Question 1 :
<b> Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow by selecting the most appropriate option.</b> <br> It is your duty to train and develop your mind and acquire knowledge, as much knowledge as you possibly, can obtain. Knowledge is like a deep well, fed by perennial springs and your Mind is the little bucket that you drop into it: you will get as much as you can assimilate. The Brain, which is the physical organ of the mind, is one of the two precious products of the aeons of Evolution: the other is the imponderable “Social instinct”. This wonderful Brain, whose every convolution represents millions of years of Time, really distinguishes you from the animals. Many animals have very powerful sense organs; the eagle, the ant and the dog have keener sense of sight than Man. But no animal has a more evolved Brain and higher Intelligence. If you do not develop and use this Brain to the utmost of your power, you are more akin to the beasts than to Homo-sapiens. <br> Knowledge and mental self-culture will confer untold blessings upon you. You will not be the victim of superstition and demagogy in religion and politics. You will know your duty and do it. To be wise and independent in your religion and your politics, not to be doped and duped by the selfish priests and the scheming politicians of Capitalism and so called socialism: is this not a noble aim worth striving for? Most men and women today are not free and wise: they are like kites flown by the priests and politicians who hold the string. They are fleeced and fooled on account of their ignorance. Half the ills of man are due to ignorance. <br>If one acquires knowledge and develops mental self-culture, one will not be the victim of

Question 2 :
<b> Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow by selecting the most appropriate option.</b> <br> <br> Every evening, some part of the British Commonwealth hears the chimes of Big Ben, largest of the bells in the clock tower of the Palace of Westminster. The bell is popularly called Big Ben, and it is this bell which chimes out the quarter hours to the people of London. For Britons at sea or living in distant lands, the sound of Big Ben is still a link with home, for the chimes are broadcast each evening by the British Broadcasting Corporation. <br> Big Ben has been chiming out the quarter hours now for more than one-and-a-half centuries. It started chiming on June 11, 1859. At that time, the Parliament couldn't decide what to name the bell. A light-hearted Member of Parliament called attention, in a speech, to the impressive bulk of Sir Benjamin Hall, Queen Victoria's Chief Lord of the Woods and Forests. <br> “Call it Big Ben,” said the speaker, and the name stuck. <br> Big Ben is 9 feet in diameter, 7 feet 6 inches tall, and the thickness where the hammer strikes in 8.75 inches. <br> The clock that regulates the chiming of Big Ben keeps good time. In 1939, the Royal Astronomer made a 290-day check on the performance of the clock. He found that during this test, the margin of error was less than two-tenth of a second in 24 hours on 93 days and greater than one second only on 16 of the 290 days. <br> There was an unexpected lapse on August 12, 1945, and consternation swept through the Ministry of Works. On that dark day, the clock was five minutes slow. A flock of starlings had roosted on the minute hand. <br> <br>On August 12, 1945, Big Ben's clock was <br>

Question 3 :
<b> Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow by selecting the most appropriate option.</b> <br> <br> Every evening, some part of the British Commonwealth hears the chimes of Big Ben, largest of the bells in the clock tower of the Palace of Westminster. The bell is popularly called Big Ben, and it is this bell which chimes out the quarter hours to the people of London. For Britons at sea or living in distant lands, the sound of Big Ben is still a link with home, for the chimes are broadcast each evening by the British Broadcasting Corporation. <br> Big Ben has been chiming out the quarter hours now for more than one-and-a-half centuries. It started chiming on June 11, 1859. At that time, the Parliament couldn't decide what to name the bell. A light-hearted Member of Parliament called attention, in a speech, to the impressive bulk of Sir Benjamin Hall, Queen Victoria's Chief Lord of the Woods and Forests. <br> “Call it Big Ben,” said the speaker, and the name stuck. <br> Big Ben is 9 feet in diameter, 7 feet 6 inches tall, and the thickness where the hammer strikes in 8.75 inches. <br> The clock that regulates the chiming of Big Ben keeps good time. In 1939, the Royal Astronomer made a 290-day check on the performance of the clock. He found that during this test, the margin of error was less than two-tenth of a second in 24 hours on 93 days and greater than one second only on 16 of the 290 days. <br> There was an unexpected lapse on August 12, 1945, and consternation swept through the Ministry of Works. On that dark day, the clock was five minutes slow. A flock of starlings had roosted on the minute hand. <br> <br>On August 12, 1945, Big Ben's clock was <br>

Question 4 :
Essays or long writing tasks especially on a discursive issue should

Question 5 :
<b> We use real objects to teach young learners new words because </b>

Question 6 :
<b> A teacher, Amrita, uses various tasks such as creating charts, graphs, drawing, gathering information and presenting them through pair or group work. This differentiated instruction</b>

Question 8 :
<b> Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow by selecting the most appropriate option.</b> <br> It is your duty to train and develop your mind and acquire knowledge, as much knowledge as you possibly, can obtain. Knowledge is like a deep well, fed by perennial springs and your Mind is the little bucket that you drop into it: you will get as much as you can assimilate. The Brain, which is the physical organ of the mind, is one of the two precious products of the aeons of Evolution: the other is the imponderable “Social instinct”. This wonderful Brain, whose every convolution represents millions of years of Time, really distinguishes you from the animals. Many animals have very powerful sense organs; the eagle, the ant and the dog have keener sense of sight than Man. But no animal has a more evolved Brain and higher Intelligence. If you do not develop and use this Brain to the utmost of your power, you are more akin to the beasts than to Homo-sapiens. <br> Knowledge and mental self-culture will confer untold blessings upon you. You will not be the victim of superstition and demagogy in religion and politics. You will know your duty and do it. To be wise and independent in your religion and your politics, not to be doped and duped by the selfish priests and the scheming politicians of Capitalism and so called socialism: is this not a noble aim worth striving for? Most men and women today are not free and wise: they are like kites flown by the priests and politicians who hold the string. They are fleeced and fooled on account of their ignorance. Half the ills of man are due to ignorance. <br>What, according to the passage, is the duty of human beings?

Question 9 :
<b> Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow by selecting the most appropriate option.</b> <br> It is your duty to train and develop your mind and acquire knowledge, as much knowledge as you possibly, can obtain. Knowledge is like a deep well, fed by perennial springs and your Mind is the little bucket that you drop into it: you will get as much as you can assimilate. The Brain, which is the physical organ of the mind, is one of the two precious products of the aeons of Evolution: the other is the imponderable “Social instinct”. This wonderful Brain, whose every convolution represents millions of years of Time, really distinguishes you from the animals. Many animals have very powerful sense organs; the eagle, the ant and the dog have keener sense of sight than Man. But no animal has a more evolved Brain and higher Intelligence. If you do not develop and use this Brain to the utmost of your power, you are more akin to the beasts than to Homo-sapiens. <br> Knowledge and mental self-culture will confer untold blessings upon you. You will not be the victim of superstition and demagogy in religion and politics. You will know your duty and do it. To be wise and independent in your religion and your politics, not to be doped and duped by the selfish priests and the scheming politicians of Capitalism and so called socialism: is this not a noble aim worth striving for? Most men and women today are not free and wise: they are like kites flown by the priests and politicians who hold the string. They are fleeced and fooled on account of their ignorance. Half the ills of man are due to ignorance. <br>What, according to the passage, is the duty of human beings?

Question 10 :
<b> Read the following poem carefully and answer the questions that follow by selecting the most appropriate option.</b> <br> <br> The sun descending in the west, <br> The evening star does shine; <br> The birds are silent in their nest, <br> And I must seek for mine. <br> The moon, like a flower, <br> In heaven’s high bower, <br> With silent delight <br> Sits and smiles on the might. <br> Farewell, green fields and happy groves, <br> Where flocks have taken delight. <br> Where lambs have nibbled, silent moves <br> The feet of angles bright; <br> Unseen they pour blessing, <br> And each sleeping bosom. <br> They look in every thoughtless nest, <br> Where birds are covered warm; <br> They visit caves of every beast, <br> To keep them all from harm. <br> If they see any weeping <br> That should have been sleeping, <br> They pour sleep on their head, <br> And sit down by their bed. <br> <br>The evening star rises when <br>

Question 11 :
<b> Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow by selecting the most appropriate option.</b> <br> It is your duty to train and develop your mind and acquire knowledge, as much knowledge as you possibly, can obtain. Knowledge is like a deep well, fed by perennial springs and your Mind is the little bucket that you drop into it: you will get as much as you can assimilate. The Brain, which is the physical organ of the mind, is one of the two precious products of the aeons of Evolution: the other is the imponderable “Social instinct”. This wonderful Brain, whose every convolution represents millions of years of Time, really distinguishes you from the animals. Many animals have very powerful sense organs; the eagle, the ant and the dog have keener sense of sight than Man. But no animal has a more evolved Brain and higher Intelligence. If you do not develop and use this Brain to the utmost of your power, you are more akin to the beasts than to Homo-sapiens. <br> Knowledge and mental self-culture will confer untold blessings upon you. You will not be the victim of superstition and demagogy in religion and politics. You will know your duty and do it. To be wise and independent in your religion and your politics, not to be doped and duped by the selfish priests and the scheming politicians of Capitalism and so called socialism: is this not a noble aim worth striving for? Most men and women today are not free and wise: they are like kites flown by the priests and politicians who hold the string. They are fleeced and fooled on account of their ignorance. Half the ills of man are due to ignorance. <br>If one acquires knowledge and develops mental self-culture, one will not be the victim of

