1.Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given
below
it.
A
long time ago, on a big tree in the lap of the mountain, lived a bird named Sindhuka.
It was a rather special bird because its droppings turned into gold as soon
as they hit the ground.One
day, a hunter came to the tree in search of prey and he saw Sindhuka's droppings
hit the ground and turn into gold. The hunter was struck with wonder. He though,
"I have been hunting birds and small animals since I was a boy, but in all
my 80 years, I have never seen such a miraculous creature. He decided that he
had to catch the bird somehow. He climbed the tree and skillfully set a
trap for the bird.The bird, quite unaware of the danger it was in, stayed on
the tree and sang merrily.But it was soon caught in the hunter's trap. The
hunter immediately seized it and shoved it into a cage.
The
hunter took the bird home joyfully. But as he had time to think over his good fortune
later, he suddenly realised, "If the king comes to know of this wonder, he
will certainly take away the bird from me and he might even punish me for keeping
such a rare treasure all to myself. So it would be safer and more honourable if
I were to go to the king and present the unique bird to him," The next
day, the hunter took the bird to the king and presented it to him in court with
great reverence. The king was delighted t o receive such an unusual and
rare gift. He told his courtiers to keep the bird safe and feed it with the
best bird food available. The king's prime minister though, was reluctant to
accept the bird. He said "O Rajah, how can you believe the word of a
foolish hunter accept this bird? Has anyone in our kingdom ever seen abird dropping
gold? The hunter must be either crazy or telling lies. I think it is best that
you release the bird from the cage." After a little thought, the
king felt that his prime minister's words were correct. So
he
ordered the bird to be released. But as soon as the door of the cage was thrown
open, the bird flew out, perched itself on a nearby doorway and defecated. To everyone's
surprise, the dropping immediately turned into gold. The king mourned his loss.
1.
Which of the following is possible the most appropriate title for the story?
a)
The Skilled Hunter
b)
The King’s Prime Minister
c)
The King’s Defeat
d)
The Bird with the Gold Dropping
e)
The Trials and Tribulations of the Foolish Bird Sindhuka
2.
Which of the following emotions made the hunter gift the bird to the king?
a)
Respect b) Joy c) Pride
d)
Fear e) Awe
3.
Which of the following is true according to the story?
a)
Birds like Sindhuka were very common in the area near the mountain
b)
Sindhuka remained caged for the rest of its life
c)
Sindhuka was unaware of the trap laid by the hunter
d)
The King, when told to not accept the bird, did not listen to his Prime Minister
e)
All are true
4.
Why was the king’s Prime Minister reluctant to accept the bird?
a)
He believed that the bird would die if caged
b)
He know about the hunter’s habit of lying
c)
He believed that the bird would bring bad luck to the king
d)
His sources had informed him that the hunter was crazy
e)
None of these
5.
How did the hunter find Sindhuka?
a)
He had read stories about the bird and had set traps at various locations in the
city
b)
He followed the bird’s droppings
c)
He was on the lookout for a prey when he chanced upon it
d)
People from the city had informed him about the bird’s whereabouts
e)
He was attracted by the birds calls
Directions
(Q. 6-8) Choose
the word which is most similar in meaning to the word/group of words printed in
bold as used in the passage.
6.
Rather
a)
Regular b) Quite c) Instead
d)
But e) Known
7.
Release
a)
Free b) Vacate c) Vent
d)
Let expire e) Make public
8.
Reverence
a)
Respect b) Detail c) Astonishment
d)
Hope e) Remembrance
Directions
(Q. 9-10) Choose
the word which is most opposite in meaning to the
word
printed in bold as used in the passage.
9.
Reluctant
a)
True b) Clever c) Averse
d)
Hesitant e) Keen
10.
Skilfully
a)
Angrily b) Haphazardly c) Highly
d)
Cheaply e) Deftly
2.Read the following
passage carefully and answer the questions given below it.
Once
a thief named Kalu had planned to loot the king's treasury. At midnight, he
went to the palace and began to drill a hole in the side wall of the treasury.
