. He should be snarling around houses at the jungle’s edge
a) Onomatopoeia b) Metonymy c) Synecdoche d) Both a and b

Rectify the errors:

Error Correction
It said: “God: by the money that _____ _________
I asked for only seventy pesos riched _____ _________
me. Sent me the rest since I _____ _________
needed it very much. _____ _________

9. He write ‘To God’ on the ___________ _____________

10. envelope, put the lettar ___________ _____________
11. inside and, till troubled, ___________ _____________
12. went to town. At a post ___________ _____________
13. office, he place a stamp ___________ _____________
14. on the lettar and dropped it. ___________
____________

Suddenly I came out of thee clouds. _____ _________

I saw the runway off the airport. _____ _________
I landed in the airport safely. _____ _________
I turned to look for a black aeroplane. _____ _________
The sky was empty for nothing there. _____ _________
I couldn’t saw the plane anywhere. _____ _________
Gautam Buddha was born for a prince. _____ _________
At the age of twelve he goes to school _____ _________
He study the Hindu sacred scriptures. _____ _________
After four years she was married. _____ _________

A baker is very important to an village. .............. ...............

A party loses her charm without bread. .............. ...............
Sandwiches are prepared of a daughter’s .............. .............
engagement.
Cakes is important for festivals like Christmas. .............. ...............

I was feeling a little depress.

I was sitting bored in home.

I had my chin on my hands

I was wondering were to go.

Fill in the blanks using proper article(s), conjunction(s) and preposition(s). Write
only the answers: (and, of, that, the)
(and, of, that, the)
_______ great expanse _______ sea stretched down beneath, ________it was such a long
way down-miles down. He felt certain ______ his wings would never support him.
[about, the, and, when] [04]
Paris was 32 150 kilometres behind me 33 I saw the clouds.
Storm clouds. They were huge. They looked like black mountains standing
 in front of me across _____34_____ sky. I knew I could not fly up
___35___ over them, and I did not have enough fuel to fly around them to
the north or south.