Question 12 :
<b> A teacher, Amrita, uses various tasks such as creating charts, graphs, drawing, gathering information and presenting them through pair or group work. This differentiated instruction</b>

Question 14 :
<b> Read the following poem carefully and answer the questions that follow by selecting the most appropriate option.</b> <br> <br> The sun descending in the west, <br> The evening star does shine; <br> The birds are silent in their nest, <br> And I must seek for mine. <br> The moon, like a flower, <br> In heaven’s high bower, <br> With silent delight <br> Sits and smiles on the might. <br> Farewell, green fields and happy groves, <br> Where flocks have taken delight. <br> Where lambs have nibbled, silent moves <br> The feet of angles bright; <br> Unseen they pour blessing, <br> And each sleeping bosom. <br> They look in every thoughtless nest, <br> Where birds are covered warm; <br> They visit caves of every beast, <br> To keep them all from harm. <br> If they see any weeping <br> That should have been sleeping, <br> They pour sleep on their head, <br> And sit down by their bed. <br> <br>The evening star rises when <br>

Question 15 :
<b> We use real objects to teach young learners new words because </b>

Question 16 :
<b> Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions </b> <br> <b>that follow by selecting the most appropriate option.</b> <br> Heights of Abraham are cliffs. These are one of the outstanding natural features of the city of Quebec in Canada and were the scene of a famous battle. Major General James Wolfe (1727-59) was only thirty-two years old when commanded by the British Prime minister, William Pit, to capture Quebec from the french during the seven year war (1756-63). The capture of the city lying on the banks of the St. Lawrence river in Eastern Canada, would open the way for the overthrow of the French forces in North America. For three months in the summer of 1759, Wolfe attempted to overcome the French by frontal attack from across the river, but the defenders held an almost impregnable position. Wolfe decided to make an attack from the rear in the early, dark hours of September 13. He held his army across the river above the town and surprised the French soldiers guarding the small cove which now bears his name. Then came the highly dangerous task of scaling the cliffs - the Heights of Abraham. By sunrise Wolfe and his army of 4000 had achieved their goal and were on the Plains of Abraham drawn up in battle array and ready to fight. <br> Before Wolfe's audacious plan had been carried to its successful conclusion, both Wolfe and the great French Commander, Montcalm, lay dying in the battlefield. Knowing that success was his, Wolfe whispered, I die contented.' On the other hand, when told that he was fatally wounded, Montcalm cried out. `Thank God! I shall not live to see the surrender of Quebec.' <br>Capturing Quebec would

Question 19 :
<b> Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions </b> <br> <b>that follow by selecting the most appropriate option.</b> <br> Heights of Abraham are cliffs. These are one of the outstanding natural features of the city of Quebec in Canada and were the scene of a famous battle. Major General James Wolfe (1727-59) was only thirty-two years old when commanded by the British Prime minister, William Pit, to capture Quebec from the french during the seven year war (1756-63). The capture of the city lying on the banks of the St. Lawrence river in Eastern Canada, would open the way for the overthrow of the French forces in North America. For three months in the summer of 1759, Wolfe attempted to overcome the French by frontal attack from across the river, but the defenders held an almost impregnable position. Wolfe decided to make an attack from the rear in the early, dark hours of September 13. He held his army across the river above the town and surprised the French soldiers guarding the small cove which now bears his name. Then came the highly dangerous task of scaling the cliffs - the Heights of Abraham. By sunrise Wolfe and his army of 4000 had achieved their goal and were on the Plains of Abraham drawn up in battle array and ready to fight. <br> Before Wolfe's audacious plan had been carried to its successful conclusion, both Wolfe and the great French Commander, Montcalm, lay dying in the battlefield. Knowing that success was his, Wolfe whispered, I die contented.' On the other hand, when told that he was fatally wounded, Montcalm cried out. `Thank God! I shall not live to see the surrender of Quebec.' <br>Capturing Quebec would

Question 20 :
Essays or long writing tasks especially on a discursive issue should

Question 21 :
<b>Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow by selecting the most appropriate option.</b> <br> <br> Nothing succeeds like success, is an old saying and it is very true. Once you are successful and established, no matter what your formula to success it gets accepted and recognized as worthy of emulation. I meet many parents whose children say that they need not continue with their college studies, quoting the example of bill Gates who dropped out of Harvard and became the world’s richest person. But these children do not see the other great virtues that propelled Gates to invent ‘Windows’ and succeed. Without these, the chances of replicating Gates by merely dropping out of the system to be successful is as much as that of finding snowflakes in Sahara. <br> It is the same perception that pervades the minds of many people that being successful is an end in itself. Not true at all. I have read many articles by very successful people an seen life to realise that holding on to success is often more difficult than being successful. Ask many of our cricketers who have had success get to their heads or have had to battle indifferent form. Ask the superstars who became rich, successful and led troubled lives, became bankrupt and died young. And that long list begins with Micheel Jackson and includes Amy Winehouse and goes a long way to Marilyn Monroe. <br> <br>‘indifferent form’ means ____________.(according to passage)

Question 22 :
The stories is good for beginner readers. This an error of

Question 23 :
When a teacher uses lesson in Science and Social Science to teach language, such an approach can be termed as

Question 24 :
<b> Read the following poem carefully and answer the questions that follow by selecting the most appropriate option.</b> <br> <br> Come to me, O ye children! <br> For I hear you at your play, <br> And the questions that perplexed me <br> Have vanished quite away. <br> Ye open the eastern windows, <br> That look towards the sun, <br> Where thoughts are singing swallows, <br> And the brooks of morning run. <br> In your hearts are the birds and the sunshine, <br> In your thoughts the brooklets flow, <br> But in mine is the wind of Autumn, <br> And the first fall of the snow. <br> Ah! What would the world be to us, <br> If the children were no more? <br> We should dread the desert behind us <br> Worse than the dark before. <br> What the leaves are to the forest, <br> With light and air for food, <br> Ere their sweet and tender juices <br> Have been hardened into wood – <br> That to the world are children; <br> Through them it feels the glow <br> Of a brighter and sunnier climate <br> That reaches the trunks below. <br> <br>Fill in the blank. <br> What the __________ are to the forest, with light and air for food.

Question 25 :
<b>Read the following poem carefully and answer the questions</b> <br> <b>that follow by selecting the most appropriate option.</b> <br> In the dark that falls before the dawn, <br> When the dew has settled on the thorn, <br> When the stars have been obscured by clouds, <br> A silence overs all things in shrouds, <br> No wind sighs in the mulberry tree, <br> No firefly glimmers wild and free, <br> No firefly glimmers wild and free, <br> A shadow has wrapped the night in gloom, <br> It’s silent as a deserted tomb. <br> All of a sudden a lapwing’s cry <br> Cuts the black silence as it flies by, <br> Again and again it slashes the dark <br> That haunts the empty, desolate park. <br> Anguish, sorrow pours from its throat, <br> It wings in the night, note after note; <br> I open my window so the light <br> Will flood the dark of this wretched night. <br> Why does it cry so miserably? <br> Why is it so solitary? <br> All I know is that loss and ache <br> Are left behind in the lapwing’s wake. <br>What are the causes of the Lapwing’s misery?

