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Kendriya Vidyalaya Recruitment 2025 PGT English Class 11 Supplementary Reader ( Snapshots) Lesson 8 - The Tale of Melon City Study Notes: The Tale of Melon City -  written by Vikram Seth.  Vikram Seth: June 20, 1952 - Calcutta, India. Graduated from Corpus Christi College Master's degree in Economics.  His first volume of poetry - "Mappings" (1981) Other important poetic works From Heaven's Lake (1983) Humorous travelogue Hitchhiking from Nanking to New Delhi via Tibet. The Golden Gate (1986) Based on Charles Johnston's  translation of Alexander Pushkin's   Eugene Onegin Foreshadowing work: The Humble Administrator's Garden. All You Who Sleep Tonight (1990) Beastly Tales from Here and There (1992) 10 stories in tetrameter couplets The Poems ( 1981 - 1994) Summer Requiem (2015) Important Prose works: A Suitable Boy (1993) An Equal Music (1999) Poem notes: The Tale of Melon City Taken from Mappings - 1981. Included in the Collected Poems by Vikram Seth. Writ...

UG TRB English Unit 8 Mock Test 1. It is a way a speaker uses languages differently in different circumstances. Idiolect  Register Isogloss 2. Choose the correct one . There are three main air stream mechanism. There are four main air stream mechanism. There are five main air stream mechanism. 3. Velaric   ingressive mechanism is used in African   languages Indian languages European languages 4. The extreme edge of the tongue is called the blade tip root 5. Affricates Complete closure and slow release Complete closure and sudden release air passes through the articulators intermittently 6.For some consonants, the active articulator   strikes against the passive articulator once and   then quickly flaps    forward. Such consonants are   called  trills or rolled consonants Fricatives taps or flaps 7. In the velar sounds, the active articulator is Front of the tongue back of the tongue root of the tongue 8. Find the odd one. /u/ /u:/...

UG TRB English Unit 7 Mock Test 1. According to Robert Willson Lynd, who had so bad a memory that he could always read an old book as though he had never read it before. Robert Willson Lynd Montaigne The English Novelist  2. The pseudonym of Robert Wilson Lynd is Rob Will Mary Rose Y Y Lynd 3. Russel cites some leaders as the examples of leaders who can successfully combine knowledge and wisdom. Choose the leader who was not mentioned by him. Queen Elizabeth I of England Henry IV of England Abraham Lincoln 4. According to Russel, wise person possess Insight Foresight Both 5. Forester prefers Nazi way Democratic way Republic way 6. According to E M Forster  i. Forster agree with those people who believe that love is needed to rebuild civilization. ii. He admitted that love is a great force in private life. iii. Tolerance is very dull and boring and negative but it is the sound state of mind needed after the war. Only one statement is correct and other two statements...

UG TRB English Unit 6 Mock Test 1. Choose the correct one(s) i. Non-violence is not greater than and superior to brute force. ii.Non-violence affords the fullest protection to one's self-respect and sense of honour and it is a better bulwark than the possession of armed men to defend any possession. iii.Individuals or nations who would practice non-violence must be prepared to sacrifice their all except honour. iv. It gives assistance in the defence of ill-gotten gains and immoral acts. only i ii and iii ii and iv 2. According to Gandhiji, 'Rightly taken, food sustains the body; rightly practiced non-violence sustains the  Soul Moral Character  3. Dr. S. Radhakrishnan in his 'The World Community' quoted from Shakespeare's Richard III Edward II  Richard II 4. According to Dr. S. Radhakrishnan, nationalism has hold of all people's mind is the will of the people who abstain racial discrimination has lost its drive 5. Select the sentence which has the me...

UG TRB English Unit 5 Mock Test 1. According to Emerson, which is the way to greatness? Identifying the originality of thought Imitating what others belive Walking on the path of great thinkers 2. The original typed manuscript of the speech ' I Have a Dream' was with whom for a long time? Martin Kepyers Geroge Raveling Mahalia Jackson 3. He has called The Gettysburg Address as ' monumental act'. Abraham Lincoln Senetor Charles Sumnor Colonel Alexander Bliss 4. From which chapter of  Walden Pond by H D Thoreau the excerpt ' The Battle of Ants' was  taken Chapter 11 Chapter 12 Chapter 13 5. According to Emerson, the scholar is  Man doing Man studying Man thinking 6. West Running Brook was written by R W Emerson Robert Frost T S Eliot 7. "The word of the sweetest song and all songs, That strong and delicious word which, creeping to my feet" These lines are taken from Out of the Cradle, Endlessly Rocking I Felt a Funeral Nature 8. The final wor...

UG TRB English Unit 4 Mock Test 1. The Solitary Reaper starts with a / an Apostrophe Simile Metaphor 2. Behold her, single in the field, Yon solitary Highland Lass! 'Yon' means? She Beautiful That 3. Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Kubla Khan was disturbed by Person from london Person from Porlock Person from Norfolk 4. The manuscript of Kubla Khan is known as Crewe manuscript Taylor's manuscript Can manuscript 5. Ode to the Nightingale was published in Annals of the Unique arts Annals of the Village arts Annals of the Fine arts 6. 'One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk:' are lines taken from Ode to Psyche Ode to a Nightingale Ode to Autumn 7. Ozymandias was the name of the paroah Ramesses II Ramesses I Ramesses III 8. "My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings; Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!" Where was the lines written? On the visage On the pedestal On the crown 9. 'Sardello' was written by Robert Browning P B Shelley John Kea...