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TNPSC GROUP II TEST SERIES

MOCK TEST – 2

GENERAL ENGLISH

04/10/2018

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1. Which one of the following compound-nouns is wrong?

a) Coat-of-mails b) Governors-general

c) Runners-up d) Grown-ups

2. Match the following.

a) Rendezvous 1. Container

b) Repository 2. Disapprove

c) Reprimand 3. Refresh

d) Rejuvenate 4. Persuade

5. Meeting

A b c d

A 4 1 2 3

B 3 5 4 2

C 5 1 2 3

D 5 2 1 3

3. Choose the suitable order of articles to fill in the blanks in the passage.

--------------- Brihadeeswarar temple or ------------ big temple as it is

commonly called by ------------ natives of Thanjavur is ----------

architectural marvel of immense of lory.

a)The, a, a, the b) the , an, an, the

c)The, the , a, the d) the, the, the, an

4. Pick out, the statement that doesn‟t match with the given question tag.

a)wait a minute, can you?

b) Push the door to the corner, can you?

c)Get the Guide who help you, can you?

d) Have some more rice, can you?

5. What I most detest is --------------

a)to smoke b) to be smoked

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c)smoking d) having smoked

6. Which one of the following has the correct infinitive?

a) Music hath charms to soothe the savage beast

b) Music hath charms to soothing the savage beast

c) Music hath charms to having soothe the savage beast

d) Music hath charms to having soothing the savage beast

7. Comprehension :

Our hope lies in the fact that even in the order generation, there are

number of persons who are ready to face challenges. Most of the people

are proud to see India that bold. In addition, the younger generation is

ready to take action in such a complex environment.

Pick out the irrelevant statement.

a) Indians feel proud to see an India that is bold.

b) Younger generations are ready to take action in complex environment

c) Indians feel proud to see an India that is timid

d) Older generations are ready to face the Challenges

8. Match the underlined words with their function and select the correct code.

Column A Column B

A) Equal status to women is a far cry 1. Adverb

B) The two live the same life 2. Adjective

C) Let us hope for the best 3. Noun

D) She sings well 4. Verb

A b c d

A 2 1 3 4

B 3 1 2 4

C 2 3 4 1

D 4 1 2 3

9. Find out the error.

He is confident on his success

A B C D

10. Identify the kind of sentence.

It is really surprising that Sambath has not been arrested by the police.

a)Simple b) compound

c)Conditional clause d) Complex

11. „Binary + digit‟ the blended form of this word is ---------

a)Bidit b) Binarit

c)bit d) binary digit

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12. Identify the pair of British English and American english expressions

with incorrect spelling.

British American

a) Plough Plow

b) Cheque Check

c) theatre Theatre

d) Skilful skilfull

13. Find out the incorrect verb form from the options given below

a) This day is observed as white cane safety day

b) My friend wants to go to a library

c) Sunil‟s Dad hided his Christmas present

d) How do you decide?

14. Choose the correct words to fill in the blanks

A ---------- of ---------- chased few -------------

a)group, apes, chicken b) team, apes, chickens

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c)troop, apses, chicken d) troop, apes, chickens

15. Select the correct plural form of Oasis.

a)None b) Oaseses

c)Oases d) Oasies

16. “Remember the struggle to save the forest is not easy. But we must not

give up. It must go on” Who said these words?

a)G.W. Carver b) Catherine Mary Heilman

c)Sarla Thakral d) Amelia Earbart

17. “A mirror of his changing moods” Identify the figure speech employed in

this line.

a)Transferred epithet b) Euphemism

c)Ellipsis d) Implied simile

18. Match the following :

a) Piano 1. Ashwin Parthiban

b) Shilpi 2. D.H. Lawrence

c) Manliners 3. Rudyard Kipling

d) The Apology 4. Emerson

A b c d

A 2 1 3 4

B 3 2 4 1

C 2 4 3 1

D 4 3 1 2


a) Walt whitman 1. Welsh

b) Jack prelutsky 2. cockermouth

c) Leslie Norris 3. Brooklyn

d) William wordsworth 4. Long island

A b c d

A 3 1 4 2

B 4 3 1 2

C 3 4 1 2

D 2 3 1 4

20. The distance between the Himalayas and Nilgiris is

a)2400 km b) 1200 km

c)4200 km d) 3200 km

21. “The hunger and the mortal strife for bread old age and youth alike

mistaught”

