UP PGT ENGLISH EXAM SOLVED PAPER 2006
This question paper has 125 objective/MCQs and fill in the blanks questions with their answers of the UP Post Graduate Teacher Recruitment examination conducted by UP SECONDARY EDUCATION SERVICE SELECTION BOARD PRAYAGRAJ (ALLAHABAD ) in the year 2006.
- Point out the figure of speech in the following line: “The ploughman homeward plods his weary way.”
(A) Metaphor. (B) Personification
(C) Transferred Epithet. (D) Hyperbole
Ans- (C) - To which character in Shakespeare’s ‘Hamlet’ does the following description apply?
“the tedious wiseacre who meddles his way to his doom”
(A) Claudius. (B) Hamlet
(C) Polonius. (D) Rosencrantz
Ans- (A) - Who wrote Sohrab and Rustum?
(A) Wordsworth (B) Swinburne
(C) Matthew Arnold. (D) Tennyson
Ans- (C) - Who praised Shakespeare thus ? “Others abide our question thou art free. We ask and ask-Thou smilest and art still”-
(A) Dr. Johnson. (B) Matthew Arnold
(C) Coleridge. (D) T.S. Eliot
Ans- (B) - Who is Thyrsis’ in the poem of the same name?”
(A) Percy Bysshe Shelley.
(B) Arthur Hugh Clough
(C) Arthur Hallam.
(D) Edward King
Ans- (B) - Which of the following novels of Dickens was left unfinished?
(A) A Tale of Two Cities.
(B) Bleak House
(C) The Mystery of Edwin Drood
(D) The Old Curiosity Shop
Ans- (C) - Nissim Ezekiel’s poem’Bakground, Casually’ relects: .
(A) His feeling of alienation
(B) His love for rural life
(C) His love for religion
(D) None of the above
Ans- (A) - Point out the figure of speech in the following: “Little sorrows sit and weep”
(A) Personification (B) Simile
(C) Pun (D) Oxymoron
Ans- (A) - Frederick Henry, the hero of Hemingway’s novel, A Farewell to Arms, is a driver in :
(A) Italian army. (B) British army
(C) American army. (D) German army
Ans- (A) - Who is the author of the The Unvanquished?
(A) F. Scott Fitzgerald.
(B) O’Henry
(C) Henry Sinclair Lewis.
(D) William Cuthbert Faulkner
Ans- (D) - Santiago is the hero of Hemingway’s novel:
(A) For Whom the Bell Tolls
(B) The Old Man and the Sea
(C) A Farewell to Arms
(D) The Sun Also Rises
Ans- (B) - What was the origin of the race of Nissim Ezekiel ?
(A) Bene Israel (B) Indian Christian
(C) Dravidian. (D) Latin American
Ans- (A) - In which year did Robert Frost sell his farm in New England and moved to England?
(A) 1910. . (B) 1911 (C) 1912 (D) 1913
Ans- (C) - Who has called Shelley a ‘perfect singing God’ ?
(A) A.C. Swinburne. (B) William Morris
(C) Matthew Arnold (D) S.A. Brooke
Ans- (A) - ‘Munoo’ is the central character of M.R. Anand’s novel :
(A) Coolie. (B) Untouchable
(C) Two Leaves and a Bud. (D) The Village
Ans- (A) - Who said, “The poet is a man speaking to men”?
(A) T.S. Eliot.
(B) S.T. Coleridge
(C) Dr. Samuel Johnson.
(D) William Wordsworth
Ans- (D) - The romantic poetry is a revival of
(A) Classicism. (B) Romanticism
(C) Medievalism. (D) Humanism
Ans- (A)
18.The Dance of Eunuchs has been written by-
(A) Sylvia Plath. (B) Sarojini Naidu
(C) Kamala Das. (D) Nissim Ezekiel
Ans- (C)
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- How many times did Robert Frost win the prestigious Pulitzer Prize?
(A) Once. (B) Twice. .
(C) Thrice. (D) Four times
Ans- (D) - “The rest is silence”-These are the last words of………before his death in Shakespeare.
(A) Caesar (B) Macbeth
(C) Hamlet. (D) Lear
Ans- (C) - The ‘iambic pentameter’ implies which of the following?
