ler Sl. 0204341 JSTEO Register | Number No. 2014 GENERAL ENGLISH WITH GENERAL STUDIES Time Allowed : 3 Hours] (Maximum Marks : 300 Read the following instructions carefully before you begin to answer the questions. 9% 10. cre 12, 13. IMPORTANT INSTRUCTIONS This Booklet has a cover (this page) which should not be opened till the invigilator gives signal to open 3 at the commencement of the examination. As soon as the signal is received you should tear the right Side of the booklet cover carefully to open the booklet. Then proceed to answer the questions. ‘This Question Booklet contains 200 questions. Prior to attempting to answer the candidates are requested to check whether all the questions are there in series without any omission and ensure there are no blank pages in the question booklet. In case any defect in the Question Paper is noticed it shall be reported to the Invigilator within first 10 minutes. Answer all questions. AM questions carry equal marks. 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Match the following sentenees in Column A with the patterns in Column B and select the correct answer from the codes given Column A Column B (@)_ We call Gandhi ‘Mahatma’. 1. SVCA (b) Velu grew tired-after the match. 2. SVIODO (© We wear woollen clothes in winter. 3. SVOC 4, @ Kumar gave me the right answer. SVOA @) ) © @ 2 wa 4 a ow ee 1 2 1 4 wie ee 5. Select the compound sentence (A) _ Providing direction to your behaviour, goals guide your thoughts. @) * As the goals guide your thoughts, direction is provided. © Directions are provided in order to guide your goals. ©) Goals provide direction to your behaviour and guide your thoughts. 6. _ Select the correct verb to complete each command to form imperative sentence. ‘Verb Command (@) Find 1 Clearly (®) Dial 2. Carefully © Explain 3. Aphone @ Listen 4. 108 @) &) © @ ws 4 1 2 Oy eaecraeeoceaaid sera O1 3 esceee: @ 2 1 Cee) JSTEO 4 510. 11 Fill in the blanks with correct word of Homophone from the options given below : ‘The old man couldn't bear the pain walking on the rugged road after the rains, (A) bore DP) bare (© beer ©) bar Select the correct sentence from options given below : (A) The peoples of Jhansi welcomed Lakshmibai to their hearts. @Sl_ The people of Jhansi welcomed Lakshmibai into their hearts, (©) The people of Jhansi welcomed Lakshmibai in hearts. (D) The peoples of Jhansi welcomed Lakshmibai in his hearts. Select the correct adjective form for the underlined word from the options given below : ‘There is tears for his love.... death for his ambition, (A) ambitionful (B) ambitionous © — ambitioning WI ambitious ‘Choose the option with the right meaning of the idiom given below : In the pink of one’s health (A) tobe extremely happy (B) complete surprise QP) extremely healthy (D) painting the place pink Re-arrange the following sentence into a meaningful one A gentleman/has a dog to sell/who/wishes to go abroad. (A) A gentleman has to sell who wishes to go abroad a dog. @) A gentleman who wishes to go abroad has a dog to sell. (©) A gentleman has to go abroad wishes to sell a dog who, (D) A gentleman who wishes to eell a dog has to go abroad. 5 JSTEO (Turn over12, 13. 4. 15, 16. JSTEO 6 Reading the passage and choose the false statement from the options given below : » While they are students, their attitude towards the Government of the country such as it may be good, bad or indifferent, should be one of acquiescence, loyal acquiescence. (A) Students should be loyal to their countey, (B) Students should accept the laws of their country. ©) Students should follow the code and law of their county. @) Students should take part in politics. Read the passage and select the correct sentence from the options given below Built in the year 1010 by King Raja Raja Chola stood a symbol of flourishing, sculptural expertise and rich culture of ancient India. (A) King Raja Raja Chola born in 1010. (B) King Raja Raja was an expert in sculpture, (©) The Big temple stood a place of King Raja Raja Chola’s court. @)_ The Big temple stood a symbol of flourishing sculptural expertise and rich culture of