TSPSC Group – I Mains,2024 General English (Qualifying Test) (X Class Standard) Question Paper Pattern Model Paper One

 

 

TSPSC Group – I Mains,2024

 

General English  (Qualifying Test)

(X Class Standard)

Question Paper Pattern

 

For  Examination guidance purpose only

Prepared by :Praturi Potayya Sarma,MA(OU),LLB(OU),PGDIRPM

 

Model Question Paper One( prepared on 1.9.2024)

Time: 3 hours                                                                                                Marks: 150

 

Q.1. Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow:

A passage of 150-200 words will be given with 5 Question set on the passage

5 x 2 = 10 Marks

A desert is a barren area of land where little precipitation occurs and

consequently living conditions are threatening for plant and animal life.

Deserts are usually hot and barren places; yet they are also

beautiful. A place that receives less than 10 inches of rain per year is normally considered a desert. They are part of a wider classification of regions called “dry land”.

 

Deserts are biologically rich habitats with a vast array of animals and

plants that have adapted to harsh conditions there. Some deserts are among

the planet’s last remaining areas of total wilderness.

.Desert plants may have to go without fresh water for years at a time.

Some plants have adapted to the arid climate by growing long roots that tap

water from deep underground. Other plants, such as cacti, have special means

of storing and conserving water. Many desert plants can live to be hundreds of

years old.

 

Some of the world’s semi-arid regions are turning into deserts at an

alarming rate. This process, known as “desertification”, is not caused by

drought, but usually arises from the demands of human population that settles

on the semi-arid lands to grow crops and graze animals. The pounding of the

soil by the hooves of livestock may degrade the soil and encourage erosion by

wind and water. Global warming also threatens to change the ecology of

deserts. Higher temperature may produce an increasing number of wildfires

that alter desert landscape by eliminating slow-growing trees and shrubs and

replacing them with fast-growing grasses.

 

Desert animals have adapted ways to help them keep cool and use less

water. Camels, for example, can go for days without food and water. The hump

stores fat, which can be used as both a food and a water source for the animal

when the going gets tough. Camels also have thick hair in their ears for

keeping out sand; they also sport closable nostrils, an eye membrane, and wide

feet that act like snow-shoes in the land.

 

 

Questions:

(a) Explain what you understand by ‘barren and dry land’.

(b) What do you understand by rich habitats ?

(c) How have desert animals and plants in arid climate adapted themselves

to the use of less water ?

(d) Describe the process of desertification.

(e) What are the camel’s two most visible features that make it perfect for

deserts ?

 

 

Q.2. Make a precis of the following passage reducing its length to 1/3

Suggest a suitable title.

A passage of 150-200 words will be given

10 Marks

Ashoka set an extraordinary example by making himself available at all time for consultation, whether he was relaxing, say, in the palace gardens, or even while being massaged. By hearing and settling disputes he kept in touch with the details of administration. The disputes over water rights and grazing rights, and the problem of money-lending were all familiar to him. To complete the picture of how the emperor and his people lived, it is essential to consider the castes which were already forming in India’s first great empire. In Ashoka’s empire there was firs the priestly caste who lived as monks and holy men and performed the rites at the temples. They regarded themselves as superior to all others and their influence was sos great that it was sometimes a threat to the power of the emperor himself. Next in importance came to three largest castes, the herdsmen, cultivators and craftsmen; while the soldiers , officials and councilors , who were less important, were relatively few. Finally there were slaves and others outside the caste system altogether.  

Thus the life of the emperor and his people can be made out from the legends and scraps of writings which have been preserved. It was the extraordinary empire that Ashoka crafted with new ideas which grew from his study of Buddha and his followers.

 

 

Q3. Expand the idea of the following

One out of Three to be answered

1)Laughter is the best medicine

2)’All that glitters is not gold’

3)’Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty’

10 Marks

 

 

 

 

 

Q.4. Write a letter to  a friend saying that :

10 Marks

“If I were the Prime Minister of India”.

 

Q.5. Re-arrange the following sentences in the correct sequence

5 sentences will be given.

5x1 = 5 Marks

1) The Railways crossing the tracks have made a punished offence

2)You cannot pass you will study hard unless

3)If possible recycle paper should be

4)A birth day party at home next week they were having

5)One of the tallest boy in the class he is

 

 

 

Q.6. Correct the following sentences.

10 sentences will be given.

10x1= 10 Marks

(i) He enjoyed during the holidays.

(ii) Whoever works hard he will win.

(iii) The man who knocked at the door was stranger.

