Reading Comprehension Previous Year Questions (page 2)
147 Reading Comprehension (English) questions asked in CTET previous year papers, each with the correct answer and explanation. Read them free on UTpaper, or attempt the full papers as timed online tests.
Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow.
He must have seen us coming from some distance. By the time he loomed up in front of my headlights, the arms in the snow-caked overcoat were flailing desperately like windmills.
Pat gave a little gasp and I braked at once, though gently, or I might have followed his car into the ditch. But immediately I had second thoughts; there had been one or two nasty cases of hold-up in the papers recently. I wasn’t going to take any chance with Pat, my sister, there. I changed down the gear and made to drive round him.
Pat was horrified. ‘Aren’t you stopping, Bill?’ I shook my head. ‘Too risky’.
It was then that I saw the car. It had skidded right across the road and was hanging nose down in the deep ditch. I braked again and brought the Mini-Moris gradually to a stop.
I slid back my window as he looked in and then I saw that he was bleeding from a cut in his cheek.
‘Anybody else in the car?’
‘No, on my own. If you could give me a lift’.
I nodded and he got into the back and slammed the door.
‘Sorry about this, folks. I was beginning to think I was stuck there for the night. Not that you would call it a busy road, is it?’
‘Not at twelve o’clock at night’, Pat said, turning round to smile at him. ‘We have been to a dance in Boling ford. Bill didn’t want to go, but I was keen. He isn’t a bad brother, really’.
Which of the following statements is/are correct?
AThere was snowfall, and a ditch along the road so Bill was driving very carefully.
BBecause of snow, he was driving very slowly.
CIt was night time, so there was no traffic on the road, so Bill was driving in a carefree manner.
DIt was the dead of night, so Bill was feeling drowsy while driving.
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Correct answer: (A) There was snowfall, and a ditch along the road so Bill was driving very carefully.
Explanation
The overcoat was snow-caked and there was a deep ditch beside the road; Bill braked ‘gently’ so as not to follow the car into the ditch, which shows he was driving carefully.
Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow.
He must have seen us coming from some distance. By the time he loomed up in front of my headlights, the arms in the snow-caked overcoat were flailing desperately like windmills.
Pat gave a little gasp and I braked at once, though gently, or I might have followed his car into the ditch. But immediately I had second thoughts; there had been one or two nasty cases of hold-up in the papers recently. I wasn’t going to take any chance with Pat, my sister, there. I changed down the gear and made to drive round him.
Pat was horrified. ‘Aren’t you stopping, Bill?’ I shook my head. ‘Too risky’.
It was then that I saw the car. It had skidded right across the road and was hanging nose down in the deep ditch. I braked again and brought the Mini-Moris gradually to a stop.
I slid back my window as he looked in and then I saw that he was bleeding from a cut in his cheek.
‘Anybody else in the car?’
‘No, on my own. If you could give me a lift’.
I nodded and he got into the back and slammed the door.
‘Sorry about this, folks. I was beginning to think I was stuck there for the night. Not that you would call it a busy road, is it?’
‘Not at twelve o’clock at night’, Pat said, turning round to smile at him. ‘We have been to a dance in Boling ford. Bill didn’t want to go, but I was keen. He isn’t a bad brother, really’.
‘. . . . he loomed up in front of . . . .’
The underlined phrase (loomed up) means the same as:
Afell down
Bappeared
Cdrove up
Dlooked up
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Correct answer: (B) appeared
Explanation
To ‘loom up’ is to appear suddenly, often as a large or unclear shape. The stranger suddenly appeared in front of the headlights.
Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow.
He must have seen us coming from some distance. By the time he loomed up in front of my headlights, the arms in the snow-caked overcoat were flailing desperately like windmills.
Pat gave a little gasp and I braked at once, though gently, or I might have followed his car into the ditch. But immediately I had second thoughts; there had been one or two nasty cases of hold-up in the papers recently. I wasn’t going to take any chance with Pat, my sister, there. I changed down the gear and made to drive round him.
Pat was horrified. ‘Aren’t you stopping, Bill?’ I shook my head. ‘Too risky’.
It was then that I saw the car. It had skidded right across the road and was hanging nose down in the deep ditch. I braked again and brought the Mini-Moris gradually to a stop.
I slid back my window as he looked in and then I saw that he was bleeding from a cut in his cheek.
‘Anybody else in the car?’
‘No, on my own. If you could give me a lift’.
I nodded and he got into the back and slammed the door.
‘Sorry about this, folks. I was beginning to think I was stuck there for the night. Not that you would call it a busy road, is it?’
‘Not at twelve o’clock at night’, Pat said, turning round to smile at him. ‘We have been to a dance in Boling ford. Bill didn’t want to go, but I was keen. He isn’t a bad brother, really’.
‘. . . . brought the Mini-Moris gradually to a stop’.
The underlined word (gradually) is opposite in meaning to __________.
Agenerally
Busually
Csuddenly
Dmainly
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Correct answer: (C) suddenly
Explanation
‘Gradually’ means slowly, little by little; its opposite is ‘suddenly’.
Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow.
He must have seen us coming from some distance. By the time he loomed up in front of my headlights, the arms in the snow-caked overcoat were flailing desperately like windmills.
Pat gave a little gasp and I braked at once, though gently, or I might have followed his car into the ditch. But immediately I had second thoughts; there had been one or two nasty cases of hold-up in the papers recently. I wasn’t going to take any chance with Pat, my sister, there. I changed down the gear and made to drive round him.
Pat was horrified. ‘Aren’t you stopping, Bill?’ I shook my head. ‘Too risky’.
It was then that I saw the car. It had skidded right across the road and was hanging nose down in the deep ditch. I braked again and brought the Mini-Moris gradually to a stop.
I slid back my window as he looked in and then I saw that he was bleeding from a cut in his cheek.
‘Anybody else in the car?’
‘No, on my own. If you could give me a lift’.
I nodded and he got into the back and slammed the door.
‘Sorry about this, folks. I was beginning to think I was stuck there for the night. Not that you would call it a busy road, is it?’
‘Not at twelve o’clock at night’, Pat said, turning round to smile at him. ‘We have been to a dance in Boling ford. Bill didn’t want to go, but I was keen. He isn’t a bad brother, really’.
Pat gave a little gasp and I braked at once.
The underlined word (and) is a/an __________.
APronoun
BPreposition
CConjunction
DInterjection
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Correct answer: (C) Conjunction
Explanation
‘And’ joins the two clauses ‘Pat gave a little gasp’ and ‘I braked at once’, so it is a (coordinating) conjunction.
Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow.
He must have seen us coming from some distance. By the time he loomed up in front of my headlights, the arms in the snow-caked overcoat were flailing desperately like windmills.
Pat gave a little gasp and I braked at once, though gently, or I might have followed his car into the ditch. But immediately I had second thoughts; there had been one or two nasty cases of hold-up in the papers recently. I wasn’t going to take any chance with Pat, my sister, there. I changed down the gear and made to drive round him.
Pat was horrified. ‘Aren’t you stopping, Bill?’ I shook my head. ‘Too risky’.
It was then that I saw the car. It had skidded right across the road and was hanging nose down in the deep ditch. I braked again and brought the Mini-Moris gradually to a stop.
I slid back my window as he looked in and then I saw that he was bleeding from a cut in his cheek.
‘Anybody else in the car?’
‘No, on my own. If you could give me a lift’.
I nodded and he got into the back and slammed the door.
‘Sorry about this, folks. I was beginning to think I was stuck there for the night. Not that you would call it a busy road, is it?’
‘Not at twelve o’clock at night’, Pat said, turning round to smile at him. ‘We have been to a dance in Boling ford. Bill didn’t want to go, but I was keen. He isn’t a bad brother, really’.
It was then that I saw the car.
Identify the underlined clause (that I saw the car).
APrincipal
BNoun
CAdjective
DAdverb
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Correct answer: (B) Noun
Explanation
This is a cleft sentence (‘It was then that ...’). The ‘that’-clause is a subordinate clause standing for the real subject of the sentence (‘That I saw the car was then’), so it is taken as a noun clause.
Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow.
He must have seen us coming from some distance. By the time he loomed up in front of my headlights, the arms in the snow-caked overcoat were flailing desperately like windmills.
Pat gave a little gasp and I braked at once, though gently, or I might have followed his car into the ditch. But immediately I had second thoughts; there had been one or two nasty cases of hold-up in the papers recently. I wasn’t going to take any chance with Pat, my sister, there. I changed down the gear and made to drive round him.
Pat was horrified. ‘Aren’t you stopping, Bill?’ I shook my head. ‘Too risky’.
It was then that I saw the car. It had skidded right across the road and was hanging nose down in the deep ditch. I braked again and brought the Mini-Moris gradually to a stop.
I slid back my window as he looked in and then I saw that he was bleeding from a cut in his cheek.
‘Anybody else in the car?’
‘No, on my own. If you could give me a lift’.
I nodded and he got into the back and slammed the door.
‘Sorry about this, folks. I was beginning to think I was stuck there for the night. Not that you would call it a busy road, is it?’
‘Not at twelve o’clock at night’, Pat said, turning round to smile at him. ‘We have been to a dance in Boling ford. Bill didn’t want to go, but I was keen. He isn’t a bad brother, really’.
Study the following statements:
(a) Pat is bold and compassionate.
(b) Bill is protective of Pat and not timid
(c) A badly hit car was parked by the side walk.
A(a) is right but (b) and (c) are wrong.
B(b) is right but (a) and (c) are wrong.
C(a) and (b) are right but (c) is wrong.
D(b) and (c) are right but (a) is wrong.
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Correct answer: (C) (a) and (b) are right but (c) is wrong.
Explanation
Pat was horrified that Bill would not stop and smiled at the stranger, showing she is bold and kind. Bill avoided risk only for Pat's sake and then stopped, so he is protective, not timid. The car had skidded into a ditch, not been parked by the sidewalk, so (c) is wrong.
Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow.
He must have seen us coming from some distance. By the time he loomed up in front of my headlights, the arms in the snow-caked overcoat were flailing desperately like windmills.
Pat gave a little gasp and I braked at once, though gently, or I might have followed his car into the ditch. But immediately I had second thoughts; there had been one or two nasty cases of hold-up in the papers recently. I wasn’t going to take any chance with Pat, my sister, there. I changed down the gear and made to drive round him.
Pat was horrified. ‘Aren’t you stopping, Bill?’ I shook my head. ‘Too risky’.
It was then that I saw the car. It had skidded right across the road and was hanging nose down in the deep ditch. I braked again and brought the Mini-Moris gradually to a stop.
I slid back my window as he looked in and then I saw that he was bleeding from a cut in his cheek.
‘Anybody else in the car?’
‘No, on my own. If you could give me a lift’.
I nodded and he got into the back and slammed the door.
