MPTET Varg 1 English Mock Test - 1 - MPTET MCQ

सही उत्तर विद्या और ज्ञान मनुष्य की सबसे बड़ी संपत्ति है। है।
स्पष्टीकरण

• Learning and knowledge are the greatest assets of a man. इस वाक्य का हिंदी रूपांतरण है- विद्या और ज्ञान मनुष्य की सबसे बड़ी संपत्ति है।
• विकल्प 1 में Assets यानी की संपत्ति की बात नहीं की गयी है।
• विकल्प 2 में परस्पर गहरा संबंध अंग्रेजी वाक्य से पूर्णतः अलग है।
• विकल्प 3 में अपार शक्ति अंग्रेजी वाक्य से पूर्णतः अलग है।

दिए गये वाक्य में 'शब्द-अर्थ प्रयोग' की त्रुटि है। यहाँ 'प्रकृति हमें अभ्यन्तर' सार्थक शब्द नही है और इससे सही अर्थ प्रकट नही हो रहा।

• अत: सार्थक शब्द 'प्रकृति हमें निरंतर' होना चाहिए।
• सही वाक्य - प्रकृति हमें निरंतर परोपकार का संदेश देती है।

स्पष्टीकरण

• निरंतर - सदा, लगातार, बिना किसी अंतराल के।
• अभ्यन्तर - वस्तु का भीतरी भाग।

गलतीअंक

• यहाँ पर प्रकृति की बात की गयी है जो एक स्त्रीलिंग शब्द है।
• तथा क्रिया का प्रयोग इसी के अनुसार किया गया है।
• जबकि 'प्रकृति, अभ्यन्तर, परोपकार, संदेश' शब्द वर्तनी की दृष्टि शुद्ध है।
• अन्य कारक, वचन व सर्वनाम आदि का सही रुप में प्रयोग हुआ है।

अन्यसंबंधित बिंदु
शब्द-अर्थ प्रयोग की अशुद्धि:-

• कभी-कभी वाक्यों में सही शब्दों की जगह उनके ही सादृश लगने वाले शब्दों का प्रयोग अर्थ में परिवर्तन का कारण बन जाता है,
• जिसके कारण वाक्य का सही अर्थ ही बदल जाता है और यह वाक्य में शब्द-अर्थ प्रयोग की अशुद्धि कहलाती है।

उदाहरण -

• अशुद्ध रूप - राष्ट्रपति ने पुरस्कार भेंट किए।
• शुद्ध रूप - राष्ट्रपति ने पुरस्कार प्रदान किए।

हमेशा बहुवचन में प्रयुक्त होने वाला शब्द है: 'अमीर'।

• उदाहरण- वह अमीर है, वे अमीर हैं।
• दोनों में प्रयुक्त हो सकता है।

स्पष्टीकरण
अन्य विकल्प
सामग्री - एकवचन शब्द का वाक्य प्रयोग – हवन के लिए सामग्री कम पड़ेगी।
बहुवचन शब्द का वाक्य प्रयोग – पूजा के लिए सभी आवश्यक सामग्री आ गई है।
नारी - एकवचन शब्द का वाक्य प्रयोग – नारी की अवहेलना भगवान का अपमान है।
बहुवचन शब्द का वाक्य प्रयोग – आज की नारियाँ पुरुषों से किसी मामले में कम नही।
अन्यसंबंधित बिंदु

The correct answer is 'persistent'.
Explanation

• Relentless: Not stopping or changing.
  • ​E.g.- My elder brother is busy in the relentless fight against crime.
• Persistent: Determined to continue doing something even though people say that you are wrong or that you cannot do it.
  • ​​E.g.- He has been a persistent critic of the president.

Hence, the correct answer is 'Persistent'.
Other Related Points

• Lenient: Not as severe or strong in punishment or judgment as would be expected.
  • ​​​E.g.- They believe that judges are too lenient with terrorist suspects.
• Intermittent: Not happening regularly or continuously; stopping and starting repeatedly or with periods in between.
  • ​​​​E.g.- Although she made intermittent movie appearances, she was essentially a stage actress.
• Merciful: Someone who is merciful is willing to be kind to and forgive people who are in their power.
  • ​​​​​E.g.- "God is merciful," said the priest.

