English Proficiency Test- 1 - CAT MCQ

Direction: Each of the following sentences in this section has a blank space with four words or group of words given. Select whichever word or group of words you consider most appropriate for the blank space.

Today India’s teachers are being trained in hordes, like industrial workers. The assumption is that the B.Ed.-certified teacher will (1) the quality of teaching, and this in turn will improve children’s education. Unfortunately, the assumptions don’t (2). Being trained keeps one away from much-needed contact with the ground and (3) the anxiety to get a certificate, and then a job. The certificate (4) more important than what you do, and thus what you do matters (5). Orwellian workers, going through the motions, cannot (6) a living, fear-free, celebrative system. They can only go through the motions and (7) the energy of the young, while somehow staying out of their superior’s bad books. Unfortunate, (8) movement in the name of education, that preys on the future. But there are individuals who are willing to try something that has not been tried. This hopeful group is shut (9) by the board, ‘qualified teachers only’. The certificate matters more than the human being who is willing to learn on the job. No one knows where to take this ship, and the B.Ed. certificate (10) the status quo.

Which of the following is the most appropriate option for blank 1?

Direction: Each of the following sentences in this section has a blank space with four words or group of words given. Select whichever word or group of words you consider most appropriate for the blank space.

Today India’s teachers are being trained in hordes, like industrial workers. The assumption is that the B.Ed.-certified teacher will (1) the quality of teaching, and this in turn will improve children’s education. Unfortunately, the assumptions don’t (2). Being trained keeps one away from much-needed contact with the ground and (3) the anxiety to get a certificate, and then a job. The certificate (4) more important than what you do, and thus what you do matters (5). Orwellian workers, going through the motions, cannot (6) a living, fear-free, celebrative system. They can only go through the motions and (7) the energy of the young, while somehow staying out of their superior’s bad books. Unfortunate, (8) movement in the name of education, that preys on the future. But there are individuals who are willing to try something that has not been tried. This hopeful group is shut (9) by the board, ‘qualified teachers only’. The certificate matters more than the human being who is willing to learn on the job. No one knows where to take this ship, and the B.Ed. certificate (10) the status quo.

Which of the following is the most appropriate option for blank 4?

Direction: Each of the following sentences in this section has a blank space with four words or group of words given. Select whichever word or group of words you consider most appropriate for the blank space.

Today India’s teachers are being trained in hordes, like industrial workers. The assumption is that the B.Ed.-certified teacher will (1) the quality of teaching, and this in turn will improve children’s education. Unfortunately, the assumptions don’t (2). Being trained keeps one away from much-needed contact with the ground and (3) the anxiety to get a certificate, and then a job. The certificate (4) more important than what you do, and thus what you do matters (5). Orwellian workers, going through the motions, cannot (6) a living, fear-free, celebrative system. They can only go through the motions and (7) the energy of the young, while somehow staying out of their superior’s bad books. Unfortunate, (8) movement in the name of education, that preys on the future. But there are individuals who are willing to try something that has not been tried. This hopeful group is shut (9) by the board, ‘qualified teachers only’. The certificate matters more than the human being who is willing to learn on the job. No one knows where to take this ship, and the B.Ed. certificate (10) the status quo.

Which of the following is the most appropriate option for blank 5?

Direction: Each of the following sentences in this section has a blank space with four words or group of words given. Select whichever word or group of words you consider most appropriate for the blank space.

Today India’s teachers are being trained in hordes, like industrial workers. The assumption is that the B.Ed.-certified teacher will (1) the quality of teaching, and this in turn will improve children’s education. Unfortunately, the assumptions don’t (2). Being trained keeps one away from much-needed contact with the ground and (3) the anxiety to get a certificate, and then a job. The certificate (4) more important than what you do, and thus what you do matters (5). Orwellian workers, going through the motions, cannot (6) a living, fear-free, celebrative system. They can only go through the motions and (7) the energy of the young, while somehow staying out of their superior’s bad books. Unfortunate, (8) movement in the name of education, that preys on the future. But there are individuals who are willing to try something that has not been tried. This hopeful group is shut (9) by the board, ‘qualified teachers only’. The certificate matters more than the human being who is willing to learn on the job. No one knows where to take this ship, and the B.Ed. certificate (10) the status quo.

Which of the following is the most appropriate option for blank 3?

Direction: In the following question, out of the four alternatives, choose the one which is best expresses the meaning of the given word.

