34 Practice Paper-3

English Sample Paper - 3

SECTION-IA : ENGLISH try to understand what it is about. Then (c) Voluntarily

fill in the blanks with the help of the al- (d) Compulsorily
Directions (Q. 1-3): In the following ques- ternatives given. Directions (Q. 14-15): In the following
tions some of the sentences have errors My aunt Myra is strangely like a thun- questions, four alternatives are given for
and some are correct. Find out which derstorm when she is angry. Like a bright, the Idiom/Phrase printed in bold in the
part of a sentence has an error. The num- sunny day that is usually the (6) to a sentence. Choose the alternative which
ber of that part is the answer. If a sen- storm, her normal (7) suddenly begins to best expresses the meaing of the given
tence is free from error, then your an- cloud. As the day(8) and a few and thun- idiom/Phrase.
swer is (d) i.e. No error. derclaps roll out she also darkens and 14. She was on the horns of a dilemma
1. I had (a)/a test in Mathematics (b)/ begins to(9). The bolts get more and more as she had either to leave her job
today morning. (c)/No error (d). (10) until finally the rain begins. or divorce her husband.
2. A girl must be gracious (a)/if she 6. (a) interlude (b) preface (a) In nervous condition
wishes (b)/to be a ballerina. (c)/No (c) epilogue (d) prelude (b) in terrible mood
error. (d). 7. (a) complexion (b) inclination (c) in difficult situation
3. In a very harsh tone (a)/he shouted (c) proposition (d) disposition (d) in suspense.
at his servants (b)/and told them 8. (a) darkens (b) advances 15. He died in harness.
that he does not need their ser- (c) dawns (d) brightens (a) ceased to live
vices. (c)/No error. (d) 9. (a) scream (b) explode (b) died of a disease
Directions (Q. 4-5): In the following ques- (c) break (d) shout (c) died for his country
tions, a part of the sentence is underlined. 10. (a) rare (b) scarce (d) died while working
Below are given alternatives to the under- (c) frequent (d) common Directions (Q. 16-17): In the following
lined part (a), (b) and (c) which may im- Directions (Q. 11-13): In the following questions, choose the word opposite in
prove the sentence. Choose the correct al- questions, out of the four alternatives meaning to the given word.
ternative. In case no improvement is choose the one which can be substituted 16. Foment:
needed, your answer is (d). for the given words/sentence.
(a) repulse (b) cease
4. His acting is too good. 11. A small room in a big house, hotel,
(c) control (d) quell
(a) best ship etc. where glasses dishes,
spoons, food etc. are kept. 17. Tardy:
(b) much better
(a) Portico (b) Pantry (a) Prompt (b) Gradual
(c) very good
(c) Mezzanine (d) Kitchen (c) Late (d) Quick
(d) No improvement
12. A foreigner who settles in a coun- Directions (Q. 18-20): In the following
5. The novelconsistsa thousand pages.
try. questions, out of the four alternatives,
(a) comprises of choose the one which best expresses the
(b) consists of (a) Immigrant (b) Emigrant
meaning of the given word as your
(c) composes (c) Alien (d) Visitor
answer.
(d) No improvement 13. Doing something according to
one’s own free will. 18. Enigma
Directions (Q. 6-10): In the following (a) truth (b) fear
passage, some of the words have been (a) Wilfully
(c) difficulty (d) puzzle
left out. First read the passage over and (b) Obligingly
 19. Concurrence 24. ‘Boob-tube’ means: kills wildlife like whales and
(a) occurrence (b) conquest (a) A programme(b) A colour tube turtles that ingest the waste.
(c) currency (d) agreement (c) Television (d) Telephone B. Environmental groups have
20. Espionage 25. The worst effect of Television is that tagged the Philippines as one
it: of the world’s biggest ocean
(a) planning (b) pioneering
(a) affects their mind violently polluters due to its reliance on
(c) litneage (d) spying single-use plastic.
Directions (Q. 21-25): Read the given (b) can be very boring
C. In Thailand also, a whale died
passage carefully and select the best (c) makes people addicted to it last year after swallowing more
answer to each question out of the four (d) is making people lazy than 80 plastic bags.
given alternatives.
26. Select the correct passive form of D. In the latest case, a whale with
Passage the given sentence. 40 kilos of plastic trash in its
Television can be very helpful to stomach died on Saturday in
Do not park your car in front of
people who carefully choose the shows southern Philippines where it
my house.
that they watch. It can increase our knowl- was stranded a day earlier.
edge of the outside world. On the other (a)My house should not be parked
in front of your car. (a) ABCD (b) BADC
hand, there are several serious disadvan- (c) DABC (d)BCAD
tages of television. In some countries, (b)Your car need not be parked in
32. Select the most appropriate word
people watch the ‘boob-tube’ for an aver- front of my house.
to fill in the blank.
age of six hours or more a day. Many chil- (c)Your car could not be parked in Scientists at Cambridge
dren stare at a television screen for more front of my house. University are ...... how plants can
hours each day than they do anything (d)Your car should not be parked give us sustainable energy.
else including studying and sleeping. in front of my house. (a) scrutinising (b) investigating
Many studies show that people become 27. Select the word which means the (c) inspecting (d) looking
more violent after certain programmes. same as the group of words given. 33. Select the wrongly spelt word.
