Sunday, 30 March 2014

Post Office PA/SA Exam 2013 Question paper (English)

Part C:  English



DIRECTIONS: (Question No. 1 to 3) Identify the part of speech of the underlined words in the sentences and mark the correct choice.
1.Good students are always successful in life.
a.) Adjective
b.) Pronoun
c.) Adverb
d.) Noun

2.The teacher was very pleased with me.
a.) Pronoun
b.) Adverb
c.) Preposition
d.) Conjuction

3.Cross the busy road carefully.
a.) Verb
b.) Noun
c.) Adverb
d.) Adjective

DIRECTIONS: (Question No. 54 to 56) Mark the appropriate the words to fill in the blanks.

4.God helps those …………………….. help themselves.
a.) That
b.) Whom
c.) Who
d.) Which

5.It is raining heavily, take …………………………. Umbrella.
a.) A
b.) Some
c.) The
d.) An

6. We have been waiting for the train ………………………… more than two hours.
a.) Until
b.) For
c.) Since
d.) From

7. Mark the correct passive form of the sentence-
I play cricket with my friends.
a.) Cricket is played by me with my friends.
b.) Cricket was played by me with my friends.
c.) I play with my friends cricket.
d.) Cricket plays my friends with me.

DIRECTIONS: (Question No. 58 to 59) Identify the tenses in the following sentences.

8. She reached the examination hall well in time.
a.) Past perfect
b.) Future indefinite
c.) Past indefinite
d.) Present perfect

9. I am learning English from my uncle.
a.) Present continuous
b.) Future indefinite
c.) Past continuous
d.) Present Perfect

DIRECTIONS: (Question No. 60) Change the following sentences into reported speech.

10.Rahul said, ”I am busy now”:
a.) Rahul said that he was busy then.
b.) Rahul told that he was busy now.
c.) Rahul said that he was busy then.
d.) Rahul said that he is busy now.

11.Find out the sentence in Passive voice.
a.) The judge scolded the culprit for his offence.
b.) The culprit was punished for his offence by the judge.
c.) The judge convicted the culprit for his offence.
d.) The culprit apologised to the judge for his offence.

12.Point out the correct sentence.
a.) The teacher said that the Earth moves round the sun.
b.) The teacher said that the Earth had moved round the sun.
c.) The teacher said that the Earth moved round the sun.
d.) The teacher told that the Earth was moving round the sun.

DIRECTIONS: (Question No. 63 to 65) Choose synonyms for given words:

13.Immortal
a.) Dead
b.) Eminent
c.) Mortal
d.) Eternal

14.Attain
a.) Accept
b.) Excuse
c.) Acquire
d.) Leave

15.Verify
a.) Testify
b.) Praise
c.) Acceptable
d.) Condemn

16.Point out the verb in the following words:
a.) Successful
b.) Success
c.) Successfully
d.) Succeed

DIRECTIONS: (Question No. 67 to 68) Find the correctly spelt words:

17.a.) Benefited
b.) Benefeted
c.) Benefitted
d.) Benifited

18.a.) Pasanger
b.) Pesanger
c.) Pessenger
d.) Passanger

DIRECTIONS: (Question No. 69 to 72) Choose the word which is the exact opposite of the given word.

19.Expand
a.) Condense
b.) Conclude
c.) Convert
d.) Congest

20.Fraudulent
a.) Forthright
b.) Genuine
c.) Candid
d.) Direct

21.Enormous
a.) Tiny
b.) Weak
c.) Soft
d.) Average

22.Artificial
a.) Truthful
b.) Solid
c.) Red
d.) Natural

DIRECTIONS: (Question No. 73 to 75) Which of phrases given below in each sentence should replace the phrase in underlined to make the sentence grammatically correct?

23.Why did you not threw the bag away?
a.) did you not thrown
b.) you did not thrown
c.) did you not throw
d.) had you not threw

24.The small child does whatever his father was done:
a.) does
b.) had done
c.) has done
d.) did

25.He is too important for tolerating any delay:
a.) at tolerating
b.) with tolerating
c.) to tolerate
d.) to tolerating



Part B:   Mathematics
Part D:   Reasoning

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