SSC PHASE VII 2019 EXAM PAPER : Held on 16 October-2019
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:: English Language Basic Knowledge ::
Q1. select the most appropriate antonym of the given word.
ACCUSE
a. Defend
b. Assault
c. Apply
d. Blame
Q2. Select the correct Passive Voice form of the sentence.
I have booked the tickets for our forthcoming trip to Mumbai.
a. The tickets for our forthcoming trip to Mumbai are being booked by us.
b. I had been booking the tickets for our forthcoming trip to Mumbai.
c. Booking is done by me of tickets for our forthcoming trip to Mumbai.
d. The tickets for our forthcoming trip to Mumbai have been booked by me.
Comprehension:
Read the following passage and fill in each blank with a word chosen from the
given options.
A group of youngsters joined a procession of devotees who had (1)______ to
immerse Ganesha idols in the Yamuna on the occasion of the Ganesha festival.
When (2)______ devotees were turned back by officials as immersion is banned,
the youngsters stayed (3)______, walked a kilometre away and jumped into the
river. (4)______ they were caught in the fast current . Two of them were able
(5)______ to safety whereas four of them died.
Q3. Choose the most appropriate word to fill in blank number 1
a. Prayed
b. Gathered
c. Stayed
d. promised
Comprehension:
Read the following passage and fill in each blank with a word chosen from the
given options.
A group of youngsters joined a procession of devotees who had (1)______ to
immerse Ganesha idols in the Yamuna on the occasion of the Ganesha festival.
When (2)______ devotees were turned back by officials as immersion is banned,
the youngsters stayed (3)______, walked a kilometre away and jumped into the
river. (4)______ they were caught in the fast current . Two of them were able
(5)______ to safety whereas four of them died.
Q4. Choose the most appropriate word to fill in blank number 2
a. The
b. Any
c. A
d. much
Comprehension:
Read the following passage and fill in each blank with a word chosen from the
given options.
A group of youngsters joined a procession of devotees who had (1)______ to
immerse Ganesha idols in the Yamuna on the occasion of the Ganesha festival.
When (2)______ devotees were turned back by officials as immersion is banned,
the youngsters stayed (3)______, walked a kilometre away and jumped into the
river. (4)______ they were caught in the fast current . Two of them were able
(5)______ to safety whereas four of them died.
Q5. Choose the most appropriate word to fill in blank number 3
a. In
b. Back
c. Up
d. away
Comprehension:
Read the following passage and fill in each blank with a word chosen from the
given options.
A group of youngsters joined a procession of devotees who had (1)______ to
immerse Ganesha idols in the Yamuna on the occasion of the Ganesha festival.
When (2)______ devotees were turned back by officials as immersion is banned,
the youngsters stayed (3)______, walked a kilometre away and jumped into the
river. (4)______ they were caught in the fast current . Two of them were able
(5)______ to safety whereas four of them died.
Q6. Choose the most appropriate word to fill in blank number 4
a. After
b. If
c. When
d. Soon
Comprehension:
Read the following passage and fill in each blank with a word chosen from the
given options.
A group of youngsters joined a procession of devotees who had (1)______ to
immerse Ganesha idols in the Yamuna on the occasion of the Ganesha festival.
When (2)______ devotees were turned back by officials as immersion is banned,
the youngsters stayed (3)______, walked a kilometre away and jumped into the
river. (4)______ they were caught in the fast current . Two of them were able
(5)______ to safety whereas four of them died.
Q7. Choose the most appropriate word to fill in blank number 5
a. to swim
b. to run
c. to play
d. to drive
Q8. Identify the segment in the sentence which contains the grammatical
error from the given options.
Sneha who aspire to join the Indian army as a soldier, has cleared the physical
fitness test.
a. who is aspire
b. as a soldier
c. to join the Indian army
d. has cleared
Q9. Select the word which means the same as the group of words given.
One who spends money recklessly
a. spendthrift
b. divine
c. generous
d. miserly
Q10. Identify the word that is misspelt.
a. advisory
b. secretry
c. greenery
d. truly
Q11. Select the most appropriate meaning of the underlined phrase in the
given sentence.
The action taken to reduce pollution is just a drop in the ocean. The town
administration is not serious.
a. a tiny amount
b. a huge success
c. a difficult one
d. full of challenges
Comprehension:
Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow.
Renia's Diary: A Young Girl's Life in the Shadow of the Holocaust, is
being published in the United States on September 17. After being lost for
decades, the writings of Holocaust victim Renia Spiegel have been finding new
admirers. The 18-year old Spiegel was murdered by the Nazis in 1942, but the
rediscovery of her poetry-rich diary has some people referring to her as
“Poland’s Anne Frank. ”Spiegel’s diary will soon be published in English for the
first time, along with the release of a documentary film based on her life.
