NTSE Language - 2013

Directions: The following question has the second sentence missing. Choose the appropriate sentence from the given options to complete it.

A. By climbing summit of Mount Everest you are overwhelmed by a deep sense of joy and thankfulness.
B. __________________________________________________
C. The experience changes you completely and you are never the same again.

Directions: The following five sentences come from a paragraph. The first and the last sentences are given.
Choose the order in which the three sentences (PQR) should appear to complete the paragraph.

S1 One major problem that the world faces today is the rapid growth of population.
S2 _______________________________________________________________
S3 _______________________________________________________________
S4 _______________________________________________________________
S5 This will cause serious problems of hunger and overcrowding.
P – This is often referred to as population explosion.
Q – It is not so much the actual population, but its increase that is alarming.
R – Experts predict that by 2020, there will be about 10 billion people in the world.

Choose from the options given below:

Directions: The following five sentences come from a paragraph. The first and the last sentences are given.
Choose the order in which the three sentences (PQR) should appear to complete the paragraph.

S1 Supposing you have to make a payment of Rs. 100, you could do so in coins.
S2 _______________________________________________________________
S3 _______________________________________________________________
S4 _______________________________________________________________
S5 This paper money saves you from a lot of trouble and also saves precious metal.
P – The person to whom the payment is being made would also find it very tedious.
Q – So the government gives you the alternative of paper money.
R – But so many coins would be very cumbersome to carry around.

Choose from the options given below:

The farmers consider sparrows a nuisance because

Directions: Read the following passage and answer the question that follows:
Years ago, people woke up to find sparrows chirping in their backyard. A noisy lot, they took grains right from your hand if you had befriended them. They got over their fear easily and demanded food or water with their loud chirping if you had forgotten to give them their regular share of food. Tiny pink beaks opened to morsels of food or worms sometimes regurgitated by the parent birds. We had a splendid time watching the bird family bond and as children sat gazing at them as they picked up grain or splashed about us in muddy water.
Many people have written poems and lyrics on sparrows, their noisy chirps, their friendly nature, and their spotty feathers. Sparrows were a menace on the fields. There were guards with slings and stones to chase them away as they ate grains from standing crops. Now, people are trying to woo them back to nature.

A major factor in Jyoti's success seems to be

Directions: Read the following passage and answer the question given after it:
Jyoti lived with her mother in a small village. From a young age, she had witnessed her mother, a widow, being ill treated by the villagers. But when she was in high school,  she began to understand things. She couldn’t take the insults to her mother anymore. She decided to change the way widows were viewed in village society. Jyoti started a “Widow Empowerment Campaign”. She spoke to village elders and knocked on two hundred doors to spread her message. She learned to organise street plays, which she used to make people aware about the plight of widows.

Toys that are considered eco-friendly are those that

Directions: Read the following passage and answer the question that follows:

Designing toys for children is challenging yet stimulating. Considering the low attention span of today’s kids, toys with higher play value are able to engage them longer. Young minds are also quite impressionable. So, toy design has to be conscious about ethics and values and also aid their cognitive, physical, emotional and social skills. But above all, fun is the primary objective of play. Fun is what makes them come back for more, makes them learn and remember. Another crucial factor is eco-friendliness.
Some of the best pro-environment design processes can actually be found in the Indian handicrafts industry. One such example is the lathe-turned toy craft of Channapatna, a town near Bengaluru. The age old craft uses wood and colours made completely from natural materials like turmeric, kumkum, indigo, etc. Creating modern designs based on such conventional techniques opens up a new range of products that are unique, educational and organic.

The reference to the ‘impressionable nature’ of young children is to suggest that

Directions: Read the following passage and answer the question that follows:

Designing toys for children is challenging yet stimulating. Considering the low attention span of today’s kids, toys with higher play value are able to engage them longer. Young minds are also quite impressionable. So, toy design has to be conscious about ethics and values and also aid their cognitive, physical, emotional and social skills. But above all, fun is the primary objective of play. Fun is what makes them come back for more, makes them learn and remember. Another crucial factor is eco-friendliness.
Some of the best pro-environment design processes can actually be found in the Indian handicrafts industry. One such example is the lathe-turned toy craft of Channapatna, a town near Bengaluru. The age old craft uses wood and colours made completely from natural materials like turmeric, kumkum, indigo, etc. Creating modern designs based on such conventional techniques opens up a new range of products that are unique, educational and organic.

