HRTC general english question paper

PAPER - B

WRITTEN TEST PAPER FOR SELECTION OF TEACHERS : CSB 2013

ENGLISH(PGT) : SUBJECT CODE : P11

FOR QUESTION NUMBERS 1-10 READ THE PASSAGE

AND TICK THE BEST OPTION:

COKETOWN, to which Messrs.Bounderby and Gradgrind now

walked, was a triumph of fact; it had no greater taint of fancy in

it than Mrs.Gradgrind herself. Let us strike the key-note, Coketown,

before pursuing our tune.

It was a town of red brick, or of brick that would have been red if

the smoke and ashes had allowed it; but as matters stood, it was

a town of unnatural red and black like the painted face of a

savage. It was a town of machinery and tall chimneys, out of

which interminable serpents of smoke trailed themselves for ever

and ever, and never got uncoiled. It had a black canal in it, and a

river that ran purple with illsmelling dye, and vast piles of

building full of windows where there was a rattling and a

trembling all day long, and where the piston of the steam-engine

worked monotonously up and down, like the head of an elephant

in a state of melancholy madness. It contained several large

streets all very like one another, and many small streets still

more like one another, inhabited by people equally like one

another, who all went in and out at the same hours, with the same

sound upon the same pavements, to do the same work, and to

whom every day was the same as yesterday and to-morrow, and

every year the counterpart of the last and the next.

These attributes of Coketown were in the main inseparable from

the work by which it was sustained; against them were to be set

off, comforts of life which found their way all over the world, and

elegancies of life which made, we will not ask how much of the

fine lady, who could scarcely bear to hear the place mentioned.

The rest of its features were voluntary, and they were these.

You saw nothing in Coketown but what was severely workful. If

the members of a religious persuasion built a chapel there - as

the members of eighteen religious persuasions had done - they

made it a pious warehouse of red brick, with sometimes (but this

is only in highly ornamental examples) a bell in a birdcage on

the top of it. The solitary exception was the New Church; a

stuccoed edifice with a square steeple over the door, terminating

in four short pinnacles like florid wooden legs. All the public

inscriptions in the town were painted alike, in severe characters

of black and white. The jail might have been the infirmary, the

infirmary might have been the jail, the town-hall might have been

either, or both, or anything else, for anything that appeared to the

contrary in the graces of their construction. Fact, fact, fact,

everywhere in the material aspect of the town; fact, fact, fact,

everywhere in the immaterial. The M'Choakumchild school was

all fact, and the school of design was all fact, and the relations

between master and man were all fact, and everything was fact

between the lying-in hospital and the cemetery, and what you

couldn't state in figures, or show to be purchasable in the

cheapest market and saleable in the dearest, was not, and never

should be, world without end, Amen.

1. As used in this passage,’ fact’means most nearly the

a. true b. unconcerned

c. functional d. none of the above

2. The point of view of the passage is that of

a. a sardonic and omniscient observer

b. an objective and omniscient observer

c. an uninvolved minor character with restricted vision

d. none of the above

3. The metaphor of the key-note in the first paragraph indicates

chiefly that

a. Coketown was probably a one time a happy place

b. the description of Coketown is a digression from the main

subject

c. one needs to know more about Coketown to understand

and appreciate Mrs.Gradgrind

d. none of the above

4. In the 2nd para "serpents" is used primarily as

a. a sign that pride leads to a fall

b. an emblem of industrial blight

c. a symbol of the creeping progress of industry

d. none of the above

5. In the second paragraph, which qualities of the town

receive the greatest emphasis?

a. Its savagery and incipient wickedness

b. Its apathy and sameness of colour

c. Its dinginess and predictability

d. none of the above

6. The third paragraph links what comes before and what

follows by which of the following pairs of words?

a. "attributes" and "comforts"

b. "world" and "features"

c. "inseparable" and "voluntary"

d. none of the above

7. The parody at the very end of the passage does which of the

following?

a. Suggests a hidden hope.

b. Adds irony.

c. Ignores the hypocrisy prevalent.

d. none of the above

8. Which of the following functions as the unifying element for

the passage?

a. The repetition of the word

b. The animal imagery

c. The reference to the spiritual life of the town

d. none of the above

9. Which of the following best describes the overall method of

development in the passage?

a. Progression by the repeated used of thesis and antithesis

b. General statement followed by specific illustrations

c. Progression from the literal to the symbolic

d. none of the above

10. The passage can best be described as

a. a personal essay commenting on the social environment

b. a character sketch with political overtones

c. a social commentary within a work of fiction

d. none of the above

FOR QUESTION NUMBER 11-20 READ THE POEM

AND TICK THE BEST OPTION

A Dialogue Between the Soul and the Body

Andrew Marvell

SOUL

O who shall, from this dungeon, raise

A soul enslav'd so many ways?

