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CTET 2018: December, Paper 1 (main booklet)

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47. For the given shapes, which one           47.   {XE JE AmH$mam| Ho$ {bE {ZÂZ{b{IV _| go
     of the following statements is not              H$m°Z-gm H$WZ R>rH$ Zht h°?
     correct?




      (1) All are parallelograms.                    (1)   g^r g_mßVa MVw^w©O h¢ü&


      (2) One of them         is    not   a          (2)   BZ_| go EH$ g_mßVa MVw^w©O Zht h°ü&
          parallelogram.


                                                     (3)   BZ_| go Xmo g_MVw^w©O h¢ü&
      (3) Two of them are rhombuses.



      (4) Two of them are rectangles.
                                                     (4)   BZ_| go Xmo Am`V h¢ü&




 48. Which one of the following represents     48.   {ZÂZ{b{IV _| go H$m°Z-gm "Ω`mah hOma Ω`mah gm°
     the number ‘eleven thousand eleven              Ω`mah' gߪ`m H$m ‡{V{Z{YÀd H$aVm h°?
     hundred eleven’?


                                                     (1) 111111
      (1) 111111


                                                     (2) 12111
      (2) 12111



      (3) 11000110011                                (3) 11000110011



      (4) XIXIXI                                     (4) XIXIXI

                     SPACE FOR ROUGH WORK / aµ\$ H$m`© Ho$ {bE OJh




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58. Observe the following solid shape :        58.   {ZÂZmß{H$V R>mog AmH$ma H$m {ZarjU H$s{OE :




      Which one of the following is the top           {ZÂZ _| go H$m°Z-gm {XE JE R>mog H$s D$nar gVh
      view of the given solid?                        H$m —Ì` h°?

      (1)                (2)                          (1)                       (2)




      (3)                (4)                          (3)                       (4)


 59. Which one of the following costs           59.   {ZÂZ{b{IV _| go {H$gH$s bmJV A{YH$ h°?
     more?
                                                      I.    R 250 ‡À`oH$ n°Ho$Q dmbo> 200 n°Ho$Q>
      I.    200 packets of R 250 each
                                                      II.   R 250 ‡À`oH$ dÒVw Ho$ 20 XO©Z
      II.   20 dozens of R 250 each item
                                                      (1) I
      (1) I
                                                      (2) II
      (2) II
                                                      (3) I Am°a II XmoZm| ~am~a h¢
      (3) Both I and II are equal

      (4) Cannot be calculated
                                                      (4)   JUZm Zht H$s Om gH$Vr h°


 60. The sum of 1 - 1 + 1 - 1 + 1 - 1L to       60. 1 - 1 + 1 - 1 + 1 - 1L H$m g_ gߪ`H$ nXm| VH$
     even number of terms is—                       `moJ h°—
      (1) zero                                        (1)   ey›`
      (2) -1                                          (2) -1

      (3) +1                                          (3) +1

      (4) 2                                           (4) 2

                      SPACE FOR ROUGH WORK / aµ\$ H$m`© Ho$ {bE OJh




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PART—IV
                                     Language—I
                                        ENGLISH

 IMPORTANT : Candidates should attempt questions from Part—IV (Q. Nos.
 91 to 120), if they have opted for ENGLISH as Language—I only.