Question 26 :
<b>Read the following poem carefully and answer the questions that follow by selecting the most appropriate option.</b> <br> Hope is the thing with feathers <br> That perches in the soul. <br> And sings the tune — without the words, <br> And never stops at all, <br> And sweetest in the gale is heard; And <br> sore must be the storm <br> That could abash the little bird <br> That kept so many warm. <br> I've heard it in the chillest land, <br> And on the strangest sea; <br> Yet, never in extremity. <br> It asked a crumb of me. <br>In the line 'Hope is the thing with feathers' the poet is using a/an

Question 29 :
<b> Read the following passage carefully and choose the most appropriate answer to the question out of the four alternatives. </b> <br> An old shepherd was playing a flute on the marshlands outside Rome. He played so sweetly that a lovely fairy came and listened to him. <br> “Will you marry me, and play to me in my castle?” she said. <br> “Yes, yes, lovely lady!” said the shepherd. <br> The fairy put a ring on his finger. At once he became a handsome young man dressed in princely robes. “But I must first go to Rome and bid farewell to my friends”, he said. <br> The fairy gave him a golden coach with twelve white horses. As he rode in State to Rome, he met the young Queen of Italy, who invited him to her palace. <br> The shepherd saw that he had won the Queen’s heart. He resolved to marry her and become the King of Italy and let the fairy go. So when he and the Queen were alone together he knelt down and took her hand, saying: <br> “Marry me, dearest and I will help you to govern Italy.” <br> But at soon as he spoke he turned into an old and rugged shepherd. <br> “What is this horrible beggar doing here?” cried the Queen. “Whip him out of the palace.” <br>The fairy wanted to marry the shepherd because

Question 31 :
Instead of asking questions and getting answers from her learners. A teacher gives some short texts and asks her learners to frame questions. Her primary objective is to

Question 32 :
‘I loved Ophelia: forty thousand brothers <br> Could not, with all their quantity of love <br> Make up my sum’. <br> The phrase ‘forty thousand brothers’ illustrates a figure of speech called

Question 33 :
<b> Read the following passage carefully and choose the most appropriate answer to the question out of the four alternatives. </b> <br> An old shepherd was playing a flute on the marshlands outside Rome. He played so sweetly that a lovely fairy came and listened to him. <br> “Will you marry me, and play to me in my castle?” she said. <br> “Yes, yes, lovely lady!” said the shepherd. <br> The fairy put a ring on his finger. At once he became a handsome young man dressed in princely robes. “But I must first go to Rome and bid farewell to my friends”, he said. <br> The fairy gave him a golden coach with twelve white horses. As he rode in State to Rome, he met the young Queen of Italy, who invited him to her palace. <br> The shepherd saw that he had won the Queen’s heart. He resolved to marry her and become the King of Italy and let the fairy go. So when he and the Queen were alone together he knelt down and took her hand, saying: <br> “Marry me, dearest and I will help you to govern Italy.” <br> But at soon as he spoke he turned into an old and rugged shepherd. <br> “What is this horrible beggar doing here?” cried the Queen. “Whip him out of the palace.” <br>The shepherd went to Rome in a

Question 34 :
<b>Read the following passage carefully and choose the most appropriate answer to the question out of the four alternatives.</b> <br> <br> A guest speaker was addressing the faculty and the students in the college auditorium. I had joined the faculty the year before, and was already drawing attention. I was 27, full of assumptions about myself, quick with a comment on everything, and expected people to pay attention to all that I had said. <br> I listened to the talk for the first five minutes. By the seventh, I was looking around to check if others were listening. By the tenth, I had glanced at my watch three times, and yawned once. After twenty minutes I was thoroughly bored, and telling myself that it was difficult to sit through such an insipid talk. I wanted to share some of my expert comments with my neighbor. But he was completely sold out to the speaker, and looked like it was the greatest day of his life. I was disgusted. I tried to catch a word or phrase from the talk, only to convince myself that this should be his last talk ever. <br> The one-hour talk took ages to end, and before the thanks were said, I jumped to my feet with a sigh of relief. My neighbor smiled at me and said, "The talk was wonderful, wasn't it?" I retorted, "It almost killed me with kindness". <br> <br>What do you understand about the narrator from the description in the first paragraph?

Question 35 :
<b>Read the following poem carefully and answer the questions</b> <br> <b>that follow by selecting the most appropriate option.</b> <br> In the dark that falls before the dawn, <br> When the dew has settled on the thorn, <br> When the stars have been obscured by clouds, <br> A silence overs all things in shrouds, <br> No wind sighs in the mulberry tree, <br> No firefly glimmers wild and free, <br> No firefly glimmers wild and free, <br> A shadow has wrapped the night in gloom, <br> It’s silent as a deserted tomb. <br> All of a sudden a lapwing’s cry <br> Cuts the black silence as it flies by, <br> Again and again it slashes the dark <br> That haunts the empty, desolate park. <br> Anguish, sorrow pours from its throat, <br> It wings in the night, note after note; <br> I open my window so the light <br> Will flood the dark of this wretched night. <br> Why does it cry so miserably? <br> Why is it so solitary? <br> All I know is that loss and ache <br> Are left behind in the lapwing’s wake. <br>The lapwing’s cry fills the poet with ___________.

Question 37 :
While assessing a report of a school programme for a class journal the following are the main criteria

Question 39 :
<b> Read the following passage carefully and choose the most appropriate answer to the question out of the four alternatives.</b> <br> By the beginning of the twentieth century, doctors knew that many diseases were caused by living microbes. They knew about immunization and vaccines. Thanks to the efforts of scientists like Jenner, Pasteur, Koch and Ehrlich Lister, it had taught them the value of antiseptics. Known chemical disinfectants, such as carbolic acid, would kill germs, but they would also injure cell tissues. How could harmful microbes be destroyed without, at the same time, injuring body tissues? <br> In 1900, to a shipping clerk—Alexander Fleming — a career in Science seemed like distant dream. Alexander was born on August 6, 1881, the youngest son of an Ayrshire, Scottish farmer. He was able to complete High School but then his family's funds ran out. At sixteen, he took a job as a shipping clerk and stayed there for four years. In 1901, Alexander came into a small legacy which enabled him to continue his education and on the advice of one of his brothers, who was a doctor, he chose to prepare for a career in medicine. <br> Alexander did unusually well in medical school along with rifle shooting, swimming, water polo and painting. After his graduation, his teacher Prof. Wright asked him to join him in bacteriological research, which he readily agreed. <br>Why did Fleming take up the job as a shipping clerk?

Question 40 :
<b> Read the following passage carefully and choose the most appropriate answer to the question out of the four alternatives.</b> <br> The Eiffel Tower is an iron lattice tower located at the Champ de Mars in Paris. It was named after the engineer Gustave Eiffel, whose company designed and built the tower. Erected in 1889, it was initially criticised by some of France's leading artists and intellectuals for its design, but has become both a global cultural icon of France and one of the most recognisable structures in the world. The tower is the tallest structure in Paris and the most visited monument in the world; 6.98 million people ascended it in 2011. The tower received its 250 millionth visitor in 2010. <br> The tower is 324 metres, about the same height as an 81-storey building. During its construction, the Eiffel Tower surpassed the Washington Monument to assume the title of the tallest man-made structure in the world. The tower has three levels for visitors, with restaurants on the first and second. Tickets can be purchased to ascend by stairs or lift to the first and second levels. Although there are stairs to the third and highest level, these are usually closed to the public and it is generally only accessible by lift. As a global landmark, the Eiffel Tower is featured in media including films, video games, and television shows. <br>What is the Eiffel Tower made of?

Question 41 :
<b>In the following questions, you have a brief passage with 5 questions. Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives.</b> <br> <br> The Ganges is one of the largest rivers in Asia. It rises in the Himalaya Mountains and flows over 2,500 km through India and Bangladesh into the Bay of Bengal. <br> However, the Ganges, India's holy river, is also one of the most polluted in the world. The Ganges River basin has a size of over 1 million square km. It lies in one of the most populous regions on earth. About 500 million people, half of India's overall population, live in the Ganges river plains. <br> There are many causes of Ganges river pollution. About 2 million Hindus bathe in the river every day. During religious ceremonies, up to a hundred million people clean their sins away in the Ganges River. They believe that bathing in the river will make them pure. In addition, thousands of bodies are cremated near the river, especially around the holy city, Varanasi. The ashes are often released into Ganges. <br> The Ganges also provides water for farming land, which is increasing at a tremendous rate. Irrigation projects cause water levels to go down along the river. More and more dams are being erected along India's holy river, mainly to produce energy for Delhi and other large cities in the area. <br> The river flows through 30 cities with a population of over 100,000 each. Every day, 3 billion litres of untreated water from these big cities pass into the Ganges River, along with remains of animals. <br> Because of India's lax environmental regulations, industries along the river release chemicals and other poisonous material into the Ganges. In some places they are a thousand times over the allowed limit. Especially India's traditional leather industry needs great amounts of water. In addition, fertilizers from the fields find their way into the ground water, and ultimately flow into the river. Altogether, the amount of industrial pollution has doubled in the past 20 years. <br> This widespread pollution of the Ganges River has also led to major health problems. Many diseases are common, including cholera, hepatitis and diarrhea. <br> While India's population keeps growing, more and more people are leaving the countryside and moving to big cities along the Ganges. As a result, the river will not be able to cope with even more people. <br> Life in the river is also at risk. Recent reports have shown that there is a high level of mercury in some fish. The construction of dams is destroying forests and vegetation, killing off many animal and plants. <br> Indian authorities are fighting an upward battle towards cleaning up the Ganges River. International organizations have offered help. The World Bank has agreed to give India a loan of up to a billion dollars to clean up the Ganges River. <br> <br> <br>Which International organization has agreed to give India a loan of a billion dollar to clean up the Ganga River? <br>

Question 42 :
Error correction in students’ written work in most effective when the teacher

