SSC CGL 2017 EXAM PAPER : Held on 19-AUG-2017 Shift-1 (English Comprehesion)
SSC CGL 2017 EXAM PAPER : Held on 19-AUG-2017 Shift-1
(English Comprehesion)
QID : 76 - In the following question, some part of the sentence may have errors. Find out which part of the sentence has an error and select the appropriate option. If a sentence is free from error, select 'No Error'.
The boy who (1)/ sat close him (2)/ was his son. (3)/No Error (4)
Options:
1) 1
2) 2
3) 3
4) 4
Correct Answer: 2
QID : 77 - In the following question, some part of the sentence may have errors. Find out which part of the sentence has an error and select the appropriate option. If a sentence is free from error, select 'No Error'.
When I returned I felt (1)/ a big cat brush side me (2)/ as I opened the door. (3)/No Error (4)
Options:
1) 1
2) 2
3) 3
4) 4
Correct Answer: 2
QID : 78 - In the following question, the sentence given with blank to be filled in with an appropriate word. Select the correct alternative out of the four and indicate it by selecting the appropriate option.
Ever since Anita lost her job, she has done _________ but wallow in self-pity.
Options:
1) none
2) nothing
3) no
4) never
Correct Answer: nothing
QID : 79 - In the following question, the sentence given with blank to be filled in with an appropriate word. Select the correct alternative out of the four and indicate it by selecting the appropriate option.
As I think back to my childhood, I ____________ recall the fun summers on my grandfather's farm.
Options:
1) wistfully
2) fiscally
3) hopefully
4) Awfully
Correct Answer: wistfully
QID : 80 - In the following question, out of the four alternatives, select the word similar in meaning to the word given.
Pillage
Options:
1) Bequeath
2) Consign
3) Entrust
4) Desecrate
Correct Answer: Desecrate
QID : 81 - In the following question, out of the four alternatives, select the word similar in meaning to the word given.
Cluster
Options:
1) Individual
2) Assemblage
3) Specific
4) Solitary
Correct Answer: Assemblage
QID : 82 - In the following question, out of the four alternatives, select the word opposite in meaning to the word given.
Rampart
Options:
1) Barricade
2) Fort
3) Embankment
4) Ditch
Correct Answer: Ditch
QID : 83 - In the following question, out of the four alternatives, select the word opposite in meaning to the word given.
Epidemic
Options:
1) Contagious
2) Endemic
3) Limited
4) Infectious
Correct Answer: Limited
QID : 84 - In the following question, out of the four alternatives, select the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the idiom/phrase.
To have at one's fingertips
Options:
1) To be very fast on the keyboard
2) To be adroit with a percussion musical instrument
3) Recall of factual information at one's command
4) To carefully note down minute details
Correct Answer: Recall of factual information at one's command
QID : 85 - In the following question, out of the four alternatives, select the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the idiom/phrase.
To not have a clue
Options:
1) To be extremely poor
2) To fail an examination
3) To lose confidence at the last moment
4) To not know about something
Correct Answer: To not know about something
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QID : 86 - In the following question, out of the four alternatives, select the alternative which will improve the bracketed part of the sentence. In case no improvement is needed, select "no improvement".
Since when (have to start) a business been so easy?
Options:
1) has started
2) have starting
3) has starting
4) no improvement
Correct Answer: has starting
QID : 87 - In the following question, out of the four alternatives, select the alternative which will improve the bracketed part of the sentence. In case no improvement is needed, select "no improvement".
Those films (being) made now.
Options:
1) was being
2) is being
3) are being
4) no improvement
Correct Answer: are being
QID : 88 - In the following question, out of the four alternatives, select the alternative which is the best substitute of the words/sentence.
Protection of or authority over someone
Options:
1) Autonomous
2) Tutelage
3) Nonaligned
4) Unaided
Correct Answer: Tutelage
QID : 89 - In the following question, out of the four alternatives, select the alternative which is the best substitute of the words/sentence.
Optimistic in an apparently difficult situation
Options:
1) Sanguine
2) Pallid
3) Pessimistic
4) Sallow
Correct Answer: Sanguine
QID : 90 - In the following question, four words are given out of which one word is correctly spelt. Select the correctly spelt word.
Options:
1) Actuasion
2) Actation
3) Actasion
4) Actuation
Correct Answer: Actuation
QID : 91 - In the following question, four words are given out of which one word is correctly spelt. Select the correctly spelt word.
Options:
1) Motheatan
2) Mothaten
3) Mothatan
4) Motheaten
Correct Answer: Motheaten
QID : 92 - The question below consists of a set of labelled sentences. Out of the four options given, select the most logical order of the sentences to form a coherent paragraph.