‘Sorry about this, folks. I was beginning to think I was stuck there for the night. Not that you would call it a busy road, is it?’
‘Not at twelve o’clock at night’, Pat said, turning round to smile at him. ‘We have been to a dance in Boling ford. Bill didn’t want to go, but I was keen. He isn’t a bad brother, really’.
Bill was travelling with:
Ahis brother
Bhis sister
Ca friend
Da stranger
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Correct answer: (B) his sister
Explanation
The narrator says, ‘I wasn't going to take any chance with Pat, my sister, there.’ So Bill was travelling with his sister.
Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow.
He must have seen us coming from some distance. By the time he loomed up in front of my headlights, the arms in the snow-caked overcoat were flailing desperately like windmills.
Pat gave a little gasp and I braked at once, though gently, or I might have followed his car into the ditch. But immediately I had second thoughts; there had been one or two nasty cases of hold-up in the papers recently. I wasn’t going to take any chance with Pat, my sister, there. I changed down the gear and made to drive round him.
Pat was horrified. ‘Aren’t you stopping, Bill?’ I shook my head. ‘Too risky’.
It was then that I saw the car. It had skidded right across the road and was hanging nose down in the deep ditch. I braked again and brought the Mini-Moris gradually to a stop.
I slid back my window as he looked in and then I saw that he was bleeding from a cut in his cheek.
‘Anybody else in the car?’
‘No, on my own. If you could give me a lift’.
I nodded and he got into the back and slammed the door.
‘Sorry about this, folks. I was beginning to think I was stuck there for the night. Not that you would call it a busy road, is it?’
‘Not at twelve o’clock at night’, Pat said, turning round to smile at him. ‘We have been to a dance in Boling ford. Bill didn’t want to go, but I was keen. He isn’t a bad brother, really’.
Which of the following statements is not correct?
After slowing down the car, Bill hesitated as:
Ait was a dark spot, so it might be a case of robbery.
Bonly Pat, a woman was sitting beside him.
Cboth (1) and (2)
Din the cold, the car may not start again.
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Correct answer: (D) in the cold, the car may not start again.
Explanation
Bill hesitated because of recent hold-up cases and because his sister was with him. Nothing in the passage says he worried that the car would not start again, so (4) is not correct.
__________ comprehension is the skill of reading a piece of text closely or intensely for the purpose of extracting specific information from the text.
AGlobal
BLocal
CInferential
DEvaluative
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Correct answer: (B) Local
Explanation
Local comprehension focuses on specific details in a particular part of the text, found by close reading. Global comprehension is understanding the overall meaning or gist.
Q60CTET December 2024 Paper 2 Maths & Science, 15 Dec 2024
Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow.
1. Do children really need such long summer breaks, was a question posed by some experts recently. Apparently, such a long break disrupts their development and comes in the way of their learning process. "Let's get them back to their books", is perhaps the expert view. One would have thought the children are doing too much during their vacations and not too little, given the plethora of classes, camps and workshops involving swimming, art, personality development, music, computers and the like. Even the trips taken in the name of holidays seem laden with exotic destinations and customised experience packed into a short period of time. We can go Europe in 10 days and Australia in a week and come back armed with digital memories and overflowing suitcases. Holidays are, in some ways, no longer a break but an intensified search for experience not normally encountered in everyday life.
2. It is a far cry from summer holidays as we know them. For us, holidays every year meant one thing and one thing alone—you went back to your native place, logging in with the emotional headquarters of your extended family and spent two months with a gaggle of uncles, aunts and first and second cousins. The happiest memories of the childhood of a whole generation seemed to be centred around this annual ritual of homecoming.
3. Summer was not really a break, but a joint. It was the bridge used to reaffirm one's connectedness with one's larger community. One did not travel, one returned. It was not an attempt to experience the new and the extraordinary but one that emphatically underlined the power of the old and the ordinary. With the change of time, what we seek from our summer breaks too has changed in a fundamental way.
4. Today, we are attached much more to our work and summer helps us temporarily detach from this new source of identity. We refuel our individual selves now; and do so with much more material than we did in the past. But for those who grew up in different times, summer was the best time of their lives.
How do students spend their summer breaks?
ABy killing their time and playing for endless hours
BBy attending camps and workshops like art, music, etc.
CBy revising the areas in which they are weak
DBy reading books
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Correct answer: (B) By attending camps and workshops like art, music, etc.
Explanation
Paragraph 1 says children today are busy with "the plethora of classes, camps and workshops involving swimming, art, personality development, music, computers and the like".
Q61CTET December 2024 Paper 2 Maths & Science, 15 Dec 2024
Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow.
1. Do children really need such long summer breaks, was a question posed by some experts recently. Apparently, such a long break disrupts their development and comes in the way of their learning process. "Let's get them back to their books", is perhaps the expert view. One would have thought the children are doing too much during their vacations and not too little, given the plethora of classes, camps and workshops involving swimming, art, personality development, music, computers and the like. Even the trips taken in the name of holidays seem laden with exotic destinations and customised experience packed into a short period of time. We can go Europe in 10 days and Australia in a week and come back armed with digital memories and overflowing suitcases. Holidays are, in some ways, no longer a break but an intensified search for experience not normally encountered in everyday life.
2. It is a far cry from summer holidays as we know them. For us, holidays every year meant one thing and one thing alone—you went back to your native place, logging in with the emotional headquarters of your extended family and spent two months with a gaggle of uncles, aunts and first and second cousins. The happiest memories of the childhood of a whole generation seemed to be centred around this annual ritual of homecoming.
3. Summer was not really a break, but a joint. It was the bridge used to reaffirm one's connectedness with one's larger community. One did not travel, one returned. It was not an attempt to experience the new and the extraordinary but one that emphatically underlined the power of the old and the ordinary. With the change of time, what we seek from our summer breaks too has changed in a fundamental way.
4. Today, we are attached much more to our work and summer helps us temporarily detach from this new source of identity. We refuel our individual selves now; and do so with much more material than we did in the past. But for those who grew up in different times, summer was the best time of their lives.
How are travel and tour not a break from daily stress?
AThey are laden with customised experience, packed into a short period of time.
BThey are a break from an intensified search for experience.
CThey require a lot of investment and exhaust our savings.
DThey are armed with memories of one's native places.
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Correct answer: (A) They are laden with customised experience, packed into a short period of time.
Explanation
The passage says holiday trips "seem laden with exotic destinations and customised experience packed into a short period of time", so they are hectic rather than restful.
Q62CTET December 2024 Paper 2 Maths & Science, 15 Dec 2024
Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow.
1. Do children really need such long summer breaks, was a question posed by some experts recently. Apparently, such a long break disrupts their development and comes in the way of their learning process. "Let's get them back to their books", is perhaps the expert view. One would have thought the children are doing too much during their vacations and not too little, given the plethora of classes, camps and workshops involving swimming, art, personality development, music, computers and the like. Even the trips taken in the name of holidays seem laden with exotic destinations and customised experience packed into a short period of time. We can go Europe in 10 days and Australia in a week and come back armed with digital memories and overflowing suitcases. Holidays are, in some ways, no longer a break but an intensified search for experience not normally encountered in everyday life.
2. It is a far cry from summer holidays as we know them. For us, holidays every year meant one thing and one thing alone—you went back to your native place, logging in with the emotional headquarters of your extended family and spent two months with a gaggle of uncles, aunts and first and second cousins. The happiest memories of the childhood of a whole generation seemed to be centred around this annual ritual of homecoming.
3. Summer was not really a break, but a joint. It was the bridge used to reaffirm one's connectedness with one's larger community. One did not travel, one returned. It was not an attempt to experience the new and the extraordinary but one that emphatically underlined the power of the old and the ordinary. With the change of time, what we seek from our summer breaks too has changed in a fundamental way.
4. Today, we are attached much more to our work and summer helps us temporarily detach from this new source of identity. We refuel our individual selves now; and do so with much more material than we did in the past. But for those who grew up in different times, summer was the best time of their lives.
How are present-day summer breaks different from those of the former days?
AWe refuel our individual selves.
BWe are attached much more to our work.
CA bridge to reaffirm our connectedness with one's larger community.
DBoth (1) and (2)
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Correct answer: (B) We are attached much more to our work.
Explanation
Note: the official key gives (2); paragraph 4 supports both (1) and (2), so "Both (1) and (2)" also looks defensible. Paragraph 4 begins "Today, we are attached much more to our work", and summer now helps us detach from work, unlike the old summers of homecoming.
Q63CTET December 2024 Paper 2 Maths & Science, 15 Dec 2024
Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow.
1. Do children really need such long summer breaks, was a question posed by some experts recently. Apparently, such a long break disrupts their development and comes in the way of their learning process. "Let's get them back to their books", is perhaps the expert view. One would have thought the children are doing too much during their vacations and not too little, given the plethora of classes, camps and workshops involving swimming, art, personality development, music, computers and the like. Even the trips taken in the name of holidays seem laden with exotic destinations and customised experience packed into a short period of time. We can go Europe in 10 days and Australia in a week and come back armed with digital memories and overflowing suitcases. Holidays are, in some ways, no longer a break but an intensified search for experience not normally encountered in everyday life.
2. It is a far cry from summer holidays as we know them. For us, holidays every year meant one thing and one thing alone—you went back to your native place, logging in with the emotional headquarters of your extended family and spent two months with a gaggle of uncles, aunts and first and second cousins. The happiest memories of the childhood of a whole generation seemed to be centred around this annual ritual of homecoming.
3. Summer was not really a break, but a joint. It was the bridge used to reaffirm one's connectedness with one's larger community. One did not travel, one returned. It was not an attempt to experience the new and the extraordinary but one that emphatically underlined the power of the old and the ordinary. With the change of time, what we seek from our summer breaks too has changed in a fundamental way.
4. Today, we are attached much more to our work and summer helps us temporarily detach from this new source of identity. We refuel our individual selves now; and do so with much more material than we did in the past. But for those who grew up in different times, summer was the best time of their lives.
"Summer was not really a break, but a joint." What does the author imply?
ASummer break intended to help a child connect to their kith and kin and build a strong bond with them.
BChildren spend their summer break by killing their time by playing for endless hours.
CLong break disrupts the development of children and comes in the way of their learning process.
DSummer break is necessary to rejuvenate oneself and going for trips to exotic destinations.
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Correct answer: (A) Summer break intended to help a child connect to their kith and kin and build a strong bond with them.
Explanation
A "joint" connects things: the author explains that summer was "the bridge used to reaffirm one's connectedness with one's larger community", i.e. a time to bond with relatives.
Q64CTET December 2024 Paper 2 Maths & Science, 15 Dec 2024
Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow.
