UP TGT ENGLISH EXAM SOLVED PAPER 1999
This question paper has 100 questions with their answers. It is concerned with the old Trained Graduate Teacher (TGT) Recruitment Examination Question paper 1999 conducted by UP SECONDARY EDUCATION SERVICE SELECTION BOARD PRAYAGRAJ (ALLAHABAD)
1.What is the figure of speech in which, a statement is made emphatic by over statement:
(a) Hyperbole (b) Onomatopoeia
(c) Apostrophe (d) Oxymoron
Ans. (d)
- Which of the following sentences has the figure of speech called ‘Onomatopoeia’ ?
(a) I heard the water lapping on the crag.
(b) Revenge is a kind of wild justice.
(c) He is the wisest fool in his group. (d) O Hamlet thou hast cleft my heart in twain.
Ans. (a)
3.Choose the mis-spelt word (No Answer)
(a) Metaphor (b) Know-how
(c) Irritable (d) Indictment
Ans. (d)
4.Which one of the following is the correct proverb?
(a) Out of the frying pan into the house.
(b) Out of the frying pan into the fire.
(c) Out of the frying pan into the building
(d) Out of the frying pan into the water.
Ans. (b)
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5.What does the idiom ‘Go the whole hog’ mean?
(a) To rescue. (b) To do thoroughly
(c) Do part by part (d) To insult
Ans. (b)
- What is synonym of ‘pathetic’?
(a) Distressing. (b) Placid
(c) Calm. (d) Ouaint
Ans. (a) - What is the synonym of ‘Zealot’?
(a) Partison (b) Destroy (c) Summit. (d) enthusiasm
Ans. (a) - Choose the correct sentence:
(a) Piety makes for happiness.
(b) Piety makes against happiness. (c) Piety makes in happiness.
(d) piety makes into happiness.
Ans. (a) - Fill in the blanks with a suitable word : ‘She took offence……. the abusive language used by him!
(a) in (b) of (c) with . (d) at
Ans. (d) - Choose the correct sentence:
(a) He will resign in his leave period
(b) He will resign while his leave period
(c) He will resign during his leave period
(d) He will resign from his leave period
Ans. (c)
11.What of the following words means ‘Talking to one’s self’s:
(a) Spokesmen (b) Soliloquy
(c) Talkative. (d) Garrulity
Ans. (b)
- Choose the mis-spelt word :
(a) Dillema (b) Licentious
(c) Disparage (d) Malleable
Ans.(a) - Choose the mis-spelt word :
(a) Dillema (b) Licentious
(c) Disparage (d) Malleable
Ans.(a)
14.Which of the following sentences is not in Passive Voice?
(a) It can be done by you.
(b) Good marks will be got by them.
(c) She might raise this objection. (d) The door may be opened by him.
Ans. (c)
15.Which of the following sentences is in Passive Voice?
(a) Let him read a book.
(b) Always reach the school at time.
(c) Please bring me a glass of water.
(d) Let the salary be given to these clerks.
Ans. (d)
16.Find out the correct indirect narration of the following direct speech:
I said to my friend, “Good morning, how are you?”
(a) I told my friend that good morning and how is he.
(b) I exclaimed my friend good morning and how is he.
(c) I wished my friend good morning and how is he.
(d) I asked my friend good morning and how is he.
Ans. (c)
- Find out the correct indirect narration of following direct speech: The farmer said, “What a heavy snow fall it is!”
(a) The farmer told that what a heavy snow fall it is.
(b) The farmer wished that what a heavy snow fall it is.
(c) The farmer exclaimed that what a heavy snow fall it is.
(d) The farmer said that. What a heavy snow fall it is.
Ans. (c)
18.Choose the response which gives the correct spelling of the word :
(a) Heterogenous (b) Heterogeneous
(c) Heterogennuous
(d) Heterogenious
Ans.(b)
19.Punctu.ation the following sentence:
‘I went up to him and held out my hand how are you I asked I am not in hilarious spirits he answered. is given in the following sentences find out the correct one
(a) I went up to him and held out my hand how are you I asked. I am not in hilarious spirits he answered.
(b) I went up to him and held out my hand, how are you I asked, I am not in hilarious spirits he answered.
(c) I went up to him and held my hand. “How are you?” I asked, “I am not in hilarious spirits.”he answered. (d) I went up to him and held out my hand “how are you I asked, I am not in hilarious spirits, he answered.”
- The antonym of ‘Economy’ is:
(a) Excess (b) Miser
(c) Extravagance (d) Money
Ans. (c)
21.Which of the following words is “Onomatopoeic”?
