Andhra Pradesh and Telangana Police Recruitment Boards are conducting recruitments for police constables and sub inspectors frequently. English is an important part of these recruitments. Following are previous questions asked in TS Police Recruitment Exam for Constables in 2016. These are useful for the practice of aspiring candidates and understand the nature of the examination.
1. What is the synonym of ‘amenable’ in ‘Both parties were amenable to a peaceful settlement of the land dispute’.?
(1) Doubtful (2) Unwilling (3) Responsive (4) Disagreeable
2. What is the synonym of ‘antidote’ in ‘Jogging is considered an antidote to mental stress’.?
(1) Poisonous (2) Remedy (3) Equivalent (4) Dangerous
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3. What is the antonym of ‘transperant’ in ‘The window-glass is transperant’?
(1) Opaque (2) Translucent (3) Susceptible (4) Fragile
4. What is the antonym of ‘unanimous’ in ‘It was a unanimous decision’?
(1) United (2) Partial (3) Compatible (4) Harmonious
5. His mother was _________ American though his father was __________ European.
(1) a, a (2) a, an (3) an, a (4) an, an
6. The coordinator was asked to attend __________ the issue and resolve it immediately.
(1) by (2) in (3) to (4) No preposition required
7. Either of the roads ___________ to Vasantha Nagar.
(1) lead (2) leads (3) have led (4) are led
8. Please don’t disturb me, I _________ the coins now.
(1) have been counting (2) count (3) was counting (4) am counting
9. Rishi __________ his engineering course by the end of 2017.
(1) will completed (2) complete (3) will have completed (4) was completed
10. Choose the correctly spelt word from the options given below.
(1) occasional (2) occassional (3) ocasional (4) occational
11. What is the meaning of underlined idiom in “We would be glad to put you up for a few days if you would like to stay”?
(1) tolerate someone (2) build something
(3) provide accommodation (4) contribute something
12. What is the meaning of the underlined phrase in ‘How did you wolf down that pizza so quickly’?
(1) To eat gently (2) To eat hungrily (3) To eat slowly (4) To swallow slowly
13. Choose the correct order of the following jumbled sentences into a meaningful paragraph.
(a) Wages will seldom rise in proportion to the rising prices
(b) The problem of food is intimately connect with population, the market is governed by demand and supply
(c) Without enough food, such people lack health, strength of efficiency and they fall an easy prey to all sorts of diseases
(d) If too many people demand goods to go round, prices will rise and poor classes will starve
(1) 1-(c), 2-(d), 3-(a), 4-(b)
(2) 1-(d), 2-(c), 3-(b), 4-(a)
(3) 1-(a), 2-(c), 3-(d), 4-(b)
(4) 1-(b), 2-(d), 3-(a), 4-(c)
14. Choose the correct order of the following jumbled sentences to make it a meaningful paragraph.
(a) A dove, perched on a nearby tree, saw the ant’s danger and dropped a leaf into the water
(b) Once, an ant who had come to drink at a stream fell into the water and was carried away by the swift current
(c) He was about to fire when the ant, who was nearby, crawled forward and bit him sharply on the ankle
(d) Sometime after this, a hunter, creeping through the bushes, saw the dove asleep, and took a careful aim with his gun
(1) 1-(d), 2-(c), 3-(b), 4-(a)
(2) 1-(c), 2-(d), 3-(a), 4-(b)
(3) 1-(b), 2-(a), 3-(d), 4-(c)
(4) 1-(a), 2-(c), 3-(d), 4-(b)
15. Fill in the blank:
Manoj played cricket for two days, _________ he?
(1) did (2) didn’t (3) wasn’t (4) wouldn’t
16. Fill in the blank:
Johnson has not prepared for tomorrow’s exam, __________ he?
(1) isn’t (2) hasn’t (3) has (4) does
Read the following passage and answer the questions from 17-20.
It was Germany and France that the first successful attempts were made to produce an internal – combustion engine driven by petrol. In England, people were strangely timid about horseless vehicles. English inventors were handicapped by a quaint old law that forbade any such vehicle to attain a greater speed than four miles an hour, and compelled each one to be preceded by a man carrying a red flag. This law was not repealed until 1986.
The earliest motor cars were looked upon as mere jokes, or as rather dangerous playthings, by everyone except their inventors. Some of them were single-seaters, others would carry two or even three people; but all were noisy, clumsy, queer-looking things. When in 1888, Carl Benz, a German, produced a three-wheeled, internal combustion car, a great forward stride had been made. Another German, whose name, Daimler, is often seen on motor cars to this day, was experimenting about the same time, and testing a petrol driven engine. It is understood how the introduction of the petrol-driven engine revolutionalised road transport throughout the world. Until then the necessary power to push a vehicle along could not be obtained without the cumbersome tanks, boilers and furnaces of the steam engine. The internal-combustion engine is light in weight and small in size by comparison; the fuel is burned in it, so that there is no waste, like the durty cinders of a coal fire.
17. How did most people regard early motor cars?
(1) Not better than horse-driven engines
(2) A mere joke, or as rather dangerous playthings
(3) A mere scientific experiment
(4) A cumbersome vehicle
18. What were all early motor cars?
(1) A plaything or toy meant for engineers
(2) A vehicle better than horse-driven vehicle
(3) Noisy, clumsy, queer-looking things
(4) Dangerous but beautiful
19. What made the English inventors handicapped?
(1) The general public did not welcome the invention
(2) The quaint old law that forbade any such vehicle to attain a greater than four
miles an hour
(3) Non-availability of adequate fuel power the engine
(4) Availability of micro-air vehicles
20. What is incorrect about the internal combustion engine?
(1) fuel burnt in it as waste (2) light in weight
(3) noisy and clumsy (4) small in size