Do as directed:
1) Otters are as common as mosquitoes in the Tigris marshes. (Choose the
correct degree)
A) Otters are not more common than mosquitoes in the Tigris marshes.
B) Mosquitoes are not common than otters in the Tigris marshes.
C) Mosquitoes are as common as otters in the Tigris marshes.
D) Otters are the most common as mosquitoes in the Tigris marshes.
2) The mustard-seed must be taken from a house. (Select the appropriate
voice)
A) The mustard-seed must take from a house by you.
B) You must take the mustard-seed from a house.
C) You must be taken the mustard-seed from a house.
D) The mustard-seed must be taken by you from a house.
3) Love comes more naturally to the human heart than hate. (Select the
appropriate degree)
A) Hate doesn’t come more naturally to the human heart as love.
B) Love doesn’t come more naturally to the human heart as hate.
C) Love comes as naturally to the human heart as hate.
D) Hate doesn’t come as naturally to the human heart as love.
4) How can we hide the silkworm in the bamboo? (Select the appropriate voice)
A) How can the silkworm hidden in the bamboo by us?
B) How can the silkworm be hidden in the bamboo by us?
C) How could the silkworm be hidden in the bamboo by us?
D) How can the silkworm be hide in the bamboo by us?
5) All are subject to death. (Add a question tag)
A) All are subject to death, doesn’t they?
B) All are subject to death, didn’t they?
C) All are subject to death, aren’t they?
D) All are subject to death, don’t they?
6) Why should you stand when you’ve paid for a seat? (Make it Assertive)
A) You should standup when you’ve paid for a seat.
B) You shouldn’t standup when you’ve paid for a seat.
C) You stood up when you’ve paid for a seat.
D) You didn’t standup when you’ve paid for a seat.
7) The father is not alive but the son still carries on the family profession.
(Choose the correct complex sentence)
A) The father is not alive and the son still carries on the family profession.
B) When the father is not alive, the son still carries on the family profession.
C) Though the father is not alive, the son still carries on the family profession.
D) Unless the father is not alive, the son still carries on the family profession
8) When I returned, there was an appalling spectacle. (Choose the correct
simple sentence)
A) I returned but there was an appalling spectacle.
B) Returning, there was an appalling spectacle.
C) I returned and there was an appalling spectacle.
D) On my return, there was an appalling spectacle.
9) If she saw an animal mistreated, she cried for hours. (Select the correct
usage of ‘unless’)
A) Unless she saw an animal mistreated if she cried for hours.
B) Unless she saw an animal mistreated if she cried for hours.
C) If she saw an animal mistreated unless she cried for hours.
D) Unless she saw an animal mistreated, she cried for hours.
10) There is nothing to argue about. (Choose the correct affirmative sentence)
A) There is never anything to argue about.
B) There is everything to argue about.
C) There is hardly anything to argue about.
D) There was nothing to argue about.
11) Nothing to be afraid of about that. (Add a question tag)
A) Nothing to be afraid of about that, isn’t there?
B) Nothing to be afraid of about that, is there?
C) Nothing to be afraid of about that, does it?
D) None of the above.
12) I have always known that its greatest wealth is its people. (Select the correct
degree)
A) I have always known that it’s greater than any other wealth is its people.
B) I have always known that any other wealth is as great as people.
C) I have always known that people are greater than any other wealth.
D) I have always known that people are as great as any other wealth.
13) Why didn’t you tell me so before? (Select the correct Assertive sentence)
A) You told me so before.
B) You should have told me so before.
C) You did tell me so before.
D) Both A and C.
14) No one will be looking for me. (Select the correct Interrogative sentence)
A) Will anyone be looking for me?
B) Does anyone be looking for me?
C) Was anyone looking for me?
D) Won’t anyone be looking for me?
15) Watching the street gave her many unusual experiences. (Select the correct
voice)
A) She had been given many unusual experiences by watching the street.
B) She was given many unusual experiences by watching the street.
C) She has been given many new unusual experiences by watching the street.
D) She is given many new unusual experiences by watching the street.
16) When he finished, he went to the window to buy a stamp. (Select the correct
compound sentence)
A) On finishing, he went to the window to buy a stamp.
B) He finished and went to the window to buy a stamp.
C) As soon as he finished, he went to the window to buy a stamp.
D) He finished otherwise he went to the window to buy a stamp.
17) As soon as the class assembled, Miss Mason announced the winners. (Use ‘No
sooner’)
A) No sooner did the class assembled than Miss Mason announced the winners.
B) No sooner did the class assemble then Miss Mason announced the winners.
C) No sooner did the class assembled then Miss Mason announced the winners.
D) No sooner did the class assemble than Miss Mason announced the winners.
18) There was a girl named Valliammai who was called Valli for short. (Select the
correct simple sentence)
A) Valliammai was called Valli for short.
B) It was Valliammai who was called Valli for short.
C) A girl being Valliammai was called Valli for short.
D) No one but Valliammai was called Valli for short.
19) It’s really getting bad now. (Select the correct negative sentence)
A) It’s not getting fair now.
B) It’s really getting good now.
C) It’s getting better than ever now.
D) How bad it’s getting now!
20) Kisa Gotami became weary and hopeless. (Select the correct exclamatory
sentence)
A) What weary Kisa Gotami became!
B) Alas! Kisa Gotami became weary and hopeless.
C) How weary and hopeless Kisa Gotami became!
D) How weary and hopeless Kisa Gotami become!
21) And I have not yet been given my ticket by you. (Select the correct voice)
A) And you are not yet given my ticket.
B) And you had not yet given me my ticket.
C) And you has not given me my ticket.
D) And you have not yet given me my ticket.
22) Inside the clouds, everything was so black that I couldn’t see anything. (Select
the correct sentence with ‘too’)
A) Inside the clouds, everything was too black to see anything.
B) Inside the clouds, everything was too black to not see anything.
C) Inside the clouds, everything was too black to be seen anything.
D) Inside the clouds, everything was too black for me to see anything.
23) They thought that she was too dumb to understand anything. (Select the correct
sentence without ‘too’)
A) They thought that she was so dumb that she wouldn’t understand anything.
B) They thought that she was not dumb and understands anything.
C) They thought that she was very dumb and understands anything.
D) They thought that she was so dumb that she would understand anything.