(a) Murmuring (b) Trembling
(c) Charming (d) Glorious
Ans. (a)
- Fill in the blanks with a suitable word: Use of this………. .for seven days will cure you of your illness.
(a) Physics (b) Physical
(c) Physique (d) Physic
Ans. (d) - Pick out the correct sentence :
(a) Put out the light
(b) Put with the light
(c) Put for the light
(d) Put in the light
Ans. (a) - What does the idiom, “Smell a rat “means:
(a) To act unfairly
(b) To talk boastfully
(c) To discourage
(d) To have reason to suspect
Ans. (d)
25.What is the meaning of ‘Erroneous’:
(a) Possible (b) Cancel
(c) True. (d) False
Ans.(d)
- Complete the following proverb by choosing the correct word :
A burnt child dreads the ……….
(a) thing (b) cloud (c) water (d) fire
Ans. (d) - Which word is mis-spelt:
(a) Zealous (b) Phytoric
(c) Empirical (d) Opposite
Ans. (b) - The synonym of ‘Prudent’ is
(a) Careful (b) Cheerful
(c) Cool (d) Careless
Ans. (a) - Pick out the correct alternate that completes the incomplete sentence, which is changed into indirect narration:
Ragini said, “May God bless You?”
Ragini :
(a) exclaimed with wish that God might bless me.
(b) expressed a wish that God might bless me.
(c) asked God to bless me.
(d) shouted with joy to bless me.
Ans. (b) - Choose the correct proverb:
(a)Necessity is the mother of happiness.
(b)Necessity is the mother of invention.
(c)Necessity is the mother of enmity.
(d) Necessity is the mother of pride.
Ans. (b)
31.The synonym of ‘Queer’ is:
(a) Strange (b) Beautiful
(c) Cultured (d) Swift
Ans. (a)
32.Fill in the blanks with the suitable word: This medicine has relieved him……………his pain.
(a) with (b) over. (c) of (d) in
Ans. (c)
33.Which of the following sentences is not in the passive voice?
(a) My order must be order by you. (b)The mother land should be loved.
(c) It is time for tea to be taken.
(d)Who will forward your application?
Ans. (d)
- Punctuation the following line: “The old man chuckled and said you have yet learn how to fly a kite properly my child is given in following sentences. Find out the correct one.
(a) The old man chuckled and said, “You have yet learn how to fly a kite properly my child.”
(b) The old man chuckled and said, you have yet learn “How to fly a kite properly my child?”
(c) The old man chuckled and said, you have yet learn. How to fly a kite properly my child?
(d) The old man chuckled and said, you have yet learn how to fly a kite properly my child.
Ans. (a)
35 Which of the following sentences is the Passive Voice?
(a) Please bring me a glass of cold water.
(b) Give salary to these clerks.
(c) Always reach the school in the time.
(d) It is requested to let me sleep now.
Ans. (d)
- The antonym of ‘Vivacious’ is:
(a) Dull. (b) Lively
(c) Quickness (d) Nice
Ans. (a)
37.He is an author and publisher……….. The correct choice to fill in the blanks is:
(a) to. (b) too (c) still (d) both
Ans. (b)
38.Choose the response which gives the correct spelling of the word :
(a) Coleageua (b) Collegeu
(c) Colleague (d) Collegeu
Ans. (c)
- Fill in the blanks with suitable word:
I am badly in need………..money.
(a) of. (b) for (c) with. (d) on
Ans. (a) - Which of the following word is the meaning ‘To pick holes’:
(a) To insult. (b) to encourage
(c) To find fault with (d) To betray
Ans.(c)
41.What is the synonym of ‘Pernicious’ ?
(a) Ruinous (b) Difficult
(c) Reflective. (d) Credible
Ans. (a)
- Find out the correct sentence:
(a) My son is desirous on joining the Army.
(b) My son is desirous of joining the Army.
(c) My son is desirous in joining the Army.
(d) My son is desirous for joining the Army.
Ans. (b) - Identify the figure of speech in the following line:
‘The fire of passion made him blind.
(a) Simile (b) Personification
(c) Metaphor (d) Oxymoron
Ans. (c) - A sonnet consists:
(a) 18 Lines (b) 20 Lines
(c) 14 Lines. (d) 12 Lines
Ans. (c)
45.Who is the heroine in Shakespeare’s ‘Tempest’?
