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Kerala PSC English Grammar Book Study Materials 1 Page 1021
Book's First PageCOMPREHENSION TEST 1253. What was the tone of the essay at the beginning? 1259. Hordes of rats invaded Egypt. They came from ___ . (1) Celebrative (1) Europe (2) Asia (2) Emotionally charged (3) Asia Minor (4) Africa (3) Gloomy 1260. The cat was considered to be a _____ . (4) Lighthearted (1) sacred animal (2) goddess 1254. How did the arrival of the dog change the atmosphere (3) symbol of peace (4) symbol of fertility of the event? 1261. What is the opposite of the word ‘votaries’ ? (1) It caused the people to scatter (1) Enthusiast (2) Critic (3) Adherent (4) Fanatic (2) It allowed the prisoner to escape 1262. The word ‘deification’ in the passage means _____ . (3) It saddened the prisoner even more (1) highly valuable (4) It stunned everyone present there (2) take pride 1255. What was the emotion displayed by the dog? (3) act of treating as God (1) Fear (2) Joy (4) devotees (3) Anger (4) Alarm Directions (1263–1267) : A passage is given with 5 1256. What was surprising about the actions of the dog? questions following it. Read the passage carefully and choose (1) It ran up and down the path the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives. (SSC CGL Tier-I (CBE) (2) It bit the guards Exam. 10.09.2016 (IInd sitting) (3) It barked at the magistrates Namita is from the state of Kerala. She has come to (4) It licked the prisoner’s face Dubai to serve as a governess for the only child of the 1257. How did the author respond to the appearance of Nairs. The Nairs are nice and gentle and Namita has no the dog? cause to complain. One day she overhears something that makes her jittery. Mr. Nair is not employed in an American (1) He jumped at the dog and collared it company as she has been told. The nature of his business (2) He ignored the dog and pretended it was not there is illegal. She is shocked and wants to go back to her home (3) He was taken aback as the others town to her own people. (4) He yelled at the dog to silence its barking Gopal is from a very poor family. His family owns a Directions (1258–1262) : A passage is given with 5 very small piece of land that can hardly meet their food questions following it. Read the passage carefully and choose requirement. One day, Gopal gets a nice offer to work in the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives. the Emirates with a construction contractor. In order to meet the expenses on travelling, the family decides to sell (SSC CGL Tier-I (CBE) their own land and send Gopal to the foreign country, to Exam. 09.09.2016 (IIIrd sitting) make money. On arrival, the contractor confiscates Gopal’s Man’s attitude to various animals changed many times passport and gives him a small place to live in with ten in the course of centuries. From indifference or practicality, others like him. Gopal has little idea what he must do. he went on to adoration and deification, and then to hatred. 1263. Which word from the ones given below, best Ancient Egyptians, for example, highly appreciated the cat’s describes Namita’s relationship with her employers ability to destroy rodents. The cat was much superior in in the beginning? this respect to the grass-snakes and weasels they had kept (1) Cordial (2) Friendly in their houses before. These proved unable to cope with hordes of rats which invaded Egypt from Asia. So the cat, (3) Sympathetic (4) Complaining a very useful animal, was ranked as a sacred animal and 1264. What does the phrase, ‘makes her jittery’ imply? one of the most important animals, too. The goddess of the (1) Sadness (2) Anger Moon, fertility and childbirth, Bast herself was portrayed (3) Trauma (4) Anxiety by the Egyptians as a woman with a cat’s head. 1265. Namita and Gopal are in a similar situation, because Sumptuous temples were built to this goddess, where they cats were kept in luxury and fed the choicest of foods. (1) love their families They had their own priests and votaries, more numerous (2) are happy with their situations as a matter of fact than any other sacred animal could (3) are from impoverished families boast. According to the Greek historian Herodotus, the (4) are stranded in a foreign country festival in the city of Bubastis, which had a temple dedicated to cats, was attended by as many as 700 thousand, who 1266. Namita’s situation is better than that of Gopal, because brought their offerings to the goddess in the shape of she figurines of her made of gold, silver and bronze and adorned (1) has a well behaved employer with precious stones. (2) knows what she wants to do 1258. Egyptians appreciated the cat’s ability to destroy (3) loves the new place and the child _____ . (4) now knows about her employer (1) snakes (2) weasels 1267. The conclusion that can be drawn from both (3) houses (4) rodents situations is that people should SEE–1028