CTET Level -1 (30 June 2024)
Question 1:
Directions: Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow, by selecting the correct/most appropriate options:
Each drop represents a little bit of creation and of life itself. When the monsoon brings to northern India the first rains of summer, the parched earth opens its pores and quenches its thirst with a hiss of ecstasy. After baking in the sun for the last few months, the land looks cracked, dusty and tired. Now, almost overnight, new grass springs up, there is renewal everywhere, and the damp earth releases a fragrance sweeter than any devised by man.
Water brings joy to earth, grass, leaf bud, blossom, insect, bird, animal and the pounding heart of man. Small children run out of their homes to romp naked in the rain. Buffaloes, which have spent the summer listlessly around lakes gone dry, now plunge into a heaven of muddy water. Soon the lakes and rivers will overflow with the monsoon's generosity. Trekking in the Himalayan foothills, I recently walked for kilometres without encountering habitation. I was just scolding myself for not having brought along a water bottle, when I came across a patch of green on a rock face. I parted a curtain of tender maiden hair fern and discovered a tiny spring issuing from the rock-nectar for the thirsty traveller.
I stayed there for hours, watching the water descend, drop by drop, into a tiny casement in the rocks. Each drop reflected creation. That' same spring. I later discovered, joined other springs to form a swift, tumbling stream, which went cascading down the hill into other streams until, in the plains, it became part of a river. And that river flowed into another mightier river that kilometres later emptied into the ocean. Be like water, taught Laotzu, philosopher and founder of Taoism. Soft and limpid, it finds its way through, over or under any obstacle. It does not quarrel, it simply moves on.
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Question 2:
Which of the following is most emphasized upon in primary stage mathematics curriculum ?
निम्नलिखित में से किस पर प्राथमिक स्तर की गणित पाठ्यचर्या में सबसे अधिक बल दिया गया है?
Question 3:
Which of the following statements is true regarding elephants?
निम्नलिखित में से कौन - सा कथन हाथियों में बारे में सही है?
Assertion (A): An elephant herd has only female elephants and baby elephants.
अभिकथन (A) : हाथियों के झुंड में केवल मादा हाथी और बच्चे हाथी होते हैं।
Reason (R) : Male elephants move around alone.
तर्क (R) : नर हाथी चारों ओर अकेले ही घूमते हैं।
Question 4:
Alka, a student of class III often makes a mistake between/sh/and/s/. As a language teacher your interpretation will be.
Question 5:
निर्देशः निम्नलिखित गद्यांश को पढ़कर पूछे गए प्रश्नों के सही / सबसे उपयुक्त उत्तर वाले विकल्प को चुनिए ।
जिस विद्यार्थी ने समय की कीमत जान ली, वह सफलता को अवश्य प्राप्त करता है। प्रत्येक विद्यार्थी को अपनी दिनचर्या की समय-सारणी अथवा तालिका बनाकर उसका पूरी दृढ़ता से पालन करना चाहिए । जिस विद्यार्थी ने समय का सही उपयोग करना सीख लिया उसके लिए कोई भी काम करना असंभव नहीं है । कुछ लोग ऐसे भी हैं जो कोई काम पूरा न होने पर समय की दुहाई देते हैं । वास्तव में सच्चाई इसके विपरीत होती है । अपनी अकर्मण्यता और आलस को वे समय की कमी के बहाने छिपाते हैं । कुछ लोगों को अकर्मण्य रह कर निठल्ले समय बिताना अच्छा लगता है ऐसे लोग केवल बातूनी होते हैं । दुनिया के सफलतम व्यक्तियों ने सदैव कार्यव्यस्तता जीवन बिताया है । दुनिया में अथवा प्रकृति में हर वस्तु का समय निश्चित है । समय बीत जाने के बाद कार्य फलप्रद नहीं होता ।
अकर्मण्यता' शब्द में मूल शब्द एवं उपसर्ग होगा ।
Question 6:
निर्देशः निम्नलिखित गद्यांश को पढ़कर पूछे गए प्रश्नों के सही / सबसे उपयुक्त उत्तर वाले विकल्प को चुनिए ।
जिस विद्यार्थी ने समय की कीमत जान ली, वह सफलता को अवश्य प्राप्त करता है। प्रत्येक विद्यार्थी को अपनी दिनचर्या की समय-सारणी अथवा तालिका बनाकर उसका पूरी दृढ़ता से पालन करना चाहिए । जिस विद्यार्थी ने समय का सही उपयोग करना सीख लिया उसके लिए कोई भी काम करना असंभव नहीं है । कुछ लोग ऐसे भी हैं जो कोई काम पूरा न होने पर समय की दुहाई देते हैं । वास्तव में सच्चाई इसके विपरीत होती है । अपनी अकर्मण्यता और आलस को वे समय की कमी के बहाने छिपाते हैं । कुछ लोगों को अकर्मण्य रह कर निठल्ले समय बिताना अच्छा लगता है ऐसे लोग केवल बातूनी होते हैं । दुनिया के सफलतम व्यक्तियों ने सदैव कार्यव्यस्तता जीवन बिताया है । दुनिया में अथवा प्रकृति में हर वस्तु का समय निश्चित है । समय बीत जाने के बाद कार्य फलप्रद नहीं होता ।
दुनिया के सफलतम व्यक्तियों की सफलता का रहस्य क्या है ?
