UP Junior Aided Teacher 2021 Paper I — English (Series A)

1. In which year Akbar ended the Jiziya Tax for the first time ?

• (a) 1564
• (b) 1567
• (c) 1565
• (d) 1566

2. Who was elected as the President of Indian National Congress in 1938 ?

• (a) Abul Kalam Azad
• (b) Subhash Chandra Bose
• (c) J. B. Kriplani
• (d) Pattabhi Sitaramaiya

3. In which of the following years Surendra Nath Banerjee was removed from Civil Service ?

• (a) 1870
• (b) 1878
• (c) 1867
• (d) 1874

4. Brahmi script was deciphered by

• (a) S. R. Rao
• (b) Charles Masson
• (c) Alexander Cunningham
• (d) James Princep

5. Arrange the following dynasties in the chronological order by using the codes given below. I. Shung dynasty II. Haryank dynasty III. Nand dynasty IV. Maurya dynasty Codes :

• (a) II I III IV
• (b) II III IV I
• (c) I II III IV
• (d) III I II IV

6. As per census 2011, literacy rate in India is

• (a) 74.04%
• (b) 69.32%
• (c) 65.55%
• (d) 77.25%

7. How much allocation given for 'Mukhya Mantri Samagra Sampada Vikas Yojana' under the Budget – 2021-22 of Uttar Pradesh ?

• (a) 1,000 crores
• (b) 500 crores
• (c) 2,000 crores
• (d) 5,000 crores

8. Find the agent/agents of soil erosion among the following. A. Running water B. Ground water C. Sea waves

• (a) Only A
• (b) None of these
• (c) A and C
• (d) A, B and C

9. Biodiversity is A. Genetic variations B. All biological species present on earth C. Variations among biological communities D. Variations in ecosystems

• (a) Only B
• (b) All of these
• (c) Both B and C
• (d) A, B and C

10. Intensity of Noise Pollution is measured in

• (a) Centimeter
• (b) Decibel
• (c) Decimeter
• (d) Deciliter

11. Which of the following disease is caused by virus ?

• (a) Typhoid
• (b) Leukaemia
• (c) Filaria
• (d) Rabies

12. ECG is a graphical representation of the electrical activity of which organ ?

• (a) Heart
• (b) Liver
• (c) Kidney
• (d) Lungs

13. ¹²₆C and ¹⁴₆C ; ¹₁H and ³₁H ; ³⁵₁₇Cl and ³⁷₁₇Cl are examples of

• (a) Isotones
• (b) Isomers
• (c) Isotopes
• (d) Isobars

14. Which of the following acid is mainly present in tomato ?

• (a) Lactic acid
• (b) Tartaric acid
• (c) Acetic acid
• (d) Citric acid and Malic acid

15. In which year 21st United Nation Climate Change Summit was held in Paris ?

• (a) 2014
• (b) 2017
• (c) 2015
• (d) 2016

16. Which one of the following is not correctly matched ?

• (a) Ascorbic acid – Lemon
• (b) Formic acid – Milk
• (c) Maltose – Malt
• (d) Acetic acid – Curd

17. 'Sarthak' launched by the Ministry of Defense Government of India in August 2020 is related to which of the following ?

• (a) Smart bomb
• (b) Light combat aircraft
• (c) Rocket launcher
• (d) Offshore patrol ship

18. Which one of the following became first 100% organic Union Territory of India ?

• (a) Lakshadweep
• (b) None of these
• (c) Puducherry
• (d) Andaman and Nicobar Islands

19. Arrange the following events in a chronological order and select the correct answer from the codes given below. I. Appointment of Simon Commission II. Jallianwala Bagh Massacre III. Mahatma Gandhi's Dandi March IV. Death of Ferozshah Mehta Codes :