Question 45 :
<b> Read the following poem carefully and answer the questions that follow by selecting the most appropriate option.</b> <br> <br> Go hang yourself, you old M.D.! <br> You shall not sneer at me. <br> Pick up your hat and stethoscope, <br> Go wash your mouth with laundry soap; <br> I contemplate a joy exquisite I’m not paying you for your visit. <br> I did not call you to be told <br> My malady is a common cold. <br> By pounding brow and swollen lip; <br> By fever’s hot and scaly grip; <br> By those two red redundant eyes <br> That weep like woeful April skies; <br> By racking snuffle, snort, and sniff; <br> By handkerchief after handkerchief; <br> This cold you wave away as naught <br> Is the damnedest cold man ever caught! <br> Bacilli swarm within my portals <br> Such as were ne’er conceived by mortals, <br> But bred by scientists wise and hoary <br> In some Olympic laboratory; <br> Bacteria as large as mice, <br> With feet of fire and heads of ice <br> Who never interrupt for slumber <br> Their stamping elephantine rumba. <br> <br>‘Bacteria as large as mice’ is an instance of a/an

Question 46 :
<b> Read the following poem carefully and answer the questions that follow by selecting the most appropriate option.</b> <br> I wander’d lonely as a cloud <br> That floats on high o’er vales and hills. <br> When all at once I saw a crowd. <br> A host, of golden daffodils; <br> Beside the lake, beneath the trees, <br> Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. <br> Continuous as the stars that shine <br> And twinkle on the Milky Way, <br> They stretch’d in never-ending line <br> Along the margin of a bay: <br> Ten thousand saw I at a glance, <br> Tossing their heads in sprightly dance. <br> The waves beside them danced; but they <br> Out-did the sparkling waves in glee: <br> A poet could not but be gay, <br> In such a jocund company: <br> I gazed – and gazed – but little thought <br> What wealth the show to me had brought: <br> For oft, when on my couch I lie <br> In vacant or in pensive mood, <br> They flash upon that inward eye <br> Which is the bliss of solitude; <br> And then my heart with pleasure fills, <br> And dances with the daffodils. <br>When the poet remembers the daffodils he

Question 49 :
Objects from the outside world that learners can use to make the classroom feel more like a authentic, real-life setting are called

Question 50 :
A good summative assessment should have which of the following qualities? <br>

Question 54 :
<b> Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow by selecting the most appropriate option.</b> <br> Our body is a wondrous mechanism and when subjected to unusual stress over a period of time, it adapts itself to deal more effectively with that stress. Therefore, when you exert your muscles against resistance, they are forced to adapt and deal with this extraordinary workload. This is the principle of weight training. Strands of muscle fibres become thicker and stronger in response to the demands placed on them. <br> One of the great merits of weight training is the strength of your heart. During weight training, your heart is forced to beat faster and stronger in order to pump sufficient blood to the muscles being worked. In time, your heart, like your body, will adapt to this extra-workload by becoming stronger and more efficient. Since, your body needs a given amount of blood to perform its daily tasks, your heart will now need fewer beasts to pump the same quantity of blood. Sounds good? There’s more. Your entire circulatory system is given a thorough workout every time you exercise, which increases its overall efficiency. Even the neural paths from your brain’s command centres to each individual muscle become more effective, enabling easier recruitment of muscle fibres for carrying out physical tasks. In essence, your body becomes a well-oiled and finely-tuned piece of machinery, whirring along without any breakdown. In today’s stress-filled world, you need all the help you can get. <br>When neural paths become more effective

Question 55 :
One of the principles of materials preparation for language learning is that

Question 56 :
<b>Read the following passage carefully and choose the most appropriate answer to the question out of the four alternatives.</b> <br> <br> A guest speaker was addressing the faculty and the students in the college auditorium. I had joined the faculty the year before, and was already drawing attention. I was 27, full of assumptions about myself, quick with a comment on everything, and expected people to pay attention to all that I had said. <br> I listened to the talk for the first five minutes. By the seventh, I was looking around to check if others were listening. By the tenth, I had glanced at my watch three times, and yawned once. After twenty minutes I was thoroughly bored, and telling myself that it was difficult to sit through such an insipid talk. I wanted to share some of my expert comments with my neighbor. But he was completely sold out to the speaker, and looked like it was the greatest day of his life. I was disgusted. I tried to catch a word or phrase from the talk, only to convince myself that this should be his last talk ever. <br> The one-hour talk took ages to end, and before the thanks were said, I jumped to my feet with a sigh of relief. My neighbor smiled at me and said, "The talk was wonderful, wasn't it?" I retorted, "It almost killed me with kindness". <br> <br>How long did the narrator listen to the speech without judgement?

Question 59 :
Which one of the following is not a principle of helping pupils with learning difficulties?

Question 60 :
When they encounter unfamiliar words during a reading activity, students should be trained to ….. while processing the meaning of the whole text.

Question 61 :
<b>Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow by selecting the most appropriate option.</b> <br> <br> Nothing succeeds like success, is an old saying and it is very true. Once you are successful and established, no matter what your formula to success it gets accepted and recognized as worthy of emulation. I meet many parents whose children say that they need not continue with their college studies, quoting the example of bill Gates who dropped out of Harvard and became the world’s richest person. But these children do not see the other great virtues that propelled Gates to invent ‘Windows’ and succeed. Without these, the chances of replicating Gates by merely dropping out of the system to be successful is as much as that of finding snowflakes in Sahara. <br> It is the same perception that pervades the minds of many people that being successful is an end in itself. Not true at all. I have read many articles by very successful people an seen life to realise that holding on to success is often more difficult than being successful. Ask many of our cricketers who have had success get to their heads or have had to battle indifferent form. Ask the superstars who became rich, successful and led troubled lives, became bankrupt and died young. And that long list begins with Micheel Jackson and includes Amy Winehouse and goes a long way to Marilyn Monroe. <br> <br>Holding on to success is more difficult than becoming successful because

Question 62 :
<b> Read the following poem carefully and answer the questions that follow by selecting the most appropriate option.</b> <br> <br> The grass has so little to do <br> a sphere of simple green <br> with only butterflies to brood <br> and bees to entertain <br> and stir all day to pretty tunes <br> the breezes fetch along <br> and hold the sunshine in its lap <br> and bow to everything <br> and thread the dews all night like pearls <br> and make itself so fine <br> a duchess were too common for such noticing <br> and even when it dies, to pass <br> in odours so divine <br> as lowly spices gone to sleep <br> or amulets of pine <br> and then to dwell in sovereign barns <br> and dream the days away <br> the grass has so little to do <br> I wish I were the hay. <br> <br>The dead grass smells like___________. <br>

Question 63 :
<b>In the following questions, you have a brief passage with 5 questions. Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives.</b> <br> <br> The Ganges is one of the largest rivers in Asia. It rises in the Himalaya Mountains and flows over 2,500 km through India and Bangladesh into the Bay of Bengal. <br> However, the Ganges, India's holy river, is also one of the most polluted in the world. The Ganges River basin has a size of over 1 million square km. It lies in one of the most populous regions on earth. About 500 million people, half of India's overall population, live in the Ganges river plains. <br> There are many causes of Ganges river pollution. About 2 million Hindus bathe in the river every day. During religious ceremonies, up to a hundred million people clean their sins away in the Ganges River. They believe that bathing in the river will make them pure. In addition, thousands of bodies are cremated near the river, especially around the holy city, Varanasi. The ashes are often released into Ganges. <br> The Ganges also provides water for farming land, which is increasing at a tremendous rate. Irrigation projects cause water levels to go down along the river. More and more dams are being erected along India's holy river, mainly to produce energy for Delhi and other large cities in the area. <br> The river flows through 30 cities with a population of over 100,000 each. Every day, 3 billion litres of untreated water from these big cities pass into the Ganges River, along with remains of animals. <br> Because of India's lax environmental regulations, industries along the river release chemicals and other poisonous material into the Ganges. In some places they are a thousand times over the allowed limit. Especially India's traditional leather industry needs great amounts of water. In addition, fertilizers from the fields find their way into the ground water, and ultimately flow into the river. Altogether, the amount of industrial pollution has doubled in the past 20 years. <br> This widespread pollution of the Ganges River has also led to major health problems. Many diseases are common, including cholera, hepatitis and diarrhea. <br> While India's population keeps growing, more and more people are leaving the countryside and moving to big cities along the Ganges. As a result, the river will not be able to cope with even more people. <br> Life in the river is also at risk. Recent reports have shown that there is a high level of mercury in some fish. The construction of dams is destroying forests and vegetation, killing off many animal and plants. <br> Indian authorities are fighting an upward battle towards cleaning up the Ganges River. International organizations have offered help. The World Bank has agreed to give India a loan of up to a billion dollars to clean up the Ganges River. <br> <br> <br>According to the passage, which disease is not common due to the widespread pollution of the Ganga River? <br>

Question 64 :
<b> Read the following poem carefully and answer the questions that follow by </b> <br> <b>selecting the most appropriate option.</b> <br> T' was the night before Christmas, <br> And all through the kitchen, <br> My mother was cooking some delicious chicken. <br> All of the sudden, <br> the light bulb broke, <br> And my mother randomly started to choke, <br> In a flash, Superman came. <br> My brother thought his costume was lame. <br> And instead of rescuing the day, <br> He ate up my dinner, <br> And he flew away <br> Santa burnt the house with dynamite and flares, <br> I guess I was on the naughty list, next year, I'll care! <br>The word instant can replace which of these words from the poem?

