Directions—(Q. 1-13) Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given
below it. Certain words/phrases have been printed in bold to help you locate them while answering some of the questions.
There was a time in my life when beauty meant something special to me. I guess that would have been
when I was about six or seven years old, just several weeks or may be a month before the orphanage
turned me into an old man.
I would get up every morning at the orphanage, make my bed just like the little soldier that I had become
and then I would get into one of the two straight lines and march to breakfast with the other twenty or thirty boys who also lived in my dormitory.
After breakfast one Saturday morning I returned to the dormitory and saw the house parent chasing the beautiful monarch butterflies that lived by the hundreds in the bushes strewn around the orphanage.
I carefully watched as he caught these beautiful creatures, one after the other, and then took them from
the net and then stuck straight pins through their head and wings, pinning them onto a heavy cardboard
sheet. How cruel it was to kill something of such beauty. I had walked many times out into the bushes,
all by myself, just so the butterflies could land on my head, face and hands so I could look at them up close.
When the telephone rang the house parent laid the large cardboard paper down on the back cement step and went inside to answer the phone. I walked up to the cardboard and looked at the one butterfly who
he had just pinned to the large paper. It was still moving about so I reached down and touched it on the
wing causing one of the pins to fall out. It started flying around and around trying to get away but it was
still pinned by the one wing with the other straight pin. Finally its wing broke off and the butterfly fell to
the ground and just quivered.
I picked up the torn wing and the butterfly and I spat on its wing and tried to get it to stick back on so it could fly away and be free before the house parent came back. But it would not stay on him.
The next thing I knew the house parent came waking back out of the back door by the garbage room
and started yelling at me. I told him that I did not do anything but he did not believe me. He picked up
the cardboard paper and started hitting me on the top of the head. There were all kinds of butterfly pieces
going everywhere. He threw the cardboard down on the ground and told me to pick it up and put it in
the garbage can inside the back room of the dormitory and then he left.
I sat there in the dirt, by that big old tree, for the longest time trying to fit all the butterfly pieces back together so I could bury them whole, but it was too hard to do. So I prayed for them and then I put them in an old torn up shoe box and I buried them in the bottom of the fort that I had built in the ground, out by the large bamboos, near the blackberry bushes.
Every year when the butterflies would return to the orphanage and try to land on me I would try and shoo
them away because they did not know that the orphanage was a bad place to live and a very bad place to die.
below it. Certain words/phrases have been printed in bold to help you locate them while answering some of the questions.
There was a time in my life when beauty meant something special to me. I guess that would have been
when I was about six or seven years old, just several weeks or may be a month before the orphanage
turned me into an old man.
I would get up every morning at the orphanage, make my bed just like the little soldier that I had become
and then I would get into one of the two straight lines and march to breakfast with the other twenty or thirty boys who also lived in my dormitory.
After breakfast one Saturday morning I returned to the dormitory and saw the house parent chasing the beautiful monarch butterflies that lived by the hundreds in the bushes strewn around the orphanage.
I carefully watched as he caught these beautiful creatures, one after the other, and then took them from
the net and then stuck straight pins through their head and wings, pinning them onto a heavy cardboard
sheet. How cruel it was to kill something of such beauty. I had walked many times out into the bushes,
all by myself, just so the butterflies could land on my head, face and hands so I could look at them up close.
When the telephone rang the house parent laid the large cardboard paper down on the back cement step and went inside to answer the phone. I walked up to the cardboard and looked at the one butterfly who
he had just pinned to the large paper. It was still moving about so I reached down and touched it on the
wing causing one of the pins to fall out. It started flying around and around trying to get away but it was
still pinned by the one wing with the other straight pin. Finally its wing broke off and the butterfly fell to
the ground and just quivered.
I picked up the torn wing and the butterfly and I spat on its wing and tried to get it to stick back on so it could fly away and be free before the house parent came back. But it would not stay on him.
The next thing I knew the house parent came waking back out of the back door by the garbage room
and started yelling at me. I told him that I did not do anything but he did not believe me. He picked up
the cardboard paper and started hitting me on the top of the head. There were all kinds of butterfly pieces
going everywhere. He threw the cardboard down on the ground and told me to pick it up and put it in
the garbage can inside the back room of the dormitory and then he left.
I sat there in the dirt, by that big old tree, for the longest time trying to fit all the butterfly pieces back together so I could bury them whole, but it was too hard to do. So I prayed for them and then I put them in an old torn up shoe box and I buried them in the bottom of the fort that I had built in the ground, out by the large bamboos, near the blackberry bushes.
Every year when the butterflies would return to the orphanage and try to land on me I would try and shoo
them away because they did not know that the orphanage was a bad place to live and a very bad place to die.