• (a) IV, II, I, III
• (b) IV, III, II, I
• (c) I, II, IV, III
• (d) II, III, IV, I

20. Who among the following leaders founded the revolutionary organization – 'Abhinav Bharat Society' ?

• (a) Bhagat Singh
• (b) Putin Bihari
• (c) Vinayak Damodar Savarkar
• (d) Barindra Kumar Ghosh

21. What was the percentage of India's population to the World Population in 2011 ?

• (a) 17.0
• (b) 16.5
• (c) 18.0
• (d) 17.5

22. The Kumaun Himalaya is situated between rivers

• (a) Kali and Tista
• (b) Tista and Brahmaputra
• (c) Indus and Satluj
• (d) Satluj and Kali

23. Green Revolution is related with

• (a) Production of cereal crop
• (b) Production of meat
• (c) Production of milk
• (d) Production of cotton

24. Which Coast of India frequently affected by cyclone ?

• (a) Gujarat
• (b) West Bengal
• (c) Kerala
• (d) Odisha

25. Which of the following is largest rail zone of India ?

• (a) North-Eastern Railway Zone
• (b) North-Central Railway Zone
• (c) Northern Railway Zone
• (d) Central Railway Zone

26. F : 216 : : L : ?

• (a) 1700
• (b) 1728
• (c) 1600
• (d) 1723

27. In the coding language, if GANGA is described by 711471, then the code of SARJU is

• (a) 191181021
• (b) 198111021
• (c) 174117
• (d) 911810112

28. A man walks 8 km towards West, then walks 6 km towards North. How far he is from the starting point ?

• (a) 12 km
• (b) 20 km
• (c) 10 km
• (d) 14 km

29. What will be the angle between two needles (hour and minute) at 2 hour 30 minutes ?

• (a) 120°
• (b) 95°
• (c) 105°
• (d) 170°

30. Find analogy. Prayagraj : Ganga : : Ayodhya : ?

• (a) Gomati
• (b) Saraswati
• (c) Yamuna
• (d) Saryu

31. The soil which transport along with water is called

• (a) Alluvial
• (b) Muck
• (c) Colluvial
• (d) Peat

32. Sequence of species related to each other as prey and predator is termed as

• (a) Food chain
• (b) Animal cycle
• (c) Niche
• (d) Eutrophication

33. Animals living at the bottom of the sea are called

• (a) Lentic
• (b) Pelagic
• (c) Lotic
• (d) Benthic

34. The power of a power house is 200 Megawatt. The electrical energy produced by this power house per day will be

• (a) 200 Megawatt hour
• (b) 4800 Joule
• (c) 4800 Megawatt hour
• (d) 4800 Megawatt

35. National Science Day is celebrated on

• (a) 28th January
• (b) 28th April
• (c) 28th February
• (d) 28th March

36. The target of the mission 'Jal-Jeevan' – 'A tap in every home' started by Indian Central Government has been firstly achieved by which State ?

• (a) Goa
• (b) Madhya Pradesh
• (c) Sikkim
• (d) Gujarat

37. "Thai Poosam", a religious festival celebrated in which Indian State ?

• (a) Andhra Pradesh
• (b) Karnataka
• (c) Odisha
• (d) Tamil Nadu

38. Which State launched 'Kisan Kalyan Mission' to promote the income of farmers ?

• (a) Uttar Pradesh
• (b) Jharkhand
• (c) Bihar
• (d) Gujarat

39. Booker Award for the year 2020 has been given for which book ?

• (a) Shuggie-Bàin
• (b) Voices of Dissent
• (c) The Republic Ethic
• (d) My Years with Rajiv : Triumph and Tragedy

40. Recently on which river the Shahtoot dam will be built with the consent of India and Afghanistan ?

• (a) Arghandab river
• (b) Peck river
• (c) Maidan river
• (d) Kunar river

41. When was Goods and Service Tax (GST) implemented in India ?

• (a) 1 January 2017
• (b) 1 July 2017
• (c) 1 April 2017
• (d) 1 July 2016

42. Puducherry comes under the jurisdiction of which High Court ?

• (a) Kerala
• (b) Calcutta
• (c) Madras
• (d) Karnataka

43. Which of the following was not the main feature of the Government of India Act, 1919 ?

• (a) Dyarchy in the provinces
• (b) Dyarchy at the centre
• (c) Relaxation of Central control over the provinces
• (d) The Indian Legislature was made more representative

