Ordnance Factory Board: Trade Apprentices Question Paper Group-7 (Afternoon Session)

Ordnance Factory Board: Trade Apprentices Question Paper

Group-7(Afternoon Session)

ENGLISH
Questions : 35

Direction for questions 1 – 5 :
Choose the exact meaning of the underlined part of the sentence.
Questions :
1. Man has to encounter many hardships in life.
(A) solve (B) face (C) bear (D) overcome
2. As a speaker he was an utter failure.
(A) total (B) partial (C) completely (D) relative
3. Courtesy costs one nothing.
(A) Sociability (B) Civility (C) Urbanity (D) Modesty
4. Graduation day is momentous day for most students.
(A) memorable (B) melancholy (C) important (D) hectic
5. He is a good looking but insipid young man.
(A) arrogant (B) unscrupulous (C) sick (D) lacking in spirit

Direction for questions 6 – 10 :
Choose the best word or expression to complete the sentences.
Questions :
6. We don’t know what ________ him to commit his crime.
(A) excited (B) roused (C) prompted (D) attracted
7. He is like a body without a soul, an eye without light or a flower without ________.
(A) smell (B) fragrance (C) petal (D) colour
8. He is very ________ on meeting foreigners and befriending them.
(A) anxious (B) find (C) insistent (D) keen
9. Now it is difficult to carry ________ this business in the teeth of stiff competition.
(A) out (B) on (C) off (D) forward
10. Ravi had to drop his plan of going to picnic as he had certain ________ to meet during that period.
(A) preparations (B) observations (C) urgencies (D) commitments

Direction for questions 11 – 15 :
Choose the OPPOSITE meaning of the given word.
Questions :
11. Proud
(A) Bold (B) Vain (C) Humble (D) Braggart
12. Transparent
(A) Obvious (B) Distinct (C) Opaque (D) Consistent
13. Remote
(A) Inaccessible (B) Distant (C) Adjacent (D) Slight
14. Eliminate
(A) Exclude (B) Promote (C) Accept (D) Elevate
15. Fantasy
(A) Common (B) Fanciful (C) Imagination (D) Reality

Direction for questions 16 – 21 :
In each of the following questions various words are given, one of which is wrongly spelt.
Find out the WRONGLY SPELT word.
Questions :
16. (A) Transient (B) Valuable (C) Expirience (D) Polluted
17. (A) Abrasive (B) Alocate (C) Ample (D) Analogy
18. (A) Broch (B) Bleak (C) Bouquet (D) Baneful
19. (A) Shallo (B) Aversion (C) Hatred (D) Apathy
20. (A) Exonerate (B) Aggravate (C) Modarate (D) Mitigate
21. (A) Indolent (B) Obsolete (C) Stumble (D) Inteligent

Direction for questions 22 – 26 :
Below several disarranged words are given in each question. Arrange them in proper order so that it makes a sense and indicate the index (A or B or C or D) of the word you have chosen to put LAST.
Questions :
22. he in get the up morning
(A) (B) __ (C) (D)
23. ago met she me years
(A) (B) __ (C) (D)
24. computer this India of is make
(A) __ (B) (C) __ (D)
25. don’t his know I name
(A) (B) (C) __ (D)
26. so this for house small me is
(A) __ __ (B) (C) (D) __

Direction for questions 27 - 31 :
In each of the following questions some of the sentences are grammatically correct and some are incorrect. Find out which part of the sentence has an error and mark that part. If there is no error, mark ‘D’ as your answer.
Questions :
27. The conduct of many boys and girls / is not what / they should be.
(A) (B) (C)
28. The boys objected to / the allegedly illegal parking of trucks / belonged to the firm.
(A) (B) (C)
29. For decades / there have been / a debate on whether schizophrenia is a psychological
(A) (B) (C)
condition
30. There is sense of urgency / in locating alternative sources of water / to argument the
(A) (B) (C)
dwindling supply.
31. Neither the severe earthquake / or the subsequent famine / could demoralize the people of
(A) (B) (C)
the country.

Direction for questions 32 - 35 :
Read the following passage and answer the related questions.

PASSAGE

If I had been asked in my early youth whether I preferred to have dealings only with men or only with books, my answer would certainly have been in favour of books. In later years this has become less and less. Not that I have had so much better experiences with men than with books, on the contrary delightful books even now come my way more often than purely delightful
men. But the many bad experiences with men have nourished the meadow of my life as the noblest book could not do.