Expulsion

Select the correct passive form of the sentence.

We should never neglect the time which is meant for us.

Direction: Read the passage given below and answer the questions by selecting the -correct/most appropriate options:

The make-up room had the look of a hair-cutting salon with lights at all angles around half a dozen large mirrors. They were all incandescent lights, so you can imagine the fiery misery of those subjected to make-up. The make-up department was first headed by a Bengali who became too big for a studio and left. He was succeeded by a Maharashtrian who was assisted by a Dharwar Kannadiga, an Andhra, a Madras Indian Christian, an Anglo-Burmese and the usual local Tamils. All this shows that there was a great deal of national integration long before A.I.R. and Doordarshan began broadcasting programmes on national integration. This gang of nationally integrated make-up men could turn any decent-looking person into a hideous crimson-hued monster with the help of truck-loads of pancake and a number of other locally made potions and lotions. Those were the days of mainly indoor shooting, and only five percent of the film was shot outdoors. I suppose the sets and studio lights needed the girls and boys to be made to look ugly in order to look presentable in the movie.

A strict hierarchy was maintained in the make-up department. The chief make-up man-made the chief actors and actresses ugly, his senior assistant the ‘second’ hero and heroine, the junior assistant the main comedian, and so forth. The players who played the crowd were the responsibility of the office boy. (Even the make-up department of the Gemini Studio had an ‘office boy’!) On the days when there was a crowd shooting, you could see him mixing his paint in a giant vessel and slapping it on the crowd players. The idea was to close every pore on the surface of the face in the process of applying make-up. He wasn’t exactly a ‘boy’; he was in his early forties, having entered the studios years ago in the hope of becoming a star actor or a top screenwriter, director or lyrics writer. He was a bit of a poet.

Identify the part of the following sentence which has an error in it.

Those were the days of mainly (a)/ indoor shooting, and only five (b)/ percent of the film (c)/ was shoot outdoors. (d)

Direction: Read the passage given below and answer the questions by selecting the -correct/most appropriate options:

The make-up room had the look of a hair-cutting salon with lights at all angles around half a dozen large mirrors. They were all incandescent lights, so you can imagine the fiery misery of those subjected to make-up. The make-up department was first headed by a Bengali who became too big for a studio and left. He was succeeded by a Maharashtrian who was assisted by a Dharwar Kannadiga, an Andhra, a Madras Indian Christian, an Anglo-Burmese and the usual local Tamils. All this shows that there was a great deal of national integration long before A.I.R. and Doordarshan began broadcasting programmes on national integration. This gang of nationally integrated make-up men could turn any decent-looking person into a hideous crimson-hued monster with the help of truck-loads of pancake and a number of other locally made potions and lotions. Those were the days of mainly indoor shooting, and only five percent of the film was shot outdoors. I suppose the sets and studio lights needed the girls and boys to be made to look ugly in order to look presentable in the movie.

A strict hierarchy was maintained in the make-up department. The chief make-up man-made the chief actors and actresses ugly, his senior assistant the ‘second’ hero and heroine, the junior assistant the main comedian, and so forth. The players who played the crowd were the responsibility of the office boy. (Even the make-up department of the Gemini Studio had an ‘office boy’!) On the days when there was a crowd shooting, you could see him mixing his paint in a giant vessel and slapping it on the crowd players. The idea was to close every pore on the surface of the face in the process of applying make-up. He wasn’t exactly a ‘boy’; he was in his early forties, having entered the studios years ago in the hope of becoming a star actor or a top screenwriter, director or lyrics writer. He was a bit of a poet.

The word ‘hideous’ means:

Direction: Read the passage given below and answer the questions by selecting the -correct/most appropriate options:

The make-up room had the look of a hair-cutting salon with lights at all angles around half a dozen large mirrors. They were all incandescent lights, so you can imagine the fiery misery of those subjected to make-up. The make-up department was first headed by a Bengali who became too big for a studio and left. He was succeeded by a Maharashtrian who was assisted by a Dharwar Kannadiga, an Andhra, a Madras Indian Christian, an Anglo-Burmese and the usual local Tamils. All this shows that there was a great deal of national integration long before A.I.R. and Doordarshan began broadcasting programmes on national integration. This gang of nationally integrated make-up men could turn any decent-looking person into a hideous crimson-hued monster with the help of truck-loads of pancake and a number of other locally made potions and lotions. Those were the days of mainly indoor shooting, and only five percent of the film was shot outdoors. I suppose the sets and studio lights needed the girls and boys to be made to look ugly in order to look presentable in the movie.