44. Who created the Brihadeshwar Temple of Tanjore ?

• (a) Rajraj Pratham
• (b) Aditya Pratham
• (c) Rajendra Pratham
• (d) Rajadhiraj Pratham

45. "Atal Innovation Mission" is related with

• (a) Rural Development
• (b) Space Technology
• (c) Entrepreneurship Development
• (d) Information Technology

46. Which Indian State has the largest area under forest ?

• (a) Arunachal Pradesh
• (b) Maharashtra
• (c) Chhattisgarh
• (d) Madhya Pradesh

47. Which of the following river does not form the delta ?

• (a) Krishna
• (b) Narmada
• (c) Kaveri
• (d) Mahanadi

48. When Cabinet Mission came in India ?

• (a) February 1945
• (b) March 1945
• (c) January 1946
• (d) March 1946

49. The Vice-President in India is the Ex-officio Chairman of the

• (a) Lok Sabha
• (b) NITI Aayog
• (c) Finance Commission
• (d) Rajya Sabha

50. How many subjects are there in 11th Schedule of the Indian Constitution ?

• (a) 27
• (b) 20
• (c) 25
• (d) 29

51. The character of Sir John Falstaff appears in

• (a) Hamlet
• (b) Henry IV, Part 1
• (c) A Mid-Summer Night's Dream
• (d) Othello

52. The following lines are an extract from which poem ? "Fade far away, dissolve, and quite forget What thou among the leaves last never known, The weariness, the fever, and the fret"

• (a) "Ode on a Grecian Urn"
• (b) "Ode to Psyche"
• (c) "Ode to a Nightingale"
• (d) "Ode to Autumn"

53. Shelley's 'Adonais' is a threnody mourning the death of

• (a) Harriet Shelley
• (b) William Wordsworth
• (c) John Keats
• (d) Robert Burns

54. Who is the hero in Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge ?

• (a) Farfrae
• (b) Solomon Longways
• (c) Henchard
• (d) Joshua

55. Thomas Hardy was a novelist of

• (a) Elizabethan Age
• (b) Victorian Age
• (c) Neo-classical Age
• (d) Romantic Age

56. Fill in the blank with suitable preposition : 'The river flows ________ the bridge.'

• (a) across
• (b) upon
• (c) over
• (d) under

57. Supply the correct alternative in the blank : 'I ________ English for five years.'

• (a) study
• (b) have been studying
• (c) am studying
• (d) will study

58. Supply the correct alternative in the blank : 'I ________ a lot of work today.'

• (a) did
• (b) didn't do
• (c) had done
• (d) have done

59. Convert the following sentence into active voice : 'A ticket will be given to you by the manager.'

• (a) The manager will give a ticket.
• (b) The manager should give you a ticket.
• (c) The manager will give you a ticket.
• (d) The manager will have to give you a ticket.

60. Change the following sentence into passive voice : 'The peon opened the gate.'

• (a) The gate was opened by someone.
• (b) The gate has been opened by the peon.
• (c) The gate is opened by the peon.
• (d) The gate was opened by the peon.

61. What part of speech is the word "and" in the following sentence ? 'Harrison marched him to the door, threw him out and returned.'

• (a) Noun
• (b) Conjunction
• (c) Pronoun
• (d) Adverb

62. The word 'new' in the phrase "a new idea" is

• (a) a verb
• (b) a conjunction
• (c) an adjective
• (d) a noun

63. Which of the following is not in reported speech ?

• (a) He answered that the price would be three pounds.
• (b) "How's it all going ?" Derek asked.
• (c) He never told me Sir, Watson complained.
• (d) I suggested that it was time to leave.