Directions : Read the passage carefully         to attacks by fire. Wooden castles were
and answer the questions that follow            gradually replaced by stone, which
(Q. Nos. 91 to 99) by selecting the             greatly increased the strength of these
correct/most appropriate options.               fortifications; however, being made from
When it comes to structures that are            stone did not make these castles entirely
both majestic and well-fortified, the classic   fireproof. Attackers could hurl flaming
European castle is the pinnacle of design.      objects into the castle through the windows
Across   the     ages   castles     changed,    or ignite the wooden doors.
developed, and eventually fell out of use,      The demise of castles can ultimately
but they still command the fascination of       be attributed to gunpowder. During the
our culture.                                    15th century, artillery became powerful
Castles were originally built in England by     enough to break through stone walls. This
Norman invaders in 1066. As William the         greatly undermined the military role of
Conqueror advanced through England,             castles. Castles were then replaced by
he fortified key positions to secure the land   artillery forts that had no role in civil
he had taken. Castles also served as bases      administration, and country houses that
of operation for offensive attacks. Troops      were indefensible. Though castles no longer
were summoned to, organized around, and         serve their original purposes, remaining
deployed from castles. In this way castles      castles receive millions of visitors each
served both offensive and defensive roles       year from those who wish to experience
in military operations.                         these majestic vestiges of a time long
                                                passed.
Not limited to military purposes, castles
also served as offices from which the lord
would administer control over his fiefdom.       91. Which one of the following is not
                                                     a function of castles as expressed
They would address disputes, handle
                                                     in the passage?
business, feast, and enjoy festivities.
In this way castles served as important               (1) Castles served both offensive
social centres in medieval England. Castles               and       defensive purposes
                                                          militarily.
also served as symbols of power.
The first castles constructed in England              (2) Castles served as symbols of
                                                          power.
were made from earth and timber.
Those who constructed them took                       (3) Castles were important social
advantage of natural features, such as                    centres in medieval England.
hills and rivers, to increase defenses.
                                                      (4) Castles were the places where
Since these castles were constructed                      knights would keep their best
from wood, they were highly susceptible                   horses.

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92. Which one of the following best            96. Which one of the following titles
     describes     the     main    idea   in        would best describe the content of
     Paragraph 2?                                   this passage?
     (1) It describes how and why
                                                    (1) William the Conqueror : Bringing
         William the Conqueror took
                                                        Castles to England
         control of England.
     (2) It explains why castles were               (2) Defending the Castle : Techno-
         first built in England and the                 logies Used to Defend Medieval
         military purposes they served.                 Castles
     (3) It shows how Norman lords were             (3) A Short History of Castles :
         often scared and frequently                    The Rise and Fall of Castles
         retreated.                                     in England
     (4) It details all of the purposes that
         English castles served.                    (4) Fancy Living : Learning about
                                                        Castles, Palaces and Fortresses
 93. The original castles were first made
     from earth and timber because—
     (1) it takes a lot more time and           97. Which one of the following is an
         energy to build a stone castle             opinion?
     (2) it did not occur to people to              (1) Stone is more resistant to fire
         build castles out of stone                     than wood.
     (3) people did not realize how weak
                                                    (2) William the Conqueror built the
         wooden castles would be against
                                                        first castles in England.
         fire
     (4) wooden castles were prettier               (3) It is unfortunate that castles
         than dirty stone castles                       no longer serve their original
                                                        purposes.
 94. Wooden castles were converted to
     stone castles as—                              (4) Castles were used as offices
     (1) wooden castles take a long time                of administration during the
         to build                                       Middle Ages.
     (2) wooden castles are uncomfort-
         able                                   98. Choose a word from the given
     (3) stone castles offer better defense         options which means almost the
     (4) stone castles stay cooler in the           same as the word ‘vestiges’ used in
         summer                                     the passage.
 95. Which one of the following best                (1) Reminder
     explains how gunpowder was the
     nemesis of traditional castles?                (2) Outskirts
     (1) Wars were fought with guns and             (3) Farrago
         hiding in castles was no longer
         necessary.                                 (4) Creation
     (2) Artillery    forts   with   large
         cannons became more stylish            99. Choose a word which serves as the
         than traditional castles.                  antonym of the word ‘pinnacle’.
     (3) Defending castles grew difficult,          (1) Nadir
         since attackers could just shoot
         castle defenders.                          (2) Crest
     (4) Cannons were able to knock                 (3) Apex
         down stone walls, so castles
         offered little protection.                 (4) Steeple

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Directions : Read the extract given                 102. The mother of ‘the Little Black Boy’
below and answer the questions that                      says God put people on earth—
follow (Q. Nos. 100 to 105) by selecting
the correct/most appropriate options.                     (1) to learn to endure his love

