APPSC Group 4 Section B (General English & General Telugu) Practice Test 3

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1.“What are you mumbling over there?” Amma said loudly.
Choose the meaning of the word “mumbling”.
[A] speaking unclearly and quietly
[B] not willing to do something
[C] hanging downward
[D] admiring

2. I bought a computer for my sister.
This is a simple sentence because;
[A] This has only one independent clause.
[B] This has two finite verbs.
[C] This has no finite verbs.
[D] This has only one dependent clause.

Instruction: Read the following passage and choose the correct answers to the questions given after. Courage is not only the basis of virtue; it is its expression. Faith, hope, charity and all the rest don't become virtues until it takes courage to exercise them. There are roughly two types of courage. The first an emotional state which urges a man to risk injury or death, is physical courage. The second, more reasoning attitude which enables him to take coolly his career, happiness, his whole future or his judgment of what he thinks either right or worthwhile, is moral courage. I have known many men, who had marked physical courage, but lacked moral courage. Some of them were in high places, but they failed to be great in themselves because they lacked moral courage. On the other hand I have seen men who undoubtedly possessed moral courage but were very cautious about taking physical risks. But I have never met a man with moral courage who couldn't, when it was really necessary, face a situation boldly.
3) A man with moral courage can:
[A] defy his enemies
[B] overcome all difficulties
[C] face a situation boldly
[D] be very pragmatic

4. The boy took off his clothes to change them.
The meaning of the phrasal verb 'took off' is:
[A] Cleaned
[B] Washed
[C] Removed
[D] Folded

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5. 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

6. Choose the correct 'Yes / No' question.
[A] Don't you like coffee ?
[B] Do you likes coffee ?
[C] Does he liked coffee ?
[D] You does like coffee ?

7.The train ………. before we reached the station.
Choose the correct form of the verb that fits the blank.
[A] left
[B] had left
[C] is leaving
[D] would have left

Instruction: Read the following passage and choose the correct answers to the questions given after
What needs to be set right is our approach to work. It is a common sight in our country of employees reporting for duty on time and at the same time doing little work. If an assessment is made of time they spent in gossiping, drinking tea, eating "pan" and smoking cigarettes, it will be shocking to know that the time devoted to actual work is negligible. The problem is the standard which the leadership in administration sets for the staff. Forget the ministers because they mix politics and administration. What do top bureaucrats do? What do the below down officials do? The administration set up remains week mainly because the employees do not have the right example to follow and they are more concerned about being in the good looks of the bosses than doing work.

8) According to the writer, the administration in India is:
[A] by and large effective
[B] very strict and firm
[C] affected by red tape
[D] more or less ineffective

9. Choose the word with wrong spelling.
[A] dispair
[B] scorpion
[C] faint
[D] terrible

10. When ……………… this new car?
Choose the correct verb and subject to complete this question
[A] do you buy
[B] did you bought
[C] have you bought
[D] did you buy

11. He arrived at the station by ……….. car
Choose the article that fits the context.
[A] a
[B] an
[C] the
[D] no article is needed

12. Gopi’s mother made a futile attempt to get up.
Choose the synonym of the word “futile”
[A] voracious
[B] unsuccessful
[C] unwilling
[D] shocked

13. 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.

14. Choose a word with a suffix.
[A] research
[B] nature
[C] answer
[D] matriculation

15. They never expected to have any more.
Choose the part of speech of the word, ‘never’.
[A] a pronoun
[B] a conjunction
[C] an adverb
[D] an adjective

Instruction: 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.
16) In his childhood, the narrator was:
[A] a weakling
[B] very healthy
[C] tall and slim
[D] short and stout