(A) Five syllables in the pattern unstressed- stressed
(B) Five syllables in the pattern stressed-unstressed
(C) The pattern stressed-unstressed repeated five times
(D) The pattern unstressed-stressed repeated five times
Ans- (A) - Which work was left incomplete because of Hemingway’s sudden death?
(A) Islands in the Stream.
(B) A Moveable Feast
(C) The of Eden.
(D) The Dangerous Summer
Ans- (C) - The rhetorical device of ‘anaphora’ implies which of the following?
(A) A certain metrical arrangement in lines
(B) Use of circumlocution in phraseology
(C) Juxtaposing the abstract with the concrete
(D) Repeating the first word or words of successive sentences or clause
Ans- (D) - Which of the following works is associated with Matthew Arnold?
(A) Culture and Environment.
(B) Dover Beach
(C) Thyrsis.
(D) Empedocles on Etna
Ans- (A) - The Waste Land was first published in the year-
(A) 1922 (B) 1932 (C) 1942. (D) 1912
Ans- (A) - The Lake District in England is associated with-
(A) William Blake.
(B) William Collins
(C) William Shakespeare
(D) William Wordsworth
Ans- (D) - Essays of Elia is-
(A) Full of didactic sermonising fragments
(B) Practically autobiographical
(C) Remarkable for their terse and aphoristic style
(D) Satirical and critical
Ans- (B)
28.Milton’s Samson Agonistes is-
(A) An elegy. (B) An ode
(C) A classical epic. (D) A classical tragedy
Ans- (D)
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- “Good fences make good neighbours”
This line occurs in which poem of Frost?
(A) Birches
(B) Mending Wall
(C) Road Not Taken.
(D) Two Tramps in Mud Tune
Ans- (B) - Which of the following is a work of Ezekiel
(A) A Time to Change. (B) Rough Passage
(C) Sumner. (D) None of the above
Ans- (A) - The name of Macbeth’s wife in the Shakespearean play is-
(A) Cordelia. (B) Calpurnia
(C) Desdemona. (D) None of the above
Ans- (D) - The figure of speech used in the following sentence is:
“All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand.”
(A) Antithesis. (B) Oxymoron
(C) Hyperbole (D) Synecdoche
Ans- (C) - Who first imported sonnet to England?
(A) Sir Philip Sidney. (B) Sir Thomas Wyatt
(C) Shakespeare. (D) Milton
Ans- (B) - Which one of the following theatre companies was owned by Shakespeare where his master- pieces were first performed?
(A) Wooden O (B) Globe.
(C) Rose (D) Curtain
Ans-( B) - “To follow knowledge like a sinking star
Beyond the utmost bound of human thought.” Who wrote these lines?
(A) P. B. Shelley. (B) William Blake
(C) Alfred Tennyson. (D) Robert Browing
Ans- (C) - “O God! O God!
How weary, stale and unprofitable
Seems to me all the uses of this world!” Which of Shakespeare’s tragic heroes utters these words?
(A) Hamlet (B) Macbeth.
(C) Othello (D) King Lear
Ans- (A) - Which of the following novels of Hemingway deals with his actual disappointing experiences of love and war?
(A) A Farewell to Arms.
(B) To Have and Have Not
(C) Across the River and into the Trees
(D) The Sun Also Rises
Ans- (A) - In Yeats poem Sailing to Byzantium, Byzantium’ refers to:
(A) Constantinople (B) Himalayas
(C) Athens. (D) Jerusalem
Ans- (A) - Tennyson’s poetry represents-
(A) Victorian prudery
(B) Victorian spirit of questioning and loss of faith
(C) Victorian compromise
(D) Victorian pessimism
Ans- (C) - Who coined the phrase-“Poetry is the criticism of life”?
(A) T. S. Eliot. (B) F. L. Lucas
(C) F. R. Leavis (D) Matthew Arnold
Ans- (D) - ‘Philip Prip’ is a character in Charles Dickens’ novel:
(A) A Tale of Two Cities
(B) Great Expectations
(C) Oliver Twist.
(D) David Copperfield
Ans- (B) - Who wrote the poem The Triumph of Life?
(A) Keats. (B) Tennyson
(C) Shelley (D) Wordsworth
Ans- (C) - “Let knowledge grow from more to more But more of reverence in us dwell”
In which poem of Tennyson do we find the above quoted lines?
