Model Test Question-37
SSC English First Paper
Question with Answer
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Part A : Reading Test (Marks-50)
Read the passage carefully and answer the questions following it. Unit-9: Lesson-2(B)
What type of job do you want to have? Is it highly paid and high profile conventional job liked by most people? Yes, you can have it. It is the question of your choice and important decisions that advance your life ahead. But have you ever thought of other types of jobs out there--- cool, fun, exciting, even strange or weird jobs you never imagined to exist? What are they? Did you ever wonder who picks up the chewing gum left on a park bench or who assesses whether a piece of furniture is comfortable enough or who constructs glass eyeballs or who farms oysters in the middle of the ocean? These are all wacky, odd, unexpected, wild, crazy, unconventional, strange or just plain weird jobs and careers. They are not your traditional career choices, but somebody out there does all these things, gets paid for it, and enjoys life like anybody else.
There are hundreds of such jobs to take if you want to travel the less taken ways of life. You have to decide on several questions:
> What companies will recruit/hire me?
> Do I actually make a paycheck?
> What type of education/diploma will I need?
> Can I make a living doing this?
Your answers to these questions will help pave your career roadmap and help you decide if you are ready to take the challenge. Decide if you want a change. A lot of strange jobs also allow you to work part-time or freelance when it fits your schedule. This way you can get a taste of freedom, a secondary income, and build experience at the same time.
Do you have interests beyond writing memos and attending boring meetings? If so, you may wonder how you can find a strange job. Hobbies are a good place to start. What do you do for fun? Do you stuff animals, act like Charlie Chaplin, or make model cars? If you enjoy it, someone out there works in that field and is making money off your hobby. Maybe they are testing mountaineering equipment, developing fragrances, trying new brands of undergarments, or saving sea turtles. And they are getting paid good wages.
1. Choose the best answer from the alternatives. 1×7=7
a. What is conventional job?
i) Rare job ii) Traditional job iii) Uncommon job iv) Risky job
b. Unconventional jobs can make your life----.
i) advance ii) honorable iii) cool iv) funny
c. What may be an example of unconventional job?
i) Clerk ii) Construct glass eyeballs
iii) Driving iv) Sea turtles
d. What is an wonderful job?
i) Chewing gum ii) Pick up bench
iii) Picking up chewing gum left on a park bench iv) Sleeping
e. What is not a traditional career choice?
i) Eating chewing gum ii) Farming oysters
iii) Eyeballs iv) Making furniture
f. How many odd jobs are there around us?
i) Numerous ii) Very few iii) Small in amount iv) Beyond our imagination
g. How can we take a step to an unconventional job?
i) By hobbies ii) By making roadmap
iii) Doing part-time job iv) By thinking deeply
Extra Practices
h. How can you get a taste of freedom?
i) By working freelance ii) By scheduled task
iii) By making road map iv) By hard work
i. How is trying new brands of undergarments?
i) Conventional job ii) Unconventional job iii) Good wages iv) It’s not a job
j. Writing memos is ----.
i) a conventional job ii) an unconventional job
iii) after iv) a good job
Answer: 1. a. ii) Traditional job; b. i) advance; c. ii) Construct glass eyeballs; d. iii) Picking up chewing gum left on a park bench; e. ii) farming oysters; f. i) Numerous; g. i) by hobbies; h. i) by working freelance; i. ii) unconventional job; j. i) a conventional job.
2. Answer the following questions. 2×5 = 10
a. How is conventional job?
b. What kind of job is picking up the chewing gum left on a park bench?
c. What will happen if you want a change in your job?
d. Do you think that unconventional job is a fun?
e. Do you think that unconventional job is a fun?
Answer: 2. a. Conventional job requires high profile and is highly paid.
b. Picking up the chewing gum left on a park bench is an unconventional job.
c. If I want a change in my job a lot of strange jobs can be taken as pastime or freelance.
d. I can get a taste of freedom by working part time of freelance when it fills my schedule.
e. Yes, I think it is a fun as it gives different tastes.
