Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs) for CTET : English
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These 29 CTET English multiple choice questions cover English language teaching, pedagogy of language, grammar and language development. Each question has the correct answer with a step-by-step explanation and a short teacher's note, so you can practise for the Central Teacher Eligibility Test and check your understanding.
Multiple Choice Questions
Assertion (A): Learners acquire languages since they are genetically predisposed to do so and the environment does not play any role in it.
Reason (R): The learner-centered classroom environment has a great impact on language acquisition.
(a) (A) is false, but (R) is true.
(b) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
(c) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).
(d) (A) is true, but (R) is false.
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Answer: (a) (A) is false, but (R) is true.
Explanation:
1. Assertion A is false: biology helps, but the environment (input and interaction) plays a major role.
2. Reason R is true: a supportive learner-centred environment greatly helps acquisition.
Teacher's Note:
1. Language acquisition needs both innate capacity and environment.
2. In A-R questions, check each statement separately before judging the link.
(a) Structural approach
(b) Communicative approach
(c) Bottom-up approach
(d) Whole language approach
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Answer: (d) Whole language approach
Explanation:
1. The whole language approach teaches reading from meaningful whole texts.
2. Word meaning is understood from context, unlike the bottom-up approach, which starts with letters and sounds.
Teacher's Note:
1. Bottom-up = parts to whole; whole language = top-down, meaning first.
2. Context clues are central to whole language reading.
(a) Listening and responding
(b) Listening for tone modulation
(c) Listening for word stress and emphasis
(d) Listening for finding out speaker's attitude.
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Answer: (a) Listening and responding
Explanation:
1. In interactive listening the listener also takes part and responds, as in a conversation.
2. The other options are types of focused, non-interactive listening.
Teacher's Note:
1. Non-interactive listening: radio, lectures.
2. Interactive listening needs listening and speaking together.
(a) consult the teacher.
(b) skip the word to complete his reading in time.
(c) guess the meaning of the word in the context.
(d) consult the dictionary.
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Answer: (c) guess the meaning of the word in the context.
Explanation:
1. Good readers use context clues to guess meaning without breaking the flow of reading.
2. This builds independent reading skills; the dictionary can be used later if needed.
Teacher's Note:
1. Guessing from context is a key reading strategy.
2. Constant dictionary use disrupts comprehension.
(a) process oriented
(b) product oriented
(c) proficiency oriented
(d) pedagogy oriented
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Answer: (a) process oriented
Explanation:
1. Formative assessment is carried out during learning to monitor the learning process.
2. Summative assessment is product oriented.
Teacher's Note:
1. Formative = process; summative = product.
2. It gives feedback to improve learning.
(a) Auditory
(b) Visual
(c) Kinesthetic
(d) Aesthetic
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Answer: (c) Kinesthetic
Explanation:
1. Kinesthetic learners learn best by doing and by physical involvement.
2. Auditory learners learn by listening and visual learners by seeing.
Teacher's Note:
1. Learning styles: visual, auditory, kinesthetic.
2. Use hands-on tasks and movement for kinesthetic learners.
(a) Grammar translation method
(b) Communicative approach
(c) Structural approach
(d) Audiolingual method
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Answer: (b) Communicative approach
Explanation:
1. The communicative approach uses real-life tasks and interaction to develop language.
2. The other methods rely on translation, patterns or drills.
Teacher's Note:
1. Task-based and communicative teaching focus on meaningful use.
2. Communicative competence is the goal.
(a) to be contextualised
(b) to be life-oriented
(c) fully form focused
(d) memory focused
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Answer: (a) to be contextualised
Explanation:
1. Grammar should be taught in meaningful contexts such as texts and situations.
2. Form-only and memory-based tasks are not recommended.
Teacher's Note:
1. NCF 2005 favours grammar in context.
2. Isolated drills and rule memorisation are avoided.
(a) Learners acquire language by trying to use it in real situations
(b) Learners' first language plays an important role in learning
(c) Language teaching should have a focus on communicative activities
(d) Language teaching should give importance to writing rather than to speaking.
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Answer: (d) Language teaching should give importance to writing rather than to speaking.
Explanation:
1. Listening and speaking come before reading and writing and are equally important.
2. Giving writing more importance than speaking is incorrect; the other three statements are accepted principles.
Teacher's Note:
1. Oral skills are the base of language learning.
2. L1 is a resource for learning L2.
(a) Schools should focus only on reading and writing skills as listening and speaking come automatically.