The correct answer is "let a song be sung by him"

Explanation

• The question was in active voice and we need to change it to passive voice.
• Active Voice means the subject of the sentence is the one doing the action expressed by the verb.
  • Example: My mom cooked biryani today.
• Passive voice, the subject is the person or thing acted on or affected by the verb's action.
  • Example: Biryani has been cooked by mom.

Additional Information

• Passive voice is utilized when the practitioner of the activity isn’t known and the focal point of the sentence is on the activity and not the subject.
• Rules of passive voice: The subject changes into the object.
  • Use the third form of the verb, such as is, am, are, was, were, be or being, according to the passive voice tenses.
  • Pronouns that were once active now become passive, such as "I" becomes "me."
  • Sentences in the present, past, future and future continuous forms do not use the passive voice.
  • In the passive voice, place "by" before the subject.

The correct answer is 'Unable to understand'.
Explanation

• Latin and Greek: It is an idiomatic phrase and it is use to say that you cannot understand what is being said or written or something meaningless and incomprehensible to you or something that you do not understand. 
  • Example: He tried to explain the rules of the game to me, but it was Latin and Greek to me.
• Thus, from above we can say that the correct answer is option 1.

The correct answer is "weak"
Explanation

• Weary refers to being exhausted, tired, or fatigued, both physically or mentally. It can also refer to being discouraged, skeptical or skeptical about something. 
  • Example: "The marathon runner felt weary after running for 26 miles."

Let's see the meanings of the given words

• Careless refers to being negligent or not paying attention to details, which often results in mistakes or accidents. It also means someone who is not taking responsibility or not being cautious. 
  • Example: The careless driver caused an accident by running a red light."
• Shivering refers to a physical reaction characterized by rapid, small, involuntary muscle contractions that results in a trembling of the body, usually as a response to cold or fear. 
  • Example: "The shivering child was wrapped in a blanket to keep warm."
• Troubled refers to being in a state of distress, anxiety, or difficulty. It can also refer to a person who is experiencing personal or emotional problems.
  • Example: "The troubled economy was causing widespread unemployment."
• Weak refers to something that is lacking in strength, power, or force, or something that is not substantial or effective. It can also refer to a person who is not physically or mentally strong.
  • Example: "The weak connection caused the internet to drop frequently."

According to the meanings of the given words, the correct answer is Option 4, i.e., weak.

1. Statement 1 is correct. Article 22 of the Indian Constitution indeed provides specific safeguards for individuals detained under preventive detention. One of these safeguards is that no person shall be detained beyond three months unless an Advisory Board recommends further detention.

2. Statement 2 is correct. The National Security Act (NSA) of 1980 is a central law that provides for preventive detention in matters concerning national security. This legislation empowers authorities to detain individuals who may pose a threat to the security of the state or public order.

3. Statement 3 is correct. The NITI Aayog report on Quantum Computing does emphasize the need for India to develop a robust domestic supply chain. This is crucial to reduce dependence on foreign suppliers for essential quantum technology components, enhancing national security and technological self-reliance.

All the statements are accurate based on the given text, hence the correct answer is Option D.

The correct answer is Iambic pentameter.
Explanation

• The rhythm and meters which are two essential elements in poetry.
• Meter contains syllables and the emphasis on the syllables. The group or combination of syllables is known as "foot".
• Iambic refers the foot which has an unstressed syllable and then a stressed syllable.
• Pentameter refers to the line having five feet.
• Therefore, Option 3 is the correct answer.

Other Related Points

• Anapest refers to the foot which has two unstressed syllables and then a stressed syllable.
• Anapest is often used while writing formal poetry.
• Trochee refers to the foot which has a stressed syllable, and then an unstressed syllable.

Correct answer: Option 4: uncorroborated
Explanation

• The word 'Corroborate' is a verb meaning "to support a statement, idea, etc. by providing new evidence"
  • Synonyms: ratify, endorse etc.
  • Past tense: Corroborated
  • Example: Radhika was able to corroborate the findings.
• Thus, the word with the appropriate prefix that forms the antonym of the word corroborated is 'uncorroborated'.
• Uncorroborated: not confirmed or supported by other evidence or information
• Hence, option 4 is the correct answer.

The correct word is: 'uncorroborated'

The correct answer is 'without few knowledge'. Explanation

• The erroneous Part 'without few knowledge' should be 'without any knowledge'.
• 'Few' is a quantifier used with plural countable nouns. Whereas, 'knowledge' is an uncountable noun.
• Therefore, the use of 'few' here is grammatically incorrect. To make the sentence correct 'any' should be used.

