UP TGT ENGLISH EXAM SOLVED PAPER 2003 | UPSESSB OLD /PREVIOUS / PAPER OF TRAINED GRADUATE TEACHER RECRUITMENT EXAM SUBJECT ENGLISH

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This question paper has 85 questions with their answers. It is related to the old Trained Graduate Teacher (TGT) Recruitment Examination Question paper 2003 conducted by UP SECONDARY EDUCATION SERVICE SELECTION BOARD PRAYAGRAJ (ALLAHABAD)

1.”He found English a dialect and left it a language.”
Who states these words?
(a) Chaucer. (b) T.S. Eliot
(c) Arnold. (d) Shakespeare
Ans. (c)

  1. Who wrote ‘Daffodils’?
    (a) Keats (b) Gray
    (c) Wordsworth. (d) Pope
    Ans. (c)
  2. Milton’s Lycidas’ is a :
    (a) Ode (b) Mask
    (c) Lyric. (d) Pastoral Elegy
    Ans. (d)
  3. Who states this:
    “Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings; it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity”
    (a) William Wordsworth
    (b) Mathew Arnold
    (c) S.T. Coleridge
    (d) T.S. Eliot
    Ans. (b)
  4. Wordsworth died in:
    (a) 1840 (b)1850 (c)1845 (d)1860
    Ans. (b)

6.What figure of speech has been used in the following lines? ‘O World! 0 Life ! 0 Time! 0 Julius Caesar, thou art might yet!
(a) Hyperbole. (b) Oxymoron
(c) Apostrophe. (d) Personification
Ans. (c)

MCQS ON ENGLISH LITERATURE

  1. Fill in the blank with a suitable preposition :
    ‘Distribute the sweets ….. Ram and Suresh’
    (a) between (b) for (c) to (d) with
    Ans. (a)
  2. The most appropriate one word substitute for: A person living at the Same time as another.
    (a) Nostrum (b) Contemporary
    (c) Eccentric. (d) Archaic
    Ans.(b)
  3. “Coward’s die many times before their death; The valiant never taste of death at once.” These lines have been taken from:
    (a) Julius Caesar
    (b) The Merchant of Venice
    (c) The Tempest (d) Twelfth Night
    Ans.(a)
  4. What does the idiom ‘Kill two birds with one stone’ means:
    (a) To gain a double object in one effort.
    (b) To do every thing possible.
    (c) To admit one’s quilt fully.
    (d) To make every possible effort.
    Ans. (a)

11.Complete the proverb by choosing correct alternate:
‘Barking dogs……. bite.
(a) frequently (b) rarely
(c) seldom (d) regularly
Ans.(c)

12.Which of the following word is mis-spelt?
(a) Dessert. (b) Celebasy
(c) Fatalist. (d) Gregarious
Ans. (b)

  1. The correct from for “A person of a material outlook and indifferent to culture. “is:
    (a) Philistine (b) Barbarous
    (c) Nomad (d) Anarchist
    Ans. (a)

14.What is the meaning of “Momentous”?
(a) Boring (b) Important
(c) Dull (d) Unimportant
Ans. (b)

15.Who is the heroine in Shakespeare’s Tempest’?
(a) Portia (b) Miranda
(c) Cordelia. (d) Nerissa
Ans . (b)

  1. Paradise Lost consists of ….. books.
    (a) 10. (b) 12. (c) 6. (d) 8
    Ans. (b)
  2. Who recently changed his/her religion?
    (a) Kamala Das (b) M.R. Anand
    (c) Nissim Ezekiel.(d) None
    Ans. (a)
  3. Autobiography means:
    (a) The life history of a man written by some one else.
    (b) The life history of a man written by himself.
    (c) The life history of a man as reflected in his writings.
    (d) The life history of a man created in painting by someone else.
    Ans. (b)

19.Read the following lines and answer the question that follows it:
“O Julius Caesar, thou art might yet! They spirit walks abroad and turns, our swords in our proper external”
What is the essence of this statement?
(a) Brutus was too mighty.
(b) Antony was mighty.
(c) Caesar was mighty even after his death.
(d) Cassius was mighty.
Ans. (c)

20.What does the idiom ‘Go through fire and water’ means?
(a)To pass through all types of hardships
(b) To be ready
(c) Do part by part
(d) A difficult task to do
Ans. (a)

  1. Macbeth sees the ghost of:
    (a) Banquo. (b) Duncan
    (c) Hamlet. (d) Lag
    Ans. (a)
  2. Who wrote ‘Coriolanus’?
    (a) Marlowe (b) Shakespeare
    (c) Milton (d) Jonson
    Ans. (b)
  3. Who set the style for modern English prose?
    (a) Dryden. (b) Swift
    (c) Lamb (d) Bacon
    Ans. (a)
  4. A sonnet consists:
    (a) 18 Lines (b) 20 Lines
    (c) 14 Lines. (d) 12 Lines
    Ans. (c)