(A) Ulysses. (B) Morte d’Arthur
(C) In Memoriam. (D) Locksley Hall
Ans- (C) - Who is the most furious character in Fagin’s Den in Dickens’ Oliver Twist?
(A) Dodger (B) Chitling
(C) Bales (D) Bill Sikes
Ans- (D) - What can be the best explanation for the character of John Falstaff in Shakespeare’s Henry IV?
(A) Simple (B) Complex
(C) Novice (D) Caricature
Ans- (D) - In which play of Shakespeare do the characters ‘Voltemand’ and ‘Cornelius’ appear?
(A) The Merchant of Venice
(B) Hamlet
(C) Much Ado About Nothing.
(D) Macbeth
Ans- (B) - Keats’ poetry is “abundantly enchantingly sensuous”. Who has made this comment about the poetry of Keats?
(A) Matthew Arnold
(B) H. W. Garrod
(C) Middleton Murry.
(D) Oliver Elton
Ans- (A) - “No nightingale did ever chaunt
More welcome notes to weary bands
Of travellers in some shady haunt
Among Arabian sands”
Wherefrom the above quoted lines of Wordsworth are taken?
(A) Solitary Reaper.
(B) Ode to a Nightingale
(C) To the Cuckoo
(D) To a Skylark
Ans- (A) - In which famous poem does Walt Whitman make a reference to Suez Canal and wire line across the Atlantic?
(A) O Captain, My Captain!
(B) Passage to India
(C) Earth My Likeness.
(D) Prayer of Columbus
Ans- (B) - Which of the following is the first poem of Eliot’s first published volume of verse?
(A) The Waste Land
(B) The Hollow Men
(C) The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
(D) Gerontion
Ans- (C) - The term ‘essay’ is the derivative of the French root ‘essai”, which means-
(A) To compose.
(B) To go on a walk
(C) To try. (D) To express
Ans- (C) - Matthew Arnold’s Rughby Chapel commemorates:
(A) The death of his father.
(B) The death of his friend
(C) The death of a girl.
(D) The death of his relative
Ans- (A) - Who has written the essay. “The Old Benchers of the Inner Temple’?
(A) Hazlitt. (B) Bacon
(C) Charles Lamb. (D) Matthew Arnold
Ans- (C) - Ernest Hemingway’s Men at War is-
(A) A novel (B) A collection of short stories
(C) An essay (D) An autobiography
Ans- (B) - “The analogy was that of the catalyst. When the two gases, previously mentioned, are mixed in the presence of a filament of platinum, they form sulphurous acid.
This acid contains no trace of platinum and the platinum itself is apparently unaffected; has remained inert, neutral and unchanged. The mind of the poet is the shred of platinum.” The above lines are an extract from T. S. Eliot’s essay:
(A) Hamlet and his Problems.
(B) The Perfect Critic
(C) The Imperfect Critic.
(D) Tradition and Talent
Ans- (D) - Choose the misspelt word-
(A) Subsistence. (B) Mismerise
(C) Anamolous (D) Ninth
Ans- (C) - Find out the correctly spelt word from the following:
(A) Concomitent (B) Concupiscence
(C) Concurdant (D) Condescensition
Ans- (B) - Find out the correct spelling:
(A) Rheumatic (B) Rheumetic
(C) Rhumetic (D) Rhumatic
Ans- (A) - Which of the following is the correct spelling?
(A) Iriconciliable. (B) Irriconciliable
(C) Irreconcilable (D) Irreconceliable
Ans- (C) - Choose the correct meaning of the word ‘peruse’-
(A) To lie under oath.
(B) To argue convincingly
(C) To read thoroughly.
(D) To look for the clues
Ans- (C) - Choose the correct word to fill in the blank in the sentence given below:
Wordsworth was a great lover of natural scenery and………
(A) cite (B) site (C) sight. (D) shite
Ans- (C) - Choose the most appropriate oneword substitute for the expression given below:
‘an office with good salary but no work’
(A) Gratis. (B) Honorary
(C) Discretionary (D) Sinecure
Ans- (D) - Choose the correct meaning of the following idiom out of the four options given after it: “black and blue-
(A) Multicoloured
(B) In a severe manner
(C) In a mixed manner
(D) In an attractive manner
Ans- (B) - Choose the most appropriate one-word substitute for the expression given below: “a supporter of the cause of women’
(A) Feminine. (B) Feminist
(C) Effeminate. (D) Sophist
Ans- (B) - Choose the correct word for the expression given below: ‘a room for the display of works of art
(A) Artery (B) Artillery.