Toys are said to have a high play value when

Directions: Read the following passage and answer the question that follows:

Designing toys for children is challenging yet stimulating. Considering the low attention span of today’s kids, toys with higher play value are able to engage them longer. Young minds are also quite impressionable. So, toy design has to be conscious about ethics and values and also aid their cognitive, physical, emotional and social skills. But above all, fun is the primary objective of play. Fun is what makes them come back for more, makes them learn and remember. Another crucial factor is eco-friendliness.
Some of the best pro-environment design processes can actually be found in the Indian handicrafts industry. One such example is the lathe-turned toy craft of Channapatna, a town near Bengaluru. The age old craft uses wood and colours made completely from natural materials like turmeric, kumkum, indigo, etc. Creating modern designs based on such conventional techniques opens up a new range of products that are unique, educational and organic.

Sparrows have been a topic of interest for many

Directions: Read the following passage and answer the question that follows:
Years ago, people woke up to find sparrows chirping in their backyard. A noisy lot, they took grains right from your hand if you had befriended them. They got over their fear easily and demanded food or water with their loud chirping if you had forgotten to give them their regular share of food. Tiny pink beaks opened to morsels of food or worms sometimes regurgitated by the parent birds. We had a splendid time watching the bird family bond and as children sat gazing at them as they picked up grain or splashed about us in muddy water.
Many people have written poems and lyrics on sparrows, their noisy chirps, their friendly nature, and their spotty feathers. Sparrows were a menace on the fields. There were guards with slings and stones to chase them away as they ate grains from standing crops. Now, people are trying to woo them back to nature.

Fill in the blank (vi) by selecting the most appropriate word for the blank from the given options.

Directions: In the following passage there are some numbered blanks:

At markets or at county fairs in the old days, the customer had to be on guard against a dishonest trader. A house wife, for example, wanting (i) _____ buy a live piglet might be (ii) ____________ a discount if she bought (iii) _____ packed one, tied up in a small sack (iv) _____ a poke. Anyone who agreed to (v) _______ a pig in a poke was naturally (vi) ________________ a risk. The pig might be ill (vii) ________________ even dead or it might turn (viii) _______ to be not a piglet at all.

Fill in the blank (viii) by selecting the most appropriate word for the blank from the given options.

Directions: In the following passage there are some numbered blanks:

At markets or at county fairs in the old days, the customer had to be on guard against a dishonest trader. A house wife, for example, wanting (i) _____ buy a live piglet might be (ii) ____________ a discount if she bought (iii) _____ packed one, tied up in a small sack (iv) _____ a poke. Anyone who agreed to (v) _______ a pig in a poke was naturally (vi) ________________ a risk. The pig might be ill (vii) ________________ even dead or it might turn (viii) _______ to be not a piglet at all.

Fill in the blank (vii) by selecting the most appropriate word for the blank from the given options.

Directions: In the following passage there are some numbered blanks:

At markets or at county fairs in the old days, the customer had to be on guard against a dishonest trader. A house wife, for example, wanting (i) _____ buy a live piglet might be (ii) ____________ a discount if she bought (iii) _____ packed one, tied up in a small sack (iv) _____ a poke. Anyone who agreed to (v) _______ a pig in a poke was naturally (vi) ________________ a risk. The pig might be ill (vii) ________________ even dead or it might turn (viii) _______ to be not a piglet at all.

Fill in the blank (iii) by selecting the most appropriate word for the blank from the given options.

Directions: In the following passage there are some numbered blanks:

At markets or at county fairs in the old days, the customer had to be on guard against a dishonest trader. A house wife, for example, wanting (i) _____ buy a live piglet might be (ii) ____________ a discount if she bought (iii) _____ packed one, tied up in a small sack (iv) _____ a poke. Anyone who agreed to (v) _______ a pig in a poke was naturally (vi) ________________ a risk. The pig might be ill (vii) ________________ even dead or it might turn (viii) _______ to be not a piglet at all.

Fill in the blank (ii) by selecting the most appropriate word for the blank from the given options.

