RADIAN IAS ACADEMY (Chennai : 9840400825 Madurai : 9840433955 ) -1- www.radianiasacademy.org FOR2017 ALL GROUP-2A ASSERTION&REASON GENERAL TYPE QUESTIONS ENGLISH (9th Standard) CODE : T72AKE-07 THIS TEST ONLY FOR THE USE OF CURRENTLY 18) _____ is first women to fly solo across both the Atlantic ENROLLED RADIAN 2017 GROUP-2A STUDENTS, ocean and the pacific ocean OTHERS SHOULD NOT UTILISE THIS A) Katie Leddikie B) Gowrika Singh 1) Choose the appropriate synonyms for underlined word C) Amelia Earhart D) Duntro Kosak A little suspicion started nagging him 19) ____was a first women in India to fly a plane A) distressing B) pleasing A) Sarla Thakral B) Kalpana Chawla C) stopping D) warning C) Sunitha Williams D) Jessica Cox 2) “many of life’s failures are experienced by people who 20) Choose the appropriate prefix for the word: entity did not realize how close they were to success when A) un B) in C) non D) mis they gave up” is said by 21) Find out the correct word and fill in the blanks A) Thomas Edison B) Abdul Kalam I am busy_______ I shall find some time for you C) Mother Teresa D) Helen Keller A) still B) perhaps C) though D) else 3) Plural form for the word ‘swine’ is 22) Identify the sentence A) swines B) swinea C) swinies D) swine The coffee is so hot that I cannot drink it 4) “Guesting a while in the rooms of a beautiful inn” A) compound B) complex These lines are taken from the poem C) simple D) assertive A) A sonnet for my incomparable mother 23) Choose the antonyms for the underlined word B) Laugh and be merry Ali waited in the post office with a serenity born of hope C) The apology and faith D) Don’t quit A) uneasiness B) anxiety 5) Speed post started _______ in India C) alarm D) discontent A) 1983 B) 1985 C) 1982 D) 1986 24) Haughtily means 6) “my dad is my hero” said by A) precinct B) bereft A) Cabuk B) Terri C) Bailey D) maggie C) relic D) arrogantly 7) Stephen Vincent Benet won Pulitzer prize in 25) Rhyme scheme of the poem ‘Be glad your nose is on A) 1927 B) 1929 C) 1928 D) 1926 your Face’ is 8) Identify the sentence A) abab B) aabb C) abcd D) abcb Ryan wrote a poem after he had finished a cricket 26) Choose the correct idioms for the given sentence game. "be ready or prepared for something" A) compound B) simple A) stay on one’s toes B) keep an eye on C) complex D) positive C) be in over one’s head D) get cold feet 9) “Every day, I try my best to be” 27) Muscular wall below rib cage is These lines are taken from the poem A) abdomen B) vocal cords A) A sonnet for my incomparable mother C) diaphragm D) throat B) Laugh and be merry Identify the figure of speech for Question no (28 to 31) C) Be glad your nose is on your face 28) “I go to the god of wood” D) The apology A) oxymoran B) metaphor 10) Sonnet is a_____ line poem with a fixed ryme scheme C) allusion D) personification A) 12 B) 16 C) 8 D) 14 29) “Not pasted on some other place” 11) Choose the correct antonyms for underlined word A) allusion B) metaphor The inhabitants were in a profound sleep C) assonance D) simile A) superficial B) external 30) “deep blue cup of the sky” C) shallow D) insincere A) metaphor B) personification 12) “Miriam’s letter” was translated by C) assonance D) oxymoron A) Dhumketu B) Eric-Franke 31) “Are you an atom of dust raised by” C) F.Joanna D) Mira Naik A) metaphor B) personification 13) Dhumketu is considered one of the pioneers of____ C) assonance D) oxymoran short story 32) Who first addressed Mahatma Gandhi is the ‘Father of A) Gujarati B) Marathi Nation’? C) Odissi D) Bengali A) Nehru B) Vallabhai Patel 14) Dhumketu published______ collections of short stories C) S.C.Bose D) B.G.Tilak and____ novels 33) Kalpana Chawla was selected as an astronaut by A) 32, 24 B) 24, 32 C) 22, 34 D) 34, 22 NASA in_______ 15) Choose the correct synonyms for the underlined word. A) 1996 B) 1994 C) 1998 D) 1995 The hunter’s instinct was still there in Ali 34) Where is Salim Ali centre for ornithology and Natural A) behavior B) aptitude history (SACON) established? C) wit D) intuition A) Coimbatore B) Cuttack C) Mumbai D) Indore 16) ZIP codes are a system of postal code used by____ 35) The Padma Vibhusan was awarded to Salim ali in A) USA B) UK C) China D) UAE A) 1982 B) 1973 C) 1976 D) 1984 17) Catastrophe means 36) Who assassinated Lincoln? A) dread B) sudden disaster A) Bob Jim, a guard B) Samuel, a cook C) stuck D) maneuver C) A soldier D) John witkes boothe, an actor 711 EVR Road , Opp. Anna Arch, Arumbakkam, C HENNAI -600106. [email protected] CHENNAI: 9840400825 MADURAI : 9840433955 RADIAN IAS ACADEMY (Chennai : 9840400825 Madurai : 