  My mother bore me in the southern wild,                 (2) to work off their sins
  And I am black, but O ! my soul is white;
                                                          (3) to prepare them for future trials
  White as an angel is the English child :
  But I am black as if bereav’d of light.                 (4) to learn how to       treat    one
                                                              another as equals
  My mother taught me underneath a tree
  And sitting down before the heat of day,
  She took me on her lap and kissed me,             103. The mother of ‘the Little Black Boy’
  And pointing to the east began to say.                 says his dark skin and face are—

  Look on the rising sun : there God                      (1) a blessing
                                  does live
                                                          (2) a veil
  And gives his light, and gives his
                                heat away.                (3) a curse
  And flowers and trees and beasts and
                                men receive               (4) a cloud
  Comfort in morning joy in the noonday.

  And we are put on earth a little space,           104. The phrase ‘like a shady grove’ is—
  That we may learn to bear the beams
                                    of love,              (1) a metaphor
  And these black bodies and this
                                                          (2) a simile
                            sun-burnt face
  Is but a cloud, and like a shady grove.                 (3) an example of alliteration

100. ‘The Little Black Boy’ was born in—                  (4) a personification
      (1) the desert wastes
      (2) the servants’ house
      (3) the southern wild                         105. Through the phrase ‘as if bereav’d
                                                         of light’, the poet hints at—
      (4) the east coast

101. ‘The Little Black Boy’ wished that                   (1) low self-esteem of the child
     he could be—
      (1) educated                                        (2) lack of hope for the future

      (2) older
                                                          (3) colour of the boy
      (3) free
      (4) white                                           (4) All of the above

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Directions    :  Answer     the   following          110. Flower and Hayes regarded which
questions (Q. Nos. 106 to 120) by selecting               one of the following skills as
the correct/most appropriate options.                     ‘problem-creating and solving skill’ ?


106. Iconic mode of learning is based on                   (1) Listening
     the system of using—
                                                           (2) Speaking
      (1) a variety of activities
      (2) symbols                                          (3) Reading

      (3) images and diagrams
                                                           (4) Writing
      (4) different types of graph

107. While reading for comprehension,                111. Find out the function word from
     we understand that some pairs are                    the following.
     examples of homograph. Which one
     of the following is a homograph?                      (1) And
      (1) warm/tepid [being neither too
          hot nor too cold]                                (2) Champion
      (2) lead [metal]/lead [give direction]
                                                           (3) Handsome
      (3) lead [give direction]/dead [mortal]
      (4) mail [post]/male [gender]                        (4) Seizing


108. A ‘sight word’ is a vocabulary item—
                                                     112. What do you mean by ‘review’ ?
      (1) that   needs   proper   visual
          understanding of the context                     (1) Guess
      (2) that is to be learnt by heart
                                                           (2) Evaluation
      (3) that the reader recognizes and
          finds meaningful on sight
          without a complicated analysis                   (3) Critical evaluation

      (4) that helps      in    judging the                (4) Assessment
          effectiveness   of   the author’s
          style

                                                     113. Content words are called—
109. Which one of the following methods
     is suggested for teaching grammar
     at primary level?                                     (1) functors

      (1) Deductive method                                 (2) grammatical words
      (2) Textbook method
                                                           (3) lexical words
      (3) Inductive method
      (4) Translation method                               (4) empty words

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114. ‘Cloze’ means—                           118. According to the observation in the
                                                   National Curriculum Framework
      (1) finishing                                (NCF)–2005, English is a _____
                                                   language in India.
      (2) missing part
                                                    (1) second
      (3) close
                                                    (2) foreign
      (4) assessing
                                                    (3) first

115. The last stage of writing is—
                                                    (4) global
      (1) controlled writing

