Departmental PSI 7999189909

Prelim Exam-1 Total Questions-25

Test-4 Total Marks-25

1. Fill in the blanks :

a) I'm_______ film tonight.
b) I'll be______ all day on Sunday.
c) I'm._____ ask him to return my money.
1) will see, slept, going to
2) seeing, slept, going to
3) seeing, sleeping, going to
4) will see, sleeping, going to

2. Choose the correct sentences.

a) If you had come earlier, you had been sure of your berth.
b) If he asked me, I should marry him.
c) If we send a telegram today, we shall get a reply in two days.
1) a and c only. 2) b and c only
3) c only. 4) a, b and c

3.a) Go Now! She ordered.

b) Sunita carried her bag, umbrella and coat.
c) Mr. Patil, the principal, is well organized.
Identify the sentence punctuated correctly.
1) All a, b and c 2) Only b and c
3) Only b. 4) Only c

4. Choose the correct form of 'the Active Voice'

for the sentence given below:
(Engineering pre.-2016)
'I am interested in Mathematics.
1) Mathematics is interesting to me.
2) Mathematics interests me.
3) Mathematics always interested me.
4) I take interest in Mathematics.

5.He and his five brothers love___ very much

Which one of the following pronouns Correctly fills in the blank in the
sentence
Above?
1) Each other. 2) Themselves
3) One another. 4) One other
6.Indira Gandhi was one of the greatest women in India.
Choose the correct alternative that transforms the above sentence
into positive degree.
1) No other woman in India was as great as Indira Gandhi
2) Very few women in India were as great as Indira Gandhi
3) Indira Gandhi was as great as any other women in India.
4) Indira Gandhi was greater than all other women in India.

7.Match the following to fill in the blanks:

a)What____ I do for you? i) may
b) ____ you like to go by air, sir? ii) could
c) If you____ tell me the exact. iii) can
date of your journey.
d) You___ have to accept the. iv) would
booking.
A. B. C. D
1) ii. I. iv. iii
2) I. ii. Iv iii
3) iii iv. Ii i
4) iv. Iii ii. I

8. Fill in the blank with appropriate pair of prepositions:

Jawaharlal Nehru was born____ Allahabad ___ Uttar Pradesh.
1) At, in. 2) In, at
3) In, from. 4) In, in

9. Rewrite the sentence using 'No sooner__ than':

As soon as he hears the news, he will write to me.
1) No sooner does he hear the news than he will write to me.
2) No sooner he hears the news than he will write to me.
3) No sooner does he hear he news then he will write to me.
4) No sooner does hears the news than he will write to me.

10. He takes a nourishing diet to recuperate from illness quickly.

Identify the type of sentence.
1) Complex. 2) Compound
3) Simple. 4) Complex compound

11. Identify the clause underlined.

Those who are honest succeed in life.
1)Noun clause. 2) Adjective clauses
3) Adverb clause. 4) Phrasel clauses

12. Change the following into indirect speech:

She said to him, "I know you"
1) She said to him that I knew him.
2) She said to him that she knew me.
3) She said to him that she knew him.
4) She said to him that she knows him.

13. I purchased_____ one-way ticket from Miraj to Mumbai.

The proper articles to be used in the blank would be:
1) a. 2) an
3) the. 4) None

14. Everyone clapped.

Select the correct tag question to the given. sentence.
1) Would they? 2) Don't they?
3) Won't he? 4) Didn't they?

15.Choose the word that is nearly the same in TURBID

1) Viscosity. 2) Solution
3)Thick. 4) Fluid

16.Which of the following pairs of antonyms is incorrect:

a) accept x Reject. b) Bloom x Fade
c) Defend x Suspend. d) Progress x Regress
1)(a) only. 2) (a) and (b)
3) (c) only 4) (c) and (d)

17.Choose the most appropriate option for the Underlined phrase:

Please keep this information under your hat.
1) in the mind. 2) on the top
3) secret. 4) ready for use

18. Fill in the blanks with most appropriate word from the ones given
below.
The horse jumped over the _____
1] style 2] stoil
3] styli 4] stile

19. Plutocracy is ______.

Choose the correct alternative:
1] Government by the rich
2] Government by the nobles
3] Government by the officials
4] government by the people
20. Select the INCORRECTLY Spelt word.
(1) Grievance
(2) Liesure
(3) Seize
(4) Sincere