(b) Language skills should be taught in the proper sequence of listening, speaking, reading and writing
(c) All the language skills are interrelated and teaching-learning processes should integrate them.
(d) Rules of language are more important than the exposure to the target language.
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Answer: (c) All the language skills are interrelated and teaching-learning processes should integrate them.
Explanation:
1. The four skills support each other, so they are best taught in an integrated way.
2. Listening and speaking need attention too, and exposure matters more than rules.
Teacher's Note:
1. Integrated skills teaching reflects real communication.
2. A strict sequence for all lessons is unnecessary.
(a) Metalinguistic ability
(b) Phonological awareness
(c) Proficiency
(d) Emergent literacy
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Answer: (a) Metalinguistic ability
Explanation:
1. Metalinguistic ability is awareness of language as an object, being able to think and talk about it.
2. Phonological awareness is only about sounds.
Teacher's Note:
1. Meta = about; metalinguistic = about language itself.
2. Bilingual children often develop it early.
Which one of the following is the apt answer to this question?
(a) As per the constructivist approach, children can invent new languages.
(b) Children learn language only by imitating adults.
(c) The human brain is innately wired to learn language.
(d) A child learns language when we reinforce the development of the child's language.
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Answer: (c) The human brain is innately wired to learn language.
Explanation:
1. Children produce new sentences they never heard, so imitation alone cannot explain language learning.
2. Chomsky explained this by the innate capacity of the human brain for language.
Teacher's Note:
1. Creativity of children's speech supports the nativist view.
2. Imitation and reinforcement cannot account for novel sentences.
(a) Storytelling
(b) Model reading
(c) Shared reading
(d) Dialogic reading
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Answer: (d) Dialogic reading
Explanation:
1. In dialogic reading the adult prompts, asks questions and encourages talk, then the child takes the storyteller's role.
2. Shared reading is reading together without this role reversal.
Teacher's Note:
1. Dialogic reading builds oral language and vocabulary.
2. The key feature is switching roles.
(a) not subjected to change.
(b) what is happening in the teaching-learning process.
(c) related to ongoing development and improvement.
(d) carried out at a pre-specified or particular stage in the course.
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Answer: (c) related to ongoing development and improvement.
Explanation:
1. Formative evaluation is continuous and aims at improving teaching and learning.
2. Evaluation at a fixed stage is summative.
Teacher's Note:
1. Formative evaluation provides feedback during learning.
2. It is flexible and can change instruction.
(a) Auditory learners
(b) Visual learners
(c) kinaesthetic learners
(d) Sociometric learners
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Answer: (c) kinaesthetic learners
Explanation:
1. Actions and gestures involve body movement.
2. Learners who learn through movement are kinaesthetic learners.
Teacher's Note:
1. Action rhymes help young learners.
2. Match the activity to the learning style.
(a) from the lowest to the highest in hierarchy.
(b) trading places with others.
(c) from your colleagues.
(d) inter-departmental learning.
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Answer: (a) from the lowest to the highest in hierarchy.
Explanation:
1. 'From the bottom up' means starting at the lowest level of an organisation.
2. One then learns each level while rising to the top.
Teacher's Note:
1. Idiom: start at the bottom and work upward.
2. 'Trade' here means a job or business.
1. My love of nature goes right back to my childhood, to the times when I stayed on my grandparents' farm in Suffolk. It was my grandmother who encouraged me more than anyone.
2. I got my first camera from my father after I'd graduated, when I had to go diving in Norway and needed a method of recording the sea creatures I would find there. I went off to take my first pictures of sea anemones and starfish. I became keen very quickly. Obviously I didn't have much money in those days, so I did more black and white photography than coloured, but I was still using the camera as a tool to record what I found both by diving and on the shore. I had no ambition at all to be a photographer then, or even for some years afterwards.
3. Unlike many of the wildlife photographers of the time, I've tried from the beginning to produce pictures which are always biologically correct. There are people who would alter things deliberately. They are actually falsifying, changing the natural surroundings to make them prettier.
4. It is important to think about the animal first. There can be a lot of ignorance in people's behavior towards wild animals. More and more people are now going to wild places. The sheer pressure of people, coupled with the fact that there are increasingly fewer places where no-one else has photographed, life has become much more difficult for the professional wildlife photographer.
5. Nevertheless, wildlife photographs play a very important part in educating people about what is out there and what needs conserving. Although photography can be an enjoyable pastime, it also plays a very important part in educating young and old alike. Of the qualities it takes to make a good wildlife photographer, patience is perhaps the most obvious: you just have to be prepared to sit it out. I'm actually more patient now.
