English - 4 (Stenographer)

Question 1 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the word opposite in meaning to the given word.

Heterogeneous

Original
Consummate
Horrible
Similar

Question 2 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the option for the underlined phrase in the sentence so as to make the sentence grammatically correct and meaningful.

Life takes meaning not only from within, but from the outside world that determines one's direction of life.

but from the outside world
but also from the outside world
but the outside world
but the outside world also
but from the world that is outside us

Question 3 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the word or phrase from the given options which is most similar in meaning to the keyword.

Niggardly

Benevolent
Malevolent
Miserly
Generous

Question 4 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Fill in the blank with a suitable phrase/idiom:

The bridegroom was impeccably dressed for the wedding, not _________.

a hand on a platter
hairy at the heels
tearing his hair out
a hair out of the place

Question 5 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: In the following question, a sentence has been given in Direct/Indirect form. Out of the four alternatives suggested, select the one which best expresses the same sentence in Indirect/Direct form.

Modi said, “I met Obama last week”.

Modi said that he had met Obama last week.
Modi said that he had met Obama the previous week.
Modi said that I had met Obama last week.
Modi said that I had met Obama the previous week.

Question 6 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the word/phrase which replaces the given expression.

An expression used to convey praise

rebuke
euphoria
cliche
compliment

Question 7 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Fill in the blank with the correct preposition.

He readily complied _________ my request.

in
for
with
(No preposition)

Question 8 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: In the following sentence, the parts marked P, Q, R and S have been jumbled up. Rearrange these parts in the right sequence to produce a correct sentence. Choose the option that shows the correct sequence of the parts.

When I entered her drawing room

P. showed me
Q. the old lady
R. with gold plated legs
S. her beautiful marble table

QPSR
PRQS
RSPQ
SPQR

Question 9 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Change the voice from active to passive and select the correct option.

A stone struck me on the head.

I was struck by a stone on the head.
My head was struck by a stone.
I had been struck by a stone on the head.
I was struck on the head by a stone.

Question 10 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Some parts of the sentence are underlined. One of the parts may have an error. Find out which part of the sentence has an error. If there is no error, your answer should be option (4).

The book contains fifteen leaves; (1) each of them (2) is of a different colour. (3) No error (4)

(1)
(2)
(3)
(4)

Question 11 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Fill in the blank (ii).

Directions: Read the following passage having some numbered blanks.

Of all the countless things my son and I learned from the professor, the meaning of the square root was ____(i)____ the most important. No doubt he would have been bothered by my use of the word countless — too sloppy, for he believed that the very origins of the universe could be explained in the exact language of numbers — but I don't know how ____(ii)____ to put it. He taught us about enormous prime numbers with more than a hundred thousand places and the largest number of all, which was used in mathematical proofs and was in the 'Guinness Book of Records' and about the idea of something beyond infinity. As ____(iii)____ as all this was, it could never match the experience of simply spending time with the professor. I ____(iv)____ when he taught us about the spell cast by placing numbers under this square root sign. It was a rainy evening in early April. My son's schoolbag ____(v)____ abandoned on the rug; the light in the professor's study was dim. Outside the window, the blossoms on the apricot tree were heavy with rain.

further
more
added
else
different

Question 12 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Fill in the blank (i).

Directions: Read the following passage having some numbered blanks.

Of all the countless things my son and I learned from the professor, the meaning of the square root was ____(i)____ the most important. No doubt he would have been bothered by my use of the word countless — too sloppy, for he believed that the very origins of the universe could be explained in the exact language of numbers — but I don't know how ____(ii)____ to put it. He taught us about enormous prime numbers with more than a hundred thousand places and the largest number of all, which was used in mathematical proofs and was in the 'Guinness Book of Records' and about the idea of something beyond infinity. As ____(iii)____ as all this was, it could never match the experience of simply spending time with the professor. I ____(iv)____ when he taught us about the spell cast by placing numbers under this square root sign. It was a rainy evening in early April. My son's schoolbag ____(v)____ abandoned on the rug; the light in the professor's study was dim. Outside the window, the blossoms on the apricot tree were heavy with rain.

amid
among
along
during
beside

Question 13 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Fill in the blank (iii).

Directions: Read the following passage having some numbered blanks.

Of all the countless things my son and I learned from the professor, the meaning of the square root was ____(i)____ the most important. No doubt he would have been bothered by my use of the word countless — too sloppy, for he believed that the very origins of the universe could be explained in the exact language of numbers — but I don't know how ____(ii)____ to put it. He taught us about enormous prime numbers with more than a hundred thousand places and the largest number of all, which was used in mathematical proofs and was in the 'Guinness Book of Records' and about the idea of something beyond infinity. As ____(iii)____ as all this was, it could never match the experience of simply spending time with the professor. I ____(iv)____ when he taught us about the spell cast by placing numbers under this square root sign. It was a rainy evening in early April. My son's schoolbag ____(v)____ abandoned on the rug; the light in the professor's study was dim. Outside the window, the blossoms on the apricot tree were heavy with rain.

interesting
alluring
amazing
enchanting
delightful

Question 14 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Fill in the blank (iv).

Directions: Read the following passage having some numbered blanks.

Of all the countless things my son and I learned from the professor, the meaning of the square root was ____(i)____ the most important. No doubt he would have been bothered by my use of the word countless — too sloppy, for he believed that the very origins of the universe could be explained in the exact language of numbers — but I don't know how ____(ii)____ to put it. He taught us about enormous prime numbers with more than a hundred thousand places and the largest number of all, which was used in mathematical proofs and was in the 'Guinness Book of Records' and about the idea of something beyond infinity. As ____(iii)____ as all this was, it could never match the experience of simply spending time with the professor. I ____(iv)____ when he taught us about the spell cast by placing numbers under this square root sign. It was a rainy evening in early April. My son's schoolbag ____(v)____ abandoned on the rug; the light in the professor's study was dim. Outside the window, the blossoms on the apricot tree were heavy with rain.

retrospect
reminisce
commemorate
memorise
remember

Question 15 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Fill in the blank (v).

Directions: Read the following passage having some numbered blanks.

Of all the countless things my son and I learned from the professor, the meaning of the square root was ____(i)____ the most important. No doubt he would have been bothered by my use of the word countless — too sloppy, for he believed that the very origins of the universe could be explained in the exact language of numbers — but I don't know how ____(ii)____ to put it. He taught us about enormous prime numbers with more than a hundred thousand places and the largest number of all, which was used in mathematical proofs and was in the 'Guinness Book of Records' and about the idea of something beyond infinity. As ____(iii)____ as all this was, it could never match the experience of simply spending time with the professor. I ____(iv)____ when he taught us about the spell cast by placing numbers under this square root sign. It was a rainy evening in early April. My son's schoolbag ____(v)____ abandoned on the rug; the light in the professor's study was dim. Outside the window, the blossoms on the apricot tree were heavy with rain.

dropped
placed
plopped
kept
lay

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