Cuet English Sample Paper
Cuet English Sample Paper
DIRECTIONS for the question: Read the poem given below and answer the question.
Question No. : 1
A River
In Madurai,
city of temples and poets,
who sang of cities and temples,
every summer
a river dries to a trickle
in the sand,
baring the sand ribs,
straw and women’s hair
clogging the watergates
at the rusty bars
under the bridges with patches
of repair all over them
the wet stones glistening like sleepy
crocodiles, the dry ones
shaven water buffaloes lounging in the sun
The poet only sang of the floods
He was there for a day
when they had the floods.
People everywhere talked
of the inches rising,
of the precise number of cobbled steps
run over by the water, rising
on the bathing places,
and the way it carries of three village houses,
one pregnant woman
and a couple of cows
named Gopi and Brinda as usual.
What do the ‘wet stones’ and ‘dry stones’ in the poem compare to?
A) Cobbled steps and concrete steps B) Water buffaloes and Crocodiles C) Cows named Gopi and Brinda
D) Crocodiles and water buffaloes
Question No. : 2
Question No. : 3
A) there is no drainage system in the city B) old and in need of repair C) freshly repaired D) in a good condition
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Question No. : 5
DIRECTIONS for the question: Read the passage and answer the question based on it.
Question No. : 6
Digital technologies have profoundly changed childhood and adolescence. The internet and the means to access it, such as
tablets and smartphones, along with social media platforms and messaging apps, have become integral to the lives of youth
around the world. They have transformed their education and learning the way make and maintain friendship, how they spend
their leisure time, and their engagement with wider society. UNICEF's State of the world’s Children 2017: Children in a Digital
World report reveals that one in three internet users is younger than 18 years and 71% of 15-24-year-olds are online, making
them the most connected age group worldwide. However, the so-called digital divide is substantial: 346 million youth are not
online, with African adolescents the most affected (60% are not connected compared with 4% in Europe). Young people who
lack digital skills, live in remote regions, or speak a minority language are also beingleft behind in harnessing the opportunities.
Some children have never been online or have little access and are missing out on the benefits of connectivity.
Digital advances have their flip side too. Bullying is no longer left at the school gates; cyberbullying is a new method for bullies
to hurt and humilite their victims with the click of a button. Words and images posted online that are designed to cause harm
are also difficult to delete, increasing the risk of re-victimization.
Concerns have also been raised about the time children spend using digital technology and its effect on their physical activity
and mental health. Evidence suggests moderate use of digital technology can be beneficial to children’s mental wellbeing,
whereas excessive use can be detrimental. Children’s social relationships seem to be enhanced by digital technology, especially
since most of their social circle is now online. Evidence on physical activity is mixed, and better research is needed in this area.
Despite these issues, the popularity and use of digital technologies will continue to grow. However, an intergenerational gap
exists in digital knowledge and literacy. Teachers and parents need training to teach digital skills and online safety to children.
They are also crucial to helping young people assess reliable news and information sources and navigate the pressures of social
media, as highlighted in a report released on Jan 4 by England’s Children’s Commissioner. Schools are also an important forum
for discussing cyberbullying, anti-bullying programs need to include online harassment.
Children and adolescents must be the priority of national and global digital policies, not only to protect them from online harm
but also to allow technology to help them fulfill their full potential.
How have Digital technologies affected the lives of youth around the world?
A) It has made education and learning more accessible. B) It has not changed the way they make and maintain friendships.
C) It has eradicated Bullying D) It has increased the time youth spend outdoors
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Question No. : 10
DIRECTIONS for the question: Read the passage and answer the question based on it.
Question No. : 11
It was raining when Rahel came back to Ayemenem. Slanting silver ropes slammed into loose earth, plowing it up like gunfire.
The old house on the hill wore its steep, gabled roof pulled over its ears like a low hat. The walls, streaked with moss, had
grown soft and bulged a little with dampness that seeped up from the ground. The wild, overgrown garden was full of the
whisper and scurry of small lives. In the undergrowth, a rat snake rubbed itself against a glistening stone. Hopeful yellow
bullfrogs cruised the scummy pond for mates. A drenched mongoose flashed across the leaf-strewn driveway.
The house itself looked empty. The doors and window were locked, and the front verandah was unfurnished. But the sky blue
Plymouth with chrome tailfins was still parked outside, and inside, Baby Kochamma was still alive.
She was Rahel's baby grandaunt, her grandfather's younger sister. Her name was Navomi, Navomi Ipe, but everybody called her
Baby. She became Baby Kochamma when she was old enough to be an aunt.
Rahel hadn't come to see her, though. Neither niece nor baby grandaunt labored under any illusions on that account, Rahel
had come to see her brother, Estha. They were two-egg twins, “Dizygotic” doctors called them. Born from separate but
simultaneously fertilized egos, Estha- Esthappen~ was older by eighteen minutes.
