TNPSC Group 4 General English 2024 Official Question Paper (Free Test)

TNPSC Group 4 General English 2024 Official Questions

1. Choose the correct synonym for the underlined word
The Poor Farmer loved his aged mother with tender Reverence.

(A) Deep Respect

(B) Cruel

(C) Desert

(D) Brutal

(E) Answer not known

2. Choose the correct "Antonym" for the underlined word from the options given
He sat in his chairGazing at one thing.

(A) Admire

(B) Bore

(C) Glance

(D) Dislike

(E) Answer not known

3. Match the correct antonyms:

(a) Kind - 1. Distaste
(b) Usually - 2. Cruel
(c) Possessed - 3. Unusually
(d) Taste - 4. Lacked

(A) 2 3 1 4

(B) 2 1 4 3

(C) 2 4 1 3

(D) 2 3 4 1

(E) Answer not known

4. Choose the appropriate preposition:
My Neighbour was afflicted ___ a serious illness and was hospitalised ___ more than two months.

(A) from, for

(B) by, for

(C) by, since

(D) with, for

(E) Answer not known

5. Fill in the blanks with suitable Article :
Vishal drew ___ wonderful picture on the board yesterday.

(A) an

(B) a

(C) the

(D) at

(E) Answer not known

6. Fill in the blanks by choosing the appropriate preposition from the given options:
The construction of this building has been going on ___ January.

(A) for

(B) since

(C) during

(D) from

(E) Answer not known

7. Fill in the blanks with suitable preposition:
The cricket ball was hidden ___ the leaves.

(A) among

(B) inside

(C) after

(D) between

(E) Answer not known

8. Select the correct tense :
In two years time, I ___ my degree.

(A) will earn

(B) shall have earned

(C) had earned

(D) earned

(E) Answer not known

9. Choose the correct passive form of the given sentence from the given options:
Someone has stolen the car.

(A) The car has been stolen

(B) The car had stolen

(C) The car had been stolen

(D) The car will have been stolen

(E) Answer not known

10. Choose the best Passive Voice for the given sentence:
Why did your brother write such a letter?

(A) Why was such a letter written by your brother?

(B) Why such a letter is written by your brother?

(C) Did your brother wrote such a letter?

(D) Why your brother have written such a letter?

(E) Answer not known

11. Fill in the blanks with Infinitive word from the option given :
We intended ___ early.

(A) leave

(B) left

(C) to leave

(D) leaving

(E) Answer not known

12. Homophones:
There lived a man who loved to read about ___

(A) study

(B) read

(C) write

(D) knights

(E) Answer not known

13. Fill in the blanks with suitable preposition.
Thumbi lay ___ the gunny bags and looked contentedly at me and my brother.

(A) down up

(B) down on

(C) down with

(D) down in

(E) Answer not known

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14. Choose the correct preposition:
We underwent our basic SAIL training courses ___ Mumbai ___ the Indian Naval Watermanship Training Centre (INWTC)

(A) at, in

(B) at, from

(C) in, at

(D) in, from

(E) Answer not known

15. Select the correct sentence:

(A) She has written a novel

(B) She is written a novel

(C) She is write a novel

(D) She has been written a novel

(E) Answer not known

16. Choose the correct Plural form of word Luggage

(A) Luggages

(B) Luggage

(C) Lugage

(D) Luggagese

(E) Answer not known

17. Match the following:

(a) Crisis - 1. Fish
(b) Fungus - 2. Media
(c) Medium - 3. Crises
(d) Fish - 4. Fungi

(A) 2 3 1 4

(B) 3 4 2 1

(C) 1 4 2 3

(D) 1 3 2 4

(E) Answer not known

18. Identify the sentence:
On seeing the teacher, the children stood up

(A) complex

(B) compound

(C) simple

(D) above all

(E) Answer not known

19. Which of the following is not a comparative degree?

(A) longer

(B) taller

(C) layer

(D) weaker

(E) Answer not known

20. Pick out the words in alliteration in the below line:
"With forward face and unreluctant soul";

(A) with, forward

(B) forward, face

(C) unreluctant, soul

(D) with, soul

(E) Answer not known

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21. With the green world they live in; and clear rills, That for themselves a cooling covert make.
Pick out the alliterated words.