1. Why had the author walked into the bushes many tones ?
(A) So that he could save the butterflies
(B) So that the butterflies could Sit on his head face and hands
(C) So that he Could give the butterflies to the house parent
(D) So that he could kill the butterflies
(E) None of these
2. In the passage what has the author compared the ophanage to ?
(A) An educational institute
(B) An old age home
(C) A nursery
(D) A military school
(E) None of these
3. Which of the following words can be used to describe the author ?
(A) Cruel
(B) Adventurous
(C) Danng
(D) Caring
(E) None of these
4. Why did the butterfly's wing break off ?
(A) Because the house parent had broken rl
(B) Because the author broke one wing
(C) Because one of its wings was stilt pinned to the cardboard and it tried to fly away
(D) Because the butterfly fell on the ground
(E) None of these
5. What did the author do with all the butterfly pieces ?
(A) He stuck all the pieces together
(B) He put them in a shoe box and buried them in the ground
(C) He gave them away to the house parent
(D) He threw them away in the garbage can.
(E) None of those
6. Which of the following is not true in the context or the passage ?
(A) The author liked watching the house parent stick the butterflies on the cardboard
(B) The author felt that killing butterflies was a cruel thing to do
(C) The house parent stuck the butterflies on the cardboard paper
(D) The author tried to repair one wing to the butterfly
(E) Al the above are true
7. What did the house parent ask the author to do ?
(A) To tend to the butterflies while he was gone
(B) To fetch butterflies for him
(C) To throw the cardboard paper in the garbage can
(D) To stick all the butterflies back together before burying them
(E) None of these
8. Why were butterfly pieces flying everywhere
(A) Because the author realized that the house parent was not Wing the right thing
(B) Because the house parent went to attend a phone call
(C) Because the house parent did not pin the butterflies correctly
(D) Because the author picked up the cardboard paper
(E) None of these
9. Why would the author try to shoo away the butterflies which tried to land on him ?
(A) Because he thought that the butterflies would suffer a very bad death if they stayed in the orphanage
(B) Because the house parent had warned him against it
(C) Because the butterflies were too many in number
(D) Because the author did not like the butterflies sitting on him
(E) None of these
10. Why was the author trying to fit all the butterfly pieces back together
(A) Because he was told to do so by the house parent
(B) Because he was responsible for the death of the butterflies
(C) Because the house parent would yell at him otherwise
(D) Because he was able to find a the pieces
(E) None of these
Directions— (Q. 11-13) Choose he word which is most similar in meaning to the word printed
in bold is used in the passage.
11. QUIVERED
(A) Fainted (B) Trembled
(C) Waved (D) Flew
(E) Foil
12. LAND
(A) Cement (B) Grounding
(C) Sit (CI) Earth
(E) Wart
13. CAREFULLY
(A) Closely (B) Anxiously
(C) Vaguely (D) Strongly
(E) Ana:malty
Directions- (Q. 14-15) Choose the word:phrase which is most opposite in meaning to the
word-phrase panted in bold as used o the passage.
14. BOTTOM
(A) Below (B) Height
(C) TM (D) Length
(E) Top
15. GET AWAY
(A) Find pace (B) Get down
(C) Lose sight (D) Corns &ism
(E) Got lost
Directions - (Q. 16-20) Which of the phrases (A). (B). (C) and (D) given below each sentence should win the phrase printed in bold in the sentence to make it grammatically correct ? If
the sentence is correct as It is given and no correction is required. mark (E) as the answer.
16. As she bought quite a number of books she got a heavy discount.
(A) quite numbers
(B) heavy numbers
(C) some numbers
(D) many numbers
(E) No correction required
17. After a groat deal of effort she finally managed to success in her venture.
(A) managing to succeed
(B) managed to succeed
(C) managing success
(D) manage to success
(E) No correction required
18. She opened the door as she know the person very well and had spent quite a few mornings with him.
(A) as she knows
(B) as she was knowing
(C) as she knew
(D) as she knowing
(E) No correction required
19 He is a very lazy person and hate doing any kind of work.
(A) hated doing
(B) hate does
(C) hates do
(D) hates dong
(E) No correction required
20 Usha could not thinking of travelling without her car and leered the crowd.
(A) could not think
(B) cannot thinking
(C) cannot think
(D) could not thinks
(E) No correction required
Directions—(Q. 21-25) In each question below, a sentence with four words printed in bold type is given.
These are lettered as (A), (B), (C) and (D). One of these lour words printed in bold may be either wrongly spelt or Inepproprlate in the context of the sentence. Find out the word which is wrongly spelt Of mappropnale. it any. The letter of that word is your answer. If all the words printed in bold are
correctly spelt and also appropriate In the context of the sentence. mark (E) re. Al correct as your answer.
21. Rita was tending to her flower
(A) (B)
beds with Joy and pride
(C) (D)
Al correct
(E)
22. As it was the tenth day of the
(A)
festival the constables on duty
(B) (C)
were tried of patrolling.
(D)
Al correct
(E)
23. It is better to die on your feet
(A) (B)
then live on our Knees.
(C) (D)
Al correct
(E)
24. He glanced around the room
(A)
suspislously, Sure they were
(B) (C)
hiding somewhere.