Read the passage carefully and answer the questions (21 to 25):
The rampant commercialization of schools is corrupting in two ways.
First, most corporate- sponsored curricular material is ridden with
bias, distortion and superficial fare. A study by Consumers Union
found, not surprisingly, that nearly 80 percent of sponsored
educational materials are slanted toward the sponsor's product or
point of view. But even if corporate sponsors supplied objective
teaching tools of impeccable quality, commercial advertising would
still be a pernicious presence in the classroom, because it is at odds
with the purpose of schools. Advertising encourages people to want
things and to satisfy their desires. Education encourages people to
reflect critically on their desires, to restrain or to elevate them. The
purpose of advertising is to recruit consumers; the purpose of public
schools is to cultivate citizens. It isn't easy to teach students to be
citizens, capable of thinking critically about the world around them,
when so much of childhood consists of basic training for a consumer
society. At a time when many children come to school as walking
billboards of logos and labels and licensed apparel, it is all the more
difficult-and all the more important-for schools to create some
distance from a popular culture steeped in the ethos of consumerism.
But advertising abhors distance. It blurs the boundaries between
places and makes every setting a site for selling. "Discover your own
river of revenue at the schoolhouse gates!" proclaimed a brochure
promoting a marketing conference for school advertisers. "Whether
it's first-graders learning to read or teenagers shopping for their first
car, we can guarantee an introduction of your product and company to
these students in the traditional setting of the classroom!"
As the marketers storm the schoolhouse gates, cash-strapped schools,
reeling from recession, property tax caps, budget cuts, and rising
enrollments, feel no choice but to let them in. But the fault lies less in
our schools than in us citizens. Rather than raise the public funds we
need to educate our children, we choose instead to sell their time and
rent their minds to Burger King and Mountain Dew.

21. What is the condition of public schools ?

(a) Schools are in poor economic condition.
(b) Schools have sufficient funds.
(c) Schools are supported by the government.
(d) Schools are using sponsor's educational material because they are
badly in need of
money.
(1) (a) and (d)
(2) (a) and (b)
(3) (b) and (c)
(4) (c) and (d)
22. Match the following:
(a) rampant (i)subjects, syllabus
(b) abhor (ii)perfect
(c) ethos (iii) becoming worse and worse
(d) impeccable (iv) set of beliefs and ideas
(e) curriculum (v) detest
(f) pernicious (vi) dangerous
(vii) good
(1) (a)-(i), (b)-(iii), (c)-(iv), (d)-(ii), (e)-(vii), (f)-(vi)
{2} (a)-(v), (b)-(iii), (c)-(ii), (d)-(vi), (e)-(i), (f)-(vii)
(3) (a)-(iii), (b)-(v), (c)-(iv), (d)-(ii), (e)-(i), (f)-(vi)
(4)_(a)-(vii), (b)-(vi), (c)-(ii), (d)-(iv), (e)-(iii), (f)-(i)

23. Difference between Advertising and Education is that

(a) Both Advertising and Education give knowledge.
(b) Advertising creates more needs in the people's mind.
(c) Education makes people to think about their desires.
(d) Advertising turns people into consumers.
(e) Education tries to cultivate citizens.
Answer options :
(1) (a), (b), (c)
(2) (c), (d), (e)
(3) (a), (c), (d), (e)
(4) (b), (c), (d), (e)

24. Read the following passage carefuly and answer the questions
given below:
According to the passage, commercialization of school is___
(a) desirable in the present situation.
(b) not distorting at all.
(c) degrading and corrupting,
(d) None of the above
(1) (a) and (b)
(2) (c) and (b)
(3) (c) only
(4) (d) only

25. Which statements are false according to the passage:

(a) Public schools allow marketers because of poor economic
conditions.
(b)Purpose of public schools is to cultivate citizens.
(c)It is not difficult to teach students to be citizens when their
childhood is surrounded by advertiser.
(d)Sponsor's educational material is not inclined towards their
products and ideology.
(e) Schools do not get influenced by consumerism
(f) Commercial advertising in school is good for the society.
(g)Public should not sell their children's time and rent their minds to
the corporate companies.
Answer options :
(1) (a), (b), (c), (g)
(2) (c), (d), (e), (f)
(3) (a), (b), (d), (g)
(4) (d), (e), (f), (g)

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