SSC CHSL (Tier - 1) Online Exam Paper - 2017 "held on 28 March 2018"

Evening Shift (English Language)

QID : 201 - 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'. 
I want you to (1)/ write an essay (2)/ which will be include in the journal. (3)/ No error (4)
Options:
1)  1
2)  2
3)  3
4)  4
Correct Answer: 3

QID : 202 - 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'.
For peace and happiness in the world, (1)/ we need to remind ourselves (2)/ of our philosophy and cultural. (3)/ No error (4)
Options:
1)  1
2)  2
3)  3
4)  4
Correct Answer: 3

QID : 203 - 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.
Anita ______ a collection of every nations’ currency.
Options:
1)  has
2)  possess
3)  is
4)  have
Correct Answer: has

QID : 204 - 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.
The bus from Haridwar to Delhi ______ at 11:15 a.m. daily.
Options:
1)  come
2)  arrived
3)  arrive
4)  arrives
Correct Answer: arrives

QID : 205 - In the following question, out of the given four alternatives, select the one which best expresses the meaning of the given word.
Noxious Options:
1)  Sterile
2)  Harmful
3)  Wholesome
4)  Curing
Correct Answer: Harmful

QID : 206 - In the following question, out of the given four alternatives, select the one which best expresses the meaning of the given word.
Herald
Options:
1)  Messenger
2)  Flock
3)  Newcomer
4)  Old
Correct Answer: Messenger

QID : 207 - In the following question, out of the given four alternatives, select the one which is opposite in meaning of the given word.
Preclude
Options:
1)  Include
2)  Prevent
3)  Impede
4)  Stop
Correct Answer: Include

QID : 208 - In the following question, out of the given four alternatives, select the one which is opposite in meaning of the given word.
Deserter
Options:
1)  Criminal
2)  Loyalist
3)  Refugee
4)  Runaway
Correct Answer: Loyalist

QID : 209 - Rearrange the parts of the sentence in correct order.
The Montreal Protocol
P : by more than 150 nations
Q : on substances that deplete the
R : Ozone layer, was signed in 1987
Options:
1)  QRP
2)  PRQ
3)  RPQ
4)  QPR
Correct Answer: QRP

QID : 210 - A sentence has been given in Active/Passive Voice. Out of the four given alternatives, select the one which best expresses the same sentence in Passive/Active Voice.

His daughter blamed him for partiality.
Options:
1)  He was blame for partiality by his daughter.
2)  He is being blamed for partiality by his daughter.
3)  He was being blamed for partiality by his daughter.
4)  He was blamed for partiality by his daughter.
Correct Answer: He was blamed for partiality by his daughter.
 
QID : 211 - A sentence has been given in Direct/Indirect Speech. Out of the four given alternatives, select the one which best expresses the same sentence in Indirect/Direct Speech.
Pooja said, “I write a novel.”
Options:
1)  Pooja says she wrote a novel.
2)  Pooja said that she wrote a novel.
3)  Pooja wrote a novel.
4)  A novel was written by Pooja.
Correct Answer: Pooja said that she wrote a novel. 

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QID : 212 - In the following question, a word has been written in four different ways out of which only one is correctly spelt. Select the correctly spelt word.
Options:
1)  Fallacoius
2)  Falacious
3)  Fallacious
4)  Facllacous
Correct Answer: Fallacious

QID : 213 - 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.

Now we do talk first about the disease in cases of bodily breakdown; and that for ________ excellent reason. Because, __________ there may be doubt about the way in which the body broke down, there is ____________ doubt at all about the shape in which it should be built up again. No doctor ___________ to produce a new kind of man, with a new arrangement of eyes or limbs. The hospital, by ____________, may send a man home with one leg less: but it will not (in a creative rapture) send him home with one leg extra. Medical science is content with the normal human body, and only seeks to restore it.

and that for ________ excellent reason.
Options:
1)  a
2)  an
3)  at
4)  to
Correct Answer: an

QID : 214 - 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.

Now we do talk first about the disease in cases of bodily breakdown; and that for ________ excellent reason. Because, __________ there may be doubt about the way in which the body broke down, there is ____________ doubt at all about the shape in which it should be built up again. No doctor ___________ to produce a new kind of man, with a new arrangement of eyes or limbs. The hospital, by ____________, may send a man home with one leg less: but it will not (in a creative rapture) send him home with one leg extra. Medical science is content with the normal human body, and only seeks to restore it.

