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1. Look at the sentences below and comment on their correctness:

1 This is a good TV show on elephant.
2 This is a good TV show about elephants.

only I is correct

only 2 is correct

both 1 and 2 are correct

neither 1 nor 2 is correct

2. This is a good piece of furniture but afraid it

finesse

finished

fineness

finish

3. The usage'There are no words to praise him' means

he does not deserve to be praised

he deserves very little praise

a few words are enough to praise him

none of the above

4. I walked very slowly towards the rather scary-looking girl. Pick the correct group of adverbs used in the sentence above:

scary, slowly, girl,

slowly, scary

very, scary, slowly

very, rather, slowly

5. came, I saw, I conquered'- what kind of sentence is this?

complex

simple

compound

abstract

6. for her careful handling of matters, the association would have been dissolved long ago.

Despite

Apart

But

Notwithstanding

7. The teacher said to his students,'It is about to rain. The you go the better for you'.

more

soon

soonest

sooner

8. Which of the following is not a passive sentence?

I was denied admission into the school.

I was wheeled into the operating theatre.

I was informed of the dangers involved.

I was tired by the end of the day.

9. The phrase stick one's neck out' means

to be confused

to be curious

to take a big risk

to ask for a chance

10. Thomas Alva Edison was an_______personality.

illustrated

illustrious

illuminated

luminous

11. With the disappearance of forests the natural habitat of several decrease. Fill in the blank with the appropriate choice.

continues to

continuing to

to continue

continuation

12. The King killed all his enemies showing mercy. Fill in the blank with the appropriate choice.

a little

little

the little

littlest

13. The Enquiry Committee case after the records are given. Fill in the blank with the appropriate choice.

look into

look for

look forward to

look after

14. The phrase smell a rat' means:

there is a dead rat in the room

the speaker is a cat

to suspect some$ring

a rat is moving suspiciously

15. Identify the phrase that is not a meaning of the word

a unit of measurement

a poetic metre

a kind of shoe

a limb

16. is not in the good books of his master'. The underlined phrase means

his name does not figure in the attendance register I

he does not borrow book from his master

he is not a character in his master's novel n

the master does not like him

17. Pick the odd one out:

homicide

human

humane

homonym

18. A room or a building where a person stays is

acommodation

accomodation

accamodation

accommodation

19. He is Fill in the blank with the correct choise.

imperial

impervious

imperious

implied


20. proposes, God disposes' is an example of

hypothesis

synthesis

antithesis

thesis

21. The antonym for "ambivalent"

sure

clear

steadfast

multivalent

22. Neither the chairman nor the present. Fill in the blank with the correct option.

are

is

isn't

was

23. A gaggle of geese, a herd of cattle, a flock of sheep and a school of Choose the correct option.

fish

children

clowns

ants

24. Which novel did Charles Dickens Not write?

Sense and sensibility

Dombey and tun

A Tale of Two Cities

Oliver Twist


25. 'East is East and West is West, and never the twain shall meet...'Who said this?

Rudyard Kipling

E M Forster

Paul Scott

John Masters

26. 'Internal Evidence'

evidence which is internal to the working of the critics mind

a term used in analytical and textual criticism that refers to features of style

evidence that explains the inner life of characters in the modern novel

None of the above

27. Esperanto

a term that stands for the Spanish language

a form of Latin American language

an artificial International language

an extinct language

28. Saying passed away' instead of died' is an example

euphemism

euphuism

parallelism

archaism

29. A list of texts or authors seen as 'classic' is

cannon

big guns

canon

syllabus

30. An elegy and a dirge are both forms of poetry associated

festive occasions

death and mourning

marital mirth

all of the above


31. 'Malayalam', 'Able was I ere I saw are all examples of

palindromes

parallelisms

dromedaries

palinodes

32. Pantomime is a form

drama

fiction

poetry

none of the above

33. Personification implies

giving a body to a ghostly figure

imparting human traits to non-human objects and ideas

lifting a person

a genre in fiction

34. when an author provides hints about what is going to happen in fiction, it is

