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Kerala PSC LDC Exam
General English
Practice Test
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1. Choose the correctly spelt word.
(A) Justise
(B) Journalist
(C) Jewellary
(D) Juvanile
2. Choose the correctly spelt word.
(B) Assosiate
(C) Assasinate
(D) Assumption
3. Read the following passages carefully and answer the Questions given below:-A desert is generally a place without water and vegetation. The popular belief is that it is an area of endless sand with no greenery,dry hot and without shade. But this belief is not all correct.The desert can be a beautiful place,a home of many people, animals and plants. When it rains, desert flowers bloom. A desert is not just a sandy wasteland. It may have mountains and even a Greenland, called oasis. An oasis takes shape around a spring or well. A Desert may be hot like the Thar or cold like Ladakh. Strong winds raise heaps of sand and deposit them as mounds. All living things including plants and animals, need water to survive. But desert creatures and plants require less water. Camels can do without water for days together. The reason is that they sweat very little. "Pick out the phrase, which describe the desert as most people believe it is"
(A) waste land
(B) Oasis
(C) An area of endless sand
(D) None of these
4. Read the following passages carefully and answer the Questions given below:-A desert is generally a place without water and vegetation. The popular belief is that it is an area of endless sand with no greenery,dry hot and without shade. But this belief is not all correct.The desert can be a beautiful place,a home of many people, animals and plants. When it rains, desert flowers bloom. A desert is not just a sandy wasteland. It may have mountains and even a Greenland, called oasis. An oasis takes shape around a spring or well. A Desert may be hot like the Thar or cold like Ladakh. Strong winds raise heaps of sand and deposit them as mounds. All living things including plants and animals, need water to survive. But desert creatures and plants require less water. Camels can do without water for days together. The reason is that they sweat very little. "What happens when it rains in desert?"
(A) An oasis takes place
(B) Strong winds raise
(C) Desert flowers start blooming
(D) None of these
5. Read the following passages carefully and answer the Questions given below:-Postal service originated with the necessity of maintaining communication between different parts of an empire. it helped the rulers to govern empires that stretched over large areas.Earlier the post was a privilege reserved only for the kings and their officials. There was little demand for public postal service because few people could read or write. Nearly all ancient postal systems were relay systems. They consisted of runners or mounted couriers stationed at intervals along major roads. Messages relayed by these couriers traveled swiftly, sometimes more than 150 Kms a day. Many ancient civilizations like the Egyptians, Persians and Chinese had well organised postal systems. In India also the postal system has been in existence since 1296, Alauddin Khilji, the Pathan ruler, had a horse-and-foot postal organization to receive the regular news of the conditions and progress of his army. Sher shah Suri improved the system a great deal in his short rule of five years. He got a 2000 miles long road built from Bengal to sindh. He established a most efficient system of horse dispatches throughout his empire. "Alauddin Khilji was a .............. ruler"
(A) Egyptian
(B) Persian
(C) Chineese
(D) Pathan
6.Read the following passages carefully and answer the Questions given below:-Postal service originated with the necessity of maintaining communication between different parts of an empire. it helped the rulers to govern empires that stretched over large areas.Earlier the post was a privilege reserved only for the kings and their officials. There was little demand for public postal service because few people could read or write. Nearly all ancient postal systems were relay systems. They consisted of runners or mounted couriers stationed at intervals along major roads. Messages relayed by these couriers traveled swiftly, sometimes more than 150 Kms a day. Many ancient civilizations like the Egyptians, Persians and Chinese had well organised postal systems. In India also the postal system has been in existence since 1296, Alauddin Khilji, the Pathan ruler, had a horse-and-foot postal organization to receive the regular news of the conditions and progress of his army. Sher Shah Suri improved the system a great deal in his short rule of five years. He got a 2000 miles long road built from Bengal to sindh. He established a most efficient system of horse despatches throughout his empire. "Messengers who traveled on horse"
(A) Mounted
(B) Officials
(C) relay system
(D) None of these
(A) despatches
(B) relay
(C) Privilege
(D) existence
8. Myopia is a condition in which a person.
(A) can see near objects clearly
(B) has double vision
(C) can see distant objects clearly
(D) none of the above
9. Fear of marriage.
(A) Gymnophobia
(B) Pyrophobia
(C) Gamophobia
(D) Ophidiophobia
10. Which stage of Labor is Known as phase of placental separation.
(A) First
(B) Second
(C) Third
(D) Fourth