Although the diary was already published in Poland, something of a mystery still
hovers over the Jewish teen, whose name does not appear on Holocaust victim
lists in Poland or Israel. Born in 1924, Spiegel grew up on her father’s estate
near Poland’s border with Romania. Her younger sister, Ariana, was a child film
star and the sisters lived with their grandparents in sleepy Przemyśl, a border
town along the San River. When she began keeping her diary at the end of 1939,
Spiegel explained, “I simply seek a friend.” Her first entry resembles Anne
Frank’s initial essays, offering a candid account of her loneliness. Also quite
similar to early entries in “The Diary of a Young Girl,” Spiegel includes biting
commentary on her classmates. Alongside an active social life and her writing,
Spiegel dabbled in illustrating. A few months before Nazi Germany’s invasion of
Poland, she fell in love with a student named Zygmunt Schwarzer, whose father
was a well-known physician. Torture and degradation on the streets took place
daily during those years and Spiegel wrote in the spring of 1942, “Oh God
Almighty! Help us! Take care of us, give us your blessing.” On July 15, the
Nazis established a ghetto in Przemysl. Before long, 24,000 Jews from the region
were crammed into a small part of town. “Remember this day; remember it well,
you will tell generations to come about it one day,” wrote Spiegel after the
ghetto was fenced off. A few days later, on July 30, Spiegel was captured along
with Schwarzer’s parents and shot. “Three shots! Three lives lost! It happened
last night at 10:30pm. Fate has decided to take my dearest ones away from me,”
wrote her friend Schwarzer. He did not write these words in his own journal, but
in Spiegel’s yellow-paged diary, which had been entrusted to him a few days
prior.
Q12. The name of Renia’s book is
a. Renia’s Diary
b. Poland’s Anne Frank
c. The Diary of a Young Girl
d. Renia's Diary: A Young Girl's Life in the Shadow of the Holocaust
Comprehension:
Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow.
Renia's Diary: A Young Girl's Life in the Shadow of the Holocaust, is
being published in the United States on September 17. After being lost for
decades, the writings of Holocaust victim Renia Spiegel have been finding new
admirers. The 18-year old Spiegel was murdered by the Nazis in 1942, but the
rediscovery of her poetry-rich diary has some people referring to her as
“Poland’s Anne Frank. ”Spiegel’s diary will soon be published in English for the
first time, along with the release of a documentary film based on her life.
Although the diary was already published in Poland, something of a mystery still
hovers over the Jewish teen, whose name does not appear on Holocaust victim
lists in Poland or Israel. Born in 1924, Spiegel grew up on her father’s estate
near Poland’s border with Romania. Her younger sister, Ariana, was a child film
star and the sisters lived with their grandparents in sleepy Przemyśl, a border
town along the San River. When she began keeping her diary at the end of 1939,
Spiegel explained, “I simply seek a friend.” Her first entry resembles Anne
Frank’s initial essays, offering a candid account of her loneliness. Also quite
similar to early entries in “The Diary of a Young Girl,” Spiegel includes biting
commentary on her classmates. Alongside an active social life and her writing,
Spiegel dabbled in illustrating. A few months before Nazi Germany’s invasion of
Poland, she fell in love with a student named Zygmunt Schwarzer, whose father
was a well-known physician. Torture and degradation on the streets took place
daily during those years and Spiegel wrote in the spring of 1942, “Oh God
Almighty! Help us! Take care of us, give us your blessing.” On July 15, the
Nazis established a ghetto in Przemysl. Before long, 24,000 Jews from the region
were crammed into a small part of town. “Remember this day; remember it well,
you will tell generations to come about it one day,” wrote Spiegel after the
ghetto was fenced off. A few days later, on July 30, Spiegel was captured along
with Schwarzer’s parents and shot. “Three shots! Three lives lost! It happened
last night at 10:30pm. Fate has decided to take my dearest ones away from me,”
wrote her friend Schwarzer. He did not write these words in his own journal, but
in Spiegel’s yellow-paged diary, which had been entrusted to him a few days
prior.
Q13. Which word in the passage means the same as
‘a very large amount of destruction resulting in the killing of very large
numbers of people’?
a. degradation
b. documentary
c. ghetto
d. holocaust
Comprehension:
Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow.
Renia's Diary: A Young Girl's Life in the Shadow of the Holocaust, is
being published in the United States on September 17. After being lost for
decades, the writings of Holocaust victim Renia Spiegel have been finding new
admirers. The 18-year old Spiegel was murdered by the Nazis in 1942, but the
rediscovery of her poetry-rich diary has some people referring to her as
“Poland’s Anne Frank. ”Spiegel’s diary will soon be published in English for the
first time, along with the release of a documentary film based on her life.
