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After independence there have been some government initiatives for public libraries such as the National Mission on Public Libraries, improving school library services as part of five-year plans for education and assistance, and provision of grants by the RRRLF for library programmes aimed at training and development. A few public libraries in villages and talukas have also been given financial aid in the construction of buildings and upkeep of facilities. However, these programmes have been ad-hoc and not administered with concerted efforts by the Ministry of Culture.
The National Mission on public libraries aimed at
(a) constructing reading rooms in urban areas.
(b) training of library staff.
(c) opening new libraries in rural areas.
(d) improving school library services.
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Answer: (d) improving school library services.
Explanation:
1. The passage lists the National Mission and improving school library services together as initiatives.
2. Of the options, only improving school library services is mentioned.
Teacher's Note:
1. Match the options to the wording in the passage.
2. The other options are not stated.
(a) improvement
(b) beautification
(c) maintenance
(d) management
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Answer: (c) maintenance
Explanation:
1. Upkeep means keeping something in good condition.
2. The closest word is maintenance.
Teacher's Note:
1. Upkeep is the cost and effort of maintaining something.
2. Improvement means making it better, which is different.
(a) Noun
(b) Adverb
(c) Adjective
(d) Pronoun
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Answer: (c) Adjective
Explanation:
1. It describes the noun 'books'.
2. A word that describes a noun is an adjective.
Teacher's Note:
1. Adjectives answer 'what kind of?'
2. Past participles can work as adjectives.
The programme failed because it is not taken up seriously by the authorities.
(a) The programme failed because
(b) it is not taken up
(c) seriously
(d) by the authorities
(a) (a)
(b) (d)
(c) (c)
(d) (b)
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Answer: (d) (b)
Explanation:
1. The main verb 'failed' is in the past tense.
2. So the clause should read 'it was not taken up'; the error is in (b).
Teacher's Note:
1. Keep tenses consistent within a sentence.
2. Check the verb in each clause.
Choose the word nearest in meaning to 'hesitant'.
(a) willing
(b) keen
(c) disinclined
(d) harmless
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Answer: (c) disinclined
Explanation:
1. Hesitant means unwilling or slow to act because of doubt.
2. Disinclined is the closest in meaning.
Teacher's Note:
1. Willing and keen are antonyms.
2. Hesitant fits with reluctant.
(a) online shopping app for fashion and electronics.
(b) photo and video sharing app.
(c) free messaging app.
(d) popular health and fitness app.
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Answer: (b) photo and video sharing app.
Explanation:
1. Instagram is a social network owned by Meta.
2. It is used to share photos and videos.
Teacher's Note:
1. WhatsApp is the messaging app.
2. Instagram is a social media platform.
(a) increased
(b) exceeded
(c) proceeded
(d) succeeded
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Answer: (b) exceeded
Explanation:
1. Surpassed means went beyond.
2. Exceeded has the same meaning.
Teacher's Note:
1. Succeeded here would mean followed, not went beyond.
2. Surpass, exceed and outdo are synonyms.
(a) Adverb
(b) Adjective
(c) Noun
(d) Pronoun
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Answer: (c) Noun
Explanation:
1. 'The impact of the pandemic' has the article 'the' before it.
2. A word that names a thing and follows 'the' is a noun.
Teacher's Note:
1. A word after 'the' that can take 'of' is usually a noun.
2. Impact can also be a verb, but not in this sentence.
A new committee comprising of five members was constituted to probe the matter.
(a) A new committee
(b) comprising of five members
(c) was constituted
(d) to probe the matter
(a) (d)
(b) (a)
(c) (b)
(d) (c)
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Answer: (c) (b)
Explanation:
1. 'Comprise' means 'consist of', so it takes no 'of'.
2. The correct phrase is 'comprising five members', so the error is in (b).
Teacher's Note:
1. Use 'comprise' without 'of', or use 'consist of'.
2. This is a common usage error.
(a) Evacuation
(b) Crushing
(c) Excretion
(d) Purification
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Answer: (d) Purification
Explanation:
1. To purge means to cleanse or rid of impurities.
2. In the music context, the closest word is purification.
Teacher's Note:
1. In this context purging means cleansing the mind.
2. Evacuation and excretion are physical, not the sense used here.
Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,
Old Time is still a-flying;
And this same flower that smiles today
Tomorrow will be dying.
The glorious lamp of heaven, the sun,
The higher he's a-getting,
The sooner will his race be run,
And nearer he's to setting.
That age is best which is the first,
When youth and blood are warmer;
But being spent, the worse, and worst
Times still succeed the former.
Then be not coy, but use your time,
And while ye may, go marry;
For having lost but once your prime,
You may forever tarry.
The poem is addressed to a/an __________ .
