CTET Paper Level 2 Set VIII Model Paper in English
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SET – VIII
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Direction-Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow by selecting the most appropriate option.
Passage
The past decade has upset many preconceptions above development and this, more than anything else, makes it difficult to be overly definite about what the next decade has in store. But there are a few thrifts that one can assert with some confidence. First, education, health and productive employment, are crucial both for growth and for equity. We have tended to assume that all of these are the consequences of rapid economic growth and that only growth can generate the resources required for these purposes. But, increasingly, it appears that these are better seen as the causes rather than as consequences of development. Virtually every case of successful development involves a prior improvement in literacy, technical skills, health status and access to productive work.
Second, technological competence is the most important resource endowment and it explains a far larger proportion of growth in output and trade than more conventional factors like natural resources or capital accumulation. The competence required is not just in research. In fact tech-nological dynamism in the factory and the farm is more important than the presence of large research establishment.
Third, the environmental imperative can no longer be ignored. Today as an international issue, it is second only to disarmament. Nationally, the developmental consequences of environmental neglect are increasingly obvious.
In the Indian context there are at least two further factors which reinforce the above propositions. The first is population growth. Given the pace of expansion of the population and the work force, human resource development acquires an added urgency. Population growth is also one, but not necesssarily the most important factor, which underlines environmental stress in rural and urban areas. The second factor is that as a large country we cannot carve out an independent position in the global system without building up a substantial capacity for self-reliant growth. The acquisition of technical competence is cru this purpose.
Until now we have tended to treat human resource development, technology issue and environment as subsidiary to the main task of planning. The thrust has been on : Quantitative expansion of infrastructure and production with a focus on production targets like tonnes of steel, of electricity etc., capacity targets like road length, rail kilo-meterage; and coverage targets like number of schools and students, number of villages electrified etcetra, catching up with known technologies— Fuller use of natural resources Maximum mobilisation of financial resources.
1 What seems to be the purpose of the author in writing this passage ?
(a) To appreciate the steps taken by our Government in the past and doubts about future
(b) To show how the policy makers have failed
(c) A review of world affairs with special emphasis on developed countries
(d) Review of the past with a view to evolve positive directions for future
2. According to the passage, we have so far placed more emphasis on which of the following?
(a) Optimum use of available natural resources
(b) Increased number of basic facilities and meeting number targets
(c) Maximum utilisation of available finances
(d) Following known technologies
3. According to the author, which of the following factors support and strengthen his point of view ?
(a) Necessity for carrying out growth on the basis of our own strength
(b) Increased emphasis on production and coverage targets
(a) Only A
(b) Only B
(c) Either A or B
(d) Both A and B
4. According to the author, which of the following is a less important factor resulting in environmental Stress in rural and urban areas?
(a) Increase in capital accumulation
(b) Rapid economic growth
(c) Rate of growth of population
(d) Availability of productive employment
5. According to the author, at the national level, with passage of time, the effects of which of the following are being felt?
(a) Expansion of work force of high quality
(b) Lack of attention and action for protecting environmental wealth
(c) Reduction in growth rate of population
(d) Progressive degradation of technological competence in urban areas
6. Which of the following statements is not true in the context of the passage?
(a) Optimum self reliance is the need of the day
(b) We will have bright future by only catching up known technologies
(c) We have to now emphasise aspects of human resource development
(d) Technological competence has to be given due priority over more conventional factors
7. According to the author, which of the following cannot be viewed as cause of development?
(a) Betterment in health services
(b) Increase in underemployment
(c) Speedy economic growth
(d) Enhancement in technical skills
8. What seems to be the approach of the author regarding present status of research?
(A) He desires that more research establishments should come up
(B) Application of new technologies in factories and field is more vital than setting up of research laboratories
(a) Only A
(b) Only B
(c) Neither A nor B
(d) Both A and B
9. PURPOSE:
(a) effect
(b) ability
(c) outcome
(d) reason
10. CARVE:
(a) drive
(b) cover
(c) forget
(d) acquire
Passage
Direction: Read the poem below carefully:
AUTUMN’S BEAUTY
The rain falls gently
Quenching the thirst of a landscape Parched
by the rays of the hot summer sun.
