TNPSC CCSE IV (GROUP 4) -ENGLISH LANGUAGE QUIZ DAY-5
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Tamil Nadu Public Service Commission (TNPSC)-GROUP IV
English Language Day-5
Total No. Of Questions: 50
Timing: 25 minutes
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- Find out the meaning for the underlined word.
Jeopardy
- Hazard
- Peril
- Final
- Risk
(a) 1, 2, 3
(b) 1, 2, 4
(c) 1, 3, 4
(d) 1, 2, 3
- Choose correct antonym for the underlined word from the options given.
I want to commence my shop
(a) Close
(b) continue
(c) prolong
(d) discomfort
3.Find out the correct plural form for the underlined word
The hunter saw some ten bison near the pond
(a) bison
(b) bison’s
(c) bisonse
(d) None of these
4. Match the following words given in Column A with their meanings in Column B
Column A Column B
(a) Lavish 1. Refused
(b) Retain 2. Collect
(c) Gather 3.Keep
(d) Denied 4. Extravagant
A B C D
(a) 3 1 4 2
(b) 4 2 3 1
(c) 3 2 1 4
(d) 4 3 2 1
5.Find out the part of speech that is not used in the underlined words.
- His brother is a diligent man.
- The cat is away
- He is very hopeful
- He shared his experience with me
(a) Noun
(b) Verb
(c) Adjective
(d) Adverb
- Match the following phrases/idioms given in Column A which their meaning in Column B.
Column A Column B
(a) Kick the bucket 1. Walk fast in anger
(b) Take a look 2. Lose one’s emotional balance
(c) March off 3. To die
(d) Melt down 4. Tried to find something.
A B C D
(a) 4 2 1 3
(b) 2 1 3 4
(c) 3 4 1 2
(d) 3 1 4 2
- Find out the sentence that has an adjective.
(a) He is clever
(b) Rama writes well
(c) She never comes late
(d) It is a fair deal
- Match the following phrases given in Column A with their meaning in Column B.
Column A Column B
(a) Break Down 1. end
(b) Break up 2. repair
(c) Burn with 3. Confident
(d) Be sure of 4. Overwhelmed
A B C D
(a) 4 3 1 2
(b) 1 2 3 4
(c) 3 1 4 2
(d) 2 1 4 3
9.Select the appropriate passive voice from and fill in the blanks.
The problem _______ by them.
(a) had been solving
(b) had been solved
(c) has been solving
(d) will be solving
- Match the following phrases/idioms given in Column A with their meaning in Column B
Column A Column B
(a) Behind bars 1. Finish a task ahead of the fixed time
(b) Bring in 2. interrupt
(c) cut off 3. Earn
(d) Best the clock 4. In person
A B C D
(a) 1 4 3 2
(b) 4 2 3 1
(c) 4 3 2 1
(d) 4 1 3 2
- Which one of the following has correct infinitive?
(a) I think raji meant to break the crystal vase.
(b) I think raji meant to have broken the crystal vase.
(c) I think raji meant having broken the crystal vase.
(d) I think raji meant to be breaking the crystal vase.
- Match the statements given in Column A with their question tags in Column B and select the correct answer from the codes given below:
Column A Column B
- A) It’s raining – 1) Didn’t they?
- B) They came by bus – 2) Can she?
- C) They don’t like me – 3) Isn’t it?
- D) She can’t do the work – 4) Do they?
A B C D
(a) 1 4 2 3
(b) 3 2 1 4
(c) 3 1 4 2
(d) 4 3 1 2
- Choose the correct words to fill in the blanks:
A ____________ of _____________ chased few ______________.
(a) group, apes, chicken
(b) team, apes, chickens
(c) troop, apses, chicken
(d) troop, apes, chickens
- Identify the sentence:
In the event of his failure, he will give up further attempts.
(a) None
(b) Compound
(c) Complex
(d) Simple
- Identify the sentence:
His son, the pride of his old age is dead.
(a) complex
(b) compound
(c) none
(d) simple
16.Match the following bold words in Column A with their suitable parts of speech in Column B and select the correct a answer from the codes given below:
Column A Column B
- A) They have a act – 1) Adjective
- B) I live here – 2) Noun
- C) She walk slow – 3) Verb
- D) I have a gift wrapper – 4) Adverb
A B C D
(a) 1 4 3 2
(b) 2 4 1 3
(c) 2 3 1 4
(d) 2 3 4 1
- Select the correct sentence from the following:
(a) Raju is the good batsman in our team.
