PA/SA GENERAL MODEL QUESTION PAPER

GENERAL ENGLISH MODEL QUESTION PAPER

1. I had just finished lunch when the phone …………

a)Rang

b)Had rung

c)Is ringing

d)Will ring

Ans. Rang

2. If my brother had not grabbed my arm I …………..

a)Might have slipped

b)May have slipped

c)Will have slipped

d)Shall have slipped

Ans. Might have slipped

3. We …………. a trip to Delhi last summer.

a)Have had

b)Had

c)Was

d)Were

Ans. Had

4. I ………….. home since last Christmas.

a)Haven’t gone

b)Hadn’t gone

c)Wouldn’t go

d)Shouldn’t go

Ans. Haven’t gone

5. We usually …………. Early and go for a walk.

a)Get up

b)Got up

c)Had got up

d)Getting up

Ans. Get up

6. Last Saturday we ………….. to visit our ancestral home.

a)Went

b)Will go

c)Have gone

d)Go

Ans. Went

7. Even though it was hard at first, I came ………….. the work in the factory.

a)To enjoy

b)Enjoyed

c)Enjoying

d)Enjoys

Ans. To enjoy

8. …………….. one of us should tell them the sad news?

a)Which

b)What

c)Who

d)Where

Ans. Which

9. The novel on …………… the film is based was written by an Indian.

a)Which

b)Whom

c)What

d)Who

Ans. Which

10. Agriculture has ………….. most prominent place in Indian economy.

a)A

b)An

c)The

d)No article

Ans. The

11. Compliment means ……………..

a)What completes

b)Good wishes

c)Complaint

d)Request

Ans. What completes

12. Ingenious means ……………

a)Foolish

b)Mismanaged

c)Clever

d)Cowardly

Ans. Clever

13. Diffident is the antonym of ……………..

a)Defeat

b)Clever

c)Confident

d)Disastrous

Ans. Confident

14. Exotic is the antonym of ……………….

a)Indigenous

b)Chaotic

c)Neurotic

d)Myopic

Ans. Indigenous

15. The synonym of avaricious is …………….

a)Greedy

b)Ready

c)Capricious

d)Audacious

Ans. Greedy

16. Which of the following words is spelt correctly ?

a)Embarrassment

b)Embarassment

c)Embarasment

d)Embarrasment

Ans. Embarrassment

17. We thought ………….. the matter.

a)In

b)About

c)Upon

d)On

Ans. About

18. The train is always ………….

a)Panctually

b)Panctuality

c)Panctual

d)Be punctual

Ans. Panctual

19. If you go to the doctor, he ………….. you some medicine.

a)Give

b)Would give

c)Will give

d)Would have given

Ans. Will give

20. The story of this book is based ………….. truth.

a)On

b)With

c)To

d)For

Ans. On

 GENERAL ENGLISH

QUESTION	ANSWER
A PERSON WITH A LONG EXPERIENCE IN A PROFESSION	VETERAN
WORDS WRITTEN ON A TOMB	EPITAPH
SOMTHING NO LONGER IN USE	OBSOLETE
BEST SYNONYM OF "ZEALOT" IS	FANATIC
BEST SYNONYM OF "WORTHLESS"	CHEAP
BEST SYNONYM OF "WITHER" IS	DECAY
BEST SYNONYM OF "MAMMOTH" IS	HUGE
BEST SYNONYM OF "HOMILY" IS	SERMON
BEST SYNONYM OF "ROBUST" IS	STRONG
BEST ANTONYM OF "AUGMENT" IS	DECREASE
BEST ANTONYM OF "RIDICLE" IS	REASONABLE
BEST ANTONYM OF "SANCTITY" IS	UNHOLY
SCHOOL BOY WHO CUTS CLASSES FREQUENTLY	Truant
A PLACE WHERE BEES ARE KEPT	Apiary
ANIMALS THAT CAN LIVE BOTH ON LAND AND WATER	Amphibians

Question related to space

 

Q1 Which  is  the  biggest planet Jupiter

Q2    Who  found Pluto’s   moon   Jim Christy  from USA   in 1978

Q3   The minor planets  are called as ---------------- Asteroids

Q4    What is  the  full  form  of  INSAT  Indian National  Satellite

Q5  Name the  first  ever  robot spacecraft  to  probe  planet Venus  Magellan

Q6   When did the first liquid –fuel rocket fly  In 1926

Q7  Who  was the  first man  in space Yuri  Gagarin

Q8  Who  first  drove on the moon David  Scott and  James  Irwin   (They  drove  the battery  powered  buggy )

Q9  Who  first  set  foot  on  the  moon  Neil  Armstrong  in  1969

Q10 Which  was the  first  space  station The  first  manned  space  station was  Salyut  1  launched  in 1971

Q11   Which  was  the  first  satellite  in  space  Sputnik  1  was  the first  satellite  to orbit  the Earth

Q12   What  are  stars made  of  Stars are mostly  made of  two  gases   Hydrogen and  helium

Q13   who  made  the  first  telescope  Hans  Lippershey   made  the  first  telescope  in  1608

Q14  Who  said  the planets go  round the  Sun  ? Nicolaus  Copernicus

Q15  Who  made  the  first  radio  telescope Grote  Reber made  the  first  radio  telescope   in  1930

Q16  ------------  is  one  of the   basic  forces  in  the  universe  Gravity

Q17 ` When did Indian  space   research  begin 1961

Q18  What  is meant  by  ISRO  Indian  Space  Research  Organisation

Q19  Name   India’s  first  satellite  Aryabhatta

Q20  Neil  Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin launched in 1969  ib  which  part  of  the  moon   Sea  of  Tranquillity

Q21 Which  planet   is  known  as  the  red planet Mars

Q22 At what  speed  does  the  moon  circle  the earth? 3680 KM  per hour

Q23 Name the  planet  that  has  only  one  satellite  Earth

Q24  Which  planet  takes  almost  30  earth  years to  orbit  the  sun  Saturn

Q25  When  did  Luna -9  land  on  the  moon 1966

Q26   Name the  planet  which  has  the  largest  number  of  satellites  Jupiter

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