The song of the birds in now silenced.
The petals of a once brilliant flower have faded.
A bright, azure sky with soft white clouds is gorie,
Replaced by the gray dampness of the season.
The caressing breeze of summer Has turned
into the blustering winds of fall.
Leaves once proudly perched on the limbs of trees,
Now dance gaily through the air, Brightly coloured in the warm tones of autumn .
Children laughing merrily on their way As
they hear the crackling sound of leaves beneath their feet.
A jack-o-lantern sits in the window, Showing a wide, toothless grin or scowling frown.
The snapping of pitch from a burning los,
The faint scent of pine filling the room,
Flames leaping about as if it were a ballet
Performing for its audience.
The soft, comforting glow of candlelight.
Bringing with it serenity and quiet thoughts
I sit in amazement watching all that is around me.
Yes, there is a God.
Only He could have made the wonders I see before me.
I will accept the solitude and indifference of winter.
So I may anticipate and appreciate.
The re-birth of spring. Read the questions given below and
write the option you consider the most appropriate in your answer sheet:
11. The rain quenches the thirst of……
(a) People
(b) animals
(c) land and its surroundings
(d) birds.
12. A bright blue sky is gone because…
(a) the rainy season has set in
(b) of the gray dampness of the autumn
(c) of clouds
(d) of fog
13. The petals of a once brilliant flower have faded because of…..
(a) extreme heat of the summer
(b) cold
(c) autumn
(d) spring
14. ‘Only He could have made the wonders….. here means..
(a) the poet
(b) a jack
(c) a child
(d) God.
15. scowling frown’ in the poem means…..
(a) a happy face
(b) an ugly
(c) a feelingless face
(d) looking in an angry or annoyed way.
16. Teaching of translation can be used as
(a) Amethod
(a) A skill
(c) Both a and b
(d) None
17. Translation as a method lost its significance with the advent of
(a) Direct Method
(b) Situational Method
(c) Structural Approach
(d) All of these
18. Translation from English to mother tongue and vice-versa is called
(a) Word translation
(b) Sentence translation
(c) Retranslation
(d) Oral translation
19. Who said. “There is no better test of knowledge of English than translation from mother tongue to English?”
(a) Rybum
(b) Champion
(c) Findlay
(d) Thompson
20. Translation of foreign language is a job of
(a) An expert
(b) A student
(c) A teacher
(d) A writer
21. Oral composition does not help those students who are
(a) Good orators
(b) Shy nature
(c) Confident
(d) Creative
22. Teaching of composition is based on the principle of
(a) Selection
(b) Gradation
(c) Sequence
(d) AH of these
23. Oral composition helps in developing
(a) Self-confidence
(b) Correct pronunciation
(c) Spontaneity of speech
(d) All of these
24. Which of these is not a type of composition”?
(a) Oral
(b) Written
(c) Closed
(d) Guide
25. Objective of teaching composition is to enable the student
(a) To use vocabulary already learnt
(b) To make appropriate use of punctuation
(c) To express their ideas
(d) All of these
26. Composition develops the power of expression and communication through
(a) Reading
(b) Writing
(c) Understand
(d) All of these
27. At the later stage, Oral composition can be taught through
(a) Dramatization
(b) Conversation
(c) Dialogue
(d) All of these
28. Who said, “Guided composition is not a panacea for ail the problems of teaching composition to foreign student.”
(a) Alien and Campbell
(b) P. Gurrey
(c) Champion
(d) None of them
29. Written composition can be written in the form of
(a) Stories
(b) Articles
(c) Precis
(d) All of these
30. Which method is not use in guided composition?
(a) Reading
(b) Transcription
(c) Dictation .
(d) Substitution