The most negative effect of the televi- A person, animal or plant (a) Comparison
sion might be people’s addiction to it. belonging originally to a place. (b) Communication
21. Television can be useful to people: (a) Occupant (b) Alien (c) Compitition
(a) if they become violent (c) Native (d) Resident (d) Comparable
(b) if they follow only a particular 28. Select the antonym of the given 34. Select the most appropriate option
programme word. to substitute the underlined
(c) if they get addicted to it Escalate segment in the given sentence. If
(d) if they carefully choose the (a) Raise (b) Enlarge no substitution is required, select
shows that they watch (c) Reduce (d) Heighten ‘No improvement’.
22. What do children of some countries 29. Select the antonym of the given I look for a better job for the last
do more than studying and sleep- word. two months, but nothing is in
ing? Tender sight.
(a) Rough (b) Warm (a) have looked for a better job
(a) playing with friends
(c) Gentle (d) Soft (b) looked for a better job
(b) relaxing at home
(c) have been looking for a better
(c) watching television 30. Select the most appropriate word job
(d) fighting with each other to fill in the blank. (d) No improvement
23. What do the reports of many stud- The state government argued that
35. Select the correct active form of
ies reveal? it could not ...... the increase in the
the given sentence.
(a) People are becoming fat, al- teachers.
(a) Spare (b) Get The main gate of the building was
ways sitting in front of the being guarded by gun-totting
T.V. (c) Stand (d) Afford
guards.
(b) People are neglecting their 31. Given below are four jumbled
(a) The main gate of the building
work because of T.V sentences. Select the option that
were guarding gun-totting
(c) People become more violent gives their correct order.
guards.
after certain programmes A. That sort of pollution, which is
(b) Gun-totting guards were
also widespread in other south-
(d) People are watching all the guarding the main gate of the
east Asian nations, regularly
programmes building.
 (c) Gun-totting guards have been 41. (a)as well (b) alongside 48. Select the most appropriate
guarding the main gate of the (c) also (d) along meaning of the given idiom.
building. 42. (a)mayor (b) councillor Get out of hand
(d) Gun-totting guards guarded the (c) worker (d) member (a) Get upset
main gate of the building. 43. Given below are four jumbled (b) Give up something
36. In the sentence, identify the sentences. Select the option that (c) Get out of control
segment which contains the gives their correct order. (d) To complete a task
grammatical error. 1. Elephant tusks were tracked 49. Select the synonym of the given
Due to the Cyclone Idai, vast areas from the Democratic Republic of word.
of land have been flooded, roads Congo for two months. Tilt
destroyed and communications 2. Customs officials in Thailand (a) Support (b) Cross
disrupting in Zimbabwe and say it’s the biggest seizure in (b) Straighten (c) Slant
Mosambique. the country’s history. 50. Select the word which means the
(a) vast areas of land have been 3. Four tonnes of ivory, with a same as the group or words given.
flooded market value of $6 million–it was A person without a settled home
(b) roads destroyed an impressive haul or regular work who wanders from
(c) Due to the Cyclone Idai 4. Officials say they were being place to place and lives by begging.
transported of Laos, from where
(d) and communications disrupting (a) Vagrant
they believed the ivory would
37. Select the most appropriate (b) Truant
be sold to customers across
meaning of the given idiom. (c) Itinerant
Asia.
Costs an arm and a leg (d) Migrant
(a) CBAD (b) ABCD
(a) Rarely available (c) ACDB (d) CABD
(b) Easy to obtain 44. Select the wrongly spelt word.
(c) Nothing to lose (a) Examplify (b) Example
(d) Very expensive (c) Exhale (d) Exempt
Directions (38–42): In the following 45. Select the synonym of the given
passage, some words have been deleted. word.
Fill in the blanks with the help of the Garrulous
alternatives given. Select the most (a) Talkative (b) Concise
appropriate option for each blank. (c) Throaty (d) Guttral
PASSAGE 46. Select the most appropriate option
to substitute the underlined
An Italian mayor has been cleaning
segment in the given sentence. If
the streets along with his councillors
no substitution in required, select
after their town ...(38)... with no manual ‘No improvement’.
workers, it’s reported. In fact (39)...
... was If you join this job nob,it proves to
sweeping the pizza in front of the (40)...