(a) old unmarried woman
(b) gardener
(c) young woman
(d) old friend
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Answer: (c) young woman
Explanation:
1. The poet urges the listener to 'be not coy' and to marry while in her prime.
2. So the listener is a young woman.
Teacher's Note:
1. Look at the advice given: not to be coy and to marry in youth.
2. This is Herrick's carpe diem poem.
(a) Hyperbole
(b) Simile
(c) Metaphor
(d) Personification
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Answer: (d) Personification
Explanation:
1. A flower is given a human action, smiling.
2. Giving human qualities to a non-human thing is personification.
Teacher's Note:
1. No 'like' or 'as' is used, so it is not a simile.
2. Ask whether a human act is given to a thing.
(a) Hyperbole
(b) Simile
(c) Metaphor
(d) Personification
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Answer: (c) Metaphor
Explanation:
1. The sun is directly called a lamp, without 'like' or 'as'.
2. An implied comparison without 'like' or 'as' is a metaphor.
Teacher's Note:
1. Simile uses 'like' or 'as'; metaphor does not.
2. Here the sun is equated with a lamp.
Lightly, O lightly we bear her along.
She sways like a flower in the wind of our song:
She skims like a bird on the foam of a stream,
She floats like a laugh from the lips of a dream.
Gaily, O gaily we glide and we sing.
We bear her along like a pearl on a string.
Softly, O softly we bear her along.
She hangs like a star in the dew of our song:
She springs like a beam on the brow of the tide,
She falls like a tear from the eyes of a bride.
Lightly, O lightly we glide and we sing.
We bear her along like a pearl on a string.
In the first line the object that the narrator refers to as 'we bear her along' is
(a) a flower.
(b) a bird.
(c) a bridegroom in a palanquin.
(d) a bride in a palanquin.
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Answer: (d) a bride in a palanquin.
Explanation:
1. The poem mentions the 'eyes of a bride' and bearers who glide and sing.
2. So 'her' is a bride carried in a palanquin.
Teacher's Note:
1. Use clues from the later lines.
2. This is Sarojini Naidu's 'Palanquin Bearers'.
(a) Metaphor
(b) Personification
(c) Simile
(d) Hyperbole
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Answer: (c) Simile
Explanation:
1. The bride is compared to a bird using 'like'.
2. A comparison using 'like' or 'as' is a simile.
Teacher's Note:
1. Simile uses like or as.
2. The poem is full of similes.
Here they went with smock and crook,
Toiled in the sun, lolled in the shade,
Here they mudded out the brook,
And here their hatchet cleared the glade,
Harvest supper woke their wit,
Huntsman's moon their wooing lit.
From this church they led their brides,
From this church themselves were led
Shoulder-high; on these waysides
Sat to take their beer and bread.
Names are gone - what men they were,
These their cottages declare.
The people described in these stanzas are:
(a) young boys
(b) farmers
(c) Traders
(d) artisans
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Answer: (b) farmers
Explanation:
1. They wear a smock, carry a crook, toil in the sun and have a harvest supper.
2. These are the marks of farm workers.
Teacher's Note:
1. Use clues such as crook, harvest and mudding the brook.
2. Do not guess from the title; the words in the text decide.
The figure of speech used in this line is:
(a) Simile
(b) Metaphor
(c) Personification
(d) Imagery
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Answer: (c) Personification
Explanation:
1. Cottages are said to declare, which is a human act.
2. This is personification.
Teacher's Note:
1. No comparison with 'like' or 'as' is made.
2. Imagery is a quality of descriptions, not a figure of this kind.
The word 'their' is a/an _____
(a) Noun
(b) Determiner
(c) Adjective
(d) Adverb
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Answer: (b) Determiner
Explanation:
1. 'Their' comes before the noun 'brides' and shows possession.
2. In modern grammar this is a possessive determiner.
Teacher's Note:
1. Possessives like my, your and their are determiners.
2. Traditional grammar calls them possessive adjectives.
The birds around me hopp'd and play'd,
Their thought I cannot measure,
But the least motion which they made
It seem'd a thrill of pleasure.
The budding twigs spread out their fan
To catch the breezy air;
And I must think do all I can,
That there was pleasure there.
If this belief from heaven be sent,
If such be Nature's holy plan,
Have I not reason to lament
What Man has made of Man?
The poet seems to be sitting:
(a) in a forest.
(b) near a lake.
(c) on the seashore.
(d) in a zoo.
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Answer: (a) in a forest.
Explanation:
1. The poet speaks of birds around him and budding twigs.
2. This suggests a wooded place.
Teacher's Note:
1. Look for details of the setting.
2. This is Wordsworth's 'Lines Written in Early Spring'.
Three year she grew in sun and shower,
Then Nature said, 'A lovelier flower
On earth was never sown:
This child I to myself will take:
She shall be mine, and I will make
A lady of my own.
