Question 1 : Read the following notes carefully and complete the paragraph by selecting the

correct options from the given alernatives.

RK NARAYAN

Birth                10the October , 1906,  Chennai

Occupation     Novelist, short story writer
Father              Headmaster
Brother             Famous cartoonist RK Laxman

The famous novelist and short story writer, RK Narayan (a) …………. . His father (b) ……………. and his
brother, RK Laxman (c) ………….. .
a)
i) was born at Chennai on 10th October, 1906
ii) was born in Chennai on 10th October, 1906
iii) born on Chennai on 10th October, 1906
iv) were born in Chennai on 10th October, 1906

b)
i) was a Headmaster
ii) was the Headmaster
iii) was Headmaster
iv) is the Headmaster

c)
i) is a famous cartoonist
ii) were a famous caroonist
iii) is this famous cartoonist
iv) is famous cartoonist.

Question 2 : Fill in the blanks with the correct form of verb given in the brackets.

                                                              Government Pushes Clean Energy

The Ministry of Renewable Energy (MNRE) (a)……….. (ask) all the union ministries and public sector
units to (b) ………….. (adopt) solar energy. So far the ministry (c)…………. (receive)  an encouraging
response. India already has a focused solar mission – Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission –
which (d) ……….. (launch) in January, 2010 and (e) ……………… (set) an ambitious target.

Question 3 : Complete the sentences with the correct tenses of the verbs given in brackets.

a) That summer, the river that ………….. through the town dried up. (run)
b) When I phone Seema she …………… round straightaway. (come)
c) Nobody …………… why she married him. (understand)
d) When Arvind was in China he. ……………………. to Sheila every week. (write)
e) She ………… till evening. (play)

Question 4 : Samaria wrote a short story but forgot to edit it. There is an error in each line. Write
the incorrect word/phrase and the correction.
 a) There was living a farmer named Mohan ……….. ……….
b) who is very hardworking and honest. He ……….. ……….
c) has known across the village as a man ……….. ……….
d) of principles and thus loving by all. His ……….. ……….
e) field have always been green and he never ……….. ……….
f) sleeping on an empty stomach ……….. ……….
g) After a drought, all the farmers was leaving, ……….. ……….
h)  but Mohan was not ready to left his ……….. ……….
i) fields. The news was reaching the press and ……….. ……….
j) a reporter come to the village to ……….. ……….
k) got his side of the story. ……….. ……….

Question 5 : Complete the following dialogue using correct tenses.

Mother   Rahul, where (a) ………………….?

Rahul  I (b) …………………… .
Mother  (c) ………………. ?
Rahul   ………………… Yes, mom, I have finished my homework.
Mother  When will you be back from your friend’s house?
Rahul   (d) ……………….

Question 6 : Fill in the blanks using the correct form of tenses.

Medileaks, a website that  (a) ……………. (allow) stakeholders to register complaints and put out
irregularities in healthcare; (b) ……………… (launch) in the capital yesterday. The website, (c)
…………………. (inspire) by Wikileaks, (d) ………….. (allow) whistleblowers to (e) ………………… (post)
information, anonymously. This (f) ………… (check) by a team of volunteers before (g) ………………
(share) on the portal. However, concerns are already (h) …………………. (raise) about how it (i)
……………….. (address) the issue of medical negligence.

Question 7 : In the passage given below, one word has been omitted in each line. Write the
missing word along with the word that comes before and the word that comes after it.

Befor
e Missing After

Experiments at the world’s biggest ………. ……… ……..

a) particle smasher confirmed the existence of two subatomic ………. ……… ……..
 Befor
e Missing After

particles

b) The discoveries part of the baryon ………. ……… ……..

c) family of particles. Baryons composite particles composed

of three quarks. The ………. ……… ……..

d) work carried out in 2011 and 2012. A ………. ……… ……..

e) paper reporting the finding have been submitted. ………. ……… ……..

f) The facility going through an upgrade ………. ……… ……..

g) now. A related baryonic particle found by an experiment in

2012 ………. ……… ……..

Answer :
a) i) was born in Chennai on 10th October , 1906
b) i) was a Headmaster
c) i) is a famous cartoonist

Answer :
a) has asked
b) adopt
c) has received
d) was launched
e) has set

Answer :
a) ran
b) came
c) understood
d) wrote
e) played

a) was living lived

b) has was

c) has was

d) loving was loved

e) been were

f) sleeping slept

g) was leaving left

h) left leave

i) was reaching reached

j) come came

got get

Answer :
a) are you young
b) am going to my friend’s house
c) Have you finished your homework
d) I will be back by 6 o’clock.

Answer :
a) will allow
b) was launched
c) inspired
d) will allow
e) post
f) will be checked
g) being shared
h) being raised
i) would address

a) smasher have confirmed

b) discoveries are part

c) Baryons are composite

d) work was carried

e) finding has been

f) facility is going

g) particle was found