1. Do children really need such long summer breaks, was a question posed by some experts recently. Apparently, such a long break disrupts their development and comes in the way of their learning process. "Let's get them back to their books", is perhaps the expert view. One would have thought the children are doing too much during their vacations and not too little, given the plethora of classes, camps and workshops involving swimming, art, personality development, music, computers and the like. Even the trips taken in the name of holidays seem laden with exotic destinations and customised experience packed into a short period of time. We can go Europe in 10 days and Australia in a week and come back armed with digital memories and overflowing suitcases. Holidays are, in some ways, no longer a break but an intensified search for experience not normally encountered in everyday life.
2. It is a far cry from summer holidays as we know them. For us, holidays every year meant one thing and one thing alone—you went back to your native place, logging in with the emotional headquarters of your extended family and spent two months with a gaggle of uncles, aunts and first and second cousins. The happiest memories of the childhood of a whole generation seemed to be centred around this annual ritual of homecoming.
3. Summer was not really a break, but a joint. It was the bridge used to reaffirm one's connectedness with one's larger community. One did not travel, one returned. It was not an attempt to experience the new and the extraordinary but one that emphatically underlined the power of the old and the ordinary. With the change of time, what we seek from our summer breaks too has changed in a fundamental way.
4. Today, we are attached much more to our work and summer helps us temporarily detach from this new source of identity. We refuel our individual selves now; and do so with much more material than we did in the past. But for those who grew up in different times, summer was the best time of their lives.
What used to be the happiest memories of childhood for the author?
AGoing on a trip to Europe
BVisiting one's native place
CAttending summer camps
DReading lots of books
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Correct answer: (B) Visiting one's native place
Explanation
Paragraph 2 says the happiest childhood memories were centred around "this annual ritual of homecoming", i.e. going back to one's native place.
Q65CTET December 2024 Paper 2 Maths & Science, 15 Dec 2024
Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow.
1. Do children really need such long summer breaks, was a question posed by some experts recently. Apparently, such a long break disrupts their development and comes in the way of their learning process. "Let's get them back to their books", is perhaps the expert view. One would have thought the children are doing too much during their vacations and not too little, given the plethora of classes, camps and workshops involving swimming, art, personality development, music, computers and the like. Even the trips taken in the name of holidays seem laden with exotic destinations and customised experience packed into a short period of time. We can go Europe in 10 days and Australia in a week and come back armed with digital memories and overflowing suitcases. Holidays are, in some ways, no longer a break but an intensified search for experience not normally encountered in everyday life.
2. It is a far cry from summer holidays as we know them. For us, holidays every year meant one thing and one thing alone—you went back to your native place, logging in with the emotional headquarters of your extended family and spent two months with a gaggle of uncles, aunts and first and second cousins. The happiest memories of the childhood of a whole generation seemed to be centred around this annual ritual of homecoming.
3. Summer was not really a break, but a joint. It was the bridge used to reaffirm one's connectedness with one's larger community. One did not travel, one returned. It was not an attempt to experience the new and the extraordinary but one that emphatically underlined the power of the old and the ordinary. With the change of time, what we seek from our summer breaks too has changed in a fundamental way.
4. Today, we are attached much more to our work and summer helps us temporarily detach from this new source of identity. We refuel our individual selves now; and do so with much more material than we did in the past. But for those who grew up in different times, summer was the best time of their lives.
Which one of the following words is similar in meaning to the phrase 'made to suit one's needs', as used in the passage?
AAttached
BPlethora
CCustomised
DGaggle
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Correct answer: (C) Customised
Explanation
"Customised" means made or changed to suit a particular person's needs, as in "customised experience" in paragraph 1.
Q66CTET December 2024 Paper 2 Maths & Science, 15 Dec 2024
Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow.
1. Do children really need such long summer breaks, was a question posed by some experts recently. Apparently, such a long break disrupts their development and comes in the way of their learning process. "Let's get them back to their books", is perhaps the expert view. One would have thought the children are doing too much during their vacations and not too little, given the plethora of classes, camps and workshops involving swimming, art, personality development, music, computers and the like. Even the trips taken in the name of holidays seem laden with exotic destinations and customised experience packed into a short period of time. We can go Europe in 10 days and Australia in a week and come back armed with digital memories and overflowing suitcases. Holidays are, in some ways, no longer a break but an intensified search for experience not normally encountered in everyday life.
2. It is a far cry from summer holidays as we know them. For us, holidays every year meant one thing and one thing alone—you went back to your native place, logging in with the emotional headquarters of your extended family and spent two months with a gaggle of uncles, aunts and first and second cousins. The happiest memories of the childhood of a whole generation seemed to be centred around this annual ritual of homecoming.
3. Summer was not really a break, but a joint. It was the bridge used to reaffirm one's connectedness with one's larger community. One did not travel, one returned. It was not an attempt to experience the new and the extraordinary but one that emphatically underlined the power of the old and the ordinary. With the change of time, what we seek from our summer breaks too has changed in a fundamental way.
4. Today, we are attached much more to our work and summer helps us temporarily detach from this new source of identity. We refuel our individual selves now; and do so with much more material than we did in the past. But for those who grew up in different times, summer was the best time of their lives.
Which one of the following words is opposite in meaning to the word 'emphatically' as used in the passage?
ACarefully
BIrregularly
CFoolishly
DCasually
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Correct answer: (D) Casually
Explanation
"Emphatically" means forcefully and with clear emphasis; its opposite is "casually", i.e. without emphasis or seriousness.
Q67CTET December 2024 Paper 2 Maths & Science, 15 Dec 2024
Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow.
1. Do children really need such long summer breaks, was a question posed by some experts recently. Apparently, such a long break disrupts their development and comes in the way of their learning process. "Let's get them back to their books", is perhaps the expert view. One would have thought the children are doing too much during their vacations and not too little, given the plethora of classes, camps and workshops involving swimming, art, personality development, music, computers and the like. Even the trips taken in the name of holidays seem laden with exotic destinations and customised experience packed into a short period of time. We can go Europe in 10 days and Australia in a week and come back armed with digital memories and overflowing suitcases. Holidays are, in some ways, no longer a break but an intensified search for experience not normally encountered in everyday life.
2. It is a far cry from summer holidays as we know them. For us, holidays every year meant one thing and one thing alone—you went back to your native place, logging in with the emotional headquarters of your extended family and spent two months with a gaggle of uncles, aunts and first and second cousins. The happiest memories of the childhood of a whole generation seemed to be centred around this annual ritual of homecoming.
3. Summer was not really a break, but a joint. It was the bridge used to reaffirm one's connectedness with one's larger community. One did not travel, one returned. It was not an attempt to experience the new and the extraordinary but one that emphatically underlined the power of the old and the ordinary. With the change of time, what we seek from our summer breaks too has changed in a fundamental way.
4. Today, we are attached much more to our work and summer helps us temporarily detach from this new source of identity. We refuel our individual selves now; and do so with much more material than we did in the past. But for those who grew up in different times, summer was the best time of their lives.
"It seems such a long break disrupts their development."
Identify the clause in the underlined part ("It seems") of the above sentence.
AAdverb clause
BNoun clause
CPrincipal clause
DAdjective clause
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Correct answer: (C) Principal clause
Explanation
"It seems" is the main (principal) clause that can stand on its own; "(that) such a long break disrupts their development" is the noun clause depending on it.
Q68CTET December 2024 Paper 2 Maths & Science, 15 Dec 2024
Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow.
1. Do children really need such long summer breaks, was a question posed by some experts recently. Apparently, such a long break disrupts their development and comes in the way of their learning process. "Let's get them back to their books", is perhaps the expert view. One would have thought the children are doing too much during their vacations and not too little, given the plethora of classes, camps and workshops involving swimming, art, personality development, music, computers and the like. Even the trips taken in the name of holidays seem laden with exotic destinations and customised experience packed into a short period of time. We can go Europe in 10 days and Australia in a week and come back armed with digital memories and overflowing suitcases. Holidays are, in some ways, no longer a break but an intensified search for experience not normally encountered in everyday life.
2. It is a far cry from summer holidays as we know them. For us, holidays every year meant one thing and one thing alone—you went back to your native place, logging in with the emotional headquarters of your extended family and spent two months with a gaggle of uncles, aunts and first and second cousins. The happiest memories of the childhood of a whole generation seemed to be centred around this annual ritual of homecoming.
3. Summer was not really a break, but a joint. It was the bridge used to reaffirm one's connectedness with one's larger community. One did not travel, one returned. It was not an attempt to experience the new and the extraordinary but one that emphatically underlined the power of the old and the ordinary. With the change of time, what we seek from our summer breaks too has changed in a fundamental way.
4. Today, we are attached much more to our work and summer helps us temporarily detach from this new source of identity. We refuel our individual selves now; and do so with much more material than we did in the past. But for those who grew up in different times, summer was the best time of their lives.
Identify the part of speech in the underlined word ("best") of the following sentence :
Summer was the best time of their lives.
AAdverb
BAdjective
CModal
DConjunction
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Correct answer: (B) Adjective
Explanation
"Best" is the superlative form of "good" and describes the noun "time", so it is an adjective.
Q69CTET December 2024 Paper 2 Maths & Science, 15 Dec 2024
The type of writing in which the author mostly places himself as a character, (sometimes he may not) and narrates the story, is known as
Aexpository
Bpersuasive
Cdescriptive
Dnarrative
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Correct answer: (D) narrative
Explanation
Narrative writing tells a story, often with the writer as narrator or a character (first person), though it can also be in the third person.
Q70CTET December 2024 Paper 2 Maths & Science, 14 Dec 2024
Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow.
1. Colours have a deeper significance for a home than one can imagine. For if used right, they can give a perfect look. In today’s time, when there is an abundance of everything but space, colour plays an important role in creating the right ambience and perhaps the space that you crave for. Besides having a tremendous potential to create mood through sheer appeal to the senses, right use of colours actually helps you create the spacious feeling.
2. For instance, instead of using a plain monotonous colour on all four walls, if you get a little imaginative, perhaps a little bold, you can create a sense of space within those four walls. One of the ways would be to blend light and dark colours. Or to paint two opposite sides in a lighter shade than the other two. Colour can add height to your room too. For instance, if the room is painted white and the upholstery of your furniture is in deep blue tone, the false ceilings could be painted in a light blue shade. Think out of the box to give even more interesting effects to your room.
3. Whatever your choice is, there are options in the market to help you realise your needs. These days you get special patterned stencils to decorate walls with interesting patterns like flowers, leaves, birds etc. Some people draw an entire scenery on one side of the wall to give the feeling of bringing the outdoors inside. The choices are many, so are the creative ways. Just let your imagination flow. Every room reflects the personality of the occupant, hence it is important to pay attention to every detail. Your walls are your canvases, freshly painted and all bare. Go ahead, splash colours and watch the effect unfold.