Because, __________ there may be doubt
Options:
1)  though
2)  through
3)  thorough
4)  thought
Correct Answer: though

QID : 215 - 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.

Now we do talk first about the disease in cases of bodily breakdown; and that for ________ excellent reason. Because, __________ there may be doubt about the way in which the body broke down, there is ____________ doubt at all about the shape in which it should be built up again. No doctor ___________ to produce a new kind of man, with a new arrangement of eyes or limbs. The hospital, by ____________, may send a man home with one leg less: but it will not (in a creative rapture) send him home with one leg extra. Medical science is content with the normal human body, and only seeks to restore it.

there is ____________ doubt at all about the shape
Options:
1)  none
2)  no
3)  never
4)  nothing
Correct Answer: no

QID : 216 - 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.

Now we do talk first about the disease in cases of bodily breakdown; and that for ________ excellent reason. Because, __________ there may be doubt about the way in which the body broke down, there is ____________ doubt at all about the shape in which it should be built up again. No doctor ___________ to produce a new kind of man, with a new arrangement of eyes or limbs. The hospital, by ____________, may send a man home with one leg less: but it will not (in a creative rapture) send him home with one leg extra. Medical science is content with the normal human body, and only seeks to restore it.

No doctor ___________ to produce a new kind
Options:
1)  proposes
2)  propose
3)  proposing
4)  proposed
Correct Answer: proposes

QID : 217 - 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.

Now we do talk first about the disease in cases of bodily breakdown; and that for ________ excellent reason. Because, __________ there may be doubt about the way in which the body broke down, there is ____________ doubt at all about the shape in which it should be built up again. No doctor ___________ to produce a new kind of man, with a new arrangement of eyes or limbs. The hospital, by ____________, may send a man home with one leg less: but it will not (in a creative rapture) send him home with one leg extra. Medical science is content with the normal human body, and only seeks to restore it.

The hospital, by ____________, may send a man
Options:
1)  necessary
2)  necessarily
3)  necessity
4)  necessaries
Correct Answer: necessity

QID : 218 - In the following question, out of the four alternatives, select the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the idiom/phrase.

Wine and dine
Options:
1)  Get drunk before dinner.
2)  A place where both alcohol and food is served.
3)  Live a hedonistic life.
4)  When somebody is treated to an expensive meal.
Correct Answer: When somebody is treated to an expensive meal.

QID : 219 - In the following question, out of the four alternatives, select the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the idiom/phrase.

Cross your fingers
Options:
1)  Do nothing and hope that everything will fall in its place automatically.
2)  To express disapproval or dissatisfaction.
3)  Tell others that you will approve only on certain conditions.
4)  To hope that things will happen in the way that you want them to.
Correct Answer: To hope that things will happen in the way that you want them to.

QID : 220 - In the following question, out of the four alternatives, select the alternative which is the best substitute of the words/sentence.

A payment given for professional services that are rendered nominally without charge
Options:
1)  Honorarium
2)  Penalty
3)  Forfeit
4)  Retribution
Correct Answer: Honorarium

QID : 221 - In the following question, out of the four alternatives, select the alternative which is the best substitute of the words/sentence.

Change in form, nature, or substance
Options:
1)  Resolute
2)  Immutable
3)  Intrepid
4)  Transmute
Correct Answer: Transmute

QID : 222 - 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".

The world we (is living) in is straight out of a dystopian novel.
Options:
1)  was living
2)  are live
3)  are living
4)  no improvement
Correct Answer: are living

QID : 223 - 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".

He began to ask about his enemies who (had been hunting) him.
Options:
1)  is been hunting
2)  was been hunting
3)  had been hunted
4)  no improvement
Correct Answer: no improvement

QID : 224 - 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.

Even our own languages
A-it that the native speakers hardly
B-have contributed words to
C-consider foreign anymore
Options:
1)  ACB
2)  ABC
3)  CAB
4)  BAC
Correct Answer: BAC

QID : 225 - In the following question, four words are given out of which one word is correctly spelt. Select the correctly spelt word.
Options:
1)  perennialy
2)  perenially
3)  perennially
4)  perenialy
Correct Answer: perennially

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