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CTET 2018: December, Paper 2 (main booklet)

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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            won’t be easy, however. The goal of Indian IT
and answer the questions that follow               firms for the past 30 years has been to woo
(Q. Nos. 91 to 99) by selecting the                clients outside India and transfer as much
correct/most appropriate options.                  of the actual work as possible back home,
                                                   where lower wages for highly skilled
Born out of the forces of globalization, India’s
                                                   programmers      allowed   them     to   offer
IT sector is undertaking some globalization
                                                   significant cost savings. With costs in other
of its own. In search of new sources of rapid
                                                   emerging economies equally low, Indian firms
growth, the country’s outsourcing giants are
                                                   can’t compete on price alone.
aggressively expanding beyond their usual
stomping grounds into the developing world;        To adapt, Indian companies which are
setting up programming centres, chasing new        relatively unknown in these emerging nations
clients and hiring local talent. Through           are establishing major local operations
geographic diversification, Indian companies       around the world, in the process hiring
hope to regain some momentum after the             thousands of locals. Cultural conflicts arise
recession. This shift is being driven by a         at times while training new recruits.
global economy in which the US is no longer        In addition, IT firms also have to work extra
the undisputed engine of growth. India’s           hard to woo business from emerging-market
IT powers rose to prominence largely on the        companies still unaccustomed to the concept
decisions made by American executives, who         of outsourcing. If successful, the future of
were quick to capitalize on the cost savings to    India’s outsourcing sector could prove as
be gained by outsourcing noncore operations,       bright as its past.
such as systems programming and call
centres, to specialists overseas.                   91. What is the author trying to convey
                                                        through the phrase “India’s IT sector
Revenues in India’s IT sector surged from $4            is undertaking some globalization of
billion in 1998 to $59 billion last fiscal, but         its own”?
with the recession NASSCOM forecasts that
                                                          (1) India has usurped America’s
the growth rate of India’s exports of IT and
                                                              position as the leader in IT.
other business services to the US and Europe
will drop to at most 7% in the current fiscal             (2) The Indian IT sector is competing
year, down from 16% last year and 29% in                      with other emerging nations for
2007–08.                                                      American business.

Factors other than the crisis are driving                 (3) The    Indian   IT    sector     is
India’s   IT  firms   into     the  emerging                  considering    outsourcing       to
world. Although the US still accounts for 60%                 developing economies.
of the export revenue of India’s IT sector,               (4) Indian IT firms are      engaging
emerging markets are growing faster.                          in expanding their       presence
Tapping these more dynamic economies                          internationally.

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92. Which of the following factors made           95. According to the passage, which one
     the services offered by the Indian IT             of the following is not a difficulty that
     attractive to the US?                             Indian IT firms will face in emerging
                                                       markets?
     A.   Indian    IT    companies     had
                                                       (1) Mindset resistant to outsourcing
          expertise in rare core operations
                                                       (2) Local IT services are equally
     B.   The US lacked the necessary                       cost-effective
          infrastructure and personnel to              (3) The US is their preferred
          handle     mass    call  centre                   outsourcing destination
          operations                                   (4) Conflicts arising during the
     C.   Inability    of    other    equally               training of local talent
          cost-efficient developing countries
                                                   96. Which of the following is/are not true
          to comply with their strict policies
                                                       in the context of the passage?
     (1) None                                          A. The recession severely impacted
                                                            the US but not India.
     (2) Only A
                                                       B. India is trying to depend less on
     (3) Only A and B                                       the US as a source of growth.
                                                       C. The future success of Indian IT
     (4) Only C
                                                            firms depends on emerging
                                                            markets.
 93. What has caused Indian IT firms to                (1) Only B and C
     change the way they conduct                       (2) Only A
     business in developing countries?
                                                       (3) Only B
     (1) The volume of work being                      (4) All A, B and C
         awarded cannot be handled by
         Indian firms                              97. Which one of the following words is
                                                       most similar in meaning to the word
     (2) The demands of these markets                  ‘chasing’ as used in the passage?
         are different from those of India’s           (1) Running
         traditional customers                         (2) Harassing
     (3) Wages    demanded      by   local             (3) Pestering
         workers are far higher than what              (4) Pursuing
         they pay their Indian employees
                                                   98. Which one of the following words is
     (4) Stringent laws which are not                  most opposite to the meaning of the
         conducive to outsourcing                      word ‘undisputed’ as used in the
                                                       passage?
 94. What do the NASSCOM statistics                    (1) Challenging
     about Indian IT exports indicate?                 (2) Doubtful
                                                       (3) Deprived
     (1) Drop in demand for IT services by
         Europe and the US                             (4) Emphasized