With bolts of bones, that fetter'd stands

In feet, and manacled in hands;

Here blinded with an eye, and there

Deaf with the drumming of an ear;

A soul hung up, as 'twere, in chains

Of nerves, and arteries, and veins;

Tortur'd, besides each other part,

In a vain head, and double heart.

BODY

O who shall me deliver whole

From bonds of this tyrannic soul?

Which, stretch'd upright, impales me so

That mine own precipice I go;

And warms and moves this needless

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(A fever could but do the same)

And, wanting where its spite to try,

Has made me live to let me die.

A body that could never rest,

Since this ill spirit it possest.

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SOUL

What magic could me thus confine

Within another's grief to pine?

Where whatsoever it complain,

I feel, that cannot feel, the pain;

And all my care itself employs;

That to preserve which me destroys;

Constrain'd not only to endure

Diseases, but, what's worse, the cure;

And ready oft the port to gain,

Am shipwreck'd into health again.

BODY

But physic yet could never reach

The maladies thou me dost teach;

Whom first the cramp of hope does tear,

And then the palsy shakes of fear;

The pestilence of love does heat,

Or hatred's hidden ulcer eat;

Joy's cheerful madness does perplex,

Or sorrow's other madness vex;

Which knowledge forces me to know,

And memory will not forego.

What but a soul could have the wit

To build me up for sin so fit?

So architects do square and hew

Green trees that in the forest grew.

11. The headings of the stanzas, Soul and Body, indicate which

one of the two is

a. being addressed

b. acting as the deliverer of the other

c. speaking

d. none of the above

12. In the poem, which of the following best describes the relationship

between the body and soul?

a. The body controls the soul

b. They are separate and independent.

c. Each is subject to the demands of the other.

d. none of the above

13. Which of the following devices are dominant in the first

stanza?

a. An extended metaphor of cruel imprisonment

b. An extended definition of the soul

c. Names of the parts of the body to represent the whole

d. none of the above

14. The notation of an eye that can blind and ear that can deafen

(lines 5-6) suggests that the

a. Body is in fact in worse condition that the soul

b. Soul claims to have senses, but those senses fail

c. Eye and ear impede the soul’s perception instead of aiding it

d. none of the above

15. In the context of the first stanza, lines 1-2 express a longing

to be

a. freed from an actual prison

b. separated from physical life

c. saved from eternal damnation

d. none of the above

16. Which of the following best relates the question posed in

lines 21-22 ?

a. What constrains me to suffer from experiences that are

not naturally my own?

b. What can make me sorrow for the body in its ill state when

I have no natural sympathy?

c. What struggle of good and evil makes me both cause the

misfortunes of the body and then regret them?

d. none of the above

17. Lines 25-26 are best understood to mean that the

a. body ignores the soul’s efforts to influence it

b. body refuses to recognize that it would not live without the

soul

c. soul’s efforts are used by the body for its own maintenance

and, consequently, for the ruination of the soul.

d. none of the above

18. "Port" (line 29) refers metaphorically to

a. death

b. the body

c. the unity of body and soul

d. none of the above

19. Which of the following best describes the effect of the metaphors

in lines 31-36?

a. The likening of emotion to illness suggests that the soul

and body are really one

b. The very number of ailments exaggerates the weakness of

the body and the strength of the soul.

c. The metaphors stress that the body perceives the emotions

physically and, further, that it perceives only their negative

effects.

d. none of the above

20. The last four lines, which extend the length of the last stanza,

have the effect of

a. offering a solution to the dilemma of the body and soul

b. providing an epigrammatic summary of the body’s view of

the soul

c. providing comic relief from the serious conflict in the poem

d. none of the above

FOR QUESTION NUMBERS 21-30 TICK MARK THE WORD OR PHRASE

YOU BELIEVE IS NEAREST IN MEANING TO THE KEY WORD

21. AEOLIAN

a. flavored with garlic b. produced by the wind

c. Bewitched d. light headed through lack of sleep

22. GORGON

a. an ugly woman b. a type of cheese

c. a keyboard instrument d. a stone figure

23. IRIDESCENT

a. patriotic b. white-hot

c. rainbow like d. aggravating

24. GEROBOAM

a. a large wine bottle b. a lockpicker

c. a war time enemy d. a venomous snake

25. MERCURIAL - having a character that is

a. Changeable b. dull

c. sociable d. bad tempered

26. NARCISSISM

a. drug culture b. meanness

c. self love d. hedge cutting

27. NEMESIS

a. a submarine b. a type of parasite

c. an avenger d. a marble statue

28. PAEAN

a. a form of taxation b. a song of praise

c. a naval rank d. a castle keep

29. PALLADIUM

a. a fish tank b. a safeguard

c. a circus arena d. a trophy

30. ODYSSEY

a. a soft fabric b. an island group

c. a dwarf d. a long journey

FOR QUESTION NUMBERS 31-40 TICK THE CORRECT SYNONYMS:

