🧠 IIT Madras Notes

weq3-Graded_Assignment_Sep_2025_English_I_Qualifier (4)

7 min read

Graded Assignment - (Sep 2025 - English I - Qualifier)

This assignment will not be graded and is only for practice.

Question 1

Which word means an idea or representation of a particular type of person or thing?

  • Possession
  • Prevailing
  • Stereotype
  • Settlement

Accepted Answers:

  • Stereotype

Question 2

What does the system to trap fish in the Lake Condah area signify?

  • Food habits of aboriginals
  • Technology and engineering used by aboriginals
  • Cultivation pattern of aboriginals
  • Settlement style of aboriginals

Accepted Answers:

  • Technology and engineering used by aboriginals

Question 3

What was the function of conical baskets?

  • To filter water for drinking
  • To cultivate shrimp
  • To catch eels and fish
  • To redirect water for agriculture

Accepted Answers:

  • To catch eels and fish

Question 4

Which word in the passage means a low dam built across a river to raise the level of water ?

  • Weir
  • Funnel
  • Channel
  • Bluffs

Accepted Answers:

  • Weir

Question 5

The word bluff in the paragraph means _____.

  • A steep cliff overlooking a plain or body of water
  • A line of mountain ranges
  • A large area of flat grassland
  • Low-lying land adjacent to a sea coast

Accepted Answers:

  • A steep cliff overlooking a plain or body of water

Question 6

The word Nomadic means ____.

  • Permanently settled in a particular place
  • Semi-settled in a particular place
  • Depending on water bodies for livelihood
  • Living by travelling from place to place

Accepted Answers:

  • Living by travelling from place to place

Question 7

Quarries are for?

  • Extraction of minerals
  • Holding fish and keep them fresh
  • Collecting stones
  • Redirecting water

Accepted Answers:

  • Collecting stones

Question 8

What is the tense in the word located?

  • Present tense
  • Past tense
  • Past perfect tense
  • Past perfect continuous tense

Accepted Answers:

  • Past tense

Question 9

Consider the sentence from the passage. T_his is an eel-fishing technique which has hardly changed to the present day_. What do you understand from this?

  • Eel fish is hard to find in present day
  • Eel fishing techniques has changed
  • Eel fish is difficult to catch
  • Eel fishing technique has not changed

Accepted Answers:

  • Eel fishing technique has not changed

Question 10

Why did aboriginals prefer the lee side for doorways?

  • For better fishing techniques
  • To avoid wind
  • To avoid nomadic hunter-gatherers
  • For better visibility

Accepted Answers:

  • To avoid wind

Question 11

**Read the following telephone conversation and answer the questions: (Q11 - Q15)
**Caller: Hello!
Maladoy Services: (i) ___________ Maladoy Services. (ii) __________
Caller: Yes you are.
Maladoy Services: Great, I am Kishan. How may I help you?
Caller: I wanted to book three tickets to Sweden.
Maladoy Services: May I ask you to be more specific? What class of tickets are you booking?
When is the travel date?
(There is no response from the other side.)
Maladoy Services: Hello! (iii) ____________
(The call gets disconnected.)
Caller: Hello! I had called just a while back. The call was (iv) __________. I wanted to book economy tickets for the 22nd of this month, please.
Maladoy Services: Alright. We can offer you premium discounts if you are a rewards card member.
Caller: Could you share the details of the fare?
Maladoy Services: I think your network has issues. Your voice keeps (v) ____________
Caller: Sorry! I will call you later then.
Maladoy Services: No problem, thanks for calling.

Complete blank (i) with an appropriate response.

  • Thank you for calling
  • Long time. No see
  • Rock and roll at

Accepted Answers:

  • Thank you for calling

Question 12

Complete blank (ii) with an appropriate response.

  • Let us catch up later.
  • I will call you later.
  • Am I audible to you?

Accepted Answers:

  • Am I audible to you?

Question 13

Complete blank (iii) with an appropriate response.

  • Can you hear me?
  • Are we going?
  • Should we hang up?

Accepted Answers:

  • Can you hear me?

Question 14

Complete blank (iv) with an appropriate response.

  • Told off
  • Cut off
  • Called off

Accepted Answers:

  • Cut off

Question 15

Complete blank (v) with an appropriate response

  • Going berserk
  • Cutting glass
  • Breaking up

Accepted Answers:

  • Breaking up

Question 16

Fill in the blanks with the right options. (Q16- 20)

  1. _____ the house had appeared enormous. 2)____, beside the new grey buildings towering above it like unfriendly giants, it seemed like a miserable shack. The old Naga tree 3) _______ its dry branches towards eternity, covering the roof with sickly yellow leaves. A funereal crow 4) _______ croaking on a wire. It flew away as I approached. 5)______ shadows stared. Options: Now, Once, stretched, perched, furtive

Choose the appropriate option for blank (1).

  • Now
  • Once
  • Stretched
  • Perched
  • Furtive

Accepted Answers:

  • Once

Question 17

Choose the appropriate option for blank (2).