64. Which of the following is in direct speech ?

• (a) He mentioned that he had a brother living in London.
• (b) He promised to give me the money.
• (c) He asked if you would be able to call and see him.
• (d) "I don't know much about music," Judy said.

65. Which of the following is not in the past tense ?

• (a) Honesty is the best policy.
• (b) We visited New Delhi last week.
• (c) She won the Pulitzer Prize in 1988.
• (d) Once this town was a beauty spot.

66. When was The Waste Land published ?

• (a) 1920
• (b) 1930
• (c) 1922
• (d) 1925

67. Who among the following is called "a belated romantic" ?

• (a) A. E. Housman
• (b) W. B. Yeats
• (c) Thomas Hardy
• (d) Robert Owen

68. According to the poem, we are out of tune with

• (a) Our Custom
• (b) Our ideologies
• (c) Nature
• (d) Materialistic world

69. Where are we laying waste our powers ?

• (a) In having harmony with nature
• (b) In watching the beauty of nature
• (c) In enjoying our life with our emotions
• (d) In pursuit of the materialistic world

70. In the poem, the poet desires that we should

• (a) Enjoy this world of getting and spending
• (b) Love the materialistic world
• (c) Enjoy this world of nature and her beauty
• (d) Dislike nature

71. According to the poet, what is a 'sordid boon' ?

• (a) Our mind
• (b) Our modern approach to the world that is too much with us
• (c) Our hearts
• (d) Our pleasures in getting and spending

72. Eliot dedicated The Waste Land to

• (a) James Joyce
• (b) John Milton
• (c) John Donne
• (d) Ezra Pound

73. Matthew Arnold's "Sohrab and Rustam" is taken from a story of

• (a) Arabian Nights
• (b) Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
• (c) Akbar Namah
• (d) Shah Namah

74. In the well known poem "To His Coy Mistress", the word 'Coy' means

• (a) shy
• (b) sensuous
• (c) timid
• (d) voluptuous

75. How many pilgrims are there in The Prologue to the Canterbury Tales including the poet himself ?

• (a) Twenty-eight
• (b) Thirty-seven
• (c) Twenty-nine
• (d) Thirty

76. The Book of the Duchess was written by Chaucer in 1369 to bring solace to

• (a) John of Gaunt
• (b) John Gower
• (c) Edward II
• (d) Edward III

77. Who called Shakespeare an 'upstart crow' in his book titled A Groats-Worth of Wit ?

• (a) John Lyly
• (b) Robert Greene
• (c) Charles Lamb
• (d) Dryden

78. Which kind of comedy was Ben Jonson associated with ?

• (a) Comedy of Humours
• (b) Satire
• (c) Comedy of Manners
• (d) Farce

79. Lycidas (1637) is an elegy on the death of

• (a) Milton
• (b) Sir John Mandeville
• (c) Charles Dickens
• (d) Edward King

80. Which of the following poems Dryden wrote to welcome the return of Charles II ?

• (a) "Absalom and Achitophel"
• (b) "The Hind and the Panther"
• (c) "Astraea Redux"
• (d) "Annus Mirabilis"

81. Areopagitica (1644), a noble and impassioned plea for the liberty of the press is a book by

• (a) Milton
• (b) I. A. Richards
• (c) Keats
• (d) S. T. Coleridge

82. What has given birth to many new problems in the modern world ?

• (a) The invention of ships
• (b) The invention of the steam engine and the petrol engine
• (c) The invention of trains
• (d) The invention of steam boats

83. What has become the greatest feature of the modern industrial world ?

• (a) Speed of typing
• (b) Speed of walking
• (c) Speed of computer handling
• (d) Speed of transport

84. What does the rapid transport save ?

• (a) It saves money
• (b) It saves exertion
• (c) It saves energy
• (d) It saves time

85. Who are busy in increasing the speeds of cars, ships and aeroplanes ?

• (a) Civil engineers and scientists
• (b) Shapers and designers
• (c) Designers and mechanics
• (d) Technocrats and mechanics

