V.A.O General English with General Studies - 2014 Session 7

1. 'O Ye wheels'  'Stop! be silent for today'. Identify the speaker of these lines
   1.  The children working in their houses
   2.  The children playing in the street 
   3.  The children working in mines
   4.  School-going children
   
   
2. That was in  May. Il'.l  November a  cold,  unseen stranger, whom -the  doctors called Pneumonia,  stalked about the· colony,  touching one here and there with icy  fingers. Here Pneumonia stands for-----
   1.  a rude person
   2.  a kind person 
   3.  a good person 
   4. a deadly person
   
   
3. The next step is to develop proper self-concept. What you think about yourself is very important?  'Self-concept' is ------
   1. What you think about yourself? 
   2. What you think about your colleagues?
   3. What you think about others?
   4.  What others think about you?
   
   
4. Select the correct tense of the verb underlined. The sun rises in the east
   1.  Present continuous tense
   2.  Present perfect tense
   3.  Present perfect continuous tense
   4. Simple present tense
   
   
5. Fill in the blank with the correct question tag: The lessons are quite interesting,------?
1. are it?
2. isn't they? 
3. don't they?
4. aren't they?


6. Fill in the blank with the right preposition: My uncle will visit me------May.
   1.  at
   2. in
   3.  on
   4.  with
   
   
7. "There is  no power m the  tongue  of man to  alter me. I  stay here on my bond". Which character in the play, "Merchant of Venice" utters these words? 
   1. Antonio
   2. Bassanio
   3. Shylock 
   4. Portia 
   
   
8. In one corner was a blank canvas on an easel that had been waiting there for -----years to receive the first line of master piece. 
   1. Ten years
   2. Twenty years
   3. Forty years 
   4. Twenty five years
   
   
9. "Neighbour gave prizes for the best back stabber and double crosser of the week, and most passionate hater". Pick out a suitable word from the extract which means 'one who hits from behind' 
   1. Neighbourhoods 
   2.  Double crosser
   3. Back stabber
   4.  Passionate hater
   
   
10. Whose Autobiography is 'Wings of fire'?
    
    1.  Mahatma Gandhi
    2.  Jawaharlal Nehru 
    3.  Dr. Johnson
    4. Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
    
    

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