Thus the correct sentence is: All these boys have come to college without any knowledge of English.
Other Related Points

• In the given sentence 'without' is a negative word. It means 'not having or doing something, or lacking something'.
• We can use 'any' for countable and uncountable nouns in:
  • Interrogative sentences.
    • Examples:
      • Have you got any cheese? (cheese is uncountable)
      • Have you got any friends? (friends is countable)
  • ​​Negative sentences.
    • Examples:
      • He hasn't got any cheese.
      • He hasn't got any friends in Chicago.

The correct answer is Personification.Explanation

• Above line has been taken from 'The Raven'.
• Personification is a figure of speech that is used to attribute human characteristics to non living or animals.
• Here, in “Quoth the Raven “Nevermore” , personification has been used where the Raven is given the ability to speak.

Therefore, 'option 3' is the correct answer. Other Related Points

• "The Raven" is a narrative poem by American writer Edgar Allan Poe.
• It is centered around an unnamed narrator's journey into madness after realizing he will never forget his lost Lenore.

The correct answer is Metaphor.Explanation

• Metaphor is a comparison between two things that are otherwise unrelated.
• Above line has been taken from 'The Seven Ages of Man' by William Shakespeare.
• It opens with a metaphor in which the poet compares the world to a stage in a theatre.
• All the men and women are compared to actors playing roles on such a stage.
• The idea of comparing the world to a stage was not new when Shakespeare wrote it.

Hence, 'option 2' is the correct answer. Other Related Points

• One of the most well-known poems of William Shakespeare, a great English poet and playwright, describing the circle of human life.

The correct answer is "Feminism."

Explanation

• Feminism is the central theme that is depicted in Tagore's "Chitra," "NatirPuja," and "Chandalika."
• Bengali intellectual Rabindranath Tagore, who lived from 7 May 1861 to 7 August 1941, was a poet, writer, playwright, composer, philosopher, social reformer, and painter.
• Rabindranath Tagore dragged women of his time out of the kitchen and portrayed them with the sphere of freedom and non-conformity in the busy stream of life.

Therefore, option 3 is the correct answer.

Other Related Points

• Rabindranath Tagore's feminism opposes the traditional belief that women are the weaker sex.

The correct answer is "Margayya."

Explanation

• Margayya is the protagonist in "The Financial Expert," who starts out by lending little amounts of money to locals in Malgudi.
• He assists the bank's investors in borrowing money at a low interest rate.
• In the process, he makes a profit for himself.

Therefore, option 3 is the correct answer.

Other Related Points

• This book digs into some amount of psychological analysis of the protagonist, who is a man with numerous goals.

The current answer is "All of the above."

Explanation

• Poetry that uses satire to mock and condemn specific or generalized human behavior is known as satirical poetry.
• Satire is a technique for mocking and criticizing individual or societal conduct via humor and wit.
• Irony and sarcasm are two literary devices frequently used to produce a satirical effect.

Therefore, option 4 is the correct answer.

Other Related Points

• Satire, particularly satirical poetry, is seen as a potent genre in literature since it tries to bring about change by making a person, a society, an object, or a concept appear so absurd that their image is damaged.

Here, the correct answer is "told."

Explanation

• The subject "My mother" is singular, so it must need a singular verb with it.
• The option 2 and 4 are incorrect as "speak" and "tell" are plural verbs.
• The main difference between "told" and "said" is that "said" must be followed by a preposition "to."
• Another difference is the use of objects.
• 'Told' can only be used as a transitive verb and 'Said' can be used either way, but is most commonly used in the intransitive form.
• Example:
  • I told him that you hate him.
  • I said to him that you hate him.
• Hence, the correct answer is Option 1.
  

​​Correct sentence: My mother told me about her hometown.

The correct answer is 'themselves, they.'
Explanation

• A pronoun (I, me, he, she, herself, you, it, that, they, each, few, many, who, whoever, whose, someone, everybody, etc.) is a word that takes the place of a noun.
• Subject pronouns are those pronouns that perform the action in a sentence.
  • They are I, you, he, she, we, they, and who.​
• A reflexive pronoun is used to denote that an action is done and received by the same subject.
• "Themselves" is a reflexive pronoun, being a reflexive form of "they" and it is used after a plural noun.
• "Children" is a plural subject, so we need the reflexive pronoun "themselves" in the first blank.
• After "when" we need a subject pronoun "they" as it is performing the action.
• Therefore, the correct answer is Option 2.