     (2) Indian     IT     firms     charge        99. Other than crisis, what is driving IT
         exorbitantly for their services               companies to seek other options?
                                                       (1) The US makes more than 60% of
     (3) India has lost out         to    other            India’s export revenue
         emerging IT hubs                              (2) Emerging markets
     (4) The Indian IT sector            should        (3) None of the above
         undergo restructuring                         (4) Both (1) and (2)

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Directions : Read the extract given                 102. The speaker in ‘Break, Break, Break’
below and answer the questions that                      observes all the following, except—
follow (Q. Nos. 100 to 105) by selecting
the correct/most appropriate options.                     (1) children playing


Break, Break, Break,                                      (2) a sailor boy singing

    On thy cold gray stones, O Sea !                      (3) a lady in a tower
And I would that my tongue could utter
                                                          (4) ships coming in
    The thoughts that arise in me.

O, well for the fisherman’s boy,
                                                    103. The speaker of ‘Break, Break, Break’
    That he shouts with his sister at play !             cannot—
O, well for the sailor lad,
                                                          (1) feel
    That he sings in his boat on the bay !

                                                          (2) see
And the stately ships go on
    To their haven under the hill;                        (3) speak
But O for the touch of a vanish’d hand,
                                                          (4) hear
    And the sound of a voice that is still !

Break, Break, Break,
                                                    104. In the first two lines of the poem, the
    At the foot of thy crags, O Sea !                    poet uses—
But the tender grace of a day that is dead
                                                          (1) simile
    Will never come back to me.
                                                          (2) apostrophe
100. What is ‘breaking’ in ‘Break, Break,
     Break’?                                              (3) assonance
       (1) The sea
                                                          (4) metaphor
       (2) Poet’s heart
       (3) The wind
       (4) The sunshine through the clouds          105. The phrase ‘haven under the hill’ is an
                                                         example of—
101. The mood of the speaker in ‘Break,
                                                          (1) simile
     Break, Break’ is—
       (1) contemplative and hopeful                      (2) metaphor
       (2) lighthearted
                                                          (3) alliteration
       (3) somber and grieved
       (4) energized                                      (4) personification

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Directions : Answer the following questions        110. During reading, if a student is
(Q. Nos. 106 to 120) by selecting the                   piercing information together as they
correct/most appropriate options.                       read a text keeping track of what is
                                                        happening, he/she is—

106. Which one of the following does not                 (1) inferring
     come under the principle of selection
                                                         (2) skimming
     and gradation?
                                                         (3) paraphrasing
      (1) Accuracy
                                                         (4) synthesizing
      (2) Availability

      (3) Coverage
                                                   111. Which one of the following does not
      (4) Frequency                                     affect the intonation?

                                                         (1) Voice/Pronunciation
107. The phenomenon, where a single word
     is associated with two or several                   (2) Tone
     related meanings, is known as—
                                                         (3) Rhythm
      (1) homonyms
                                                         (4) Loudness
      (2) homograph

      (3) polysemy                                 112. _____ are involved in thinking.

      (4) homonymy                                       (1) Image, language,       imagination,
                                                             proposition

108. “The dog lived in the garden, but the               (2) Image,    imagination,    concept,
     cat, who was smarter, lived inside the                  proposition
     house” is an example of—
                                                         (3) Imagination, language, concept,
      (1) simple sentence                                    proposition
      (2) complex compound sentence                      (4) Image,     language,      concept,
                                                             proposition
      (3) complex sentence

      (4) compound sentence
                                                   113. Language laboratory is the place
                                                        where the learners have to listen on
109. If a student of language is cramming               headphone. The language labs are set
     his/her answers, then he/she would                 up with a view to provide listening
     not be able to—                                    activities in order to develop—

