AP Highcourt Stenographer Grade III Junior Assistant Typist Field Assistant : 21/12/2022 Shift 2 Previous Year Paper English Language PDF

Select the grammatically correct and meaningful sentence.

Sentences of a paragraph are given below in jumbled order. Arrange the sentences in the correct order to form a meaningful and coherent paragraph.

A. A touch of vermilion was added too, to make the line visible in the sky.
B. The boy and his friends calculated how much line they would need for the kites to fly.
C. Glue was added to the glass granules to make paste for the line.
D. They collected empty bottles and got them ground.

Select the most appropriate meaning of the given idiom.
Split one’s sides

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Elapse

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She ______ to clear her debts within a month.

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Demolish

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A person who eats too much

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______! I’m going on a road trip with my friends.

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She divided her savings ______ two parts and gave them to her daughters.

Parts of a sentence are given below in jumbled order. Arrange the parts in the correct order to form a meaningful sentence.

A. wielded by nuclear weapons
B. are quite aware
C. all the nations
D. of the monstrous strength

Select the most appropriate meaning of the given idiom.
Cut from the same cloth

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He gifted me a ______, ______, ______ handbag.

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Let us hire a cab ______ we should get late.

Parts of a sentence are given below in jumbled order. Arrange the parts in the correct order to form a meaningful sentence.

A. condemned on account of the
B. examinations are often
C. involved in them
D. very prominent role of chance

Select the most appropriate ANTONYM for the given word.
Reprimand

Sentences of a paragraph are given below in jumbled order. Arrange the sentences in the correct order to form a meaningful and coherent paragraph.

A. It is also true that we have paid a price for the comforts of life that we enjoy today.
B. We have grown selfish and greedy and lead a life of stress and strain.
C. For example, old values like, love, care, simplicity, affection and sympathy have disappeared from our lives. 
D. In the light of the achievements made in different fields, we can certainly take pride in saying that we are happier than our forefathers.

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She ______ about her dingy apartment but did not have funds to buy a better one.

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Swim with sharks

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The study of plants

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The welfare of the soul is surely ______ to that of the body.

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I have never told a lie ______ deceived anybody.

Select the grammatically correct and meaningful sentence.

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If you ______ me to the manager, he might consider my case favourably.

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Aspersion

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He is only ______ glad to meet his friends.

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The boy was quite intelligent but the teacher tried to ______ as a dull student.

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She is ______ casual in her approach to life.

Parts of a sentence are given below in jumbled order. Arrange the parts in the correct order to form a meaningful sentence.

A. one’s outlook on life
B. like affluence, status or power
C. than on extraneous factors
D. happiness depends more upon

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______! Watch out for the potholes!

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I see no chance ______ making a profit in this business.

Comprehension:
In the following passage some words have been deleted. Read the passage carefully and select the most appropriate option to fill in each blank.

The wind and rain had whipped a (1) ______ of gritty dust against the panels. The room inside was musty and (2) ______ of furniture. The spiders had (3) ______ great stretchings of their webs about the fireplace. It was fairly (4) ______ that the house had been shut for years. I had a sudden (5)______ to be out of this house forever.
SubQuestion No : 71
Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank no. 1.

Comprehension:
In the following passage some words have been deleted. Read the passage carefully and select the most appropriate option to fill in each blank.

The wind and rain had whipped a (1) ______ of gritty dust against the panels. The room inside was musty and (2) ______ of furniture. The spiders had (3) ______ great stretchings of their webs about the fireplace. It was fairly (4) ______ that the house had been shut for years. I had a sudden (5)______ to be out of this house forever.
SubQuestion No : 72
Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank no. 2.

Comprehension:
In the following passage some words have been deleted. Read the passage carefully and select the most appropriate option to fill in each blank.

The wind and rain had whipped a (1) ______ of gritty dust against the panels. The room inside was musty and (2) ______ of furniture. The spiders had (3) ______ great stretchings of their webs about the fireplace. It was fairly (4) ______ that the house had been shut for years. I had a sudden (5)______ to be out of this house forever.
SubQuestion No : 73
Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank no. 3.

Comprehension:
In the following passage some words have been deleted. Read the passage carefully and select the most appropriate option to fill in each blank.

The wind and rain had whipped a (1) ______ of gritty dust against the panels. The room inside was musty and (2) ______ of furniture. The spiders had (3) ______ great stretchings of their webs about the fireplace. It was fairly (4) ______ that the house had been shut for years. I had a sudden (5)______ to be out of this house forever.
SubQuestion No : 74
Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank no. 4.