9840433955 ) -2- www.radianiasacademy.org 37) Select the American English for the word “tarmac” 56) Colonel James had made a mention of the___ in his A) barrette B) black top book C) beltway D) band-aid A) Chipko movement B) Bishnoi community 38) Select the American English for the word “tad pole” C) Abhai singh’s decree D) Khejarli massacre A) Polliwog B) Slingshot 57) Chipko movement was started in_____ chamoli district C) Shrimp D) Cadaver A) 1970 B) 1972 C) 1974 D) 1976 39) Select the American English for the word “cul-de-sac” 58) The Khejri trees were cut down for the construction of a A) goods storo B) well-to-do A) fort B) hospital C) palace D) choultry C) pre-natal D) dead end 59) Amrita devi objected to the cutting of Kheri trees as it 40) “Glad till the dancing stops, and the lilt of the music was against their ends laugh till the game is played, and be you merry, A) chief’s order B) king’s order my friends” C) religious belief D) sentiments What is dancing and music referred here? 60) The Khejarli village is located in____ A) our life B) poet’s joy A) Rajasthan B) Bihar C) happy till death D) sweeping C) Arunachal Pradesh D) Sikkim 41) In the poem ‘The Earth’ 61) ______poem is taken from “the Eye of the prophet” Where does the poet walked over? A) Earth B) Don’t quit A) The plains B) mountains C) The apology D) flying wonder C) valley D) plateau 62) Khalil Gibran born in____ 42) “I think of all the things you gave to me” A) America B) England Who is ‘you’ here? C) Lebanon D) Canada A) The poet B) poet’s mother 63) That day, Priya quickly finished her dinner C) dream D) fear A) ASVCO B) ASVO C) ASVIODO D) ASAVO 43) Colonel scott was_____ of the troops in war 64) We always work hard A) secretary B) captain A) SVAO B) SVCO C) SAVA D) SVCA C) commanders D) soldier 65) _____is observed as world environment day 44) Edwin santon was______ of war A) June 5 B) July 5 C) August 5 D) February 5 A) secretary B) captain 66) “Bio-diversity: connecting with nature” was the theme C) commanders D) soldiers for the year 45) _____holds longest space flight for 195 days for space A) 2009 B) 2010 C) 2011 D) 2007 women 67) The begger tried to sell a_____ to Mr. Parsons A) Kalpana Chawla B) Sunitha Williams A) Ciger Packet B) Ash trey C) Jessica Cox D) Sarla Thakral C) Cigarette Lighter D) Match Box 46) Sunita Williams has been awarded_____ by the 68) Mr. Parsons paid_____ dollars to the begger governance A) two half B) two C) three half D) three A) Padma Vibhusan B) Padma Shri 69) Mr. Persons and markwadt lost their vision in a____ C) Bharat ratna D) Padma Bhushan A) fire accident B) road mishap 47) “Success is failure turned inside out” is the lines by C) bomb blast D) chemical explosion A) John masefield B) Edger A. Guest 70) Mr. Persons was standing infront of a____ C) Khalil Gibran D) F. Joanna A) house B) hotel C) park D) theatre 48) Kalpana Chawla spend______ time in space 71) “Laugh till the game is played” identify the figure of A) 35d 12h 38m B) 26d 19h 47m speech. C) 31d 14h 54m D) 38d 17h 25m A) personification B) alliteration 49) “She left India as a student, but she would see the C) metaphor D) simile nation of her birth, all of it, from hundreds of miles 72) Inn means above’ is said by A) a private house B) a public house A) Abdul Kalam B) Sunitha Williams C) an apartment D) a room C) K.R. Narayan D) George W.bush 73) John Masefield died in the year 50) During which mission Kalpana Chawla was died A) 1967 B) 1963 C) 1978 D) 1930 A) STS-87 B) STS-107 74) John Masefield become poet laureate in C) STS-110 D) STS-117 A) 1929 B) 1930 C) 1925 D) 1917 51) _____makes up nearly 5 million square km of the 75) John Masefield entered merchant navy in the age of Earth’s surface A) 15 B) 17 C) 16 D) 18 A) Tundra B) Himalayas 76) The hugry lion went in search of its____ C) Pacific D) Antarctic A) pray B) bray C) brey D) prey 52) Anita lives in____ 77) We____ a passage for general information A) Tamilnadu B) Andhra A) scan B) skim C) search D) view C) Bihar D) Uttar Pradesh 78) We______ a passage for specific information 53) “Girl star”, a UNICEF project is series of_____ A) scan B) skim C) search D) view A) films B) document C) images D) story 79) Match the following: 54) The tree mentioned in ‘The will to win’ is a) bring up 1) raise A) litchi B) kafal C) deodar D) Neam b) bring in 2) make 55) _______was considered as black Tuesday c) bring about 3) cause A) September 10, 1725 B) September 10, 1730 A) a-2, b-1, c-3 B) a-3, b-2, c-1 C) September 10, 1735 D) September 10, 1720 C) a-1, b-2, c-3 D) a-1, b-3, c-2 711 EVR Road , Opp.