CTET Level -1 (09 June 2024)

Question 1:

Directions: Read the given passage carfully and answer the questions that follow by selecting the most appropriate option?

The first thing which a scholar should bear in mind is that a book ought not to be read for mere amusement, and are not to be blamed for it; they are incapable of appreciating the deeper qualities that belong to a really great literature. But a young man who has passed through a course of University training should discipline himself at an early day never to read for mere amusement. And once the habit of discipline has been formed, he will find it impossible to read for mere amusement. He will then impatiently throw down any book from which he cannot obtain intellectual food, any book which does not make an appeal to the higher emotions and to his intellect. But on the other, the habit of reading for amusement becomes with thousands of people exactly the same kind of habit as wine-drinking to opium-smoking; it is like a narcotic, something that helps to pass the time, something that keeps up a perpetual condition of dreaming, something that eventually results in destroying all capacity for thought, giving exercise only to the surface parts of the mind and leaving the deeper springs of feelings and the higher faculties of perception unemployed.

The phrase 'the higher faculties' in the passage

means:

• different ways of enjoying things

• mental powers of a high order for understanding great literature

• superficial part of the mind 

• different departments in the University

Question 2:

Directions: Read the given passage carfully and answer the questions that follow by selecting the most appropriate option?

The first thing which a scholar should bear in mind is that a book ought not to be read for mere amusement, and are not to be blamed for it; they are incapable of appreciating the deeper qualities that belong to a really great literature. But a young man who has passed through a course of University training should discipline himself at an early day never to read for mere amusement. And once the habit of discipline has been formed, he will find it impossible to read for mere amusement. He will then impatiently throw down any book from which he cannot obtain intellectual food, any book which does not make an appeal to the higher emotions and to his intellect. But on the other, the habit of reading for amusement becomes with thousands of people exactly the same kind of habit as wine-drinking to opium-smoking; it is like a narcotic, something that helps to pass the time, something that keeps up a perpetual condition of dreaming, something that eventually results in destroying all capacity for thought, giving exercise only to the surface parts of the mind and leaving the deeper springs of feelings and the higher faculties of perception unemployed.

The word 'eventually' in the passage means:

• initially

• at last

• never

• after some time

Question 3:

Directions: Read the given passage carfully and answer the questions that follow by selecting the most appropriate option?

The first thing which a scholar should bear in mind is that a book ought not to be read for mere amusement, and are not to be blamed for it; they are incapable of appreciating the deeper qualities that belong to a really great literature. But a young man who has passed through a course of University training should discipline himself at an early day never to read for mere amusement. And once the habit of discipline has been formed, he will find it impossible to read for mere amusement. He will then impatiently throw down any book from which he cannot obtain intellectual food, any book which does not make an appeal to the higher emotions and to his intellect. But on the other, the habit of reading for amusement becomes with thousands of people exactly the same kind of habit as wine-drinking to opium-smoking; it is like a narcotic, something that helps to pass the time, something that keeps up a perpetual condition of dreaming, something that eventually results in destroying all capacity for thought, giving exercise only to the surface parts of the mind and leaving the deeper springs of feelings and the higher faculties of perception unemployed.

The word 'unemployed' in the passage means :

• not working

• unused

• jobless

• in search of employment

Question 4:

Which one of the following would be the best evidence to demonstrate to parents and administrators what students can do with language?

• National curriculum and syllabi

• Lists of course goals and objectives

• Poems or paragraphs written by students

• Marks in a test.

Question 5:

Here is a list of tasks commonly included in a language classroom. Which of these sees children as active learners?

• Children write answer to questions given at the

  end of a poem.

• Children carefully memorise correct answers to questions on a poem.

• Children carefully note down answer from the blackboard.

• Children work in groups to generate interpretations of a poem.

Question 6:

The assessment of students writing should most importantly focus on

• correct spelling and grammar

• using idioms and metaphors.

• keeping to the word limit

• expressions and ideas.

Question 7:

If a student is making pronunciation errors, the best way to help him/her is to

• Provide him/her with correct pronunciation without any humiliation.

• mock at him/her in class for incorrect pronunciation

• call his/her parents and complain

• scold him/her in class for incorrect pronunciation.

Question 8:

Scribbling is a stage of

• Writing

• Listening

• Reading

• Speaking

Question 9:

At Class II, sharing stories, familiar experiences, and interests, employing gestures where appropriate, is a sub-skill of function.

• reading

• writing

• listening

• speaking

Question 10:

Selection of language items while determining the second language syllabus should take into account

• the frequency and range of use of the items

• how easy it is to learn/use the item

• how easy it is to teach the concept

• the minimal disruption of school schedule