86. In the course of centuries, English has built up an unusual capacity for

• (a) Assimilating outside elements
• (b) Making Greek its chief influence
• (c) Remaining unchangeable
• (d) Delinking itself entirely from Old English

87. The tribes that gave to England "Old English" were

• (a) Germanic invaders
• (b) Chinese travellers
• (c) Arabic intruders
• (d) Spanish settlers

88. Use the correct reflexive pronoun in the blank : 'They hurt ________ in the playground.'

• (a) himself
• (b) none of these
• (c) themselves
• (d) herself

89. How many kinds of Noun are used in English Grammar ?

• (a) Two
• (b) Five
• (c) Three
• (d) Four

90. How many Sections/Parts are there in E. M. Forster's A Passage to India ?

• (a) Two
• (b) Five
• (c) Three
• (d) Four

91. Who wrote the lines ? Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, But to be young was very heaven !

• (a) Coleridge
• (b) Shelley
• (c) Wordsworth
• (d) Keats

92. Coleridge's "Rime of the Ancient Mariner" was included in

• (a) "The Prelude"
• (b) "Gentleman's Magazine"
• (c) "Lyrical Ballads"
• (d) "The Morning Chronicle"

93. Which of the following Pope's major poems was the only one of the series that was completed ?

• (a) "An Essay on Man"
• (b) "The Dunciad"
• (c) "The Rape of the Lock"
• (d) "An Essay on Criticism"

94. The Restoration is said to begin with the arrival of a particular monarch to the throne of England. Who was that monarch ?

• (a) Henry VIII
• (b) Charles II
• (c) James I
• (d) Charles I

95. In which literary work do we come across a palace fire in Lilliput ?

• (a) Robinson Crusoe
• (b) Gulliver's Travels
• (c) Moll Flanders
• (d) Battle of the Books

96. Insert the correct article in the sentence below : 'There's a woman from the bank on ________ phone.'

• (a) an
• (b) none of these
• (c) the
• (d) a

97. Which sentence is most likely to follow the sentence ? 'Don't wait for me.'

• (a) I might have been a few minutes late.
• (b) I might be a few minutes late.
• (c) I may have been a few minutes late.
• (d) I might been a few minutes late.

98. Fill in the blank with the correct option : 'Are you likely ________ visiting Greece again this summer ?'

• (a) to been
• (b) to
• (c) for
• (d) to be

99. Which of the following sentences is correct ?

• (a) Banks lend money to make a profit.
• (b) Bank lended money to make a profit.
• (c) Banks lends money to make a profit.
• (d) Bank lend money to make a profit.

100. Which of the following sentences is correct ?

• (a) The police is talking to a number of people.
• (b) The police talking to a number of people.
• (c) The police are talking to a number of people.
• (d) The police won't talking to a number of people.

101. The first original dramatic work by a woman is

• (a) The Comedy of Errors
• (b) The Unfortunate Traveller
• (c) The Tragedy of Mariam
• (d) The Faerie Queene

102. Shakespeare's friend and patron was

• (a) Henry Wriothesly, the Earl of Southampton
• (b) Isaac Oliver
• (c) Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex
• (d) Mary Sidney

103. Which of the following is the only work of a sustained use of alliterative poetry by Chaucer ?

• (a) Parson's Tale
• (b) Troilus and Criseyde
• (c) The Franklin's Tale
• (d) Sir Thopas

104. English has an unusually large vocabulary because

• (a) it is an excessively wordy language
• (b) it has no inflections
• (c) its sentence structures are large
• (d) it has been exposed to many languages

105. The language of the Celts in Gaul who were conquered by Caesar is known as

• (a) Germanic
• (b) Manx
• (c) Gallic
• (d) Cornish

106. The Shepheardes Calender is a series of ________ eclogues, one for each month of the year.

• (a) six
• (b) twelve
• (c) seven
• (d) ten

107. What is Spenser's eighty-eight Petrarchan Sonnet series called ?

• (a) The Faerie Queene
• (b) Mother Hubbard's Tale
• (c) Epithalamion
• (d) Amoretti

