Model Question Bank:
I.
ANSWER IN ONE OR TWO SENTENCES EACH:
1.
What do you mean by career?
2.
Define ‘Career Planning’?
3.
What should be the major focus of career planning?
4.
List out the benefits of career planning?
5.
Identify the guidelines for choosing a
career?
6.
What are the frequently asked questions about career fields?
7.
How do connections help in searching for a suitable job?
8.
What are the sample questions asked about a particular job title?
9.
What is the role of a career counselor in charting out a career path?
10. List out the factors
influencing career decisions?
11. What has startled global experts?
12. What are the questions often
asked by the young?
13. What are the three traits as
identified by the author?
14. How have the content of our
films changed?
15. In what way have we been
exposed to corruption from our childhood?
16. How can we contribute to
India’s progress?
17.
What is global warming?
18.
How does global warming
occur?
19.
What are the major causes for Global Warming?
20.
What is the quantity of fossil fuel burnt each year?
21.
How does the concentration of carbon dioxide in the air increase?
22.
Define Greenhouse effect?
23.
By burning forests around the world, how much carbon
dioxide is added to the atmosphere?
24.
What are the steps to be taken to save our environment?
25.
What is the possible problem of global warming and its result?
26.
What is the effect of global warming?
27.
What was the usual talk when the parents of the
children met?
28.
What ambition did Nooyi’s mother have for her daughter?
29.
How did Nooyi’s mother threaten Nooyi?
30.
What good news did Indra Nooyi want to share with
her mother?
31.
What did Nooyi’s mother say when she was told the
good news?
32.
What lesson did Nooyi learn from her mother?
33.
Why does Nooyi’s mother take full credit for
Nooyi’s success?
34.
What does Indra Nooyi discover about the language
of business in the U.S?
35.
What does Indra Nooyi think about herself as a mother?
36.
What is the secret of Indra Nooyi’s success?
37.
How does Indra Nooyi manage time?
38.
What is Indra Nooyi’s passion?
39.
Describe the farmer who visited the dentist’s clinic.
41. What was the curious act of
the farmer?
42. What request did the farmer make?
43. Why did the doctor almost
‘faint in shock’?
44. What did the farmer say when
he came back to the clinic?
45. Who do ‘you’ and ‘I’ in the
poem refer to?
46. Who is the sinner according
to the poem?
47. Why did the farmer commit suicide?
48. Explain the meaning of the
phrase ‘you crossed over’.
49. What are the contrasts
depicted by the writer between the farmer’s wife and her husband?
50. What memories of her husband
trouble her now?
II.
ANSWER IN A PARAGRAPH OF NOT MORE THAN 100 WORDS EACH:
1.
Write a short note on Guidelines for Choosing a Career.
2.
How does career planning play a major role in making career choices?
3.
Explain in your own words the first trait of our psyche.
4.
How does our environment contribute to our numbness to injustice?
5.
Describe the divisiveness that the author talks about.
6.
What are the causes and effects of global warming?
7.
How does deforestation affect our environment?
8.
What information do you gather
about Indra Nooyi after going through the interview with Nandan Nilekani?
9.
How did Indra Nooyi’s mother try
to teach her the role of a woman in a family? Do
you agree with her?
10. How do
you think Indra Nooyi’s mother and her husband contribute to her success?
11.
What does Indra Nooyi mean when
she says “I have to decide every moment in time
whether I am going be a mother or a wife or an executive”?
12.
Explain in your own words the
traditional and modern views of one or two facts
expressed in the interview?
13.
Explain in your own words the reason for the farmer’s visit to the clinic.
14. Describe how the doctor
fixed the bull’s tooth.
15. Describe the lament of the
farmer’s wife on her husband’s death?
III. GRAMMAR:
1. Fill in the blanks with suitable articles:
a.
Dr. Sanjay is dentist.
b.
My friend is MLA.
c.
Have you ever visited Himalayas?
d.
Please bring me cup
of coffee.
e.
He is untidy boy.
f.
She is backbone of her organization.
g.
