Monday, 25 June 2012

TNPSC Group II 2009 Exam Paper-Part 3


TNPSC Group II 2009 Exam Paper- Part 3

101. Match the following root words given in Column A with their suffixes in Column B and select the correct answer from the codes given below:

 Column A                  Column B
a.Colour                     1. Nous
b. Child                       2. Ion
c. Act                          3. Ful
d.Poison                     4. Hood

a) 4 2 1 3
b) 1 3 4 2 
c)  3 4 2 1 
d) 4 1 3 2 

Answer: c

102. Match the following root words given in Column A with their meanings in Column B and select the correct answer from the codes given below:

Column A                               Column B
a. stooped                              1. Lived
b. Dwelt                                  2. Yearly celebration
c.Anniversary                         3. Stomach pain
d. Colic                                   4. Bent.

a) 3 4 1 2 
b) 4 1 2 3 
c)  2 3 4 1 
d) 1 3 2 4 

Answer: b

103. Comprehension: 

There were two friends in the village of Bhuthapandy. The elder was Kandhan, a cunning man and the younger was Rangan a very simple man. Select the correct answer:

a) Rangan was a cunning man 
b)  Rangan was a wise man 
c) Rangan was a playful man 
d)  Rangan was a very simple man

Answer: d

104. Comprehension:

Mulla’s parents were humble and ordinary, Mulla was also like that, Books were costly in those days. So, Mulla worked hard in the rich man’s house and read books there.

Books were ………….. in those days

a)  cheap 
b) Very cheap
c)  costly 
d)  More costly

Answer: c


105. Comprehension:

The tench is a large fish found in the water of lakes, rivers and marshes. Its skin secretes a lot of slime. It was formerly known as doctor fish.
The name of the fish referred here is …………..

a) doctor 
b) tench 
c)  slime 
d) Large 

Answer: b

106. Comprehension:

The liver is the largest organ in our body and it weighs one and half kilos. It performs more that 500 jobs, some of them essential to life.
The largest organ in our body is the ……………..

a)  intestine 
b) heart 
c)  liver 
d) Rib 

Answer: c

107. Comprehension:

Elephants are found in India and in Africa. The African elephant differs in some points from the Indian, being large with longer tusks and bigger ears.
Elephants are ………….. Animals

a) domestic
b) wild 
c) bold 
d)  Shy 

Answer: b


108. Find out the error:

a) He/A 
b) Know/B 
c) Me/C
d) Well/D 

Answer: b


109. Find out the error:

a) The/A 
b) Baby/B 
c)  Is/C 
d) Cry/D 


Answer: d

110. Find out the error:

a)  Call/A 
b) a/B 
c)  Boy/C 
d) Standing outside/D 

Answer: b

111. Select the correct plural form:
Flower

a) Flowers 
b) Floweries 
c) Floweris 
d)  Flowes 

Answer: a

112. Select the correct sentence:

a) Water flows from the hill 
b) Water flows down the hill 
c)  Water flows beside the hill 
d) Water flows for the hill 

Answer: b

113. Select the correct sentence:

a)  I want to improve my knowledge in English
b)  I want to improve my knowledge for English
c)  I want to improve my knowledge on English
d)  I want to improve my knowledge of English

Answer: c

114. Select the correct sentence:

a) Dringking lot of water is good to health 
b) Dringking lot of water is good for health 
c) Dringking lot of water is good of health 
d) Dringking lot of water is good to a health 

Answer: b

115. Select the correct sentence (Indirect speech):
The teacher said to Mallika, “What is your father?”

a) The teacher asked Mallika what her father was
b) The teacher requested Mallika what her father was
c) The teacher ordered Mallika what her father was
d) The teacher said to Mallika what her father was

Answer: a

116. Select the correct impersonal passive sentence:
Nobody closed the door

a)  The door is not closed 
b)  The door was not closed 
c)  The door wont be closed 
d)  The door didn,t closed 