Question 65 :
<b> Read the following poem carefully and answer the questions that follow by selecting the most appropriate option.</b> <br> On A tired Housewife <br> Here lies a poor woman who was always tired, <br> She lived in a house where help wasn’t hired: <br> Her last words on earth were: ‘Dear friends, I am going <br> To where there’s no cooking, or washing, or sewing, <br> For everything there is exact to my wishes, <br> For where they don’t eat there’s no washing of dishes <br> I’ll be where loud anthems will always be ringing, <br> But having no voice I’ll be quit of the singing. <br> Don’t mourn for me now, don’t mourn for me never, <br> I am going to do nothing for ever and ever.’ <br>‘For everything there is exact to my wishes,’ In this line, the word ‘exact’ can be interpreted to mean

Question 66 :
<b> Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow by selecting the most appropriate option.</b> <br> <br> Every evening, some part of the British Commonwealth hears the chimes of Big Ben, largest of the bells in the clock tower of the Palace of Westminster. The bell is popularly called Big Ben, and it is this bell which chimes out the quarter hours to the people of London. For Britons at sea or living in distant lands, the sound of Big Ben is still a link with home, for the chimes are broadcast each evening by the British Broadcasting Corporation. <br> Big Ben has been chiming out the quarter hours now for more than one-and-a-half centuries. It started chiming on June 11, 1859. At that time, the Parliament couldn't decide what to name the bell. A light-hearted Member of Parliament called attention, in a speech, to the impressive bulk of Sir Benjamin Hall, Queen Victoria's Chief Lord of the Woods and Forests. <br> “Call it Big Ben,” said the speaker, and the name stuck. <br> Big Ben is 9 feet in diameter, 7 feet 6 inches tall, and the thickness where the hammer strikes in 8.75 inches. <br> The clock that regulates the chiming of Big Ben keeps good time. In 1939, the Royal Astronomer made a 290-day check on the performance of the clock. He found that during this test, the margin of error was less than two-tenth of a second in 24 hours on 93 days and greater than one second only on 16 of the 290 days. <br> There was an unexpected lapse on August 12, 1945, and consternation swept through the Ministry of Works. On that dark day, the clock was five minutes slow. A flock of starlings had roosted on the minute hand. <br> <br>The year 1959 was the <br>

Question 67 :
<b>Read the following poem carefully and answer the questions that follow by selecting the most appropriate option.</b> <br> <br> SHE WALKS IN BEAUTY <br> She walks in beauty, like the night <br> Of cloudless climes and starry skies; <br> and all that’s best of dark and bright <br> Meet in her aspect and her eyes: <br> Thus mellow’d to that tender light <br> Which heaven to gaudy day denies. <br> One shade the more, one ray the less, <br> Had half impair’d the nameless grace <br> Which waves in every raven trees <br> Or softly lightens o’er her face; <br> Where thoughts serenely sweet express <br> How pure, how dear, their dwelling-place. <br> And on that cheek, and o’er that brow, <br> So soft, so calm, yet eloquent. <br> The smiles that win, the tints that glow, <br> But tell of days in goodness spent, <br> A mind at peace with all below, <br> A heart whose love is innocent. <br> <br>She has a <br>

Question 68 :
<b> Read the following poem carefully and answer the questions that follow by selecting the most appropriate option.</b> <br> <br> The grass has so little to do <br> a sphere of simple green <br> with only butterflies to brood <br> and bees to entertain <br> and stir all day to pretty tunes <br> the breezes fetch along <br> and hold the sunshine in its lap <br> and bow to everything <br> and thread the dews all night like pearls <br> and make itself so fine <br> a duchess were too common for such noticing <br> and even when it dies, to pass <br> in odours so divine <br> as lowly spices gone to sleep <br> or amulets of pine <br> and then to dwell in sovereign barns <br> and dream the days away <br> the grass has so little to do <br> I wish I were the hay. <br> <br>Which of these words would be the synonym of `Dwell’? <br>

Question 70 :
In the context of pupils with learning difficulties, which one is not a learning difficulty?

Question 71 :
<b> Read the following poem carefully and answer the questions that follow by selecting the most appropriate option.</b> <br/> The grass has so little to do<br/> a sphere of simple green<br/> with only butterflies to brood<br/> and bees to entertain<br/> and stir all day to pretty tunes<br/>the breezes fetch along<br/> and hold the sunshine in its lap<br/> and bow to everything<br/> and thread the dews all night like pearls<br/> and make itself so fine<br/> a duchess were too common for such noticing<br/> and even when it dies, to pass<br/> in odours so divine<br/> as lowly spices gone to sleep<br/> or amulets of pine<br/> and then to dwell in sovereign barns<br/> and dream the days away<br/> the grass has so little to do<br/> I wish I were the hay.<br/> <br/>A good 'starter' activity for introducing this poem would be<br/> <br/>

Question 72 :
<b> Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions </b> <br/> <b>that follow by selecting the most appropriate option.</b> <br/>Heights of Abraham are cliffs. These are one of the outstanding natural features of the city of Quebec in Canada and were the scene of a famous battle. Major General James Wolfe (1727-59) was only thirty-two years old when commanded by the British Prime minister, William Pit, to capture Quebec from the french during the seven year war (1756-63). The capture of the city lying on the banks of the St. Lawrence river in Eastern Canada, would open the way for the overthrow of the French forces in North America. For three months in the summer of 1759, Wolfe attempted to overcome the French by frontal attack from across the river, but the defenders held an almost impregnable position. Wolfe decided to make an attack from the rear in the early, dark hours of September 13. He held his army across the river above the town and surprised the French soldiers guarding the small cove which now bears his name. Then came the highly dangerous task of scaling the cliffs - the Heights of Abraham. By sunrise Wolfe and his army of 4000 had achieved their goal and were on the Plains of Abraham drawn up in battle array and ready to fight.<br/> Before Wolfe's audacious plan had been carried to its successful conclusion, both Wolfe and the great French Commander, Montcalm, lay dying in the battlefield. Knowing that success was his, Wolfe whispered, I die contented.' On the other hand, when told that he was fatally wounded, Montcalm cried out. `Thank God! I shall not live to see the surrender of Quebec.'<br/>Capturing Quebec would<br/>

Question 73 :
<b> Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions </b> <br> <b>that follow by selecting the most appropriate option.</b> <br> <br> Africa was once filled with an abundance of wild animals. But that is changing fast. One of these animals, the black rhinoceros, lives on the plains of Africa. It has very poor eyesight and a very bad temper. Even though the black rhino is powerful, and can be dangerous, its strength can't always help it to escape hunters. Some people think that the rhino's horn has magical powers, and many hunters kill rhinos for their valuable horns. This has caused the black rhino to be placed on the endangered species list. The elephant seems to represent all that is strong and wild in Africa. It once had no natural enemies, but is now endangered - killed for its ivory tusks. Wherever people are careless about the land, there are endangered species. <br> Grizzly bears like to wander great distances. Each bear needs upto 1,500 square miles of territory to call its homeland. Today, because forests have been cleared to make room for people, the grizzly's habitat is shrinking and the grizzly is disappearing. It joins other endangered North American animals, such as the red wolf and the American crocodile. <br> In South America, destruction of the rain forests threatens many animals. Unusual mammals, such as the howler monkey and the three-toed sloth, are endangered. Beautiful birds like the great green macaw and the golden parakeet are also becoming extinct. They're losing their homes in the rain forest, and thousands die when they are caught and shipped off to be sold as exotic pets. <br> The giant panda of Asia is a fascinating and unique animal. Yet there are only about 1,000 still living in the wild. The giant panda's diet consists mainly of the bamboo plant, so when the bamboo forests die, so does the panda. China is now making an effort to protect these special creatures from becoming extinct. Unfortunately, it is people who cause many of the problems that animals face. We alter and pollute their habitats. We hunt them for skins, tusks, furs, and horns. We destroy animals that get in the way of farming or building. And we remove them from their natural habitats and take them home as pets. <br> <br>To introduce this passage, which of these activities would be suitable as a starter for the above passage? <br>

Question 75 :
<b> Read the following passage carefully and choose the most appropriate answer to the question out of the four alternatives. </b> <br/>An old shepherd was playing a flute on the marshlands outside Rome. He played so sweetly that a lovely fairy came and listened to him.<br/> “Will you marry me, and play to me in my castle?” she said.<br/> “Yes, yes, lovely lady!” said the shepherd.<br/> The fairy put a ring on his finger. At once he became a handsome young man dressed in princely robes. “But I must first go to Rome and bid farewell to my friends”, he said.<br/> The fairy gave him a golden coach with twelve white horses. As he rode in State to Rome, he met the young Queen of Italy, who invited him to her palace.<br/> The shepherd saw that he had won the Queen’s heart. He resolved to marry her and become the King of Italy and let the fairy go. So when he and the Queen were alone together he knelt down and took her hand, saying:<br/> “Marry me, dearest and I will help you to govern Italy.”<br/> But at soon as he spoke he turned into an old and rugged shepherd.<br/> “What is this horrible beggar doing here?” cried the Queen. “Whip him out of the palace.”<br/>The shepherd went to Rome in a<br/>

