GATE 2022 Humanities and Social Sciences - English (XH-C2) Question Paper with Solutions PDFs are available to download for preparation purposes. The exam took place on February 6, 2022 in the Afternoon Session (2:30 PM to 5:30 PM). The question paper of GATE 2022 XH- C2 (English) comprised a total of 65 questions with 39 MCQs, 2 NATs and 24 MSQs. The question paper was divided into three sections- Section GA (General Aptitude), Section B1 (Reasoning Comprehension) and Section XH- C2 (English).
GATE 2022 Humanities and Social Sciences - English (XH-C2)
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Inhaling the smoke from a burning __________ could __________ you quickly.
A sphere of radius \(r\) cm is packed in a box of cubical shape.
What should be the minimum volume (in cm\(^3\)) of the box that can enclose the sphere?
Pipes P and Q can fill a storage tank in full with water in 10 and 6 minutes, respectively. Pipe R draws the water out from the storage tank at a rate of 34 litres per minute. P, Q and R operate at a constant rate.
If it takes one hour to completely empty a full storage tank with all the pipes operating simultaneously, what is the capacity of the storage tank (in litres)?
Six persons P, Q, R, S, T, and U are sitting around a circular table facing the center not necessarily in the same order. Consider the following statements:
P sits next to S and T.
Q sits diametrically opposite to P.
The shortest distance between S and R is equal to the shortest distance between T and U.
Based on the above statements, Q is a neighbor of
A building has several rooms and doors as shown in the top view of the building given below. The doors are closed initially.
What is the minimum number of doors that need to be opened in order to go from the point P to the point Q?
Rice, a versatile and inexpensive source of carbohydrate, is a critical component of diet worldwide. Climate change, causing extreme weather, poses a threat to sustained availability of rice. Scientists are working on developing Green Super Rice (GSR), which is resilient under extreme weather conditions yet gives higher yields sustainably.
Which one of the following is the CORRECT logical inference based on the information given in the above passage?
A game consists of spinning an arrow around a stationary disk as shown below.
When the arrow comes to rest, there are eight equally likely outcomes. It could come to rest in any one of the sectors numbered 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, or 8 as shown.
Two such disks are used in a game where their arrows are independently spun.
What is the probability that the sum of the numbers on the resulting sectors upon spinning the two disks is equal to 8 after the arrows come to rest?
Consider the following inequalities.
(i) \( 3p - q < 4 \)
(ii) \( 3q - p < 12 \)
Which one of the following expressions below satisfies the above two inequalities?
Given below are three statements and four conclusions drawn based on the statements.
Statement 1: Some engineers are writers.
Statement 2: No writer is an actor.
Statement 3: All actors are engineers.
Conclusion I: Some writers are engineers.
Conclusion II: All engineers are actors.
Conclusion III: No actor is a writer.
Conclusion IV: Some actors are writers.
Which one of the following options can be logically inferred?
Which one of the following sets of pieces can be assembled to form a square with a single round hole near the center? Pieces cannot overlap.
A relationship is expressed as Iodine : Goitre.
The pair(s) of words showing SIMILAR relationship is/are
Three individuals are named P, Q, and R. Together they have a total of fifteen children, of which nine are boys. P has three girls and Q has the same number of boys. Q has one more child than P, who has four children. R has four more boys than the number of girls of P. The number of girls of R is equal to the number of boys of P. How many boys do R and P have?
A sentence has been given below.
The train will leave at 8:30 PM, we \underline{have been ready by 7:30 PM, so that we can reach the station on time.
To make the above sentence grammatically correct, the phrase marked in bold is to be replaced by
Complete the sentence correctly using the options given below.
Hastings (p) (q) developed as a holiday resort after (q).
The Arecibo telescope does not resemble what most of us think of when we hear the word telescope. Its reflective surface covers an area of 20 acres, which is quite remarkable. Dangling above it are towers and cables, sub-reflectors and antennas, all of which can be positioned using 26 motors to transmit radio waves and receive echoes with astonishing precision.
From the passage, it can be inferred that most telescopes
Tailgating another vehicle is unsafe and illegal. Many rear-end collisions are caused by drivers following too closely to the vehicle in front of them. The rules state that a driver must keep significant distance from the vehicle in front in order to stop safely and avoid a collision. Drivers should allow a minimum two seconds gap between their vehicle and the one ahead. At 60 km per hour, this equates to a gap of 33 meters; at 100 km per hour, it equates to a gap of 55 meters. More distance is needed to safely stop in rain or poor visibility, as during rain slippery roads reduce the effectiveness of braking.
Which of the following statement(s) can be inferred from the above passage?
There are three separate, but equal-sized boxes. Inside each box, there are two separate small boxes. Inside each of the small boxes, there are four even smaller boxes. The total number of boxes will be _________.