(a) Portia. (b) Nerissa
(c) Cordelia (d) Miranda
Ans. (d)
- Bassano is married to:
(a) Portia (b) Nerissa
(c) Helena. (d) Hermia
Ans. (a) - Pope was the master of:
(a) Songs of Nature. (b) Tragedy
(c) Lyrical Poetry (d) Satire
Ans. (d) - Autobiography means:
(a) The life history of a man written by someone else.
(b) The life history of a man as reflected in his writings.
(c) The life history of a man created in painting by someone else.
(d) The life history of a man written by himself.
Ans. (d) - Choose the odd one :
(a) Hamlet (b) Tempest
(c) Othello (d) King hear
Ans. (b) - Macbeth sees the ghost of:
(a) Banquo (b) Duncan
(c) Lago (d) Hamlet.
Ans. (a) - The novels of R.K. Narayan are set in?
(a) Madras. (b) Mount Abu
(c) Malgudi. (d) Malaysia
Ans. (c) - The form of Poetry in which “a group song telling a story usually sad and painful” is called:
(a) Lyric (b) Sonnet
(c) Elegy. (d) Ballad
Ans. (d)
53.Paradise lost consists of ………. .books.
(a) 10. (b) 12 (c) 6. (d) 8
Ans. (b)
54.Romantic Movement had its antecedents in:
(a) The poetry of Chaucer
(b) Shakespearean Comedy
(c) The 15th century Ballad
(d) None of these
Ans. (c)
- Shakespeare was born in :
(a) 1564 (b) 1464 (c) 1664 (d) 1364
Ans. (a) - The first play by Galsworthy is :
(a) Justice (b) Loyalties
(c) Silver Box (d) Skin Game
Ans. (c)
57.Gitanjali in English was published in:
(a) 1905 (b) 1912 (c) 1915 (d) 1921
Ans. (b)
58.Who composed these famous lines: “Beauty in truth, truth beauty that is all ye know on earth and all ye need to know.”
(a) Keats (b) Shelley
(c) Wordsworth (d) Coleridge
Ans. (a)
- ‘Romanticism’ and ‘Idealism’ are the main features of:
(a) Romantic Literature
(b) Victorian Literature
(c) Elizabethan Literature
(d) Augustan Literature
Ans. (a) - “Poetry is the image of man and nature. “These are the words of:
(a) Coleridge (b) Wordsworth
(c) Keats (d) Shelley
Ans. (b) - What was Milton’s purpose in writing ‘Paradise Last’
(a) Satirising society
(b) Telling a story
(c) Justifying the ways of Good of man
(d) Preaching a moral lesson
Ans. (c) - Milton’s ‘Areopagitica’
Against …….. was directed
(a) The ban on the theatres
(b) Censorship
(c) The ban on poetry
(d) None of these
Ans. (b) - Poetry is a ‘Criticism of Life’ it must answer the questions as to “How to live”? Who is the exponent of this view?
(a) Milton (b) Lawrence
(c) Matthew Arnold
(d) None of these
Ans. (b) - “Blow, Blow, thou winter wind, thou art not so unkind, As mans ingratitude, They Tooth is not that keen……. is from………play by Shakespeare.
(a) King Lear (b) Winter’s tale
(c) As You like It. (d) Tempest
Ans. (a) - The character “Fool” in Twelfth Night serves the purpose of…….
(a) Reality of life (b) Humour
(c) Interlinking the main and sub plots
(d) All the correct
Ans. (d) - Which of the following poets said, “My name is write in water”?
(a) Byron (b) Keats
(c) Shelley (d) Wordsworth
Ans. (b) - ‘Life is an tale told by an idiot. From which play are these words quoted?
(a) The Tempest (b) Hamlet
(c) Macbeth (d) Romeo and Juliet
Ans. (c) - “Life is a comedy for those, who think and a tragedy for those who feel?”
This statement is given by
(a) Hardy (b) Lamb
(c) Meredith (d) Jane Austen
Ans. (c)
69.Who was the first poet Laureate in England?
(a) Pope (b) Ben Johnson
(c) Wordsworth. (d) Tennyson
Ans. (b)
- ‘Strafford’ is a play by:
(a) Tennyson (b) Browning
(c) Arnold (d) Oscar Wilde
Ans. (b)
71.Who is referred to as the poet’s poet:
(a) Milton (b) Pope
(c) Spenser (d) Chaucer
Ans. (c)
- Who is Movement Poet?