Why did her father get her a camera?
(a) she wanted to learn photography.
(b) her grandmother wanted her to click pictures of sea anemone and starfish.
(c) her father thought it was a good idea for her to have one.
(d) she needed a tool to record what she had seen.
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Answer: (d) she needed a tool to record what she had seen.
Explanation:
1. Para 2 says she needed a method of recording the sea creatures she would find while diving in Norway.
2. So the camera was needed as a recording tool.
Teacher's Note:
1. Go back to the passage and find the exact reason.
2. Her photography began as a record-keeping tool, not an ambition.
1. My love of nature goes right back to my childhood, to the times when I stayed on my grandparents' farm in Suffolk. It was my grandmother who encouraged me more than anyone.
2. I got my first camera from my father after I'd graduated, when I had to go diving in Norway and needed a method of recording the sea creatures I would find there. I went off to take my first pictures of sea anemones and starfish. I became keen very quickly. Obviously I didn't have much money in those days, so I did more black and white photography than coloured, but I was still using the camera as a tool to record what I found both by diving and on the shore. I had no ambition at all to be a photographer then, or even for some years afterwards.
3. Unlike many of the wildlife photographers of the time, I've tried from the beginning to produce pictures which are always biologically correct. There are people who would alter things deliberately. They are actually falsifying, changing the natural surroundings to make them prettier.
4. It is important to think about the animal first. There can be a lot of ignorance in people's behavior towards wild animals. More and more people are now going to wild places. The sheer pressure of people, coupled with the fact that there are increasingly fewer places where no-one else has photographed, life has become much more difficult for the professional wildlife photographer.
5. Nevertheless, wildlife photographs play a very important part in educating people about what is out there and what needs conserving. Although photography can be an enjoyable pastime, it also plays a very important part in educating young and old alike. Of the qualities it takes to make a good wildlife photographer, patience is perhaps the most obvious: you just have to be prepared to sit it out. I'm actually more patient now.
The narrator did more black and white photography than colour because _____.
(a) she could not afford coloured prints.
(b) she did not have a good camera.
(c) she did not like coloured photographs.
(d) she considered colour photographs to be absolutely useless.
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Answer: (a) she could not afford coloured prints.
Explanation:
1. Para 2: she did not have much money in those days, so she did more black and white photography.
2. Colour was more expensive, so the reason was cost.
Teacher's Note:
1. The passage gives the reason directly.
2. Do not add reasons the passage does not state.
1. My love of nature goes right back to my childhood, to the times when I stayed on my grandparents' farm in Suffolk. It was my grandmother who encouraged me more than anyone.
2. I got my first camera from my father after I'd graduated, when I had to go diving in Norway and needed a method of recording the sea creatures I would find there. I went off to take my first pictures of sea anemones and starfish. I became keen very quickly. Obviously I didn't have much money in those days, so I did more black and white photography than coloured, but I was still using the camera as a tool to record what I found both by diving and on the shore. I had no ambition at all to be a photographer then, or even for some years afterwards.
3. Unlike many of the wildlife photographers of the time, I've tried from the beginning to produce pictures which are always biologically correct. There are people who would alter things deliberately. They are actually falsifying, changing the natural surroundings to make them prettier.
4. It is important to think about the animal first. There can be a lot of ignorance in people's behavior towards wild animals. More and more people are now going to wild places. The sheer pressure of people, coupled with the fact that there are increasingly fewer places where no-one else has photographed, life has become much more difficult for the professional wildlife photographer.
5. Nevertheless, wildlife photographs play a very important part in educating people about what is out there and what needs conserving. Although photography can be an enjoyable pastime, it also plays a very important part in educating young and old alike. Of the qualities it takes to make a good wildlife photographer, patience is perhaps the most obvious: you just have to be prepared to sit it out. I'm actually more patient now.
Why does she feel more patient now?
(a) life has become more difficult now.
(b) she does other things while waiting.
(c) she had got used to waiting.
(d) she knows the result will be worth it.
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Answer: (c) she had got used to waiting.
Explanation:
1. Para 5 says patience means being prepared to sit it out, and that she is more patient now.
2. Years of practice in waiting for shots have made her used to it, the best fit among the options.
Teacher's Note:
1. The passage does not state the reason directly, so choose the option that best fits.
2. Experience makes waiting easier.
1. My love of nature goes right back to my childhood, to the times when I stayed on my grandparents' farm in Suffolk. It was my grandmother who encouraged me more than anyone.