Comprehension:
In the following passage some words have been deleted. Read the passage carefully and select the most appropriate option to fill in each blank.

The wind and rain had whipped a (1) ______ of gritty dust against the panels. The room inside was musty and (2) ______ of furniture. The spiders had (3) ______ great stretchings of their webs about the fireplace. It was fairly (4) ______ that the house had been shut for years. I had a sudden (5)______ to be out of this house forever.
SubQuestion No : 75
Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank no. 5.

Comprehension:
Read the passage and answer the questions that follow.

I often went to the lagoon, which has a four-fathom bank where the tababa (tiger shark) muster in hundreds for a day or two every month. Offshore at rising tide, you can watch their great striped bodies sliding and swooping with arrogant ease not six feet under your keel. They range in length from nine to fourteen feet, with an occasional giant of eighteen feet.
Thirty-five years ago the Gilbertese were beginning to use steel hooks for shark-fishing but many still claimed that the old-style twelve-inch wooden hook, trained to the right shape was the only thing for tiger shark. The shark hunter’s gaff was a glorious club with a ten-pound stone for its head. He fished from a canoe not much longer than a man, with the line made last to it. When a big shark took the hook, the craft lurched suddenly and bounced insanely up and down; or it zigzagged like a misdirected rocket, the fisherman holding on grimly. But the fury of a tiger shark’s struggles soon exhausted it and it floated limply to the surface. Then the fisherman hauled the spent brute cautiously alongside and, letting out one piercing howl of pleasure, cracked it on the nose with his club.
Usually safety first is the rule when tiger sharks are about, but the feat of one Tarawa man, Teriakai, became a matter of official record. His vital, stocky frame was the equal of a giant’s for work. Whenever there was a special job to be done, we always chose Teriakai to do it. Thus when the captain and chief engineer of a visiting steamer wanted to go out for a sail in threatening weather, we sent Teriakai along to look after them.
A northerly storm caught Teriakai and his friends and capsized their boat, spilling them into the lagoon eight miles from land, with tiger sharks all round. Teriakai immediately hacked the main sail adrift; buoyed at head and foot by its spars, it made a fine bag under water. “Stay inside this,” he said to the captain and engineer, “and the tababa won’t smell you from a distance.” Then he put down the anchor and started for shore to get help. “If I get past the tababa,” he said, “we shall perhaps be meeting again.”
He swam straight at the tiger sharks – the captain and engineer watched him – and the devils let him through. Teriakai told me afterwards, “If you stay still in the sea, or swim away in fear, the tababa will charge you. If you swim without fear towards them, they will be afraid and leave you in peace.” So he chose his shark, swam full speed towards it and lo! the line melted away before him. Teriakai missed his direction and swam into a maze of reefs off the coast. The breaking seas flung him on cruel edges, rolled him over coral-branches, but he got through, still conscious, swam a mile to the shore, walked two more to a white trader’s house and collapsed on the veranda.
SubQuestion No : 76
The old style of shark fishing made use of:

Comprehension:
Read the passage and answer the questions that follow.