(A) clear - rills

(B) covert make

(C) greenworld

(D) cooling - covert

(E) Answer not known

22. River, river, little river!
Bright you sparkle on your way;
O'er the yellow pebbles dancing,
Through the flowers and foliage glancing,
Like a child at play.
Identify the figure of speech :

(A) Metaphor

(B) Simile

(C) Rhyming

(D) None

(E) Answer not known

23. Which one of the given options is a Metaphor?

(A) Life is like a Chocolate box

(B) Raj is like his twin brother

(C) His words are Pearls of wisdom

(D) The bus is slow as a snail

(E) Answer not known

24. And though his efforts never slack
And though he twist, and twirl, and tack
Pick out the rhyming words in the above lines

(A) slack, tack

(B) efforts, twist

(C) though, twist

(D) twirl, tack

(E) Answer not known

25. Are fed by peaceful harvest, by war's long winter starv'd
Identify the figure of speech employed in the above line

(A) Metaphor

(B) Transferred epithet

(C) Personification

(D) Simile

(E) Answer not known

26. I drive past the house almost every day. The house seems to be a bit brighter.
Who does 'I' refer to?

(A) The House

(B) The Tree

(C) The Poet

(D) The Ghost

(E) Answer not known

27. Strong is she in her faith and beliefs.
"Persistence is the key to everything" says she.
Who does "She" refer to here?

(A) The poet

(B) Today's woman

(C) Mother

(D) Daughter

(E) Answer not known

28. "And all I ask is a merry yarn from a laughing fellow - rover"
Bring out the meaning of the word "rover"

(A) jumping

(B) running

(C) wandering

(D) breaking

(E) Answer not known

29. "Let us learn to walk with a smile and a song.
No matter if things do sometimes go wrong"
What does the poet expect everyone to learn?

(A) To be sad

(B) To be cheerful

(C) To be courageous

(D) To be mournful

(E) Answer not known

30. What kind of creatures does this planet earth also belong to?

(A) Longest

(B) Tallest

(C) Highest

(D) Tiniest

(E) Answer not known

31. The poet yearns to go by a ___ to the lonely sea.

(A) a long boat

(B) a big boat

(C) a tall ship

(D) an aeroplane

(E) Answer not known

32. Choose the best option:
"Speak gently to the little child!
Its love be sure to gain"
These lines are from David Bates' poem

(A) Team Work

(B) Your Space

(C) Special Hero

(D) A Tragic Story

(E) Answer not known

33. "Our love is overlasting
I just wanted you to know
That you're my special hero
and I wanted to tell you so"
These lines are taken from the poem

(A) The Spider and the Fly

(B) The Ant and the Cricket

(C) No Men are Foreign

(D) Special Hero

(E) Answer not known

34. She's a lioness, don't mess with her
She'll not spare you if you're a prankster
Identify the poet who wrote the lines given above.

(A) John Keats

(B) Rakhi Nariani Shirke

(C) Henry Van Dyke

(D) Rudyard Kipling

(E) Answer not known

35. Match the poems with the poets:

(a) No Men Are Foreign	1. Rudyard Kipling
(b) I am every woman	2. Nadia Bush
(c) The secret of the machines	3. James Falconer Kirkup
(d) The House on Elm Street	4. Rakhi Nariani Shirke

(A) 2 4 3 1

(B) 4 3 2 1

(C) 3 4 1 2

(D) 2 1 4 3

(E) Answer not known

36. "That's one small step for a man,
One giant leap for mankind"
Who said these words?

(A) Neil Armstrong

(B) Christopher Columbus

(C) Mahatma Gandhi

(D) Amerigo Vespucci

(E) Answer not known

37. William Shakespeare's birth place was

(A) Yorkshire

(B) Stratford-Upon-Avon

(C) London

(D) Durban

(E) Answer not known

38. The phrase written by the French master on the black board before dismissing the class in Alphonse Daudet's The Last Lesson is

(A) Vive La France

(B) In Cognito

(C) Bon voyage

(D) In Toto

(E) Answer not known

39. When Peter thrust his finger into the tiny hole

(A) the flowing of water stopped

(B) he heard a splashing noise

(C) water started flowing more

(D) the dike broke into pieces

(E) Answer not known

40. Who is Sherlock Holmes?

(A) Novelist

(B) Poet

(C) Detective

(D) Fiction writer

(E) Answer not known

41. Read the statement carefully what does it try to prove here?
"If any of you fellows think there is anything coming to you from me, come and take it"