31. BIAS

a. Predisposition b. Hatred

c. Notion d. none of the above

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32. DOGMA

a. Dogged b. Belief

c. prejudice d. none of the above

33. CREDULOUS

a. Incredible b. of the same creed

c. gullible d. none of the above

34. PRETENTIOUS

a. Parental b. Haughty

c. Pretender d. None of the above

35. RECALCITRANT

a. False b. Stubborn

c. Realistic d. None of the above

36. JOVIAL

a. Genial b. Joking

c. Joint d. None of the above

37. IMPORTUNE

a. Solicit b. Solicitant

c. Opportunistic d. None of the above

38. QUARANTINE

a. One-fourth b. Isolate

c. Four-line stanza d. None of the above

39. ABATE

a. Baiting b. Dwindle

c. Accomplish d. None of the above

40. AMELIORATE

a. Deteriorate b. Improve

c. Mediate d. None of the above

FOR QUESTION NUMBERS 40-45 TICK THE

CORRECT WORD OR PHRASE

41. What he says and what he does ________________.

a. do not agree b. does not agree

c. not d. none of the above

42. Six times three _______________ eighteen.

a. is equal b. equals

c. equals to d. none of the above

43. Sports and games ________ one healthy while reading books

makes one wise.

a. made b. make

c. makes d. none of the above

44. Fifty miles ________ a long way.

a. are b. were

c. is d. none of the above

45. Tom is one of the boys who ______ always on time.

a. is b. are

c. was d. none of the above

FOR QUESTION NUMBERS 46-50 FILL IN THE BLANKS

WITH OPTIONS GIVEN BELOW:

Petroleum, or crude oil, is one of the world's (46) ----- natural

resources. Plastics, synthetic fibers, and (47) ----- chemicals are

produced from petroleum. It is also used to make lubricants and

waxes. (48) -----, its most important use is as a fuel for heating,

for (49) -- --- electricity, and (50) ----- for powering vehicles.

46.

a. as important b. most important

c. so importantly d. None of the above

47.

a. a lot b. plenty

c. many d. none of the above

48.

a. However b. Moreover

c. Hence d. None of the above

49.

a. generated b. to generate

c. generating d. none of the above

50.

a. Exclusively b. Especially

c. Notably d. None of the above

FOR QUESTION NUMBERS 51-55 TICK THE CORRECT OPTION:

51.

a. The scenery of Kashmir moves me most.

b. The sceneries of Kashmir moves me most.

c. The sceneries of Kashmir move me most.

d. None of the above

52.

a. Last summer the heat brought hundreds of people to the

ocean

b. Last summer the heat will have brought hundreds of people

to the ocean

c. Last summer the heat has been bringing hundreds of people

to the ocean

d. none of the above

53.

a. She know that I am leaving the place.

b. She knew that I was leaving the place.

c. She knew that I am leaving the place.

d. none of the above

54.

a. His elder brother gave him many good advice.

b. His elder brother gave him many good advices.

c. His elder brother give him many good advices.

d. none of the above

55.

a. He is coming to visit us for an hour only.

b. He is come to visit us for an hour only.

c. He is coming to visit us for a hour only.

d. None of the above

FOR QUESTION NUMBERS 56-60 TICK THE VERB

FORM OF THE FOLLOWING:

56. FAILURE

a. Failed b. Fallacy

c. Fiasco d. None of the above

57. MANAGEMENT

a. Manage b. Manager

c. Managerial d. None of the above

58. CONFUSION

a. Confuser b. Confuse

c. Confer d. None of the above

59. ROBBER

a. Rabid b. Robber

c. Robbed d. None of the above

60. DELIVERY

a. Deliver b. Deliverance

c. Deliverer d. None of the above

FOR QUESTION NUMBERS 61-65 IDENTIFY THE CORRECT

OPTION FOR THE UNDERLINED CLAUSES:

61. They went when the morning dawned.

a. Adverb subordinate clause