Test English-17

Instructions
1. The test comprises of 15 questions. You should complete the test within 20 minutes.
2. There is only one correct answer to each question.
3. All questions carry four marks each.
4. Each wrong answer will attract a penalty of one mark.

Direction for question number 1 to 5:
The passage given below is followed by a set of four questions. Choose the most appropriate answer to each question.

Take away all the working class has given to the English literature and the literature would scarcely suffer, take away all the educated class has given, and English literature would scarcely exist. Education must then play a very important part in a writer’s work.

That seems so obvious that it is astonishing how little has been laid upon the writer’s education. Perhaps It is because a writer’s education is so much definite than other educations. Reading, listening, talking, travel, and leisure – many different things it seems are mixed together. Life and books must be shaken and taken in the right proportions. A boy brought up alone in a library turns into a bookworm; bought up alone in the fields, he turns into an earthworm. To breed the kind of butterfly a writer is, you must let him sun himself for three or four years at Oxford or Cambridge – so it seems. However it is done, it is there, it is done – there that he is taught his art. And he has to be taught his art. Again, is that strange? Nobody thinks it strange if you say that a painter has to taught his art; or a musician; or an architect. Equally a writer has to be taught for the art of writing is at least as difficult as other arts. And though, perhaps because the education is indefinite, people ignore this education, if you look closely you will see will see that almost every writer who has practiced his art successfully had been taught it. He has been taught it by eleven years of education – at private schools, public schools, and universities. He sits upon a tower raised above the rest of us; a tower built on his parents’ station, then on his parents gold. It is a tower of the utmost importance; it decides his angle of vision; it affects his power of communication.

All through the nineteenth century down to august 1914 , that tower was a steady tower. The writer was scarcely conscious either of his high station or of his limited vision. Many of them had sympathy, great sympathy, with other classes; they wished t help the working class to enjoy from it – rather to make it accessible to all. Nor had the model, human life, changed essentially since Trollope looked at it, since Hardy looked at it and Henery James, in 1914, was still looking at it. Also, the tower itself held firm beneath the writer during all the most impressionable years, when he was learning his art, and receiving all those complex influences and instructions that are summed up by the world education. These were conditions that influenced their work profoundly. For when the crush came in 1914 all these young men who were to be the representative writers of their time had their past, their education , safe behind them, safe within them .

1. Based on the passage , we can infer that :

a.English literature was taught in Britain .
b.The british working class have not recived the due credit for their contribution to English literature
c.The art of writing is more cultivated than inherent.
d.Good writers are born , not made.
Ans: d

2.According to the passage, we often ignore a writer’s education because :

a.we belive that all writing is inspired
b. a it is difficult to assess what is constitutes
c.a good writer need not have undergone exceptional circumstances that educated him differently
d. It is impossible to see which aspect of his education influence his writings
Ans: b

3.The tower occupied by a writer:

a.is intended to segregate him from most people
b.Acts as a sanctum sanctorum for quiet reflection.
c.Shapes his outlook on life
d. Gives him a vision beyond that available t
Ans: c


4. From the passage, we can infer that

a.Real his experiences are given far too much importance writers.
b. Writers through the nineteenth century till 1914 were influenced by similar conditions.
c. Only education gives a writer felicity of expression and clarity of thought.
d. The only good writers are those educated at Oxbridge.
Ans: d

5. The author seems to make the assumption that

a.Writers after 1914 lacked sympathy for the working classes.
b. Earlier writers attempted to make literature accessible to all, while later writers do not.
c. A writer’s output can be evaluated on the basis of its contribution to literature.
d. The 1914 crash left writer’s towers shattered.
Ans: b

Direction for question number 6 to 10:
From the given alternatives choose the one that best completes the meaning of the sentence.

Earlier Saturday, thousands of well-wishers lined ____Q6______roads to greet Obama as he began a journey to his ancestral home, Nyangoma-Kogelo, a tiny village in the rural west where his father grew up _____Q7_____ goats and attending classes in tin-roofed schools
"I just want to say very quickly that I am so proud to come back home," Obama told the cheering crowds. "It means a lot to me that the people of my father, my grandfather, are here in such huge crowds." His father, also named Barack Obama, won a/an _______Q8_______ to a university in Hawaii, where he met and married Obama's mother. The two soon separated, however, and Obama's father returned to Kenya and worked as a government economist.