(b) Raju is one of the talkative boys in the class.
(c) Raju is most clever than her sister.
(d) Raju not sweet as mangoes.
- Match the following articles in Column A with their suitable words in Column B and select the correct a answer from the codes given below:
Column A Column B
A) a – 1) First Rank
B) zero – 2) MP
C) an – 3) Tamil Language
D) the – 4) Women
A B C D
(a) 4 2 3 1
(b) 4 3 2 1
(c) 2 3 4 1
(d) 2 4 3 1
19.Find the sentence in which the bod word is used as an Adjective:
(a) I did not know his address
(b) Address the gathering
(c) Write your address proof
(d) He asked for the address proof.
- Fill in the blank with suitable gerund:
______ on the grass is forbidden.
(a) To walk
(b) Walking
(c) Having walked
(d) To be walked
- Match the following words given in Column A with their meanings in Column B and select the correct answer from the codes given below:
Column A Column B
A) Clamant – 1) Obstacle
B) Hurdle – 2) Indicator
C) Knotty – 3) Base
D) Ignoble – 4) Difficult
A B C D
(a) 1 3 4 2
(b) 4 2 3 1
(c) 4 1 3 2
(d) 2 1 4 3
22.Match the following words given in Column A with their meanings in Column B and select the correct answer from the codes given below:
Column A Column B
A) advance and retreat – 1) to write something as a record
B) keep an account of – 2) emerge in a large number
C) arrive in – 3) move to and fro
D) pour out from – 4) reach
A B C D
(a) 3 1 4 2
(b) 4 2 3 1
(c) 3 1 2 4
(d) 1 3 4 2
- Match the following phrases given in Column A with their meanings in Column B and select the correct answer from the codes given below:
Column A Column B
A) Give away – 1) crushed
B) Drop in – 2) move fully
C) go into – 3) informal visit
D) ground up – 4) Distribute
A B C D
(a) 2 1 4 3
(b) 1 2 3 4
(c) 4 3 2 1
(d) 4 2 3 1
- Who is the author of “The picture of Dorian Gray”
(a) Douglas Malloch
(b) Oscar Wilde
(c) William Wordsworth
(d) Pearl S. Buck
25.Which among the following is not a poem?
(a) Shilpi
(b) to a millionaire
(c) the necklace
(d) manliness
- “Spring has forgotten this garden”, they cried.
The word ‘they’ in Oscar Wilde’s “The selfish Giant” refers to ______
(a) The snow and The frost
(b) frost and hail
(c) the children
(d) the birds and the flowers
- If this be error and upon me loved
I never writ, nor no man ever loved , – Who is the poet?
(a) Keats
(b) Wordsworth
(c) Robert Frost
(d) Shakespeare
- But once within the wood, we paused
Like gnomes that hid us from the moon.
In the above quoted lines gnomes mean ______
(a) fire flies
(b) dwarfs
(c) a large African antelope
(d) small-two-winged flies
- ‘On the day of Sicilian July, with Etna smoking’. What is the ‘Etna’?
(a) an earthquake
(b) a tsunami affected city
(c) a volcanic mountain
(d) a tempest
- In which poem, does the following line occur?
Alone she cuts and binds the grains
(a) the nation united
(b) the man he killed
(c) The Solitary Reaper
(d) migrant bird
- Who is the author of “Be the Best”
(a) William Shakespeare
(b) Pearl S Buck
(c) Douglas Malloch
(d) William Wordsworth
- Read the statement given below and answer the question that follows:
Dress and address make the first and foremost impression. The word underlined means:
(a) the place where we live
(b) our speech and manners
(c) our surroundings and neighbourhood
(d) a stylish accent in speech.
- Match the following characters and the plays they appear in:
Column A Column B
Shylock – 1. The taming of the shrew
Brutus- 2. Hamlet
Bianca- 3. The Merchant of Venice
Claudius – 4. Julius Caesar
A B C D
(a) 1 3 4 2
(b) 2 1 3 4
(c) 3 4 1 2
(d) 4 1 2 3
- After all, winners don’t do different things. They do things differently.
The above lines suggests.
(a) all winners are different
(b) winners do different things
(c) winners do things differently
(d) losers don’t different things
- Which place is described in the Athushi Deshpande’s travelogue ‘To the land of snow’?
(a) Raipur
(b) Munsiyari
(c) Surat
(d) Manipur
- Match the tiles of the stories given under column A with the names of the author column B and select the correct answer from the codes given below.
