trb.tripura.gov.in STPGT English Previous Question Paper 2017 : Selection Test for Post Graduate Teachers

Organisation : Teachers’ Recruitment Board, Tripura
Exam : STPGT – Selection Test for Post Graduate Teachers
Document Type : Previous Year Question Paper
Subject : English
Code No : AF17—XVIII
Year : 2017
Website : https://trb.tripura.gov.in/

TRB Tripura STPGT English Previous Question Paper

Question Paper of TRB Tripura Selection Test for Post Graduate Teachers English Question Paper 2017 is now available in the official website of Teachers’ Recruitment Board, Tripura.

Related : TRB Tripura STPGT Geography Question Paper 2017 : www.pdfquestion.in/29539.html

Instructions for Candidates

1. Use Black Ballpoint Pen only for writing particulars of this Question Booklet and marking responses on the OMR Answer Sheet.
2. This test is of 2 hours and 30 minutes duration and consists of 75 MCQ-type questions. Each question carries 2 marks.

3. There is no negative marking for any wrong answer.
4. Rough work should be done only in the space provided in the Question Booklet.

5. The answers are to be marked on the OMR Answer Sheet only. Mark your responses carefully since there is no chance of alteration/correction.
6. Use of eraser or whitener is strictly prohibited.

Download Question Paper :
https://www.pdfquestion.in/uploads/STPGTEnglish.pdf

Model Questions

Direction : Fill in the gaps choosing the right alternatives from the following (Question Nos. 1 to 30).
1. The day is come when I again repose Here, under this dark sycamore, and view These plots of _____ ground, these orchard-tufts, Which at this season, with their unripe fruits, Are clad in one _____ hue, and lose themselves ‘Mid groves and copses.
(A) cottage, green
(B) play, brown
(C) school, white
(D) None of the above

2. And happy the _____ is on her throne, Cluster’d around by all her starry Fays;
(A) queen
(B) princess
(C) queen-moon
(D) None of the above

3. O, for a draught of _____! that hath been Cool’d a long age in the deep-delved earth
(A) wine
(B) vintage
(C) opiate
(D) None of the above

4. Thine azure sister of the _____ shall blow
(A) spring
(B) summer
(C) winter
(D) None of the above

5. On sour cream walls, donations _____ head, loudless at dawn, civilized dome riding all cities.
(A) Shakespeare’s
(B) the poet’s
(C) soldier’s
(D) None of the above

6. The verse form of To His Coy Mistress consists of rhymed couplets in _____.
(A) iambic tetrameter
(B) trochaic meter
(C) iambic pentameter
(D) None of the above

7. And now good-morrow to our waking souls, Which watch not one another out of _____;
(A) happiness
(B) fear
(C) anger
(D) None of the above

8. To-night will be a stormy night You to the town must go; And take a _____, child, to light Your mother through the _____
(A) lantern, snow
(B) lantern, rain
(C) torch, rain
(D) None of the above

9. My mistress bent that brow of hers; Those deep dark eyes where _____ demurs
(A) pride
(B) anger
(C) love
(D) None of the above

10. Some, like the flame of her _____ fire, Or, rich with the hue of her heart’s desire.
(A) marriage
(B) death
(C) love
(D) None of the above

11. I had gone _____ from door to door in the _____ path, when thy golden chariot appeared
(A) a-begging, village
(B) visiting, lanes and
(C) asking, village
(D) None of the above

12. O for a beaker full of warm South, Full of the true, the blushful _____
(A) beaded bubbles
(B) Hippocrene
(C) Hemlock
(D) None of the above

13. Let us go then, you and I, When the _____ is spread out against the sky.
(A) evening
(B) morning
(C) mid-day
(D) None of the above

14. ‘Tis the middle of night by the _____ clock, And the owls have awakened the crowing cock;
(A) castle
(B) wall
(C) university
(D) None of the above

