So, here we will provide you a set of 10 questions of English Language, important for SSC CHSL exam.
Directions (1-5): In questions given below, a part of the sentence is underlined. Below are given alternatives to the underlined part at (A), (B) and (C) which may improve the sentence. Choose the correct alternative. In case no improvement is needed your answer is (D).
Q.1 He is too important for tolerating any delay.
a) to tolerate
b) to tolerating
c) at tolerating
d) No improvement
Q.2 I need not offer any explanation regarding this incident - my behaviour is speaking itself.
a) will speak to itself
b) speaks for itself
c) has been speaking
d) No improvement
Q.3 The population of Tokyo is greater than that of any other town in the world.
a) greater than any other
b) greater than all other
c) greatest among any other
d) No improvement
Q.4 The performance of our players was rather worst than I had expected.
a) bad as I had expected
b) worse than I had expected
c) worst than was expected
d) No improvement
Q.5 Why did you not threw the bag away?
a) did you not throw
b) had you not threw
c) did you not thrown
d) No improvement
Directions (6-10): Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below it.
The artificial intelligence quotient should seek to replace the time tested IQ as a measure of mental ability which is perfectly in consonance with the present day standards in a plastic society. However, the battle over grey cells whether in human or mechanical minds, whose latest round has found Uncle Sam shedding crocodile tears over Japan’s failure to deliver on its promise to produce a fifth generation computer, may find the Asian tiger cubs- The under-35 Japanese researchers having the last laugh. For, though all the boastful Tokyo talk a decade ago to build low process computers to process knowledge and merely numbers which is all the silicon valley chips supposedly do-has remained just talk, the 180 young scientists in the 10-year venture have nevertheless made the big brains at silicon valley look rather silly with their product which has a yen for logical programming. The jubilation in the valley may turn to depression when the inexorable logic of this development pulls down Washington from its pedestal of super computer supremacy.
Q.6 Asian Tiger cubs are -
a) young Japanese researchers
b) mechanical minds
c) the big brains at Silicon Valley
d) fifth generation computers
Q.7 Uncle Sam reacts to their failure with
a) Sorrow
b) depression
c) jubilation
d) insincere sorrow
Q.8 What have the cubs failed to produce?
a) Numbers processing computer
b) The fifth generation computer
c) A plastic society
d) Grey cells
Q.9 What have they succeeded in producing?
a) Modified cells
b) A fifth generation computer
c) A product which has a yen for logical programming
d) A knowledge processing computer
Q.10 How is their success likely to affect Washington’s supremacy?
a) It is likely to make it look silly
b) It is likely to dislodge it
c) It is likely to have the last laugh
d) It is likely to produce jubilation in the valley
Answers :-
Q.1 (a)
Q.2 (b)
Q.3 (d)
Q.4 (b)
Q.5 (a)
Q.6 (a)
Q.7 (d)
Q.8 (d)
Q.9 (c)
Q.10 (b)
