Tnpsc Group 2 & 2A Postal Test Series 2019

www.TNPSC.Academy TNPSC GROUP 2 & 2A POSTAL TEST SERIES 2019 TEST NO: 31 TOTAL QUESTIONS: 200 TIME: 3:00 Hrs MOCK TEST – 1 GENERAL STUDIES & GENERAL ENGLISH An Online TNPSC Academy for all your TNPSC Exam Preparations Group 1, Group 2 & 2A, Group 3, Group 4, VAO, TNUSRB and Others. SPACE FOR ROUGH WORK www.TNPSC.Academy Group 2 & 2A - 2019 Test Series | Test 31 – Mock Test 1 P a g e | 1 1. ______________ is a word or phrase that usually come Choose the correct ‘Synonyms’ for the underlined after a ‘be’ verb such as am, is, are, was and were to words from the options given make the sense complete. A) Verb B) Subject She was in a two-metre wide concrete storm drain C) Complement D) None of these which was almost completely filled with water and it was still rising. Across the drain stretched a small 2. Name the goddess which mention in the prose “To the plastic pipe. Further on, the tunnel was completely land of snow”. black. A) Nanda devi B) parvathi C) laxmi D) durga 10. CONCRETE A) Real B) Unreal 3. Who is the poet of “The Piano”? C) Set D) None of them A) Famida Y. Basheer B) Lewis Carroll C) Kamala Das D) D.H. Lawrence 11. COMPLETELY A) Utterly B) Unruly 4. Match the following C) Untidy D) All of them A) Khalil Gibran 1883-1931 B) Annie Louisa walker 1836-1907 12. RISING C) D.H.Lawrence 1885-1930 A) Volume down B) Expanding D) Walt Whitman 1819-1892 C) Ruled D) Extra A) 1 2 3 4 B) 2 3 4 1 13. STRETCHED C) 3 4 1 2 D) 4 3 2 1 A) Running B) Pulled C) Pushed D) All of these 5. “Biking A) Dipti 14. TUNNEL B) Thomas hardy A) Dig B) Compete C) Brian patten C) Bridge D) Subway D) Judith Nicholls 15. “And staring face to face” 6. “Clouds float in the sky because they are __________ A) Repetition B) Ellipsis than the air.” C) Simile D) None of them A) Light B) Lighter 16. Choose the correct place where the following folk C) Lightest dance originate. D) More light Chang Lo 7. “He whom we worship/ by whose gift /we live is the A) Orissa B) Bihar lord /no error.” C) Tamil Nadu D) Nagaland Pick out the correct answer A) He whom we worship 17. “No nightingale did ever chaunt More welcome notes B) by whose gift to weary bands Of travellers in some shady haunt, C) we live is the lord Among Arabian sands:” D) no error. A) Snake B) Women’s right 8. Which one is not a poem? C) A psalm of life A) The apology D) The solitary Reaper B) The Nation united C) The man he killed 18. Find the meaning for the following underlined words D) A man who had no eyes The old soldier was driving a batteredcar. He had grey, but thick crisp hair. He saw a small girl crossing the 9. Pick out the best option road. She was dressed in tears and tatters. The soldier “Learn to labor and to wait.” had been commissioned to take care of the security of A) The piano the new factory. He wanted to invest his salary in B) To a Millionaire business. C) A psalm of life Battered D) Don’t quit A) Beater B) Worn out C) Painted D) Dusty Free Online Courses @ www.tnpsc.academy/all-courses/ Video Classes @ YouTube/tnpscacademy www.TNPSC.Academy Group 2 & 2A - 2019 Test Series | Test 31 – Mock Test 1 P a g e | 2 19. Match the characters with relevant story title 30. “ And voice in me said: if you were a man” a) Shylock 1. Lady of Belmont Select the figures of speech that is used here. b) Bassanio 2.Merchant of venice A) Alliteration B) Simile c) Antonio 3. Money lender C) Repetition D) All of these d) Portia 4. Antonio’s Friend 31. Who won noble prize for literature in 1913? A) 3 4 1 2 B) 2 3 4 1 A) Walt Whitman B) Anne Louisa walker C) 3 4 2 1 D) 1 3 2 4 C) Rabindranath Tagore D) All of them 20. From where the story “The swept away” adapted? 