ancient India. Read the passage and select the incorrect statement to the passage from the given options : ‘Teachers are earnestly requested to discourage note learning from prepared notes and assist students to write on their own. (A) Teachers should insist the students to follow their notes. (B) Teachers discourage by hearting the lesson. (©) Teachers should encourage students to write on their own. QP) Teachers should buy and give the bazzar guide to students. Which one of the following drama is not written by Shakespeare? (A) Richard IT @f) Edward I (© Henry 1V @) Henry VII Seléct the correct answer for the question from the options given below = Looking quickly over a section of the text to get a general idea of the meaning is referred to (A) ~ Scanning B) Note making M Skimming ©) Summarising tt18. 19, 20. 21. “A newly discovered treasure For you to cherish and to prize” Mention the poem in which the following lines appear? (A) Off to Outer Space Tomorrow Morning (B) Is life but a dreams? (©) The road not taken. Of) Beautiful inside Select the correct answer from the options given below to fill the blank : was the first woman in India tofly a plane. (A) Emile Dickson @) Sarla Thakral (© Agarwal Preethi : ©) Rajalakshmi ‘An old man was walking through the town, drawing his tattered cloak closer to shield his body from the cold and biting wind. : Choose the correct synonym for the underlined word : (A) required 8) ragged (© rapid @) rendered Choose the American English equivalent of the word “goods train”. (A) Luggage train (B) . Baggage train (©) Carriage train @S Freight train. “_______ felt ashamed of his self-pity. He realized how rich he was. He had two legs and he could walk”. Fill in the blanks with right character. (A) Kesavan Nair (B) Mrs. Edith Allred @) Harold Abbott @) Alice 7 JSTEO [Turn over22. Which of the following line belongs to Lewis Carroll? ° (A) Exult, O shores! and ring 0 bella! (B) Iwill be centre of my ravity, a universe of one (©) Long after it was heard no more ©) Is.all our life, then but a dream 23. Which of the following pooms is written by an American poet? 77 Going for water ®) Gitanjali 7 (©) Women’s Rights @) English words 24. — There is a house now far away where once I received love ...... that women died .. the poet received love and safety in ——————— house (A) Unele’s house B) Mother's house (© Friend's house 4 OF) Grandma's house 25. For Brutus as you know, was Caesar's angel. Judge, O you gods, how dearly Caesar loved him! Who was Caesar's angel? (A) Casca @®) Antony © Cassius eH! Brutus JSTEO 8 128, 29, 30. tt In which of the poem do the following lines occur? “God made Heaven and Earth for joy He took in a rhyme” (A) To India-My Native Land @I Laugh and Be Merry (©) NoMen are Foreign @) A Tiger in the Zoo ‘The fear of heights is known as (A) hydrophobia @P) scrophobia (C) claustrophobia @) xenophobia Identify the poet who wrote the following lines = “It isn't by size that you win or you fail- Be the best of whatever you are!” . (A) William Wordsworth (B) Norman Nicholson (© VK. Gokak 3) Douglas Malloch “But he’s locked in a concrete cell, His strength behind bars” Which animal is kept in cage pathetically which would have been marching with the grandeur and ferocity in its natural habitat? (A) ALion ®) ABear © AFox OF) A Tiger Read the passage and select the answer for the question from the options given below : “Ltold them : Tm not going to be a DJ”, Who is referred to a DJ? (A) District Judge i XB) Dise Jockey (©) Divine Jocker (D) Disclosed Joker 9 JSTEO [Turn over31. 32, 33. 34. 35. JSTEO 10 “A Slender tinkling fall that made”. ° In the above quoted lines from Going for water by Robert Frost the figure of speech that oceur is (A) | Simile W) Anaphora (© Metaphor @) Personification In which of the poem does the following occur? We can't all be captains, we've got to be erew WA) Be the Best ®) Snake © Gitanjali ©) Women's Rights ‘The State U.RAnanthamoorthy was born, brought up and lived in till his death was (A). Tamil Nadu @) Karnataka (C) Bengal (D) Andra Pradesh The following poetic lines are from If this be error and upon me prov'd, I never write, nor no man ever lov'd (A) William Wordsworth 4} William Shakespeare (©) D.H. Lawrence (@) Walt Whitman Which of the following is a drama? | (A) Hiroshima (B) APealm of Life (© Bon Voyage W5) Julius Caesar t37. 