Answer Key English Section: Postal Assistant Exam Held on 19 May 2013

Solved Questions of Postal/Sorting Assistant Exam held on 19 May 2013

English Section: Questions with Answer Key

Circles Covered: Delhi, Jammu & Kashmir, Punjab, Uttarakhand and U. P. circles

Directions: (1 to 3) Give one word for the underlined phrase

Q1. The small child does whatever his father was done

A. has done  

B. did            

C. Does         

D. had done

Ans. C

Q2. He is too important for tolerating for any delay

A. to tolerate

B. to tolerating   

C. at tolerating   

D. with tolerating

Ans. A

Q3. Why did you not threw the bag away

A.  did you not throw                     

B. had you not throw

C. did you not thrown        

D. you did not thrown

Ans. A

Directions: (4 to7) select the word or phrase that is most nearly opposite in meaning

Q4. ENORMOUS

A. Soft                       

B. Average                

C.Tiny                       

D. Weak

Ans. C

Q5. ARTIFICIAL

A. Red               

B. Natural    

C. Truthful   

D. Solid

Ans. B

Q6. EXPAND

A. Convert     

B. Condense    

C. Congest     

D. Conclude

Ans. B

Q7. FRAUDULENT

A. Candid        

B. Direct     

C. Fortnight   

D. Genuine

Ans. D

Directions: (8 to 9) Choose correctly spelt words

Q8.

A. Pessenger

B. Passenger

C. Pasanger

D. Pesanger

Ans. B

Q9.

A. Benefitted        

B. Benifited       

C. Benefited 

D. Benefeted

Ans. C

Directions: (10 to 12) Choose Synonyms for the given words

Q10. Attain

A.  Acquire   

B. Leave    

C. Accept      

D. Excuse

Ans. A

Q11. Verify

A.    Acceptable   

B. Condemn    

C. Testify    

D. Praise

Ans. C

Q12. Immortal

A.    Mortal                

B. Eternal      

C. Dead     

D. Eminent

 Ans. C

Q13. Point out the verb in the following words.

A. Success      

B. Succeed      

C. Successful     

D. Successfully

 Ans. B

Q14. Find out the sentence in Passive voice

A. The judge convicted the culprit for his offence

B. The culprit apologised to the judge for his offence

C. The judge scolded the culprit for his offense

D. The culprit was punished for his offence by the judge

Ans. D

Q15. Point out the correct sentence

A. The teacher said that the Earth moved round the sun

B. The teacher told that the Earth was moving round the sun

C. The teacher said that the Earth moves round the Sun

D. The teacher said that the Earth had moved round the sun

Ans. C

Q16. Mark the correct Passive form of the sentence

I play cricket with my friends

A. I play with my friends cricket

B. Cricket plays my friends with me

C. Cricket is played by me with my friends

D. Cricket was played by me with my friends

Ans. C

Directions: (17 to 18) identify the tenses in the following sentences

 Q17. She reached the examination hall well in time

A.  Present perfect  

B. Past indefinite   

C. Past Perfect  

D. Future indefinite

Ans. B

Q18. I am learning English from my Uncle

A. Past Continuous   

B. Present perfect  

C. Present Continuous  

D. Future indefinite

Ans. C

Directions: (19 to 21) Mark the appropriate words to fill in the blanks

 Q19.  God helps those _____help themselves

A.Who             

B. Which          

C. that        

D. whom

Ans. A

Q20. It is raining heavily, take _____umbrella

A. The          

B. An         

C. A               

D. Some

 Ans. B

Q21.We have been waiting for the train___more than two hours

A. Since      

B. From     

C. Until     

D. For

 Ans.  D

Directions: (22 to 24) Identify the parts of Speech of underlined

 Q22. Good students are always Successful in life

 A. Adverb   

B. Noun    

C. Adjective     

D. Pronoun

 Ans. C

Q23. The teacher was very pleased with me

 A. Preposition      

B. Conjunction    

C. Pronoun    

D. Adverb

Ans. A

Q24. Cross the busy road carefully

A. Noun          

B. Adjective       

C. Verb       

D.Adverb

 Ans. B

Directions : change the following sentence into reported Speech

 Q25. Rahul Said “ I am busy now”

A. Rahul said that he was busy then       

B. Rahul said that he is busy now

C. Rahul Said that he was busy now        

D. Rahul said that he was busy now

Ans. B

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