ENGLISH MOCK TEST-02

1. Identify the correct choice. (A) Coorespondent (B) Commandent

It is as difficult for us to understand adolescents_____ it is (C) Superintendent (D) Attendent
for them to understand us. 8. Identify the incorrect part.
(a) but Having finished the paper early (A)/ he had come out of the
(b) and hall (B)/ almost an hour before the bell rung. (C)/ No
(c) also error (D)
9. Identify the meaning of the given idioms/phrases.
(d) as
His work seems to be a Penelope’s web.
2. Identify the synonym of the given word.
(a) Endless
Transcend (b) Difficult
a. Enfranchise b. Surpass (c) Declining
c. Barricade d. Discord (d) In his best form
3. Identify the correct preposition. 10. Select the most appropriate option to fill the blank.
She accompanied _____ her mother to the market. I am not_____ to ask you again. Do what you want to do.
(a) with (b) by (a) Running
(c) no preposition (d) from (b) Giving
4. Give the plural of the given word. (c) Coming
Cactus (d) Going
(a) Cactuses 11. Identify the antonym of the given word.
(b) cactues Bleak
(c) cactis a. Deplore b. Bright
(d) cacti c. Vapid d. Brittle
5. Fill in the blank with suitable word. 12. Identify the indirect/ direct speech.
Chandrawati was in ….. sleep and could not be easily She said to her son,” Haven't you learnt anything new
awakened today?" He said, "yes."
(a) low (b) high (A) She asked her son if he hadn't learnt anything new
(c) severe (d) deep that day and he answered in the affirmative.
6. Arrange the sentence in correct order (B) She asked her son if he hasn't learnt anything new
P. food security because that day and he answered
(C) She asked her son if he hadn't learnt anything new
Q. for the majority of the rural poor
R. Agricultural production is important for that day and I answered in the affirmative.
S. it is a source of income (D) She asked her son if he hadn't learnt anything new
(a) SRQP (b) PQSR that day and he answers in the affirmative.
(c) RPSQ (d) PQRS 13. Give one word substitute
7. Choose the correct word Words Uttered Impiously about God
 (A) Amoral (B) Philosophy work in unison like the earthworms, there would be a paradise
(C) Logic (D) Blasphemy on earth in the not too distant future.
14. Change the voice 16. What can bring about a change in the appearance of a
room?
God helps those who help themselves.
(A) A few flowers
(A) Those who help themselves are helped by God. (B) A bunch of flowers
(B) Those who helps themselves are helped by God. (C) Some chairs
(C) Those who help themselves were helped by God. (D) Digging wells
(D) Those who help themselves are helping by God. 17. What gave the engineer a great feeling of achievement?
15. Give one word substitute (A) Being able to provide villagers clean water
The doctor who is well in the treatment of mental disease (B) Being able to dig wells
(C) Supplying water to villagers
(a) oculist
(D) Talking to villagers
(b) psychiatrist 18. Which of the following statements is true?
(c) cardiologist (A) Man is not as creative and original as earthworms
(d) dermatologist (B) Earthworms are intelligent and hardworking
Directions (Q18-Q20): Read the following passage and (C) Every human being is more creative and more
answer the following questions. productive than the earthworm
PASSAGE (D) One man can do what millions of earthworms
together can achieve
Small improvements can lead to big changes. A few
19. What does the author want to convey?
flowers can change the look of a room. The efficiency of a
(A) If only men were to work unitedly, a lot of things
factory, for instance, depends upon an infinite number of
could be achieved
operations, performed properly from day to day.
(B) People should learn to drink clean water
Abraham Maslow, the well-known psychologist,
(C) Big improvements can bring great changes
mentioned with admiration the case of a young man who spent
(D) Men should work like earthworms
several years in Mexico digging deep wells to provide clean
20. What can lead to big changes?
drinking water to the villages. He managed to dig only three
(A) Big improvements
wells and had to spend an enormous amount of time teaching
(B) Small alterations
the villagers to use pure water in place of contaminated water.
(C) Big alterations
There might have been only three wells but they gave the
(D) Small improvements
engineer a great feeling of achievement.
21. What can lead to big changes?
Charles Darwin has shown that given enough time,
(E) Big improvements
small and gradual causes can produce large and radical
(F) Small alterations
changes. His last book was in fact on earthworms. He was
(G) Big alterations
preoccupied with the theme for forty years. He had shown that
(H) Small improvements
on every acre of the chalk hills near Down (England), worms
brought up eighteen tons of earth annually. What a
stupendous achievement for the small and insignificant
earthworm! Even the dullest of men is a million times more
creative and productive than the earthworm. If men were to