(iv) I asked my colleague when was he going to his home town.

(v) Besides clothes, the shopkeeper deals with cosmetics too.

(vi) He is desirous for joining the army.

(vii) The judge said that the truth always triumphed.

(viii) One should help his friend in difficulty.

(ix) Sachin Tendulkar is the best batsman India has produced, isn’t

it?

(x) More you read less you understand.

 

Q.7. Use the following idioms / phrases in sentences of your own

10 idioms / phrases will be given.

10x1= 10 Marks

1)Hold one’s breath

2)Bring about

3)Heart and soul

4)lie low

5)Break in

6)In full swing

7)Dwell upon

8)above board

9)prime of life

10)in the blues

 

Q.8. Give the synonyms of the following

5 words will be given

5x1 = 5 Marks

1)Tight

2)Temper

3)Fostering

4)Propel

5)Massive

 

 

Q.9. Give the antonyms of the following

5 words will be given

5x1 = 5 Marks

(i) Arrival

(ii) Introvert

(iii) Ascend

(iv) Save

(v) Mortal

 

Q.10. Correct the spelling of the following words

10 words will be given

10x1= 10 Marks

1)Indipendent

2)Phisics

3)Mathemetics

4)Psichology

5)Prim Minister

6)Interist

7)Fulfillment

8)Descharge

9) Qustion

10)Temparary

 

 

 

Q.11. Distinguish the meaning of the following pairs of words, using them in your own

sentences:

10 pairs of words will be given.

10x2= 20 Marks

1)Space: The space

2)Sensual:Sensuous

3)Principle:Principal

4)Intense:Intensive

5)Exhaustive:Exhausting

6)Wright:right

7)Devised:Deviced

8)Site:Cite

9)Descent:Decent

10)Fraction:Faction

 

 

 

Q.12. Fill in the blanks using suitable Prepositions / Conjunctions / Tenses.

10 Sentences will be given

 

(i) Slow and ______ wins the race, (studv/steadv)

(ii) The farm scientists have discovered a new __________ to

combat soil erosion, (device/devise)

(iii) Going back on your word is a ________(breach/break)

of trust.

(iv) A _________ of cars was following the minister, (fleet/float)

(v) The businessman tried to _________ a deal with the

inspector, (strike/stroke)

(vi) Your friends______________ for you for over an hour, (wait)

(vii) It is not worth_____________ so much money for this concert.

(pay)

(viii) When I reached the station, the train____________. (leave)

(ix) I _______________ the Taj Mahal last month, (visit)

(x) The criminal__________the victim with a blunt object, (attack)

10x1= 10 Marks

 

 

Q.13. Re-write as directed

10 sentences will be given on the following

 

(i) 5 sentences will be on voice

 

(ii) 5 sentences will be on Reported speech

 

(i)1) The people will make him president.

(Change into passive voice)

2) My pocket has been picked.

(Change into active voice)

3)Why did your brother write such a letter ?

(Change in to passive voice)

4)He was elected leader

(Change into active voice)

5)I gave him a ten-rupee note yesterday

(Change into passive voice)

 

 

 

(ii)1) My mother asked me if I had finished my breakfast.

(Change into direct speech)

2) He said to me, “What is your name ?”

(Change into indirect speech)

3)He said to him “Is your name not Ahmad?”

(Change into indirect speech)

4)”Shut the door after you,”she told him curtly

(Change into indirect form)

5) Santa said, “don’t open the window’.

(Change into the indirect form)

 

10x2= 20 Marks

 

 

Q.14. Give appropriate one-word substitutes for the following

10 words will be given

10x1= 10 Marks

1) A person with a long experience of any occupation ( ans:veteran)

2)Words written on a tomb (ans: epitaph)

3)Something no longer in use (ans:obsolete)

4)One who has become dependent on something or drugs is (ans: addict)

5)Something  capable of being done (ans: feasible)

6)The art of good cooking and  eating (ans:gastronomy)

7)Killing of a child (ans : infanticide)

8)one who walks on ropes( ans: acrobat)

9)customs and habits of a group(ans:mores)

10)lasting only for a moment (ans : momentary)

 

 

 

Q.15. Punctuate the following passage

05 Marks

One day she came in to clean my office and after doing her work stood hesitantly in front of me.

Slowly she brought out a soiled bundle and put it in front of me.

Then she said in a low voice Madam can you led me twenty thousand rupees.

I asked her what happened Leela.

Why do you suddenly need so much money.

She replied my youngest daughter wants to join college and I need money for that