28. 39. tt Anomalous finites is the term used for the ———_——— auxiliaries. @ 2 ® ou oH. 24 @) 34 “There were twelve peach-trees that in the spring-time broke out into delicate blossoms of pink and pear!’ The colour of the blossom is (A) Pink and Blue WM Pink and Pearl (©) Pink and Red () Pink and Yellow Which state does the poet V.K. Gokak belong to? (A) Uttar Pradesh @®) Bihar (©) Haryana OM Karnataka In whose Biography do you find this statement? ‘The wife is not the husband’s slave but his companion and his help mate (A) Pearl S. Buck 1) Mahatma Gandhi (©) Sarojini Naidu (©) Nelson Mandela 1 JSTEO [Turn over40. Choose the author who has written the prose "Those Three Bears’. (A) ®) A © RW. Emerson Helen Keller Ruskin Bond Khushwant Singh Al. “The only thing to kill is “impatience and rashness”, because it makes you act without applying-thought” ‘This advice is given by @) I Viewanathan Anand Rahul @®) Diwakar (D) Ranji 42, Match the title of the poems under Column A with the names of poets under Column B and choose the correct codes. @ ) © @ io) ®) oO JSTEO Column A ‘The Selfish Giant ‘The Open Window Two Friends The Last Leaf @ 6 © 3 4 1 1 2 3 4 1 2 4 3 2 Column B Saki Guy de Maupassant O' Henry Oscar Wilde 12 54. 45. tt The “Girl Star” — Anita Kushwaha lives in a village in the district of (A) Delhi (B) Haryana Of) Bihar ©) Chennai Match the short stories under Column-A with their Authors under Column-B and Choose the correct code. Column A Column B (@) Swept away 1. Oscar Wilde (b) A Close Encounter Mackinlay Kantor (© Caught Sneezing 3. Rex Coker (@ AManwhohadnoEyes 4, Susannah Hickling @ (b) © @ wa 3 1 2 ® 2 fd © 3 deseeseg eeneea| @) 2 4 3 1 Acquiring knowledge and acquiring character is the two fold duty to be acquired by the students. Who said this statement? 4) Gopala Krishna Gokhale @®) APJ. Abdul Kalam (©) Ruskin Bond (D) Hope Spencer 13 JSTEO [Turn over46. 47. 48. 49. 50, SSTEO : “4 “The Wings of Fire” is a autobiography by ——————. o (A) Sachin Tendulkar (B) Kamala Das (©) RK Narayanan @S) Dr. AP.J. Abdul Kalam A masterpiece of the Egyptians cultural heritage is (A) Taj Mahal (B) Freedom Statue (©) Gandhi Mandapam WA Tomb for a Pharaoh i ‘The lesson, “The Model Millionaire” is written by. 4 Oscar Wilde ®) Kalpana Sharma (© Dr. APJ. Abdul Kalam (@) Khushwant Singh Kumar enjoyed his life in the“ in the short story, “The Summer Flight”. (A) Singapore (B) England (© United Russia (9) United States ‘The autobiography, “Playing it, my way” is written by (A) Viswanath Anand B) Dony oO) sachin Tendulkar () PT. Usha tt52. 58. 54. tt Match the following phrase with their meaning-and select the answer from the codes given below Phrases Meaning (@ givein 1. return or relinquish () give up 2 move back (© geton 3. yield (@) get back 4, cope with @ ) © @), @ 3 4 1 a @B) 2 3 4 1 O4 2 3 1 3 1 4 2 Select the correct option from given stating the kind of sentence : Please leave your footwear outside the hall. (A) Statement (B) Interrogative (©) Exclamatory (04) Imperative Select the correct tense form of verb from the below given options : ‘The Queen bee with her workers over the hive. (A) preside (27? presides (C) are presiding (D) have been presiding Identify which part the given sentence has an error. Have anvone seen my purse? A BC oD WN have (B) anyone (©) seen () my purse 15 SSTEO [Turn over55. Find out suitable verb for the sentence from the options given below’: The street dog (bite) a small boy ten minutes ago. A) bit (B) has bitten © | bites (D) was biting 56, Select the compound sentence. V5) Man proposes, but God disposes. (B) Where ignorance is bliss, tis folly to be wise. (© They serve God well who serve his creatures. (D) My heart leaps up when I behold a rainbow in the sky. 57. Match Column A with Column B and select the correct code given below : Column A Column B (a) Please avoid use of plastic bags. 1. Assertive sentence @@) Why are you in a hurry? Exclamatory sentence © What a simple question it is ! 