11th English Unit 5 Online Test – Old Book

The road to success is full of what says the writer in “The road to success”?

Only those who wade through hurdles with _______ could smell success. 

What is the first step to be taken towards the road to success?

What provides direction to one’s behaviour and guide one’s thoughts and action into desired outcome?

Choose the correct sentence

1. Specific goals are not better than general ones
2. Self-chosen goals are better than assigned ones
3. Choose goals that are far challenging but  unreachable

Whose words are these- “Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life-think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success”

What should be visually picturised daily and repeated every day to make it easier for the sub conscious mind to embrace it?

What should be prepared outlining the specific steps needed to accomplish the result needed?

What is the proven method to success- says the author in “The Road to success”?

 Who conducted 17,000 experiments which failed and finally succeeded in extracting latex from a species of plant?

 Person with high _______ feel unique, competent, secure and empowered and connected to people around them.

 “One should lift oneself by one’s own efforts and should not degrade oneself; for one’s own self is one’s friend, and one’s own self is one’s enemy” – these profound lines are found in the book of ?

  Successful people are those who manage their ________ effectively

 How one should treat failure?

What made Mrs.Edith Allred’s life miserable?

  What remarkable statement does William James, a renowned psychologist make about one’s ability?

 His communication skill __________ his academic record. Fill up the correct word

 “Envy is ignorance and imitation is suicide”- Who said these words?

 What one has to do to be happy in life?

 Education is a  _________ process. Fill up with appropriate word

 Match the synonyms

1. Reinforcement – Unsuitable
2. Incompatible – Brief
3. Bounties – Strengthening
4. Concise – Reward

What was the turning point in Harold Abbot’s life?

 One should count the ______ and not the _____

The Parliament has been adjourned sine die. 

Choose an appropriate meaning for the underlined word.

 Choose the correct word from the homophones

The ______ of  Mt.Everest was an arduous affair

Match the antonyms

1. Unique – Inaccurate
2. Poised – Common
3. Degrade – Insecure
4. Precisely – Elevate

  The role of a critic is an invidious one. Identify the meaning 

 Statement1: Snakes have been feared and hated for thousand years and regarded as symbol of evil in many literatures

Statement 2: All snakes are harmful and especially those found in sea are more dangerous

Match the following

1. Ornithologist – One who studies the fossils
2. Entomologist – One who Studies ancient culture 
3. Archaeologist – One who studies birds
4. Palaeontologist – One who studies insects

  Identify the type of sentence

“Though they are my neighbours, I don’t know them well”

 Match the synonym

1. Congenial – Unfriendly
2. Emancipation – Compatible
3. Inimical – Liberation
4. Annihilate – Destroy

 Choose goals that are challenging and reachable (Rewrite the complex sentence into simple sentence)

The commission of enquiry exonerated him from al responsibility for the accident

“Arise, Awake and stop not till the goal is reached” is the profound words of______

The headmaster has an excellent _______ with his staff

Those people must develop good working habits. They want to achieve great things. (Combine the sentences using ‘Who’)

 What is the theme observed in the poem “Be the Best”

 Pine trees are  _____ and scrubs are______

Match the following

1. Takazhi Sivasankaran – Sonnett116
2. William Shakespeare – Is Life but a dream?
3. Douglas Malloch – The farmer
4. Lewis Carroll – Be the Best

Find out the meaning of underlined word

“If you can’t be a muskie, then just be a bass”

 In whose poem these lines occur

“It isn’t by size that you win or you fail

Be the best of whatever you are”

 “We can’t all be captains, we’ve got to be crew”

(What does this line imply?)

What would make the highway happier-says the poet in “Be the Best”?

 What is the message of the poem “Be the Best”?

Winning does not depend on what says the poet in the poem “Be the best”?

What should be one’s attitude towards work, Says Douglas Malloch in his poem?

 “If you can’t be a highway, then just be a trail

If you can’t be the sun, be a star

It isn’t by size that you win or you fail”

(These lines are from the poem_____________)

 Match the synonym

1. Scrub – Group of people
2. Bass – Bushes
3. Rill – An edible fish
4. Crew – A Small Stream

 What is the message conveyed in the poem “Be the best”?

What is the figure of speech used in the below lines of the poem

“If you can’t be a bush be a bit of the grass

And some highway happier maker”

 In what condition did Mr.Dick bring his pet cat Frisk to the Veterinarian?

 On seeing the state of frisk cat, what was the opinion of the veterinarian doctor?

 Who is the author of the short story “Every little thing”?

 Who is the owner of the cat named Frisk- who bought him to the veterinarian?

 Match the following

1. Mrs.Duggan – Doctor who prescribes  medicine to old man
2. Dick Fawcett – The Veterinarian
3. Herriot – Old man who kept frisk cat as pet
4. Allison – Neighbour to the old man

 How did the cat react to the treatment of the Veterinarian?

Why did Mr.Dick’s neighbour ring up the doctor?

  Whom did the veterinarian meet outside Dick’s house?

 What was the reason for cat’s illness?

 What information about Dick did he get from the district nurse?

 What happened to Mr.Dick at the end?

What were Mr.Dick and the veterinarian happy about?

 How did the veterinarian treat the unconscious cat?

 Why did the character of Mr.Dick demands sympathy from the readers?

 How did Frisk happen to taste the medicines of Mr.Dick?

 It was always a sad occasion and I has a sense of foreboding about Mr.Dick’s cat. Identity suitable synonym for the underlined word.

Why did Mr.Dick take the medicine from saucer?