The word opposite in meaning to the underlined word in the given sentence is :
‘Right use of colours actually helps you create the spacious feeling’. (underlined word: spacious)
Aspecial
Bcramped
Cairy
Dfresh
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Correct answer: (B) cramped
Explanation
'Spacious' means having plenty of room; its opposite is 'cramped' (too small, crowded). 'Airy' is close to a synonym.
Q71CTET December 2024 Paper 2 Maths & Science, 14 Dec 2024
Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow.
1. Colours have a deeper significance for a home than one can imagine. For if used right, they can give a perfect look. In today’s time, when there is an abundance of everything but space, colour plays an important role in creating the right ambience and perhaps the space that you crave for. Besides having a tremendous potential to create mood through sheer appeal to the senses, right use of colours actually helps you create the spacious feeling.
2. For instance, instead of using a plain monotonous colour on all four walls, if you get a little imaginative, perhaps a little bold, you can create a sense of space within those four walls. One of the ways would be to blend light and dark colours. Or to paint two opposite sides in a lighter shade than the other two. Colour can add height to your room too. For instance, if the room is painted white and the upholstery of your furniture is in deep blue tone, the false ceilings could be painted in a light blue shade. Think out of the box to give even more interesting effects to your room.
3. Whatever your choice is, there are options in the market to help you realise your needs. These days you get special patterned stencils to decorate walls with interesting patterns like flowers, leaves, birds etc. Some people draw an entire scenery on one side of the wall to give the feeling of bringing the outdoors inside. The choices are many, so are the creative ways. Just let your imagination flow. Every room reflects the personality of the occupant, hence it is important to pay attention to every detail. Your walls are your canvases, freshly painted and all bare. Go ahead, splash colours and watch the effect unfold.
Identify the parts of speech of the underlined words in the sentence given below :
‘Right use of colours actually helps you create the spacious feeling’. (underlined words: actually, feeling)
Aconjunction, verb
Badverb, noun
Cverb, adverb
Dpreposition, verb
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Correct answer: (B) adverb, noun
Explanation
'Actually' modifies the verb 'helps', so it is an adverb; 'feeling', preceded by 'the spacious', is a noun.
Q72CTET December 2024 Paper 2 Maths & Science, 14 Dec 2024
Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow.
1. Colours have a deeper significance for a home than one can imagine. For if used right, they can give a perfect look. In today’s time, when there is an abundance of everything but space, colour plays an important role in creating the right ambience and perhaps the space that you crave for. Besides having a tremendous potential to create mood through sheer appeal to the senses, right use of colours actually helps you create the spacious feeling.
2. For instance, instead of using a plain monotonous colour on all four walls, if you get a little imaginative, perhaps a little bold, you can create a sense of space within those four walls. One of the ways would be to blend light and dark colours. Or to paint two opposite sides in a lighter shade than the other two. Colour can add height to your room too. For instance, if the room is painted white and the upholstery of your furniture is in deep blue tone, the false ceilings could be painted in a light blue shade. Think out of the box to give even more interesting effects to your room.
3. Whatever your choice is, there are options in the market to help you realise your needs. These days you get special patterned stencils to decorate walls with interesting patterns like flowers, leaves, birds etc. Some people draw an entire scenery on one side of the wall to give the feeling of bringing the outdoors inside. The choices are many, so are the creative ways. Just let your imagination flow. Every room reflects the personality of the occupant, hence it is important to pay attention to every detail. Your walls are your canvases, freshly painted and all bare. Go ahead, splash colours and watch the effect unfold.
As mentioned by the writer in para 2, some ways by which you can break the monotony of the room is :
Aby blending light and dark shades
Bpainting all the 4 walls in plain colours
Cboth (1) and (2)
D(1) is correct, but not (2)
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Correct answer: (D) (1) is correct, but not (2)
Explanation
Para 2 suggests blending light and dark colours instead of a plain monotonous colour on all four walls; painting all walls in plain colours is what creates monotony. So (1) is correct but not (2).
Q73CTET December 2024 Paper 2 Maths & Science, 14 Dec 2024
Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow.
1. Colours have a deeper significance for a home than one can imagine. For if used right, they can give a perfect look. In today’s time, when there is an abundance of everything but space, colour plays an important role in creating the right ambience and perhaps the space that you crave for. Besides having a tremendous potential to create mood through sheer appeal to the senses, right use of colours actually helps you create the spacious feeling.
2. For instance, instead of using a plain monotonous colour on all four walls, if you get a little imaginative, perhaps a little bold, you can create a sense of space within those four walls. One of the ways would be to blend light and dark colours. Or to paint two opposite sides in a lighter shade than the other two. Colour can add height to your room too. For instance, if the room is painted white and the upholstery of your furniture is in deep blue tone, the false ceilings could be painted in a light blue shade. Think out of the box to give even more interesting effects to your room.
3. Whatever your choice is, there are options in the market to help you realise your needs. These days you get special patterned stencils to decorate walls with interesting patterns like flowers, leaves, birds etc. Some people draw an entire scenery on one side of the wall to give the feeling of bringing the outdoors inside. The choices are many, so are the creative ways. Just let your imagination flow. Every room reflects the personality of the occupant, hence it is important to pay attention to every detail. Your walls are your canvases, freshly painted and all bare. Go ahead, splash colours and watch the effect unfold.
‘To think out of the box’ does not mean to think :
Atraditionally
Bcreatively and imaginatively
Cabout novel ideas
Din unusual ways
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Correct answer: (A) traditionally
Explanation
Thinking out of the box means thinking creatively, in new and unusual ways; thinking traditionally is the opposite.
Q74CTET December 2024 Paper 2 Maths & Science, 14 Dec 2024
Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow.
1. Colours have a deeper significance for a home than one can imagine. For if used right, they can give a perfect look. In today’s time, when there is an abundance of everything but space, colour plays an important role in creating the right ambience and perhaps the space that you crave for. Besides having a tremendous potential to create mood through sheer appeal to the senses, right use of colours actually helps you create the spacious feeling.
2. For instance, instead of using a plain monotonous colour on all four walls, if you get a little imaginative, perhaps a little bold, you can create a sense of space within those four walls. One of the ways would be to blend light and dark colours. Or to paint two opposite sides in a lighter shade than the other two. Colour can add height to your room too. For instance, if the room is painted white and the upholstery of your furniture is in deep blue tone, the false ceilings could be painted in a light blue shade. Think out of the box to give even more interesting effects to your room.
3. Whatever your choice is, there are options in the market to help you realise your needs. These days you get special patterned stencils to decorate walls with interesting patterns like flowers, leaves, birds etc. Some people draw an entire scenery on one side of the wall to give the feeling of bringing the outdoors inside. The choices are many, so are the creative ways. Just let your imagination flow. Every room reflects the personality of the occupant, hence it is important to pay attention to every detail. Your walls are your canvases, freshly painted and all bare. Go ahead, splash colours and watch the effect unfold.
According to the writer, it is important to pay attention to the colour scheme of your home because :
Athe monotonous shades add life to the rooms
Bthe ambience created makes it look boring
Cit reflects the personality of the owner
Dthe walls reveal the secrets of your life
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Correct answer: (C) it reflects the personality of the owner
Explanation
Para 3 says, 'Every room reflects the personality of the occupant, hence it is important to pay attention to every detail.'
Q75CTET December 2024 Paper 2 Maths & Science, 14 Dec 2024
Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow.
1. Colours have a deeper significance for a home than one can imagine. For if used right, they can give a perfect look. In today’s time, when there is an abundance of everything but space, colour plays an important role in creating the right ambience and perhaps the space that you crave for. Besides having a tremendous potential to create mood through sheer appeal to the senses, right use of colours actually helps you create the spacious feeling.
2. For instance, instead of using a plain monotonous colour on all four walls, if you get a little imaginative, perhaps a little bold, you can create a sense of space within those four walls. One of the ways would be to blend light and dark colours. Or to paint two opposite sides in a lighter shade than the other two. Colour can add height to your room too. For instance, if the room is painted white and the upholstery of your furniture is in deep blue tone, the false ceilings could be painted in a light blue shade. Think out of the box to give even more interesting effects to your room.
3. Whatever your choice is, there are options in the market to help you realise your needs. These days you get special patterned stencils to decorate walls with interesting patterns like flowers, leaves, birds etc. Some people draw an entire scenery on one side of the wall to give the feeling of bringing the outdoors inside. The choices are many, so are the creative ways. Just let your imagination flow. Every room reflects the personality of the occupant, hence it is important to pay attention to every detail. Your walls are your canvases, freshly painted and all bare. Go ahead, splash colours and watch the effect unfold.
Read the following statements :
(A) Colours if used creatively can give the perfect look to a room.
(B) Space is abundant nowadays.
(C) The right colour combination on walls and the roof creates a spacious feeling.
A(A) and (C) are incorrect, (B) is correct
B(A) and (C) are correct, (B) is incorrect
C(B) and (C) are correct, (A) is incorrect
D(A), (B) and (C) are all correct
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Correct answer: (B) (A) and (C) are correct, (B) is incorrect
Explanation
The passage says colours used right give a perfect look and create a spacious feeling, so (A) and (C) are correct; it says there is an abundance of everything 'but space', so (B) is incorrect.
Q76CTET December 2024 Paper 2 Maths & Science, 14 Dec 2024
Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow.
1. Colours have a deeper significance for a home than one can imagine. For if used right, they can give a perfect look. In today’s time, when there is an abundance of everything but space, colour plays an important role in creating the right ambience and perhaps the space that you crave for. Besides having a tremendous potential to create mood through sheer appeal to the senses, right use of colours actually helps you create the spacious feeling.
2. For instance, instead of using a plain monotonous colour on all four walls, if you get a little imaginative, perhaps a little bold, you can create a sense of space within those four walls. One of the ways would be to blend light and dark colours. Or to paint two opposite sides in a lighter shade than the other two. Colour can add height to your room too. For instance, if the room is painted white and the upholstery of your furniture is in deep blue tone, the false ceilings could be painted in a light blue shade. Think out of the box to give even more interesting effects to your room.
3. Whatever your choice is, there are options in the market to help you realise your needs. These days you get special patterned stencils to decorate walls with interesting patterns like flowers, leaves, birds etc. Some people draw an entire scenery on one side of the wall to give the feeling of bringing the outdoors inside. The choices are many, so are the creative ways. Just let your imagination flow. Every room reflects the personality of the occupant, hence it is important to pay attention to every detail. Your walls are your canvases, freshly painted and all bare. Go ahead, splash colours and watch the effect unfold.
Complete the given word analogy :
monotonous : dull :: ambience : ?
Aweather
Broom
Ctemperature
Daura
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Correct answer: (D) aura
Explanation
'Dull' is a synonym of 'monotonous'; likewise 'aura' (the feeling or atmosphere of a place) is a synonym of 'ambience'.
Q77CTET December 2024 Paper 2 Maths & Science, 14 Dec 2024
Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow.