​​Correct sentence: The children can take care of themselves when they are grown up enough.

The correct answer is Edible.

Explanation

• Let's look at the meaning of the marked option:
  • Edible- suitable for use as food
• Let's look at the meanings of the other given options:
  • Cuisine- the practice or manner of preparing food or the food so prepared
  • Indelible- cannot be removed or erased
  • Inedible- not suitable for food
• Hence, from the given meanings, we find that Edible is the correct one-word substitute.

The correct answer is "The author and his grandmother".

Explanation

• The line is taken from the story 'The Portrait of a Lady' by Kushwant Singh.
• The story unfolds the bond of friendship between the author and his grandmother.
• Author was left to live with his grandmother when he was young.
• He narrates every detail of the happy moments he spent with her, hearing her songs and her stories.
• However, this bond started to change when they were called to a new city house by his parents.
• Both author and grandmother started growing apart due to the author's busy life in a new school and city. He could hardly accompany her.
• In the new house she spent time feeding birds on the balcony.

Therefore, the correct answer is "option 3".

The correct answer is Bulgaria.Explanation

• The play takes place during the 1885 Serbo-Bulgarian War.
• Its heroine, Raina Petkoff, is a young Bulgarian woman engaged to Sergius Saranoff, one of the heroes of that war, whom she idolizes.
• George Bernard Shaw's three-act comedy, Arms and the Man follows Raina Petkoff as she learns the reality of the world around her.
• Set during the Serbo-Bulgarian War of 1885, Shaw's play takes a critical look at the romanticizing of love and war, the challenges of self-reflection, and the grey world of absolute truth.

Therefore, Option 2 is the correct answer.

Other Related Points

• Arms and the Man is a comedy by George Bernard Shaw.
• The play discusses how war is made, how it is fought, and how parties sue for peace at the close of it.
• Indeed, the play's title is a direct quote from Virgil's Aeneid, the Roman epic that glorifies war.
• Shaw used this quote ironically, drawing attention to how war should not be seen as romantic.

The correct answer is Alice and John.Explanation

• Alice and John are children of James Elia.
• Elia's children gather around him to hear stories about their great-grandmother Field, who lived in a mansion that she cared for on behalf of a rich family who lived in a different mansion.
• "Dream Children" is a formally unique essay, channelling the logic and flow of a dream in a series of long sentences of strung-together phrases and no paragraph breaks to be found.
• Lamb deftly uses these stylistic conceits to pull the reader into a reverie, creating a sense of tumbling through this dream world with its series of dovetailing tangents.

Therefore, Option 1 is the correct answer.

Other Related Points

• Essayist, critic, poet, and playwright Charles Lamb achieved lasting fame as a writer during the years 1820-1825.
• When he captivated the discerning English reading public with his personal essays in the London Magazine, collected as Essays of Elia (1823) and The Last Essays of Elia (1833).
• His first success was the collection of prose adaptations for children, Tales from Shakespeare (1807), written with his sister Mary.

The correct answer is 1822.
Explanation

• The essay was published in Literary Remains of the Late William Hazlitt: With Notice of His Life in 1836.
• In the essay, Hazlitt describes a father's consent for his son.
• At the start of the essay, a father writes a letter and tells his son that he is about to enter a new world.
• It's a beautiful piece of advice given by a father to his son. He writes about how this advice may help him in the future to correct his own errors.
• He advises on the boy's complaint on how he was treated at school and how he found a different treatment at home and school

Therefore, Option 4 is the correct answer.

Other Related Points

• William Hazlitt was an English essayist, drama and literary critic, painter, social commentator, and philosopher.
• He is now considered one of the greatest critics and essayists in the history of the English language, placed in the company of Samuel Johnson and George Orwell.
• He was an English writer best known for his humanistic essays.
• Lacking conscious artistry or literary pretension, his writing is noted for the brilliant intellect it reveals.

The correct answer is "glowworm and rose."

Explanation

• Skylark is compared to a rose and a glowworm by P. B. Shelley.
• The poet uses several effective pictures to convey the characteristics of the bird and even compares the bird to a romantic poet.
• The poet also makes a comparison between the skylark and a high-born maiden.

