List of top English Questions asked in CUET (UG)

Organisms change over time. Some of these changes make no difference to the success or failure of the organism that inherit them; other changes do. Take a group of antelopes in which one individual has longer legs than its siblings. Those longer legs make the individual better at escaping from predators, hence giving it an advantage in the survival stakes. Its descendants inherit this feature and are better able to survive as a consequence. Those longer legs have thus become an 'adaptation' Their evolution means that this particular lineage of ante lopes has adapted to its conditions, thanks to its development of this features. Their evolution means that this particular lineage of ante lopes
Over the generations, the individual components of the genetic code within a species change, or mutate. So far as we know, mutations mny provide no evolutionary advantage at all. They may be disadvantageous, in which case they are weeded out via natural selection; or they may be advantageous, in which case they persist through the generations.

Supposing you have to make a payment of Rs.100, you can do so in rupees-coins; but it would be cumbersome to pay in nickel or copper coins, because they are heavy to carry and also because it takes much time to count them. The government therefore permits you to make the payment in rupee-notes. What are these rupee notes really? They are kind of money, right enough, although they are made of paper instead of metal. You can use them in just the same way that you use ordinary money. The reason why they are made of paper and used is that they save the trouble of carrying metal coins about-of course, paper is lighter than metal-and they also save using silver and other metals when they are scarce.
What makes these mere pieces of of paper bear the value of the number of rupees that is printed upon them? Why should a piece of paper, with "100" printed on it be worth twenty times as much as apiece of paper with "five" printed on it-and also worth a hundred times as much as a silver rupee-coin? The reason is that Government guarantees that the piece of paper is worth the amount printed an it and promised to pay that amount to any body who wishes to exchange this paper for the rupee-coins. Also, if you think about it you can easily realize that crores and crores more of rupee-coins would have to be minted, if all paper-money were abolished.
Perhaps you may ask, "Then why not have paper money only?" Why use silver and Nickle and copper at all? The answer is-because money must, as we have already said, be something so useful that everyone wants. Also because the metals are the best form of money, and thirdly because it would be impossible to print just the right amount of paper money that would keep prices at their proper natural level. It any Government prints too much paper money, then prices go up at once. The supply of money is increased and therefore its value (in food, clothes, books, houses, land, tools and everything else) goes down.
You may think at first that it is queer to talk of having too much paper money and the money is so nice and useful that you cannot have too much of it. But if you think that, I an afraid you are forgetting that money is only useful for what it will buy; so it is no good at all having more money if there are no more things to buy with it. The more money there is, the higher will be the prices of everything. The same thing happens with rupee-coins as with paper money. But it is not likely to happen, for this reason: it is very easy to print a great deal of paper money, but not at all easy to increase the amount there is if it keeps very steady and changes very little. In fact that is one of the chief reasons why it was chosen to make coins of.

Match the idioms with most appropriate meaning

List-I		List-II
(A)	fish out of water	(I)	good luck
(B)	break a leg	(II)	someone about whom very little is known
(C)	leave in the lunch	(III)	to be put in an unfamiliar situation
(D)	dark horse	(IV)	abandon someone in a difficult situation

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Choose the most appropriate antonym of the given word: UPROARIOUS

Which of the following sentences demonstrate appropriate use(s) of asterisks

Select the appropriate Antonym of the word :
INSOLVENT
(A) destitute
(B) affluent
(C) defaulter
(D) wealthy
(E) eradicate
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From the given options, choose the word that is opposite in meaning to "TEMERITY" :

Match List - I with List - II. Given below are some phrasal verbs with their meaning. Match the list :

List - I		List - II
(A)	Turn down	(I)	reveal
(B)	Turn off	(II)	arrive
(C)	Turn out	(III)	stop
(D)	Turn up	(IV)	reject

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Courteous leave taking in a formal letter, is one among the following. Choose the appropriate option.

Choose the correct option which best expresses the meaning of the given foreign words/expressions
ALMA MATER :

Which of the following word(s) mean the same as ‘exclusion’ ?
(A) Liberation
(B) Hysterical
(C) Segregation
(D) Impatience
(E) Agitation
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Which of the following words means the same as ‘perpetuity’ ?

Match the Idioms in List I with their meaning in List II:

List I		List II
A.	bone of contention	I.	close co-operation
B.	under the weather	II.	move on from a fight
C.	in cahoots	III.	cause of quarrel
D.	bury the hatchet	IV.	slightly unwell

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Match the words in List I with their Antonyms in List II:

List I		List II
A.	Defame	I.	Hero
B.	Novice	II.	Expert
C.	Defunct	III.	Praise
D.	Antagonist	IV.	Important

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Match List I with List II:

List I		List II
A.	boil down to	I.	provide what is needed
B.	peer out	II.	most imortant thing
C.	tide over	III.	to continue or develop
D.	set in	IV.	fade gradually

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Which of the following is not included in a formal letter?