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The word strife means

a)Fight b) struggle

c)Quarrel d) Riot

22. Find the wrongly matched pair

a) Theydon Bois London

b) Naila Germani

c) Lake Vostok Antarctica

d) Kopje Kenya

23. Who invented the term “Phatic communion”

a) Bronis Law malinowski

b) Ravish Malbotra

c) Sergei Bubka

d) Zubin Mehta


a) Don Wilson 1. Laika

b) Sputnik-2 2. Edmund Hillary

c) Aldrin 3. Kalpana chawla

d) Soyuz 4. Neil Armstrong

e) Tenzing Norgay 5. Rakesh Sharma

A b c d e

A 3 5 2 1 4

B 2 5 1 3 4

C 3 1 2 5 4

D 3 1 4 5 2


a) Agarophobia 1. Spending money without

limit

b) Kleptomania 2. Fear of heights

c) Acrophobia 3. Strong desire to steal

d) Squandermania 4. Fear of being in open

spaces

A b c d

A 2 1 4 3

B 1 2 3 4

C 4 3 2 1

D 3 4 1 2

26. “Polonius advice to his son” is a part of Shakespeare‟s -----------

a)Hamlet b) Macbeth

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c)Othello d) Romio and Juliet

27. “E O G” stands for

a)Electro Opticalgram b) Electroculogram

c)Electromyogram d) Electroence phalogram

28. Who among the following is a “Florentine Painter”?

a)Botticelli b) Francesco Pesellino

c)Piero della francesca d) Allessio Baldovinetti


a) Things become better when you expect the best instead of the

worst 1. David Abercrombie

b) The Negative way to look at a problem is to think of it as a

problem 2. Netspeak

c) Most People have a feeling that a silent man is a dangerousman

3. Norman Vincent Peale

d) In the past we had speech, then writing and now “computer

Mediated Language” 4. Joe. D. Batten and Leonard C.

Hudson

A b c d

A 2 1 4 3

B 3 4 1 2

C 4 3 2 1

D 1 2 3 4

30. “Girl star” – UNICEF project is a series of ------------

a)Drama b) Short story

c)Film d) Games

31. Oliver Messiaen composed -------------

a)Sonnets of sorrow

b) voice of America

c) The quartet for the end of time

d) Brahms Requiem

32. “Tamasha” is a folk art of ----------

a)Gujarat b) Maharastra

c)Assam d) Tamil Nadu

33. The Author of “The Last Leaf” belongs to

a)Russia b) Burma

c)France d) USA

34. “A man had no eyes” is a story written by

a)Leo Tolstoy b) Mackinlay kantor

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c)Bonnie chamberlain d) Ruskin Bond

35. Dr. Karl Paulnack assures that failure of peace for humankind lies in the

hand of

a)students b) Politicians

c)Artists d) Religious leaders


a) War poet 1. Robert Frost

b) Nature Poet 2. Thomas Hardy

c) National Institution 3. H.W. Longfellow

d) Unofficial Poet Laureate 4. William wordsworth

A b c d

A 2 4 3 1

B 1 3 4 2

C 2 1 3 4

D 3 2 1 4

37. Find the odd one.

a) here I tender for him in the court, yea, twice the sum

b) I will be bound to pay it ten times

c) there‟s thrice thy money offer‟d thee

d) Here is the money

38. Find the wrongly matched pair

a) Grand - a hundred

b) Gonna - going to

c) kidding - joking

d) Gee - surprise


a) You can have and think, and the Earth can not

1. Tony de mello

b) The king of the birds, the eagle belongs to the sky, we belong to

earth, we‟re chickens 2. Khalil Gibran

c) The signal was given the pistal exploded 3. Famida Y.

Basheer

d) No flag no machine guns that blast 4. W.B. Rands

5. David Roth

A b c d

A 2 4 5 3

B 1 2 3 4

C 1 4 5 3

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D 4 1 5 3


a) Some words are remembered some words forget

1. R.L.Stevenson

b) Some words are to be tasted, others to be swallowed

2. Card Sandburg

c) If you want excellence, you must aim at perfection

3. J.R.D. Tata

d) under the wide and starry sky

Dig the grave and let me lie 4. Francis Bacom

A b c d

A 1 2 3 4

B 2 4 3 1

C 4 3 2 1

D 3 4 2 1

41. “The music in my heart I bore

Long after it was heard no more”.