25.Punctuate the following sentence:
‘I went upto 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 1 asked. I am not in hilarious sprits 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 out 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.
Ans.(d)

  1. Iliad was first translated into English by:
    (a) Pope (b) John king
    (c) Dryden. (d) None of them
    Ans. (a)
  2. Which word is mis-spelt:
    (a) Zealous (b) Opposite
    (c) Empirical (d) Rhytoric
    Ans.(d)
  3. Fill in the blanks with a suitable word:
    Use of this….. …..for seven days will cure you of your illness.
    (a) Physic (b) Physique
    (c) Physics (d) Physical
    Ans. (a)
  4. Who quoted these lines about tragedy- “The plot, then is the first principle and soul of tragedy and character hold the second place.”
    (a) Plato. (b) Aristotle
    (c) Shakespeare. (d) Longinus
    Ans. (b)
  5. Which of the following words are personified:
    (a) Revenge is kind
    (b) Swift as a wind
    (c) Thirsty earth. (d) Honest thief
    Ans. (c)
  6. Shakespeare was born in :
    (a) 1564 (b) 1464 (c) 1664 (d) 1364
    Ans. (a)

32.Gitanjali in English was published in:
(a) 1905 (b) 1912 (c) 1911 (d) 1913
Ans. (b)

UP TGT ENGLISH EXAM SOLVED PAPER 2001

  1. Find out the correct sentence:
    (a) My son is desirous in joining the Army.
    (b) My son is desirous on joining the Army.
    (c) My son is desirous of joining the Army.
    (d) My son is desirous for joining the Army.
    Ans. (c)
  2. Select the right meaning of the word ‘Omnipotent’ from the follow-ing:
    (a) One who is all powerful
    (b) One who is intelligent
    (c) One who loves mankind
    (d)One who believes in the existence of God
    Ans. (a)

35.The figure of speech which “consists in the use of word which suggest the sense by their sound,”is called:
(a) Onomatopoeia (b) Oxymoron
(c) Personification. (d) Hyperbole
Ans. (a)

  1. What figure of speech has been used in the following line?
    ‘Let not Ambition mock their useful toil.
    (a) Personification (b) Oxymoron (c) Metaphor (d) Implied simile
    Ans. (a)
  2. ‘Romanticism’ and ‘Idealism’ are the main features of:
    (a) Romantic Literature
    (b) Victorian Literature
    (c) Elizabethan Literature
    (d) Augustan Literature
    Ans. (a)
  3. What was Milton’s purpose in writing ‘Paradise Last’?
    (a) Telling a story
    (b) Preaching a moral lesson
    (c) Justifying the ways of good of man
    (d) Satirising society
    Ans. (c)

39.What is the antonym of ‘Stigma”?
(a) Stain (b) Distinction
(c) Blot. (d) Smelly
Ans. (b)

  1. Pick out the correct word to complete the given proverb :
    The empty vessel………much.
    (a) Sounds. (b) Costs
    (c) Sells (d) Weights
    Ans (a)

41.Romanticism is basically a movement that reacted against various aspects. In philosophy the Romanticism reacted against: (aThe rationalism of the Eighteenth century
(b)The view of physical world dominated by science
(c) The theories of John Lock
(d) All these three

  1. Which of the following words means ‘a hater of learning’?
    (a) Misologist (b) Misogamist
    (c) Cynic. (d) Aesthetics
    Ans. (a)

43.Punctuation of the following sentences:
‘the creator answered yes but by accepting the burden you will show your greatness of heart’ is given in following sentences. Find out the correct one.
(a) The creator answered “Yes but by accepting The burden you will show your greatness of heart.”
(b) the creator answered “Yes’. But by accepting the burden you will show your greatness of heart.
(c) The creator answered, “Yes, but by accepting the burden you will show your greatness of heart.”
(d) None
Ans. (c)

  1. Select the right meaning of the word ‘Linguist’ from the following:
    (a)One who know only one language
    (b) One who know two languages
    (c) One who know more than two languages
    (d)One who know several languages
    Ans. (d) 45.Find out the correct indirect narration of the following direct speech:
    He said to them all, “Good-bye, my friends!”
    (a) He told to them good-bye
    (b) He said to his friends good-bye.
    (c) He bade good-bye to all his friends
    (d) None of these
    Ans. (c)

46.What is the antonym of ‘Insolvent’?
(a) Bankrupt (b) Wealthy
(c)Translate (d) Intuition
Ans.(b)

