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ENGLISH PUBLIC MODEL EXAM
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Language – Part II – English – Paper I
(Reader and Linguistic Competencies)
Instruction:
In your answer – book, use the Arabic numerals 1 to 69 of the
questions you are answering.
SECTION – A
(Vocabulary
- Lexical competency)
(Marks: 30)
I. A. Choose the most
appropriate of the four given contexts which comes closest
To the italicized
lexical item in each of the following sentences:
1. Bequeathing
it as a rich legacy unto their issue
(a) The
legal heirs did not attend the poor man’s funeral.
(b) His
grandmother left him a rare painting in his will.
(c)
Adequacy of funds did not do any good to him.
(d) His
legitimacy was proved by the DNA test.
2. Some of the horrible beliefs and superstitious
practices offend the human
dignity.
(a)
People gathered the superstar on his birthday.
(b)
Superb performance was given by the artiste.
(c) He
practiced well for the match.
(d)
When a widow came across his way, he returned to his house.
3. Euphony is
one of the most attractive qualities of words.
(a) The mother’s
sweet songs lulled the baby to sleep.
(b) Your phone
is not working
(c) Use less
word while speaking over the phone.
(d) He
looks smart.
4. He fell on the
floor and started at the cobra, petrified with fear.
(a) The boy
trembled with fear when he was caught copying in the test.
(b) The child
screamed with fear when she saw the man with a mask.
(c) Seeing the
fierce tiger, the tourist froze in shock.
(d) Raj runs a
hospital for pets.
5. Rangan bid him adieu.
(a) Advertisements
attract young and old alike.
(b) She went to the
airport to see her husband off.
(c) Rani beat her son wildly.
(d) Don’t do much
ado about nothing.
B. Choose the most accurate of the four given word which is
opposite to the
Meaning of the
italicized word or phrase in each of the following sentences:
5 x 1 = 5
6. And, in his mantle muffling
up his face.
(a) Covered
(b) discovered
(c) Uncovered
(d) closed
7. I would love to find
my future army contained a vast preponderance of women
Over men.
(a)
Numerable
(b)
numberless
(c)
Countable
(d) Uncountable
8. I am transfixed
(a)
transported
(b) impressed
(c)
moved
(d) Unsteady
9. A few wild blunders,
and risible absurdities, from which no work of such
(a) Unreasonable (b) foolish
(c)
Worthy
(d) reasonable
10. A mist formed of particles of infinitesimal brick and stone.
(a) infection
(b) huge
(c) tiny
(d) small
C. Answer any ten of the following:
11. Write a sentence using a plural form of ‘Cherub’ or
‘Cicatrix’
12. Use the idiom ‘made of sterner stuff’ in a sentence of your
own.
13. Write a sentence using the expanded form of the abbreviation
‘DOTE’
14. The story told by the ------------- old woman is not
------------
(Fill in the blanks with credible,
credulous)
15. Form a blending the
word ‘chuckle’ and ‘snort’ and use the blended word in a
Sentence of your
own.
16. Syllabify any two words: ‘humanitarianism’ ‘atomisation’
‘Establishmentarianism’ ‘extermination’
17. Write a sentence each of your own using the word ‘caution’
as noun and as a
Verb.
18. Write a sentence of your own using the American English word
for
‘estate-agent’
19. Use the compound word ‘inyard’ in a sentence of your own
20. Write a sentence using a word with the prefix ‘omni’ or
suffix ‘orium’
21. Form compound words:
(a) Noun + Adjective
compounds
(b) Preposition +
Noun compounds.
22. Write a sentence using the phrasal verb ‘look into’ and
‘look after’
23. Write sentence each, using the clipped words from ‘influenza’
and
‘knicker bockers’
SECTION – B
(Grammatical Competencies)
(Marks: 20)
II. A. Fill in the
blanks of the following sentences:
24. I -------- wake
up at 5’o clock in the morning when I was a young boy.
(use a semi
modal verb)
25. Rittu
---------(go) to temple every Friday (use a given verb in suitable form)
26. -------
confident in your ability (use anomalous Finite Verb)
27. Buy anything
------ you like. (use a relative pronoun)
28. Brutes spoke
-------- he meant. (use a relative pronoun)
29. Mr. Ajith goes to
the Gym --------- build up his body
( Use a
phrase/ preposition)
30. I -------- (teach) him if I had time.
(Use the given verb in suitable form)
31. Frame the sentence
of the pattern, ASVC
32. Gas stoves where
given to the people. ( write the kind of passive voice)
33. We have a scooter
---------- this car (use suitable link word)
B. Transform the following sentences as instructed:
34. Report the dialogue:
Kavin :
Do you have these tablets?
Sales man: Please wait sir, I,ll find out.
35. If you should need to meet me, you can
call this number.