1. Colours have a deeper significance for a home than one can imagine. For if used right, they can give a perfect look. In today’s time, when there is an abundance of everything but space, colour plays an important role in creating the right ambience and perhaps the space that you crave for. Besides having a tremendous potential to create mood through sheer appeal to the senses, right use of colours actually helps you create the spacious feeling.
2. For instance, instead of using a plain monotonous colour on all four walls, if you get a little imaginative, perhaps a little bold, you can create a sense of space within those four walls. One of the ways would be to blend light and dark colours. Or to paint two opposite sides in a lighter shade than the other two. Colour can add height to your room too. For instance, if the room is painted white and the upholstery of your furniture is in deep blue tone, the false ceilings could be painted in a light blue shade. Think out of the box to give even more interesting effects to your room.
3. Whatever your choice is, there are options in the market to help you realise your needs. These days you get special patterned stencils to decorate walls with interesting patterns like flowers, leaves, birds etc. Some people draw an entire scenery on one side of the wall to give the feeling of bringing the outdoors inside. The choices are many, so are the creative ways. Just let your imagination flow. Every room reflects the personality of the occupant, hence it is important to pay attention to every detail. Your walls are your canvases, freshly painted and all bare. Go ahead, splash colours and watch the effect unfold.
Some people draw colourful sceneries on their home walls to :
Ablend dark and light colours
Bgive a deeper significance to their home
Cbring nature into their homes
Dcreate a sense of space
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Correct answer: (C) bring nature into their homes
Explanation
Para 3 says people draw an entire scenery on a wall 'to give the feeling of bringing the outdoors inside', i.e. bringing nature into the home.
Q78CTET December 2024 Paper 2 Maths & Science, 14 Dec 2024
Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow.
1. Colours have a deeper significance for a home than one can imagine. For if used right, they can give a perfect look. In today’s time, when there is an abundance of everything but space, colour plays an important role in creating the right ambience and perhaps the space that you crave for. Besides having a tremendous potential to create mood through sheer appeal to the senses, right use of colours actually helps you create the spacious feeling.
2. For instance, instead of using a plain monotonous colour on all four walls, if you get a little imaginative, perhaps a little bold, you can create a sense of space within those four walls. One of the ways would be to blend light and dark colours. Or to paint two opposite sides in a lighter shade than the other two. Colour can add height to your room too. For instance, if the room is painted white and the upholstery of your furniture is in deep blue tone, the false ceilings could be painted in a light blue shade. Think out of the box to give even more interesting effects to your room.
3. Whatever your choice is, there are options in the market to help you realise your needs. These days you get special patterned stencils to decorate walls with interesting patterns like flowers, leaves, birds etc. Some people draw an entire scenery on one side of the wall to give the feeling of bringing the outdoors inside. The choices are many, so are the creative ways. Just let your imagination flow. Every room reflects the personality of the occupant, hence it is important to pay attention to every detail. Your walls are your canvases, freshly painted and all bare. Go ahead, splash colours and watch the effect unfold.
As mentioned by the writer in para 1, In today’s times, what is a modern day home owner longing for ?
AImagination
BColours
CSpace
DSheer appeal
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Correct answer: (C) Space
Explanation
Para 1 says there is an abundance of everything but space, and colour helps create 'the space that you crave for'.
Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow.
Shreeram Lagoo was acting in a play staged at Ambernath’s Gandhi School. We had managed to get the tickets for the play after much running around. We left the hostel quietly after eating dinner in the mess. The play started at 9.30 p.m. and it was already 9.15 p.m. Patil and I were rushing along the road to the station. Suddenly we saw Upadhyayji coming from the opposite direction. He had seen us.
‘Maharshi, where are you off to at this time ?’ he said reprovingly.
We looked at each other’s face. Suddenly Patil spoke up, ‘Sir, I have a headache. We are going to the station to have some tea or coffee. We will be back right after drinking a cup.’
‘Why, don’t you get tea and coffee in the mess ?’
‘We do, Sir. But today there wasn’t any milk in the mess. That’s why we are going to the station’, Patil improvised.
Upadhyay said, ‘Come with me. I’ll get you some coffee.’ He brought us to his home. The tickets for the play were squirming in our pockets. We couldn’t work out how to get him off our backs.
After seating us in the drawing room, he asked his wife to make the coffee and sat on the sofa across from us.
As soon as Mrs. Upadhyay entered the kitchen, I got up and said, ‘Ammaji, Warden Saheb is bothering you unnecessarily. I will make the coffee’.
She was pleased to see me. ‘Maharshi, you go sit ... I will make it.’
I went up to her and whispered, ‘Ammaji, both of us were going to the Gandhi School to see a play. Warden Saheb waylaid us and brought us here. See, here are the tickets, but he doesn’t know anything.’
Ammaji examined me from head to toe. ‘I see. Is it a good play ?’
I said, ‘Ammaji, it is very good.’
‘Then why don’t you go ?’ she said with a laugh.
‘How can we go ? Warden Saheb won’t give us permission’, I whispered.
She came into the drawing room. Listen, what kind of a warden are you ? Why don’t you let the children go and have some fun ? Go, Maharshi, but don’t be too late.
Mr. Upadhyay’s professional role in the institution was that of ...
Aa teacher
Bthe hostel warden
Can administrator
Dthe principal
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Correct answer: (B) the hostel warden
Explanation
The narrator and Mrs. Upadhyay both call him 'Warden Saheb', and he stops the boys leaving the hostel, so he was the hostel warden.
Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow.
Shreeram Lagoo was acting in a play staged at Ambernath’s Gandhi School. We had managed to get the tickets for the play after much running around. We left the hostel quietly after eating dinner in the mess. The play started at 9.30 p.m. and it was already 9.15 p.m. Patil and I were rushing along the road to the station. Suddenly we saw Upadhyayji coming from the opposite direction. He had seen us.
‘Maharshi, where are you off to at this time ?’ he said reprovingly.
We looked at each other’s face. Suddenly Patil spoke up, ‘Sir, I have a headache. We are going to the station to have some tea or coffee. We will be back right after drinking a cup.’
‘Why, don’t you get tea and coffee in the mess ?’
‘We do, Sir. But today there wasn’t any milk in the mess. That’s why we are going to the station’, Patil improvised.
Upadhyay said, ‘Come with me. I’ll get you some coffee.’ He brought us to his home. The tickets for the play were squirming in our pockets. We couldn’t work out how to get him off our backs.
After seating us in the drawing room, he asked his wife to make the coffee and sat on the sofa across from us.
As soon as Mrs. Upadhyay entered the kitchen, I got up and said, ‘Ammaji, Warden Saheb is bothering you unnecessarily. I will make the coffee’.
She was pleased to see me. ‘Maharshi, you go sit ... I will make it.’
I went up to her and whispered, ‘Ammaji, both of us were going to the Gandhi School to see a play. Warden Saheb waylaid us and brought us here. See, here are the tickets, but he doesn’t know anything.’
Ammaji examined me from head to toe. ‘I see. Is it a good play ?’
I said, ‘Ammaji, it is very good.’
‘Then why don’t you go ?’ she said with a laugh.
‘How can we go ? Warden Saheb won’t give us permission’, I whispered.
She came into the drawing room. Listen, what kind of a warden are you ? Why don’t you let the children go and have some fun ? Go, Maharshi, but don’t be too late.
‘We had managed ... ’ Identify the tense of the underlined expression. (Underlined: had managed)
APast Indefinite
BPresent Continuous
CPresent Perfect
DPast Perfect
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Correct answer: (D) Past Perfect
Explanation
'had + past participle' (had managed) is the Past Perfect tense, showing an action completed before another past event.
Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow.
Shreeram Lagoo was acting in a play staged at Ambernath’s Gandhi School. We had managed to get the tickets for the play after much running around. We left the hostel quietly after eating dinner in the mess. The play started at 9.30 p.m. and it was already 9.15 p.m. Patil and I were rushing along the road to the station. Suddenly we saw Upadhyayji coming from the opposite direction. He had seen us.
‘Maharshi, where are you off to at this time ?’ he said reprovingly.
We looked at each other’s face. Suddenly Patil spoke up, ‘Sir, I have a headache. We are going to the station to have some tea or coffee. We will be back right after drinking a cup.’
‘Why, don’t you get tea and coffee in the mess ?’
‘We do, Sir. But today there wasn’t any milk in the mess. That’s why we are going to the station’, Patil improvised.
Upadhyay said, ‘Come with me. I’ll get you some coffee.’ He brought us to his home. The tickets for the play were squirming in our pockets. We couldn’t work out how to get him off our backs.
After seating us in the drawing room, he asked his wife to make the coffee and sat on the sofa across from us.
As soon as Mrs. Upadhyay entered the kitchen, I got up and said, ‘Ammaji, Warden Saheb is bothering you unnecessarily. I will make the coffee’.
She was pleased to see me. ‘Maharshi, you go sit ... I will make it.’
I went up to her and whispered, ‘Ammaji, both of us were going to the Gandhi School to see a play. Warden Saheb waylaid us and brought us here. See, here are the tickets, but he doesn’t know anything.’
Ammaji examined me from head to toe. ‘I see. Is it a good play ?’
I said, ‘Ammaji, it is very good.’
‘Then why don’t you go ?’ she said with a laugh.
‘How can we go ? Warden Saheb won’t give us permission’, I whispered.
She came into the drawing room. Listen, what kind of a warden are you ? Why don’t you let the children go and have some fun ? Go, Maharshi, but don’t be too late.
How did Mrs. Upadhyay receive the boys at home ?
AShe received them coldly.
BShe was displeased with her husband for bringing them home.
CShe welcomed them.
DShe was unhappy to see them.
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Correct answer: (C) She welcomed them.
Explanation
The passage says 'She was pleased to see me' and she offered to make the coffee herself, so she welcomed them.
Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow.
Shreeram Lagoo was acting in a play staged at Ambernath’s Gandhi School. We had managed to get the tickets for the play after much running around. We left the hostel quietly after eating dinner in the mess. The play started at 9.30 p.m. and it was already 9.15 p.m. Patil and I were rushing along the road to the station. Suddenly we saw Upadhyayji coming from the opposite direction. He had seen us.
‘Maharshi, where are you off to at this time ?’ he said reprovingly.
We looked at each other’s face. Suddenly Patil spoke up, ‘Sir, I have a headache. We are going to the station to have some tea or coffee. We will be back right after drinking a cup.’
‘Why, don’t you get tea and coffee in the mess ?’
‘We do, Sir. But today there wasn’t any milk in the mess. That’s why we are going to the station’, Patil improvised.
Upadhyay said, ‘Come with me. I’ll get you some coffee.’ He brought us to his home. The tickets for the play were squirming in our pockets. We couldn’t work out how to get him off our backs.