Although the diary was already published in Poland, something of a mystery still
hovers over the Jewish teen, whose name does not appear on Holocaust victim
lists in Poland or Israel. Born in 1924, Spiegel grew up on her father’s estate
near Poland’s border with Romania. Her younger sister, Ariana, was a child film
star and the sisters lived with their grandparents in sleepy Przemyśl, a border
town along the San River. When she began keeping her diary at the end of 1939,
Spiegel explained, “I simply seek a friend.” Her first entry resembles Anne
Frank’s initial essays, offering a candid account of her loneliness. Also quite
similar to early entries in “The Diary of a Young Girl,” Spiegel includes biting
commentary on her classmates. Alongside an active social life and her writing,
Spiegel dabbled in illustrating. A few months before Nazi Germany’s invasion of
Poland, she fell in love with a student named Zygmunt Schwarzer, whose father
was a well-known physician. Torture and degradation on the streets took place
daily during those years and Spiegel wrote in the spring of 1942, “Oh God
Almighty! Help us! Take care of us, give us your blessing.” On July 15, the
Nazis established a ghetto in Przemysl. Before long, 24,000 Jews from the region
were crammed into a small part of town. “Remember this day; remember it well,
you will tell generations to come about it one day,” wrote Spiegel after the
ghetto was fenced off. A few days later, on July 30, Spiegel was captured along
with Schwarzer’s parents and shot. “Three shots! Three lives lost! It happened
last night at 10:30pm. Fate has decided to take my dearest ones away from me,”
wrote her friend Schwarzer. He did not write these words in his own journal, but
in Spiegel’s yellow-paged diary, which had been entrusted to him a few days
prior.
Q14. Choose the correct option.
In her diary Renia writes about
a. her loneliness
b. life in Przemyśl
c. life on her father’s estate
d. her fun filled childhood days
Comprehension:
Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow.
Renia's Diary: A Young Girl's Life in the Shadow of the Holocaust, is
being published in the United States on September 17. After being lost for
decades, the writings of Holocaust victim Renia Spiegel have been finding new
admirers. The 18-year old Spiegel was murdered by the Nazis in 1942, but the
rediscovery of her poetry-rich diary has some people referring to her as
“Poland’s Anne Frank. ”Spiegel’s diary will soon be published in English for the
first time, along with the release of a documentary film based on her life.
Although the diary was already published in Poland, something of a mystery still
hovers over the Jewish teen, whose name does not appear on Holocaust victim
lists in Poland or Israel. Born in 1924, Spiegel grew up on her father’s estate
near Poland’s border with Romania. Her younger sister, Ariana, was a child film
star and the sisters lived with their grandparents in sleepy Przemyśl, a border
town along the San River. When she began keeping her diary at the end of 1939,
Spiegel explained, “I simply seek a friend.” Her first entry resembles Anne
Frank’s initial essays, offering a candid account of her loneliness. Also quite
similar to early entries in “The Diary of a Young Girl,” Spiegel includes biting
commentary on her classmates. Alongside an active social life and her writing,
Spiegel dabbled in illustrating. A few months before Nazi Germany’s invasion of
Poland, she fell in love with a student named Zygmunt Schwarzer, whose father
was a well-known physician. Torture and degradation on the streets took place
daily during those years and Spiegel wrote in the spring of 1942, “Oh God
Almighty! Help us! Take care of us, give us your blessing.” On July 15, the
Nazis established a ghetto in Przemysl. Before long, 24,000 Jews from the region
were crammed into a small part of town. “Remember this day; remember it well,
you will tell generations to come about it one day,” wrote Spiegel after the
ghetto was fenced off. A few days later, on July 30, Spiegel was captured along
with Schwarzer’s parents and shot. “Three shots! Three lives lost! It happened
last night at 10:30pm. Fate has decided to take my dearest ones away from me,”
wrote her friend Schwarzer. He did not write these words in his own journal, but
in Spiegel’s yellow-paged diary, which had been entrusted to him a few days
prior.
Q15. Which of the following is not true?
a. Renia married Schwarzer whom she loved
b. Renia needed a friend to share her troubles
c. Renia’s diary gives details about her sufferings during the war
d. Many Jews were captured and kept in camps by the Nazis
Comprehension:
Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow.
