RBI Exam English Language Paper for practice

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Read the given passage carefully and answer the questions that follow. Certain words are printed in bold to help you locate them while answering some of these. Kevin thought Mrs. Spencer was the most disagreeable person he had ever seen, with her common, highly colored face and her common fine bonnet. When the next day they set out on their journey to Yorkshire, he walked through the station to the railway carriage with his head up and trying to keep as far away from her as he could, because he did not want to seem to belong to her. It would have made him angry to think people imagined he was her little son. But Mrs. Spencer was not in the least disturbed by him and his thoughts. She was the kind of woman who would "stand no nonsense from young ones." At least, that is what she would have said if she had been asked. Kevin sat in the corner of the railway carriage and looked plain and fretful. He had nothing to read or look at and sat with folded hands on his lap. He stared out of the window with his lips pinched together, and it seemed quite natural that the rain should have begun to pour down in gray slanting lines and splash and stream down the windowpanes. He watched it so long and steadily that the grayness grew heavier and heavier before his eyes and he fell asleep. Finally, they reached the station. Kevin stood up and tried to keep his eyes open while Mrs. Spencer collected her parcels. The little boy did not offer to help her, because in India native servants always picked up or carried things and it seemed quite proper that other people should wait on one. The station was a small one and nobody but themselves seemed to be getting out of the train. The station-master spoke to Mrs. Spencer in a rough, good-natured way, pronouncing her words in a queer broad fashion which Kevin found out afterward was Yorkshire. A brougham stood on the road before the little platform. Kevin saw that it was a smart carriage and that it was a smart footman who helped him in. His long waterproof coat and the waterproof covering of his hat were shining and dripping with rain as everything was, the burly station-master included. When he shut the door, mounted the box with the coachman, and they drove off, the little boy found himself seated in a comfortably cushioned corner, but he was not inclined to go to sleep again. He sat and looked out of the window, curious to see something of the road over which he was being driven to the queer place Mrs. Spencer had spoken of. He was not at all a timid child and he was not exactly frightened, but he felt that there was no knowing what might happen in a house with a hundred rooms nearly all shut up--a house standing on the edge of a moor. "What is a moor?" he said suddenly to Mrs. Spencer. "Look out of the window in about ten minutes and you'll see," the woman answered. "We've got to drive five miles across Missel Moor before we get to the Manor. You won't see much because it's a dark night, but you can see something." He asked no more questions but waited in the darkness of his corner, keeping his eyes on the window. The carriage lamps cast rays of light a little distance ahead of them and he caught glimpses of the things they passed. After they had left the station they had driven through a tiny village and he had seen whitewashed cottages and the lights of a public house. Then they had passed a church and a vicarage and a little shop-window or so in a cottage with toys and sweets and odd things set out for sale. Then they were on the high road and he saw hedges and trees. After that there seemed nothing different for a long time--or at least it seemed a long time to him. At last, the horses began to go more slowly, as if they were climbing up-hill, and presently there seemed to be no more hedges and no more trees. He could see nothing, in fact, but a dense darkness on either side. He leaned forward and pressed his face against the window just as the carriage gave a big jolt. "Eh! We're on the moor now sure enough," said Mrs. Spencer. Source: The secret garden by Frances Hodgson  
  Which of the following is true about Kevin? 


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Which of the following best states the characteristics of Mrs. Spencer? 


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Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage? 


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Which of the following describes the boy's state of mind in the passage? 


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Which of the following best describes Kevin’s traits? 


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Which of the following is true about Kevin's thoughts while traveling? 


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.Which of the following is the MOST SIMILAR in meaning to the word ‘queer’? 


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Which of the following is the MOST SIMILAR in meaning to the word ‘jolt’?


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Which of the following is the MOST OPPOSITE in meaning to the word ‘burly’? 


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Which of the following is the MOST OPPOSITE in meaning to the word ‘fretful’? 


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.Which of the following is the MOST OPPOSITE in meaning to the word ‘Disagreeable’?