(a) Larkin. (b) Ted Hughes
(c) T.S. Eliot (d) W.H. Auden
Ans. (a) - The number of plays written by Shakespeare is:
(a) 20. (b) 25 (c) 37 (d) 40
Ans. (c) - Pulitzer prize is Awarded for:
(a) Literature (b) Music
(c) Journalism. (d) Plays for theatre
Ans. (a) - Wordsworth died in :
(a) 1840 (b) 1815 (c) 1850 (d) 1860
Ans.(c) - Who created ‘Wessex’?
(a) Hardy. (b) Dickens
(c) R.K. Narayan (d) Frost
Ans. (a)
77.The French Revolution took place in :
(a) 1778 (b) 1789 (c) 1760 (d) 1777
Ans. (b)
- The characters of ‘Henry James’ novels are:
(á) Illiterates (b) Intellectuals
(c) Middle class Workers
(d) None of these
Ans. (a) - The first Labour Government in England was formed in:
(a) 1924 (b) 1918 (c) 1940 (d) 1945
Ans (a) - ‘Romeo and Juliet’ occurs in:
(a) Verona (b) Rome
(c) Venice (d) Paris
Ans. (a) - The two great poets of Victorian Era were :
(a) Keats and Byron
(b) Gray and Collins
(c) Tennyson and Browning
(d) Keats and Shelly
Ans. (c) - Shakespeare used prose for:
(a) Comic scenes
(b) Play within plays
(c) Chorus (d) None of these
Ans. (a)
83.’Frailty they name is woman’ is spoken by :
(a) Macbeth (b) Lear
(c) lago. (d) Hamlet
Ans. (d)
- Dickens first novel is :
(a) Oliver Twist
(b) Great Expectations
(c) Nicholas Nickle by
(d) Pickwick Pagers
Ans. (d)
85.According to whom Poetry is “best words in their best order”:
(a) Shakespeare (b) Wordsworth
(c) Coleridge (d) Shelley
Ans. (c)
- The father said, “He is a good boy”:
(a) said that he is a good boy.
(b) told that he is a good boy.
(c) said that he was a good boy.
(d) told that he was a good boy.
Ans. (c) - He said to his friend, “Wait here till father comes”:
(a) to wait here till father had come.
(b) that to wait there till his father come.
(c) to wait there till father came.
(d) to wait here untill his father come.
Ans. (c) - She said to me, “Are you going to market?” She enquired of me :
(a) I am going to market.
(b) I was going to market.
(c) if I was going to market.
(d) if I had been going to the market.
Ans. (c) - When did Constantinople fall
(a) 1405 (b) 1453 (c) 1483 (d) 1477
Ans. (b) - ‘Love Among the Artists’ is a ………. Shaw by Bernard:
(a) Novel. (b) Play
(c) Short story. (d) None of these
Ans. (a) - Pope was a :
(a) Teacher
(b) Devotee of Literature
(c) Priest. (d) Govt. employee
Ans. (b)
92.The figure of speech in which two opposite ideas are put together is:
(a) Oxymoron. (b) Onomatopoeia
(c) Hyperbole (d) None of these
Ans. (a)
93.The synonym of ‘Yell’ is:
(a) Scream. (b) Cream
(c) Refrain (d) Quicken
Ans. (a)
- Correct form of the sentence, ‘I bear no malice any body’ is:
(a) I bear no malice over anybody.
(b) I bear no malice in anybody.
(c) I bear no malice against anybody
(d) I bear no malice on anybody.
Ans. (c) - What does the idiom ‘Make a clean sweep of means’:
(a) To face a problem
(b) To amass wealth
(c) to rob
(d) To admit one’s guilt fully
Ans. (d) - The age of pope is also called:
(a) The Restoration
(b) Restoration Age
(c) Age of sensibility
(d) The Augustan Age
Ans. (d) - Choose the correct words to fill the blanks:
Meena is not as ………. as her cousin.
(a) Clever. (b) Cleverest
(c) Either of these (d) None of these
Ans. (a)
98.When the lifeless objects and abstracts ideas are thought of as living beings, the figure of speech is:
(a) Personification (b) Hyperbole
(c) Apostrophe (d) Oxymoron
Ans. (a)
99.Which is the best alternative to complete the sentence:
The course of action will be prejudicial……
(a) in the interest of our country.
(b) of the interest of our country.
(c) after the interest of our country.
(d) with the interest of our country.
Ans. (a)
100.The Neoclassical writers propounded that:
(a) Man is a limited being.
(b)The human pride needs to be suppressed.
(c)Man has to follow a nature hierarchy..
(d) Above all.
Ans .(d