Question 77 :
<b> Read the following poem carefully and answer the questions that follow by selecting the most appropriate option.</b> <br/> The grass has so little to do<br/> a sphere of simple green<br/> with only butterflies to brood<br/> and bees to entertain<br/> and stir all day to pretty tunes<br/>the breezes fetch along<br/> and hold the sunshine in its lap<br/> and bow to everything<br/> and thread the dews all night like pearls<br/> and make itself so fine<br/> a duchess were too common for such noticing<br/> and even when it dies, to pass<br/> in odours so divine<br/> as lowly spices gone to sleep<br/> or amulets of pine<br/> and then to dwell in sovereign barns<br/> and dream the days away<br/> the grass has so little to do<br/> I wish I were the hay.<br/> <br/>The dead grass smells like___________.<br/> <br/>

Question 78 :
<b> Read the following poem carefully and answer the questions that follow by selecting the most appropriate option.</b> <br/>May there always be tigers<br/> In the jungles and tall grass<br/> May the tiger's roar be heard,<br/> May his thunder<br/> Be known in the land.<br/> At the forest pool, by moonlight<br/> May he drink and raise his head<br/> Scenting the night wind.<br/> May the crouch low in the grass<br/> When the herdsmen pass,<br/> And slumber in the dark caverns<br/> When the Sun is high.<br/> May there always be tigers.<br/> But not so many, that one of them<br/> Might be tempted to come into my room<br/> In search of a meal!<br/> <br/>What does 'his thunder' mean<br/>

Question 79 :
<b> Read the following passage carefully and choose the most appropriate answer to the question out of the four alternatives. </b> <br/>An old shepherd was playing a flute on the marshlands outside Rome. He played so sweetly that a lovely fairy came and listened to him.<br/> “Will you marry me, and play to me in my castle?” she said.<br/> “Yes, yes, lovely lady!” said the shepherd.<br/> The fairy put a ring on his finger. At once he became a handsome young man dressed in princely robes. “But I must first go to Rome and bid farewell to my friends”, he said.<br/> The fairy gave him a golden coach with twelve white horses. As he rode in State to Rome, he met the young Queen of Italy, who invited him to her palace.<br/> The shepherd saw that he had won the Queen’s heart. He resolved to marry her and become the King of Italy and let the fairy go. So when he and the Queen were alone together he knelt down and took her hand, saying:<br/> “Marry me, dearest and I will help you to govern Italy.”<br/> But at soon as he spoke he turned into an old and rugged shepherd.<br/> “What is this horrible beggar doing here?” cried the Queen. “Whip him out of the palace.”<br/>When the fairy put a ring on his finger, the shepherd<br/>

Question 80 :
<b> Read the following poem carefully and answer the questions that follow by selecting the most appropriate option.</b> <br/>I wander’d lonely as a cloud<br/> That floats on high o’er vales and hills.<br/> When all at once I saw a crowd.<br/> A host, of golden daffodils;<br/> Beside the lake, beneath the trees,<br/> Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.<br/>Continuous as the stars that shine<br/> And twinkle on the Milky Way,<br/> They stretch’d in never-ending line<br/> Along the margin of a bay:<br/> Ten thousand saw I at a glance,<br/> Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.<br/>The waves beside them danced; but they<br/> Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:<br/> A poet could not but be gay,<br/> In such a jocund company:<br/> I gazed – and gazed – but little thought<br/> What wealth the show to me had brought:<br/>For oft, when on my couch I lie<br/> In vacant or in pensive mood,<br/> They flash upon that inward eye<br/> Which is the bliss of solitude;<br/> And then my heart with pleasure fills,<br/> And dances with the daffodils.<br/>The daffodils<br/>

Question 81 :
<b> Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions</b> <br/> <b>that follow by selecting the most appropriate option.</b> <br/>The public distribution system, which provides food at low prices, is a subject of vital concern. There is a growing realization that though India has enough food to feed its masses two square meals a day, the monster of starvation and food insecurity continues to haunt the poor in our country.<br/> Increasing the purchasing power of the poor through providing productive employment leading to rising income, and thus good standard of living is the ultimate objective of public policy. However, till then, there is a need to provide assured supply of good through a restructured, more efficient and decentralized public distribution system (PDS). Although the PDS is extensive it is one of the largest such systems in the world - it has not reached the rural poor and the remote places. It remains an urban phenomenon, with the majority of the rural poor still out of its reach due to lack of economic and physical access. The poorest in the cities and the migrants are left out, for they generally do not possess ration cards. The allocation of PDS supplies in big cities is larger than in rural areas. In view of such deficiencies in the system, the PDS urgently needs to be streamlined. Also, considering the large food grains production combined with food subsidy on one hand and the continuing slow starvation and dismal poverty of rural population on the other, there is a strong case for making PDS target group oriented. By making PDS target group oriented, not only the poorest and the neediest would be reached without additional cost but we can also reduce the overall costs incurred.<br/><b> Read the following passage carefully and choose the most appropriate answer to the question out of the four alternatives.</b> <br/> True, it is the function of the army to maintain law and order in abnormal times. But in normal times there is another force that compels citizens to obey the laws and to act with due regard to the rights of others. The force also protects the lives and the properties of law abiding men. Laws are made to secure the personal safety of its subjects and to prevent murder and crimes of violence. They are made to secure the property of the citizens against theft and damage to protect the rights of communities and castes to carry out their customs and ceremonies, so long as they do not conflict with the rights of others. Now the good citizen, of his own free will obey these laws and he takes care that everything he does is done with due regard to the rights and well-being of others. But the bad citizen is only restrained from breaking these laws by fear of the consequence of his actions. And the necessary steps to compel the bad citizen to act as a good citizen are taken by this force. The supreme control of law and order in a State is in the hands of a Minister who is responsible to the State Assembly and acts through the Inspector General of Police.<br/> According to the writer, which one of the following is not the responsibility of the police?<br/>

Question 82 :
<b> Read the following poem carefully and answer the questions that follow by selecting the most appropriate option.</b> <br/> Come to me, O ye children!<br/> For I hear you at your play,<br/> And the questions that perplexed me<br/> Have vanished quite away.<br/> Ye open the eastern windows,<br/> That look towards the sun,<br/> Where thoughts are singing swallows,<br/> And the brooks of morning run.<br/> In your hearts are the birds and the sunshine,<br/> In your thoughts the brooklets flow,<br/> But in mine is the wind of Autumn,<br/> And the first fall of the snow.<br/> Ah! What would the world be to us,<br/> If the children were no more?<br/> We should dread the desert behind us<br/> Worse than the dark before.<br/> What the leaves are to the forest,<br/> With light and air for food,<br/> Ere their sweet and tender juices<br/> Have been hardened into wood –<br/> That to the world are children;<br/> Through them it feels the glow<br/> Of a brighter and sunnier climate<br/> That reaches the trunks below.<br/> <br/>What will happen if there are no children?<br/>

Question 83 :
Principle of the following situations would be the best for maximum transfer of learning<br/>

Question 84 :
<b>Read the following poem carefully and answer the questions</b> <br/> <b>that follow by selecting the most appropriate option.</b> <br/>In the dark that falls before the dawn,<br/> When the dew has settled on the thorn,<br/> When the stars have been obscured by clouds,<br/> A silence overs all things in shrouds,<br/> No wind sighs in the mulberry tree,<br/> No firefly glimmers wild and free,<br/> No firefly glimmers wild and free,<br/> A shadow has wrapped the night in gloom,<br/> It’s silent as a deserted tomb.<br/> All of a sudden a lapwing’s cry<br/> Cuts the black silence as it flies by,<br/> Again and again it slashes the dark<br/> That haunts the empty, desolate park.<br/> Anguish, sorrow pours from its throat,<br/> It wings in the night, note after note;<br/> I open my window so the light<br/> Will flood the dark of this wretched night.<br/> Why does it cry so miserably?<br/> Why is it so solitary?<br/> All I know is that loss and ache<br/> Are left behind in the lapwing’s wake.<br/>Why does the poet open the window?<br/>

Question 85 :
Identify the question that assesses student’s ability to infer the meaning of the text.<br/>

Question 87 :
<b>Read the following poem carefully and answer the questions that follow by selecting the most appropriate option.</b> <br/> Four seasons fill the measure of the year<br/> There are four seasons in the mind of man<br/> He has his lusty-Spring, when fancy clear<br/> Takes in all beauty with an easy span.<br/> <br/> He has his summer when luxuriously<br/> Spring’s honey’d cud of youthful thought he loves<br/> To ruminate and by such dreaming high<br/> Is nearest unto heaven, quiet coves<br/> <br/> His soul has in its autumn, when his wings<br/> He furleth close; contented so to look<br/> on mists in idleness – to let fair things<br/> Pass by unheeded as a threshold brook.<br/> He has his winter too of pale misfeature<br/> or else he would forego his mortal nature.<br/>The summer season of man’s life is spent in<br/>