After seating us in the drawing room, he asked his wife to make the coffee and sat on the sofa across from us.
As soon as Mrs. Upadhyay entered the kitchen, I got up and said, ‘Ammaji, Warden Saheb is bothering you unnecessarily. I will make the coffee’.
She was pleased to see me. ‘Maharshi, you go sit ... I will make it.’
I went up to her and whispered, ‘Ammaji, both of us were going to the Gandhi School to see a play. Warden Saheb waylaid us and brought us here. See, here are the tickets, but he doesn’t know anything.’
Ammaji examined me from head to toe. ‘I see. Is it a good play ?’
I said, ‘Ammaji, it is very good.’
‘Then why don’t you go ?’ she said with a laugh.
‘How can we go ? Warden Saheb won’t give us permission’, I whispered.
She came into the drawing room. Listen, what kind of a warden are you ? Why don’t you let the children go and have some fun ? Go, Maharshi, but don’t be too late.
Which of the following statements is True/False ?
(A) The boys had purchased the tickets in advance.
(B) Mrs. Upadhyay supported the boys in their endeavour.
A(A) is True but (B) is False.
B(B) is True but (A) is False.
CBoth (A) and (B) are True.
DBoth (A) and (B) are False.
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Correct answer: (C) Both (A) and (B) are True.
Explanation
The boys had already got the tickets 'after much running around' (A true), and Mrs. Upadhyay asked her husband to let them go to the play (B true).
Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow.
Shreeram Lagoo was acting in a play staged at Ambernath’s Gandhi School. We had managed to get the tickets for the play after much running around. We left the hostel quietly after eating dinner in the mess. The play started at 9.30 p.m. and it was already 9.15 p.m. Patil and I were rushing along the road to the station. Suddenly we saw Upadhyayji coming from the opposite direction. He had seen us.
‘Maharshi, where are you off to at this time ?’ he said reprovingly.
We looked at each other’s face. Suddenly Patil spoke up, ‘Sir, I have a headache. We are going to the station to have some tea or coffee. We will be back right after drinking a cup.’
‘Why, don’t you get tea and coffee in the mess ?’
‘We do, Sir. But today there wasn’t any milk in the mess. That’s why we are going to the station’, Patil improvised.
Upadhyay said, ‘Come with me. I’ll get you some coffee.’ He brought us to his home. The tickets for the play were squirming in our pockets. We couldn’t work out how to get him off our backs.
After seating us in the drawing room, he asked his wife to make the coffee and sat on the sofa across from us.
As soon as Mrs. Upadhyay entered the kitchen, I got up and said, ‘Ammaji, Warden Saheb is bothering you unnecessarily. I will make the coffee’.
She was pleased to see me. ‘Maharshi, you go sit ... I will make it.’
I went up to her and whispered, ‘Ammaji, both of us were going to the Gandhi School to see a play. Warden Saheb waylaid us and brought us here. See, here are the tickets, but he doesn’t know anything.’
Ammaji examined me from head to toe. ‘I see. Is it a good play ?’
I said, ‘Ammaji, it is very good.’
‘Then why don’t you go ?’ she said with a laugh.
‘How can we go ? Warden Saheb won’t give us permission’, I whispered.
She came into the drawing room. Listen, what kind of a warden are you ? Why don’t you let the children go and have some fun ? Go, Maharshi, but don’t be too late.
Choose the expression similar in meaning to ‘improvised’ as used in the passage.
Ato make it up
Bto declare
Cto tell the truth
Dto shout
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Correct answer: (A) to make it up
Explanation
Patil invented the excuse about there being no milk on the spot - 'improvised' here means made it up.
Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow.
Shreeram Lagoo was acting in a play staged at Ambernath’s Gandhi School. We had managed to get the tickets for the play after much running around. We left the hostel quietly after eating dinner in the mess. The play started at 9.30 p.m. and it was already 9.15 p.m. Patil and I were rushing along the road to the station. Suddenly we saw Upadhyayji coming from the opposite direction. He had seen us.
‘Maharshi, where are you off to at this time ?’ he said reprovingly.
We looked at each other’s face. Suddenly Patil spoke up, ‘Sir, I have a headache. We are going to the station to have some tea or coffee. We will be back right after drinking a cup.’
‘Why, don’t you get tea and coffee in the mess ?’
‘We do, Sir. But today there wasn’t any milk in the mess. That’s why we are going to the station’, Patil improvised.
Upadhyay said, ‘Come with me. I’ll get you some coffee.’ He brought us to his home. The tickets for the play were squirming in our pockets. We couldn’t work out how to get him off our backs.
After seating us in the drawing room, he asked his wife to make the coffee and sat on the sofa across from us.
As soon as Mrs. Upadhyay entered the kitchen, I got up and said, ‘Ammaji, Warden Saheb is bothering you unnecessarily. I will make the coffee’.
She was pleased to see me. ‘Maharshi, you go sit ... I will make it.’
I went up to her and whispered, ‘Ammaji, both of us were going to the Gandhi School to see a play. Warden Saheb waylaid us and brought us here. See, here are the tickets, but he doesn’t know anything.’
Ammaji examined me from head to toe. ‘I see. Is it a good play ?’
I said, ‘Ammaji, it is very good.’
‘Then why don’t you go ?’ she said with a laugh.
‘How can we go ? Warden Saheb won’t give us permission’, I whispered.
She came into the drawing room. Listen, what kind of a warden are you ? Why don’t you let the children go and have some fun ? Go, Maharshi, but don’t be too late.
Why were the boys sneaking away from the hostel ?
ATo have a stroll
BTo play football
CTo watch a movie
DTo see a play
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Correct answer: (D) To see a play
Explanation
They were going to Gandhi School to see a play in which Shreeram Lagoo was acting.
Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow.
Shreeram Lagoo was acting in a play staged at Ambernath’s Gandhi School. We had managed to get the tickets for the play after much running around. We left the hostel quietly after eating dinner in the mess. The play started at 9.30 p.m. and it was already 9.15 p.m. Patil and I were rushing along the road to the station. Suddenly we saw Upadhyayji coming from the opposite direction. He had seen us.
‘Maharshi, where are you off to at this time ?’ he said reprovingly.
We looked at each other’s face. Suddenly Patil spoke up, ‘Sir, I have a headache. We are going to the station to have some tea or coffee. We will be back right after drinking a cup.’
‘Why, don’t you get tea and coffee in the mess ?’
‘We do, Sir. But today there wasn’t any milk in the mess. That’s why we are going to the station’, Patil improvised.
Upadhyay said, ‘Come with me. I’ll get you some coffee.’ He brought us to his home. The tickets for the play were squirming in our pockets. We couldn’t work out how to get him off our backs.
After seating us in the drawing room, he asked his wife to make the coffee and sat on the sofa across from us.
As soon as Mrs. Upadhyay entered the kitchen, I got up and said, ‘Ammaji, Warden Saheb is bothering you unnecessarily. I will make the coffee’.
She was pleased to see me. ‘Maharshi, you go sit ... I will make it.’
I went up to her and whispered, ‘Ammaji, both of us were going to the Gandhi School to see a play. Warden Saheb waylaid us and brought us here. See, here are the tickets, but he doesn’t know anything.’
Ammaji examined me from head to toe. ‘I see. Is it a good play ?’
I said, ‘Ammaji, it is very good.’
‘Then why don’t you go ?’ she said with a laugh.
‘How can we go ? Warden Saheb won’t give us permission’, I whispered.
She came into the drawing room. Listen, what kind of a warden are you ? Why don’t you let the children go and have some fun ? Go, Maharshi, but don’t be too late.
Which of the following statements is True/False ?
(A) Mr. Upadhyay met the boys inside the hostel.
(B) The boys were already getting late for the play.
A(A) is True but (B) is False.
B(B) is True but (A) is False.
CBoth (A) and (B) are False.
DBoth (A) and (B) are True.
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Correct answer: (B) (B) is True but (A) is False.
Explanation
He met them on the road to the station, not inside the hostel (A false); the play started at 9.30 and it was already 9.15 (B true).
Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow.
Shreeram Lagoo was acting in a play staged at Ambernath’s Gandhi School. We had managed to get the tickets for the play after much running around. We left the hostel quietly after eating dinner in the mess. The play started at 9.30 p.m. and it was already 9.15 p.m. Patil and I were rushing along the road to the station. Suddenly we saw Upadhyayji coming from the opposite direction. He had seen us.
‘Maharshi, where are you off to at this time ?’ he said reprovingly.
We looked at each other’s face. Suddenly Patil spoke up, ‘Sir, I have a headache. We are going to the station to have some tea or coffee. We will be back right after drinking a cup.’
‘Why, don’t you get tea and coffee in the mess ?’
‘We do, Sir. But today there wasn’t any milk in the mess. That’s why we are going to the station’, Patil improvised.
Upadhyay said, ‘Come with me. I’ll get you some coffee.’ He brought us to his home. The tickets for the play were squirming in our pockets. We couldn’t work out how to get him off our backs.
After seating us in the drawing room, he asked his wife to make the coffee and sat on the sofa across from us.
As soon as Mrs. Upadhyay entered the kitchen, I got up and said, ‘Ammaji, Warden Saheb is bothering you unnecessarily. I will make the coffee’.
She was pleased to see me. ‘Maharshi, you go sit ... I will make it.’
I went up to her and whispered, ‘Ammaji, both of us were going to the Gandhi School to see a play. Warden Saheb waylaid us and brought us here. See, here are the tickets, but he doesn’t know anything.’
Ammaji examined me from head to toe. ‘I see. Is it a good play ?’
I said, ‘Ammaji, it is very good.’
‘Then why don’t you go ?’ she said with a laugh.
‘How can we go ? Warden Saheb won’t give us permission’, I whispered.
She came into the drawing room. Listen, what kind of a warden are you ? Why don’t you let the children go and have some fun ? Go, Maharshi, but don’t be too late.
What did Mr. Upadhyay do after hearing the boys ?
AHe talked to them and walked away.
BHe took them home for coffee.
CHe did not react at all.
DHe allowed them to go.
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Correct answer: (B) He took them home for coffee.
Explanation
He said 'Come with me. I'll get you some coffee' and brought them to his home.
Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow.
Shreeram Lagoo was acting in a play staged at Ambernath’s Gandhi School. We had managed to get the tickets for the play after much running around. We left the hostel quietly after eating dinner in the mess. The play started at 9.30 p.m. and it was already 9.15 p.m. Patil and I were rushing along the road to the station. Suddenly we saw Upadhyayji coming from the opposite direction. He had seen us.
‘Maharshi, where are you off to at this time ?’ he said reprovingly.
We looked at each other’s face. Suddenly Patil spoke up, ‘Sir, I have a headache. We are going to the station to have some tea or coffee. We will be back right after drinking a cup.’
‘Why, don’t you get tea and coffee in the mess ?’