(C) Gallery. (D) Library
Ans- (C) - Select the best choice to replace the bold expression in the following sentence:
Aditya was not selected for the job of a medical officer because he was wet behind the ears.
(A) Underage. (B) Inexperienced
(C) Il-mannered (D) Untrustworthy
Ans- (B) - ‘With a high hand’ means-
(A) In a praiseworthy way.
(B) In a dictatorial way
(C) In a hasty way.
(D) In an honorable way
Ans- (B) - Which of the following means ‘a charlatan’?
(A) Who pretends to have more skill than he really has
(B) A modest woman
(C) A gentleman
(D) A milkman
Ans- (A) - The appropriate meaning of ‘El Dorado’ is-
(A) An attainable thing.
(B) An approachable thing
(C) An unattainable thing
(D) An invincible thing
Ans- (C) - Fill in the blank with appropriate word:
The tree was………with fruits.
(A) load. (B) loaded.
(C) laden (D) loading
Ans- (C) - Which of the following sentences is a correct оnе ?
(A) The ship let go its anchor
(B) Let the ship go its anchor
(C) Let its anchor go the ship.
(D) Its anchor let the ship go
Ans- (B) - Find out the correct conversion of the following direct speech into indirect narration:
“Please, please, don’t drink too much.Remember that you’ll have to drive home,”she said to him.”
(A) She forbade him not to drink too much, reminding him that he would have to drive home
(B) She begged him not to drink too much, reminding him that he would have to drive home
(C) She requested him again and again that he should not drink too much. She told him to remember that he will have to drive home
(D) She said to him please did not drink too much and remember that he’ll have to drive home
Ans- (B) - Which of the given options is the correct indirect form of speech of the following sentence?
“Wish you a happy journey.” Neeta said to me.
(A) Neeta told me that I should wish a happy journey
(B) Neeta wished me a happy journey
(C) Neeta told me to have a happy journey
(D) Neeta wished me that I wish a happy journey
Ans- (B) - Point out the correct indirect form of-
The mother said, “Do not go out in rain.”
(A) Mother requested (him) not to go out in rain
(B) Mother pleaded not to go out in rain
(C) Mother suggested (me) not to go out in rain
(D) Mother forbade (her) to go out in rain
Ans- (D) - Complete the following sentence with appropriate word:
Please refer to the subject………above.
(A) sighted (B) sited. (C) cited (D) sided
Ans- (C) - He jumped off the bus while it………
(A) moved (B) was moving
(C) had moved (D) had been moved
Ans- (B) - Which of the following sentences is correct?
(A) Full many a flowers are born to blush unseen
(B) Full many a flower is born to blush unseen
(C) Full many a flower are born to blush unseen
(D) Full many a flowers is born to blush unseen
Ans- (B) - I am looking forward to…………
(A) see my friend
(B) seeing my friend
(C) have seen my friend.
(D) having been seen my friend
Ans- (B) - The gardens in Srinagar are more beautiful than………
(A) this of Mysore. (B) that in Mysore
(C) these of Mysore (D) those in Mysore
Ans- (D) - Fill in the blank in the following sentence with correct Preposition : My friend came all the way from Kathmandu
to congratulate me…….. my success.
(A) for. (B) at. (C) over (D) on
Ans- (D) - Which of the following sentences is a correct one?
(A) I went there with a view to meet him
(B) I went there with a view to meeting him
(C) I went there for a view to meeting him
(D) I went there with views to meeting him
Ans- (B) - Fill in the blank with appropriate tense. I wish I………dead.
(A) shall (B) will (C) may (D) were
Ans- (D) - Find out the correctly spelt-word-
(A) Monstrous. (B) Monsterous
(C) Monstorous. (D) Monstoros
Ans- (A)
Directions (Q. 84-89) The passage below is followed by Questions Nos. 84-89 on its content. Answer the questions on the basis of what is implied or stated in the passage:
The expression ‘the rule of law’ relates to human association. It purports to stand for human beings associated in terms of the recognition of certain conditions of association, namely ‘laws’; human beings joined in an exclusive, specifiable mode of relationship.