These lines are taken from the poem -------------

a)The Solitary Reaper b) The man he killed

c)Be the best d) Women‟s Right


Column A Column B

a) Monsieur sauvage 1. The Necklace

b) Framton Nuttel 2. Two Friends

c) Mme. Forestier 3. How The Camel Got Its

Hump

d) Djinn 4. The Open window

A b c d

A 4 2 1 3

B 2 4 1 3

C 2 4 3 1

D 4 2 3 1

43. Things become better, when you expect the best instead of the worst.

Expecting the best means, that you put your whole heart into what you

want to accomplish. People are defeated in life not for lack of ability, but for

luck of whole-heartedness.

The reason for defeat in life is :

a)failure b) affordability

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c)lack of ability d) lack of whole heartedness

44. What is the theme of the poem „Piano‟

a) The poet‟s love for his mother

b) The pastime of the poet during his school days

c) The poet‟s love for music

d) The poet‟s comparison of childhood days with manhood days

45. Choose the option containing the name of the author and the work in

which these lines occur :

I was then too young to read

And my blood turned cold like the moon

a) Dr. A.P.J. Kalam in Vision for the Nation

b) Dr. Neeraja Raghavan in “The Sun Beam”

c) Kamala Das in „My Grandmother‟s House‟

d) Rabindranath Tagore in „Where the Mind is without Fear‟

46. The plural form of „alumina‟ is

a)alumnus b) alumnae

c)alumnas d) alumne

47. Select the correct sentence.

a) Cakes are softee than cookies

b) Cakes are more soft than cookies

c) Cakes are Softer then cookies

d) Cakes are soft than cookies

48. Choose the correct compound word for “Adjective + Participle”.

a)Cat Walking b) eye catching

c)hand weaving d) incoming

49. Find the words that are not related to the underlined word.

He just tugged the edges.

1. Joined 2. Pushed 3. Pulled 4. Pasted 5. Cut

a)1, 2, 4 and 3 b) 2, 3, 4 and 5

c)1, 2, 3 and 4 d) 1, 3, 4 and 5

50. Pick out the sentence that contains a complement.

a) My aunt remained a spinstee all her life

b) The thief stole all the silver articles

c) I shall collect the books next week

d) The programme has started on time.

51. Match the words and Phrases.

Column A Column B

a) Power to insure 1. composure

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b) Calm manner 2. Sneer

c) Contemptuous Smile 3. Charisma

d) Range of skills 4. Versatility

A b c d

A 3 1 4 2

B 3 1 2 4

C 1 3 2 4

D 2 1 4 3

52. Choose the correct antonym for me stabilized word we appreciated his

virtues.

a) vixs b) Victories

c) vigilance d) courageous

53. Choose the appropriate preposition to complete the sentence.

Please add some sugar ------- the coffee

a) vixs b) Victories

c) vigilance d) courageous

54. Choose the sentence with the correct question tag.

a) I had my tea just now, didn‟t I?

b) I had my tea just now, hadn‟t I?

c) I had been to my native place, haven‟t I?

d) I had been to my native place, had I?

55. Choose the option that contains the answer that would complete the

sentence :

------------- is easy, but practicing is difficult.

a) Have been preaching b) Preaching

c) Having been preaching d) Having Preached

56. Match the following sentences with their patterns.

A B

a) The teacher teaches a lesson 1. SVOA

b) The sun shines brightly 2. SVC

c) The broke his cycle yesterday 3. SVO

d) The car is cheap 4. SVA

A b c d

A 1 2 4 3

B 3 2 1 4

C 3 4 1 2

D 3 4 2 1

57. Comprehension :

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The Pleiades named after the Seven sisters of Greek mythology is a star-

cluster that can be seen with the naked eye. It appears as a dipper-

shaped group of star, high overhead on autumn evenings.

What is Pleiades?

a) A star cluster

b) One of the Seven sister of Greek mythology

c) Seven sister of Greek mythology

d) A dipper-shaped star

58. Select the correct sentence from the following

a) Veena was the cleverest girl in the class

b) Babu is the most poor boy in the class

c) The girls are active than boys

d) She went home most disappointed than her friends.

59. Which of the following ending is correct to form the correct complex

sentence?