3. Imperative sentence (d) Education refines one’s mind. 4, Interrogative sentence (a) ) © @ W's 4 2 1 B® 1 2 3 4 ©4 8 2 1 : ©) 2 1 4 a JSTEO 16I 2 ! | 62. t Choosing correct option from the given to complete the sentence If we had saved rain water more in ponds and lakes (A) We can survive the drought. : (B) We could survive the drought. (©) We would survive the drought. WI) We could have survived the drought. (A) Oxes @ Oxen (© Oxers () Oxens Identify the sentence pattern : Surprisingly, Meena presented Arun a gold watch. () SVOA (8) Asoc ‘ef asvioDo @) svo Find out the correct question Tag : They came by car 5) didn’t they? @) do they? (©) isn'tit? @) are they? Choose the correct synonyms of the underlined word in this sentence Every one has an indispensable role to play. (A) short BI) essential (© major : @) clean 17 JSTEO [Turn over63. 64. 66, JSTEO 18 Match the underlined words in column ‘A’ with their parts of speech in column ‘B’ and self: the correct answer from the codes given Column A. Column B (a) Ram studies well i verb () She is a nurse 2 object (©) We ate fruits 3. complement (@ Lwrote a novel 4. subject @) co) © (dy Sed ea tee ate B® 3 a 1 2 © 2 4 3 1 @) 1 8 4 2 As he was ambitious, I slew him. Here slew means 1 killed (B) praised (C) encouraged (D) induced Complete the following poetic line choosing from the options given Ifyou can’t be the sun, (be ahero OF bea star (©) bea leader (D) bea player Fill in the blank with the correct answer from the following options . “My experiments,with Truth” is an autobiography of. (A) Nehru (B) Indira Gandhi (Mahatma Gandhiji @) Winston Churchill wt68. 69. t Select the correct answer to complete the sentence from options given below : ‘That Rani Lakshmibai travelled 24 hours at a stretch with her child on her back. speaks of 9) her dynamism and bravery {B) her desire to-escape (©) her weakness (D) her selfishness Read the lines and choose the answer to fill the blank from the options given below : “O! ye wheels : Stop be silent to-day” ‘The children want the wheels to stop because (A) _ they want to repair the wheels. (B) they want to break the wheels, {9 they are very weary and tired, (D) they have to oil the wheels. Lalitha has medical leave and is expected to join duty next Monday. (A) took (B) take WS) taken {D) tooked Identify the poetic line that differs in figure of speech from the other poetic lines (A) Speech that came like leech-eraft (B) Like a golden swarm of fireflies you came (C) He lifted his head from his drinking, as cattle do 6} You were the dawn and sunlight filled the spaces 19 JSTEO {Turn overa 72. 73. 74. 1. Which of the following poem is written by Walt Whitman? td (A) Off to Outer Space Tomorrow Morning @) Be the Best fo Captain! My Captain! (D) Sonnet No. 116 Match the following poetic lines in Column A with the poets in Column B and select the correct code Column A Column B (@ Nomaps, no boundaries 1. Robert Frost to block (®) The well was dry beside 2. Thomas Hardy the door (©) Trust no future, how'er 3. Famida Y. Basheer pleasant (@) Right many a nipperkin! @ o © @ FLW. Longfellow (Aedes eeeeaaa eens @® 2 3 i oh 3 1 4 2 @ 3 2 Ld Bring out the novel which is not written by an Indian author (A) Coolie ({B) Waiting for the Mahatma (©) Kanthapura ©) Carry on, Jeeves Kalpana Chawla was born in which country? (China ®) SriLanka India (D) America Choose the birth place of Kalpana Chawla (A) Bombay of Haryana (Karnal) © Delhi (D) Thanjavur JSTEO 20 e77. tt Which of the following is not a poem? (A) Beautiful Inside ®) Shilpi (Of) The sun beam ©) Be the Best Which of the following lines belong to Lewis Carroll's “Is Life But A Dream”? (A) Love's not time's fool (B)_ Be the best of whatever you are! (© Will noone tell me what she sings? (OF) Echoes fade’and memories die the journey matters as much as the goallisten to the ... Take good care of our fragile planet”. nature ‘These are the words of (A) Sunitha Williams (8) Rakhesh Sharma © Dr. APJ. Abdul Kalam 9 Kalpana Chawla In whieh of the poem do the following lines occur? “Like gnomes that hid as from the moon” WI Going for Water (@) The Piano (©) Migrant Bird ©) Shilpi 21 sounds of JSTEO [Turn over80. 