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HPSC 2017 — English Language Questions with Answers

All 7 English Language previous-year questions from HPSC 2017, each with the correct answer and a full explanation. Practise them as a free, timed mock test with instant scoring.

1. Q1.Precis Writing

   Make a precis of the following passage reducing it to one-third of its length. Also assign a suitable title: If there be a regal solitude, it is a sick bed. How the patient Lords it there? What caprices he acts without control? How king like he sways his pillow tumbling and tossing, and shifting and lowering and the thumping and flatting and moulding it, to the ever varying requisitions of his throbbing temples. [passage continues]

2. Q2.Reading Comprehension

   Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow in your own words: In the later half of the seventeenth century and practically the whole of the eighteenth century - The Augustan age, as they are called - the classics came to exercise a complete hold over English Literature. It was even believed that they represented the highest standards of literary beauty which English writers had only to follow to attain perfection in their art. [passage continues] (a) What is the period of Augustan age and Why? (b) How do they differ from their predecessors? (c) What are the two reasons behind the Augustan Age? (d) Give the meaning of the following words and use them in sentences: Classics, attain, predecessors, metaphysical, unprecedented

3. Q3.Transformation of Sentences

   Rewrite the following sentences as directed: (a) Shut the door (Change the voice) (b) We ought to hurry (negative form) (c) As soon as he came, he fell on the ground (Replace as soon as with no sooner). (d) He is too weak to walk (Remove too). (e) He said, "Get out of my way." (Change narration)

4. Q4.Vocabulary

   Mention one word substitute: (a) A person appointed by two parties to solve a dispute. (b) One who leads an austere life. (c) One who does a thing for pleasure and not as a profession. (d) Persons living at the same time. (e) A person who is mentally sick.

5. Q5.Idioms and Phrases

   Use the following idioms into sentences to bring out their meanings: (a) Hit the nail on the head (b) Blessing in disguise (c) Beat around the bush (d) Kill two birds with one stone (e) Cry over split milk

6. Q6.Grammar

   Fill in the blanks with suitable forms of the words from the list given below: fish, trauma, water, monster, part (a) Critics dislike T.S. Eliot's ......... of language. (b) He is ............ in the flower garden. (c) The ..... department was established in 1995. (d) The ....... movement brought.........experiences in India.

7. Q7.Error Correction

   Correct the following sentences: (a) She greeted us in a very friendly manner. (b) That pair of scissors belong to me. (c) Have you lived at Varanasi long? (d) When to you come to see us. (e) I have had my dinner an hour ago. (f) This is the car in that we came. (g) Apples are good to be eaten (h) Do you have read his latest novel? (i) I should like to travel in the abroad. (j) I go there very seldomly.