Column A Column B
The last leaf- 1. Saki
Two friends – 2. O’ Henry
The refugee- 3. Guy de Maupassant
The open window- 4. Pearl S. Buck
A B C D
(a) 1 2 4 3
(b) 2 3 4 1
(c) 4 1 3 2
(d) 3 2 1 4
- Find the odd pair from the following:
(a) The face of Judas Iscariot – Bonnie Chamberlain
(b) Don’t Quit – Rex Coker
(c) Caught Sneezing – Oscar Wilde
(d) The tears of the Desert – Rob Reilly
- Match the following words given under column A with their meanings under Column B and select the correct answer from the codes given below.
Column A Column B
Interred- 1. Weapon
Ruffle- 2. Abundant
Copious- 3. Buried
Armament- 4. Disturb
A B C D
(a) 3 2 1 4
(b) 3 4 2 1
(c) 2 1 3 4
(d) 1 2 3 4
39.From the given option, choose the author who has written. “The return of the native”
(a) Thomas Hardly
(b) Douglas Malloch
(c) Patrick French
(d) Robert Louis Stevenson
- Form a new word by blending the words ‘motorway’ and ‘hotel’
(a) motohotel
(b) staff
(c) motorei
(d) motel
41.Select the odd sentence pattern from the following:
(a) he ate the cake
(b) this shoe is large
(c) she sang a song
(d) I wrote a letter
- Match the following words given under the column A with the blend forms under column B:
Column A Column B
- Camera + Recorder 1. Comsat
- Binary+ digit 2. camcorder
- telephone + telegram 3. Bit
- communication + satellite 4. Phonogram
A B C D
(a) 1 2 3 4
(b) 2 3 4 1
(c) 4 2 3 1
(d) 3 2 1 4
- Find out the antonyms for the underlines word.
Some people mess up their houses with everlasting rubbish
I. Lasting
II. Temporary
III. Changing
IV. Endless
V.Eternal
(a) III, IV and VI
(b) I, II and IV
(c) II, III and V
(d) I, II and III
- Select the correct suffix to frame a new word. Using the given word ‘Hope’.
(a) able
(b) ity
(c) less
(d) ness
- Choose the correct antonym for the underlined word from the options given:
His ways of presentation is Different
(a) common
(b) comparable
(c) indifferent
(d) wrong
- Match the following sentences in column A with the units in column B and select the correct answer from the codes given below.
Column A Column B
I dream everyday 1. Noun
Life is a gift 2. Verb
I write a letter 3. Adjective
It is a business letter 4. Adverb
A B C D
(a) 4 3 2 1
(b) 4 1 2 3
(c) 4 1 3 2
(d) 1 4 2 3
47.Give the suitable order of articles in the blanks of the given passage.
______ old man said to his daughter, “If ______ servant finds any money on ____ floor when she cleans ____ room, it is mine”.
(a) the, a, the, a
(b) an, the, a, a
(c) an, the, the, the
(d) the, a, a, the
- Identify the sentence.
In the event of running first, you will win the race.
(a) simple
(b) compound
(c) complex
(d) none
- Rahul _____ a lab assistant, a teacher, book seller and now he ____ journalist.
(a) is, was
(b) is, is
(c) was, was
(d) has been, is
50.Fill in the Blanks with suitable homophones. Nobody ___________ what I tell ____________
(a) Here/Hear
(b) Listen/Lisen
(c) Ready/Read
(d)Hear/Here
ANSWER KEY
| 1 | B |
| 2 | A |
| 3 | A |
| 4 | D |
| 5 | B |
| 6 | C |
| 7 | D |
| 8 | D |
| 9 | B |
| 10 | C |
| 11 | A |
| 12 | C |
| 13 | D |
| 14 | D |
| 15 | D |
| 16 | D |
| 17 | B |
| 18 | B |
| 19 | D |
| 20 | B |
| 21 | D |
| 22 | A |
| 23 | C |
| 24 | B |
| 25 | C |
| 26 | A |
| 27 | C |
| 28 | B |
| 29 | C |
| 30 | C |
| 31 | C |
| 32 | B |
| 33 | C |
| 34 | C |
| 35 | B |
| 36 | B |
| 37 | B |
| 38 | D |
| 39 | A |
| 40 | D |
| 41 | A |
| 42 | B |
| 43 | D |
| 44 | C |
| 45 | A |
| 46 | B |
| 47 | C |
| 48 | A |
| 49 | D |
| 50 | D |
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