introspection

foreshadowing

flashback

bacKncking

35. An all-knowing point of view is

first person

omniscient

second person

narrative voice

36. A short phrase or quotaUon at fie beginning of a book or poem is called an

epigraph

epilogue

epitaph

episode

37. The vagabond, loveable, rogue-hero ls a feature of

the picturesque novel

the picaresque novel

the rogue novel

the legal novel

38. George Orwell's famous novel l994 tells one story but means something more. Such a tale is
called an

allergy

allegory

elegy

alert

39. wandered lonely as a cloud' is an example of

simile

metaphor

metonymy

metrics

40. is brilliant, but he failed in the exams,.

This kind of language

exaggeration

extrapolation

ironic

excessive


41. 'The day of his death was a dark, cold day. The kind of writing here where the first sounds of words are repeated is

metric

stylised

echoic

alliterative

42. Novels that deal with the end of the world and civilization are called

gloomy novels

war novels

crash novels

dystopic novels

43. When book are made into films it is

choreography

modifying

adaptation

filmography

44. Cartoons and writings that laugh at others, specially the upper rungs of society, are called

mockeries

fripperies

satyrs

satires

45. Francis Bacon

a poet

a playwright

both poet and playwright

an essayist


46. Lines inscribed on gravestones

epitaphs

epigrams

epigraphs

epithalamiums

47. Bombastic language refers

the language of terrorists

good speech

wordiness

subtlety

48. A portmanteau word refers to

a suitcase full of words

a word formed by the combination of two words

a term used to describe ports

animal alphabet

49. 'Contagious countries is an example

malapropism

synonyms

malafide intent

antonyms

50. The lines'I would not love thee, dear, so much,/ Loved I not honour more' mean that the

does not love his girlfriend

is careless about his honour

loves honour more than he loves his girlfriend

loves his girlfriend more than honour


51. Read the following poem carefully and answer the subsequent questions only in the
space provided for each.

Tears, idle Tears
Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean,
Tears from the depth of some divine despair
Rise in the hea4 and gather to the eyes,
In looking on the happy Autumn-fields,
And thinking of the days that are no more.

Fresh as the first beam glittering on a sail,
That brings our friends up from the underworld,
Sad as the last which reddens over one
That sinks with all we love below the verge;
So sad, so fresh, the days that are no more.
Ah, sad and strange as in the dark summer dawns
The earliest pipe of half-awakened birds
To dying ears, when unto dying eyes
The casement slowly grows a glimmering square;
So sad, so strange, the days that are no more.

Dear as remembered kisses after death,
And sweet as those by hopeless fancy feigned
On lips that are for others; deep as love,
Deep as first love, and wild with all regret;
O Death in Life, the days that are no morel!

1. What the described as

2. Write a note on the tone of the poem.

3. Explain the dominant image in stanza 2.

4. Identify and explicate the use of the two sensory images in stanza 3.

5. What does the phrase 'Death In life' imply?


52. make a preds of the following passage. Write one single paragraph of about l5O
words.

Good and Evil

The theory of good and evil crosses the boundaries of many sciences or subject matters. It occupies a place in metaphysics. It is of fundamental importance in all the moral sciences-ethics, economic, politics, jurisprudence. It appears in all the descriptive sciences of human behavior, such as psychology and sociology, though there it is of less importance and is differently treated.