6.

a. pot-holed
b. prejetised
c. potholed
d. blocked
Ans: d

7.

a.selling
b.promoting
c.herding
d.teeming
Ans: a

8.

a. award
b.scholarship
c.demy ship
d.predual
Ans: c

____Q9_____in the western Gulf of Siam like a tropical, bonsai Tasmania, Koh Samui is only 25km long by 21km wide, but it draws one million visitors each year and there are 9000 aircraft arrivals. If you once visited Samui as a beach-hopping _____Q10_______, be prepared to witness change with a mega C. Numerous subdivision-with-seaview estates, bristling with expat villas, have made northeast Samui look like the home suburb you may just have left. But beyond these "villa people" and the long-established tourist zones, much of the island remains snoozy.

9.

a. floating
b. Situated
c. Presented
d. engrised
Ans: b

10.

a. adventur
b. proponer
c. backpacker
d. preponer
Ans: c

Direction for question number 11 to 15:
Select the most logical order of sentences from among the given choices to construct a coherent paragraph.

11.

A. Part of the researchers' goal here is to assess how much moss is contained in the lake, how old it is and then add up all the carbon to understand the ecosystem of the lake.
B. Because there are so few nutrients in the lake as a whole, the moss colonies are rare homes to life such as tiny worms and crustaceans, which are fish food to only two breeds of fish that live in the lake--kokanee salmon and rainbow trout.
C. As many as 40 other kinds of fish introduced to the lake over hundreds of years have died off.
D. What aquatic scientists can say for sure is that despite a near lack of nutrients in the water--which plants and other aquatic life need to survive--the lake is home to colonies of moss, as well as bacteria at the lake floor.

a. ABCD
b.BCDA
c.BCAD
d. BCDA
Ans: b

12.

A. Healthier Choice: Whole fruit or homemade fruit salad is always the best choice. Or look for fruit snacks without added sugar.
B. Fruit Strips These chewy treats might seem like a healthy dessert, but they often contain more sugar than fruit.
C. Fruit Applesauce and fruit cups are kid favorites but can be drenched with calorie- and sugar-laden corn syrup.
D. Healthier Choice: Read labels carefully to find strips that are all fruit, like Tropicana FruitWise.

a. BDCA
b. CDBA
c.CABD
d.BACD
Ans: d

13.

A: The company is reviewing design, procurement, and other stages of car manufacturing
B: while looking more closely at complaints from buyers to reduce recalls and defects in production, he said.
C. "I feel we are making progress," Toyota President Katsuaki Watanabe told reporters.
D. He also said he did not know of any specific models that could be delayed by the changes

a.ACBD
b.CABD
c.ACBD
d. None
Ans: c

14.

A. Iraq's most powerful politician has dismissed claims by U.S. officials and generals that Iran is interfering in Baghdad's affairs.
B. "The U.S has been making such claims for a long time," he said, "and for three years we've told them, 'Show us proof.' But they never have."
C. Abdul-Azziz al-Hakim has told TIME that despite repeated requests from him and other Iraqi politicians, American officials have failed to show any reliable evidence of Tehran's interference.
D. Hakim heads the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq, or SCIRI, the largest of Iraq's political parties. SCIRI has close ties to Tehran, and many of its leaders — including Hakim — spent many years in exile in Iraq during the Saddam Hussein era.

a. ABCD
b. ACBD
c. DACB
d. DABC
Ans: c

15.

A. Unlike our forests, over there you could find neither fruit nor berries to calm your hunger.
B. During the day we were herded into damp jungle
C. The only food we were given was a handful of cold rice, which often smelled of the oil from the containers in which it had been cooked.
D. We chewed new leaves and drank from muddy rain-swollen streams.

a. CBAD
b.ADCB
c. BACD
d. DCBA
Ans: a