They went to war ---------

a) that they expand their territory

b) to expand their territory

c) and expanded their territory

d) in order to expand their territory

60. Choose the appropriate Positive degree for the following sentence.

Brain Surgery is the most complicated in medical field

a) No other surgery is as complicated as brain surgery in medical

field

b) Brain surgery is more complicated than any surgery in medical

field

c) Brain surgery is more complicated than any surgery in medical

field

d) Brain surgery is more complicated than most other surgery


a) Patriotism and valour 1. Kalpana chawla

b) Spirit of Adventure 2. Wilma Rudolf

c) Iron will and governance 3. Helen keller

d) weak flesh and willing spirit 4. Joan of Arc

5. Magaret Thatcher

A b c d e

A 2 5 4 3 1

B 4 1 5 3 2

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C 5 4 2 1 3

D 4 2 5 1 3

62. “A glory has departed and the sun that warmed and brightened our lives

has set, and we shiver in the cold arid dark”.

These words are Nehru‟s ---------- to Gandhi

a) Eulogy b) Dirge

c) Cinquain d) Emphasis

63. Match the lines spoken by “Mark Antony” in Julius Caesar with the tone

of the line

a) Caesar was my friend, faithful and just to me 1. Indignant

b) Brutus is an honourable man 2. Nostalgic

c) Did ths in Caesar seem Ambitious? 3.

Incredulous

d) Brutus says he was ambitious 4. Sarcastic

A b c d

A 2 4 1 3

B 1 2 3 4

C 3 4 2 1

D 4 1 3 2


a) Digital camera 1. Pearls in your mouth

b) Five star hold 2. Say cheese and freeze

c) Lipstick 3. Live on the lap of luxuiry

d) Toothpaste 4. Paint the town red

A b c d

A 1 2 3 4

B 3 4 1 2

C 4 1 2 3

D 2 3 4 1

65. Match the famous quotes

a) He would not let them take away my soul possessing that, I still

possess the whole 1. Samuel Johnson

b) With the low in place, the act of committing sati-ritual significance

and adjusjed to be simply crime 2. Helen keler

c) What a useful work a dictionary is! What a necessary work! The

meanings! 3. William Shakespeare

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d) knowing I love my books, he furnished me from mine own library with

volumes, that I prize above my dukedom 4. Veena

Oldenburg

5. Soldier in David copperfield

A b c d

A 2 4 5 3

B 2 4 1 3

C 5 1 2 4

D 2 4 1 5

66. In which of these stories does the character “Ivan Dmitritch” appear

a)Two friends b)The lottery ticket

c)The last leaf d)The Refuge

67. In which of these stories does the character “Ivan Dmitritch” appear

a)Two friends b)The lottery ticket

c)The last leaf d)The Refuge

68. Which of the following is not the “Romances” of William Shakespeare?

a) Romeo and Juliet b) Winter‟s tale

c) cymbeline d) Tempest

69. Ivan Dmitritch belonged to _______family

a)Upper class b)Middle class

c)Upper middle class d)Lower Class

70. Match the following

a) Bacon 1. Poet

b) Hooker 2. Literary critic

c) Milton 3. essayist

d) Boyle 4. Theologian

A b c d

A 4 3 2 1

B 2 3 4 1

C 4 2 1 3

D 3 4 1 2

71. Which of the following poem‟s poet read voraciously and became

acquainted with the bible and the works of Homer, Dante and Shakespeare?

a) Snake

b) Tiger in the zoo

c) a noiseless patient fspider

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d) The man he killed

72. “Twere best he speaks no harm of Brutus here”

Who gave this remark in “Julius Caesar” before Antony began to speak?

a) Casca

b) Amelius Lepidus

c) citizen

d) Sooth sayer

73. The winning prize amount of the roffle ticket was_______Roubles

a)80,000 b)65,000 c)70,000 d)75,000

74. Who became the first Non-European to win the noble prize in literature?

a) V.K Gokak b) Robindranath Tagore

c) R.K Narayan d) Dougles Malloch

75. Match the following

a) Death of the Goat 1. Judith Nichols

b) Sita 2. Rupert Brooke

c) The Soldier 3. Kamala Das

d) Biking 4. Toru Dutt

A b c d

A 3 1 2 4

B 2 3 4 1

C 4 3 2 1

D 3 4 2 1

76. Shakespeare married Anne Hathaway in

a) 1582 b) 1528

c) 1586 d) 1558

77. “He stalks in his vivid strips

The few steps of his cage

Identify the figure of speech

a) simile b) Metaphor

c) Alliteration d) Personification

78. The tag will contain a/an

a) Adverb b) Adjective

c) Pronoun d) Noun

79. In “The lottery Ticket”, the possibility of winning the prige ---------- them

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a) Thrilled b) Bewildered

c) Shocked d) Encouraged

80. In which year Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai received Bharatiya Janapith

Award?