Question 7:
"Learning is a continuous process." In 'learning' of Environmental Studies which of the following are most important?
"सीखना एक सतत प्रक्रिया है।" पर्यावरण अध्ययन विषय में 'सीखने' के लिए निम्नलिखित में से क्या सर्वाधिक महत्त्वपूर्ण है ?
A. Interaction with teacher / शिक्षक से बातचीत
B. Textbook & reading material / पाठ्यपुस्तक व पठन सामग्री
C. Experiences during learning / सीखने के दौरान हुए अनुभव
D. Interaction during activity / क्रियाकलाप के दौरान अंतः क्रिया
Question 8:
Directions: Read the passage given below carefully and answer the questions that follow by selecting the correct / most appropriate options.
Water is the core of life; hence water must be central to our spiritual thinking. Water is not only most of earth, but also most of life. Therefore water conservation must be our deepest concern.
The Himalayan mountain range is among the highest, youngest and most fragile ecosystem of the planet. The Himalayas have given us some of the great river system of the earth including the Indus, Ganga, Brahmputra, Nu Salween, Yangtze and the Mekong. The Himalayas are also called the 'Third Pole', for they contain the largest mass of ice and snow outside the earth's polar region, the north and south poles. There is a permanent snowline above 5,000 metres. Some of the glaciers in the region are the longest outside the two poles.
The Himalayas serve as water towers, providing water on a sustained basis to more than 1,000 million people and millions of hectares of land is South Asia. The greenery, benevolent climate, highly productive ecosystems, food production and overall happiness in South Asia are in fact, attributable to the bounty of the Himalayas. They are not only beautiful; they are life-givers. Little wonder that they are venerated as the abode of gods.
To keep the Third Pole preserved through assured conservation is one of the greatest challenges for the contemporary world. Himalayan mountains are a common but fragile natural resource. As mountain ecosystems have enormous bearing on the earth's systems their special care, regeneration and conservation of their pristine resources would only bring more happiness, peace and prosperity to large parts of the world. In Agenda 21, Chapter 13 of the United Nations, the importance of mountains is underlined: "mountain environments are essential to the survival of global ecosystems."
The Himalayas in the state of Uttarakhand are especially rich in water resources. This area is home to dozens of perennial streams and numerous other rain-fed rivers along with innumerable rivulets, waterfalls and ponds, etc.
Which word is opposite in meaning to the words, 'benevolent'?
Question 9:
निर्देश : अधोलिखितं गद्यांशं पठित्वा तदाधारितप्रश्नानां विकल्पात्मकोत्तरेषु उचिततमम् उत्तरं चिनुत ।
‘अहमेकदा दक्षिणारण्ये चरन्नपश्यम् । एको वृद्धव्याघ्रः स्नातः कुशहस्तः सरस्तीरे बूते - 'भो भोः पान्थाः ! इदं सुवर्णकङ्कणं गृह्यताम् "' ततो लोभाकृष्टेन केनचित्पान्थेनालोचितम् – भाग्येनैतत्संभवति । किंत्वस्मिन्नात्मसंदेहे प्रवृत्तिर्न विधेया । तन्निरूपयामि तावत् । 'प्रकाशं ब्रूते - 'कुत्र तव कङ्कणम् ?' व्याघ्रो हस्तं प्रसार्य दर्शयति । पान्थोऽवदत् - 'कथं मारात्मके त्वयि विश्वासः ?” व्याघ्र उवाच - शृणु रे पान्थ ! प्रागेव यौवनदशयामतिदुर्वृत्तम् आसम् । अनेकगोमानुषाणां वधान्मे पुत्रा मृता दाराश्च। वंशहीनश्चाहम् । ततः केनचिद्धार्मिकेणाहमादिष्टः - " दानधर्मादिकं चरतु भवान् । " तदुपदेशादिदानीमहं स्नानशीलो दाता वृद्धों गलितनखदन्तो कथं न विश्वासभूमिः ?
तदत्र सरसि स्नात्वा सुवर्णकंङ्कणं गृहाण ।' ततो यावदसौ तद्वचः प्रतीतो लोभात्सरः स्नातुं प्रविशति तावन्महापङ्के निमग्रः पलायितुमक्षमः । पङ्के पतितं दृष्ट्वा व्याघ्रोऽवदत् - 'अहह, महापङ्केपतितोऽसि ।
अतस्त्वामहमुत्थापयामि ।' इत्युक्त्वा शनैः शनैरुपगम्य तेन व्याघ्रेण धृतः ।
व्याघ्रः किं वस्तु ग्रहितुं लोभं प्रादात् ?
Question 10:
44 cows graze a field in 9 days. How many more/less cows will graze the same field in 12 days?
एक मैदान को 44 गायें 9 दिनों में चर लेती हैं। इसी मैदान को कितनी कम / ज्यादा गायें 12 दिनों में चर लेंगी?
