TET Exam English Language Online Mock Test

Read the passage carefully and answer the questions (Q. 1-7) that follow by choosing the best alternative:

What’s the computer’s mother tongue? Which language does the computer speak? Compuspeak. What is a conglomeration of computer languages called? Computowers of Babe! Witticisms apart, we do need to communicate with computers. When the pentagon wanted a new computer language that could do most of the routine jobs with ease, it made its scientists look at more than 150 different computer languages that existed in the United States. After a few months of intensive testing of most of the available languages, American scientists decided that none of them was suitable for the job. So the US Department of Defense invented yet another language, making it about the 151^st. It then went about searching for a name for the language. That was not easy either. After going through more than 200 suggested names, the DOD didn,t  find anything “precise  enough”. So, a new female name was picked and the newest computer language was called ADA. Lady Augusta Ada Lovelace could be considered the world’s first computer programmer, the first software specialist. She was Lord Byron,s daughter and the chief inspiration for the world’s first computer engineer, the father of the computer, Charles Stanley Babbage. ADA, the language is quite tough, complex and highly detailed piece of software and is being adopted to much of the western world’s military and space applications. ADA can work with multiple parameters at one time, is quick, efficient and precise. But the nonmilitary world does not exactly need ADA to carry on its business. There are about a dozen other more popular languages that fit the bill very well. Though almost all of them seem quite tough, complex and cumbersome to work on and write with at first sight, they are not tougher than learning a new foreign language and seem relatively simple once one has a hang of them.

1. After whom, according to the passage, was ADA named?

Why did the pentagon want a new computer language?

Why did the DoD find it difficult to choose a name for their new computer language?

Why have European militaries adopted ADA?

Why does the civilian world not need ADA?

Identify the word closest in meaning to the word: “PRECISE”

Identify the word opposite in meaning to the word: “COMBERSOME”

Read the passage carefully and answer the questions (Q. 8-15) that follow by choosing the best alternative:

What is the future which awaits our children? The underlying assumption of the question that Indian children have a common future is itself dubious. It can legitimately be asked whether a student who is well fed, attending a boarding school in the salubrious climate of the hills, and learning to use computers has any future in common with a malnourished child who goes to a school with no blackboards, if indeed he does go to school. The latter may have no worthwhile future at all. And it might be worthwhile to analyze the significance of this marginalization of more than seventy five percent of the children of this country. The failure to provide an infrastructure for primary education in the villages of India more than 60 years after independence is in sharp contrast with the sophisticated institutions, for technical institutes of higher education are funded by the government, which essentially means that the money to support them comes from taxes. And since indirect taxation forms a substantial part of the taxes collected by the government, the financial burden is borne by all the people. L.K.Jha put it graphically.  When he observed that 25 paise of every rupee spent on educating an IIT student comes from the pockets of men and women whose children may never enter a proper classroom.

8. The author is trying to highlight which of the following?

What seems to be likely answer of the author to the question posed by him in the first sentence of the passage?

(i) There is no common future for the Indian children

(ii) The future is worthwhile for majority of Indian children

(iii) The majority may never enter a proper classroom

Which of the following pairs have been termed as ‘sharp contrast’ by the author?

(i)Infrastructure for technical

(ii)Lack of infrastructure for rural primary schools

(iii) twenty five paisa of every rupee earned by government is spent on education

(iv)The financial burden of higher technical education is borne by all people

According to the author, who among the following does not have a hopeful and a prosperous future

(i) All students from technical institutes

(ii) All students financially supported by the government

Which of the following statements is not true?

(i) The author welcomes Gov’s initiative on primary education

(ii) 75% of the children have a bright future?

(iii) 25% cost of educating a technocrat comes from the poor people

Identify the word closest in meaning to the word: “DUBIOUS”

Identify the word opposite in meaning to the word: “SOPHISTICATED”

What is the major concern reflected in the passage?

Language acquisition occurs only when

Correct pronunciation of individual sounds is related to

For teaching grammar, the best grammar that a teacher can use is

Organization of arguments and ideas in paragraphs is an important aspect of

When a child is asked to recite a poem, it can help the teacher to test

One of the principles of materials preparation for language learning is that

The structure ‘He goes to school’ is often produced by learners due to

A test of listening comprehension is a test of

Mother-tongue influence can be effectively minimized in the classroom by

A test which is administered at the end of a language course is

‘Interactive’ listening is

Which of the following is an incorrect assumption in language teaching?

Reading skills can be developed best by

‘Brainstorming’ means

Practice of grammatical structures in a controlled manner can be done by