      (2) guided writing                      119. Read the exchange :
                                                    Teacher : Shall we go out to the
      (3) free writing                                        garden and find out the
                                                              names of those flowers
      (4) advanced writing                                    near the corridor?
                                                    Student : Yes, yes, yeah.
116. The   procedure       of   alphabetic          Teacher : Yes, Ma’am, please.
     method is—
                                                    Here, the teacher—
      (1) letters—words—phrases                     (1) relates language function with
                            —sentences                  politeness
      (2) words—phrases—sentences
                         —paragraph                 (2) makes a polite suggestion to
                                                        start reading
      (3) letters—words—sentences
                           —paragraph               (3) confirms the student’s request

      (4) letters—words—phrases                     (4) offers an alternative language
                           —paragraph                   activity


117. “You ask, what has my government         120. Which one of the following helps
     done for you? I can answer in two             in learning the second language
     words a lot !”                                without using the printed text?
      The question put up here is—
                                                    (1) Natural approach
      (1) rhetorical
                                                    (2) Language immersion
      (2) stylized

      (3) a prompt                                  (3) Grammar-translation method

      (4) explanatory                               (4) Situational approach

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PART—V
                                      Language—II
                                            ENGLISH

 IMPORTANT : Candidates should attempt questions from Part—V (Q. Nos.
 121 to 150), if they have opted for ENGLISH as Language—II only.


Directions : Read the passage given                121. Which one of the following is not
below and answer the questions that                     the whole truth according to the
follow (Q. Nos. 121 to 129) by selecting                passage?
the correct/most appropriate options.                    (1) Man has a desire for beauty and
                                                             grace.
Man who is believed to have evolved from
                                                         (2) Necessity is    the   mother      of
apes, is a curious mixture of varied motives.
                                                             invention.
He is not only the subject of needs but
                                                         (3) Man desires to cut down his
is also their creator. He not only seeks to                  needs and wants.
satisfy his needs but also caters to his
                                                         (4) Man learns to be happy with
desire for beauty and grace. He is eager                     what he has.
to satisfy his passion for more and more
knowledge. Although in a general way,              122. What does the maxim mentioned in
the maxim ‘necessity is the mother of                   the passage teach us?
invention’ is true, it is by no means the                (1) To be worldly in the strict sense
whole truth. Man is something much                           of the term

greater than an intelligent being using his              (2) To be slave of our needs and
intellect to make newer inventions from                      wants

time to time. He has within him a spirit                 (3) To endeavour constantly to
                                                             create new passions and desires
which is ever exhorting him to cut down
his needs and learn to be happy with what                (4) To be active in life and do
                                                             something to help mankind
he has. The real purpose underlying this
maxim lies in its utility in the worldly
                                                   123. What does the spirit within man tell
sense. It tells us to be up and doing,                  him to do?
not to be passive in our attitude to life.
                                                         (1) To be a     mixture    of    varied
It asks us not to remain slaves of old                       motives
habits and ways of life. We must face                    (2) To evaluate     the    situations
the new situations with a creative mind.                     intelligently
Every new difficulty, every new problem,                 (3) To cut down his desires and
which   confronts   us   in   life,   can    be              passions
tackled successfully with the spirit of                  (4) To acquire more and           more
inventiveness.                                               wealth and comforts

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124. Which of the following statements           127. Which    one   of   the  following
     is/are true in the context of the                statements is not true as per the
     passage?                                         passage?

      I.    Man should be passive in his
            attitude to life.                          (1) Spirit of inventiveness will stand
                                                           in good stead.
      II.   Spirit of inventiveness may not
            stand in good stead in solving             (2) Man is the subject of various
            every new problem.                             wants.

      III. Man has a passion for more
           and more knowledge.                         (3) Man creates new needs because
                                                           they are sometimes good or
      (1) Only I                                           beautiful.

      (2) Only I and II                                (4) Man’s inner spirit tells him to be
                                                           on the look out for newer and
      (3) Only III                                         higher wants.

      (4) Only II and III

                                                 128. Choose the word which is opposite
125. Which one of the following is similar            in meaning to the word ‘seeks’ as
     in meaning to the word ‘maxim’                   used in the passage.
     as used in the passage?