2. I got my first camera from my father after I'd graduated, when I had to go diving in Norway and needed a method of recording the sea creatures I would find there. I went off to take my first pictures of sea anemones and starfish. I became keen very quickly. Obviously I didn't have much money in those days, so I did more black and white photography than coloured, but I was still using the camera as a tool to record what I found both by diving and on the shore. I had no ambition at all to be a photographer then, or even for some years afterwards.
3. Unlike many of the wildlife photographers of the time, I've tried from the beginning to produce pictures which are always biologically correct. There are people who would alter things deliberately. They are actually falsifying, changing the natural surroundings to make them prettier.
4. It is important to think about the animal first. There can be a lot of ignorance in people's behavior towards wild animals. More and more people are now going to wild places. The sheer pressure of people, coupled with the fact that there are increasingly fewer places where no-one else has photographed, life has become much more difficult for the professional wildlife photographer.
5. Nevertheless, wildlife photographs play a very important part in educating people about what is out there and what needs conserving. Although photography can be an enjoyable pastime, it also plays a very important part in educating young and old alike. Of the qualities it takes to make a good wildlife photographer, patience is perhaps the most obvious: you just have to be prepared to sit it out. I'm actually more patient now.
Wildlife photography is important because it can make people realise that ____.
(a) photography is an enjoyable hobby.
(b) wildlife needs to be conserved.
(c) it is worthwhile visiting the countryside.
(d) there are good earnings in this profession.
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Answer: (b) wildlife needs to be conserved.
Explanation:
1. Para 5: wildlife photographs educate people about what is out there and what needs conserving.
2. So they make people realise wildlife needs to be conserved.
Teacher's Note:
1. The enjoyable pastime point is only a side remark.
2. Match the option to the exact words of the passage.
1. My love of nature goes right back to my childhood, to the times when I stayed on my grandparents' farm in Suffolk. It was my grandmother who encouraged me more than anyone.
2. I got my first camera from my father after I'd graduated, when I had to go diving in Norway and needed a method of recording the sea creatures I would find there. I went off to take my first pictures of sea anemones and starfish. I became keen very quickly. Obviously I didn't have much money in those days, so I did more black and white photography than coloured, but I was still using the camera as a tool to record what I found both by diving and on the shore. I had no ambition at all to be a photographer then, or even for some years afterwards.
3. Unlike many of the wildlife photographers of the time, I've tried from the beginning to produce pictures which are always biologically correct. There are people who would alter things deliberately. They are actually falsifying, changing the natural surroundings to make them prettier.
4. It is important to think about the animal first. There can be a lot of ignorance in people's behavior towards wild animals. More and more people are now going to wild places. The sheer pressure of people, coupled with the fact that there are increasingly fewer places where no-one else has photographed, life has become much more difficult for the professional wildlife photographer.
5. Nevertheless, wildlife photographs play a very important part in educating people about what is out there and what needs conserving. Although photography can be an enjoyable pastime, it also plays a very important part in educating young and old alike. Of the qualities it takes to make a good wildlife photographer, patience is perhaps the most obvious: you just have to be prepared to sit it out. I'm actually more patient now.
Why is she unlike many other wildlife photographers?
(a) she likes to photograph both plants and animals.
(b) she knows the best places to find wildlife.
(c) she tries to click the best, attractive poses of the animals.
(d) she takes photographs which record actual natural conditions.
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Answer: (d) she takes photographs which record actual natural conditions.
Explanation:
1. Para 3: unlike many others, she tries to produce pictures that are biologically correct and does not change natural surroundings.
2. So her photographs record actual natural conditions.
Teacher's Note:
1. Others alter surroundings to make them prettier.
2. Her difference is accuracy to nature.
1. My love of nature goes right back to my childhood, to the times when I stayed on my grandparents' farm in Suffolk. It was my grandmother who encouraged me more than anyone.
2. I got my first camera from my father after I'd graduated, when I had to go diving in Norway and needed a method of recording the sea creatures I would find there. I went off to take my first pictures of sea anemones and starfish. I became keen very quickly. Obviously I didn't have much money in those days, so I did more black and white photography than coloured, but I was still using the camera as a tool to record what I found both by diving and on the shore. I had no ambition at all to be a photographer then, or even for some years afterwards.
3. Unlike many of the wildlife photographers of the time, I've tried from the beginning to produce pictures which are always biologically correct. There are people who would alter things deliberately. They are actually falsifying, changing the natural surroundings to make them prettier.