Directions: In the following passage there are some numbered blanks:

At markets or at county fairs in the old days, the customer had to be on guard against a dishonest trader. A house wife, for example, wanting (i) _____ buy a live piglet might be (ii) ____________ a discount if she bought (iii) _____ packed one, tied up in a small sack (iv) _____ a poke. Anyone who agreed to (v) _______ a pig in a poke was naturally (vi) ________________ a risk. The pig might be ill (vii) ________________ even dead or it might turn (viii) _______ to be not a piglet at all.

Fill in the blank (i) by selecting the most appropriate word for the blank from the given options.

Directions: In the following passage there are some numbered blanks:

At markets or at county fairs in the old days, the customer had to be on guard against a dishonest trader. A house wife, for example, wanting (i) _____ buy a live piglet might be (ii) ____________ a discount if she bought (iii) _____ packed one, tied up in a small sack (iv) _____ a poke. Anyone who agreed to (v) _______ a pig in a poke was naturally (vi) ________________ a risk. The pig might be ill (vii) ________________ even dead or it might turn (viii) _______ to be not a piglet at all.

Fill in the blank (v) by selecting the most appropriate word for the blank from the given options.

Directions: In the following passage there are some numbered blanks:

At markets or at county fairs in the old days, the customer had to be on guard against a dishonest trader. A house wife, for example, wanting (i) _____ buy a live piglet might be (ii) ____________ a discount if she bought (iii) _____ packed one, tied up in a small sack (iv) _____ a poke. Anyone who agreed to (v) _______ a pig in a poke was naturally (vi) ________________ a risk. The pig might be ill (vii) ________________ even dead or it might turn (viii) _______ to be not a piglet at all.

Fill in the blank (iv) by selecting the most appropriate word for the blank from the given options.

Directions: In the following passage there are some numbered blanks:

At markets or at county fairs in the old days, the customer had to be on guard against a dishonest trader. A house wife, for example, wanting (i) _____ buy a live piglet might be (ii) ____________ a discount if she bought (iii) _____ packed one, tied up in a small sack (iv) _____ a poke. Anyone who agreed to (v) _______ a pig in a poke was naturally (vi) ________________ a risk. The pig might be ill (vii) ________________ even dead or it might turn (viii) _______ to be not a piglet at all.

“She knocked on two hundred doors” indicates that Jyoti

Directions: Read the following passage and answer the question given after it:
Jyoti lived with her mother in a small village. From a young age, she had witnessed her mother, a widow, being ill treated by the villagers. But when she was in high school,  she began to understand things. She couldn’t take the insults to her mother anymore. She decided to change the way widows were viewed in village society. Jyoti started a “Widow Empowerment Campaign”. She spoke to village elders and knocked on two hundred doors to spread her message. She learned to organise street plays, which she used to make people aware about the plight of widows.

'Regurgitated by the parent birds' means

Directions: Read the following passage and answer the question that follows:
Years ago, people woke up to find sparrows chirping in their backyard. A noisy lot, they took grains right from your hand if you had befriended them. They got over their fear easily and demanded food or water with their loud chirping if you had forgotten to give them their regular share of food. Tiny pink beaks opened to morsels of food or worms sometimes regurgitated by the parent birds. We had a splendid time watching the bird family bond and as children sat gazing at them as they picked up grain or splashed about us in muddy water.
Many people have written poems and lyrics on sparrows, their noisy chirps, their friendly nature, and their spotty feathers. Sparrows were a menace on the fields. There were guards with slings and stones to chase them away as they ate grains from standing crops. Now, people are trying to woo them back to nature.

Which of the following statements shows that watching sparrows was fun for the author?

Directions: Read the following passage and answer the question that follows:
Years ago, people woke up to find sparrows chirping in their backyard. A noisy lot, they took grains right from your hand if you had befriended them. They got over their fear easily and demanded food or water with their loud chirping if you had forgotten to give them their regular share of food. Tiny pink beaks opened to morsels of food or worms sometimes regurgitated by the parent birds. We had a splendid time watching the bird family bond and as children sat gazing at them as they picked up grain or splashed about us in muddy water.
Many people have written poems and lyrics on sparrows, their noisy chirps, their friendly nature, and their spotty feathers. Sparrows were a menace on the fields. There were guards with slings and stones to chase them away as they ate grains from standing crops. Now, people are trying to woo them back to nature.