I often went to the lagoon, which has a four-fathom bank where the tababa (tiger shark) muster in hundreds for a day or two every month. Offshore at rising tide, you can watch their great striped bodies sliding and swooping with arrogant ease not six feet under your keel. They range in length from nine to fourteen feet, with an occasional giant of eighteen feet.
Thirty-five years ago the Gilbertese were beginning to use steel hooks for shark-fishing but many still claimed that the old-style twelve-inch wooden hook, trained to the right shape was the only thing for tiger shark. The shark hunter’s gaff was a glorious club with a ten-pound stone for its head. He fished from a canoe not much longer than a man, with the line made last to it. When a big shark took the hook, the craft lurched suddenly and bounced insanely up and down; or it zigzagged like a misdirected rocket, the fisherman holding on grimly. But the fury of a tiger shark’s struggles soon exhausted it and it floated limply to the surface. Then the fisherman hauled the spent brute cautiously alongside and, letting out one piercing howl of pleasure, cracked it on the nose with his club.
Usually safety first is the rule when tiger sharks are about, but the feat of one Tarawa man, Teriakai, became a matter of official record. His vital, stocky frame was the equal of a giant’s for work. Whenever there was a special job to be done, we always chose Teriakai to do it. Thus when the captain and chief engineer of a visiting steamer wanted to go out for a sail in threatening weather, we sent Teriakai along to look after them.
A northerly storm caught Teriakai and his friends and capsized their boat, spilling them into the lagoon eight miles from land, with tiger sharks all round. Teriakai immediately hacked the main sail adrift; buoyed at head and foot by its spars, it made a fine bag under water. “Stay inside this,” he said to the captain and engineer, “and the tababa won’t smell you from a distance.” Then he put down the anchor and started for shore to get help. “If I get past the tababa,” he said, “we shall perhaps be meeting again.”
He swam straight at the tiger sharks – the captain and engineer watched him – and the devils let him through. Teriakai told me afterwards, “If you stay still in the sea, or swim away in fear, the tababa will charge you. If you swim without fear towards them, they will be afraid and leave you in peace.” So he chose his shark, swam full speed towards it and lo! the line melted away before him. Teriakai missed his direction and swam into a maze of reefs off the coast. The breaking seas flung him on cruel edges, rolled him over coral-branches, but he got through, still conscious, swam a mile to the shore, walked two more to a white trader’s house and collapsed on the veranda.
SubQuestion No : 77
The fierce struggle of a large shark resulted in:

Comprehension:
Read the passage and answer the questions that follow.

I often went to the lagoon, which has a four-fathom bank where the tababa (tiger shark) muster in hundreds for a day or two every month. Offshore at rising tide, you can watch their great striped bodies sliding and swooping with arrogant ease not six feet under your keel. They range in length from nine to fourteen feet, with an occasional giant of eighteen feet.
Thirty-five years ago the Gilbertese were beginning to use steel hooks for shark-fishing but many still claimed that the old-style twelve-inch wooden hook, trained to the right shape was the only thing for tiger shark. The shark hunter’s gaff was a glorious club with a ten-pound stone for its head. He fished from a canoe not much longer than a man, with the line made last to it. When a big shark took the hook, the craft lurched suddenly and bounced insanely up and down; or it zigzagged like a misdirected rocket, the fisherman holding on grimly. But the fury of a tiger shark’s struggles soon exhausted it and it floated limply to the surface. Then the fisherman hauled the spent brute cautiously alongside and, letting out one piercing howl of pleasure, cracked it on the nose with his club.
Usually safety first is the rule when tiger sharks are about, but the feat of one Tarawa man, Teriakai, became a matter of official record. His vital, stocky frame was the equal of a giant’s for work. Whenever there was a special job to be done, we always chose Teriakai to do it. Thus when the captain and chief engineer of a visiting steamer wanted to go out for a sail in threatening weather, we sent Teriakai along to look after them.
A northerly storm caught Teriakai and his friends and capsized their boat, spilling them into the lagoon eight miles from land, with tiger sharks all round. Teriakai immediately hacked the main sail adrift; buoyed at head and foot by its spars, it made a fine bag under water. “Stay inside this,” he said to the captain and engineer, “and the tababa won’t smell you from a distance.” Then he put down the anchor and started for shore to get help. “If I get past the tababa,” he said, “we shall perhaps be meeting again.”
He swam straight at the tiger sharks – the captain and engineer watched him – and the devils let him through. Teriakai told me afterwards, “If you stay still in the sea, or swim away in fear, the tababa will charge you. If you swim without fear towards them, they will be afraid and leave you in peace.” So he chose his shark, swam full speed towards it and lo! the line melted away before him. Teriakai missed his direction and swam into a maze of reefs off the coast. The breaking seas flung him on cruel edges, rolled him over coral-branches, but he got through, still conscious, swam a mile to the shore, walked two more to a white trader’s house and collapsed on the veranda.
SubQuestion No : 78
Which of the following is NOT true of the tababa?

Comprehension:
Read the passage and answer the questions that follow.