      (1) Principle                                    (1) Deplores

      (2) Direction                                    (2) Avoids

      (3) Value
                                                       (3) Vanishes
      (4) Observation
                                                       (4) Approaches

126. Which one of the following is not
     the characteristic of man as per            129. Which one of the following is similar
     the passage?                                     in meaning to the word ‘exhorting’
                                                      as used in the passage?
      (1) Man has       many   needs   and
          motives.                                     (1) Urging

      (2) Man creates many needs for
          himself.                                     (2) Supporting

      (3) Man seeks to satisfy his needs.
                                                       (3) Demanding
      (4) Man desires to have more and
          more comforts and money.                     (4) Clarifying

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Directions : Read the passage given            Kevlar is a remarkable fabric known for its
below and answer the questions that            strength and durability. Since its invention
follow (Q. Nos. 130 to 135) by selecting
                                               it has found its way into a wide variety
the correct/most appropriate options.
                                               of products. Kevlar is used in sporting
Did you know that there is a fiber that is
                                               equipment like bike tires, bowstrings and
as flexible and lightweight as nylon yet
                                               tennis racquets. It is used in musical
five times stronger than steel? Did you
                                               instruments like drumheads, reeds and
know that this fabric is resistant to
                                               speaker cones. And it is used in protective
temperatures higher than 500 degrees
                                               gear like motorcycle safety jackets, gloves
Fahrenheit? Did you know that a woman
                                               and shoes. However, Kevlar is best known
invented this fiber? This miraculous fabric
                                               for its ability to stop bullets.
is called Kevlar and it is used to make
everything from body armor to musical          Richard Armellino created the first Kevlar
instruments.                                   bulletproof vest in 1975. It contained
                                               15 layers of Kevlar, which could stop
The year was 1964. There were gasoline         handgun and shotgun bullets. The vest
shortages due to conflict in the Middle        also had a steel plate over the heart,
East. A Polish-American chemist named          which made the vest strong enough to stop
Stephanie Louise Kwolek was working for        rifle rounds. Vests like Armellino’s were
DuPont, an American chemical company.          quickly picked up by police forces and
She and her group were trying to make          it is estimated that by 1990, half of all
a lightweight, yet durable fiber to be used    police officers in America wore bulletproof
in tires. Lighter tires would allow vehicles   vests daily. By 2006, there were over 2000
to get better gas mileage, but the tires had   documented       police  vest  ‘saves’,  or
to be strong enough to resist the wear and     instances where officers were protected
tear of the road. They had been working        from deadly wounds by wearing bulletproof
on the problem for some time and had little    vests.
success, until Kwolek had a breakthrough.
                                                130. Which one of the following is not
Kwolek and her group were synthesizing               a product that has been made
                                                     with Kevlar?
or creating fibers to test. During one of
                                                      (1) Tennis racquets
the steps in the process, Kwolek created
                                                      (2) Bungee jumping cords
a milky white solution by mixing two
                                                      (3) Brake pads
chemicals that were often used in the
process. This solution was usually thrown             (4) Body armor
away, but Kwolek convinced one of the           131. For   which      of  the    following
technicians to help her test it. They were           characteristics is Kevlar known?
amazed to discover that the fabric that               (1) Heat resistant
Kwolek had created was not only more                  (2) Strength
durable than nylon, it was more durable               (3) Durability
than steel. Kwolek had invented Kevlar.               (4) All of the above

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132. Which one of the following caused             Directions    :  Answer     the   following
     the search for a fabric like Kevlar?          questions (Q. Nos. 136 to 150) by selecting
                                                   the correct/most appropriate options.
      (1) A shortage      in     the    gasoline
          supply                                     136. The study of meaning in a language
                                                          is known as—
      (2) A desire to protect police officers

      (3) The need to replace asbestos                     (1) syntax

      (4) The want of          better   musical            (2) semantics
          instruments
                                                           (3) morphology
133. A vest made of 15 layers of Kevlar
     with no steel plates could stop all                   (4) linguistics
     but which of the following rounds?