      (1) attempt question answers                       (1) analysis habit

      (2) attempt vocabulary-based exercise              (2) speech habit

      (3) attempt structural questions                   (3) criticizing habit

      (4) attempt creative writing                       (4) listening activities

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114. Grammar-translation     method         is       117. If you are listening to the description
     basically used to teach—                             of how to reach a specific location,
                                                          then you are doing—
      (1) grammar
                                                           (1) casual listening
      (2) foreign language
                                                           (2) focused listening
      (3) rules of any language usage
                                                           (3) intensive listening
      (4) classical language
                                                           (4) extensive listening

115. Which one of the following can be
     used as a rubric for the assessment of          118. If a language teacher has put the
     fluency and coherence of language?                   words ‘school, teacher, headmaster,
                                                          peon’ in a group, then she is
      (1) Can express with some flexibility
                                                          following—
          and appropriacy on variety of
          topics
                                                           (1) lexical grouping
      (2) Can initiate and logically develop
                                                           (2) semantic grouping
          simple conversation on a familiar
          topic
                                                           (3) phonetic grouping
      (3) Is always comprehensible, uses
                                                           (4) grammatical grouping
          appropriate intonation

      (4) Demonstrates hesitation to find
          words or use correct grammatical           119. “At the initial stages of language
          structures                                      learning, _____ may be one of the
                                                          languages for learning activities that
                                                          create the child’s awareness to the
116. Which one of the following is not the                world.” (NCF–2005)
     objective defined by NCF–2005 for
     teaching English at upper primary                     (1) English
     level?
                                                           (2) Vernacular language
      (1) To negotiate their own learning
          goals and evaluate their own                     (3) Second language
          progress; edit, revise, review their
                                                           (4) Hindi
          own work

      (2) To use dictionary suitable to their
          needs                                      120. Little or no attention is given to
                                                          pronunciation in _____ method.
      (3) To     be   able  to     articulate
          individual/personal      responses               (1) audio-lingual
          effectively
                                                           (2) grammar-translation
      (4) To promote learners’ concep-
          tualization of printed texts in                  (3) CLT
          terms of heading, paragraph and
          horizontal lines                                 (4) SLT


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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              development and undertake social reforms,
below and answer the questions that              but as nationalists who had led a struggle
follow (Q. Nos. 121 to 129) by selecting the     against alien rule on behalf of all parts of
correct/most appropriate options.                India, they took the cohesion of the Indian
                                                 nation     too    much    for   granted     and
The strength of Indian democracy lies in its
                                                 underestimated the centrifugal forces of
tradition, in the fusion of the ideas of
                                                 ethnic division, which were bound to be
democracy and national independence which
                                                 accentuated rather than diminished as the
was characteristic of the Indian national
                                                 popular masses were more and more drawn
movement      long   before  independence.
                                                 into politics. The Congress Party was
Although the British retained supreme
                                                 originally opposed to the idea of recognizing
authority over India until 1947, the
                                                 any division of India on a linguistic basis and
provincial elections of 1937 provided real
                                                 preferred to retain the old provinces of British
exercise in democratic practice before
                                                 India which often cut across linguistic
national independence. During the Pacific
                                                 boundaries; it was only in response to strong
War, India was not overrun or seriously
                                                 pressures from below that the principle of
invaded by the Japanese and after the War
                                                 linguistic States was conceded as the basis of
was over, the transfer of power to a
                                                 a federal ‘Indian Union’. The rights granted to
government of the Indian Congress Party
                                                 the States created new problems for the
was a peaceful one as far as Britain was
                                                 Central Government. The idea of making
concerned. By 1947, ‘Indianization’ had
                                                 Hindi the national language of a united India
already gone far in the Indian Civil Service
                                                 was thwarted by the recalcitrance of the
and army, so that the new government could
                                                 speakers      of   other   important     Indian
start with effective instruments of central
                                                 languages, and the autonomy of the States
control.
                                                 rendered       central   economic      planning
                                                 extremely difficult.
After independence, however, India was faced
with two vast problems, the first, that of       Land reforms remained under the control of
ethnic diversity and the aspirations of sub-     the States and many large-scale economic
nationalities. The Congress leadership was       projects required a degree of cooperation
more aware of the former problem than of the     between the Central Government and one or
second; as a new political elite which had       more of the States which it was found
rebelled not only against the British Raj, but   impossible to achieve. Coordination of
also against India’s social order; they were     policies was difficult even when the Congress
conscious of the need to initiate economic       Party was in power both in the States and at