4. It is important to think about the animal first. There can be a lot of ignorance in people's behavior towards wild animals. More and more people are now going to wild places. The sheer pressure of people, coupled with the fact that there are increasingly fewer places where no-one else has photographed, life has become much more difficult for the professional wildlife photographer.
5. Nevertheless, wildlife photographs play a very important part in educating people about what is out there and what needs conserving. Although photography can be an enjoyable pastime, it also plays a very important part in educating young and old alike. Of the qualities it takes to make a good wildlife photographer, patience is perhaps the most obvious: you just have to be prepared to sit it out. I'm actually more patient now.
The narrator finds it more difficult to photograph wild animals in the current scenario because _____.
(a) there are fewer of them now.
(b) they have become more nervous of people.
(c) it is harder to find suitable places to take photographs.
(d) they have become frightened of cars.
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Answer: (c) it is harder to find suitable places to take photographs.
Explanation:
1. Para 4: more people go to wild places and there are fewer places where no one else has photographed.
2. This makes it harder to find suitable places.
Teacher's Note:
1. The passage talks about places, not about the animals' numbers or fear.
2. Avoid options that add information not in the text.
1. My love of nature goes right back to my childhood, to the times when I stayed on my grandparents' farm in Suffolk. It was my grandmother who encouraged me more than anyone.
2. I got my first camera from my father after I'd graduated, when I had to go diving in Norway and needed a method of recording the sea creatures I would find there. I went off to take my first pictures of sea anemones and starfish. I became keen very quickly. Obviously I didn't have much money in those days, so I did more black and white photography than coloured, but I was still using the camera as a tool to record what I found both by diving and on the shore. I had no ambition at all to be a photographer then, or even for some years afterwards.
3. Unlike many of the wildlife photographers of the time, I've tried from the beginning to produce pictures which are always biologically correct. There are people who would alter things deliberately. They are actually falsifying, changing the natural surroundings to make them prettier.
4. It is important to think about the animal first. There can be a lot of ignorance in people's behavior towards wild animals. More and more people are now going to wild places. The sheer pressure of people, coupled with the fact that there are increasingly fewer places where no-one else has photographed, life has become much more difficult for the professional wildlife photographer.
5. Nevertheless, wildlife photographs play a very important part in educating people about what is out there and what needs conserving. Although photography can be an enjoyable pastime, it also plays a very important part in educating young and old alike. Of the qualities it takes to make a good wildlife photographer, patience is perhaps the most obvious: you just have to be prepared to sit it out. I'm actually more patient now.
Which of the following words is similar in meaning to the word 'alter' as used in the passage? (para 3)
(a) amend
(b) develop
(c) change
(d) adjust
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Answer: (c) change
Explanation:
1. In para 3, 'alter things' is explained as 'changing the natural surroundings'.
2. So the closest meaning in this context is change.
Teacher's Note:
1. Use the sentence after the word to find the meaning.
2. Amend and adjust suggest improving slightly, while the passage means actual change.
"Obviously, I didn't have much money in those days."
(a) Preposition
(b) Noun
(c) Adjective
(d) Adverb
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Answer: (d) Adverb
Explanation:
1. 'Obviously' modifies the whole sentence and tells how the statement is meant.
2. Words ending in -ly like this are adverbs.
Teacher's Note:
1. Sentence adverbs comment on the whole clause.
2. Check what the word modifies.
"Let's go! We are going to be late!" shouted Glen gleefully as he tightened his schoolbag on his back. Three other faces broke into a smile upon hearing his words. They could not wait to soak their feet in the water and perhaps catch a small fish or two, just for kicks. They were clearly not heading towards where they should be: school. The cold imposing white building became smaller and smaller. Their little hearts grew braver by the minute. They knew exactly where to go. The canal was huge but that morning, there was only a small lazy stream of dirty water in it. With great gusto, Glen, the leader of the pack, hoisted himself over the railings and climbed down the huge monsoon drain. In the process, he got himself very dirty, but the excitement of truancy was too great to be bothered by some loose buttons and tears in his shirt. In a fraction of seconds, the other boys joined him. Soon, screams and laughter of delight reverberated into the air but no one else could hear them for they had chosen a canal that was far from anyone.
How many boys had missed school to go fishing to the canal that day?
