TAT for secondary school teachers English subject paper - May 2012

The following is paper solution for English subject paper of TAT exam taken on 07-05-2012 for Secondary School teachers. (આ ૦૭-૦૫-૨૦૧૨ ના રોજ માધ્યમિક શિક્ષકો માટે લેવાયેલી TAT (Teachers Aptitude Test) પરીક્ષાના અંગ્રેજી વિષયના પેપરમાં પુછાયેલા પ્રશ્નોના સંભવિત જવાબો છે.)

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English subject solved question paper for TAT conducted on May 07, 2012

1.Which of the following is not mother's quality?
Ans. She can argue.

2. What are natural divisions of time?
Ans.day and night and the seasons

3. Dr.Franz Halberg is a .................. .
Ans. founder professor of chronobiology.


4. Chronobiology is ................... .
Ans. A biology of time (and probably not A biology of body)

5. The noun form of hungry is.................... .
Ans. hunger

6. Which of the following statement is false?
Ans. the dog chased the cat up a tree

7. When I don't like what people do or say ................... .
Ans. I should not be angry with them.

8. 'To handle things' means .................. .
Ans. to deal with things.

9. Find out the false sentence from the following.
Ans. the students undertook the project on one subject. OR the students undertook the project on different subjects (We will verify which of these is correct answer. In our view, the latter is the correct answer)

10. Find out the true sentence from the following.
Ans. India has a major share in the world diamond and jewelery business.

11. The diamonds are assorted according to their.................. .
Ans. weight,size,solidity and purity

12. When did juliane's plane took off from the Lima airport?
Ans.24th December,1971

13. 'Exhausted'  means ............... .
Ans. very tired

14. Janki's ............. is that they should go to the section of 'Magic science'.
Ans. proposal

15. There is a special section in the science fair for ..................
Ans. Models and Charts and Experiments

16. The body of Digvijay was ................. .
Ans. mud covered.

17. Miss Sullivan ............... .
Ans. talked as if she were a little girl herself.

18. Which of the following shows Helen's feelings?
Ans.amazed and delighted

19. Blandford had a deep longing for the woman because......... .
Ans. she had given him courage and strength.

20.Scrub............. in the velley.
Ans.found

21. The poet understands that his friend.............. it by being himself.
Ans. has done ( poem 7 love of 10th)

22. Don't leave the premises ................. you told.
Ans. until.

23. Sit on the............. properly or ........... the hall.
Ans. seat, quit

24. A workshop ...................... by the NavBharti school for the students ............... in class XII in the next month.
Ans. will be conducted, studying

Choose the correct option.

25. Mother advised Kiran ................ .
Ans. not to waste her time in watching T.V.

26. What is the function of the queen bee?
Ans.reproduction

27. Which sentence shows that Phatik had high fever?
Ans. He took his thin burning hands in his own.

28. 'English is the major window of the modern world' This statement is made by .................... .
Ans. Jawaharlal Nehru

29. Comprehension, Expression,skill and knowledge are the .............. of English teaching.
Ans. objectives

30. .................... is considered the best method of teaching English as it is governed by the maxim proceed from the known to unknown.
Ans. translation method

31. The reading which concentrate upon  the subject-matter and not the language, is called ............reading.
Ans. Extensive reading

32. "The Aims of silent reading are pleasure and profit to be able to read for interest and to get information." is defined by................. .
Ans. Ryburn

33. "If under sentimental urges we give up English learning, we would cut ourselves from the living stream of evergrowing knowledge", is reported by.............. .

Ans. Radhakrishna Commission

34. The syllabus of graded structure and controlled vocabulary  taught through .............. approach.

Ans.

35. Select which one is not the characteristic of good handwriting.
Ans.Productivity

36.Inductive method of teaching grammar is an another form of ................Grammar.
Ans. 

37. "Substitution is a process with which any model sentence maybe multiplied indefinitely by substituting any of its words or word-groups, of the same grammatical family." is defined by .................. .
Ans.

38. 'Objectivity,validity and Rea liability '  are the characteristics of a ............ .
Ans. Test

39. Say which one is not visual Aid.
Ans. Linguaphone 

40. From june 2006, which subject was made compulsory in std.X?
Ans. English

41. Select the synonym of the word 'Evaluation'.
Ans. Assessment

42. Unit lesson planning is a planning for ..............
Ans. 5to 6 periods

43. The figure within brackets indicates....................in the blue print.
Ans. Total questions

44.The questions related to the ................are the base in the blue print.
Ans.