(D)
Al correct
(E)
25. The most wonderfullest thing
(A)
about miracles is that they
(B)
sometimes happen. All correct
(C) (D) (E)
Directions -(Q. 26-30) Rearrange the following SIX sentences I. 2, 3. 4. 5 and 6 in the proper sequence to form a meaningful paragraph: then answer the questions given below them
1. I could rot even hide mysen, which would have Saved me.
2. Once a monkey escaped from one of the rooms in the palace and came Into my MOM
3 This Mghtened the animal, who jumped out of the window and climbed onto the roof.
4. Suddenly my sister entered my room and screamed when she saw the monkey scratching me
5. I was so scared when I saw the monkey that I could not move.
6. Seeing that I was Scared, the monkey started scratching me.
26. Which of the following should be the THIRD sentence in the rearrange ?
(A) 1 (B) 2
(C) 3 (D) 4
(E) 5
27. Which of the following should be the FOURTH sentence after rearrangement ?
(A) 2 (B) 3
(C) 4 (D) 5
(E) 6
28. Which of the following should be the LAST (SIXTH) sentence after rearrangement ?
(A) 2 (B) 3
(C) 4 (D) 5
(E) 6
29. Which of the following should be the FIRST sentence alter rearrangement?
(A) 1 (B) 2
(C) 3 (D) 4
(E) 5
30 Which of the following should be the SECOND sentence after rearrangement?
(A) 2 (B) 3
(C) 4 (D) 5
(E) 6
Directions (Q. 31-40) - Read each sentence to find out whether there is any grammatical error
Or idiomatic error in it The error, any. will be in one pan of the sentence The letter of that part
is the answer If there is no error, the answer is (E) (Ignore errors of punctuation. it any.)
31. Despite working / very hard he / fated to achieve / the desiring results. No error
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
32. Saddened by / the sudden demise of / his favourite pet he decided / not to go to the party
(A) (B) (C) (D)
No error.
(E)
33. As she is late / for work she decided / to skip broadest and / Mad directly to office
(A) (B) (C) (D)
No error
(E)
34. The tiger was not / the only dangerous animal / in the forest / there was hyena too
(A) (B) (C) (D)
No error
(E)
35. She was running / a very high fever /and thus her mother takes / her to the doctor.
(A) (B) (C) (D)
No error
(E)
36. He talked on the phone / for hours together / who really irritated / his parents a lot
(A) (B) (C) (D)
No error
(E)
37 In my visiting / to the country / I decided to go / on a tour all by myself. No error.
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
38. There is a ray at hope / among the masses / this year as more candidates / are well educated.
(A) (B) (C) (D)
No error
(E)
39. He was very excited/ about go to / the park with / his younger brother.
(A) (B) (C) (D)
No error
(E)
40. Although his speech / was not very clearly / everyone understood / the underlying meaning.
(A) (B) (C) (D)
No error
(E)
Directions-(Q. 41-50) In the following passage there are blanks. Each of which has been numbered. These numbers are printed below The passage and against each, five words are suggested. one of which fits the blanks appropriately. Find out the appropriate word in each case.
Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley. It —(41)— to me that I stood by the iron gate leading to the
drive. but there was a padlock and chain upon the gale. Then, like art dreamers. I suddenly attained super-
natural powers and passed -(42)- the gate like a spirit. As I -(43)- along the twisting and turning drive, I ...(44)... see that a change had come about . This was not the neat and orderly drive that we
had —(45)— . It was only when I —(46)— my head to avoid the tow swinging branch of flee that I
realized what had —(47)— . Nature had come into its own again. The woods on other sloe of the drive had encroached (Aden the open space between. The branches at the trees intermingled __(48)... my heed like
the archway ol a church. The drive was choked with grass and moss. I came upon the house all of a (49).
As I stood before it. In (50)... the strange prick of tears behind my eyes.
41. (A) felt (B) seemed (C) seem (D) dreamt (E) Calif
42. (A) on (B) through (C) in (D) like (E) with
43. (A) walk (B) Sleet (C) wake (D) felt (E) advarces1
44. (A) should (B) will (C) could (D) am (E) would
45. (A) know (B) knowing (C) brewed (D) known (E) knew
46. (A) cut (13) turn (C) bent (D) left (E) tanned
47. (A) occur (B) transpire (C) sled (D) happen (E) happened
48. (A) to (B) too (C) lot (D) end (E) with
49. (A) quickly (B) fastly (C) time (D) sudden (E) fast
50. (A) Felt (3) lose (C) last (D) created (E) feel
Answers :
1. A 2. D 3. E 4. C 5. B 6. A 7. C 8. E 9. A 10. E
11. B 12. C 13. B 14. E 15. D 16. E 17. B 18. C 19. D 20. A
21. E 22. D 23. C 24. B 25. A 26. A 27. E 28. B 29. B 30. D
31. D 32. E 33. A 34. D 35. C 36. C 37. A 38. C 39. B 40. B
41. B 42. B 43. E 44. C 45. D 46. C 47. E 48. B 49. D 50. A
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