We entered, and
X-had been assigned
Y-to each of us
Z-found that a hut
Options:
1) YZX
2) YXZ
3) ZXY
4) XZY
Correct Answer: ZXY
QID : 93 - The question below consists of a set of labelled sentences. Out of the four options given, select the most logical order of the sentences to form a coherent paragraph.
The resulting brain change is
X-concomitant of
Y-the sensation
Z-regarded as the true
Options:
1) YZX
2) YXZ
3) XZY
4) ZXY
Correct Answer: ZXY
QID : 94 - In the following question, a sentence has been given in Active/Passive voice. Out of the four alternatives suggested, select the one which best expresses the same sentence in Passive/Active voice.
Who taught you to ride?
Options:
1) By whom is you taught to ride?
2) By whom were you taught to ride?
3) Riding by you was taught by who?
4) Riding by you was taught by whom?
Correct Answer: By whom were you taught to ride?
QID : 95 - In the following question, a sentence has been given in Direct/Indirect speech. Out of the four alternatives suggested, select the one which best expresses the same sentence in Indirect/Direct speech.
Sheetal said to me, "How have you solved this problem?"
Options:
1) Sheetal asked me how I had solved that problem.
2) Sheetal asked me how I have solved that problem.
3) Sheetal asked me how I had solved this problem.
4) Sheetal asked me how I have solved this problem.
Correct Answer: Sheetal asked me how I had solved that problem.
QID : 96 - In the following passage, some of the words have been left out. Read the passage carefully and select the correct answer for the given blank out of the four alternatives.
The woodpeckers of the West (with one exception) are different _______________ those of the East, and so are the flycatchers, the grosbeaks, the orioles, the tanagers, the humming-birds, _____________ many of the sparrows. ____________ of the purple and bronzed grackles (the latter are _______________ seen on the plains of Colorado, but are not common), the Rockies boast of Brewer's blackbird, _______________ habits are not as prosaic as his name would indicate.
West (with one exception) are different _______________ those of the East
Options:
1) for
2) from
3) of
4) to
Correct Answer: from
QID : 97 - In the following passage, some of the words have been left out. Read the passage carefully and select the correct answer for the given blank out of the four alternatives.
The woodpeckers of the West (with one exception) are different _______________ those of the East, and so are the flycatchers, the grosbeaks, the orioles, the tanagers, the humming-birds, _____________ many of the sparrows. ____________ of the purple and bronzed grackles (the latter are _______________ seen on the plains of Colorado, but are not common), the Rockies boast of Brewer's blackbird, _______________ habits are not as prosaic as his name would indicate.
the humming-birds, _____________ many of the sparrows.
Options:
1) and
2) because
3) but
4) if
Correct Answer: and
QID : 98 - In the following passage, some of the words have been left out. Read the passage carefully and select the correct answer for the given blank out of the four alternatives.
The woodpeckers of the West (with one exception) are different _______________ those of the East, and so are the flycatchers, the grosbeaks, the orioles, the tanagers, the humming-birds, _____________ many of the sparrows. ____________ of the purple and bronzed grackles (the latter are _______________ seen on the plains of Colorado, but are not common), the Rockies boast of Brewer's blackbird, _______________ habits are not as prosaic as his name would indicate.
____________ of the purple and bronzed grackles
Options:
1) Beside
2) Next
3) Instead
4) Near
Correct Answer: Instead
QID : 99 - In the following passage, some of the words have been left out. Read the passage carefully and select the correct answer for the given blank out of the four alternatives.
The woodpeckers of the West (with one exception) are different _______________ those of the East, and so are the flycatchers, the grosbeaks, the orioles, the tanagers, the humming-birds, _____________ many of the sparrows. ____________ of the purple and bronzed grackles (the latter are _______________ seen on the plains of Colorado, but are not common), the Rockies boast of Brewer's blackbird, _______________ habits are not as prosaic as his name would indicate.
(the latter are _______________ seen on the plains of Colorado, but are not common)
Options:
1) sometime
2) sometimes
3) at time
4) any time
Correct Answer: sometimes
QID : 100 - In the following passage, some of the words have been left out. Read the passage carefully and select the correct answer for the given blank out of the four alternatives.
The woodpeckers of the West (with one exception) are different _______________ those of the East, and so are the flycatchers, the grosbeaks, the orioles, the tanagers, the humming-birds, _____________ many of the sparrows. ____________ of the purple and bronzed grackles (the latter are _______________ seen on the plains of Colorado, but are not common), the Rockies boast of Brewer's blackbird, _______________ habits are not as prosaic as his name would indicate.
Brewer's blackbird, _______________ habits are not as prosaic
Options:
1) whose
2) who
3) whom
4) whoever
Correct Answer: whose