      (1) Handgun rounds
                                                     137. The teacher tells a story about
                                                          animals. Children make animal
      (2) Shotgun pellets
                                                          noises every time they hear the
                                                          name of the animal. It is—
      (3) Rifle rounds

      (4) It could stop all of the above                   (1) total physical response

                                                           (2) communicative language
134. How much stronger is Kevlar than                                              teaching
     steel?

      (1) Half as strong                                   (3) grammar translation

      (2) As strong                                        (4) reading approach

      (3) Five times as strong

      (4) 200 times as strong                        138. Any of a wide variety of exercises,
                                                          activities or devices used in the
                                                          language classroom for realizing
                                                          lesson objectives is known as—
135. What product was Kwolek trying to
     improve when she invented Kevlar?
                                                           (1) method
      (1) Tires
                                                           (2) technique
      (2) Milk

      (3) Brake pads                                       (3) syllabus

      (4) Armor                                            (4) approach

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139. A test which is administered at          142. Which one of the following methods
     the end of a language course for              of teaching cannot be used inter-
     remedial teaching is—                         changeably with each other?

                                                   (1) Reference method
     (1) diagnostic test
                                                   (2) Incidental method
     (2) placement test
                                                   (3) Direct method

     (3) achievement test                          (4) Correlative method


     (4) memory test                          143. Which   one     of  the    following
                                                   statements is true?

                                                   (1) All formative tasks are meant
140. The    practice  of   grammatical                 for assessment.
     structures in a controlled manner
     can be done by—                               (2) Assignments need to be given
                                                       as    classwork   followed by
                                                       homework everyday to provide
     (1) correcting  wrong    sentences                variety and practice.
         produced by learners
                                                   (3) Formative assessment, to be
     (2) gap-filling grammar exercises                 effective, must be conducted
                                                       only after teaching a lesson.

     (3) writing paragraphs and essays             (4) While all formative tasks are
                                                       meant for improving teaching-
                                                       learning, some are used for
     (4) explaining the use of particular              assessment too.
         structures

                                              144. Mother tongue influence can be
                                                   effectively minimized  in   the
141. “In the backyard, the dog barked              classroom by—
     and howled at the cat” is an
     example of—                                   (1) using the mother tongue more
                                                       often

     (1) simple sentence                           (2) giving  examples      from   the
                                                       mother tongue
     (2) sentence fragment
                                                   (3) giving a lot of exposure in the
                                                       target language
     (3) complex sentence
                                                   (4) giving inputs from the target
                                                       language in a simple, graded
     (4) complex compound sentence                     manner

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145. Which one of the following sentences       148. A listening stimulus—
     is a result of error arising out of
     translation from our language to                 (1) presents input to separate
     another?                                             groups of students who gather
                                                          again to share it
      (1) The    teacher      is      giving
          examination.                                (2) is  listening  to   a         good
                                                          commentary to review it

      (2) The students are giving their
                                                      (3) enables students to discuss
          examination.
                                                          a set of criteria that they
                                                          prioritize to complete and
      (3) My joy knew no bounds.                          present a task

                                                      (4) presents an information gap
      (4) Are you going by the train?                     activity such as giving directions



146. Reading skill     can   be    developed    149. If a language teacher has taught
     best by—                                        a topic in the class and no student
                                                     asks questions in her class, then
                                                     may be—
      (1) writing answers to questions
          on text                                     (1) students     are    not     paying
                                                          attention
      (2) focusing on the use of words
          from context in the text                    (2) she had     been   an     excellent
                                                          teacher

      (3) doing vocabulary exercises
                                                      (3) whatever was taught was
                                                          beyond the comprehension of
      (4) doing quizzes and playing word                  the students
          games
                                                      (4) all the students are at a higher
                                                          level of learning

147. Who would be the implementer of
     education?                                 150. The founder of Structural Grammar
                                                     was—
      (1) Teacher
                                                      (1) Newfield
      (2) Education Department
                                                      (2) Chapman

      (3) Student                                     (3) Chomsky

      (4) Curriculum                                  (4) Fries

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Source: Central Board of Secondary Education. Question paper published by Central Board of Secondary Education.