He is honour to his profession.
h.
Raghu is going to mall.
i.
world is happy
place.
j.
I met European at party in friend’s
house.
2. Fill
in the blanks with suitable prepositions:
a.
She works a big shop Jayanagar.
b.
There is a book the
floor. Put it the table.
c.
I often see Mrs. Dixit the station, waiting her
train.
d.
Mangalore is the coast the south India.
e.
My daughter isn’t work today because she isn’t feeling well.
f.
There were several people
the bus stop.
g.
Mr. and Mrs. Sharma were the shop talking
the
assistant.
h.
Yesterday we spent the day the country.
i.
We had lunch a
pretty little village.
j.
When I was the bus stop this morning; I saw two boys the church roof.
3. Add
appropriate prefixes to form new words:
a. form b. regular c. literate d. accurate e. operate
f. pure g.
fix h. technic i.
tone j. national
4. Add
appropriate suffixes to form new words:
|
a. rich |
b. love |
c. start |
d. beauty |
e. differ |
|
f. use |
g. cheer |
h. attract |
i. save |
j. slow |
5. Give the synonyms of the
following:
|
a. release |
b. arrive |
c. trap |
d. happinesse. |
e. large |
|
f. teach |
g. change |
h.
confusion |
i. discover |
j. charge |
6. Give the antonyms for the following:
|
a. rise |
b. increase c. smiled. |
d. strict. |
e.sadness |
|
f. full |
g. host h. success |
i. discover |
j. charge |
7. Add the correct question tags to the following statements:
a.
It is cold, ?
b.
But it isn’t as cold as yesterday, ?
c.
It was very cold yesterday, ?
d.
It hasn’t been so cold for a long
time, ?
e.
It is snowing in the north,
?
f.
It often snows there, ?
8. Give
short form answers for the following:
a.
Does Renu work
hard? . .
b.
Can you swim? . .
c.
Are you angry with
me? . .
d.
Do you like watching
movies? . .
e.
Have you met our Prime
Minister? . .
9.
Fill in the
blanks with appropriate words from the brackets:
a.
His father-in-law
owns a farm. (dairy/diary)
b.
Diabetics must take extra care of their................................................................ (feat/feet)
c.
Rekha is a
popular of
Bollywood.(heroin/heroine)
d.
The country was prosperous during the of Krishnadevaraya.(rein/reign/rain)
e.
You should be in
the class. (quite/quiet)
10.
Differentiate
between the following pairs of words by using each of them in a sentence of
your own:
|
a. Wrong, rung |
b.
Principal, principle |
c. Hair, hare |
|
d. Gate, gait. |
e. Sea, see |
f. Fair, fare |
|
g. Some, sum. |
h. Sell, cell |
i. Weather, whether |
|
j. Birth, berth |
k.
Vacation, vocation |
l. Bear, bare |
11. Fill in the blanks with verbs to agree with their subjects:
a. Every
seat in the bus taken.
b. All the
seats in this bus reserved.
c. One of my friends visiting me this week end.
d. Neither
Gopal nor Deepak come today.
e. The
Captain of Indian team as well as his
players staying
here.
f.
Intelligence and
hard work required
to get good marks.
g. Mathematics
my favourite subject.
h. your
father and mother at home?
12.
Identify the tense of the verbs in the following
in the sentences.
a.
He was listening to her attentively.
b. Raghu denies stealing my purse.
c. She has bought a flat near
my house.
d. Kiran fought bravely.
e. The teachers are discussing
the details of the annual day function.
f. I am not trying to copy you.
g. Sushma was cooking pasta.
h. The students have been
waiting eagerly for the results.
i. Risheeba speaks Tamil very fluently.
j. I have been waiting for her
for over an hour.
13. Change
the voice:
a.
Ramu was making a kite.
b. Close the door.
c. Cable wires have been cut.
d. We prohibit smoking.
e. Everyone loves him.
e.
My watch was lost.
f. He was refused admission.
g. Do not insult the poor.
h.
Without effort nothing can be gained.
i. They made him captain.
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