81. 82. 83. 84. 85. ‘Mention the poem in which the following lines appear “Stalking the length of his cage ignoring visitors... .. (A) Snake @ A Teer in the Zoo (C) Foot Prints: (D) No Men are Foreign From the given options, choose the poet who has written “Inclusion”. (A) Thomas Hardy ®) William Wordsworth Of) Dipti Bhatia (D) Tagore “The ery of the children” — this poem tells about the theme of .. (A) Time passing 9) Child Labour (© Work is Worship ©) Willing to work Which of the following poem is written by William Shakespeare? 6) Sonnet No. 116 (B) The Road Not Taken (©) The Apology (D) APealm of Life “Man's little Day in haste we spend.. ‘Man's little Day in this line refers to (A) One day (B) Whole day A) Entire life time (D) Eighty eight years “It is not so expresa'd, but what of that? “Twere good you do so much for charity” What is expected to do for charity? (A) atranging a lawyer (A) arranging a surgeon (C) arranging a teacher (D) arranging a technician JSTEO 2287. 88. 89, nt Whose autobiography is this? One Life is Not Enough WK. Natwar Singh ®) - AP. Abdul Kalam (© Jawaharlal Nehru (D) Malala Which of the following works is not a poem? (A) Tiger (B) A Tiger in the Zoo (© Snake GD) Road To Success “He belongs to the rare breed of individuals who are gifted to inspire and lead”. Whom does ‘He’ refer to? (A) Sunil Sharma (®) Tushar (© Alka Sharma @) Diwakar Identify the option that contains the answer to the following statement, was an ancient Indian astronomer, who explained scientifically that the earth rotates on its own axis 67 Aryabhatta ®) APJ. Abdul Kalam (© Kalpana Chawla (D) Sunita Williams 23 JSTEO [Turn over90. ot. 92, 93. ‘The story “Ranji’s Wonderful Bat” is written by (A) Tagore (B) Manohar Devadoss (Of! Ruskin Bond D) Oscar Wilde Fillin the blanks with the correct (tense) verb forms given in sequence We ————— (live) in this house since 2011 which ———_—— (build) in 2010. (A) are living, is built (B) were living, were built (©) _ have lived, has built OF have been living, was built Select the author name from the options given below for the short story “The Guide”, (A) Sarojini Naidu (B) William Blake ©) RK Narayanan () Emile Dickens Match the characters in Column A with the authors in Column B and select the correct answer from the codes given below. Column A’ Column B (@) Hughie 1. _ Kushwant Singh @®) Gunga Ram 2. Ahtushi Deshpande (© Khem Nam 3. William Shakespeare (@ Julius Caesar 4 Oscar Wilde @) ) © (@) @ 3 4 1 2 @® 1 2 3 4 © 3 L 4 2 Oa es ee JSTEO 24 tt95. 96. 97. 1 ‘The Poetess who wrote the poem ‘Women’s Rights’ was (A) Sarojini Naidu (®) Elizabeth Barrett Browning 47 Annie Louisa Walker @) Kamala Das “Me and Good Lord are hand-flying this plane". Whose words are these? @) Cabuk ®) White ©) Grimm GD Verry Among the following poems which one is written by Tagore? 1A) Whore The Mind ia Without Fear (B) Prayer of a Sportsman (C) Don't Quit (@) Laugh and be Merry Our Government passed the “Right to Education Act” in April (A) 2000 @) 2010 (©) 2005 @) 2008 25 JSTEO [Turn over98. 99. 100. JSTEO 26 Match the characters, with the relevant story title and select the correct codes given below? Column A Column B {a) Masha 1 O’ Henry (b) Johnsy 2. Bonnie Chamberlain (© Judas Iscariot 3. Tammy Ruggles @ Sam 4, Anton Chekhov @) ) © a) A 3 2 1 4 wh 4 1 2 3 O-4 2 3 1 M2 4 1 a Match the title of the poems under Column A with the names of poets under Column B and choose the correct codes. Column A Column B (a) The Piano 1. Rudyard Kipling (b) Migrant Bird 2. Elizabeth Barret Browning (© Manliness 3. DH, Lawrence (@) The Cry of the Children 4. Famida Y. Basheer aaa (2c © 4 3 2 Ha D3 4 1 2 “Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life-think of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, every part of your body, be full of that idea....”. This is said by (A) Swamy Chachudananda (B) Swamy Premanand (©) Swamy Kiyubananda @) Swamy Vivekananda t