AP TET 2021: English Practice Test-2
1) The following is NOT the part of a letter to apply for a job.
a) The details of father.
b) Educational Qualifications.
c) Age and date of birth.
d) Contact details.
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- Answer: A
2) “You will pick Oakum tomorrow morning,” said the gentleman Choose the correct reported speech of the sentence.
a) The gentleman said that he would pick Oakum the next day morning.
b) The gentleman told that he will pick Oakum the next day morning.
c) The gentleman said that he would pick Oakum tomorrow morning.
d) The gentleman asked that he would pick Oakum tomorrow morning.
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- Answer:A
3) Ramya said, "Are these fabrics from Indonesia?".
Choose the reported speech of this sentence. a) Ramya asked whether those fabrics were from Indonesia.
b) Ramya said that those fabrics were from Indonesia.
c) Ramya said if these fabrics are from Indonesia.
d) Ramya said that these fabrics were from Indonesia.
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- Answer: A
4) Choose the sentence in the simple past tense.
a) She sings songs.
b) He cut the mango.
c) I want to meet you.
d) It rains here.
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- Answer:B
5) The bird ___ out if you leave the door of the cage. Choose the correct verb to fill in the blank.
a) flies
b) will fly
c) fly
d) would fly
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- Answer: B
6) "I have plenty of food, cousin," said the boy. The reported speech of this sentence is:
a) The boy said that he had plenty of food for his cousin.
b) The cousin said that boy had plenty of food for the boy.
c) The boy said that his cousin had plenty of food.
d) The boy told his cousin that he had plenty of food.
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- Answer: D
7) He wanted to marry a woman doctor who had plenty of money. The underlined part of the sentence belongs to;
a) a main clause
b) a noun clause
c) an adjectival clause
d) an adverbial clause
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- Answer: C
8) He hopes that he will win the first prize. This sentence has;
a) a noun clause
b) a conditional clause
c) a defining relative clause
d) a non-defining relative clause
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- Answer: A
9) No other river in the world is so long as the Nile. Choose the superlative degree of this sentence.
a) The Nile is the most longest river in the World.
b) The Nile the longest World in the rivers.
c) The Nile is the most long river in the World.
d) The Nile is the longest river in the World.
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- Answer: D
10) Choose the conjunction that can be used to write a compound sentence.
a) not only……but also
b) as if
c) scarcely…..when
d) as long as
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- Answer:A
11) The teacher said to Ravi, “You are absolutely right”. Choose the correct reported speech of the sentence.
a) The teacher said to Ravi that he is absolutely right.
b) The teacher said to Ravi that he was absolutely right.
c) The teacher told Ravi that he was absolutely right.
d) The teacher told Ravi that you are absolutely right.
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- Answer: C
12) Sindhu, who came from Guntur, won the match. The part of the sentence, 'who came from Guntur' in the above sentence is:
a) a finite clause
b) a defining relative clause
c) a non-defining relative clause
d) a main clause
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- Answer: C
13) Choose the sentence that expresses ability
a) He can carry this bag
b) He carries bags
c) He may carry this bag
d) He should carry this bag
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- Answer:A
14) Stephen Hawking, who discovered Hawking Radiation, was a great scientist. This sentence has
a) a noun clause
b) a conditional clause
c) a non-defining relative clause
d) a defining relative clause
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- Answer: C
15) The bird ……………… out if you leave the door of the cage. Choose the correct verb to fill in the blank.
a) flies
b) will fly
c) fly
d) would fly
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- Answer: B
16) Choose the list of words in the correct alphabetical order.
a) strange, bloat, approach, harmony
b) approach, bloat, harmony, strange
c) bloat, strange, harmony, approach
d) harmony, approach, bloat, strange
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- Answer:B
17) The following is to be said in the opening part of a letter to your friend:
a) Ask the recipient if he is good at English.
b) Inform the recipient why you are writing the letter.
c) Talk about the crops in the village.
d) Ask the person about his well being.
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- Answer: D
18) Choose a sentence with a defining relative clause.
a) The boy, who is there, is my brother.
b) Suneetha who is my friend is with me.
c) Being a friend, Suneetha is with me.
d) He is late because he missed the bus.
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- Answer: B
19) I thought I should drop in to see you, Amma. Choose the meaning of the phrase, “drop in”.
a) attack
b) visit
c) settle
d) teach
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- Answer: B
20) 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. In this passage, the phrase 'God in man' implies:
a) God having assumed the shape of man.
b) Neither fully godly nor fully human.
c) Man being transformed into God.
d) The divine qualities in man.
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- Answer: D
21) Walking improves health : In the above sentence, 'walking' is
a) a present participle
b) a past participle
c) a gerund
d) a helping verb
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- Answer: C
22) Read the passage and choose the correct answer to the question given after. A library inspires the students to develop the habit of reading books. The reading room provides an atmosphere where every man wants to read the books. We can develop our reading habit;
a) by visiting a library frequently.
b) by watching TV serials.
c) by visiting our friends’ houses.
d) by meeting people in various places.
