CTET 31 Jan 2021 Paper I Language I (English) Official Answer Key

CBSE conducted the CTET (Central Teacher Eligibility Test) Exam Paper 2020. This Paper held on 31^st January 2021 Morning Shift. Here The CTET Paper – I, Part – IV Language I (English) Solved Question Paper. CTET January 2021 Question Paper with Answer Key.

CTET (Central Teachers Eligibility Test)
Paper – I Primary Level (Class 1 to Class 5)

परीक्षा (Exam) – CTET Paper I Primary Level (Class I to V) 
भाग (Part) – Part – IV Language I (English)
परीक्षा आयोजक (Organized) – CBSE 
कुल प्रश्न (Number of Question) – 30
Paper Set – L
परीक्षा तिथि (Exam Date) – 31^st January 2021

CTET Exam January 2021 Paper – 1 (Primary Level)
Part – IV Language I (English)
(Official Answer Key)

Directions : Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow (Q. Nos. 91 to 99), by selecting the correct/ most appropriate options :

1. Each drop represents a little bit of creation and of life itself. When the monsoon brings to northern India the first rains of summer, the parched earth opens its pores and quenches its thirst with a hiss of ecstasy. After baking in the sun for the last few months, the land looks cracked, dusty, and tired. Now, almost overnight, new grass springs up, there is renewal everywhere, and the damp earth releases a fragrance sweeter than any devised by man.

2. Water brings joy to earth, grass, leaf bud, blossom, insect, bird, animal and the pounding heart of man. Small children run out of their homes to romp naked in the rain. Buffaloes, which have spent the summer listlessly around lakes gone dry, now plunge into heaven of muddy water. Soon the lakes and rivers will overflow with the monsoon’s generosity. Trekking in the Himalayan foothills, I recently walked for kilometers without encountering habitation. I was just scolding myself for not having brought along a water bottle when I came across a patch of green on a rock face. I parted a curtain of tender maidenhair fern and discovered a tiny spring issuing from the rock-nectar for the thirsty traveller.

3. I stayed there for hours, watching the water descend, drop by drop, into a tiny casement in the rocks. Each drop reflected creation. That same spring, I later discovered, joined other springs to form a swift, tumbling stream, which went cascading down the hill into other streams until, in the plains, it became part of a river. And that river flowed into another mightier river that kilometers later emptied into the ocean. Be like water, taught Laotzu, philosopher and founder of Taoism. Soft and limpid, it finds its way through, over or under any obstacle. It does not quarrel; it simply moves on.

91. Which part of the following sentence contains an error?
He knew (a)/ that he will (b) / go back (c) / on his promise. (b)
(1) d
(2) a
(3) b
(4) c

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92. Which of the following statements is not true?
(1) The damp earth releases a sweet fragrance.
(2) There is renewal everywhere.
(3) New grasses spring up.
(4) The sweltering heat comes to an end.

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93. The earth does not look ______ before the onset of the monsoon.
(1) tired
(2) cracked
(3) brown
(4) dusty

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94. Children respond to the first rains of summer by
(1) singing songs.
(2) giving shouts of joy.
(3) floating paper boats in water.
(4) running and playing in the rain.

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95. The tiny spring issuing from the rock is hidden by
(1) tall grass.
(2) thick moss.
(3) maiden hair fern.
(4) bushes and creepers

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96. To become part of a river, a tiny drop has to
(1) merge its identity.
(2) have a lot of strength.
(3) depend on external forces.
(4) suffer a lot.

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97. Which of the following words is most similar in meaning to the word ‘pounding’ as used in para 2 of the passage?
(1) sinking
(2) shaking
(3) benumbing
(4) palpitating

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98. Which one of the following words is most opposite in meaning to the word ‘descend’ (para 3) as used in the passage?
(1) zoom
(2) flow
(3) ascend
(4) hover

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99. Which part of speech is the underlined word in the following sentence ?
Almost overnight new grass spring up.
(1) Adverb
(2) Preposition
(3) Pronoun
(4) Adjective

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Directions : Read the poem given below and answer the questions that follow (Q. Nos. 100 to 105) by selecting the correct/most appropriate options :

I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree.

A tree whose hungry mouth is prest
Against the earth’s sweet flowing breast;

A tree that looks at God all day,
And lifts her leafy arms to pray:

A tree that may in Summer wear
A nest of robins in her hair;

Upon whose bosom snow has lain;
Who intimately lives with rain.

Poems are made by fools like me,
But only God can make a tree.

100. Identify and name the figure of speech used in ‘Poems are made by fools like me’.
(1) Hyperbole
(2) Metaphor
(3) Personification
(4) Simile

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101. The word, ‘mouth’ in line 3 refers to the ______ of the tree.
(1) roots
(2) crown
(3) branches
(4) trunk

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102. The tree presses its mouth against the sweet earth’s flowing breast to
(1) express its love for it.
(2) express its gratitude to it.
(3) draw sustenance from it.
(4) draw inspiration from it.

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103. The tree prays to God by
(1) providing shade to travellers.
(2) swinging its branches.
(3) lifting her arms.
(4) producing fruit and flowers.

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104. Which of the following statements is not true in the context of the poem ?
(1) It lives closely with rain.
(2) The tree welcomes the snow on its bosom.
(3) The tree symbolizes strength and stability.
(4) The tree allows birds to build their nests in it.

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105. Name the figure of speech used in lines 3 and 4.
(1) Alliteration
(2) Simile
(3) Personification
(4) Metonymy

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