47.Fill in the blank with suitable word:
As you……… so shall you reap.
(a) fill (b) empty (c) sow (d) take
Ans. (c)

48.The poetry is called an ‘Ode’, when :
(a)It is a song of lament and mourning
(b) It is full of music and emotions
(c) Its style is lofty and dignified
(d) It has 14 lines only
Ans. (c)

  1. Fill in the blank with suitable preposition :
    I am always very well pleased ………a country Sunday.
    (a) with (b) by (c) over (d) at
    Ans. (a)

50.Complete the following sentence with suitable word:
Please don’t talk……… me.
(a) for (b) to. (c) in (d) at
Ans. (b)

  1. William Shakespeare died in;
    (a) 1612 (b) 1613 (c) 1616 (d) 1620
    Ans. (c)
  2. The Lyrical Ballads was written by:
    (a) Wordsworth
    (b) Wordsworth and Coleridge.
    (c) Pope. (d) Milton
    Ans. (b)

53.Which of the following was a left-wing poet?
(a) Eliot (b) W.H. Auden
(c) Wordsworth (d) None of these
Ans . (b)

  1. What does the idiom To burn the mid-night oil’ means:
    (a) To study late at night
    (b) To face a problem
    (c) To amass wealth
    (d) to admit one’s guilt fully
    Ans. (a)

55.Punctuation the following sentence: ‘the hare said to the tortoise you poor thing How slowly you crawl I could run a mile while, you travel a dozen yards’ is given in following sentences. Find out the correct one..
(a) The hare said to the tortoise you poor thing how slowly, you crawl I could run a mile while you travel a dozen yards.
(b)The hare said to the tortoise. “you poor thing how slowly, you crawl I could run a mile while you travel a dozen yards.”
(c) The hare said to the tortoise you poor thing, how slowly you crawl I could run a mile while you travel a dozen yards.
(d) The hare said to the tortoise you poor thing. How slowly you crawl. I could run a mile while you travel a dozen yards.
Ans. (b)

  1. What is the figure of speech in which, a statement is made emphatic by overstatement:
    (a) Oxymoron (b) Apostrophe
    (c) Hyperbole (d) Onomatopoeia
    Ans. (c)
  2. Fill in the blank with the suitable word. She has been living here……. the death of her mother.
    (a) Until(b) Unless (c) For (d) Since
    Ans. (d)
  3. What, does the meaning of given idiom-‘ups and downs’:
    (a) Successes and failures
    (b) Selfish man
    (c) To feel healthy (d) To distributed
    Ans. (a)
  4. Which one is a Movement Poet? (a) Yeats (b) Spender
    (c) Larkin. (d) Ted Hughes
    Ans. (c)

60.The Merchant of Venice’ Published in:
(a) 1597 (b) 1596 (c) 1598 (d) 1599
Ans. (a)

  1. Which of the following words is the antonym of the word ‘Yoke’?
    (a) Separate (b) Attached
    (c) Expand. (d) Active
    Ans. (a)
  2. Fill in the blank with suitable word:
    I am badly in need ……..money.
    (a) of (b) for (c) with (d) on
    Ans. (a)

63.Who composed these famous lines:
“Beauty in truth, truth beauty, that is all ye know on earth and all ye need to know.”
(a) Coleridge. (b) Wordsworth
(c) Shelley. (d) Keats
Ans. (d)

  1. Pick out the correct proverb:
    (a) Hope for the best and prepared for the worst.
    (b) Hope for the best and prepared for the next.
    (c) Hope for the best and prepared for the best.
    (d) Hope for the best and prepared for the same.
    Ans. (a)
  2. The synonym of ‘Negotiate’ is:
    (a) Quarrel (b) Mismanage
    (c) Settle (d) Impose
    Ans. (c)
  3. Fill in the blank with a suitable word :
    Living from hand to……..
    (a) head. (b) mouth
    (c) stomach (d) leg
    Ans. (b)
  4. Find out the correct sentence:
    (a) We owe a duty for our mother-land.
    (b) We owe a duty to our mother-land.
    (c) We owe a duty on our mother-land.
    (d)We owe a duty with our mother-land.
    Ans. (b)
  5. “Frailty, the name is women “are from which famous Shakespeare play?
    (a) Hamlet. (b) Tempest
    (c) As you like it (d) King Lear
    Ans. (a)
  6. The synonym of Recapitulation is:
    (a) Expand (b) Niche
    (c) Cavity. (d) Summarize
    Ans. (d)
  7. What the meaning of ‘Raw deal’?
    (a) Unripe fruits. (b) Hostility
    (c)Harsh treatment(d) Opportunities
    Ans. (c)

Directions (Q. 71-75) In the following questions, some of the sentences have errors and some have none. Find out which part of a sentence has an error corresponding to the appropriate letter (a, b, c). If there is no error, answer is d.

