So, here we will provide you a set of 10 questions of English Language, important for SSC CHSL exam.
Directions (1-5): Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below it.
In the world have me-made health an end in itself? We have forgotten that health is really a means to enable a person to do his work and do it well .A lot of modern medicine is concerned with promotion of good health .Many patients as well as many physicians pay very little attention to health: but very much attention to health makes some people imagine that they are ill. Our great concern with health is shown by the medical columns in newspapers, the health articles in popular and the popularity on television programme and all those books on medicine. We talk about health all the time yet for the most only result is more people with imaginary illness. The healthy man should not be wasting any time talking about health. He should be using health for work the work he does and the work that good health makes possible.
Q.1 Modern medicine is primarily concerned with-
A. promotion of good health
B. people suffering from imaginary illness
C. people suffering from real illness
D. increased efficiency in work
Q.2 A healthy man should be concerned with-
A. his work which good health makes possible
B. looking after his health
C. his health which makes work possible
D. talking about health
Q.3 Talking about health all the time makes people-
A. always suffer from imaginary illness
B. sometimes suffer from imaginary illness
C. rarely suffer from imaginary illness
D. often suffer from imaginary illness
Q.4 The passage suggests that
A. health is an end in itself
B. health is a blessing
C. health is only a means to an end
D. we should not talk about health
Q.5 The passage tells us -
A. how medicine should be manufactured
B. what a healthy man should or should not do
C. what the television programme should be about
D. how best to imagine illness
Directions (6-10): In the questions given below choose the word most opposite in meaning to the given word and mark it in the Answer-Sheet.
Q.6 Susceptible
A. incredible
B. immune
C. predictable
D. unpredictable
Q.7 Frugal
A. miserly
B. gluttonous
C. plentiful
D. extravagant
Q.8 Cessation
A. commencement
B. renewal
C. ongoing
D. interruption
Q.9 Procrastinate
A. experiment
B. expedite
C. exclude
D. propagate
Q.10 Potent
A. inefficient
B. soft
C. fragile
D. strong
Answers
Q.1 (B)
Q.2 (A)
Q.3 (D)
Q.4 (A)
Q.5 (B)
Q.6 (B)
Q.7 (D)
Q.8 (A)
Q.9 (B)
Q.10 (C)