a) 1975 b) 1980

c) 1984 d) 1957

81. Which among the following is not a word formed by blending?

a) Biopic b) Motel

c) Notebook d) guesstimate

82. Match the words in british English with their American English

a) Blind 1. hood

b) bonnet 2. crib

c) purse 3. Window shade

d) cot 4. wallet

A b c d

A 4 1 2 3

B 3 1 4 2

C 2 1 4 3

D 4 2 1 3

83. Match the following words and phrases.

a) Call for 1. Take care of

b) Break for 2. Improve

c) pick up 3. Start suddenly

d) look after 4. Demand

A b c d

A 3 4 1 2

B 4 2 3 1

C 4 3 2 1

D 2 4 3 1

84. Select the wod with the correct suffix.

a) tireful b) tirely

c) tirery d) tiresome

85. Fill in the blanks with suitable articles.

We are camped at Ragash kund, ----- little pend with -----------

Shepherd‟s cave on --- grassy meadow above ------- glacier.

a) the, the, a, a b) a, the, a, the

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c) the, a, the, a d) a, a, a, the

86. I was sleeping ----------- friends house --- a village suddenly I was

awakened –----------- a rumbling a thumping --------- the roof

a) in, by, on, at b) on, it, at, by

c) at, in, by, on d) by, at, on, in

87. Select the correct passive voice from the following

a) Jamuna taught us French

b) The National award was won by Rahul

c) Ravi wrote a letter to his friend

d) The headmaster declared a holiday yesterday

88. Which of the following endings is correct to form the correct complex

sentens?

They went to war ----------

a) That they might expand their territory

b) to expand their territory

c) and expanded their territory

d) in order to expand their territory

89. Which one of the following sentence has past participle in it?

a) Deceived by his friends, he lost all hope

b) As he had been deceived by his friends he lost all hope

c) He last all his hope because he was deceived by his friends

d) He was deceived by his friends and so he lost all hope

90. Find out the appropriate passive voive for the following sentence.

Will the teacher test our English ?

a) will our English be tested by the teacher?

b) will we test our English by the teacher?

c) will the teacher be tested in English?

d) will the teacher test my English?

91. Match the poem with poet

a) The crocodile 1. William shakespeare

b) Poison Tree 2. William Wordsworth

c) The hollow crown 3. Lewis carroll

d) Lines written in early spring 4. William blake

A b c d

A 3 4 1 2

B 4 3 2 1

C 2 1 4 3

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D 1 2 3 4

92. The words “Elbow” and “Below” are examples of

a) Paprika b) plain infinitive

c) Noun d) Anagrams

93. ----------- are the words with same sound and same spelling but with

different meaning

a) Homophones b) homonyms

c) Tounge twister d) odd word

94. Rabindranath Tagore was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in -----

----------

a) 1911 b) 1913 c) 1915 d) 1917

95. Which of the following is not the work of O. Henry?

a) A short in the dark

b) After twenty years

c) Ransom of Red chief

d) Retrieved-Reformation

96. Who among the following is the first non-american who got “Chubb

Fellowship” in yale university?

a) kris srikkanth

b) Rushin bond

c) J.Nehru

d) Annadurai

97. Which of the following is not the work of khushwant singh?

a) We Indians

b) Success Mantra

c) Death at my doorstep

d) Blue umbrella

98. “And miles to go before I sleep”

This is a famous line written by “Robert Frost” in which of his following

poem?

a) Road not taken

b) After apple picking

c) west running brook

d) stopping by woods on a snowy evening

99. Match the following:

a) Unbreakable 1. Annadurai

b) Convocation addresses 2. Ruskin bond

c) Daffodils 3. Mary kom

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d) When the trees walked 4. William wordsworth

A b c d

A 1 3 2 4

B 3 1 2 4

C 3 1 4 2

D 1 2 3 4

100. Which of the following is not the work of William Wordsworth?

a) To the cuckoo b) tables turned

c) the white peacock d) few miles above tintern abbey

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