UTET Exam Paper 29 September 2023 – Paper 2 (Official Answer Key)

46. In which category does the use of inappropriate words fall?
(A) spelling error
(B) lexical error
(C) structural error
(D) grammatical error

47. Essential teaching skills does not include-
(A) Classroom infrastructure
(B) reflection
(C) lesson management
(D) self management

48. A quick survey of the text to get its main idea is called –
(A) Predicting
(B) Scanning
(C) Skimming
(D) Silent reading

49. A teacher gives a newspaper headline on ‘power shortage’ and asks students to write few sentences on their own.
What type of writing is being developed by the teacher in learners?
(A) review writing
(B) product writing
(C) controlled writing
(D) guided writing

50. Identify the sentence which makes correct use of Article –
(A) The father has reached home.
(B) He is a heir to the throne.
(C) Have you seen an one-legged man?
(D) Don’t strike her on the head.

Direction (Q.No. 51-53): Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow by selecting the most appropriate option.

But my pseudo-patriot had no mind to let me escape so easily. Not satisfied that his opinion. should pass without contradiction, he was determined to have it ratified by the suffrage of every one in the company: for which purpose, addressing himself to me with an air of inexpressible confidence, he asked me if I was not in the same way of thinking. As I am never forward in giving my opinion, especially when I have reason to believe that it will not be agreeable; so, when I am obliged to give it, I always hold it for a maxim to speak my real sentiments. I, therefore, told him that, for my own part, I should not have ventured to talk in such a peremptory strain unless I had made the tour of Europe, and examined the manners of these several nations with great care and accuracy: that, perhaps, a more impartial judge would not scruple to affirm, that the Dutch were more frugal and industrious, the French more temperate and polite, the Germans more hardy and patient of labour and fatigue, and the Spaniards more staid and sedate, than the English; who, though undoubtedly brave and generous, were at the same time rash, headstrong, and impetuous; too apt to be elected with prosperity, and to despond in adversity.
I could easily perceive, that all of the company began to regard me with a jealous eye before I had finished my answer, which I had no sooner done, than the patriotic gentleman observed, with a contemptuous sneer, that he was greatly surprised how some people could have the conscience to live in a country which they did not love, and to enjoy the protection of a government, to which in their hearts they were inveterate enemies. Finding that by this modest declaration of my sentiments, I had forfeited the good opinion of my companions, and given them occasion to call my political principles in question, and well knowing that it was in vain to argue with men who were so very full of themselves, I threw down my reckoning and retired to my own lodgings, reflecting on the absurd and ridiculous nature of national prejudice and prepossession.

51. Which of the following means expecting to be obeyed immediately and without any questions or refusal?
(A) contemptuous
(B) impetuous
(C) peremptory
(D) headstrong

52. In the above passage ‘threw down my reckoning’ means-
(A) feeling ignored
(B) became weak
(C) remembering the past
(D) accepted defeat

53. The word ‘staid’ used in the passage refers to
(A) quiet and serious
(B) scruple
(C) frivolous
(D) meek

54. What is the subject matter of the given passage?
(A) jealousy
(B) patriotism
(C) prejudices
(D) self-esteem

Direction (Q. No. 55-58): Read the poem given below and answer the questions that follow by selecting the most appropriate option.
When will the bell ring, and end this weariness?
How long have they tugged the leash, and strained apart
My pack of unruly hounds! I cannot start
Them again on a quarry of knowledge they hate to hunt,
I can haul them and urge them no more.
No more can I endure to bear the brunt
Of the books that lie out on the desks; a full three score
Of several insults of blotted pages and scrawl
Of slovenly work that they have offered me.
I am sick, and tired more than any thrall
Upon the woodstacks working weariedly.
And shall I take
The last dear fuel and heap it on my soul
Till I rouse my will like a fire to consume
Their dross of indifference, and burn the scroll
Of their insults in punishment? – I will not!
I will not waste myself to embers for them,
Not all for them shall the fires of my life be hot,
For myself a heap of ashes of weariness, till sleep
Shall have raked the embers clear: I will keep
Some of my strength for myself, for if I should sell
It all for them, I should hate them-
I will sit and wait for the bell.

55. The most significant metaphor used by the poet in the first stanza of the poem is-
(A) the bell-ring
(B) a pack of hounds
(C) quarry of knowledge
(D) blotted pages.

56. What does the speaker decide to do?
(A) to fuel him up
(B) to walk away from boredom
(C) to sell off everything
(D) to not waste his time or energy any more.

57. Who do you think is the speaker?
(A) A labourer
(B) A teacher
(C) A fireman
(D) A shepherd

58. Pick out the word from the given options that means ‘Careless, untidy or dirty’-
(A) slovenly
(B) weariness
(C) indifference
(D) quarry

Direction (Q.No. 59): Choose the most appropriate antonym of the words underlined in the following sentence from the given options –
59. She is a dilettante.
(A) amateur
(B) virtuoso
(C) curbstone
(D) unskilled

Direction (Q.No. 60): Substitute the following sentence with the appropriate word given in the option –
60. Evening prayer in a church.
(A) aster
(B) vespers
(C) tome
(D) philtre