108. Who wrote the two long narrative poems titled "Venus and Adonis" and "The Rape of Lucrece" ?

• (a) Shakespeare
• (b) W. H. Auden
• (c) Wordsworth
• (d) T. S. Eliot

109. Everyman is the title of a

• (a) Morality play
• (b) Problem play
• (c) Miracle play
• (d) Mystery play

110. Euphues was written by John Lyly in 1579. What was the subtitle of Euphues ?

• (a) Novum Organum
• (b) The Masque of Beauty
• (c) Prodromi
• (d) The Anatomy of Wit

111. Paradise Lost is written in

• (a) Iambic Pentameter
• (b) Blank verse
• (c) Heroic Couplet
• (d) Terza rima

112. Novum Organum (1620) was written by

• (a) Francis Bacon
• (b) Chaucer
• (c) George Peele
• (d) Edmund Spencer

113. The poems "An Evening Walk" and "Descriptive Sketches" are composed by

• (a) Wordsworth
• (b) W. B. Yeats
• (c) Keats
• (d) Tennyson

114. Which of the following poems of Coleridge is an unfinished fragment ?

• (a) "Frost at Midnight"
• (b) "Kubla Khan"
• (c) "France : An Ode"
• (d) "Remorse"

115. The Witch of Atlas was written by

• (a) Shakespeare
• (b) Sidney
• (c) Shelley
• (d) Pope

116. Wessex novels are associated with

• (a) Charles Dickens
• (b) Jane Austen
• (c) George Eliot
• (d) Thomas Hardy

117. 'Rosie' is a character in the novel

• (a) Untouchable
• (b) The Guide
• (c) Kanthapura
• (d) Swami and Friends

118. "The four wheels of English novel" comprises Samuel Richardson, Henry Fielding, Tobias Smollett and ________

• (a) Laurence Sterne
• (b) Charles Dickens
• (c) Daniel Defoe
• (d) Robert Louis Stevenson

119. The term 'Picaresque' in literature means

• (a) Adventure of a person
• (b) Picturesque
• (c) Novelist
• (d) Pick up

120. The poetic form "Mock-epic" is associated with

• (a) Dr. Samuel Johnson
• (b) Alexander Pope
• (c) Matthew Arnold
• (d) A. L. Tennyson

121. Who among the following dramatists was a writer of 'Problem Plays' ?

• (a) William Shakespeare
• (b) George Bernard Shaw
• (c) John Lyly
• (d) Christopher Marlowe

122. An 'elegy' is a poem of

• (a) Celebration
• (b) Mourning
• (c) Adventures
• (d) Rejoicing

123. The first twenty-four lines of 'Paradise Lost' is called

• (a) Avocation
• (b) Allocation
• (c) Invocation
• (d) Convocation

124. Which of the following sentences is correct ?

• (a) Sun rises in the East and sets in West.
• (b) The Sun rises in the East and sets in the West.
• (c) The Sun rise in the East and sets in West.
• (d) Sun rises in the East and sets in the West.

125. Which of the following sentences has an adjective clause ?

• (a) He met a girl with blue eyes.
• (b) He met a girl and found her eyes blue.
• (c) He met a girl who had blue eyes.
• (d) He met a girl whose eyes were blue.

126. Correct the following sentence : 'The whole India knows me.'

• (a) The whole of India knows me.
• (b) My India knows me.
• (c) Whole of country knows me.
• (d) The India knows me.

127. Choose the correct prefix to 'adventure'.

• (a) mis-
• (b) pre-
• (c) mal-
• (d) dis-

128. Turn the following simple sentence into a complex one : 'I knew a man. He believed in God.'

• (a) I knew a man which believed in God.
• (b) I knew a man with godly instincts.
• (c) I knew a man of belief.
• (d) I knew a man who believed in God.