Myself will to my darling be
Both law and impulse: and with me
The girl, in rock and plain,
In earth and heaven, in glade and bower,
Shall feel an overseeing power
To kindle or restrain.'
What/who is 'I' in these lines?
(a) Father
(b) Mother
(c) The poet
(d) Nature
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Answer: (d) Nature
Explanation:
1. The words 'Then Nature said' introduce the speaker.
2. So 'I' is Nature.
Teacher's Note:
1. Check who is speaking in the quoted lines.
2. This is Wordsworth's 'Three years she grew'.
The figure of speech used in this expression is:
(a) Simile
(b) Metaphor
(c) Personification
(d) Metonymy
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Answer: (c) Personification
Explanation:
1. Nature is made to speak.
2. Giving human speech to a non-human thing is personification.
Teacher's Note:
1. Speech is a human act.
2. No comparison is made, so not simile or metaphor.
'I focus on the language I use to make sure it is correct.'
(a) Translanguaging
(b) Memorising
(c) Revising
(d) Self-monitoring
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Answer: (d) Self-monitoring
Explanation:
1. The learner checks his or her own language use while speaking.
2. Checking one's own output is self-monitoring.
Teacher's Note:
1. Self-monitoring is a metacognitive strategy.
2. Translanguaging means using several languages together.
(a) Eclectic
(b) Audio-lingual
(c) Communicative Language Teaching
(d) Total Physical Response
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Answer: (d) Total Physical Response
Explanation:
1. Students respond to language with body actions.
2. Linking speech with physical movement is Total Physical Response (TPR).
Teacher's Note:
1. TPR is Asher's method and suits young learners.
2. Look for commands and actions.
(a) Peer assessment
(b) Self-assessment
(c) Feedback
(d) Reading assessment
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Answer: (a) Peer assessment
Explanation:
1. Groups make questions that other groups answer.
2. Learners assessing each other is peer assessment.
Teacher's Note:
1. Peer assessment is done by classmates.
2. Self-assessment is done by the learner alone.
(a) an added asset, a motivational factor
(b) an interference, a hindrance
(c) a happy coincidence
(d) a cause for failure in life
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Answer: (b) an interference, a hindrance
Explanation:
1. The sentence contrasts the present positive view with the earlier view.
2. Earlier, the second language was seen as an interference and a hindrance.
Teacher's Note:
1. The earlier view was negative, so the answer must be a negative option.
2. Option (d) is too extreme for the accepted view.
(a) grammatically correct, but whimsical.
(b) grammatically well-formed, but inaccurate meaning wise.
(c) correct in terms of word use but phonologically inaccurate.
(d) correct in terms of grammaticality but incorrect logically.
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Answer: (b) grammatically well-formed, but inaccurate meaning wise.
Explanation:
1. Chomsky's sentence follows English syntax but has no sensible meaning.
2. So it is grammatical but meaningless.
Teacher's Note:
1. Chomsky used it to show that syntax is separate from meaning.
2. Options (a), (b) and (d) are close; choose the one that states the meaning problem.
(a) conscious and deliberate
(b) natural and deliberate
(c) natural and subconscious
(d) language processing
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Answer: (c) natural and subconscious
Explanation:
1. Krashen distinguishes acquisition from learning.
2. Acquisition is natural and subconscious, as when a child picks up a mother tongue.
Teacher's Note:
1. Learning is conscious and deliberate.
2. Acquisition happens through meaningful exposure.
(a) Teacher-centered classroom management approach
(b) Student-centered classroom management approach
(c) Text-centered classroom management approach
(d) Assessment-centered classroom management approach
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Answer: (a) Teacher-centered classroom management approach
Explanation:
1. Communicative classes focus on learners interacting.
2. So the teacher uses a less teacher-centred approach.
Teacher's Note:
1. Communicative teaching is learner-centred.
2. The teacher acts as a facilitator.
(a) Audio-lingual method and Audio-visual method
(b) Audio-lingual method and Grammar translation method
(c) Audio-lingual method and Structural approach
(d) Audio-lingual method and Communicative approach
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Answer: (a) Audio-lingual method and Audio-visual method
Explanation:
1. The Direct method teaches through speech, using the target language only, with objects, pictures and demonstration.
2. This oral-aural and visual emphasis matches the audio-lingual and audio-visual components.
3. Grammar translation, structural and communicative approaches are different methods, so (a) fits best.
Teacher's Note:
1. The Direct method avoids translation and teaches in the target language.
2. The question wording is loose, so remember its oral, no-translation character.
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