Name of the Organization : Vidya Council for education
Name Of The Exam : MTS Examination
Document Type : Sample Question Paper
Grade : Class VIII - X
Year : 2015 -16

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MTS Examination Sample Question Paper :
Score : 400
Time : 2 hrs

General Instructions :
1. Candidates are supplied with an OMR Answer Sheet.
2. Answer the questions in the OMR Sheet by shading the appropriate bubble.
3. Shade the bubbles with black ball point pen.
4. Each question carries four marks.
5. Use the space provided in the last page for rough work.

Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow : (1 - 4).
Times have changed. A kitchen is no longer a place you would dread to enter. You want to whip up cream; just switch on the hand held whipper and whiiiishhhh! It’s done; want to chop onions, go for the automated chopper.

If you never get the chappati right, no sweat, try the instant chappati maker. And yes, without the smoke or the fumes, driving you to tears - the hi-tech electrical chimney over the stove takes care of it.

Gone are the days of kitchens with open shelves laden with steel utensils, a spoon rack or hanger the gas cylinder very visible under the stove, the noisy exhaust - a kitchen where everything was on display.

The older generation used to take pride in the number of steel and copper utensils one had - the more there were, the higher the kitchen-owner’s status in the society.
1. Pick a suitable title for the passage.
A. Cooking made easy
B. Going hi-tech
C. Kitchen and social status
D. Kitchen and food

2. The passage can be an opening to a discussion about
A. how food habits have changed over years.
B. how people have started to take pride in their kitchen.
C. how people’s conceptions of a kitchen have changed over years.
D. impact of science.

3. Cooking has become .................... in a modern kitchen.
A. difficult
B. painful
C. easier
D. time consuming

4. Which word in the passage means ‘to fear’ ?
A. chop
B. sweat
C. exhaust
D. dread

5. Choose the sentence in which the verb is an action verb.
A. The old man looked hungry
B. My father appeared happy
C. He sounded dishonest
D. I tasted the curry

6. Choose the correct form of the verb.
It ............ here very often.
A. is raining
B. was raining here
C. rains
D. rain

7. Report the sentence. Where do you live ?
I asked him .....................
A. where he lives
B. where he lived
C. where he had lived
D. where he was living

8. Choose the phrasal verb which means the same as ‘to understand’.
A. Make across
B. Make in
C. Make out
D. Make of

9. Pick the misspelt word out.
A. Weight
B. Straight
C. Hight
D. Greet

10. The word ‘longing’ means
A. Very long
B. Dress
C. Socks
D. Desire

11. A coin is tossed , the probability of getting head or tail is ....................
A. 0
B. 1
C. 21
D. 2

12. If the parallel sides of a parallelogram are 2 cm apart and their sum is 10 cm, then find its area.
A. 20 cm2
B. 5 cm2
C. 10 cm2
D. 25cm2

13. The difference between the supplementary and the complementary angle of 80o is
A. 70o
B. 110o
C. 80o
D. 90o

15. The Selling price of 10 articles is the same as the cost price of 11 articles, then the gain percent is...............................
A. 15%
B. 10%
C. 5%
D. 20%

17. Complete it.
6, 15, 33, 69, ........
A. 130
B. 128
C. 141
D. 135

18. Price of a computer is ` 24000. The company reduces its price by 5% every year. What would be its price after 2 years ?
A. 21660
B. 16000
C. 21000
D. 22500

19. Ammu and Appu divided some money in the ratio 3:5 and Appu got `2000 more than that Ammu got. What amount did they divide ?
A. 6000
B. 5000
C. 8000
D. 3000

20. i) A liquid exerts pressure on the walls of the container.
ii) A liquid exerts equal pressure at the same depth in a container.
Which of the above sentence is /are correct ?
A. i) only
B. ii) only
C. i) and ii)
D. None