32. “we are not taught this kind of thing in our school” A) The Reader’s Digest Who said these and to whom? B) The writer blog A) Swami – Mother B) Swami – Father C) The magazines C) Swami – Brother D) Swami – sister D) None of these 33. “I like not fair terms and a villain’s mind” 21. Cybernetic + organism _______________ From which prose these words were taken? A) Cyborg B) Cybonism A) The merchant of Venice C) Cybernism D) None of them B) Romeo Juliet C) Pride and prejudice 22. Choose the figure of speech for the give line D) None of them “A mother like the mom you were to me” A) Repetition B) Simile 34. “And Must wait, must stand and wait.” C) Anaphora D) Metaphor Pick out the Figure of speech. A) Anaphora B) Oxymoron 23. “There’s big work to do and there’s lesser to do C) Simile D) None of them And the task we must do is the near.” Choose the poem in which these words occur 35. Pick out the unsuitable one from the given option. A) A psalm of life B) Laugh and be merry A) Dr.Karal paulnack – Music The Hope Raiser C) Manliness D) None of them B) To the Land of snow – Rabindranath Tagore C) You can’t be that, No you can’t be that – Brain 24. Pick out the most successful play of Oscar wilde patten A) The importance of being Earnest D) Othello – William Shakespeare B) The happy prince C) The child who never grew 36. On a trekking trail ________ of Munsiyari is the D) None of them Milam Glacier, one of the longest in the region. A) north-east B) east –north 25. Regarding Doctrine of lapse, she filed an appeal for C) north-west D)west –north the hearing of her case in London. But, her plea was rejected. Here who is referring as “Her”? 37. “I was in jail for 16 years. I _______ my dues, said the A) Helen keller B) Rani Lakshmibai con man who turned over a new leaf. C) Chawla D) None of them A) pay B) has paid C) have paid D) will pay 26. Why is she called ___________ the principal? A) By B) To C) On D) At 38. “Once a month I meet my parents.” Pick out the correct pattern. 27. Steam ------------- vegetables are healthy. A) S V A C B) A S V O A) cooked B) cooking C) A S V C D) S V A O C) to cook D) cooks 39. Which tense would you use for talking about next 28. Find the error. weekend? A) Since I had been gone A) Past B) Present B) through the book C) Future D) None of them C) long back, I could D) not remember the contents. 40. “I know the glacier like the back of my hand, I will find us a way” 29. Find the present perfect continuous tense. Choose the prose A) She has been learning Korean since last year. A) Yaanai malai B) She had been learning Korean since last year B) To the land of snow C) She will have been learning Korean since last year. C) Brihadeeswarar Temple D) None of them D) None of them Free Online Courses @ www.tnpsc.academy/all-courses/ Video Classes @ YouTube/tnpscacademy www.TNPSC.Academy Group 2 & 2A - 2019 Test Series | Test 31 – Mock Test 1 P a g e | 3 41. Transform the following sentence into Superlative 50. “Love’s not Time’s fool, though rosy lips and cheeks degree. Within his bending sickle’s compass come;” “Lead is heavier than all other metals.” A) Lead is the heaviest of all metals. From which poem this line was taken? B) Lead is the more heaviest of all metals. A) The model millionaire B) A psalm of life C) Lead is the more heavy of all metals. C) Be the best D) None of them D) None of them. 51. For the following words find its Synonyms 42. Which of th poet’s works marks a bridge between Attributes victorian age and the modernist movement of the A) Strong B) Wicked twentieth century? C) Primeval D) Quality A) Shakespeare B) Walt Whitman C) Thomas Hardy D) D.H.Lawrance 52. “Gratiano” belongs to which drama? A) Merchant of Venice B) The selfish giant 43. Which of the following is not a poem? C) The model millionaire D) None of them A) Inclusion B) Bat C) A tiger in the zoo D) Two friends 53. Pick out the name of the headman who comes in the story “After the strom” 44. Pick out the one which is wrong A) Jaman B) Radha “I was sees/a strange fellow /on the street/no error.” C) Diwan D) Lal singh A) I was sees B) A strange fellow C) On the street D) No error 54. Blending the words Find the best answer for the following words 45. Who does not belong to the nationality of UK? Sky +laboratory__________ A) D.H.Lawrence B) Elizabeth Barrett Browing A) Skylabor B) Labsky C) William Shakespeare C) Skytory D) Skylab D) Archibald Lampaman 55. “Gaia tells her tale” in this Gaia coined 46.

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