Renia's Diary: A Young Girl's Life in the Shadow of the Holocaust, is
being published in the United States on September 17. After being lost for
decades, the writings of Holocaust victim Renia Spiegel have been finding new
admirers. The 18-year old Spiegel was murdered by the Nazis in 1942, but the
rediscovery of her poetry-rich diary has some people referring to her as
“Poland’s Anne Frank. ”Spiegel’s diary will soon be published in English for the
first time, along with the release of a documentary film based on her life.
Although the diary was already published in Poland, something of a mystery still
hovers over the Jewish teen, whose name does not appear on Holocaust victim
lists in Poland or Israel. Born in 1924, Spiegel grew up on her father’s estate
near Poland’s border with Romania. Her younger sister, Ariana, was a child film
star and the sisters lived with their grandparents in sleepy Przemyśl, a border
town along the San River. When she began keeping her diary at the end of 1939,
Spiegel explained, “I simply seek a friend.” Her first entry resembles Anne
Frank’s initial essays, offering a candid account of her loneliness. Also quite
similar to early entries in “The Diary of a Young Girl,” Spiegel includes biting
commentary on her classmates. Alongside an active social life and her writing,
Spiegel dabbled in illustrating. A few months before Nazi Germany’s invasion of
Poland, she fell in love with a student named Zygmunt Schwarzer, whose father
was a well-known physician. Torture and degradation on the streets took place
daily during those years and Spiegel wrote in the spring of 1942, “Oh God
Almighty! Help us! Take care of us, give us your blessing.” On July 15, the
Nazis established a ghetto in Przemysl. Before long, 24,000 Jews from the region
were crammed into a small part of town. “Remember this day; remember it well,
you will tell generations to come about it one day,” wrote Spiegel after the
ghetto was fenced off. A few days later, on July 30, Spiegel was captured along
with Schwarzer’s parents and shot. “Three shots! Three lives lost! It happened
last night at 10:30pm. Fate has decided to take my dearest ones away from me,”
wrote her friend Schwarzer. He did not write these words in his own journal, but
in Spiegel’s yellow-paged diary, which had been entrusted to him a few days
prior.
Q16. Which fact about Renia remains unknown till today?
a. Who wrote the diary of Renia
b. Her age when she died
c. How she died and the year of her death
d. Why she is not listed among the Holocaust victims
Q17. Select the word which means the same as the group of words given.
A person who cannot read or write
a. illogical
b. illegitimate
c. illiterate
d. illegal
Q18. Rearrange the sentences given in a logical sequence.
1. On Wednesday the gang was at its hideout in Jaitpur after stealing the
phone.
2. Snatching a phone from a brave woman proved dear to a gang of phone
snatchers.
3. Within minutes of receiving the complaint the police arrived, arrested the
snatchers and put them behind bars.
4. They had no inkling that the woman they had targeted a few minutes back had
traced her phone to this hideout.
a. CDBA
b. ADBC
c. BADC
d. BCDA
Q19. Select the correct Indirect form of the sentence.
The chef said, "You will like the potato chops I've cooked for you."
a. The chef said that I would like the potato chops she had cooked for me.
b. The chef said to me you will like the potato chops I've cooked for you.
c. The chef says you will like the potato chops I've cooked for you.
d. The chef said I will like the potato chops she had cooked for me.
Q20. Select the most appropriate meaning of the underlined phrase in the
given sentence.
After its recent defeat in the university elections, the party has decided to go
back to the drawing board.
a. Draw ideas on a board and share them
b. Start planning again as the earlier plan failed
c. Defend the old plans by explaining them to the people
d. Start drawing again and make the pictures perfect
Q21. Select the correct Passive Voice form of the sentence.
The young man was playing a guitar at the restaurant.
a. A guitar at the restaurant is being played by a young man
b. A guitar was being played at the restaurant by the young man.
c. A young man was being played by a guitar at the restaurant
d. A guitar had been played by the young man at the restaurant
Q22. Select the most appropriate synonym of the given word.
CORRIDOR
a. Chamber
b. Passage
c. Code
d. Margin
Q23. Select the most appropriate word/s to substitute the underlined group
of words.
The teacher returned Ravi’s assignment saying that his handwriting was unclear
and not understandable.
a. Ineligible
b. Illegible
c. Inflexible
d. Impossible
Q24. Fill in the blank with the correct option.
While I was in the mall I _____ a friend whom I hadn't met for five years.
a. Ran off
b. Run down
c. Ran up
d. Ran into
Q25. Select the correct Indirect form of the sentence.
Anil said, “I want you to help me with my plants.”
a. Anil said that he wanted me to help him with his plants.
b. Anil said that he wanted to help me with my plants.
c. Anil says that he wants to help me with my plants.
d. Anil said that i wanted you to help me with my plants.
