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Model Test 4 (General English) - TNPSC Group 2 (A)

1. Select the correct option to complete the given 2. Celines
sentence: (b) Hubert husband
If I had worked hard I __________? (c) Serge 3. Goldy
(d) Sam 4. Changed
(A) Would have passed in my exam
Kumars heart
(B) Will have passed in my exam (a) (b) (c) (d)
(C) I could have passed in my exam (A) 1 3 4 2
(D) I would pass in my exam (B) 2 4 3 1
2. The following lines are taken from the poem : (C) 4 1 2 3
O Listen to the vale profound Is overflowing (D) 1 4 2 3
with the sound 7. Choose the right preposition:
(A) English words The papers are to be prepared ______ a month.
(B) Sonnet 112 (A) by (B) on
(C) The Solitary Reaper (C) within (D) in
(D) O Captain my Captain 8. Caught Sneezing is adopted from a short story
3. O no! it is an ever fixed mark by _______ .
That looks on tempests and is never shaken (A) Famida Y. Basheer (B) Oscar Wilde
What does the poet compare true love to,? (C) Robert Frost (D) D.H. Lawrence
(A) An ocean (B) A cyclone 9. Find correct blending word for Education +
(C) A Light house (D) A tempest Entertainment':
4. Where did the little boy invite the giant? (A) Educament (B) Edutainment
(A) To the bank of a river (C) Edument (D) Eduenterment
(B) To the hell 10. What does the word seclusion mean?
(C) To the Mountain (A) being together (B) being united
(D) To His garden-The Paradise (C) being alone (D) being partial
5. Why did Bassanio need money? 11. Djinn of all deserts said the Horse - What
(A) To marry Portia does Djinn mean?
(B) To run a business (A) a busy man (B) a magic man
(C) Since he was a spendthrift (C) a fraud man (D) an idle man
(D) To exile Antonio 12. Match the following words in Column A with
6. Match the following from Column A with their meanings in Column B:
Column B: Column A Column B
(a) Sacred 1. spend
Column A Column B
(b) Dignity wastefully
(a) Migratory 1. A little boy of
(c) Enticing 2. tempting
birds fourteen
(d) Squander 3. pride
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 4. divine The Roar of a lion would make all sheep
(a) (b) (c) (d) shudder.
(A) 1 2 4 3 (A) Closer (B) Shiver
(B) 4 1 3 2
(C) Shining (D) Sluggish
(C) 2 1 4 3
(D) 1 3 2 4 21. Find out the figure of speech used in this line
13. Kumar bought his flat in his late from the options given below :
(A) twenties (B) thirties He lifted his head from his drinking as cattle
(C) forties (D) fifties do
14. Find out the author of the autobiography of My (A) Alliteration (B) Metaphor
Experiments with Truth (C) Simile (D) Allusion
(A) Nehru (B) Gandhiji 22. Annie Louisa walker was educated in
(C) Indira Gandhi (D) Narendra Modi (A) Kannada (B) France
15. Romeo and Juliet was written by (C) India (D) Ontario
(A) Donte 23. What sort of the instruments does sculptor use?
(B) Marlow (A) Knife and axe
(C) Dryden (B) Sword and spare
(D) William Shakespeare (C) Hammer and chisel
16. Choose the correct blending word from the (D) Bow and arrow
given options for television + broad cast 24. _______ is probably the most famous Indian
(A) telebroad (B) broadvision woman to defy the British.
(C) telecast (D) castvision (A) Lakshmibai (B) Lalitha
17. Choose the correct phrase to complete the (C) Latha (D) Radha
sentence: 25. We ran as if to meet the moon:
Dravid is famous _______ test cricket. Choose the figure of speech from the options
(A) for playing (B) on playing given
(C) in playing (D) by playing (A) Metaphor (B) Personification
18. Choose the best synonym from the options (C) Simile (D) Oxymoron
given for the underlined word in the sentence 26. Match the correct Suffix with root words :
Malar felt elated and decided to give her best. A B
(A) sorrow (a) Love 1. ness
(b) Kind 2. ful
(B) happy
(c) Beauty 3. tion
(C) very happy (d) Demonstrate 4. ly
(D) very happy and excited (a) (b) (c) (d)
19. Identify the compound sentence from the (A) 4 1 2 3
options below. (B) 4 2 3 1
(A) Karthi is so intelligent to get a job (C) 1 4 2 3
(D) 3 2 4 1
(B) Karthi is intelligent. He will get a job
27. Choose the sentence which is in Adverbs of
(C) Karthi is intelligent and so he will get a job
Manner from the options given.