(Begin with
‘should’)
36. Lost time is lost forever (Rewrite as a
complex sentence)
37. He is intelligent
and so he is rewarded (write into simple sentence)
38. As soon as they got
the information, they went to Chennai
(Write into
compound sentence)
SECTION – C
(Reading Competencies)
III. A. Identify each of the following sentences with the
semantic field in the list
Given below, by
understanding the word or words serving as the clue:
39. With her steps
with either her queen or rooks uncertain, Sangeetha stumbled
Upon a chance
to do some tactical fishing.
40. Robots are
steadily moving from fiction to fact
41. The board has
recommended a dividend of 75 per cent.
42. An Indian woman
was honored for her leadership in starting a bank for poor.
43. “Who am I a mere
Prime minister before the queen of song”
(Commerce,
Music, Sport, Social Service, Science)
B. Read the following passage and answer in your own words the
questions given
Below:
The popular view of
towns and cities in developing countries and of urbanization process is that
despite the benefits and comforts it brings, the emergence of such cities
connotes environmental degradation, generation of slums and squatters, urban
poverty, unemployment, crimes, lawlessness, traffic chaos etc. But what is the reality?
Given the unprecedented increase in urban population over the last 50 years
from 300 million in 1950 to 2 billion in 2000 in developing countries, the
wonder really is how well the world has coped, and not how badly.
In general, the urban quality of life has
improved in terms of availability of water and sanitation, power, health and
education, communication and transport. By way of illustration, a large number
of urban residents have been provided with improved water in urban areas in
Asia's largest countries such as China, India, Indonesia and Philippines.
Despite that, the access to improved water in terms of percentage of total
urban population seems to have declined during the last decade of 20th century,
though in absolute numbers, millions of additional urbanites, have been
provided improved services. These countries have made significant progress in
the provision of sanitation services too, together, providing for an additional
population of more than 293 million citizens within a decade (1990-2000). These
improvements must be viewed against the backdrop of rapidly increasing urban
population, fiscal crunch and strained human resources and efficient and
quality-oriented public management.
Questions:
44. What is the popular view
about the process of urbanization in developing countries?
45. The average annual increase in the number of urbanites in
developing countries, from 1950 to 2000 A.D. was close to
(A)30million (B)40million
(C) 50 million (D) 60 million
(C) 50 million (D) 60 million
46.
How the reality of urbanization is reflected ?
47. Which one of the following is not considered as an indicator
of urban quality
of life ?
(a) Tempo of
urbanization (b) provision
of basic services
(c) Access to social amenities (d) All the above
48. The author in this passage has tried to focus on?
SECTION – D
(Writing Competencies – Prose)
(Marks: 15)
IV. A. Answer any one of the following questions in a paragraph
of about
100 words
49. Gunga Ram’s
regard for snakes.
50. How do you
relate ‘Ahimsa’ and ‘sathiagraha’ to women?
51. The trekking
experience of the author.
B. Write an essay in
about 250 words on any one of the following:
52. How did Antony
and Brutus exhibit their eloquence?
53. Johnson’s mixed
feelings about his efforts and the making of
his
dictionary.
54. The aftermath of atomization on
Hiroshima.
SECTION – E
(Literary Competencies – poetry)
V. A. Read the following five sets of poetic lines and answer
the questions given
Below each of
them:
6 x 1 = 6
I) But even
so, honoured still more
That he
should seek my hospitality
From out
the dark door of the secret earth.
55. What is meant by
‘secret earth’
II)
“Ceaselessly musing, venturing, throwing, seeking the sphere to
Connect them,”
56. Who is musing
continuously?
III) “Was out of work – had sold his traps –
No
other reason why.”
57. What does ‘traps’
mean
IV) Like a
golden swarm of fireflies you came
Pining
for a new agony, a new birth.
58. What looks like a golden fire fly?
59. Explain the comparison?
V) “To sleep our
life away”
60. What does ‘sleep’ means in this context?
B. Read the following three sets of lines and answer the
questions given below
In each set of lines
I) A NOICELESS,
patient spider,
61. Mention the figure of
speech used here:
II) “You’d treat if
met where any bar is or help to half - a – crown’
62. Write out the words in alliteration.
III) “And I thought
of the albatross,
And I wished
he would come back, my snake”.
63. What is the allusion here?
C. Explain any two of the following sets of lines with reference
to the context:
2 x 3 = 6
64. I looked round; I put
down my pitcher,
I picked up a
clumsy log.
65. Speech that came like leech – craft
And killed us almost,
bleeding us white!
66. So let us, Unobtrusive and Unnoticed,
But happy none the
less.
D. Answer any one of the following questions in about 100
words: 1 x 5 = 5
67. How does Walt Whiteman portray the noiseless patient spider?
68. How does the poet D.H. Lawrence feel for his mean act for
obeying his
inner voice?
69. Write a paragraph on the encouraging word of H.W.
Longfellow.