(A) A brave fears no evil

(B) A brave fears no happy

(C) A calmness brings a victory

(D) A fearless ends in vain

(E) Answer not known

42. Sir Issac Newton died at the age of

(A) 75

(B) 90

(C) 85

(D) 80

(E) Answer not known

43. The author speaks about the river?
___ in the lesson "My Reminiscence".

(A) Ganges

(B) Yamuna

(C) Vaigai

(D) Brahmaputra

(E) Answer not known

44. Ruskin Bond was awarded ___ for his contribution to Indian literature.
Fill up the blank with suitable answer.

(A) Pulitzer prize

(B) Sahitya Akademi award

(C) Padmabhusan

(D) Padma Vibhusan

(E) Answer not known

45. Choose the correct answer:
In "The Nose Jewel" - The Diamond jewel belonged to

(A) Ramayya's wife

(B) Kuppayi

(C) Meenakshi Ammal

(D) Meenakshi Ammal's daughter

(E) Answer not known

46. On 4, July 1943 ___ took leadership of the INA (Indian National Army)

(A) Rash Behari Bose

(B) Nehru

(C) Subash Chandra Bose

(D) Patel

(E) Answer not known

47. ___ was the first deaf, blind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts Degree.

(A) Stephen Hawking

(B) David

(C) Helen Keller

(D) Alisha

(E) Answer not known

48. Kalpana Chawla was posthumously awarded

(A) Congressional space medal of honour

(B) Congress space medal of honor

(C) Congress space medal of service

(D) Congressional space medal of service

(E) Answer not known

49. "The book of Indian birds" is written by

(A) Dr. Sarojini Naidu

(B) Dr. Salim Ali

(C) Dr. Subbulakshmi

(D) Dr. Khan

(E) Answer not known

50. Read the given passage carefully and answer the questions given below:
Man has through the ages sought in vain for an imaginary elixir of life, the divine Amrita, a draught of which was thought to confer immortality. But the true elixir of life lies near our hands; for it is the commonest of all liquids, plain water! I remember one day standing on the line which separates the Libyan Desert from the valley of the Nile in Egypt. On one side was visible a sea of billowing sand without a speck of green or a single living thing anywhere on it. On the other side lay one of the greatest, most fertile and densely populated areas to be found anywhere on the earth, teeming with life and vegetation. What made this wonderful difference? Why, it is the water of the river Nile flowing down from its sources a couple of thousands of miles away. Geologists tell us that the entire soil of the Nile valley is the creation of the river itself. Egypt, infact, was made by its river. Its ancient civilization was created and is sustained by the life-giving waters.
The meaning of the word elixir is

(A) A supplementary

(B) A substance believed to cure all ills

(C) Essential part of life

(D) All the above

(E) Answer not known

51. The true elixir of life is

(A) the commonest of all liquids

(B) lies near our hands

(C) the plain water

(D) all the above

(E) Answer not known

52. The river Nile is in

(A) Libyan Desert

(B) Greece

(C) Egypt

(D) None of the above

(E) Answer not known

53. The river Nile flows down to the Mediterranean ___ miles away.

(A) a couple of thousands of

(B) thousands of

(C) hundreds of

(D) none of the above

(E) Answer not known

54. The passage is about

(A) the importance of river

(B) the flow of river

(C) the source of water

(D) the real elixir of life-water

(E) Answer not known

55. Match the following words and phrases given in Column A with their meanings in Column B:

(a) Fond of	1. Confine
(b) Look at	2. Conclude
(c) Lock up	3. Affectionate
(d) Finish off	4. See

(A) 4 3 2 1

(B) 3 1 4 2

(C) 3 4 1 2

(D) 1 4 3 2

(E) Answer not known

56. Choose the correct meaning of the given phrase
Put Down

(A) Tolerate patiently

(B) Extinguish

(C) Crush

(D) Postpone

(E) Answer not known

57. Choose the correct Suffix for the underlined word from the options given :
It is a Rain Day.

(A) y

(B) ly

(C) ty

(D) ful

(E) Answer not known

58. The path to success is highly complicated. This is an example of ___ sentence.

(A) Complex

(B) Compound

(C) Simple

(D) Idiomatic

(E) Answer not known

59. Fill in the blanks with suitable article from the options given below:
Please give me ___ Hammer and ___ Nail.

(A) the, the

(B) the, a

(C) a, a

(D) a, the

(E) Answer not known

60. Fill in the blank with the suitable Article from the options given below :
Computer is ___ Electronic Extension of the Human Brain.