(D) Being intelligent he will get the job
(A) He walked forward
20. Find out the verb from the following underlined
(B) Tomorrow will be a working day
word:
(C) Alexander fought bravely

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 (D) I had given enough money (C) Jawaharlal Nehru
28. Identify the sentence pattern of the following (D) Nethaji
sentence: 37. Saki - the author of the story The open
The poet tells a story to the children. window is the pen-name of ________
(A) SVOC (B) SVIODO (A) Guy de Maupassant
(C) SVOA (D) SVDOIO (B) Budyard Kipling
29. What is the plural form for the word: (C) James Herriot
Lioness (D) Hector Hugh Munro
(A) Liones (B) Lions 38. Where words come out from the depth of truth
(C) Lionees (D) Lionesses Where tierces striving stretches its arms towards
30. Change the underlined word into verb in the perfection
given sentence: In which poem do these lines occur?
Charu is a beautiful girl. (A) No men are foreign
(A) Beauty (B) Beautician (B) Where the mind is without fear
(C) Beautify (D) Beautifying (C) The cry of the children
31. Choose the correct word from the options given: (D) Going for water
The manager melted on hearing the news. 39. Fill in the blank with suitable Articles:
(A) became liquid I met ________ man who Was my relative.
(B) gradually appeared (A) the (B) a
(C) gradually disappeared (C) an (D) some
(D) became sympathetic 40. Choose the correct sentence which correctly
32. Fill in the blank with correct question tag: conveys the meaning of the sentence given
The boy did not write the examination below:
________? We shall remain ever grateful to you.
(A) didnt he? (B) did he? (A) We shall never be grateful to you.
(C) shall he? (D) isnt he? (B) We shall always remain ungrateful to you.
33. Fill in the blank with the correct tense from the (C) We shall always be grateful to you.
options given below: (D) We shall be grateful to you.
If I ________ there I would have attended the 41. Fill in the blanks with suitable phrasal verb:
function. We could go ice skating in Shimla ________ the
(A) was (B) were weather is good.
(C) have been there (D) had been there (A) even though (B) as soon as
34. Find out the odd one (C) provided that (D) soon after
(A) slow (B) calm 42. What does the phrase Jarring voices mean?
(C) success (D) good (A) Unpleasant sounds (B) Real sounds
35. Where the mind is led forward by thee? (C) Pleasant sounds (D) Unreal sounds
Whom does the word thee, refer to? 43. How beautiful you are, Earth and how
(A) Soul (B) Man sublime.
(C) Earth (D) God Mention the figure of speech from the options
36. Who wrote the book The Discovery of India? given.
(A) Vallabhai Patel (A) Oxymoron (B) Personification
(B) Mahatma Gandhi (C) Simile (D) Metaphor

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44. Choose the appropriates preposition to complete 53. Identify the author of the poem
the sentence: Be the Best
Please add some sugar _________ the coffee. (A) Walt Whitman
(A) to (B) with (B) William Shakespeare
(C) in (D) on (C) D. H. Lawrence
45. Mention the poem in which these lines occur. (D) Douglas Malloch
God made Heaven and Earth for joy 54. Who wrote the sonnet composed upon
He took in a rhyme. Westminster Bridge?
(A) The flying wonder (A) William Shakespeare
(B) With a friend (B) William Wordsworth
(C) Laugh and be Merry (C) John Donne
(D) My native land (D) John Keats
46. What is the theme observed in the poem A 55. The road to success is not a bed of
Noiseless Patient Spider? (A) Lotus (B) Jasmine
(A) unshakable faith (B) labour (C) Sunflowers (D) Roses
(C) love (D) fearful attitude 56. GOAL COMMAND is a _______
47. Repetition of the same line at the end of each (A) Project
stanza is called (B) Mental picture of our goal
(A) simile (B) refrain (C) Banking movement
(C) alliteration (D) metaphor (D) Vision
48. Which poet makes an appeal to our senses for 57. Who wrote this line? Life is but an empty
special children? Find out from the options dream!
(A) Elizabeth Barret Browning (A) William Wordsworth
(B) Randal Jarell (B) H.W. Longfellow
(C) David Roth (C) Robert Frost
(D) Lewis Carroll (D) William Shakespeare
49. No Men Are Foreign is a poem written by 58. What kind of figure of speech is applied in the
(A) Kamala Surayya (B) James Kirkup following poetic line?