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the Centre; when a Congress government in          124. Which one of the following problems
Delhi was confronted with non-Congress                  was    India   faced    with   after
parties in office in the States, it became much         independence?
harder.
                                                         (1) Military attack from across the
                                                             border
121. Choose the word which is most nearly
     the same in meaning as the word
                                                         (2) Lack of coordination between the
     ‘thwarted’ as used in the passage.
                                                             Central and State Governments

       (1) Opposed                                       (3) Improper coordination of various
                                                             government policies
       (2) Implemented
                                                         (4) Increasing the production from a
       (3) Accepted                                          very low level

       (4) Diverted
                                                   125. Which one of the following issues was
                                                        not appropriately realized by the
122. Choose the word which is most                      Central Government?
     opposite in meaning of the word
                                                         (1) Ethnic diversity of the people
     ‘conceded’ as used in the passage.
                                                         (2) A national    language   for     the
       (1) Criticized
                                                             country

       (2) Rejected                                      (3) Implementation of the formulated
                                                             policies
       (3) Denounced
                                                         (4) Centre-State relations
       (4) Withdrawn

                                                   126. Which, according to the passage,
123. Why was central economic planning                  can   be   cited   as  exercise  in
     found to be difficult?                             democratic practice in India before
                                                        independence?
       (1) Multiplicity of States and Union
                                                         (1) The handing over of the power by
           Territories
                                                             British to India

       (2) Lack of coordination in different             (2) The Indianization of the Indian
           government departments                            Civil Service

       (3) Autonomy given to the States in               (3) Several democratic institutions
           certain matters                                   created by the Indian National
                                                             Congress
       (4) Lack of will in implementing land
           reforms                                       (4) None of the above

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127. Which one of the following statements         Directions : Read the passage given
     is not true in the context of the             below and answer the questions that
     passage?                                      follow (Q. Nos. 130 to 135) by selecting the
                                                   correct/most appropriate options.
      (1) The Congress Party was originally
          opposed to the idea of division of       “A principal fruit of friendship”, Francis
          States on linguistic basis.              Bacon wrote in his timeless meditation on the
      (2) Economic development and social          subject, “is the ease and discharge of the
          reforms were initiated soon after        fullness and swellings of the heart, which
          independence.
                                                   passions of all kinds do cause and induce.”
      (3) The political elite in India rebelled
                                                   For Thoreau, friendship was one of life’s great
          against the British Raj.
                                                   rewards. But in today’s cultural landscape
      (4) The Congress leadership was fully
                                                   of muddled relationships scattered across
          aware of the problems of ethnic
          diversity in India at the time of        various platforms for connecting, amidst
          independence.                            constant     debates     about     whether     our
                                                   Facebook ‘friendships’ are making us more
128. Why was the linguistic reorganization         or less happy, it pays to consider what
     of the States accepted?
                                                   friendship actually is. That’s precisely what
      (1) The States were not cooperating          CUNY       Philosophy      professor     Massimo
          with the Central Government.
                                                   Pigliucci explores in Answers for Aristotle :
      (2) Non-Congress governments in              How Science and Philosophy Can Lead Us to
          the States demanded such a
          reorganization of the States.            a More Meaningful Life (public library), which
                                                   also gave us this provocative read on the
      (3) No common national language
          could be emerged.                        science of what we call ‘intuition’.

      (4) Strong pressures from the States         Philosophers and cognitive scientists agree
          were exerted on the Central              that friendship is an essential ingredient of
          Government to create such States.
                                                   human happiness. But beyond the dry
                                                   academic definitions—like, say, “voluntary
129. India was not overrun by the
     Japanese during the Pacific War               interdependence between two persons over
     because—                                      time,   which    is     intended    to   facilitate

      (1) Japan had friendly relations with        socio-emotional goals of the participants, and
          Britain                                  may involve varying types and degrees of
      (2) Japan was interested in India’s          companionship,        intimacy,    affection   and
          freedom                                  mutual assistance”—lies a body of compelling
      (3) Japan was skeptical about its            research that sheds light on how, precisely,
          success in War                           friendship augments happiness. The way
      (4) None of the above                        friendship enhances well-being, it turns out,

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has   nothing    to   do   with   quantity   and    133. Is the quality of friends important?
everything to do with quality—researchers
                                                          (1) No, it is important to have more
confirm that it isn’t the number of friends
                                                              number of friends, quality does
(or, in the case of Facebook, ‘friends’).                     not matter