... be good in the long run.
church in preparation for market day, (a) No improvement
...(41)... the deputy mayor’s father and a (b) it has proved to be good
town councilor armed with a high- (c) it proves good
pressure hose. The town Zerfaliu’s last (d) it will prove to be good
... (42) ... retired six months ago and 47. In the sentence, identify the
nobody has been hired since then. “We segment which contains the
can’t do anything. We are blocked by grammatical error.
bureaucracy,” the mayor says. She got two quick promotions in
38. (a)leaves (b) was left order that she has good
(c) was leaving (d) has left communication skills.
39. (a)they (b) it (a) two quick promotions
(c) she (d) he (b) in order that
(c) she has good communication
40. (a)next (b) near
skills
(c) neighbour (d) local
(d) She got
 Answers with Explanations

SECTION-IA : ENGLISH getting important political or military 36. (d) ‘Communications disrupting’
information about other country etc. must be replaced with ‘Communications
1.(b) Here, a preposition related error 21. (d) If they carefully choose the disrupted’ form a grammatically correct
occurs. Hence, a test on Mathematics...... shows that they watch. sentence.
should be used. 22. (c) Watching television 37. (d) The idiom ‘Costs an arm and a
2. (d) No error. 23. (c) People become more violent leg’ means ‘is extremely expensive’.
3. (c) Here, principal clause is in past after certain programmes. 38. (b) Best option for blank  was
tense. Hence, them that he did not need left.
24. (c) Telephone
their service should be used. 39. (d) Best option for blank  he
25. (c) Makes people addicted to it.
4. (c) very good 40. (d) Best option for blank  local
26. (d) Rules for changing active form
5. (b) consists of 41. (b) Best option for blank 
to passive voice:
6. (d) prelude alongside.
 Places of subject and object will be
7. (d) disposition interchanged in the sentence. 42. (c) Best option for blank worker.
8. (a) darkens  Only 3rd form of the verb or past 43. (a) Logical order of the four
9. (b) explode participle will be used as a main verb in jumbled sentences is  CBAD.
10. (c) frequent the passive voice. 44. (a) Correct spelling is 
27. (c) Native: a person born in a ‘exemplify’ meaning ‘be a typical example
11. (b) Pantry
specified place or associated with a place of’.
12. (a) Immigrant
by birth, whether subsequently resident 45. (a) Garrulous/Talkative: excess-
13. (c) Voluntarily ively talkative, especially on trivial
there or not.
14. (c)Idiomon the horns of a dilemma matters; fond of or given to talking.
means : in a situation in which you have 28. (c) Opposite of Escalate is:
Reduce: make smaller or less in 46. (d) For the improvement of the
to make a choice between things that are sentence, use ‘it will prove to be good’
equally unpleasant. amount, degree or size.
in place of ‘it proves to be good’.
15. (d) Idiom die in harness means : 29. (a) Opposite of tender is:
Rough: having an uneven or irregular 47. (b) ‘In order’ means ‘according to
to die while working. a particular sequence’. The sentence
surface; not smooth or level.
16. (d) The wordFoment (verb) means: requires a conjunction which means ‘for
stimulate; excite; incite; to create trouble 30. (d) ‘Afford’ meaning ‘have enough the reason that; since’. ‘Because’ is the
or violence or make it worse. money to pay for’ is the perfectly fit word perfect replacement of ‘in order that’ to
The word quell (Verb) means : to stop to fill the blank. make the sentence grammatically and
or reduce storn or unpleasant feelings; 31. (b) Logical order of the four contextually correct.
to stop something such as violent jumbled sentences is  BADC 48. (c) If a situation gets out of hand,
behaviour or protests. 32. (b) ‘Investigating’ meaning it cannot be controlled any longer.
17. (a) The word Tardy (Adjective) ‘carrying out research or study into a Sentence  Two men in the club had
mens : slow to act, move or happen; late scientific or academic field’ is the an argument that ‘got out of hand’ and
in happening. perfectly fit word to fill the blank. the security guards were called.
The word Prompt (Adjective) means: 33. (c) Correct spelling  49. (d) Tilt/Slant: move or cause to
immediate; done without delay; Competition. move into a sloping position; slope or
punctual. 34. (c) For the improvement of the lean in a particular direction.
18. (d) The word Enigma (Noun) sentence, use ‘I have been looking for a 50. (a) Vagrant: a person without a
means : puzzle; mystery; a person, thing better job’ in place of ‘I look for a better settled home or regular work who
or situation that is mysterious and difficult job’. wanders from place to place and lives by
to understand. 35. (b) Rules for changing passive begging.
19. (d) The wordConcurrence (Noun) form to active voice:
means : agreement; an example of two or  Identify the subject of thesentence–
more things happening at the same time. who is doing an action?
20. (d) The word Espionage (No un)  Rewrite the sentence so the subject
means : spying; the activity of secretly is performing the action.