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- Answer: A
23) 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. The writer wants to say that
a) greatness wants a man to keep aloof
b) school education is very important
c) without the moulding influences of society, one can develop better
d) children should be placed at a very early age in schools
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- Answer: C
24) Read the following passage and choose the correct answers to the questions given after Nehru's was a many sided personality. He enjoyed reading and writing books as much as he enjoyed fighting political and social evils or residing tyranny. In him, the scientist and the humanist were held in perfect balance. While he kept looking at special problems from a scientific standpoint, he never forgot that we should nourish the total man. As a scientist, he refused to believe in a benevolent power interested in men's affairs. But, as a self proclaimed nonbeliever, he loved affirming his faith in life and the beauty of nature. Children he adored. Unlike Wordsworth, he did not see them trailing clouds of glory from the recent sojourn in heaven. He saw them as blossoms of promise and renewal, the only hope for mankind. A 'many-sided personality' means:
a) A personality that cannot be understood.
b) A secretive personality.
c) A person having varied interests.
d) A person having interest only in science.
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- Answer: C
25) Puru is braver than most other Kings in the world. Choose the superlative degree of this sentence.
a) Puru is one of the bravest kings in the world.
b) Very few kings in the world are as brave as Puru.
c) All the kings in the world are as brave as Puru.
d) No other king is as brave as Puru in the world.
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- Answer: C
26) This punctuation mark is used to separate a non-defining relative clause.
a) a colon
b) a semicolon
c) a comma
d) a hyphen
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- Answer: A
27) Choose the grammatically correct sentence from the following.
a) One of my friend is visiting me tomorrow
b) One of my friend are visiting me tomorrow.
c) One of my friends are visiting me tomorrow.
d) One of my friends is visiting me tomorrow.
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- Answer: D
28) _____ Mr. Manoj wants to meet you. Identify the suitable article.
a) A
b) An
c) The
d) No article
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- Answer: A
29) Harish wants to be a great wrestler but he is …………… Choose the correct phrase to fill in the blank in the sentence above
a) strong enough
b) not strong enough
c) not enough strong
d) enough strong
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- Answer: B
30) Swimming is good for health. In the above sentence, 'swimming' is :
a) a past participle
b) a present participle
c) a gerund
d) a helping verb
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- Answer: C
31) I am not responsible _____ this issue. Choose the correct preposition that fits the blank.
a) with
b) to
c) for
d) by
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- Answer: C
32) Oranges are cheaper than apples. Choose the positive degree of this sentence.
a) Apples are the cheapest fruits.
b) No other fruit is as cheap as apple.
c) Very few fruits are as cheap as apples
d) Apples are not so cheap as Oranges.
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- Answer: D
33) He groaned in despair. Choose the antonym of the word “despair”.
a) misery
b) gloom
c) sorrow
d) hope
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- Answer: D
34) You should do this now. This sentence expresses:
a) an obligation
b) a suggestion
c) a request
d) a prediction
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- Answer: A
35) Choose the suffix that can be used to make word the 'comfort' an adjective
a) - est
b) - able
c) - ous
d) - ish
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- Answer: B
36) Read the following passage and choose the correct answers to the questions given after Today perhaps your only association with the word 'polio' is the Sabin Oral Vaccine that protects children from the disease. Fifty five years ago this was not so. The dreaded disease, which mainly affects the brain and spinal cord causing stiffening and weakening of muscles, crippling and paralysis – which is why I am in a wheelchair today. If somebody had predicted, when I was the seventh child in a family of four pairs of brothers and sisters, with huge 23 years gap between the first and the last. I was so fair and brown haired that I looked more look like a foreigner than a Dawood Bohri. I was also considered to be the healthiest of the brood. In his childhood, the narrator was:
a) a weakling
b) very healthy
c) tall and slim
d) short and stout
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- Answer: B
37) Choose the word with correct spelling.
a) harmoneous
b) harmonious
c) harmonies
d) harmonus
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- Answer:B
38) I ______ this letter at once. Choose the correct form of the verb that fits the blank.
a) will post
b) will be posting
c) will have posted
d) posted
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- Answer: A
39) He is the tallest boy on ___ earth Choose the article that fits the context.
a) a
b) an
c) the
d) No article is needed
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- Answer: D
40) She practised ……… with a pitcher on her head. Choose the appropriate verb of fill in the blank.
a) walk
b) walked
c) to walking
d) to walk
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- Answer: D
41) That is really a beautiful painting. Choose the part of speech of the word ‘that’.
a) a conjunction
b) a pronoun
c) an adjective
d) a linker
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- Answer: B
42) He arrived at the station on _____ foot. Choose the correct article that fits the blank.
a) a
b) an
c) the
d) No article is needed
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- Answer: D
43) If he had taken a cab, he ____ the train.
a) would caught
b) Would be caught
c) Would have caught
d) would catch.
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- Answer: C
44) When an action takes place before a point of time in the past, the action is expressed in:
a) the present perfect tense
b) the past perfect tense
c) the past simple tense
d) the past continuous tense
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- Answer: B
45) Which one of the following is not a work of Charles Dickens?
a) Oliver Twist
b) Great Expectations
c) Pickwick Papers
d) The Dead Rat
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- Answer: D
46) She writes to me once in a blue moon. The meaning of 'once in a blue moon' is:
a) never
b) frequently
c) very rarely
d) very often
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- Answer: C
47) The patient had died before the doctor …………. . Choose the correct form of the verb that fits the blank.
a) arriving
b) arrived
c) was arriving
d) had arrived
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- Answer:B
48) Rambabu is ……………. English teacher in a high school. Choose the correct article that fits the blank.
a) a
b) an
c) the
d) No article needed.
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- Answer: B
49) 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.
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- Answer: C
50) She had hardly finished the meal ………… she started feeling hungry again. Choose the word to complete the meaning of the sentence
a) than
b) then
c) when
d) while
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- Answer: C