(C) Brian Patten (D) D.H. Lawrence Till the gossamer thread you fling catch
50. Who said these lines: somewhere O my soul
Under the Wide and Starry Sky, (A) Simile (B) Metaphor
Dig the grave and led me lie. (C) Personification (D) Oxymoron
(A) Francis Bacon (B) John Keats 59. The poem The cry of the children tells about
(C) Ben Johnson (D) R. L. Stevenson the theme of______
51. Choose the appropriate antonym of the (A) Work is worship (B) Time passing
underlined word: (C) Child labour (D) Laziness
Always commence your work with faith. 60. Find out the plural form of the word:
(A) Conclude (B) Continue Phenomenon
(C) Complete (D) Start (A) Phenomini (B) Phenomenons
52. A sonnet is a poem of_________ lines. (C) Phenomenus (D) Phenomena
(A) 12 (B) 14 61. Who said these words?
(C) 10 (D) 16

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 A nation without a vision is like a ship cruising A nation's progress depends upon how its
on high seas without aim or direction. people think.
(A) Gandhiji (A) Jawaharlal Nehru
(B) Rajiv Gandhi (B) Mahatma Gandhi
(C) Jawaharlal Nehru (C) Kiran Bedi
(D)Indra Gandhi (D) Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
62. True morality consists, not in following the 67. Choose the phrase that is closest to the meaning
beaten track, but in finding out the true path for of the word given in italics
ourselves.... The Summer temperature soars past 107F in
These lines are from the lesson _________. South Tamilnadu.
(A) To The Land of Snow (A) runs forward (B) grows over
(B) Hiroshima (C) increases to (D) flies high
(C) Mark of Vishnu 68. What type of essay does the lesson Bon
(D) The Ceaseless Crusader Voyage refer to?
63. Combine the sentences into a simple sentence (A) Narrative (B) Descriptive
and choose the correct from the options given (C)Biographical (D) Imaginative
This is a mango from my garden. It is sweet 69. Pick out British word for American word
(A) The mango which is sweet is from my Kerosene
garden (A) Gasoline (B) Paraffin
(B) This is a mango from my garden which is (C) Diesal (D) Petrol
sweet 70. The Ganges valley looked majestic who
(C) This is a mango from my garden and it is uttered these words?
sweet (A) Portia (B)Kalpanachawla
(D) The sweet mango is from my garden (C) Antonio (D) Bassanio
64. Find out the Simple Sentence from the 71. Henry Wordsworth was a great _______ poet.
following: (A) American (B) Indian
(A) Though Sriram is rich he is humble. (C) Russian (D) British
(B) Sriram is rich but he is humble. 72. Match the poems with poets:
(C)Inspite of his richness Sriram is humble. Column A Column B
(D) Sriram is rich still he is humble. (a) The Apology 1. Audrey Heller
65. Rewrite the sentence in the other speech: (b)Hopes and Dreams 2.Ralph Waldo
(c) Prayer of a Emerson
Mother asked me how I had written the test
sportsman 3. Kamala Surayya
(A) Mother said to me, How did you write the (d)MyGrandmother's
test? House 4. Berton
(B) Mother asked me, How will you write the (a) (b) (c) (d)
test? (A) 1 2 3 4
(C) Mother said to me, How do you write the (B) 4 3 2 1
test? (C) 2 1 4 3
(D) 3 4 1 2
(D) Mother told me, How had you written the
73. Alan Trevor was a
test?
(A) painter (B) colonel
66. Who said these lines?
(C) postman (D) policeman
India is a nation of a billion people.

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74. Identify the figure of speech used in the (C) MarkAntony (D) Brutus
following poetic line. That hung like clustered 84. Identify the character who is not found in The
stars Last Leaf.
(A) Metaphor (B) Simile (A) Johnsy (B) Sue
(C) Alliteration (D) Assonance (C) Gomathi (D) Behrman
75. Identify the figure of speech used in this line: 85. In whose poem the following lines occur? Tour
Till the gossamer thread you fling catch problems are perplexing
somewhere O my soul Your chances rather slim
(A) Onomatophoeia (B) Metaphor (A) BertonBraley (B) DoughlasMalloch
(C) Oxymoron (D) Assonance (C) Hope Spencer (D) Rudyard Kipling
76. Pickout the line which occurs in the poem 86. But it is not merely knowledge that will help
Sonnet No - 116. you or help any class of human beings by itself.