I shall begin, therefore, with two brief
remarks about human relationships in general.
First, relations between persons are apt to be contingent assemblages of a variety of different modes of association. I mean categorically distinct kind of relationship,
specifiable in terms of its own conditions, which excludes other modes of association but does not deny them. Thus, two persons may be joined, as husband and wife, in a legal mode of relationship, civil or ecclesiastical. but they may also be related in the categorically different terms of love, affection, friendship and so on, and further they may be partners in a business enterprise. And while a teacher and his pupil may have a legal and a commercial relationship, they have also an educational relationship whose terms are neither those of law nor of commerce. In short, while persons may have Kand, indeed, be largely composed of) a variety of different kinds of relationships with others and move between them without confusion, the subject in a mode of relationship is always the abstraction, a persona, a person in respect of being related to others in terms of distinct and exclusive conditions. And ‘the rule of law’. standing for a mode of relationship, identifies a persona related to others of the same modal character. What is the character of this persona and what are the conditions of this mode of association?
Secondly, in spite of their modal diversity, all human relationships have a common character. Human beings are intelligent agents and the terms of all or any of the relationships they enjoy are beliefs and recognitions: not merely what they have learned and understood (or misunderstood), uttributed to or assumed about themselves, but what they have seen fit to require of themselves and one another. Human relationships are human inventions, invented ambulando in the course of living and imposing conditions upon conduct. Here we have to do with artifice. But a particular mode of human relationship, having been imagi- ned, perhaps elaborated and refined and enjoyed as a practice, may then become the subject of reflection in which its terms and condtions are precisely distinguished. Here, as elsewhere. practice precedes the reflection in which its modal character is formulated.
- In a state or society human beings are associated with one another in terms of-
(A) Love. (B) Friendship
(C) Business concerns. (D) Laws
Ans- (D) - In the context of the passage, which of the following statements is not correct?
(A) All human relationships are based on laws
(B) There are different modes of relation- ships among human beings
(C) Legal relationships can be indisputably blended with non-legal relationships
(D) There is no contradiction between a civil and an eccelsiastical relationship
Ans- (C) - Throughout the passage, the term ‘mode’ implies:
(A) Style B) Rule. (D) Manner. (C) Form
Ans- (B) - In the phrase ‘contingent assemblages”. contingent means-
(A) accidental. (B) convenient
(C) specific. (D) representative
Ans- (C) - Which of the following statements is true about ‘the rule of law’ ?
(A) In spite of differences, human beings can accpet the same modal character
(B) Human beings cannot be subjected to the same ‘rule of law’
(C) All men and women being alike, the same ‘rule of law is not difficult to endorse
(D) Human beings are too egoistical to accept a common ‘rule of law’
Ans- (C) - The tone of the passage is-
(A) critical (B) expository
(C) descriptive (D) narrative
Ans- (B)
Directions (Q. 90-92) In the sentences given below (Question Nos. 90-92), mark the part which contains an error. If there is no errar, mark ‘D’ as your choice.
- Every one of us (A)/should do our duty (B)/ to the
country(C). No error (D)
Ans- (D)
91.Neither Ram nor his parents (A) /are (B) / to blame.(C)/
No error (D)
Ans- (D)
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- Very few/ people now believe/that the
(A). (B)
wages of sin are/death. No error
(C). (D)
Ans- (C) - Fill in the blank with the correct Preposition choosing from those given below:
The cat is hiding………us.
(A) with (B) from (C) of. (D) off
Ans- (B) - Choose the correct option to fill in the correct tense of verb in the following:
I waited for my friend until he………
(A) had come (B) will come
(C) came (D) comes
Ans- (C) - Fill in the blank:
Silkworm feed……… mulberry trees.
(A) at. (B) on. (C) by. (D) after
Ans- (B) - Choose the correct transformation of the following sentence from complex to simple:
While there is life, there is hope.
(A) So long as there is life, there is hope
(B) Life and hope are inseparable
(C) Until there is hope, there is life
(D) Where the life is, the hope is there is
Ans- (B) - Fill in the blank with the correct Preposition
I do not agree………your proposal.