In a specific language, \( xer dan \) means "big horse", \( liro cas \) means "red tomato", and \( dum cas dan \) means "big red barn".
The equivalent word for \textit{barn in this language is
Park street is parallel to Rock street. Garden street is perpendicular (90°) to Lake street. Lake street is parallel to Rock street. For the situation described above, the TRUE statement is
Six examinations are required to be conducted in a week starting from Sunday to Saturday. Hindi is not scheduled on the first day and English is not scheduled before Hindi. Mathematics is scheduled one day after Physics. Biology is scheduled two days after Hindi. One day prior to Chemistry, there is no examination. Only one examination can be scheduled on a single day and Sunday is not an off day. What are the subjects scheduled on first and the last days?
A passage consists of 6 sentences. The first and sixth sentences of the passage are at their correct positions, while the middle four sentences (represented by P, Q, R, and S) are jumbled up.
First sentence: Smoke oozed up between the planks.
P: Passengers were told to be ready to quit the ship.
Q: The rising gale fanned the smouldering fire.
R: Everyone now knew there was fire onboard.
S: Flames broke out here and there.
Sixth sentence: Most people bore the shock bravely.
The most logically CORRECT order for the given jumbled up sentences is
For a painting to succeed, it is essential that the painter and his public agree about what is significant. The subject of the painting may have a personal meaning for the painter or a common person; but there can also be the possibility of their agreement on its general meaning. It is at this point that the culture of the society and the period in question precedes the artists and her/his art. Renaissance art would have meant nothing to the Aztecs, and vice versa. If, to some extent, a few intellectuals can appreciate them both today, it is because their culture is a historical one. Its inspiration is history and all known developments to date.
According to the passage, which of the following is/are NOT necessarily among the attributes needed for a painter to succeed?
Vinod has a pre-determined route. Each morning he delivers 37 newspapers to customers in his neighborhood. It takes Vinod 50 minutes to deliver all the papers. When Vinod was sick or had other engagements, his friend Tarun, who lives on the same street delivered the papers on his behalf.
Find the statement(s) that must be TRUE according to the given information.
Cholera, typhoid, diphtheria and tuberculosis cause huge number of deaths. Poor quality drinking water has always been the world’s greatest single carrier of sickness. Disease is transmitted when sewage and drinking water come into contact. Children are particularly vulnerable. In some of the poorest countries the infant mortality rate is high. The separation of sewage and the supply of clean drinking water are the domain of civil engineers, and their work makes a significant contribution to public health. That contribution was recognized when public sanitation was voted the greatest medical breakthrough, beating the discoveries including antibiotics and vaccines in a poll organized by the British Medical Journal.
Identify the statement(s), which is/are NOT TRUE according to the passage.
Shark’s teeth have evolved to correspond to the diet of each particular species of shark. Consequently, the teeth of the great white shark bear little resemblance to those of the bull shark or nurse shark. There were essentially four different shark diets and thus four varieties of shark teeth. Sharks that feed on fish have needle-like teeth, perfect for spearing and ripping. Sharks that eat mammals such as seals and sea lions have heavy, serrated teeth, typically triangular on the upper jaw and pointed on the lower jaw. Shark that feed in the benthic zone of the ocean have flattened teeth for crushing the shell of the creatures they find scuttling in the sand or clinging to rocks. Sharks that bask have teeth that are largely non-functional; these sharks filter food from the water by passing it through their gills.
Which of the following is/are the CORRECT inference(s) as per the passage?
A particular school management wants to contact all parents, all businessmen and all engineers. The following statistics are available with the school.
Businessmen = 50
Engineers = 25
Parents = 2500
Businessmen who are engineers = 0
Businessmen who are parents = 25
Engineers who are parents = 15
The number of people who need to be contacted are _________.
“He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.”
Who has given the above statement?
“History is not made only in statecraft; its lasting results are produced in the ranks of learned men.”
Name the play from which the above excerpt has been taken.
Who amongst the following popularised the term ‘objective correlative’, which is often used in formalist criticism?
Which of the following critics preferred Shakespeare’s comedies to his tragedies?
Who among the following has been credited with laying the foundation of comparative literature by Russian Formalists?
Lyrical Ballads, considered to be the manifesto of Romantic Poetry, was first published in the year ________.
Identify the work from which the following excerpt has been taken:
"In a universe that is suddenly deprived of illusions and of light, man feels a stranger. He is an irremediable exile .... This divorce between man and his life, the actor and his setting, truly constitutes the feeling of Absurdity."
What does gynocriticism recommend as an approach to literature?
Identify the novel which opens with the following lines:
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair."
Which of the following terms does not form a part of seven types of ambiguities propounded by William Empson?
Which of the following poem(s) has/have been influenced by Hindu philosophy?
