APPSC Group 4 Section B (General English & General Telugu) Practice Test - 14

Sakshi Education

Instruction: Read the following passage and choose the correct answers to the questions given after
The greatest thing this ager can be proud of is the birth of man in the consciousness of men. In this drunken orgies of power and national pride, man may flout and jeer at it. When organized national selfishness, racial antipathy and commercial self seeking begin to display their ugly deformities in all their nakedness, then comes the time for man to know that his salvation is not in political organizations and extended trade relations, not in any mechanical rearrangement of social system but in a deeper transformation of life, in the liberation of consciousness in love, in the realization of God in man.

1) The author uses the expression, 'ugly deformities' to show his
indignation at :
[A] Political organizations
[B] The liberation of human consciousness
[C] Selfishness and materialism of the people
[D] The drunken orgies of power

2) The accident sadly resulted _____ the death of a man.
[A] with
[B] in
[C] at
[D] for

3) A letter expressing condolences is:
[A] a business letter
[B] an informal letter
[C] a formal letter
[D] an official letter

4) Naresh does not believe in the God.
This sentence has an error;
[A] in the subject
[B] in the verb
[C] in the usage of 'article'
[D] in a agreement of the verb with the subject

5) Pavan is not so intelligent as Sekhar.
Choose the comparative degree of this sentence.
[A] Pavan is the most intelligent student.
[B] Very few students are as intelligent as Pavan.
[C] Sekhar is more intelligent than Pavan.
[D] No other student is so intelligent as Pavan.

6) He draws a salary of two thousand five hundred rupees.
Choose the correct question tag of the sentence.
[A] isn’t it ?
[B] doesn’t he ?
[C] does he ?
[D] will he ?

7) Oliver was frightened at the sight of so many gentlemen, which made him tremble.
Choose the antonym of the word, ‘many’.
[A] several
[B] few
[C] any
[D] a few

8) He groaned in despair.
Choose the antonym of the word “despair”.
[A] misery
[B] gloom
[C] sorrow
[D] hope

9) People who live in glass houses must not throw stones.
This sentence has
[A] a defining relative clause
[B] a non-defining relative clause
[C] a noun clause
[D] a conditional clause

10) He is swimming in a pool.
In the above sentence, 'swimming' is:
[A] a helping verb
[B] a gerund
[C] a past participle
[D] a present participle

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11) Let's meet at the station, …………..
Choose the correct question tag to complete the sentence.
[A] don't us ?
[B] would you ?
[C] shall we ?
[D] will you ?

12) Choose the word that can be used to write an adverbial clause of condition.
[A] As
[B] If
[C] Since
[D] Because

13) What ______ yesterday?
Choose the correct verb and subject that fit the blank.
[A] did you did
[B] will you do
[C] do you do
[D] did you do

14) Choose the linking word that can be used to express 'contrast'..
[A] so
[B] but
[C] thus
[D] moreover

15) Choose the sentence that has a noun clause
[A] The student said that he would come the next day.
[B] That book is not mine.
[C] I don't like that book.
[D] India is a land of many languages.

16) Choose the concluding sentence that can be written in a formal letter.
[A] We are missing you here.
[B] Thanking you
[C] With live,
[D] Give my regards to your parents.

17) Choose the correctly punctuated sentence.
[A] “How stupid you are?” Goliath exclaimed.
[B] How stupid you are! “Goliath exclaimed”.
[C] “How stupid you are!” Goliath exclaimed.
[D] “How stupid you are,” Goliath exclaimed.

Instruction: Read the passage given below and choose the correct answers to the questions that follow. Modern society ignores the individual. It only takes account of human beings. The confusion of the concepts of individual and of human beings has led industrial civilization to a fundamental error, standardization of man. If we were all identical, we could be reared and made to live and work in great herds like cattle. But each one has his own personality. He cannot be treated like a symbol.Children should not be placed, at a very early age, in schools where they are educated wholesale. As is well known, most great men have been brought up in comparative solitude, or have refused to enter the mould of the school.