I often went to the lagoon, which has a four-fathom bank where the tababa (tiger shark) muster in hundreds for a day or two every month. Offshore at rising tide, you can watch their great striped bodies sliding and swooping with arrogant ease not six feet under your keel. They range in length from nine to fourteen feet, with an occasional giant of eighteen feet.
Thirty-five years ago the Gilbertese were beginning to use steel hooks for shark-fishing but many still claimed that the old-style twelve-inch wooden hook, trained to the right shape was the only thing for tiger shark. The shark hunter’s gaff was a glorious club with a ten-pound stone for its head. He fished from a canoe not much longer than a man, with the line made last to it. When a big shark took the hook, the craft lurched suddenly and bounced insanely up and down; or it zigzagged like a misdirected rocket, the fisherman holding on grimly. But the fury of a tiger shark’s struggles soon exhausted it and it floated limply to the surface. Then the fisherman hauled the spent brute cautiously alongside and, letting out one piercing howl of pleasure, cracked it on the nose with his club.
Usually safety first is the rule when tiger sharks are about, but the feat of one Tarawa man, Teriakai, became a matter of official record. His vital, stocky frame was the equal of a giant’s for work. Whenever there was a special job to be done, we always chose Teriakai to do it. Thus when the captain and chief engineer of a visiting steamer wanted to go out for a sail in threatening weather, we sent Teriakai along to look after them.
A northerly storm caught Teriakai and his friends and capsized their boat, spilling them into the lagoon eight miles from land, with tiger sharks all round. Teriakai immediately hacked the main sail adrift; buoyed at head and foot by its spars, it made a fine bag under water. “Stay inside this,” he said to the captain and engineer, “and the tababa won’t smell you from a distance.” Then he put down the anchor and started for shore to get help. “If I get past the tababa,” he said, “we shall perhaps be meeting again.”
He swam straight at the tiger sharks – the captain and engineer watched him – and the devils let him through. Teriakai told me afterwards, “If you stay still in the sea, or swim away in fear, the tababa will charge you. If you swim without fear towards them, they will be afraid and leave you in peace.” So he chose his shark, swam full speed towards it and lo! the line melted away before him. Teriakai missed his direction and swam into a maze of reefs off the coast. The breaking seas flung him on cruel edges, rolled him over coral-branches, but he got through, still conscious, swam a mile to the shore, walked two more to a white trader’s house and collapsed on the veranda.
SubQuestion No : 79
The word ‘collapse’ in the passage means:

Comprehension:
Read the passage and answer the questions that follow.

I often went to the lagoon, which has a four-fathom bank where the tababa (tiger shark) muster in hundreds for a day or two every month. Offshore at rising tide, you can watch their great striped bodies sliding and swooping with arrogant ease not six feet under your keel. They range in length from nine to fourteen feet, with an occasional giant of eighteen feet.
Thirty-five years ago the Gilbertese were beginning to use steel hooks for shark-fishing but many still claimed that the old-style twelve-inch wooden hook, trained to the right shape was the only thing for tiger shark. The shark hunter’s gaff was a glorious club with a ten-pound stone for its head. He fished from a canoe not much longer than a man, with the line made last to it. When a big shark took the hook, the craft lurched suddenly and bounced insanely up and down; or it zigzagged like a misdirected rocket, the fisherman holding on grimly. But the fury of a tiger shark’s struggles soon exhausted it and it floated limply to the surface. Then the fisherman hauled the spent brute cautiously alongside and, letting out one piercing howl of pleasure, cracked it on the nose with his club.
Usually safety first is the rule when tiger sharks are about, but the feat of one Tarawa man, Teriakai, became a matter of official record. His vital, stocky frame was the equal of a giant’s for work. Whenever there was a special job to be done, we always chose Teriakai to do it. Thus when the captain and chief engineer of a visiting steamer wanted to go out for a sail in threatening weather, we sent Teriakai along to look after them.
A northerly storm caught Teriakai and his friends and capsized their boat, spilling them into the lagoon eight miles from land, with tiger sharks all round. Teriakai immediately hacked the main sail adrift; buoyed at head and foot by its spars, it made a fine bag under water. “Stay inside this,” he said to the captain and engineer, “and the tababa won’t smell you from a distance.” Then he put down the anchor and started for shore to get help. “If I get past the tababa,” he said, “we shall perhaps be meeting again.”
He swam straight at the tiger sharks – the captain and engineer watched him – and the devils let him through. Teriakai told me afterwards, “If you stay still in the sea, or swim away in fear, the tababa will charge you. If you swim without fear towards them, they will be afraid and leave you in peace.” So he chose his shark, swam full speed towards it and lo! the line melted away before him. Teriakai missed his direction and swam into a maze of reefs off the coast. The breaking seas flung him on cruel edges, rolled him over coral-branches, but he got through, still conscious, swam a mile to the shore, walked two more to a white trader’s house and collapsed on the veranda.
SubQuestion No : 80
What kind of passage is it?