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Read the passage and answer the questions that follow.
Tropical storms are huge areas of weather disturbances that develop in the oceans of the world. They gather heat and energy from the warm ocean water, or currents, and can grow to sizes of up to 600 miles across and generate swirling winds with speeds of 75 to 200 miles per hour! Although all large tropical storms are more or less the same, they are called by different names depending on their location. In the Atlantic and the Northeast Pacific oceans (for example, near the United States), they are called "hurricanes".
However, for the same type of disturbance in the Northwest Pacific Ocean (for example, near Japan, which is regularly hit by them every year), the term "typhoon" is used, while those that occur in the South Pacific and Indian Ocean are known as "cyclones". In order to be classified as one of these, a tropical storm must have wind speeds of 74 miles per hour. Big tropical storms are actually given names which are chosen from a list that is created every year. In the United States, for example, the first hurricane name starts with the letter 'A', like Alexander, and the names move through the alphabet as more hurricanes appear.
Tropical storm clouds move in a circle around a point called the eye, which is the centre of the storm. When a large tropical storm comes ashore, it brings with it heavy rains and powerful winds that can damage, or even destroy, buildings, cars and trees. However, the most devastating element of a large tropical storm is the storm surge. These are large waves that are generated by the storm and can cause massive flooding and are the main reason people in coastal cities are ordered to evacuate and move to higher ground when a large storm approaches. Scientists who study the weather are called meteorologists and they monitor these storms carefully so that they can determine their speed and where they are heading. In the United States, hurricane season begins on 1 June and lasts until 30 November. In terms of frequency and damage caused, 2005 was a record year for hurricanes.

What is the most dangerous part of a tropical storm for people on the coast?

AHeavy rains
BStrong winds
CFlooding
DStorm

Choose the correct option to fill in the blank.

I never wear shoes _____________ the weekend.

Aat
Bin
Cout
Dwith

Read the poem carefully and answer the questions that follow :
No Men are Foreign Remember, no men are strange, no countries foreign
Beneath all uniforms, a single body breathes Like ours: the land our brothers walk upon Is earth like this, in which we all shall lie. They, too, aware of sun and air and water, Are fed by peaceful harvests, by war’s long winter starv’d.
Their hands are ours, and in their lines we read A labour not different from our own. Remember, they have eyes like ours that wake Or sleep, and strength that can be won By love. In every land is common life That all can recognise and understand.
Let us remember, whenever we are told To hate our brothers, it is ourselves That we shall dispossess, betray, condemn.
Remember, we who take arms against each other It is the human earth that we defile. Our hells of fire and dust outrage the innocence Of air that is everywhere our own, Remember, no men are foreign, and no countries strange.
–James Kirkup
The poet wants to say that life is ___________ anywhere.

A different
B common
C difficult
D comfortable

Read each of the components of the given sentences and mark the component with the grammatical error :
P. All schools in Goa which
Q. had English as the
R. medium of instruction
S. as the majority there speaks in English.

A P
B S
C R
D No Error

CHOOSE THE BEST WORD/PHRASE TO COMPLETE EACH SENTENCE.

Raj was not in the laboratory ________ the Chemistry practical started.

Aor
Bwhen
Cbut
Dbecause

Read the note and answer the questions that follow:
Hi Mum,
I'm at school. The football match begins at 7 p.m. Tell dad to leave work early. Bring my cousin Hay, too. I want you all to watch me play. We're going to win. Hurray!
Yay! I love to play. Ray
What type of note is this?

A Formal
B Semi-formal
C Informal
D Both (A) and (C).

Fill in the blanks with suitable articles from the options given below :
______ highest mountain peak of the world is in ______ Himalayas. It is ______ Mount Everest. For hundreds of years, nobody succeeded in reaching ______ summit. ______ British, who ruled over India, established ______ office in ______ 1800’s to survery ___?____ mountain and measure it. ______man who had ______ idea to start ______ office was George Everest. After much work, ______task was completed in ______ 1852. ______ height was finally calculated as 8840 metres (later established more precisely as 8882 mt.). ______ summit was named after Everest in 1863. Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay were ______ first to reach the summit of Mt. Everest.

A a
B an
C the
D no article required

Replace the underlined articles in the given sentences, wherever required, by choosing from the options given below :
My neighbour has gone to a U.A.E.

A the
B an
C no change
D no article required

Choose the best answer from the options given below:
You are paying for your lunch at a restaurant. The waiter gives you a bill for Rs.960. You will say "_________."

A Here you are (giving Rs. 1000). Keep the change
B I always give a tip to a good waiter
C I never expected that the amount would come to this
D Take it and leave