A strict hierarchy was maintained in the make-up department. The chief make-up man-made the chief actors and actresses ugly, his senior assistant the ‘second’ hero and heroine, the junior assistant the main comedian, and so forth. The players who played the crowd were the responsibility of the office boy. (Even the make-up department of the Gemini Studio had an ‘office boy’!) On the days when there was a crowd shooting, you could see him mixing his paint in a giant vessel and slapping it on the crowd players. The idea was to close every pore on the surface of the face in the process of applying make-up. He wasn’t exactly a ‘boy’; he was in his early forties, having entered the studios years ago in the hope of becoming a star actor or a top screenwriter, director or lyrics writer. He was a bit of a poet.

The word ‘incandescent’ means:

Direction: Read the passage given below and answer the questions by selecting the -correct/most appropriate options:

The make-up room had the look of a hair-cutting salon with lights at all angles around half a dozen large mirrors. They were all incandescent lights, so you can imagine the fiery misery of those subjected to make-up. The make-up department was first headed by a Bengali who became too big for a studio and left. He was succeeded by a Maharashtrian who was assisted by a Dharwar Kannadiga, an Andhra, a Madras Indian Christian, an Anglo-Burmese and the usual local Tamils. All this shows that there was a great deal of national integration long before A.I.R. and Doordarshan began broadcasting programmes on national integration. This gang of nationally integrated make-up men could turn any decent-looking person into a hideous crimson-hued monster with the help of truck-loads of pancake and a number of other locally made potions and lotions. Those were the days of mainly indoor shooting, and only five percent of the film was shot outdoors. I suppose the sets and studio lights needed the girls and boys to be made to look ugly in order to look presentable in the movie.

A strict hierarchy was maintained in the make-up department. The chief make-up man-made the chief actors and actresses ugly, his senior assistant the ‘second’ hero and heroine, the junior assistant the main comedian, and so forth. The players who played the crowd were the responsibility of the office boy. (Even the make-up department of the Gemini Studio had an ‘office boy’!) On the days when there was a crowd shooting, you could see him mixing his paint in a giant vessel and slapping it on the crowd players. The idea was to close every pore on the surface of the face in the process of applying make-up. He wasn’t exactly a ‘boy’; he was in his early forties, having entered the studios years ago in the hope of becoming a star actor or a top screenwriter, director or lyrics writer. He was a bit of a poet.

Why were the actors loaded with extensive makeup?

Direction: Read the passage given below and answer the questions by selecting the -correct/most appropriate options:

The make-up room had the look of a hair-cutting salon with lights at all angles around half a dozen large mirrors. They were all incandescent lights, so you can imagine the fiery misery of those subjected to make-up. The make-up department was first headed by a Bengali who became too big for a studio and left. He was succeeded by a Maharashtrian who was assisted by a Dharwar Kannadiga, an Andhra, a Madras Indian Christian, an Anglo-Burmese and the usual local Tamils. All this shows that there was a great deal of national integration long before A.I.R. and Doordarshan began broadcasting programmes on national integration. This gang of nationally integrated make-up men could turn any decent-looking person into a hideous crimson-hued monster with the help of truck-loads of pancake and a number of other locally made potions and lotions. Those were the days of mainly indoor shooting, and only five percent of the film was shot outdoors. I suppose the sets and studio lights needed the girls and boys to be made to look ugly in order to look presentable in the movie.

A strict hierarchy was maintained in the make-up department. The chief make-up man-made the chief actors and actresses ugly, his senior assistant the ‘second’ hero and heroine, the junior assistant the main comedian, and so forth. The players who played the crowd were the responsibility of the office boy. (Even the make-up department of the Gemini Studio had an ‘office boy’!) On the days when there was a crowd shooting, you could see him mixing his paint in a giant vessel and slapping it on the crowd players. The idea was to close every pore on the surface of the face in the process of applying make-up. He wasn’t exactly a ‘boy’; he was in his early forties, having entered the studios years ago in the hope of becoming a star actor or a top screenwriter, director or lyrics writer. He was a bit of a poet.

Why did the office boy join the Gemini Studios?

Direction: Select the most appropriate indirect form of the given sentence.

Amit said to me, “Your parents are waiting for you.”