  • Now
  • Once
  • Stretched
  • Perched
  • Furtive

Accepted Answers:

  • Now

Question 18

Choose the appropriate option for blank (3).

  • Now
  • Once
  • Stretched
  • Perched
  • Furtive

Accepted Answers:

  • Stretched

Question 19

Choose the appropriate option for blank (4)

  • Now
  • Once
  • Stretched
  • Perched
  • Furtive

Accepted Answers:

  • Perched

Question 20

Choose the appropriate option for blank (5).

  • Now
  • Once
  • Stretched
  • Perched
  • Furtive

Accepted Answers:

  • Furtive

Question 21

 Break up – Unable to hear well

  • True
  • False

Accepted Answers:

  • True

Question 22

Call up – To get back

  • True
  • False

Accepted Answers:

  • False

Question 23

Hang up – Pick the call

  • True
  • False

Accepted Answers:

  • False

Question 24

Hold on – To be loud and clear

  • True
  • False

Accepted Answers:

  • False

Question 25

Eccentric

  • I
  • Ii
  • Iii
  • Iv
  • v

Accepted Answers:

  • Iv

Question 26

Scenic

  • I
  • Ii
  • Iii
  • Iv
  • v

Accepted Answers:

  • v

Question 27

Welcome

  • I
  • Ii
  • Iii
  • Iv
  • v

Accepted Answers:

  • Ii

Question 28

Far-reaching

  • I
  • Ii
  • Iii
  • Iv
  • v

Accepted Answers:

  • Iii

Question 29

Closing

  • I
  • Ii
  • Iii
  • Iv
  • v

Accepted Answers:

  • I

Question 30

Answer whether true and false. There are eight diphthongs in the English language.

  • True
  • False

Accepted Answers:

  • True

Question 31

Cluster is not possible in the middle of the word.

  • True
  • False

Accepted Answers:

  • False

Question 32

Identify the conjunction in the following sentence:

 Even though it rained a lot, we went out.

  • Even though
  • It
  • Rained
  • We

Accepted Answers:

  • Even though

Question 33

Identify the part of speech of the underlined word.

 I have a small  cat.

  • Adverb
  • Adjective
  • Verb
  • Noun

Accepted Answers:

  • Adjective

Question 34

Select the correct pronoun. Priya’s mom asked ________ to clean the garage.

  • Her
  • She

Accepted Answers:

  • Her

Question 35

Choose the appropriate option. I was born in _______ east.

  • A
  • An
  • The
  • No article

Accepted Answers:

  • The

Question 36

Choose the appropriate option. You can _______ phone numbers in a directory.

  • Look up
  • Look after
  • Look up to
  • Look in

Accepted Answers:

  • Look up

Question 37

Choose the appropriate option. Sorry I am late. My vehicle ________ petrol.

  • Ran out on
  • Ran out of
  • Ran out
  • Ran into

Accepted Answers:

  • Ran out of

Question 38

Identify the modal auxiliary in the following sentence:

Should I be happy about this?

  • Be
  • I be
  • Should
  • This sentence does not have a modal auxiliary

Accepted Answers:

  • Should

Question 39

Identify the modal auxiliary in the following sentence:
 Dry wood should be shoved into the mighty boulder.

  • Wood
  • Mighty
  • Shoved
  • Should

Accepted Answers:

  • Should

Question 40

Choose the correct option.
 We will be _________ the news at 9:00 pm.

  • Watching
  • Watch
  • To watch

Accepted Answers:

  • Watching

Question 41

Choose the correct option.

 I _______ back before Sunday.

  • Will be
  • Am being

Accepted Answers:

  • Will be

Question 42

Choose the correct option.

 My grandmother _________ to me every month.

  • Writes
  • Write
  • Writies

Accepted Answers:

  • Writes

Question 43

Select true/false for the following statement.

 The sentence, ‘She has lived here all her life’ is an example of the present perfect tense.

  • True
  • False

Accepted Answers:

  • True

Question 44

‘Peter and his friends is going to a movie.’ In this sentence, there is subject-verb agreement.

  • True
  • False

Accepted Answers:

  • False

Question 45

‘This gaggle of geese __ very loud!’

  • Were
  • Was
  • Are
  • Is

Accepted Answers:

  • Is

Question 46

In a plural word, we don’t add the following sound:

  • /z/
  • /k/
  • /s/
  • /iz/

Accepted Answers:

  • /k/

Question 47

Mark the incorrect plural.

  • spy-spyes
  • hoax-hoaxes

Accepted Answers:

  • spy-spyes

Question 48

‘Park’ is pronounced as /Phark/.

  • True
  • False

Accepted Answers:

  • True

Question 49

In December we’ll have been married __________ 30 years!

  • Since
  • For

Accepted Answers:

  • For

Question 50

Choose the incorrect option:

  • A chair
  • An ostrich
  • A bread
  • A year

Accepted Answers:

  • A bread

Graph View

Recent Features