Question 88 :
<b> Read the following poem carefully and answer the questions that follow by selecting the most appropriate option.</b> <br/>Weavers, weaving at break of day,<br/> Why do you weave a garment so say?<br/> Blue as the wing of a bluebird wild,<br/> We weave the robes of a new-born child.<br/> Weavers, weaving at fall of night,<br/> Why do you weave a garment so bright?<br/> Like the plumes of a peacock, purple &amp; green,<br/> We weave the marriage-veils of a queen.<br/> Weavers, weaving solemn and still,<br/> What do you weave in the moonlight chill?<br/> White as a feather and white as a cloud,<br/> We weave a dead man’s funeral shroud.<br/>What do the weavers weave in the chilly moonlight?<br/>

Question 89 :
<b> Read the following passage carefully and choose the most appropriate answer to the question out of the four alternatives. </b> <br> Woodrow Wilson was referring to the liberal idea of the economic market when he said that the free enterprises system is the most efficient economic system. Maximum freedom means maximum productiveness: our ‘openness' to be the measure of our stability. Fascination with this ideal has made Americans defy the ‘Old World’ categories (settled possessiveness versus unsettling deprivation; the cupidity of retention versus the cupidity of seizure, a ‘status quo’ defended or attacked. <br> The United States, it was believed, had no status quo ante. Our only ‘station’ was the turning of a stationary wheel, spinning faster and faster. We did not base our system on property but opportunity—which meant we based it not on stability but on mobility. The more things changed, that is, the more rapidly the wheel turned, the <b>steadier</b> we would be. The conventional picture of class politics is composed of the Haves, who want a stability to keep what they have, and the Have-Nots who want a touch of instability and change; in which to scramble for the things they have not. But Americans imagined a condition in which speculators, self-makers, runners are always using the new opportunities given by our land. These economic leaders (front-runners) would thus be mainly agents of change. <br> The non-starters were considered the ones who wanted stability, a strong referee to give them some position in the race, a regulative hand to calm manic speculation; and authority that can call things to a halt, begin things again from compensatorily staggered ‘starting lines. <b>‘Reform’</b> in America has been sterile because it can imagine no change except through the extension of this metaphor of a race, wider inclusion of competitors, ‘a piece of the action,’ as it were, for the disenfranchised. <br> There is no attempt to call off the race. Since our only stability is change, America seems not to honour the quiet work that achieves social interdependence and stability. There is, in our legends, no heroism of the office clerk; stable industrial work force of the people who actually make the system work. There is no pride in being an employee; Wilson asked for a return to the time when everyone was an employee. <br> There has been no boasting about our social workers—they are merely signs of the system's failure, of opportunity denied or not taken, of things to be eliminated. We have no pride in our growing interdependence, in the fact that our system can serve others, that we are able to help those in need; empty boasts from the past make us ashamed of our present achievements, make us try to forget or deny them, move away from them. There is no honour but in Wonderland race, we must all run, all trying to win, none winning in the end (for there is no end). <br>Choose the word which is <b>opposite</b> in meaning to the word given in <b>bold</b> as used in the passage. <br> <b>Steadier</b>

Question 92 :
<b>Read the following passage carefully and choose the most appropriate answer to the question out of the four alternatives.</b> <br/> Learning is the knowledge of that which is not generally known to others, and which we can only derive at second-hand from books or other artificial sources. The knowledge of that which is before us, or about us, which appeals to our experience, passions, and pursuits, to the bosoms and businesses of men, is not learning. Learning is the knowledge of that which none but the learned know. He is the most learned man who knows the most of what is farthest removed from common life and actual observation. The learned man prides himself in the knowledge of names, and dates, not of men or things. He thinks and cares nothing about his next-door neighbours, but he is deeply read in the tribes and castes of the Hindoos and Calmuc Tartars. He can hardly find his way into the next street, though he is acquainted with the exact dimensions of Constantinople and Peking. He does not know whether his oldest acquaintance is a knave or a fool, but he can pronounce a pompous lecture on all the principal characters in history. He cannot tell whether an object is black or white, round or square, and yet he is a professed master of the optics and the rules of perspective.<br/> <br/>The passage suggests that a learned man<br/>

Question 94 :
<b>Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow by selecting the most appropriate option.</b> <br/> Nothing succeeds like success, is an old saying and it is very true. Once you are successful and established, no matter what your formula to success it gets accepted and recognized as worthy of emulation. I meet many parents whose children say that they need not continue with their college studies, quoting the example of bill Gates who dropped out of Harvard and became the world’s richest person. But these children do not see the other great virtues that propelled Gates to invent ‘Windows’ and succeed. Without these, the chances of replicating Gates by merely dropping out of the system to be successful is as much as that of finding snowflakes in Sahara.<br/> It is the same perception that pervades the minds of many people that being successful is an end in itself. Not true at all. I have read many articles by very successful people an seen life to realise that holding on to success is often more difficult than being successful. Ask many of our cricketers who have had success get to their heads or have had to battle indifferent form. Ask the superstars who became rich, successful and led troubled lives, became bankrupt and died young. And that long list begins with Micheel Jackson and includes Amy Winehouse and goes a long way to Marilyn Monroe.<br/> <br/>‘indifferent form’ means ____________.(according to passage)<br/>

Question 95 :
When formulating teaching plans, teachers should NOT take the following aspects into consideration :<br/>

Question 96 :
<b>Read the following poem carefully and answer the questions that follow by selecting the most appropriate option.</b> <br/> SHE WALKS IN BEAUTY<br/> She walks in beauty, like the night<br/> Of cloudless climes and starry skies;<br/> and all that’s best of dark and bright<br/> Meet in her aspect and her eyes:<br/> Thus mellow’d to that tender light<br/> Which heaven to gaudy day denies.<br/> One shade the more, one ray the less,<br/> Had half impair’d the nameless grace<br/> Which waves in every raven trees<br/> Or softly lightens o’er her face;<br/> Where thoughts serenely sweet express<br/> How pure, how dear, their dwelling-place.<br/> And on that cheek, and o’er that brow,<br/> So soft, so calm, yet eloquent.<br/> The smiles that win, the tints that glow,<br/> But tell of days in goodness spent,<br/> A mind at peace with all below,<br/> A heart whose love is innocent.<br/> <br/>TENDER means<br/> <br/>

Question 97 :
<b> Read the following poem carefully and answer the questions that follow by </b> <br/> <b>selecting the most appropriate option.</b> <br/>T' was the night before Christmas,<br/> And all through the kitchen,<br/> My mother was cooking some delicious chicken.<br/> All of the sudden,<br/> the light bulb broke,<br/> And my mother randomly started to choke,<br/>In a flash, Superman came.<br/> My brother thought his costume was lame.<br/> And instead of rescuing the day,<br/> He ate up my dinner,<br/> And he flew away<br/> Santa burnt the house with dynamite and flares,<br/> I guess I was on the naughty list, next year, I'll care!<br/>The word instant can replace which of these words from the poem?<br/>

Question 98 :
<b> Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow by selecting the most appropriate option.</b> <br> <br> Anaesthesia in any part of the body means a loss of sensation, either permanent or temporary. The term is usually used to describe the artificially produced loss of sensation which makes a surgical operation painless. <br> There are four main types of anaesthesia : general, spinal, regional, and local. Anaesthetics may be given as gases, by inhalation; or as drugs injected into a vein. A patient given general anaesthesia loses consciousness. Anaesthsia of a fairly large area of the body results from injecting the anaesthetic drug into the spinal canal : all that portion of the body below the level at which the drug is injected is anaesthetized. Regional anaesthesia is the injecting of the nerves as they emerge from the spinal column : the anaesthesia induced by this method affects only that area of the body supplied by those nerves. In local anaesthesia, the drug is injected directly at the site of the operative incision and sometimes also into the nearby surrounding tissues. Formerly the most commonly used local anaesthetic was cocaine, a drug extracted from the leaves of the coca bush and introduced in 1879. But cocaine has some disadvantages and, sometimes, undesirable side-effects. For spinal, regional and local anaesthesia, procaine, or one of the several modifications of procaine, is now widely used instead of cocaine. For very limited and short operations, such as opening a small abscess, local anaesthesia may be induced by spraying (rather than injecting) a chemical, ethyl chloride, on a small area of the skin; in changing from the liquid to the gaseous state, this drug freezes the area sprayed, and permits painless incision. <br> <br>An 'abscess' is

Question 99 :
Effective instructions teach students strategies – using minimal responses, recognizing scripts, and using language to talk about language. These strategies help students learn to<br/> <br/>