(A) a

(B) an

(C) the

(D) some

(E) Answer not known

61. Match the sentences with their question tags :

(a) Don't come late tomorrow,	1. did I?
(b) I said nothing,	2. will you?
(c) You will come tomorrow,	3. didn't I?
(d) I came yesterday,	4. won't you?

(A) 3 1 4 2

(B) 3 4 2 1

(C) 2 1 4 3

(D) 3 4 1 2

(E) Answer not known

62. Choose the correct question tag :
You wouldn't like to invite my Dad, ___

(A) will you?

(B) did you?

(C) would you?

(D) won't you?

(E) Answer not known

63. Select the correct tense in negative form:
You ___ by this time tomorrow (sing).

(A) are singing

(B) isn't singing

(C) will be singing

(D) won't be singing

(E) Answer not known

64. Write the gerund/infinitive, participle form of the verbs in the blank :
The astronauts managed ___ (complete) their training in record time.

(A) to complete

(B) completing

(C) completed

(D) was completing

(E) Answer not known

65. Identify the sentence pattern of the following sentence:
The Doctor adviced him complete rest.

(A) SVOA

(B) SVIODO

(C) SVCC

(D) SVOC

(E) Answer not known

66. Choose the sentence which has an object in it:

(A) Birds fly in the sky

(B) I will become a genuine person

(C) Yesterday my uncle came

(D) Rosy gave me a pen

(E) Answer not known

67. Choose the correct sentence pattern:
They painted the car red in the shed.

(A) SVIODOA

(B) SVOCA

(C) SVOA

(D) SVCA

(E) Answer not known

68. Find out the word that is not a homophone:

(A) watt

(B) bark

(C) bare

(D) herd

(E) Answer not known

69. Find out the odd words:

(A) cellar

(B) come

(C) call

(D) carry

(E) Answer not known

70. Identify the verb:
He received your messages.

(A) messages

(B) received

(C) He

(D) above all

(E) Answer not known

71. Singular and Plural:
Write the plural form of brother in law.

(A) brother-in-laws

(B) brothers-in-law

(C) brother's-in-law

(D) brothers-in-laws

(E) Answer not known

72. Which two words blend together to form the new word 'bit'?

(A) binary + digit

(B) bi + digit

(C) bidigi + it

(D) binary + it

(E) Answer not known

73. Choose the right combination for the blended word 'News Cast':

(A) News + Broadcast

(B) News + Telecast

(C) News + Cast

(D) News + Casting

(E) Answer not known

74. Fill in the blanks in a sentence with appropriate compound words:
The ___ effect is a natural process that warms the Earth's surface.

(A) sunlight

(B) green house

(C) snow fall

(D) waiting room

(E) Answer not known

75. The British English word 'Fish Finger' in American English is called

(A) Finger fish

(B) Fish chips

(C) Fish sticks

(D) Fish fries

(E) Answer not known

76. But of late, my computer has been behaving badly too, It so absent minded, that I don't know what to do.
What is the figure of speech used in these lines?

(A) Simile

(B) Metaphor

(C) Personification

(D) Anaphora

(E) Answer not known

77. Not hurrying to, nor turning from the goal
Not mourning for the things that disappear.
The figure of speech used in the above lines is

(A) Hyperbole

(B) Metaphor

(C) Simile

(D) Anaphora

(E) Answer not known

78. Speak gently to the little child !
Its love be sure to gain;
Teach it in accents soft and mild:
It may not long remain.
Mention the rhyme scheme employed in the above lines

(A) abbb

(B) aabb

(C) abab

(D) abba

(E) Answer not known

79. Not a crumb to be found
On the snow-covered ground;
Not a flower could he see,
Not a leaf on tree.
Mention the rhyme scheme employed in the above lines.

(A) abab

(B) aabb

(C) abba

(D) abaa

(E) Answer not known

80. The best novel of William Makepeace Thackeray is

(A) The citadel

(B) Vanity Fair

(C) David Copper field

(D) Malgudi days

(E) Answer not known

81. "Let me but live my life from year to year with forward face and unreluctant soul".
What does the word "Unreluctant" refer to?