71.Our new neighbours/ (a) had been living in Arizona (b) since ten years before moving to their present house / (c) Ne error. (d)
Ans. (c)

72.Computer education /(a) in Universities and colleges today / (b) much to be desired / (c) No error. (d)
Ans.(d)

73.The patient/ (a) was accompanied
/(b) with his friend(c) No error. (d)
Ans.(c)

  1. Females(a) are not appointed / (b) in our college/(c) No error. (d)
    Ans. (a)
  2. You must either tell me/ (a) the whole story or, at least/ (b) the first half of it/ (c) No error. (d)
    Ans. (a)
    Passage
    Man’s growth from barbarism into civilization is supposed to be the theme of history. But sometimes, looking at great stretches of history, it is difficulty to believe that this ideal has made such progress or that we are very much civilised or advanced. There is enough of want of co-operation today, of one country or people selfishly attacking or oppressing another, of one man exploiting another.
    It is well to remember that man in many ways has not made very great progress from other animals. It may be that in certain ways some animals are superior to him. Still we look down upon the insects as almost the lowest of living things, and yet the tiny bees and ants have learnt the art of co-operation and so sacrifice for the common good for better than man. If mutual co-operation and sacrifice for the good of society are the test of civilization, we may say that the bees and ants are in this respect superior to man. In one of our old Sanskrit books there is a verse which can be translated as follow: “For the family, sacrifice the individual, for the community, the family, for the country the community, and for the soul, the whole world. “What the soul is few of us can know or tell and each one of us can interpret it in a different way. But the lesson this Sanskrit verse teachers us is the same lesson of co-operation and sacrifice for the larger good. We, in India, had forgotten this sovereign path to real greatness for a long time, we had so fallen. But again we seem, to have glimpses of it and all the country is astir. How wonderful it is to see men and women, and girls, smilingly going ahead in India’s cause without caring about any pain or suffering? Well may they smile and be glad for the joy of serving a great cause which is their, and for those who are fortunate, comes the joy of sacrifice also.

76.What is really the theme of history?
(a) The rise and fall of empires
(b) Man’s moral and spiritual development
(c) Man’s search for truth
(d) The process of man’s becoming civilised
Ans.(b)

  1. What is the basic reason of exploitation of one man by another?
    (a) The weakness of some people and the strength of the others
    (b) Man’s beastly nature
    (c) Lack of civilization
    (d) Lack of education
    Ans. (c)
  2. In what respects are some animals superior to man?
    (a) Physical strength
    (b) Having no cares in their lives
    (c) Having greater instinct for co-operation and sacrifice
    (d) Non oppressing or exploiting one another
    Ans.(c)
  3. What does the soul signify for us?
    (a) The divine essence in all of us
    (b) Righteousness
    (c) Different things for different people
    (d) The element of life
    Ans.(c)
  4. What lesson does the Sanskrit verse in question teach us?
    (a) To behave well with one another
    (b) To help each other in difficulties (c)To inculcate the spirit of co-operation and, self-sacrifice for the large good of the society
    (d) To work constantly
    Ans.(c)
  5. Why do we say that man is not yet civilised?
    (a)Because there are colossal disparities between the rich and the poor
    (b) Because most of us are illiterate (c) Because we ill-behave with one another
    (d) Because most of us oppress and exploit others and lack the spirit of co-operation
    Ans.(d)
  6. Why should we not look down upon the insects as almost the lowest of living things?
    (a) Because they are of immense use to mankind
    (b) Because they can cause harm to us out of all proportion of the it to mankind
    (c) Because they have a sense of sacrifice and co-operation
    (d) Because small size does not necessarily made anything low
    Ans.(c)
  7. What does the expression ‘larger good’ mean?
    (a) Great good of oneself
    (b) A lot of good
    (c) Very excellent
    (d) Good of the society
    Ans. (c)
  8. What does the sentence ‘all the country is astir mean in the passage?
    (a) The whole country is up in revolt
    (b) There is an upsurge of moral and spiritual favor in the whole country
    (c) A wave of zeal and vivacity, vigour and dynamism is perceptible in the whole country
    (d) The whole country is flooded with lofty ideas and thoughts
    Ans. (b)
  9. How can we be truly civilised?
    (a) Be getting more and more wealth and power
    (b) By reading more and more books”
    (c) By subjugating back ward nations and educating their citizens
    (d) By developing qualities of mutual helf, co-operation an self-sacrifice
    Ans. (d)

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