Question 100 :
<b> A text book describes a domestic scene which shows the father cooking in the kitchen, the mother coming home from work and their son sewing. What is the concept conveyed?</b> <br/>

Question 101 :
<b>In the following questions, you have a brief passage with 5 questions. Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives.</b> <br/>Yes, there were giants before the Jam Sahib (the great Indian cricketer Kumar Shree Ranjitsinhji, better known to the world of cricket as Ranji). And yet I think it is undeniable that as a batsman the Indian will live as the supreme exponent of the Englishman's game. The claim does not rest simply on his achievements although, judged by them, the claim could be sustained. His season's average of 87 with a total of over 3,000 runs is easily the high-water mark of English cricket. Thrice he has totalled over 3,000 runs and no one else has equaled that record. And is not his achievement astonishing –scoring two double centuries in a single match on a single day - not against a feeble attack, but against Yorkshire, always the most resolute and resourceful of bowling teams?<br/>But we do not judge a cricketer so much by the runs he gets as by the way he gets them. "In literature as in finance," says Washington Irving, "much paper and much poverty may co-exist." And in cricket too many runs and much dullness may be associated. If cricket is menaced with creeping paralysis, it is because it is losing the spirit of joyous adventure and becoming a mere instrument for compiling tables of averages. There are dull, mechanic fellows who turn out runs with as little emotion as a machine- turns out pins. There is no colour, no enthusiasm, no character in their play. Cricket is not an adventure to them; it is a business. It was so with Shrewsbury. His technical Perfection was astonishing; but the soul of the game was wanting in him. There was no sunshine in his play, no swift surprise or splendid unselfishness. And without these things without gaiety, daring, and the spirit of sacrifice cricket is a dead thing. Now, the Jam Sahib has the root of the matter in him. His play is as sunny as his face. He is not a miser hoarding up runs, but a millionaire spending them, with a splendid yet judicious prodigality. It is as though his pockets are bursting with runs that he wants to shower with his blessings upon the expectant multitude. It is not difficult to believe that in his little kingdom Nawangar where he has power of life and death in his hands, he is extremely popular for it is obvious that his pleasure is in giving pleasure.<br/>Consider the following statement:<br/> 1. Yorkshire did not have a potent bowling attack because the Jam Sahib was only a specialist batsman.<br/> 2. Cricket loses its flamboyant spirit when players like Shrewsbury are at the batting crease.<br/> Which of the above statement is/are correct?<br/>

Question 103 :
Identify the question that assesses student’s ability to infer the meaning of the text

Question 107 :
<b> Read the following poem carefully and answer the questions that follow by selecting the most appropriate option.</b> <br/>I Build Walls<br/> Walls that protect,<br/> Walls that shield,<br/> Walls that say I shall not yield<br/> Or reveal<br/> Who I am or how I feel.<br/>I build walls:<br/> Walls that hide,<br/> Walls that cover what's inside,<br/> Walls that stare or smile or look away,<br/> Walls that stare or smile or look away,<br/> Silent lies,<br/> Walls that even block my eyes<br/> From the tears I might have cried.<br/>I build walls:<br/> Walls that never let me<br/> Truly touch<br/> Those I love so very much<br/> Walls that need to fall!<br/> Walls meant to be fortresses<br/> Are prisons after all.<br/>What is the correct synonym for the word ‘shield’ used in the poem?<br/>

Question 108 :
<b> Read the following passage carefully and choose the most appropriate answer to the question out of the four alternatives. </b> <br/>An old shepherd was playing a flute on the marshlands outside Rome. He played so sweetly that a lovely fairy came and listened to him.<br/> “Will you marry me, and play to me in my castle?” she said.<br/> “Yes, yes, lovely lady!” said the shepherd.<br/> The fairy put a ring on his finger. At once he became a handsome young man dressed in princely robes. “But I must first go to Rome and bid farewell to my friends”, he said.<br/> The fairy gave him a golden coach with twelve white horses. As he rode in State to Rome, he met the young Queen of Italy, who invited him to her palace.<br/> The shepherd saw that he had won the Queen’s heart. He resolved to marry her and become the King of Italy and let the fairy go. So when he and the Queen were alone together he knelt down and took her hand, saying:<br/> “Marry me, dearest and I will help you to govern Italy.”<br/> But at soon as he spoke he turned into an old and rugged shepherd.<br/> “What is this horrible beggar doing here?” cried the Queen. “Whip him out of the palace.”<br/>The Queen ordered the shepherd to be whipped out of the palace because he<br/>

Question 109 :
Principle of the following situations would be the best for maximum transfer of learning<br/>

Question 110 :
<b>Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow by selecting the most appropriate option.</b> <br/> Nothing succeeds like success, is an old saying and it is very true. Once you are successful and established, no matter what your formula to success it gets accepted and recognized as worthy of emulation. I meet many parents whose children say that they need not continue with their college studies, quoting the example of bill Gates who dropped out of Harvard and became the world’s richest person. But these children do not see the other great virtues that propelled Gates to invent ‘Windows’ and succeed. Without these, the chances of replicating Gates by merely dropping out of the system to be successful is as much as that of finding snowflakes in Sahara.<br/> It is the same perception that pervades the minds of many people that being successful is an end in itself. Not true at all. I have read many articles by very successful people an seen life to realise that holding on to success is often more difficult than being successful. Ask many of our cricketers who have had success get to their heads or have had to battle indifferent form. Ask the superstars who became rich, successful and led troubled lives, became bankrupt and died young. And that long list begins with Micheel Jackson and includes Amy Winehouse and goes a long way to Marilyn Monroe.<br/> <br/>A suitable title for this passage would be ____________.<br/>

Question 112 :
<b> Read the following passage carefully and choose the most appropriate answer to the question out of the four alternatives. </b> <br/>An old shepherd was playing a flute on the marshlands outside Rome. He played so sweetly that a lovely fairy came and listened to him.<br/> “Will you marry me, and play to me in my castle?” she said.<br/> “Yes, yes, lovely lady!” said the shepherd.<br/> The fairy put a ring on his finger. At once he became a handsome young man dressed in princely robes. “But I must first go to Rome and bid farewell to my friends”, he said.<br/> The fairy gave him a golden coach with twelve white horses. As he rode in State to Rome, he met the young Queen of Italy, who invited him to her palace.<br/> The shepherd saw that he had won the Queen’s heart. He resolved to marry her and become the King of Italy and let the fairy go. So when he and the Queen were alone together he knelt down and took her hand, saying:<br/> “Marry me, dearest and I will help you to govern Italy.”<br/> But at soon as he spoke he turned into an old and rugged shepherd.<br/> “What is this horrible beggar doing here?” cried the Queen. “Whip him out of the palace.”<br/>When the shepherd reached Rome, he<br/>

Question 113 :
Which of the following is not true about children with communication disorders?<br/> <br/>

Question 114 :
<b> Read the following poem carefully and answer the questions that follow by selecting the most appropriate option.</b> <br/>May there always be tigers<br/> In the jungles and tall grass<br/> May the tiger's roar be heard,<br/> May his thunder<br/> Be known in the land.<br/> At the forest pool, by moonlight<br/> May he drink and raise his head<br/> Scenting the night wind.<br/> May the crouch low in the grass<br/> When the herdsmen pass,<br/> And slumber in the dark caverns<br/> When the Sun is high.<br/> May there always be tigers.<br/> But not so many, that one of them<br/> Might be tempted to come into my room<br/> In search of a meal!<br/>'May he drinks and raise his head'. Why would the tiger raise his head?<br/>

Question 117 :
<b>Read the following poem carefully and answer the questions that follow by selecting the most appropriate option.</b> <br> Hope is the thing with feathers <br> That perches in the soul. <br> And sings the tune — without the words, <br> And never stops at all, <br> And sweetest in the gale is heard; And <br> sore must be the storm <br> That could abash the little bird <br> That kept so many warm. <br> I've heard it in the chillest land, <br> And on the strangest sea; <br> Yet, never in extremity. <br> It asked a crumb of me. <br>'Abash' means a sense of

Question 118 :
Which is an observation that supports Noam Chomsky’s ideas about language acquisition?<br/> <br/>

Question 119 :
Notes can be made using a flowchart or a web diagram. The study skill involved is

Question 120 :
<b> Read the following poem carefully and answer the questions that follow by selecting the most appropriate option.</b> <br/>I Build Walls<br/> Walls that protect,<br/> Walls that shield,<br/> Walls that say I shall not yield<br/> Or reveal<br/> Who I am or how I feel.<br/>I build walls:<br/> Walls that hide,<br/> Walls that cover what's inside,<br/> Walls that stare or smile or look away,<br/> Walls that stare or smile or look away,<br/> Silent lies,<br/> Walls that even block my eyes<br/> From the tears I might have cried.<br/>I build walls:<br/> Walls that never let me<br/> Truly touch<br/> Those I love so very much<br/> Walls that need to fall!<br/> Walls meant to be fortresses<br/> Are prisons after all.<br/>The expression 'silent lies' implies that<br/>