‘We do, Sir. But today there wasn’t any milk in the mess. That’s why we are going to the station’, Patil improvised.
Upadhyay said, ‘Come with me. I’ll get you some coffee.’ He brought us to his home. The tickets for the play were squirming in our pockets. We couldn’t work out how to get him off our backs.
After seating us in the drawing room, he asked his wife to make the coffee and sat on the sofa across from us.
As soon as Mrs. Upadhyay entered the kitchen, I got up and said, ‘Ammaji, Warden Saheb is bothering you unnecessarily. I will make the coffee’.
She was pleased to see me. ‘Maharshi, you go sit ... I will make it.’
I went up to her and whispered, ‘Ammaji, both of us were going to the Gandhi School to see a play. Warden Saheb waylaid us and brought us here. See, here are the tickets, but he doesn’t know anything.’
Ammaji examined me from head to toe. ‘I see. Is it a good play ?’
I said, ‘Ammaji, it is very good.’
‘Then why don’t you go ?’ she said with a laugh.
‘How can we go ? Warden Saheb won’t give us permission’, I whispered.
She came into the drawing room. Listen, what kind of a warden are you ? Why don’t you let the children go and have some fun ? Go, Maharshi, but don’t be too late.
‘The tickets for the play were squirming in our pockets.’
What literary device has been used in the underlined expression. (Underlined: were squirming in our pockets)
APersonification
BSimile
CAlliteration
DOxymoron
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Correct answer: (A) Personification
Explanation
Squirming (wriggling uneasily) is a human/living action given to lifeless tickets - personification, reflecting the boys' restlessness.
Mark the INCORRECT statement among the following, regarding text-comprehension strategies :
ASkimming is more apt for reviewing while scanning helps more with answering particular questions.
BBoth skimming and scanning involve rapid eye movement through the text.
CSkimming involves going through the text rapidly while scanning involves looking for specific facts.
DSkimming is more about in-depth reading while scanning is more of cursory reading.
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Correct answer: (D) Skimming is more about in-depth reading while scanning is more of cursory reading.
Explanation
Skimming is a quick read for the gist, not in-depth reading; both skimming and scanning are fast reading strategies, so option 4 is the incorrect statement.
According to Cummins’ interdependence hypothesis, which of these are interdependent on each other :
AReading and writing in second language.
BBasic interpersonal skills in first and second language.
CComprehension and production in second language.
DCognitive academic proficiency in first and second language.
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Correct answer: (D) Cognitive academic proficiency in first and second language.
Explanation
Cummins' linguistic interdependence hypothesis holds that cognitive academic language proficiency (CALP) is common across languages, so academic skills developed in L1 transfer to L2.
Q91CTET February 2026 Paper 2 Maths & Science, 1 Mar 2026
Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow.
Aimee had a painful childhood. She was born in 1975 with no shin bones. The doctors therefore had to amputate both her legs so that she would be able to walk later in life. Unfortunately, she had to undergo a number of surgeries at the age of two, five and eight, and had to spend a long time in a hospital. Aimee grew up with artificial legs. Her mother, however, treated her as a self-sufficient person who did not require any special treatment. She was gradually able to learn how to move and run, and even play various sports like softball and go swimming, hiking and skiing.
When she was in high school, Aimee discovered her passion for athletics. Towards the end of high school, she participated in the Boston track and field meet for the disabled. On arriving in Boston, she was surprised to discover that she was the only athlete wearing wooden legs. The rest of the athletes had metal, shock-absorbent legs that she didn’t even know existed. Not to mention that all the other athletes had at least one normal leg. This fact did not shake her determination; instead it made her push herself harder to succeed. And succeed she did — she not only won, she also broke a national record in doing so. She decided to enter the long jump competition next, an event that double amputees were technically ‘not supposed’ to enter. A year later, she broke the world record in it.
Aimee was not happy with the way prosthetic legs were designed. So she invited innovators to combine science and art, and design unconventional prosthetic legs. She was soon wearing cheetah legs, handcrafted wooden legs, jellyfish legs and many more. She now began getting invitations from different parts of the world to talk about her life story and designer legs. The fashion and beauty industry took note of Aimee’s talent and beauty and asked her to model for, or endorse beauty products. Today she is a global model for a leading brand of cosmetics.
The doctors amputated Aimee’s legs because ____________.
Athey were disfigured
Bthey were not of the same length
Cthey were not strong
Dthey had no bones
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Correct answer: (D) they had no bones
Explanation
The passage says Aimee was born with no shin bones, so doctors amputated both legs to let her walk later in life; that is, her legs lacked bones.
Q92CTET February 2026 Paper 2 Maths & Science, 1 Mar 2026
Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow.
Aimee had a painful childhood. She was born in 1975 with no shin bones. The doctors therefore had to amputate both her legs so that she would be able to walk later in life. Unfortunately, she had to undergo a number of surgeries at the age of two, five and eight, and had to spend a long time in a hospital. Aimee grew up with artificial legs. Her mother, however, treated her as a self-sufficient person who did not require any special treatment. She was gradually able to learn how to move and run, and even play various sports like softball and go swimming, hiking and skiing.
When she was in high school, Aimee discovered her passion for athletics. Towards the end of high school, she participated in the Boston track and field meet for the disabled. On arriving in Boston, she was surprised to discover that she was the only athlete wearing wooden legs. The rest of the athletes had metal, shock-absorbent legs that she didn’t even know existed. Not to mention that all the other athletes had at least one normal leg. This fact did not shake her determination; instead it made her push herself harder to succeed. And succeed she did — she not only won, she also broke a national record in doing so. She decided to enter the long jump competition next, an event that double amputees were technically ‘not supposed’ to enter. A year later, she broke the world record in it.
Aimee was not happy with the way prosthetic legs were designed. So she invited innovators to combine science and art, and design unconventional prosthetic legs. She was soon wearing cheetah legs, handcrafted wooden legs, jellyfish legs and many more. She now began getting invitations from different parts of the world to talk about her life story and designer legs. The fashion and beauty industry took note of Aimee’s talent and beauty and asked her to model for, or endorse beauty products. Today she is a global model for a leading brand of cosmetics.
When Aimee began to use designer legs, she caught the attention of ____________.
Asports committees
Bdesigners
Cphotographers
Dthe fashion and beauty industry
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Correct answer: (D) the fashion and beauty industry
Explanation
The passage says 'The fashion and beauty industry took note of Aimee's talent and beauty'.
Q93CTET February 2026 Paper 2 Maths & Science, 1 Mar 2026
Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow.
Aimee had a painful childhood. She was born in 1975 with no shin bones. The doctors therefore had to amputate both her legs so that she would be able to walk later in life. Unfortunately, she had to undergo a number of surgeries at the age of two, five and eight, and had to spend a long time in a hospital. Aimee grew up with artificial legs. Her mother, however, treated her as a self-sufficient person who did not require any special treatment. She was gradually able to learn how to move and run, and even play various sports like softball and go swimming, hiking and skiing.
When she was in high school, Aimee discovered her passion for athletics. Towards the end of high school, she participated in the Boston track and field meet for the disabled. On arriving in Boston, she was surprised to discover that she was the only athlete wearing wooden legs. The rest of the athletes had metal, shock-absorbent legs that she didn’t even know existed. Not to mention that all the other athletes had at least one normal leg. This fact did not shake her determination; instead it made her push herself harder to succeed. And succeed she did — she not only won, she also broke a national record in doing so. She decided to enter the long jump competition next, an event that double amputees were technically ‘not supposed’ to enter. A year later, she broke the world record in it.
Aimee was not happy with the way prosthetic legs were designed. So she invited innovators to combine science and art, and design unconventional prosthetic legs. She was soon wearing cheetah legs, handcrafted wooden legs, jellyfish legs and many more. She now began getting invitations from different parts of the world to talk about her life story and designer legs. The fashion and beauty industry took note of Aimee’s talent and beauty and asked her to model for, or endorse beauty products. Today she is a global model for a leading brand of cosmetics.
Aimee had a painful childhood because :
A. both her legs did not have bones.
B. she underwent a lot of surgeries.
AOnly A is correct
BOnly B is correct
CBoth A and B are correct
DBoth A and B are incorrect
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Correct answer: (C) Both A and B are correct
Explanation
Her childhood was painful because she was born without shin bones and had to undergo many surgeries, so both A and B are correct.
Q94CTET February 2026 Paper 2 Maths & Science, 1 Mar 2026
Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow.
Aimee had a painful childhood. She was born in 1975 with no shin bones. The doctors therefore had to amputate both her legs so that she would be able to walk later in life. Unfortunately, she had to undergo a number of surgeries at the age of two, five and eight, and had to spend a long time in a hospital. Aimee grew up with artificial legs. Her mother, however, treated her as a self-sufficient person who did not require any special treatment. She was gradually able to learn how to move and run, and even play various sports like softball and go swimming, hiking and skiing.
When she was in high school, Aimee discovered her passion for athletics. Towards the end of high school, she participated in the Boston track and field meet for the disabled. On arriving in Boston, she was surprised to discover that she was the only athlete wearing wooden legs. The rest of the athletes had metal, shock-absorbent legs that she didn’t even know existed. Not to mention that all the other athletes had at least one normal leg. This fact did not shake her determination; instead it made her push herself harder to succeed. And succeed she did — she not only won, she also broke a national record in doing so. She decided to enter the long jump competition next, an event that double amputees were technically ‘not supposed’ to enter. A year later, she broke the world record in it.
Aimee was not happy with the way prosthetic legs were designed. So she invited innovators to combine science and art, and design unconventional prosthetic legs. She was soon wearing cheetah legs, handcrafted wooden legs, jellyfish legs and many more. She now began getting invitations from different parts of the world to talk about her life story and designer legs. The fashion and beauty industry took note of Aimee’s talent and beauty and asked her to model for, or endorse beauty products. Today she is a global model for a leading brand of cosmetics.
Which of the following statements is true ?
AThe Boston meet was for double amputees only.
BAimee’s mother gave her special care when she was a young child.
CSoon Aimee started promoting health products.
DAt the Boston meet, Aimee was the only one on wooden legs.
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Correct answer: (D) At the Boston meet, Aimee was the only one on wooden legs.
Explanation
The passage says that at Boston 'she was the only athlete wearing wooden legs'. The meet was for the disabled in general, her mother gave no special treatment, and she promotes cosmetics.
Q95CTET February 2026 Paper 2 Maths & Science, 1 Mar 2026
Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow.
Aimee had a painful childhood. She was born in 1975 with no shin bones. The doctors therefore had to amputate both her legs so that she would be able to walk later in life. Unfortunately, she had to undergo a number of surgeries at the age of two, five and eight, and had to spend a long time in a hospital. Aimee grew up with artificial legs. Her mother, however, treated her as a self-sufficient person who did not require any special treatment. She was gradually able to learn how to move and run, and even play various sports like softball and go swimming, hiking and skiing.
