Previous year questionsமுந்தைய ஆண்டு வினாக்கள்
English — 898 previous-year questions — page 17 of 36ஆங்கிலம் — 898 முந்தைய ஆண்டு வினாக்கள் — page 17 of 36
English questions taken from the real TNPSC papers, each with its correct answer in Tamil and English.உண்மையான TNPSC வினாத்தாள்களிலிருந்து எடுக்கப்பட்ட வினாக்கள், ஒவ்வொன்றிலும் சரியான விடையுடன்.
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Select the correct prefix word for 'Violet' from the options given :
- ultra✓
- em
- super
- in
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Fill in the blank :
The Lesson, 'Gaia Tells her Tale' highlights the issue of ————.- Forest conservation✓
- Water pollution
- Cleanliness
- Industrialization
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Find out what kind of sentence is given below.
'If he is at home, I shall see him'.- Simple
- Compound
- Complex✓
- Imperative
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A child sitting under the Piano, in the boom of the tingling strings.
The figure of speech in the above underlined phrase is- Simile
- Metaphor
- Onomatopoeia✓
- Personification
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Select the correct plural form of the following
Index- induxes
- indices✓
- indexen
- index
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Find out the blended form of Breakfast + Lunch.
- Breaklunch
- Blunch
- Breakunch
- Brunch✓
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Which among the following words cannot be used as an adverb?
Well, early, daily, lonely- well
- lonely✓
- early
- daily
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Which among the given options is the correct one?
- Either Rhyan or his sisters have to be invited.✓
- Either Rhyan or his sisters has to be invited.
- Either Rhyan or his sisters was to be invited.
- Either Rhyan or his sisters is to be invited.
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Find out the synonym for the underlined word from the options given.
But he became nothing, a delightful, ineffectual young man with a perfect profile and no profession.- useful
- useless✓
- intelligent
- clever
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Match the following phrases given under column A with their meanings, under column B.
Column A(a) put on for 1. remove (b) look for 2. extinguish (c) take off 3. search (d) put out 4. wear Column B
- (a)-1 (b)-2 (c)-3 (d)-4
- (a)-3 (b)-2 (c)-1 (d)-4
- (a)-4 (b)-3 (c)-1 (d)-2✓
- (a)-4 (b)-2 (c)-3 (d)-1
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Choose the correct answer from the options given below :
"There was never mystery
But 'tis figured in the flowers;
Was never secret history
But birds tell it in the bowers".
These lines are taken from the poem- My Native Land
- To India
- The Apology✓
- Laugh and be Merry
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Identify the degree of comparison used in the given sentence.
Padma is the most intelligent of all girls.- comparative degree
- superlative degree✓
- positive degree
- none of these
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Choose the correct plural :
The nucleus of atoms consist of protons and neutrons.- Nucleusos
- Nuclei✓
- Nucleous
- None of these
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In 'The Merchant of Venice' Portia disguises herself as a ————
- judge
- money lender
- doctor of law✓
- clerk
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Match the following :
(a) Petrol 1. Elevator (b) Lorry 2. Apartment (c) Flat 3. Gasoline (d) Lift 4. Truck - (a)-3 (b)-4 (c)-1 (d)-2
- (a)-1 (b)-2 (c)-3 (d)-4
- (a)-4 (b)-1 (c)-2 (d)-3
- (a)-3 (b)-4 (c)-2 (d)-1✓
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In Julius Caesar, Antony speaks the following line :
"This was the most unkindest cut of all".
The 'cut' in the above line refers to the stab of- Casca
- Cassius
- Brutus✓
- Pompey
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The poet, Khalil Gibran was born in —. Fill in the blank by choosing the right option given below.
- Greece
- Lebanon✓
- Syria
- Egypt
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Pick out the correct words from the options given below :
He gave me —————— notes.- a ten five rupee
- ten five rupees
- a ten five rupee's
- ten five rupee✓
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Match the following Phrasal verbs given under Column A with their meanings under Column B :
(a) pick on 1. to select (b) pick up 2. to criticize (c) pick over 3. to check carefully (d) pick out 4. to improve - (a)-1 (b)-2 (c)-3 (d)-4
- (a)-4 (b)-2 (c)-1 (d)-3
- (a)-2 (b)-4 (c)-3 (d)-1✓
- (a)-3 (b)-1 (c)-2 (d)-4
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In whose poem the following lines occur :
"No Nightingale did ever Chaunt
More welcome notes to Weary bands".- Robert Frost
- John Keats
- William Wordsworth✓
- Robert Bridges
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The African National Congress (ANC) was founded in 1912 to oppose
- Discrimination
- Suppression
- Violation of human rights
- All the above✓
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'Romance at short notice was her speciality'.
Whose speciality is romance?- Mrs. Sappleton
- Vera✓
- Masha
- Johnsy
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In which of the following state is Ottan Koothu performed?
- Tamil Nadu✓
- Andhra Pradesh
- Kerala
- Karnataka
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Choose the sentence which has no error.
- I place great confidence on you
- I place great confidence in you✓
- I place great confidence of you
- I place great confidence with you
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"And one day, my naughty computer actually gobbled a worm,
And behaved so erratically that it made me squirm".
The poet was made to squirm because of the ———— behaviour of the computer.- absent-minded
- dreadful
- erratic✓
- hasty
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