Therefore, Option 3 is the correct answer.

Other Related Points

• The skylark is a "blithe spirit," according to Shelley. He does not consider it to be merely a flesh-and-blood bird. He thinks of it as "an unbodied bliss" that has just materialized.

The correct answer is "We will not be playing football."

Explanation

• The given sentence is constructed in the form "subject+ were+ not+ -ing form of the verb 'play' + rest of the sentence."
• Thus, it can be concluded that the given sentence is in past continuous tense.
• We are required to convert the given sentence to "future continuous tense."
• The future continuous tense, also known as the future progressive tense, is a verb tense that shows an ongoing action in the future.
• The future continuous tense is formed using: [will] + [be] + [present participle of verb].
  • ​Example: He will be studying for the test.
• When using the future continuous tense with negatives, insert the word not after will and before be.
  • Example: He will not be studying for the test.
• Now, among the given options:
  • In option 3, we can observe that the given sentence is in the pattern: Subject+ will+ not+ be + present participle of the verb "play" + rest of the sentence.
• Thus, it can be concluded that the given sentence in present perfect tense will be read as:
  • We will not be playing football.

Hence, the correct answer is option 2.

The correct answer is "1995."

Explanation

• "A Fine Balance" is the second novel by Rohinton Mistry published in 1995.
• The novel depicts a delicate balance centered around numerous people in Bombay amid political upheaval and government emergencies.
• The novel is based on four characters: Dina, a widow; Maneck, a student; and tailors Ishvar and his nephew Omprakash.

Therefore, option 4 is the correct answer.

Other Related Points

• The plot involves the characters' struggles as they strive to make ends meet in an era of rising poverty and harsh political regimes.

The correct answer is God.Explanation

• The poet addresses God in song no 1 of Gitanjali.
• He says that God has made him infinite immortal.
• Paying his obeisance to God in a spirit of humbleness, the poet says that soul is eternal and immortal.

Thus, 'option 3' is the correct answer. Other Related Points

• Gitanjali is a collection of poems by the Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore.
• Tagore received the Nobel Prize for Literature, for the English translation, Gitanjali:Song Offerings, making him the first non-European to receive this honor.

The correct answer is option 1 i.e. 'treatment'.
Explanation

• The root word is 'treat' means 'to care'.
• The treatment means medical care for an illness or injury.
• In the given sentence he has a skin problem that needs medical help so 'treatment' will come in the given blank.
• Let us look at the meanings of the options-
  • treated means to handle, deal with, or behave towards in a specific way.
  • treatable means not incurable.
  • treating means the process or manner of treating someone
• Thus, the correct answer is Treatment.

Other Related Points

• What is the root word?
• A root word is a word or word part that can form the basis of new words through the addition of prefixes and affixes.
• For example:
  • “ambivalent” has a root word of “ambi” plus the suffix "valent"
  • “Chronic” has the root word “chron”; “-ic” is merely the suffix.

The correct answer is 'his'

Explanation

• The word 'everyone' means every person.
• Let us explore the given options:
  • 'Their' denotes the persons (plural) that was mentioned earlier.
  • 'His' means of or belonging to the male person that was mentioned earlier.
  • ''One's'' is used to refer to any person, as representing people in general.
  • 'Own' is used with a possessive to emphasize that someone or something belongs or relates to the person or thing mentioned.
    

Conclusion: Every person is allowed to express his or her opinion.

Hence, the correct answer is option 2.

Complete Sentence: Everyone is allowed to express his opinion.

The correct answer is option 2) i.e. 'An amphitheatre will be built by the government. '

Explanation

• The given sentence is in the active voice. We have to change the sentence into passive form.
• The given sentence is written in 'simple future tense.'
• The structure of these kinds of sentences is:
  • Active Voice: Subject + will/shall + V1 + Object.
  • Passive Voice: Object + will/shall + be + V3 + by (preposition) + Subject.
• Let’s see another example:
  • Active voice: Shyam will write a poem.
  • Passive voice: A poem will be written by Shyam.
• The subject of the given sentence is 'The government' and the object of the given sentence is 'an amphitheatre'.
• So, in the passive voice, the position of ‘subject’ and ‘object’ will be interchanged.
• Also here, 'will build' will be changed into 'will be built'.

Correct Sentence: An amphitheatre will be built by the government.