(A) Feeling joy

(B) Understand

(C) Willing to do something

(D) Expressing sad

(E) Answer not known

82. "O'er the rough or smooth, the journey will be joy".
Pick out the contrasting words in the given line.

(A) journey and joy

(B) rough and smooth

(C) O'er and will

(D) rough and joy

(E) Answer not known

83. One bit of courage
for the darkening sky;
Which quality is need for the darkening sky?

(A) grace

(B) courage

(C) faith

(D) brave

(E) Answer not known

84. The collection of fables from Ancient Greece is called

(A) Aristotle's fables

(B) Aesop's fables

(C) Shakespeare's fables

(D) Greek fables

(E) Answer not known

85. "A thing of beauty is a joy forever
Its loveliness increases, it will never
Pass into nothingness"
The phrase "pass into nothingness" means that beautiful things never

(A) create unpleasantness between friends

(B) fade away

(C) bring happiness

(D) give us peace

(E) Answer not known

86. Beneath all uniforms, a single body breathes
Like ours, the land our brothers walk upon
Is earth like this, in which we all shall lie.
From which 'Poem' these lines are taken?

(A) No Men Are Foreign

(B) The House on Elm Street

(C) The Spider and The Fly

(D) The Stick-together Families

(E) Answer not known

87. "Each a Glimpse and gone forever!"
This line is taken from the poem

(A) Team work

(B) A tragic story

(C) Indian seasons

(D) From a railway carriage

(E) Answer not known

88. "So hack and chop
But this alone won't do it
Not so much pain will do it".
Killing a tree cannot be done merely by

(A) Pulling

(B) Chopping

(C) Choking

(D) Jabbing

(E) Answer not known

89. "The woods are lovely, dark and deep
But I have promises to keep"
These lines are taken from the poem

(A) A Poison Tree

(B) Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

(C) On Killing a Tree

(D) The River

(E) Answer not known

90. The young sea gull's parents threaten him in such a way if he didn't flew away

(A) to starve him

(B) to never talk to him

(C) to punish him

(D) to abandon him

(E) Answer not known

91. In Lesson, "Learning the Game" which school gave importance to Cricket?

(A) Shardhasram Vidhya Mandir

(B) Sharadhambal Vidhya Mandir

(C) Shakthi Sharadha Vidyalaya

(D) Sri Vidyalaya

(E) Answer not known

92. Which game is mentioned in this lesson "Learning the Game"?

(A) Foot ball

(B) Basket ball

(C) Kabbadi

(D) Cricket

(E) Answer not known

93. The Cat Peter sprang a couple of yards in the air as

(A) He had a teaspoon of the pain killer

(B) His tail was caught in the mousetrap

(C) Tom threw him out of the window

(D) Aunt gave him a push

(E) Answer not known

94. What is "Cheering Sight" according to Sir.C.V. Raman?

(A) Rainfed tanks with full of water

(B) Tanks without water

(C) River

(D) Lake

(E) Answer not known

95. During the last year of the war, Abraham Lincoln become ___ to his fellow citizens by an attachment of genuine sentiment.

(A) 'Father Abraham'

(B) 'Fellow Man'

(C) 'Abraham, The Great'

(D) 'The Great Man'

(E) Answer not known

96. 'The Discovery of India' was written by Nehru in the prison of

(A) Almora Jail

(B) Bareilly District Jail

(C) Central Prison, Naini

(D) Ahmednagar Fort Prison

(E) Answer not known

97. "My profession did not fill me with a whole hearted enthusiasm".
Who said this?

(A) Gandhi

(B) Nehru

(C) Patel

(D) Jinnah

(E) Answer not known

98. According to the doctrine of lapse, the British could take over the kingdom from an Indian ruler who

(A) lost the war

(B) died without a natural heir

(C) indulged in corruption

(D) died because of a terrible disease

(E) Answer not known

99. When was Nelson Mandela born?

(A) December 18, 1920

(B) December 14, 1918

(C) June 18, 1918

(D) July 18, 1918

(E) Answer not known

100. Mention Abraham Lincoln's father's profession

(A) Dentist

(B) Teacher

(C) Cobbler

(D) Carpenter

(E) Answer not known

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