SSC CHSL (Tier - 1) Online Exam Paper - 2016 "held on 18 January 2017" Evening Shift

(English Comprehension)

QID : 276 - Select the antonym of
to entrust

Options:
1) to confer
2) to allot
3) to rely
4) to deny

Correct Answer: to deny

QID : 277 - Select the word with the correct spelling.

Options:
1) chaastity
2) collapse
3) radialy
4) scansione

Correct Answer: collapse

QID : 278 - Select the synonym of
subsidy

Options:
1) endowment
2) forfeit
3) mulct
4) reward

Correct Answer: endowment

QID : 279 - In the following question, out of the four alternatives, select the alternative which is the best substitute of the phrase.
liquids forming a homogeneous mixture when added together

Options:
1) irascible
2) crucible
3) miscible
4) risible

Correct Answer: miscible

QID : 280 - Improve the bracketed part of the sentence.
It is wishful thinking that you can improve the situation by doing (with) such people.

Options:
1) away of
2) away with
3) from
4) no improvement

Correct Answer: away with

QID : 281 - Rearrange the parts of the sentence in correct order.
It is not uncommon
P-to push for public expenditure
Q-at a time
R-when private investment sentiment is weak

Options:
1) QRP
2) PQR
3) RPQ
4) QPR

Correct Answer: PQR

QID : 282 - Select the synonym of
digress

Options:
1) sojourn
2) meander
3) tarriance
4) regress

Correct Answer: meander

QID : 283 - In the following question, a sentence has been given in Active/Passive voice. Out of four alternatives suggested, select the one, which best expresses the same sentence in Passive/Active voice.
Can we send this container by ship?

Options:
1) Can this container be sent by ship?
2) Could this container be sent by ship by us?
3) Could have we sent this container by ship?
4) This container can be sent by ship. Can we?

Correct Answer: Can this container be sent by ship?

QID : 284 - In the following question, out of the four alternatives, select the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the idiom/phrase.
Shooting fish in a barrel

Options:
1) To do random acts of stupidity
2) To behave in a cruel manner
3) Ridiculously easy
4) To escape through a narrow opening

Correct Answer: Ridiculously easy

QID : 285 - Select the word with the correct spelling.

Options:
1) brunete
2) nemonic
3) abhorred
4) carammels

Correct Answer: abhorred

QID : 286 - In the following question, a sentence has been given in Direct/Indirect speech. Out of the four alternatives suggested, select the one, which best express the same sentence in Indirect/Direct speech.
"How often do you go to the gym?” said Deepak to Juned.

Options:
1) Deepak asked Juned that how often he goes to the gym.
2) Deepak asked Juned that how often he has been going to the gym.
3) Deepak asked Juned how often he went to the gym.
4) Deepak asked Juned that how often he went to the gym.

Correct Answer: Deepak asked Juned how often he went to the gym.

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QID : 287 - 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'.
Although of good(A)/rains the production(B)/of food grains fell.(C)/No error(D)

Options:
1) A
2) B
3) C
4) D

Correct Answer: A

QID : 288 - Rearrange the parts of the sentence in correct order.
District judges
P-in far-flung districts
Q-and gag orders
R-have been authorising mass blocking of online content

Options:
1) PRQ
2) PQR
3) QPR
4) RPQ

Correct Answer: PRQ

QID : 289 - 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.
State laws ____________ the sale of alcoholic beverages inside the stadium.

Options:
1) freeze
2) inhibit
3) prohibit
4) impede

Correct Answer: prohibit

QID : 290 - In the following question, out of the four alternatives, select the alternative which is the best substitute of the phrase.
to free someone or something from a constraint or difficulty

Options:
1) to exterminate
2) to expurgate
3) to intricate
4) to extricate

Correct Answer: to extricate

QID : 291 - 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 security for the Prime Minister has been _______up following the shoot out.

Options:
1) secured
2) fortified
3) strengthened
4) beefed

Correct Answer: beefed

QID : 292 - 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'.
In summer, the ponds(A)/just dry down(B)/in the scorching heat(C)/No error(D)

Options:
1) A
2) B
3) C
4) D

Correct Answer: B

QID : 293 - Select the antonym of
prestige

Options:
1) eminence
2) cachet
3) insignificance
4) kudos

Correct Answer: insignificance

QID : 294 - In the following question, out of the four alternatives, select the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the idiom/phrase.

To sleep with the fishes

Options:
1) Always be in a dream world
2) To make absurd excuses
3) To sleep peacefully
4) To be dead

Correct Answer: To be dead

QID : 295 - Improve the bracketed part of the sentence.

Don't step near the cliff's edge, else your life (might be thrown into) great peril.

Options:
1) will be in
2) will face
3) would be placed in
4) no improvement

Correct Answer: will be in

QID : 296 - 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.
This is a question that _______________ beyond rights and democracy. It plunges ___________ into the basics of what constitutes that which is social. Is not the primordialism and the ________________ of violence being used to construct a new kind of social? Are the current strategies of law enough to ponder ____________ and __________________ about such events?
This is a question that _______________ beyond rights and democracy.

Options:
1) goes
2) went
3) has gone
4) is going

Correct Answer: goes

QID : 297 - 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.

This is a question that _______________ beyond rights and democracy. It plunges ___________ into the basics of what constitutes that which is social. Is not the primordialism and the ________________ of violence being used to construct a new kind of social? Are the current strategies of law enough to ponder ____________ and __________________ about such events?
It plunges ___________ into the basics of what constitutes that which is social.

Options:
1) far
2) deep
3) wide
4) low

Correct Answer: deep

QID : 298 - 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.

This is a question that _______________ beyond rights and democracy. It plunges ___________ into the basics of what constitutes that which is social. Is not the primordialism and the ________________ of violence being used to construct a new kind of social? Are the current strategies of law enough to ponder ____________ and __________________ about such events?
the ________________ of violence being used to construct a new kind of social?

Options:
1) tact
2) finesse
3) elegance
4) banality

Correct Answer: banality

QID : 299 - 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.

This is a question that _______________ beyond rights and democracy. It plunges ___________ into the basics of what constitutes that which is social. Is not the primordialism and the ________________ of violence being used to construct a new kind of social? Are the current strategies of law enough to ponder ____________ and __________________ about such events?
Are the current strategies of law enough to ponder ____________

Options:
1) over
2) on
3) upon
4) about

Correct Answer: over

QID : 300 - 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.

This is a question that _______________ beyond rights and democracy. It plunges ___________ into the basics of what constitutes that which is social. Is not the primordialism and the ________________ of violence being used to construct a new kind of social? Are the current strategies of law enough to ponder ____________ and __________________ about such events?
_ and __________________ about such events?

Options:
1) strategise
2) plan
3) philosophise
4) brood

Correct Answer: philosophise

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