OT- 19 (25 questions)

Spot the error:

1. A person considering himself /herself to be superior in culture and intellect- a.iconoclast / b.highbrow/ c.gentry / d.fable

2. An intellectual or literary woman- a.redstocking/ b.greenstoking/ c.bluestocking / d.whitestocking

3. A person highly regarded by someone and treated with special favour- a.brown- eyed boy/ b.green- eyed boy/ c.red- eyed boy/ d.blue- eyed boy

4. Lengthen in time- a.cataract / b.contract / c.protract / d.protect

5. Of a person extremely desirous of money- a.Avaricious/ b.Asiduous/ c.Assimilate/ d.Astronomy

6. The art of delaying- a.Degeneration/ b.Inflation/ c.Procrastination/ dRegression

7. Property inherited from one's father or ancestors.-  a.Patrimony/ b.Mercenary/ c.Hereditary/ d.Aristocracy

Rearrangement:

8. A. For this, he had set up an alarm to ring at intervals until morning.

B. So, he made sure he was awakened every hour during the night.

C. He strangely believed that he was likely to cease breathing when asleep.

D. A nervous cousin of mine was staying with us.

1. DBCA/ 2. DBAC/ 3. DACB/ 4. DCBA

9. A. I pointed them out to my companion.

B. The woman’s face was familiar but I could not recall who she was.

C. At the very next table to ours, sat Lady Edgware and Brian Martin.

D. As I was doing so, another couple came and joined them.

1. CADB/ 2. BCAD/ 3. ABCD/ 4. CDBA

Idioms/ phrases:

10. The salt of the Earth- (a) To expect something in return/ (b) Very good & honest/kind/ (c) To support someone/ (d) Neat and clean

11. Feel blue- (a) Feeling ecstatic/ (b) In trouble/depressed/ (c) An easy achievement/ (d) None of these

12. Flies off at a tangent- (a) Self praising/ (b) To boast/ (c) Start discussing something irrelevant/ (d) Well informed

13. Going places- (a) To go to the home back/ (b) Talented and successful/ (c) To go on a visit/ (d) To be angry

14. Bone to pick- (a) Appear suddenly/ (b) To reject/ (c) Cause of quarrel/ (d) To accept readily

15. To call it a day- (a) To conclude proceedings/ (b) To grieve over/ (c) To surrender/ (d) To be suspicious

16. Pull someone up on something- (a) To agree on something/ (b) To Criticize/ (c) To bring out a change/ (d) None of the above

17. Point blank- (a) Rarely/ (b) Very definite and direct/ (c) At a last moment/ (d) Leave quietly

Passage- The Roman Empire covered a vast stretch of territory that included most of Europe as we know it today and a large part of the Fertile Crescent and North Africa. The Roman empire embraced a wealth of local cultures and languages; that women had a stronger legal position then than they do in many countries today; but also that much of the economy was run on slave labour, denying freedom to substantial numbers of persons. From the fifth century onwards, the empire fell apart in the west but remained intact and

exceptionally prosperous in its eastern half. Roman historians have a rich collection of sources to go on, which we can broadly divide into three groups: (a) texts, (b) documents and (c) material remains. Textual sources include letters, speeches, sermons, laws, and histories of the period written by contemporaries.

These were usually called ‘Annals’ because the narrative was constructed on a year-by-year basis. Documentary sources include mainly inscriptions and papyri. Inscriptions were usually cut on stone, so a large number survive, in both Greek and Latin. The ‘papyrus’ was a reedlike

plant that grew along the banks of the Nile in Egypt and was processed to produce sheets of writing material that was very widely used in everyday life. Thousands of contracts, accounts, letters and official documents survive ‘on papyrus’ and have been published by scholars who are called ‘papyrologists’. Material remains include a very wide assortment of items that mainly archaeologists discover (for example, through excavation and field survey), for example, buildings, monuments and other kinds of structures, pottery, coins, mosaics, even entire landscapes. Each of these sources can only tell us just so much about the past, and combining them can be a fruitful exercise, but how well this is done depends on the historian’s skill!

18. Which of these statements is NOT true?

1. Texts, documents and material remains were the main sources for the historians.

2. Inscriptions were carved in Greek and Latin.

3. Archaeologists make discoveries through excavations.

4. The Roman empire flourished longer in the west.

19. Who were papyrologists?

1. People who processed papyrus into sheets

2. Scholars who published documents

3. Farmers who cultivated papyrus

4. People who surveyed the reed like plants along the Nile

20. Much of the economy in the Roman empire was run on:

1. slave labour/ 2. scholars/ 3. women/ 4. archaeologists

21. Documentary sources of the history of Roman empire include:

1. inscriptions/ 2. pottery/ 3. sermons/ 4. landscapes

22. Which of these are NOT material remains?

1. Mosaics/ 2. Coins/ 3. Monuments/ 4. Annals

Find the antonyms:

23##Vanish- 1) Fade/ 2) Dry/ 3) Appear/ 4) Wet

24##Curve- 1) Sluggish/ 2) Active/ 3) Depression/ 4) Delicate

25##Similar- 1) Careless/ 2) Contrary/ 3) Callous/ 4) Stubborn