The relation of good and evil to truth and falsity, beauty and ugliness, carries the discussion into logic, aesthetics, and the philosophy of art. The true, it has been said, is the good in the sphere of our thinking. So it may be said of the beautiful that it is a quality which things have when they are good as objects of contemplation and love, or good as productions. It is no less possible to understand goodness and beauty in terms of truth, or truth and goodness in terms of beauty. One aim of analysis, with respect to the true, the good, and the beautiful, is to preserve their distinctness without rendering each less universal. This has been attempted by writers who treat these three terms as having a kind of parallelism in their application to everything, but who also insist that each of the three noUons conceives things under a different aspect or in a different relation. "As good adds to being the notion of the desirable," Aquinas writes, "so the true adds a relation to the intellect"; and it is also said that the end "of the appetite, namely good, is in the desirable thing," whereas the end "of the intellect, namely the true, is in the intellect itself.' In that part of theology which goes beyond metaphysics and moral philosophy, we meet with the concept of infinite goodness-the goodness of an infinite being-and we then face the problem of how God's goodness is to be understood by man. The basic terms of moral theology-righteousness and sin, salvation and damnation-are, like virtue and vice, happiness and misery conceptions of good and evil in the condition of man. (their special theological significance comes from the fact that they consider the goodness or evil of man in terms of his relation to God.) But the theological problem which is traditionally called "the problem of evil" concerns the whole universe in its relation to the divine perfection. According to Barth, "the problem of ethics contains the secret that man as we know him in this life is an impossibility. This man, in God's sight, can only perish."



ESSAY WRITING

53. Write a coherent essay of not more than 1000 words on Violence in Schools based on the
following points. You may note that the points given are not in any kind of order.


More personal interaction Children to be encouraged to talk Children disciplined but also indulged Children's behaviour observed Aberrations are noticed Before they spiral out of control Newspaper reports of teachers/schoolmates being gunned down Neglect at homes Too much money given to children but not enough personal attention Stressful conditions of everyday life Violence seen in films/on TV/in books and video games


54. Read the following passage. Select the correct answer from $re options given.
Comprehension Passage

I learned to garden the way I learned to write out of necessity. We needed vegetables and flowers, and I needed to tell myself a long story about life I am still telling it a kind of beanstalk that grows and grows, and I can climb up it, both to escape the impossibility of life at the bottom, and to find another world where glants and castles and harp-playing hens are still to be found. Gardening, like story-telling, is a continuing narrative. one thing leads to another. like stories, there is always something going on in the garden long after the gardener has gone to bed. The thing grows, unfolds, changes, develops a maddening life of its own. For mg as a writer, I go to sleep with an idea in my head and it takes hold during the night. I open the back door in the morning, and the tulips that refused to look at me the night before, have opened into the sun. I think we need such continuing narratives. In the post-modem world of fragments and dislocation, uncertainty, insecurity, the powerlessness of politics, and where money exists one day and disappears the next, there are three things that seem to me to be the permanent stuff of life: Love. Art. Gardening. And each is about relationship; our relationship to one another, and to the mythic narrative of our lives, and to our one and only real home; planet Earth. And in the end, the pleasure of life, or so it seems to me, lies not in what you can get other people to do for you, or what you can wriggle out of that's the office culture but what you can do yourself. Tell me what is better than your own garden in early summer; its colours, scents, harmonies? It is worth it again


1. "I learned to garden the way..."

In this sentence "garden"

a noun

a verb

an adverb

an adjective

2. "I am still telling it"

In this sentence the verb is

present indefinite

present continuous

simple present

present perfect

3. Gadening is compared to

going to sleep

story-telling

selling vegetables

planting flowers

4. We need "continuing narratives" because

we seek eternity.

we have a short memory.

we face uncertainty, insecurity and powerlessness.

we are pessimistic by nature.


5. The common factor that binds "Love, Art and Gardening" is

post-modernism.

nature worship.

relationship.

identity.

6. The pleasure of life is not part of

garden culture

office culture

music culture

money culture

7. ideas in "my head" take hold

during the day

during the morning

during the night

during the afternoon

8. The author has the desire to garden and write because he/she wishes to

drown his/her sorrow.

have the free play of imagination.

have professional success.

forget the world.


9. What is "the pleasure of life" about? It is

to relax without worry

to overcome fear

to have self-reliance

none of the above

10. Nothing impresses as much as the splendor of "your own garden" in

early winter

early spring

early summer

early autumn