The king, who was awake in his bedroom just above the treasury, came out to investigate
the whirring sound. He was dressed in a simple nightgown and the thief could
not recognize him. He asked Kalu who he was and what he was doing. The latter
said, "Sir, I am a thief and intend to loot this treasury. I presume that
you are also a thief and have come with the same intentin. No matter, let us
both go inside and we shall share the loot equally. "Both entered the
treasury and divided all the money and the jewels equally between them.
Inside a locker they found three big diamond
pieces. As the thief was puzzled as to how to divide the three pieces into two
portions, the king siggested. "We have taken away everything else. Let us
leave one diamond piece for the poor king and share the rest equally".
Kalu agreed and when he took his leave, the king asked for his name and
address. As Kalu had taken a vow of telling only the truth, he have the correct
information.
The
king took away his share of the loot and hid it in his room. Next morning he
asked his Prime Minister to inspect the treasury as he had heard some strange sounds
during the previous night. The Prime Minister saw to his horror that all
the valuables were missing and only a single diamond was left, perhaps inadvertantly,
by the theif. He put the diamond in his oiwn shift pocket as its loss could be ascribed
to the thief and nobody would suspect the Prime Minister. The Prime Minister
went back to the king. The king particularly enquirerd. "Do you mean that the
theif has completely denuded the treasury of its valuables and not a
single item has been left?" The Prime Minister confirmed it. The king
asked the chief of police to bring in Kalu. When Kalu came he was unable to
recfognize the king as his accomplice of the previous night. The king
asked him, "Are you the theif who h as stolen everything from my treasury
leaving nothing back?" Kalu confirmed it but said, "Sir, I did leave
one diamond back in the locker as advised by an accomplice of mine and it
should st ill be there." The Prime Minister interrupted saying, "Your
Majesty, this thief is lying. There is nothing left in the locker." The
king asked the police chief to search the pockets of the Prime Minister, from
where the missing diamond was recovered. The kind told his courtiers,
"Here is a Prime Minister, who is a liar and a thief and here is a thief
who is at truthful gentleman."
11. The king came out in the middle of
the night in order to
a) Help kalu to break into the palace
treasury
b) Share the loot equally between Kalu
and himself
c) Find out the source of and reason
for the sound he had heard
d) Catch the thief who had come to
steal his valuables
e) None of these
12. Kalu could not recognize the king
because
a) The king was wearing clothes like
those of an ordinary person
b) The king’s clothes were covered by
a simple nightdown
c) Kalu had never seen the king before
d) Kalu had not seen the king
descending from his bedroom
e) None of these
13. Which of the following made the
king suspect the Prime Minister? The
Prime Minister’s statement that
a) Except for one piece of diamond all
other valuables were stolen
b) All the valuables without any
exception were stolen from the treasury
c) The thief was lying when he said he
had left one diamond back in the locker
d) The search for the diamond did not
yield any favourable result
e) None of these
14. Which of the following horified
the Prime Minister?
a) The valuables missing from the king’s
treasury
b) A piece of diamond left in the
locker
c) Certain strange sounds heard by the
Prime Minister
d) The fact that the king suspected
him of stealth
e) None of these
Directions (Q. 15-17)
Choose
the word which is most nearly the same in meaning
as the word given in bold as used in
the passage.
15. Accomplice
a) Co-traveller b) Collaborator c)
Controller
d) Coordinator e) Commuter
16. Ascribed
a) Attributed b) Donated c) Attached
d) Withdrew e) Connected
17. Denuded
a) Uncovered b) stripped c) Destroyed
d) Discarded e) Abandoned
Directions (Q. 18-19)
Choose
the word which is most opposite in meaning of the
word given in bold as used in the
passage.
18. Inadvertently
a) Knowingly b) Sensibly c)
Indifferently
d) Unwittingly e) Unscrupulously
19. Previous
a) New b) Preceding c) Novel
d)
Modern e) Subsequent
Answers:
1. Option D
2. Option D
3. Option C
4. Option E
5. Option C
6. Option B
7. Option A
8.
Option A
9. Option E
10. Option E
11. Option C
12. Option B
13. Option B
14. Option A
15. Option B
16. Option A
17. Option B
18. Option A
19.
Option E
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