Which of the following human behaviour(s) is/are important to a Freudian psychoanalytical study of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet?
Which of the following novel-author combination(s) is/are correct?
Which of the following statements is/are correct about Phenomenology?
Chitra Divakaruni’s The Mistress of Spices is ________.
Which of the following is/are correct about postmodernist critics?
The literary theory of Deconstruction argues that ________.
In the context of the Reader-Response Theory, Louise M Rosenblatt in her essay "The Poem as Event", considers that the reader should ________.
Roland Barthes in his famous essay, “The Death of the Author” ________.
What is common among the following novels?
Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale
Match the following authors with their pseudonyms:
“This literary mode parallels the flouting of authority and inversion of social hierarchies that, in many cultures, are permitted in a season of … . It does so by introducing a mingling of voices from diverse social levels that are free to mock and subvert authority, to flout social norms by ribaldry, and to exhibit various ways of profaning what is ordinarily regarded as sacrosanct.”
The above description explains the concept of ________ .
“Postcolonial perspectives emerge from the colonial testimony of Third World countries and the discourses of ‘minorities’ within the geopolitical divisions of East and West, North and South. They intervene in those ideological discourses of modernity that attempt to give a hegemonic ‘normality’ to the uneven development and the differential, often disadvantaged, histories of nations, races, communities, people.”
The above commentary on the postcolonial perspective has been extracted from which of the following?
Match the following excerpts with their authors:
Which of the following statements is the most appropriate in the context of Francoise d' Eaubonne’s concept of Eco-feminism?
Which of the following books is considered one of the sources behind T. S. Eliot’s poem, The Waste Land?
"The people who believe most that our greatness and welfare are proved by our being very rich, and who most give their lives and thoughts to becoming rich, are just the very people whom we call Philistines."
What can be inferred from the above statement of Matthew Arnold?
‘Anagnorisis’, as used by Aristotle in his theory of Tragedy, stands for ________.
Which of the following thinkers does not belong to the school of Existentialism?
Which of the following statement(s) is/are closely associated with the term Fetishism?
Why does the thin grey strand
Floating up from the forgotten
Cigarette between my fingers,
Why does it trouble me?
Ah, you will understand;
When I carried my mother downstairs,
A few times only, at the beginning
Of her soft-foot malady,
I should find, for a reprimand
To my gaiety, a few long grey hairs
On the breast of my coat; and one by one
I watched them float up the dark chimney.
Which of the following can be considered as correct about the above poem?
Which of the given examples of rhetorical/figurative devices is/are correctly paired?
As per the distinctions made by Toril Moi, regarding the terms ‘feminist’, ‘female’ and ‘feminine’, which of the following is/are correct?
Which of the following author(s) has/have won the Booker Prize twice?
"Nothing feels normal to Ashima, it’s not so much the pain which she will survive. Its consequence: motherhood in a foreign land … unmonitored by those she loves … she is terrified to raise a child in a country where she knows so little, where life seems so tentative and spare."
In the above passage of The Namesake, the writer tries to say that Ashima ________.
Jean Baudrillard, a post-modern thinker, has suggested that a sign refers to other signs. He has given four stages/phases to support his proposition. Which of the following do(es) not constitute a part of these stages/phases?
Which of the following apply/apply to the term ‘parapraxis’?
The epilogue to William Congreve’s The Way of the World, given below, signals some warning(s). What is/are it/they?
quote
“Other there are whose malice we’d prevent,
Such, who watch plays, with scurrilous intent
To mark out who by characters are meant.
These, with false glosses feed their own ill nature,
And turn to libel, what was meant a satire.”
Read the following lines and mark your correct observation(s):
Take my shirt off
and go in there to do the puja
No thanks.
Not me.
But you go right ahead
if that’s what you want to do.
Give me the match box
before you go,
will you?
I will be out in the courtyard
where no one will mind it
if I smoke.
Which of the following statements is/are correct?
GATE 2022 XH- C2 (English) Question Paper: Paper Analysis
Section GA and B1 in GATE 2022 XH- English Question Paper were the same as the other five papers for GATE XH paper. The table below shows the number of 1 mark and 2 marks questions in GATE 2022 XH- English Question Paper:
| Type of Questions | General Aptitude (GA) | Reasoning Comprehension (B1) | English (XH- C2) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number of Questions | Marks | Number of Questions | Marks | Number of Questions | Marks | |
| No. of 1 mark MCQs | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 10 | 10 |
| No. of 2 marks MCQs | 5 | 10 | 5 | 10 | 9 | 18 |
| No. of 1 mark NATs | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| No. of 2 marks NATs | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| No. of 1 mark MSQs | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 8 |
| No. of 2 marks MSQs | 0 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 12 | 24 |
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