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Q1. Fill in the blank with suitable word : My friend always presers …………… clothes.

lose

loose

loss

louse

Q2. Find out the error : Ram and Rahim go to school everyday.

Ram and Rahim

to school

everyday

Q3. Find out the error : He got an employment their.

got

an employment

their

Q4. Comprehension : A team of French underwater archaeologists is searching the ocean floor for the remains of the great lighthouse of Alexandria, the world's first known lighthouse and one of the wonders of the ancient times. The 122m lighthouse stood on the island of pharaohs at the entrance to Alexandria harbourin Egypt. Where are the scientists searching the remains of the lighthouse?

on the sea coast near Alexandria

on the sea coast near the Pharaohs island

on the ocean floor ot the sea

throughout Egypt

Q5. Comprehension : It is the mad craze for speed that is responsible for many motor accidents. Only last year I witnessed what might have been a fatal accident on the Anna Road. Here the word "fatal" means.

real

light

serious

end in death

Q6. Select the correct sentence :

Do you take pleasure in bringing people together?

Do you take pleasures in bringing people together?

Do you take pleasure in bringing about people together?

Do you take pleasure at bringing people together.

Q7. Select the correct sentence :

she born in 1925

she was born in 1925

she were born in 1925

she is born in 1925

Q8. Reds live in the dry open country. They are the best jumpers of all kangaroos and can cover 27 feet in one jump. They are also fine swimmers. The term 'Reds' refers to

Red Indians

Atheletes

Kangaroos

Swimmers

Q9. Identify the American English equivalent to the word 'leader'.

monitor

head

chief

superior

Q10. From the given statements about Kalpana Chawla, pick out the one that is incorrect :

I was not born for one corner 'was the philosophy adopted by Kalpana Chawla'.

She followed her dreams.

She carved an identify for herself.

Being the only girl pursing Aeronautical Engineering, she did not enjoy it.

Q11. Match the following : A. Going for Water 1. John Masefield B. A psalm of life 2. H.W. Longfellow C. Laugh and Be marry 3. William Wordsworth D. The solitary Reaper 4. Robert Frost

a1, b3, c4, d2

a3, b1, c2, d4

a4, b2, c1, d3

a1, b2, c4, d3

Q12. Match the following : A. Be the best 1. D.H. Lawrence B. Manliness 2. Ralph Waldo Emerson C. Snake 3. Douglas Malloch D. The Apology 4. Rudyard Kipling

a3, b4, c1, d2

a3, b1, c2, d4

a1, b2, c3, d4

a2, b3, c1, d4

Q13. Match the following : A. Migrant Bird 1. Khalil Gibran B. English Words 2. Walt Whitman C. Earth 3. Faminda Y. Basheer D. O captain! My captain! 4. V.K. Gokak

a2, b1, c4, d3

a1, b3, c4, d2

a3, b2, c1, d4

a3, b4, c1, d2

Q14. Select the correct sentence : My brother ……………… for Chennai yesterday.

is leaving

leaves

left

has left

Q15. Select the correct sentence : Library ………… by all types of men.

was visited

is visited

are visited

were visited

Q16. Select the correct sentence : My proposal …………….by him.

will object

objected

will be objected

objects

Q17. Select the correct sentence : Petrol ………..by the government.

is supplied

supplies

cupplied

be supplied

Q18. Fill in the blank using the options given below : ………………..grammatical rules is sometimes difficult.

remember

to be remembered

remembering

to be remembering

Q19. Mark the correct past participle of the word given below : Strive

strived

strove

stroven

striven

Q20. Fill in the blank with the corect word : (Homophone) The ……….in geometry was an extremely difficult one.

caurse

course

cosh

corse

Q21. Fill in the blank with the correct word : You have to ………….the inconvenience.

bear

bare

care

hare

Q22. Find out the error : He says that his examinations starts from Monday.

He says

that his

examinations starts

from Monday

Q23. Find out the error : Either he or I is to be blamed for this.

either he or I

to be blamed

for this

Q24. Comprehension : Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968) an American Negro leader, was a firm believer in the principle of nonviolence of Mahatma Gandhi. Martin Luther king believed in

leadership

non-violence

Gandhiji's principle of non-violence

Gandhiji

Q25. Comprehension : The golden rule in composition is to prevent mistakes. The pupil learns nothing by making mistakes except how to write bad English. The best method of writing composition is to

learn English well

prevent mistakes

not learning

handwriting becomes good

Q26. Select the correct sentence :

We stop work early on Saturday

Earth on Saturday we work stop

We work stop on early Saturday

On Saturday we stop early work

Q27. Select the correct sentence :

Time and tide wait for none

Time and Tide waits for none

Time and tide are waiting for none

Time and tide were waiting for none

Q28. The rhymes scheme of the following lines is ……………. "For Oh, Say the Children, We are weary, And we cannot run or leap - If we cared for any meadow, it were merely To drop down in them and sleep".

a a b b

a a a b

a b a b

a b b a

Q29. Read the given poetic lines and answer the question that follows : "As Geode can split to reveal A dazzling sight to view" When does a Geode split? It splits when ………..

it is broken with a stone

flung against a wall

water seeps inside it

dried in the hot sun

Q30. In which poem does the following line occur. I'll be full of rocks, crannies, valleys and fountains.

My grandmother's house

no men are foreign

you can't be that, no, you can't be that

Don't Quit

Q31. Pick out the correct pair from the option which does not associate with painter and paintings : 1. Moliere, 2. Francesco Pesallino, 3. Botticelli, 4. Allessio Boldovinetti

1 & 3

1 & 2

2 & 3

1 & 4

Q32. Who among the following is referred to as 'War-poet'?

Walt whitman

John Masefield

Thomas Hardy

Douglas Malloch

Q33. Choose the correct option which is not the nationalityof the writer :

Anton Chekov-Russian

Pearl S. Buck-china

Saki-Burma

Walt Whitman -Scotland

Q34. Select the correct tense : When I reached the railway station, the train …………already

has left

was left

had left

left

Q35. Select the correct tense : We …………(celebrate) oursilver jubilee year in 2015 A.D.

will be celebrating

would celebrate

will have been celebrating

will have been celebrated

Q36. Select the correct voice : His parents …………..him a martyr.

named

were named

are named

have been named

Q37. Select the correct passive voice for "Shut the door".

you shut the door

the door was shut by you

let the door be shut

let the door shut

Q38. Fill in the blank : Figs are good …………

eating

eat

eats

to eat

Q39. Fill in the blank with correct 'gerund' : I am looking forward …….you.

to seeing

to see

see

seeing

Q40. Choose the correct homeophone and fill in the blank : He has a will of ……………

steal

steel

stele

steil

Q41. Choose the correct homophone and fill in the blank : You should fill in the …………correctly.

farm

form

firm

furm

Q42. Find out the error : He roared as lion.

roared

a lion

Q43. Find out the error : Only a few people comes to the meeting.

Only a few

people

comes

to the meeting

Q44. Comprehension : Bride burning is one of the social evils. Brides who fail to bring money from their parents to satisfy the demand of their in - laws are tortured. The social evil mentioned in this passage is …

child marriage

child labour

bride burning

None of these

Q45. Comprehension : Today the human life and rase, in general are facing a very serious threat that can wipe out life from this earth. The danger is environmental pollution. Today people face the danger of

disaster

hazards

pollution

disease

Q46. Select the correct sentence :

neither is he intelligent nor is he hard working

he neither is intelligent nor hardworking

Neither he is intelligent nor is he hardworking

Neither intelligent nor hardworking is he.

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