English Mock Test 01 for third semester 2025

1. PASSAGE: Technology has transformed education in the 21st century. Online classes, digital books, and virtual libraries have made knowledge accessible to all. Yet, the role of teachers remains vital. Technology can deliver information, but only teachers can inspire values and discipline. Students must learn to balance both—using technology for learning without becoming slaves to it.
Central idea of the passage—

2. PASSAGE: Technology has transformed education in the 21st century. Online classes, digital books, and virtual libraries have made knowledge accessible to all. Yet, the role of teachers remains vital. Technology can deliver information, but only teachers can inspire values and discipline. Students must learn to balance both—using technology for learning without becoming slaves to it.
What must students avoid?

3. PASSAGE: Technology has transformed education in the 21st century. Online classes, digital books, and virtual libraries have made knowledge accessible to all. Yet, the role of teachers remains vital. Technology can deliver information, but only teachers can inspire values and discipline. Students must learn to balance both—using technology for learning without becoming slaves to it.
What remains vital in education?

4. PASSAGE: Technology has transformed education in the 21st century. Online classes, digital books, and virtual libraries have made knowledge accessible to all. Yet, the role of teachers remains vital. Technology can deliver information, but only teachers can inspire values and discipline. Students must learn to balance both—using technology for learning without becoming slaves to it.
What can technology deliver?

5. PASSAGE: Technology has transformed education in the 21st century. Online classes, digital books, and virtual libraries have made knowledge accessible to all. Yet, the role of teachers remains vital. Technology can deliver information, but only teachers can inspire values and discipline. Students must learn to balance both—using technology for learning without becoming slaves to it.
What has transformed education in the 21st century?

6. PASSAGE: Technology has transformed education in the 21st century. Online classes, digital books, and virtual libraries have made knowledge accessible to all. Yet, the role of teachers remains vital. Technology can deliver information, but only teachers can inspire values and discipline. Students must learn to balance both—using technology for learning without becoming slaves to it.
Passive voice: 'Teachers inspire values.'

7. PASSAGE: Technology has transformed education in the 21st century. Online classes, digital books, and virtual libraries have made knowledge accessible to all. Yet, the role of teachers remains vital. Technology can deliver information, but only teachers can inspire values and discipline. Students must learn to balance both—using technology for learning without becoming slaves to it.
Fill in the blank: Students must ______ (learn) to balance both.

8. PASSAGE: Technology has transformed education in the 21st century. Online classes, digital books, and virtual libraries have made knowledge accessible to all. Yet, the role of teachers remains vital. Technology can deliver information, but only teachers can inspire values and discipline. Students must learn to balance both—using technology for learning without becoming slaves to it.
Correct the error: 'Technology have changed education.'

9. PASSAGE: Technology has transformed education in the 21st century. Online classes, digital books, and virtual libraries have made knowledge accessible to all. Yet, the role of teachers remains vital. Technology can deliver information, but only teachers can inspire values and discipline. Students must learn to balance both—using technology for learning without becoming slaves to it.
Antonym of 'accessible':

10. PASSAGE: Technology has transformed education in the 21st century. Online classes, digital books, and virtual libraries have made knowledge accessible to all. Yet, the role of teachers remains vital. Technology can deliver information, but only teachers can inspire values and discipline. Students must learn to balance both—using technology for learning without becoming slaves to it.
Synonym of 'vital':

11. Join using not only..........but also:
'His mother’s prayer gave him peace. His father’s presence gave him peace.'

12. Find the error:
'Ulysses want to travel beyond sunset.'

13. Change the voice:
'They offered the lawyer two million rubles.'

14. Change into Indirect:
He said, 'I will return one day.'

15. Split into two sentences:
'She sat by the window, watching the train leave.'

16. What is the theme of the play Riders to the Sea?

17. Who is Bartley in the play Riders to the Sea?

18. In the play Riders to the Sea, what are the new boards in Maurya’s kitchen meant for?

19. In the play Riders to the Sea, what is kept under Nora’s shawl?

20. In the play Riders to the Sea, what is the play’s setting?

21. What is the central theme of 'Ulysses'?

22. Ulysses is dissatisfied with—

23. The poem 'Ulysses' is written in—

24. What does Ulysses long for in old age?

25. Who is entrusted with the rule of Ithaca?

26. What memory does the tree revive in the poetess?

27. Which bird is mentioned as singing on the tree?

28. “Dear is the Casuarina to my soul” is an example of—

29. What sound does the tree emit?

30. The creeper is compared to—

31. What books did the lawyer read in the first year of confinement?

32. Why did the banker fear honouring the bet?

33. For how many years was the lawyer imprisoned in the bet?

34. In Ruskin Bond's story "The Night Train at Deoli, who was Kalam’s closest Hindu friend?

35. What was Kalam’s father’s name?

36. Where was Abdul Kalam born?

37. In Ruskin Bond's story "The Night Train at Deoli, what feeling haunted the narrator after leaving Deoli?

38. In Ruskin Bond's story "The Night Train at Deoli, what did the girl sell at the station?

39. In Ruskin Bond's story "The Night Train at Deoli, how many minutes did the train stop at Deoli?

40. In Ruskin Bond's story "The Night Train at Deoli, at which station did the narrator meet the basket-seller girl?