(a) Four
(b) Five
(c) Three
(d) Two
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Answer: (a) Four
Explanation:
1. Glen is one boy, and three other faces broke into a smile.
2. So 1 + 3 = 4 boys went to the canal.
Teacher's Note:
1. Count Glen as well as the other three.
2. Read numbers in a passage carefully.
"Let's go! We are going to be late!" shouted Glen gleefully as he tightened his schoolbag on his back. Three other faces broke into a smile upon hearing his words. They could not wait to soak their feet in the water and perhaps catch a small fish or two, just for kicks. They were clearly not heading towards where they should be: school. The cold imposing white building became smaller and smaller. Their little hearts grew braver by the minute. They knew exactly where to go. The canal was huge but that morning, there was only a small lazy stream of dirty water in it. With great gusto, Glen, the leader of the pack, hoisted himself over the railings and climbed down the huge monsoon drain. In the process, he got himself very dirty, but the excitement of truancy was too great to be bothered by some loose buttons and tears in his shirt. In a fraction of seconds, the other boys joined him. Soon, screams and laughter of delight reverberated into the air but no one else could hear them for they had chosen a canal that was far from anyone.
The word 'lazy' in the phrase 'a small lazy stream of dirty water' means:
(a) tired
(b) slow
(c) lethargic
(d) murky
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Answer: (b) slow
Explanation:
1. The canal was almost dry, with only a small stream of dirty water.
2. A 'lazy' stream is one that flows slowly.
Teacher's Note:
1. Murky refers to dirty water, which is already given by 'dirty'.
2. For a stream, lazy means slow-moving.
"Let's go! We are going to be late!" shouted Glen gleefully as he tightened his schoolbag on his back. Three other faces broke into a smile upon hearing his words. They could not wait to soak their feet in the water and perhaps catch a small fish or two, just for kicks. They were clearly not heading towards where they should be: school. The cold imposing white building became smaller and smaller. Their little hearts grew braver by the minute. They knew exactly where to go. The canal was huge but that morning, there was only a small lazy stream of dirty water in it. With great gusto, Glen, the leader of the pack, hoisted himself over the railings and climbed down the huge monsoon drain. In the process, he got himself very dirty, but the excitement of truancy was too great to be bothered by some loose buttons and tears in his shirt. In a fraction of seconds, the other boys joined him. Soon, screams and laughter of delight reverberated into the air but no one else could hear them for they had chosen a canal that was far from anyone.
Why did the boys' hearts grow braver by the minute?
(a) They were excited to have missed school.
(b) They knew exactly where they were headed.
(c) They knew that their teachers couldn't find them.
(d) They could no longer see the school building.
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Answer: (d) They could no longer see the school building.
Explanation:
1. The passage says the school building became smaller and smaller, and then their hearts grew braver by the minute.
2. As they moved away and the building faded from view, they felt braver.
Teacher's Note:
1. The text links growing courage with the shrinking school building.
2. Other options are true or likely but are not given as the reason.
(a) At home
(b) At school
(c) Playing with friends
(d) By the canal
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Answer: (b) At school
Explanation:
1. It was a school morning, and the passage says they were not heading where they should be: school.
2. Schools teach such skills at that time.
Teacher's Note:
1. Truancy means staying away from school without permission.
2. The passage itself names school as the place they should be.
"Let's go! We are going to be late!" shouted Glen gleefully as he tightened his schoolbag on his back. Three other faces broke into a smile upon hearing his words. They could not wait to soak their feet in the water and perhaps catch a small fish or two, just for kicks. They were clearly not heading towards where they should be: school. The cold imposing white building became smaller and smaller. Their little hearts grew braver by the minute. They knew exactly where to go. The canal was huge but that morning, there was only a small lazy stream of dirty water in it. With great gusto, Glen, the leader of the pack, hoisted himself over the railings and climbed down the huge monsoon drain. In the process, he got himself very dirty, but the excitement of truancy was too great to be bothered by some loose buttons and tears in his shirt. In a fraction of seconds, the other boys joined him. Soon, screams and laughter of delight reverberated into the air but no one else could hear them for they had chosen a canal that was far from anyone.
A. Glen climbed down the huge monsoon drain
B. Soon, his friends joined Glen at the canal.
C. Glen climbed over the railings with excitement.
D. The boys caught fish in the dirty water.
(a) C → A → B → D
(b) D → C → B → A
(c) B → A → D → C
(d) A → C → D → B
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Answer: (a) C → A → B → D
Explanation:
1. Glen first hoisted himself over the railings (C), then climbed down the drain (A).
2. The other boys joined him (B), and fishing (D) came afterwards.
Teacher's Note:
1. Follow the order of events in the passage.
2. The fishing is the last event, as the boys came to the canal for it.
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