When she was in high school, Aimee discovered her passion for athletics. Towards the end of high school, she participated in the Boston track and field meet for the disabled. On arriving in Boston, she was surprised to discover that she was the only athlete wearing wooden legs. The rest of the athletes had metal, shock-absorbent legs that she didn’t even know existed. Not to mention that all the other athletes had at least one normal leg. This fact did not shake her determination; instead it made her push herself harder to succeed. And succeed she did — she not only won, she also broke a national record in doing so. She decided to enter the long jump competition next, an event that double amputees were technically ‘not supposed’ to enter. A year later, she broke the world record in it.
Aimee was not happy with the way prosthetic legs were designed. So she invited innovators to combine science and art, and design unconventional prosthetic legs. She was soon wearing cheetah legs, handcrafted wooden legs, jellyfish legs and many more. She now began getting invitations from different parts of the world to talk about her life story and designer legs. The fashion and beauty industry took note of Aimee’s talent and beauty and asked her to model for, or endorse beauty products. Today she is a global model for a leading brand of cosmetics.
At the Boston sports meet, Aimee discovered that all the other athletes had only one artificial leg. That did not discourage her. Instead, she began to do something. What was it ?
AShe decided to enter long jump competition next.
BShe decided to participate in athletics.
CShe decided to have designer legs.
DShe decided to enter the fashion industry.
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Correct answer: (A) She decided to enter long jump competition next.
Explanation
After the Boston meet, where she not only won but broke a national record, she decided to enter the long jump competition next.
Q96CTET February 2026 Paper 2 Maths & Science, 1 Mar 2026
Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow.
Aimee had a painful childhood. She was born in 1975 with no shin bones. The doctors therefore had to amputate both her legs so that she would be able to walk later in life. Unfortunately, she had to undergo a number of surgeries at the age of two, five and eight, and had to spend a long time in a hospital. Aimee grew up with artificial legs. Her mother, however, treated her as a self-sufficient person who did not require any special treatment. She was gradually able to learn how to move and run, and even play various sports like softball and go swimming, hiking and skiing.
When she was in high school, Aimee discovered her passion for athletics. Towards the end of high school, she participated in the Boston track and field meet for the disabled. On arriving in Boston, she was surprised to discover that she was the only athlete wearing wooden legs. The rest of the athletes had metal, shock-absorbent legs that she didn’t even know existed. Not to mention that all the other athletes had at least one normal leg. This fact did not shake her determination; instead it made her push herself harder to succeed. And succeed she did — she not only won, she also broke a national record in doing so. She decided to enter the long jump competition next, an event that double amputees were technically ‘not supposed’ to enter. A year later, she broke the world record in it.
Aimee was not happy with the way prosthetic legs were designed. So she invited innovators to combine science and art, and design unconventional prosthetic legs. She was soon wearing cheetah legs, handcrafted wooden legs, jellyfish legs and many more. She now began getting invitations from different parts of the world to talk about her life story and designer legs. The fashion and beauty industry took note of Aimee’s talent and beauty and asked her to model for, or endorse beauty products. Today she is a global model for a leading brand of cosmetics.
Which one of the following words is most similar in meaning to the word, ‘self-sufficient’ ?
AIndependent
BNeedy
CDependent
DHelpless
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Correct answer: (A) Independent
Explanation
Self-sufficient means able to manage without help, i.e. independent.
Q97CTET February 2026 Paper 2 Maths & Science, 1 Mar 2026
Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow.
Aimee had a painful childhood. She was born in 1975 with no shin bones. The doctors therefore had to amputate both her legs so that she would be able to walk later in life. Unfortunately, she had to undergo a number of surgeries at the age of two, five and eight, and had to spend a long time in a hospital. Aimee grew up with artificial legs. Her mother, however, treated her as a self-sufficient person who did not require any special treatment. She was gradually able to learn how to move and run, and even play various sports like softball and go swimming, hiking and skiing.
When she was in high school, Aimee discovered her passion for athletics. Towards the end of high school, she participated in the Boston track and field meet for the disabled. On arriving in Boston, she was surprised to discover that she was the only athlete wearing wooden legs. The rest of the athletes had metal, shock-absorbent legs that she didn’t even know existed. Not to mention that all the other athletes had at least one normal leg. This fact did not shake her determination; instead it made her push herself harder to succeed. And succeed she did — she not only won, she also broke a national record in doing so. She decided to enter the long jump competition next, an event that double amputees were technically ‘not supposed’ to enter. A year later, she broke the world record in it.
Aimee was not happy with the way prosthetic legs were designed. So she invited innovators to combine science and art, and design unconventional prosthetic legs. She was soon wearing cheetah legs, handcrafted wooden legs, jellyfish legs and many more. She now began getting invitations from different parts of the world to talk about her life story and designer legs. The fashion and beauty industry took note of Aimee’s talent and beauty and asked her to model for, or endorse beauty products. Today she is a global model for a leading brand of cosmetics.
Which one of the following words is most opposite to the word, ‘unconventional’ ?
AInnovative
BEccentric
CTraditional
DUnusual
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Correct answer: (C) Traditional
Explanation
Unconventional means not following custom, so its opposite is traditional.
Q98CTET February 2026 Paper 2 Maths & Science, 1 Mar 2026
Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow.
Aimee had a painful childhood. She was born in 1975 with no shin bones. The doctors therefore had to amputate both her legs so that she would be able to walk later in life. Unfortunately, she had to undergo a number of surgeries at the age of two, five and eight, and had to spend a long time in a hospital. Aimee grew up with artificial legs. Her mother, however, treated her as a self-sufficient person who did not require any special treatment. She was gradually able to learn how to move and run, and even play various sports like softball and go swimming, hiking and skiing.
When she was in high school, Aimee discovered her passion for athletics. Towards the end of high school, she participated in the Boston track and field meet for the disabled. On arriving in Boston, she was surprised to discover that she was the only athlete wearing wooden legs. The rest of the athletes had metal, shock-absorbent legs that she didn’t even know existed. Not to mention that all the other athletes had at least one normal leg. This fact did not shake her determination; instead it made her push herself harder to succeed. And succeed she did — she not only won, she also broke a national record in doing so. She decided to enter the long jump competition next, an event that double amputees were technically ‘not supposed’ to enter. A year later, she broke the world record in it.
Aimee was not happy with the way prosthetic legs were designed. So she invited innovators to combine science and art, and design unconventional prosthetic legs. She was soon wearing cheetah legs, handcrafted wooden legs, jellyfish legs and many more. She now began getting invitations from different parts of the world to talk about her life story and designer legs. The fashion and beauty industry took note of Aimee’s talent and beauty and asked her to model for, or endorse beauty products. Today she is a global model for a leading brand of cosmetics.
Identify the clause in the underlined part of the following sentence.
A year later, she broke the world record in it.
(Underlined part: "she broke the world record in it")
APrincipal clause
BAdverb clause
CAdjective clause
DNoun clause
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Correct answer: (A) Principal clause
Explanation
'she broke the world record in it' has its own subject and finite verb and stands alone as the main idea; 'A year later' is only an adverbial phrase. So it is the principal (main) clause.
Q99CTET February 2026 Paper 2 Maths & Science, 1 Mar 2026
Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow.
Aimee had a painful childhood. She was born in 1975 with no shin bones. The doctors therefore had to amputate both her legs so that she would be able to walk later in life. Unfortunately, she had to undergo a number of surgeries at the age of two, five and eight, and had to spend a long time in a hospital. Aimee grew up with artificial legs. Her mother, however, treated her as a self-sufficient person who did not require any special treatment. She was gradually able to learn how to move and run, and even play various sports like softball and go swimming, hiking and skiing.
When she was in high school, Aimee discovered her passion for athletics. Towards the end of high school, she participated in the Boston track and field meet for the disabled. On arriving in Boston, she was surprised to discover that she was the only athlete wearing wooden legs. The rest of the athletes had metal, shock-absorbent legs that she didn’t even know existed. Not to mention that all the other athletes had at least one normal leg. This fact did not shake her determination; instead it made her push herself harder to succeed. And succeed she did — she not only won, she also broke a national record in doing so. She decided to enter the long jump competition next, an event that double amputees were technically ‘not supposed’ to enter. A year later, she broke the world record in it.
Aimee was not happy with the way prosthetic legs were designed. So she invited innovators to combine science and art, and design unconventional prosthetic legs. She was soon wearing cheetah legs, handcrafted wooden legs, jellyfish legs and many more. She now began getting invitations from different parts of the world to talk about her life story and designer legs. The fashion and beauty industry took note of Aimee’s talent and beauty and asked her to model for, or endorse beauty products. Today she is a global model for a leading brand of cosmetics.
Which part of speech does the underlined word in the following sentence belong to ?
Her mother, however, treated her as a self-sufficient person.
(Underlined word: "however")
AAdverb
BInterjection
CConjunction
DAdjective
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Correct answer: (C) Conjunction
Explanation
Note: the official key gives (3); 'however' here works as a linking word between ideas (a conjunctive adverb), and the key treats it as a conjunction. Grammatically it is often classed as an adverb, but the official answer is conjunction.
Q100CTET February 2026 Paper 2 Maths & Science, 8 Feb 2026
Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow.
Pelicans are birds. There are more than half a dozen species of pelicans. All of them have the sack for which the birds are best known all over the world. The sack is like a big bag of skin hanging under their bill, or their mouth. These large carnivorous birds use them to catch fish.
Many pelicans fish by swimming in a group. They may form a line or a "U" shape and drive fish into shallow water by beating their wings on the surface. When the fish collect in the shallows, the pelicans simply scoop them up. The brown pelican, on the other hand, dives on the fish from above and traps them in its bill. Pelicans do not store fish in their pouch, but simply use it to catch them and then tip it back to drain out water and swallow the fish immediately. The American white pelican can hold some 11.5 litres of water in its bill. Young pelicans feed by sticking their bills into their parents' throats to retrieve food.
Along with giant pouch, pelicans are large birds with short legs, and they appear rather clumsy on land. Once in water, they are strong swimmers, thanks to their webbed feet. This means that webbing connects all four of their toes, even the back toe.
Pelicans are found on many of the world's coastlines and also along lakes and rivers. They travel in flocks. They also breed in groups called colonies, which typically gather on islands. The average life span of pelicans in the wild is about 10 to 25 years and their average body size is about 1.8 metres but when they open their wings their wingspan is around 3 metres. These large birds usually weigh around 13 kg.
Which one of the following words is most opposite in meaning to the word, 'retrieve' ?
Aremedy
Babandon
Crecover
Drectify
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Correct answer: (B) abandon
Explanation
'Retrieve' means to get back or recover something; its opposite is 'abandon', to give up or leave behind.
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