(A) This arm beneath your head! This is addressed by Gokhale to
(B) Or bends with the remover to remove. (A) The Freedom Fighters
(C) Will noone tell me what she sings? (B) The Students
(D) Be the best of whatever you are! (C) His friends
77. When was Jane Masefield born? (D) The teachers
(A) 1st June 1878 (B) 1st June 1868 87. Identify the sentence pattern in the following:
(C) 1st June 1888 (D) 1st June 1858 The company chairperson promised them better
78. Find out the correct spelling for the title of the salary.
play given: (A) SV IODO (B) SVOC
(A) Twelvth night (B) Twelveth night (C) SV C A (D) SV O A
(C) Twelfth night (D) Twelth night 88. Fill in the blanks with suitable gerund.
79. Find out the verb from the following: ________ is a good exercise.
(A) Accomplish (B) Accomplishment (A) To swim (B) Swimming
(C) Honestly (D) Beauty (C) To go swimming (D) To do swimming
80. That fifty-para paddy field is owned by 89. Select the correct tense form of the verb in
someone in Vaikom. Kesavan Nair has been bracket.
cultivating it for the last _________ years. Sophy usually ______ (go) to college at 9 a.m.
(A) Forty (B) Twenty (A) go (B) willgo
(C) Ten (D) Five (C) goes (D) going
81. Softy in the dusk a woman is singing to me 90. The word Trauma which is originated from
What is the time mentioned in this line?- Greek means
(A) Dusk (B) Noon (A) Culminating point
(C) Dawn (D) Night (B) An emotional shock
82. Who built the Brihadeeswarar Temple? (C) Soul or mind
(A) King KarikalChola (D) Confusion or disorder
(B) King Raj endraChola 91. The American English equivalent of the word
(C) King MahendraVarman 'Pavement is
(D) King Raja RajaChola (A) pathway (B) sidewalk
83. Who brought many captives to Rome? (C) corridor (D) passage
(A) Casca (B) Caesar 92. Find out the odd sentence from the following.

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 (A) I have many pencils (D) 2 4 1 3
(B) She ate the whole apple 97. Had he and I but met
(C) Jasmine is a fragrant flower By some old ancient inn
(D) He ran fast Whom does he refer to here?
93. Match the poems A with the poets B. (A) The poet (B) The soldier
A poems B poets (C) An enemy soldier (D) A friend
(A) Nine Gold Elizabeth Barrett 98. Match the poems in Column A with their poets
Medals Browning in Column B.
(B) Prayer of a Rabindranath Column A Column B
sportsman Tagore
(a) The Nation United Lewis
1 Carroll
(C) Where the mind BertonBraley
(b) Is life but a dream .
Thomas
2 Hardy
is without fear
(c) The Man he killed .
Norman
3 Nicholson
(D) Out in the
fields with God David Roth (d) Off to Outer space .
tomorrow morning Walt
4 Whitman
(a) (b) (c) (d) (a) (b) . (c) (d)
(A) 4 3 2 1 (A) 4 1 2 3
(B) 1 2 4 3 (B) 3 2 1 4
(C) 3 4 1 2 (C) 2 3 4 1
(D) 2 1 3 4 (D) 1 4 3 2
94. Find out the author of the short story. . 99. Loves not Times fool, though rosy lips and
The face of Judas Iscariot. cheeks. In which poem this line is taken from
(A) Bonnie Chamberlain (B) Saki (A) Solitary Reaper (B) Be the Best
(C) Oscar Wilde (D) O Henry (C) A Psalm of Life (D) Sonnet No. 116
95. Which of the following is not a poem? 100. Match the characters given under Column A
(A) The flying wonder with the stories given under Column B andselect
(B) Laugh and Be Merry the correct option from those given below :
(C) The Apology Column A Column B
(D) The Marvelous machine (a) Matilda 1. Reflowering
96. Match the following with author and title :
(b) Della 2. The Lottery Ticket
Author Title
(a) Elizabeth Barrett 1. A Psalm of life (c) Appa 3. The Necklace
Browning (d) Masha 4 The Gift of Magi
(b) Oscar Wilde 2. The solitary
.
reaper (a) (b) (c) (d)
(c)WilliamWordsworth 3.The cry of the
(A) 3 2 1 4
children
(d)H.W. Longfellow 4.The model (B) 3 4 1 2
millionaire (C) 2 1 3 4
(D) 4 3 2 1
(a) (b) (c) (d)
(A) 3 4 2 1
(B) 4 3 1 2
(C) 1 3 2 4