129. Give the synonym of the verb 'desert'.

• (a) possess
• (b) support
• (c) own
• (d) leave

130. Supply the correct preposition in the blank : 'I have eaten nothing ________ yesterday.'

• (a) till
• (b) to
• (c) since
• (d) for

131. "Let us go then, you and I, When the evening is spread out against the sky Like a patient etherized upon a table..." The above lines are an excerpt from

• (a) "The Darkling Thrush"
• (b) "Prospice"
• (c) "Pied Beauty"
• (d) "The Love-song of J. Alfred Prufrock"

132. Aldous Huxley borrowed the title Brave New World for one of his novels from

• (a) The Tempest
• (b) Twelfth Night
• (c) Antony and Cleopatra
• (d) Much Ado About Nothing

133. Who among the following is credited with the publication of The English Dictionary ?

• (a) Ben Jonson
• (b) Thomas More
• (c) Dr. Samuel Jonson
• (d) Caxton

134. 'Conceit' is generally considered to be the trait of

• (a) Romantic poets
• (b) Expressionist poets
• (c) War poets
• (d) Metaphysical poets

135. "The Comedy of Manners" is commonly associated with

• (a) Elizabethan Age
• (b) Restoration Age
• (c) Caroline Age
• (d) Jacobian Age

136. Choose the masculine gender from the options given below :

• (a) Peahen
• (b) Czar
• (c) Signora
• (d) Czarina

137. The antonym of 'Tedious' is

• (a) Serious
• (b) Cool
• (c) Easy
• (d) Comfortable

138. State what is the underlined word in the given sentence : 'This is the boy whose mother has died.'

• (a) Noun clause
• (b) Conjunction clause
• (c) Adverb clause
• (d) Adjective clause

139. Give one word for the group of words : 'Nations engaged in war.'

• (a) Blasphemy
• (b) Belligerents
• (c) Bane
• (d) Frenzy

140. Choose the correct option from the following : 'Though he is poor, but he is honest.'

• (a) He is poor, yet he is honest.
• (b) He is poor and honest.
• (c) He is honest but poor.
• (d) Though he is poor, yet he is honest.

141. Which of the following is not in the simple present tense ?

• (a) Hydrogen is the lightest element.
• (b) Basmati rice has a sweet flavour.
• (c) I used to go for a swim everyday.
• (d) Two and three make five.

142. Which of the following is not a verb ?

• (a) convey
• (b) purpose
• (c) regard
• (d) reject

143. Which of the following is not a noun ?

• (a) wisdom
• (b) catchy
• (c) project
• (d) caution

144. The subject that G. B. Shaw tackled in Mrs. Warren's Profession was

• (a) justice
• (b) flaws in education
• (c) love's true nature
• (d) prostitution

145. The French Revolution continued to resurface in later literary works such as

• (a) Tess of the D'Ubervilles
• (b) A Tale of Two Cities
• (c) Silas Marner
• (d) Vanity Fair

146. Supply the correct articles in the blanks : '________ lion is ________ strong beast.'

• (a) A, the
• (b) An, a
• (c) The, the
• (d) The, a

147. Use the suitable article in the following sentence : 'Copper is ________ useful metal.'

• (a) a
• (b) none of these
• (c) an
• (d) the

148. Fill in the blank with the correct option : 'She returned to the house where she ________.'

• (a) had be staying with friends
• (b) had been stay with friends
• (c) had been staying with friends
• (d) had been stayed with friends

149. Complete the sentence by filling the blank : 'I saw him first ________ after midnight.'

• (a) a few
• (b) the few
• (c) a little
• (d) the little

150. Fill in the blank with the correct option in the sentence : '________ had actually seen Jones fire the gun.'

• (a) None of the witnesses
• (b) Nothing of the witness
• (c) None of the witness
• (d) Not of the witnesses