They never did look much like each other, Estha and Rahel, and even when they were thin-armed children, flat-chasted, worm-
ridden, and Elvis Presley-puffed, there was none of the usual “Who is who?” and “Which is which?” from over smiling relatives
or the Syrian Orthodox bishops who frequently visited the Ayemenem House for donations. The confusion lay in a deeper, more
secret place.
Question No. : 12
Arrange the following sentences in order of their occurrence in the given passage :
A) B, C, D, E, A B) C, D, B, A, E C) E, A, B, D, C D) D, A, C, B, E
Question No. : 13
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How are Estha and Rahel related ?
Question No. : 14
What would best describe the word ‘gabled’ from the passage?
A) (A) only B) (B) and (D) only C) (E) only D) (C) and (E) only
Question No. : 15
DIRECTIONS for the questions: Solve the following question and mark the best possible option.
Question No. : 16
A) Bees made honey B) Bees are making honey C) Bees make honey D) Bees makes honey
DIRECTIONS for the questions: Solve the following question and mark the best possible option.
Question No. : 17
A) We are surprised at the news B) We were surprised by the news C) We are surprised by the news
D) We were surprised at the news
DIRECTIONS for the question: Solve the following question and mark the best possible option.
Question No. : 18
A) She asked me, “Will you go to college ?” B) She said to me “Are you going to college ?”
C) She asked to me, “Was I going to college ?" D) She said, “Am I going to college ?”
DIRECTIONS for the question: Solve the following question and mark the best possible option.
Question No. : 19
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He said, “Sita, when is the next train ?”
A) He said to Sita when the next train was. B) He asked Sita when the next train was
C) He asked Sita about the next train, D) He asked when the next train is
DIRECTIONS for the question: Solve the following question as per the given instructions:
Question No. : 20
DIRECTIONS for the question: Solve the following question as per the given instructions:
Question No. : 21
DIRECTIONS for the question: Solve the following question and mark the best possible option.
Question No. : 22
“Versus”
DIRECTIONS for the question: Solve the following question and mark the best possible option.
Question No. : 23
“deja vu"
A) a feeling that something has happened before B) a feeling that something might happen in the future
C) a feeling that something is happening D) angry feeling
DIRECTIONS for the question: Solve the following question and mark the best possible option.
Question No. : 24
“Boisterous”
DIRECTIONS for the question: Solve the following question and mark the best possible option.
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Question No. : 25
“Obnoxious”
A) Depressing B) Disgusting C) Arrogant D) Filthy
DIRECTIONS for the question: Fill in the blank with the right options provided.
Question No. : 26
A) an B) a C) the D) None
DIRECTIONS for the question: Fill in the blank with the right options provided.
Question No. : 27
A) an B) a C) the D) None
DIRECTIONS for the question: Solve the question as per given instructions:
Question No. : 28
A) if only could meet my friend again! B) My friend I would like to meet very much.
C) A meeting with my friend is what I wish D) I have one wish! I want to meet my friend again!
DIRECTIONS for the question: Solve the question as per given instructions:
Question No. : 29
A) An evening it is and that too a beautiful one. B) Beautiful is this evening! C) How beautiful is the evening!
D) What beauty is that evening!
DIRECTIONS for the question: Fill in the blank with a suitable preposition from the following options:
Question No. : 30
A) with B) to C) for D) Of
DIRECTIONS for the question: Fill in the blank with a suitable preposition from the following options:
Question No. : 31
A) in B) of C) from D) Off
DIRECTIONS for the question: Fill in the blank with the right options provided.
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Question No. : 32
DIRECTIONS for the question: Full in the blank with an appropriate Modal.
Question No. : 33
DIRECTIONS for the question: Answer the following questions by choosing the right option:
Question No. : 34
DIRECTIONS for the question: Answer the following questions by choosing the right option:
Question No. : 35
DIRECTIONS for the question: Solve the question as per given instructions:
Question No. : 36
Spot the error in the given part/parts of the sentence. If there is no error, mark that part as your answer.
A) (A) only B) (D) only C) (B) and (C) only D) (E) only
DIRECTIONS for the question: Solve the question as per given instructions:
Question No. : 37
DIRECTIONS for the question: Fill in the blank with a suitable preposition from the following options:
Question No. : 38
DIRECTIONS for the question: Fill in the blank with a suitable preposition from the following options:
Question No. : 39
(A) By
(B) Upon
(C) Across
(D) to
(E) over
DIRECTIONS for the question: Fill in the blanks in the following sentence with the appropriate pair of homonyms
Question No. : 40
It was ………… hot today so the students were lethargic and ................
DIRECTIONS for the question: Solve the following question as per the given instructions:
Question No. : 41
A) D, A, B, E, C B) B, A, D, C, E C) C, A, D, E, B D) C, A, D, E, B
DIRECTIONS for the question: Match the words in List - I with the most suitable Antonym in List – II:
Question No. : 42
List-I List-II
A Exclusive I. Praise
B. Hire II. Allowed
C. Mock III. General
D. Forbade IV. Suspend
DIRECTIONS for the question: Select the appropriate Antonym of the word
Question No. : 43
“MERCURIAL”
DIRECTIONS for the question: Identify the adverb in the given sentence/s.