130. The change in the present situation                  (2) No, number of comments on
     which has forced us to rethink the                       social  networking  sites  is
     concept of friendship is—                                important, not the quality of
                                                              friends
       (1) Bacon and Thoreau’s theories are
           no longer available to read
                                                          (3) Yes, it matters
       (2) the arrival of social media on the
           scene                                          (4) No, quality comes automatically
       (3) there is more interest in the                      with quantity
           sciences

       (4) friendships are not possible in
                                                    134. As per the first paragraph, what are
           the real world anymore, due to
                                                         the debates about?
           over-competition

                                                          (1) They    are  centered    around
131. Friendship leads to happiness. Is it                     whether our Facebook friends are
     true?                                                    helping us become more or less
                                                              happy.
       (1) Yes, researches have proven that
           friendship does lead to happiness
                                                          (2) There are no debates around
       (2) No, there       is no relationship                 friendship.
           between          friendship   and
           happiness                                      (3) The quality of comments of social
                                                              media is debatable.
       (3) Friends cannot make each other
           happy
                                                          (4) Thoreau and Aristotle’s thinking
       (4) One   needs   to   find  one’s                     is at loggerheads.
           happiness alone, with peace of
           mind
                                                    135. The word that is opposite in meaning
132. Did Pigliucci’s book discuss intuition              to the word ‘muddled’ is—
     too?
                                                          (1) confused
       (1) No, it only discussed friendship

       (2) It just explained science and                  (2) chaotic
           philosophy
                                                          (3) ordered
       (3) It discussed Aristotle’s theories

       (4) Yes                                            (4) rumpled

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Directions : Answer the following questions      139. The method of teaching foreign
(Q. Nos. 136 to 150) by selecting the                 language without using the pupil’s
correct/most appropriate options.                     first language is—

136. Positive interference is a kind of—               (1) direct method

                                                       (2) classical method
      (1) target language
                                                       (3) grammar-translation method
      (2) foreign language
                                                       (4) old method

      (3) pictorial language
                                                 140. Two words have identical sound and
                                                      spelling, but not related in meaning.
      (4) native language                             It is known as—

                                                       (1) homophone


137. In learning the new           language,           (2) homonymy
     multilingualism is—
                                                       (3) homograph

      (1) a methodology                                (4) polysemy


      (2) an asset                               141. Language of word is not necessary
                                                      for—
      (3) an interference
                                                       (1) imaginative thinking

      (4) a burden                                     (2) conceptual thinking

                                                       (3) associative thinking

                                                       (4) perceptual thinking
138. Note taking is done—

                                                 142. Communicative Language       Teaching
      (1) during a lecture
                                                      replaced basically—


      (2) while reading a review                       (1) Natural Language Processing

                                                       (2) Structural Teaching
      (3) during extensive reference work
                                                       (3) Situational Language Teaching

      (4) while writing an essay                       (4) Motivational Teaching

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143. Students are not organisms. Which          147. Decorum in spoken English pertains
     one of the following methods sees               to—
     them as a whole person?
                                                      (1) appropriate gestures
      (1) CLT
                                                      (2) clarity and purity of style
      (2) SLT
                                                      (3) correct grammatical usage
      (3) Silent way

      (4) CLL                                         (4) voice quality



144. Writing is the _____ representation of     148. Inquiry-based curriculum is based
     speech sounds.                                  on—

      (1) alphabetical                                (1) deductive reasoning

      (2) graphical                                   (2) inductive reasoning

      (3) phonetic
                                                      (3) heuristic reasoning
      (4) systematic
                                                      (4) analogical reasoning


145. When a teacher uses realia to teach
     vocabulary and grammar, she is—            149. Which of the following are structural
                                                     words?
      (1) using role play as a learning
          device                                      (1) Auxiliaries

      (2) using real objects, actions and             (2) Prepositions
          real-life situations
                                                      (3) Conjunctions
      (3) using computer technology

      (4) teaching through true stories               (4) All of the above



146. A poem whose first letters of each line    150. Conventions of writing include—
     spell out a word is called—
                                                      (1) story ideas
      (1) alliterative
                                                      (2) proper punctuation
      (2) epic
                                                      (3) imagination
      (3) acrostic

      (4) haiku                                       (4) good vocabulary


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