3. Fill in each gap with a suitable word of your own based on the information in the text. 0.5×10=5
(a) ---- you any interest in writing memos? (b) ---- you attend boring meetings? If so, you may be (c) ---- how you can (d) ---- a strange job. Hobbies can (e) --- called as fun. If you like (f) ---, carry on your hobby. That may (g) ---- testing mountaineering (h) ----. That jobs get (i) --- good wages. You (j) --- like these jobs.
Answer: 3. a. have; b. Have; c. wondered; d. find; e. be; f. it/ fun; g. be; h. equipment; i. paid; j. may.
4. Complete the table below with information from the passage. 1×5=5
Barack Obama was born to a white American mother and a black Kenyan father on 4 August, 1961 in Hawaii, USA. When his father returned to Kenya, his mother married another man. So, Obama was brought up by his grandparents. He completed primary and secondary education at Poncho, Hawaii’s top academy. Obama attended Columbia University and later he attended Harvard Law School. In 1990 he became the first African-American editor of the Law Review. He also began teaching at the Chicago Law School. In 2004 Obama was elected Senator to US Senate as a Democrat. He gained national attention by giving a well-received speech at the Democratic National Convention in Boston. In 2008, he ran for the President and he won. He was sworn in as the 44th President of the Unites States. He was elected to a second term in November 2012.
Person/Facts | Action/Achievement | Place/Institute | Time |
Obama | born | (a) ¾ | |
Obama | studied (b) ¾ | (c) ¾ University | |
Obama | became (d) ¾ | (e) ¾ | 2008 |
Answer: 4. (a) 1961, (b) Law, (c) Harvard, (d) president, (e) USA.
5. Write a summary of the passage in no more than 90 to 100 words. 10
Answer: 5. Barack Obama was born in Hawaii, USA. He was brought up by his grandparents. He attended Columbia University and later in Harvard Law School. In 2004, Obama was elected senator to US senate as a Democrat. In 2008, he ran for president and won. He was elected to a second term in 2012.
6. Match the parts of sentences given in column ‘A’ and column ‘B’ to write five complete sentence. There are more parts of sentences in column ‘B’ than required. 1×5=5
Column A | Column B |
a. P. B. Shelley was one of | i. born to them tow years later |
b. He was born on 04 August 1792 | ii. and experienced an immature death in 1819 at the age of 27 |
c. He entered the | iii. sent to school at the age of twelve |
d. His famous poem ‘Ode to the West Wind’ | iv. and married Harriet Westbrook when he was expelled from the university |
e. He was bold enough in his personal life | v. the greatest romantic poets in English literature |
vi. which made him immortal was published in 1812 | |
vii. and was expelled from the university the same year. |
Answer: 6. (a+ v) :p. B. Shelley was one of the greatest romantic poets in English literature
(b+ ii) : He was born on 04 August 1792 and experienced an immature death in 1819 at the age of 27
(c+ vii) : He entered the University of Oxford in 1800 and was expelled from the university the same year.
(d+ vi) : His famous poem ‘Ode to the West Wind’ which made him immortal was published in 1812
(e+ iv) : He was bold enough in his personal life and married Harriet Westbrook when he was expelled from the university
7. Read the following sentences and put them in correct order. 1×8=8
(a) One day Nasiruddin Hojja was mending a hole on the roof of his two-storey house.
(b) Being greatly annoyed, the man asked why Hojja had made him climb up the stairs, only to say that he had no money.
(c) Suddenly he saw a man calling from below and the man was asking him to get down and listen to him.
(d) Being furious, Hojja decided to teach him a good lesson.
(e) Hojja immediately replied, “Why have you made me climb all the way down stairs to-ask for money in stead of shouting from below?”
(f) When Hojja came near climbing from the roof down the stairs, the man wanted some financial help from him.
(g) When they both got to the roof top, Hojja said to the man, “Sorry, I have no money.
(h) Therefore, he told the man to climb up the stairs with him.
Answer: 7. a → c → f → d → h → g → b→ e
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