(A) with (B) from (C) to. (D) on
Ans- (C) - The word ‘furtive’ means:
(A) Stealthy. (B) Quick.
(C) Nervous (D) Jerky
Ans- (A) - Find out the correct meaning of ‘stimulate”
(A) Move. (B) Push
(C) Rouse interest (D) Pretend
Ans- (C) - ‘PERPETUAL’ means-
(A) Rigid (B) Holy (C) Eternal (D) Rude
Ans- (C) - The word ‘DISPARITY’ means-
(A) Inequality. (B) Irregularity
(C) Impoliteness (D) Unhappiness
Ans- (A) - Chronicle plays were very popular in-
(A) 19th century. (B) 18th century
(C) 17th century (D) 16th century
Ans- (D) - ‘Lyrical Ballads’ was first published in-
(A) 1797. (B) 1798. (C) 1799 (D) 1796
Ans- (B) - A long romance entitled Endymion is written by-
(A) Shakespeare (B) Browning
(C) Keats (D) Shelley
Ans- (C) - Robert Browning is famous for his-
(A) novels. (B) short stories
(C) dramatic monologues. (D) plays
Ans- (C) - T.S. Eliot declared himself to be a-
(A) romanticist. (B) poetic dramatist
(C) painter (D) catholic
Ans- (D) - Who said, “Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion but an escape from emotion”?
(A) Shakespeare (B) Keats
(C) Eliot (D) Arnold
Ans- (C)
108.The phrase ‘stream of consciousness was first used by-
(A) William (B) William James
(C) William Jones (D) William Porter
Ans- (B)
- In which poem does Tennyson commemorate his friend ‘Arthur Hallam’ ?
(A) The Princess. (B) Enoch Arden
(C) In Memoriam (D) Ulyssis
Ans- (C) - In which poem has Wordsworth described different moods of nature?
(A) The Daffodils
(B) Lines Written above Tintern Abbey
(C) An Evening Walk
(D) The Excursion
Ans- (B) - Which of the following is not an essay by Charles Lamb?
(A) Night Fears. (B) Christ’s Hospital
(C) Going on a Journey (D) Poor Relations
Ans- (C) - The idiom ‘double Dutch’ means-
(A) Language spoken by the Dutch
(B) Unintelligible language
(C) Long distance march
(D) Two natives of the Netherlands
Ans- (B) - Choose the correct meaning of the following idiom out of the four responses given after it ‘in cold blood-
(A) Indifferently (B) Deliberately
(C) Unintentionally. (D) In anger
Ans- (B) - What does the underlined expression mean?
Every verdict that he gave was sui generis-
(A) well-balanced (B) sensational
(C) challengeable (D) unique
Ans- (D) - That which stays for a long time is-
(A) everlasting (B) permanent
(C) durable. (D) eternal
Ans- (C) - What does the idiom ‘Penelope’s web’ mean?
(A) A complicated web.
(B) A complicated situation
(C) An unending work.
(D) An unending life
Ans- (C) - What is the meaning of the idiom ‘ins and outs’?
(A) Outside and back side. (B) Internally
(C) Full details. (D) Partly
Ans- (C)
118-the antonym of Genuine is-
(A) Beautiful. (B) ugly
(C) Brave. (D)Spurious
Ans- (D)
119-The antonym of VOLUNTEER is–
(A) support. (B) defeat
(C) conscript. (D) provoke
Ans- (D)
120-The antonym of AGALE is–
(A) Swift. (B) hard (C) feeble. (D) slow
Ans- (D)
121-Give the correct antonym of the word ‘prodigal’ —
(A) Ardent (B) extravagant
(C) frugal. (D) liberal
Ans- (C)
122-The synonym of AMNESTY is–
(A) penalty. (B) Justice
(C) pardon. (D) release
Ans- (C)
123-The synonym of ADROIT is–
(A) skilful. (B) cunning
(C) villanous. (D) wicked
Ans- (A)
124-The synonym of APEX is–
(A) peak. (B) underground
(C) qualified. (D) greedy
Ans- (A)
125- The Synonym of FELICITOUS is–
(A) happy. (B) convenient
(C) fervent. (D) brittle
Ans- (A)