Slip Test-5 English

VILLUPURAM DISTRICT-2023
ENGLISH SLIP TEST-05

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Time allowed: 1 Hour 30 Min. Maximum Marks :50
Instructions: (1) Check the question paper for fairness of printing. If there is any lack of fairness, inform the
Hall Supervisor immediately.
(2) Use Blue or Black ink to write and underline.
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PART I
Note: (i) Answer all the questions 10x1=10
(ii) Choose the most appropriate answer from the given four alternatives and write the option code
and the corresponding answer.
I. Choose the appropriate synonyms for the italicized words.

1. They continue to grapple with the changes.
a) settle b) fight c) move d) stop
2. Assistive Technology has helped a talented mind overcome physical impairments.
a) ignorances b) disabilities c) inadequates d) transitions
3. We can now look forward to a more inclusive way of learning, instead of the cloistered existence
a) integration b) joint c) enclosed d) recognisable
II. Choose the appropriate antonym for the italicized words.
4. But it would have been frustrating and difficult.
a) challenging b) easy c) hard d) daunting
5. Technology is very important because it enables me to communicate and be independent.
a) lively b) impartial c) dependent d) freedom
6. It is essential that much of his spare time is spent in the performing arts!
a) unimportant b) acknowledged c) compelling d) fundamental
7. Complete the following sentence with the most appropriate word given below.
It helps to ____________ the calories.
a) warm up b) stretch out c) put on d) burn off
8. Fill in the blank with the most appropriate preposition given below.
The fox jumped ____________the well
a) on b) into c) in d) to
9. Complete the following sentence using the most appropriate tense form of the verb given below.
If I were a millionaire, I __________ the needy.
a) would help b) would have helped c) will help d) can help
10. Choose the most appropriate linker from the four alternatives.
My uncle entered my house __________ I was doing my homework.
a) when b) since c) whenever d) after
PART II
Section – I
Answer any TWO of the following questions in a sentence or two. 2x2=4
11. Who is Kim? How does Kim help Alisha?
12. Name the instrument which David control with his eye movement.
13. What are the benefits of the internet to common man?
Section – II
Read the following set of poetic lines and answer any TWO of the following. 2x2=4
14. We were taken from the ore – bed and the mine,
We were melted in the furnace and the pit.
a) Whom does ‘we’ refer to?
b) Where are the metals melted?
15. Some water, coal, and oil is all we ask,
And a thousandth of an inch to give us play
And now,if you will set us to our task,
We will serve you four and twenty hours a day!
a. What do they ask for? 24. Look at the following picture and express your views
on it in about five sentences.
b. Who will set the task?
16. Because, for all our power and weight and size
We are nothing more than children of your
brain.
a. Whom does ‘Children’ refer to?
b. Who is the speaker of these lines?
Part IV (8 Marks)
Section – III
25. Write a paragraph about 150 words by developing
Punctuate the following sentence. 1x2=2
the following hints. 4
17. we had ghosts i said
Bennett – bad temper – phonotelephote – wife’s
Section – IV
voice – happy mood- mechanized dressing room –
18. Your friend wants to visit the Exhibition. Guide
reporter’s room – turn the moon round – clouds – lunch in
him to reach his destination. 1x2=2
solitude – pneumatic tubes – aero car – Niagara.
26. Read the following passage and answer the questions

given below: 4x1=4
Chennai, formerly Madras, is the capital of

Tamilnadu, in Southern India, on the Coromandel
PART III -Section I 1x5=5 Coast of the Bay of Bengal, known as the
“Gateway to South India”. Armenian and
Answer the following in utmost ten lines Portuguese traders were living in the Santhome
19. ‘Technology is boon to the disabled’. Justify. area before the arrival of the British in 1639. At
Section II 1x5=5
that time, weaving of cotton fabrics was local
Answer any one of the following industry. The Government of Tamilnadu
20. What feelings are evoked in by the machines in the officially changed the name of the city to Chennai
poem ‘The Secret of the Machines’? in 1996.
(or) Questions:
21. Read the following poetic lines and answer the a) Who were living in the Santhome area?
questions given below.
b) When did the British arrive at Chennai?
We can pull and haul and push and lift and drive,
We can print and plough and weave and heat and light, c) What was the local industry in Chennai?
We can run and race and swim and fly and dive, d) Who changed the name of the city to Chennai?
We can see and hear and count and read and write! (or)
Read the following poem and answer the questions
a) Identify the rhyming words of the given lines given:
b) Identify the rhyme scheme of the given lines.
When funds are low, and the debts are high;
c) Identify the figure of speech in the last poetic line.
And you want to smile, but you have to sigh;
d) Pick out the alliterating words. When care is pressing you down a bit
Section III
Rest if you must, but don’t you quit
Answer any two of the following. 2x5=10
Success is failure turned inside out;
22. Prepare an attractive advertisement using the hints
The silver tint of the clouds of doubts;
given below.
And you can never tell how close you are;
Travels – Sleeper A/C coaches – to Chennai, Bangalore and
Questions:
Hyderabad- Thrice a week- Very comfortable- Charge
a) What happens to our funds and debts?
reasonable -Akshay Travels.
b) What must we do when presses us down?
23. Quote from memory: c) What is success?
Some water …………………. lift and drive. d) How far can the silver tint be?

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VILLUPURAM DISTRICT-2023

ENGLISH SLIP TEST-05

I. Choose the appropriate synonyms for the italicized words.

26. Read the following passage and answer the questions

Chennai, formerly Madras, is the capital of

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