Match the words in List I with their appropriate meanings in List II:

List I		List II
A.	Grapple	I.	Premature
B.	Intrepid	II.	Disjunction
C.	Precocious	III.	Struggle
D.	Schism	IV.	Brave

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Match the foreign phrases given in List I with their meaning in List II

List I		List II
A.	beam monde	I.	fashionable society
B.	amour peopre	II.	defining mood or characteristic of an age or a period
C.	dolche vita	III.	self love
D.	ziesgeisg	IV.	a life of pleasure and hurry

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Choose the most appropriate meaning of the following foreign phrase:
“SANG FROID”

What is the meaning of the Latin phrase ‘Audi alterem partum’ ?

Read the following poem. Answer the question :
A River
In Madurai,
city of temples and poets,
who sang of cities and temples,
every summer
a river dries to a trickle
in the sand,
baring the sand ribs,
straw and women's hair
clogging the watergates
at the rusty bars
under the bridges with patches
of repair all over them
the wet stones glistening like sleepy
crocodiles, the dry ones
shaven water-buffaloes lounging in the sun
The poet only sang of the floods
He was there for a day
when they had the floods.
People everywhere talked
of the inches rising,
of the precise number of cobbled steps
run over by the water, rising
on the bathing places,
and the way it carries of three village houses,
one pregnant woman
and a couple of cows
named Gopi and Brinda as usual.

Read the following passage. Answer the question :
Digital technologies have profoundly changed childhood and adolescence. The internet and the means to access it, such as tablets and smartphones, along with social media platforms and messaging apps, have become integral to the lives of youth around the world. They have transformed their education and learning the way make and maintain friendship, how they spend their leisure time, and their engagement with wider society. UNICEF's State of the world's Children 2017: Children in a Digital World report reveals that one in three internet users is younger 18 years and 71% of 15-24-year-olds are online, making them the most connected age group worldwide. However, the so-called digital divide is substantial: 346 million youth are not online, with African adolescents the most affected (60% are not connected compared with 4% in Europe). Young people who lack digital skills, live in remote regions, or speak a minority language are also being left behind in harnessing the opportunities.
Some children have never been online or have little access and are missing out on the benefits of connectivity.
Digital advances have their flip side too. Bullying is no longer left at the school gates; cyberbullying is a new method for bullies to hurt and humilite their victims with the click of a button. Words and images posted online that are designed to cause harm are also difficult to delete, increasing the risk of re-victimisation.
Concerns have also been raised about the time children spend using digital technology and its effect on their physical activity and mental health. Evidence suggests moderate use of digital technology can be beneficial to children's mental wellbeing, whereas excessive use can be detrimental. Children's social relationships seem to be enhanced by digital technology, especially since most of their social circle is now online. Evidence on physical activity is mixed. And better research is needed in this area.
Despite these issues, the popularity and use of digital technologies will continue to grow. However, an intergenerational gap exists in digital knowledge and literacy. Teachers and parents need training to teach digital skills and online safety to children. They are also crucial to helping young people assess reliable news and information sources and navigate the pressures social media, as highlighted in a report released on Jan 4 by England's Children's Commissioner. Schools are also an important forum for discussing cyberbullying, anti-bullying programmes need to include online harassment.
Children and adolescents must be the priority of national and global digital policies, not only to protect them from online harm but also to allow technology to help them fulfil their full potential.

Read the following passage. Answer the question :
It was raining when Rahel came back to Ayemenem. Slanting silver ropes slammed into loose earth, plowing it up like gunfire. The old house on the hill wore its steep, gabled roof pulled over its ears like a low hat. The walls, streaked with moss, had grown soft, and bulged a little with dampness that seeped up from the ground. The wild, overgrown garden was full of the whisper and scurry of small lives. In the undergrowth a rat snake rubbed itself against a glistening stone. Hopeful yellow bullfrogs cruised the scummy pond for mates. A drenched mongoose flashed across the leaf-strewn driveway.
The house itself looked empty. The doors and window were locked. The front verendah bare unfurnished. But the skyblue Plymouth with chrome tailfins was still parked outside, and inside, Baby Kochamma was still alive.
She was Rahel's baby grandaunt, her grandfather's younger sister. Her name was really Navomi, Navomi Ipe, but every body called her Baby. She became Baby Kochamma when she was old enough to be an aunt.
Rahel hadn't come to see her, though. Neither niece nor baby grandaunt labored under any illusions on that account. Rahel had come to see her brother, Estha. They were two-egg twins. "Dizygotic" doctors called them. Born from separate but simultaneously fertilized eggs. Estha- Esthappen-- was the older by eighteen minutes.
They never did look much like each other, Estha and Rahel, and even when they were thin- armed children, flat-chasted, wormridden and Elvis presley-puffed, there was none of the usual " Who is who?" and "Which is which?" from oversmilling relatives or the Syrian Orthodox bishops who frequently visited the Ayemenem House for donations.
The confusion lay in a deeper, more secret place.

Match the words in List-I with their antonyms List-II.

List-I		List-II
(A)	Exclusive	(I)	Praise
(B)	Hire	(II)	Allowed
(C)	Mock	(III)	General
(D)	Forbade	(IV)	Suspend

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Choose the antonym for the following word:
"MERCURIAL"