45. The primary teachers are trained at the district level by.............
Ans. DIET

46.'Secondary Teachers' Training Institute' (STTI) is  situated at .................. .
Ans. Gandhinagar

47. Howmany types of objectives are included in the blue print?
Ans.Three

48. Mahakarna was................ .
Ans.the king of the rabbits

49.'To move to and fro' means.............. .
Ans. to move far and near

50.'My master is trembling with anger' Who is the master?
Ans. Moon

51. Who is India's first woman IPS officer?
Ans.Kiran Bedi

52. Ramanujam calculated the length of the Equator ...............
Ans. at the age of thirteen

53. ......................... made Ramanujam a member of their society.
Ans.Royal society of England

54. ................invite different schools of their districts to participate in the competition.
Ans.Tejas Vidyalaya

55. Which word in the passage means 'organizes'?
Ans. arranges

56. The aton bomb was dropped on Hiroshima on........................ .
Ans.6th August 1945

57. ................... are newcomers in the market.
Ans. Thousand-rupee notes

58.Which word in the passage means 'given great importance to'?
Ans. valued

59. The value of coins were determined by ................... .
Ans.the metal,the weight and the size

60. Coins were replaced by paper money because ............................. .
Ans. They were difficult to carry and to store

61. In chess the king and the queen  are placed .............
Ans. in the center

62. Which of the following sentence is false?
Ans. Anand was not in a hurry to play a game

63.Edie was..............
Ans. a Zulu hunter

64. Edie envied the cubs because................... .
Ans. they got food easily

65. The word 'luckey' means,.................... .
Ans. fortunate

66. The phrase 'got together' means............... .
Ans. gathered

67. An earthquake is measured on the................ .
Ans. Richter scale

68. Which of the following was not sent for the people affected by the earthquake?
Ans. houses

69. The cast was operated upon because ............. .
Ans. it had swallowed a plastic bag

70. Many animals and birds die because of ........................ .
Ans. eating plastic garbage

71. Uncle Ken's plan was................ .
Ans. To stay with Emily at Lucknow

72. The phrase 'to look after means'................
Ans. to take care of

73. .............was afamouse english cricketer.
Ans. Bruce Hallam

74. Which one of the following is true?
Ans.The rival team was fielding first

75. The mammals send messages by using ............... .
Ans.different sounds

76. The weight of the blue whale is .................... .
Ans.1,30,000

77. The word 'young ones' means ..............
Ans. babies

78. What is Chandu's problem?
 Ans.He has lost his dog

79. Mr.Williams saw .............when he wake up.
Ans.An old man

80. Williams had been asleep for ............. years.
Ans. 52

81. Which of the following sentence is false?
Ans.Jignesh follows the timetable

82. The word 'rain' rhymes with the word............ .
Ans.lane.

83. The rain water gushes out from the................ .
Ans.spout

84. The dolphin's brain is different from a human brain in .............. .
Ans.Weight

85. The young ones  of dolphins die because of .................. .
Ans.water pollution

86. Sachin is the ................ cricketer in the world.
Ans. best

87. Sulabh is ................... than his brother.
Ans. elder

88. What did Giant see when he returned to his castle?
Ans. Children playing in his garden

89. Choose the correct word from the options and fill the gaps.
People always love the ............. of the flowers.
Ans. fragrance

90. Which of the following statement is false?

Ans. All of the three given above

Give one word for the following group of words. (sentence)

91.A person thinking only about himself/herself.

Ans. selfish

92. The word 'puzzled' stands for ............... .

Ans. confused 

93. One of the following questions was not asked by the shepherd. Which was it? Find out

Ans. Did you find the answers?

94. What does the Emblem of Canada include?

Ans. three red maple leaves

95. Jenna is from ................ and she is interested in .............. .

Ans. Canada,classical music

96. Monty was grateful because.................. .

Ans. None of the above three

97. What does noise make us to do?

Ans. Cover our ears.

98. What disappointed the parents ?

Ans. the boys avoided their parents' wish 

99. Which of the following statements is not correct?

Ans. Always scream

100. Which of the following statements is true?

Ans. The mother can take care of a nine year old child.


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