What does the line, ‘Fun is what makes them come back for more, makes them learn and remember’ mean?

Directions: Read the following passage and answer the question that follows:

Designing toys for children is challenging yet stimulating. Considering the low attention span of today’s kids, toys with higher play value are able to engage them longer. Young minds are also quite impressionable. So, toy design has to be conscious about ethics and values and also aid their cognitive, physical, emotional and social skills. But above all, fun is the primary objective of play. Fun is what makes them come back for more, makes them learn and remember. Another crucial factor is eco-friendliness.
Some of the best pro-environment design processes can actually be found in the Indian handicrafts industry. One such example is the lathe-turned toy craft of Channapatna, a town near Bengaluru. The age old craft uses wood and colours made completely from natural materials like turmeric, kumkum, indigo, etc. Creating modern designs based on such conventional techniques opens up a new range of products that are unique, educational and organic.

The story of Jyoti is an illustration of

Directions: Read the following passage and answer the question given after it:
Jyoti lived with her mother in a small village. From a young age, she had witnessed her mother, a widow, being ill treated by the villagers. But when she was in high school,  she began to understand things. She couldn’t take the insults to her mother anymore. She decided to change the way widows were viewed in village society. Jyoti started a “Widow Empowerment Campaign”. She spoke to village elders and knocked on two hundred doors to spread her message. She learned to organise street plays, which she used to make people aware about the plight of widows.

Jyoti’s relentless campaign

Directions: Read the following passage and answer the question given after it:
Jyoti lived with her mother in a small village. From a young age, she had witnessed her mother, a widow, being ill treated by the villagers. But when she was in high school,  she began to understand things. She couldn’t take the insults to her mother anymore. She decided to change the way widows were viewed in village society. Jyoti started a “Widow Empowerment Campaign”. She spoke to village elders and knocked on two hundred doors to spread her message. She learned to organise street plays, which she used to make people aware about the plight of widows.

The words ‘entrenched in tradition’ imply that villagers

Directions: Read the following passage and answer the question given after it:
Jyoti lived with her mother in a small village. From a young age, she had witnessed her mother, a widow, being ill treated by the villagers. But when she was in high school,  she began to understand things. She couldn’t take the insults to her mother anymore. She decided to change the way widows were viewed in village society. Jyoti started a “Widow Empowerment Campaign”. She spoke to village elders and knocked on two hundred doors to spread her message. She learned to organise street plays, which she used to make people aware about the plight of widows.

The author calls sparrow a friendly bird because

Directions: Read the following passage and answer the question that follows:
Years ago, people woke up to find sparrows chirping in their backyard. A noisy lot, they took grains right from your hand if you had befriended them. They got over their fear easily and demanded food or water with their loud chirping if you had forgotten to give them their regular share of food. Tiny pink beaks opened to morsels of food or worms sometimes regurgitated by the parent birds. We had a splendid time watching the bird family bond and as children sat gazing at them as they picked up grain or splashed about us in muddy water.
Many people have written poems and lyrics on sparrows, their noisy chirps, their friendly nature, and their spotty feathers. Sparrows were a menace on the fields. There were guards with slings and stones to chase them away as they ate grains from standing crops. Now, people are trying to woo them back to nature.

Which of the following is true for the toy craft of Channapatna?

Directions: Read the following passage and answer the question that follows:

Designing toys for children is challenging yet stimulating. Considering the low attention span of today’s kids, toys with higher play value are able to engage them longer. Young minds are also quite impressionable. So, toy design has to be conscious about ethics and values and also aid their cognitive, physical, emotional and social skills. But above all, fun is the primary objective of play. Fun is what makes them come back for more, makes them learn and remember. Another crucial factor is eco-friendliness.
Some of the best pro-environment design processes can actually be found in the Indian handicrafts industry. One such example is the lathe-turned toy craft of Channapatna, a town near Bengaluru. The age old craft uses wood and colours made completely from natural materials like turmeric, kumkum, indigo, etc. Creating modern designs based on such conventional techniques opens up a new range of products that are unique, educational and organic.