15. My sire is of a noble line, And my name is _____.
(A) Christabel
(B) Geraldine
(C) Sir Leoline
(D) None of them

16. The closed shops _____ me. (as stated in Superannuated Man)
(A) repel
(B) attract
(C) please
(D) None of the above

17. But besides Sundays I had a day at Easter, and a day at Christmas, with a full week in the summer to go and air myself in my native fields of _____ (as stated in Superannuated Man)
(A) Hertfordshire
(B) Nottinghamshire
(C) Warwickshire
(D) Bedfordshire

18. I was in the condition of a prisoner in the Old Bastile, suddenly let loose after a _____ years’ confinement. (as stated in Superannuated Man)
(A) thirty-three
(B) forty
(C) twenty-five
(D) None of the above

19. What dire Offence from am’rous Causes springs, What mighty Contests rise from trivial Things,
I sing—This Verse to Caryll, Muse! is due;
This, ev’n _____ may vouchsafe to view
(A) Belinda
(B) Christabel
(C) Geraldine
(D) None of them

20. To spend too much time in studies is _____; to use them too much for ornament is _____; to make judgement wholly by their rules, is the _____ of a scholar.
(A) sloth, affectation, humour
(B) unjustified, affectation, showmanship
(C) sloth, humour, un-justification
(D) None of the above

21. Reading maketh _____ man; conference a _____ man; and writing _____ man.
(A) an exact, full, a ready
(B) a full, ready, an exact
(C) a ready, full, an exact
(D) None of the above

22. According to Bernard Shaw, a tramp can earn his supper by singing _____.
(A) sad songs of his sufferings
(B) home, sweet home
(C) tales of woes and worries of mankind
(D) None of the above

23. Shaw says, the employer’s power over you is far greater than that of any _____ could possibly be.
(A) monarch
(B) democratic government
(C) political dictator
(D) None of the above

24. On its journey up the hills of the terai, _____, the train stops at Deoli, a lonely station in the wilderness.
(A) early in the morning
(B) early in the evening
(C) in the afternoon
(D) None of the above

25. _____ cops thought you might be coming to _____ (After Twenty Years)
(A) Chicago, New York
(B) New York, Chicago
(C) Washington, Chicago
(D) None of the above

26. The boss noticed that a _____ had fallen into his _____, and was trying feebly but desperately to clamber out again.
(A) boy, grave
(B) fly, broad inkpot
(C) broad inkpot, fly
(D) None of the above

27. She married for _____, and the love turned to _____. (The Rocking Horse Winner)
(A) love, dust
(B) money, hate
(C) money, dust
(D) None of the above

28. The Prelude, is _____ of William Wordsworth’s early years.
(A) the first dramatic monologue
(B) the first sonnet
(C) a semiautobiographical poem
(D) None of the above

29. The shopkeeper over there usually charges exorbitant prices but the prices in this shop are—
(A) quite reasonable
(B) quite unreasonable
(C) too high
(D) too low

30. I admire Sunder for his intelligence but _____ him for his pride.
(A) advice
(B) dislike
(C) defend
(D) distrust

31. I would Love you ten years before the Flood,
And you should, if you please, refuse Till the conversion of the Jews.
Which flood is referred to here?
(A) About the biblical flood narrated in the Book of Genesis
(B) About the flood of South England in February 1287
(C) About the flood of 1852
(D) None of the above

32. The most prominent thematic motifs of the poem, To His Coy Mistress are
(A) the sky and the dark cloud
(B) the Wars of the Roses and King William’s War
(C) the space/time metaphors and sexuality
(D) Both (A) and (B)

33. Which place was referred to by Donne in his poem, Good Morrow for snorting?
(A) The poet’s home
(B) The home of the poet’s beloved
(C) Seven sleepers’ den
(D) None of the above

34. Where did Lucy dwell?
(A) In the palace
(B) In a hut
(C) Wide moor
(D) None of the above

35. How far from their door the wretched parents in Lucy Gray saw the bridge of woods?
(A) A furlong
(B) A mile
(C) 10 yards
(D) None of the above