Question No. : 44
DIRECTIONS for the question: Choose the correct adverb to complete the given sentence
Question No. : 45
DIRECTIONS for the question: Solve the following question as per the given instructions:
Question No. : 46
Fill in the blank in the following sentence with the most appropriate question Tag.
DIRECTIONS for the question: Solve the question as per given instructions:
Question No. : 47
DIRECTIONS for the question: Choose the correct idiom to complete the following sentence.
Question No. : 48
A) Cry for the moon B) Clip one’s wings C) Cry over spilt milk D) Close share
DIRECTIONS for the question: Identify the meaning of the idiom/ phrase as used in the sentence.
Question No. : 49
The speaker gave a bird's eye view of the political conditions in the country.
DIRECTIONS for the question: Fill in the blanks with a suitable Adjective clause.
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Question No. : 50
A) Which I must take B) Where I must take C) When I must take D) What I must take
Explanation:-
The poet uses rich imagery and narrates the scenes in Madurai; the wet stones resembling crocodiles whereas dry stones resemble
water-buffaloes that highlight the city's resilience amidst fluctuating water levels.
Explanation:-
Gopi and Brinda, names have been used once only in the last lines and they are the names of the cows (eliminates option 2 and 3),
a specific person from the village has not been mentioned but a collective noun “people’ has been used (option 4- eliminated).
It leaves us with option 1 only which is the correct answer.
Explanation:-
The poet uses rich imagery of a woman’s clogged hair that bars the rusty Watergates (line 5) gives us the desired explanation.
Explanation:-
Rest all the options (1, 2 and 3) are the parts of the big setting i.e. Madurai (the city).
Explanation:- Clearly from the first few lines themselves – cities and temples, and ‘the poet only sang of floods’ (line 8) have
been mentioned which makes the desired answer.
Explanation:-
The author mentions in the second line about the access of Digital technology for the people of the world.
Option 3 (Bullying is no longer left …. – third paragraph first line mentions and refutes this option).
Similarly, other options do not hold any stance as the data from the first paragraph (UNICEF’s …..) states the number involved and
the ones who could not have access to it, but it is not mentioned that they spent that time outdoors.
Explanation:-
(third paragraph – second line)
Other options do not fit into.
Explanation:-
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B, C, and D are mentioned in the first paragraph.
Explanation:-
Ans 2, clearly (fourth paragraph – second line states the same)
Explanation:-
The line mentions “whereas excessive use can be detrimental- means dangerous).
Here the opposite is asked so from the options option 3 is correct.
Explanation:-
The second last paragraph mentions the reason for Rahel’s visit to meet her brother, Estha.
Explanation:-
Tally with the passage and synchronize with the options provided.
Explanation:-
The second last paragraph mentions the term ‘Dizygotic’ has been used by doctors for them, i.e born from different but
simultaneously fertilized eggs.
Explanation:-
Gabled means the vertical triangular portion of an end wall.
Explanation:-
From the first line itself, it is clearly stated.
Explanation:- The object ‘bees’ becomes the subject and as (is) has been used in the question so in answer we need the first form
of the verb – make.
Explanation:- In Active/Passive sentence, past affirmative is given which will be changed into were + third form of verb.
Explanation:- Asked in Indirect/direct will be said, and then in inverted commas present continuous is used which will change
into the question–given form of verb (past continuous).
Explanation:- In indirect/direct, said changes to asked and the train becomes the subject followed by the verb was.
Explanation:- The opening sentence is ‘A’ as it starts with the subject ‘we’. After this ‘what is to be changed’ will come. After this
C will come as it tells ‘how’. E further explains C. B will conclude the sequence.
Explanation:- The context starts with time phrase and what was there in that time ‘will come after B. Then her name comes.
After this ‘where she lived with ‘whom’.
Explanation:- An – article is used before MA, MBA as the sound of a vowel is there.
Explanation:- Only two options with the exclamation signs at last are there, of them 1 is the right choice as some sort of sadness
& longing is shown in this option only.
Explanation:- For the exclamatory sentence we need to use the sign and also it should start with words like what, how etcetera
Explanation:- Must is used to put a condition where choice cannot be made. Go to a doctor is one such.
Explanation:- Except this option, which is used in personal letters, the others options are used in formal letters.
Explanation:- It has to be ‘look in the dictionary’: look means to direct your eyes in one direction or concentrate whereas see
means to notice.
Explanation:- He was fascinated by insects and the more he studied their habits, the greater was his fascination.
Explanation:- Mercurial means unpredictable so antonym will be level-headed which means calm and sensible even in difficult
situations.
Explanation:- Cry over spilt milk means to feel sorry or sad about something
Explanation:- which is used as a reference pronoun here and is modifying noun ‘medicines’.