Answer: b

117. Identify the sentence:
Being busy, I could not attend the function

a) complex 
b)  Compound 
c) simple 
d) Negative 

Answer: a

118. Identify the sentence:
On seeing the mother the baby laughed

a) Compound 
b)  Interrogative
c)  Complex 
d) simple 

Answer: d

119. Identify the sentence:
If there is pain, take this tablet

a) simple
b)  Complex 
c) Compound 
d) imperative 

Answer: c

120. Identify the sentence:
The sun had set and the stars appeared

a) simple
b)  Complex 
c) Compound 
d) imperative 

Answer: c

121. Select the correct question tag:
I am in your way, ………

a)  Am I? 
b)  Will I? 
c) Did I?
d) Amn’t I 

Answer: d

122. Identify the sentence pattern:
They announced the results

a) S.V.O. 
b) S.V.A.
c) S.V.C.O. 
d) S.V.A.c


Answer: a


123. Identify the sentence pattern:
My teacher taught me English

a) S.V.O. 
b) S.V.I.O.D.O. 
c) S.V.C.O. 
d)  S.V.D.O.I.O 

Answer: d

124. Identify the sentence pattern:
She laughed loudly

a) S.V.A.
b) S.V.O. 
c) S.V.C
d) S.V.I.O

Answer: a


125. Identify the sentence pattern:
He appeared angry

a) S.O.V. 
b) S.V.I.O
c) S.V.A.
d)  S.V. 

Answer: c

126. Identify the sentence pattern:
The baby is crying

a) S.O.V. 
b)  S.V.I.O. 
c) S.V.A. 
d)  S.V. 

Answer: d

127. Fill in the blank with correct article.
My sister will come in …….. day or two

a) the
b) an
c) a
d) some

Answer: c

128. Fill in the blank with correct article.
……….. cow is a useful animal

a) the
b) an
c) a
d) some

Answer: a

129. Fill in the blank with correct article.
Rajan is waiting for ……….. hour

a) the
b) an
c) a
d) some

Answer: b

130. Fill in the blank with correct article
Yesterday I met ……….. European

a) the
b) an
c) a
d) some

Answer: b

131. Fill in the blank with correct preposition.
My mother is ………. The kitchen

a) on
b) at
c) by
d) in

Answer: d

132. Select the correct prefix:
danger

a) ing
b) en
c) ed
d) Er

Answer: b

133. Select the correct suffix:
small

a) ed
b) ly
c) er
d) ing

Answer: c

134. Select the correct suffix:
beauty

a) ion
b) ly
c) ing
d) Ful

Answer: d

135. Select the correct prefix.
cover

a) dis
b) un
c) in
d) ly

Answer: a

136. Select the correct prefix:
lead

a) un
b) re
c) mis
d) en

Answer: c

137. Choose the correct antonym:
United Nations lives on

a) grows 
b)  survives 
c) exists
d) dies

Answer: d

138. Choose the correct antonym:
It is very deep sleep

a) sound 
b) nap 
c) disturbed 
d)  Shallow 

Answer: d

139. Choose the correct antonym:
Night descended dark and cold

a)  increased 
b) ascended 
c) decreased 
d) Moved

Answer: b

140. Choose the correct antonym:
It was an ancient Indian prince who first developed music

a) modern 
b) old 
c)  historical 
d) Past time

Answer: a

141. Fill in the blank (infinitive):
………. In the right side of the road is dangerous

a) To walk 
b) To be walk 
c) To walking 
d) Walking 


Answer: a


142. Fill in the blank (infinitive):
Kala likes ………… in the air

a) flying 
b) to fly 
c) To be fly 
d)  Was flying


Answer: b


143. Fill in the blank (gerund):
……… is good for health

a)  Will swin 
b) Will be swimming 
c)  Swimming 
d) Swam 


Answer: c


144. Fill in the blank (gerund):
Kala does not like ………. In the streets

a)  playing 
b) played 
c) Will play
d) Was playing 


Answer: a


145. Fill in the blank (participle):
I have ……… breakfast in the morning

a)  eaten 
b) ate 
c) Will eat 
d) Will be eating 


Answer: a


146. Select the correct tense:
P.M. visits flood victims

a) Present perfect 
b) Simple present 
c) Present continuous 
d)  Simple past 


Answer: b


147. Select the correct tense:
The stars are shining

a) Present continuous 
b) Simple future 
c)  Past perfect 
d) Past continuous 


Answer: a


148. Select the correct tense:
I had passed the exam

a) Present perfect 
b) Past perfect 
c) Simple past 
d) Simple future 

Answer: b

149. Select the correct tense:
At 10 O’ clock tomorrow I shall be travelling to Agra

a) Future continuous
b) Past continuous 
c) Present perfect 
d) Present continuous 


Answer: a


150. Select the correct tense:
Several prisoners have broken out the jail

a) Simple past 
b) Simple present 
c) Present continuous 
d) Present perfect 

Answer: d

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