As SSC CGL & CHSL notification is out and candidates have started their preparation for this exam. Mahendras also has started special quizzes for this examination. This series of the quizzes is based on the latest pattern of the SSC CGL/CHSL examination. Regular practice of the questions included in the quizzes will boost up your preparations and it will be very helpful in scoring good marks in the examination.
Q.1 In the following question, select the correct indirect form of the given sentence.
"I am not happy about the announcement," Bob Tilman said.
A Bob Tilman confessed that he was not happy about the announcement.
B Bob Tilman confessed that he is not happy about the announcement.
C Bob Tilman told that he was not happy about the announcement.
D Bob Tilman says that he was not happy at the announcement.
Q.2 Given below are four sentences, three of which, are jumbled. Pick the option that gives the correct order.
A. Jamshed ji Tata was born in 1839 in a traditional Parsi family.
B. Then worked in trading for some years in China and the UK.
C. He was a great believer in technology and revolutionized the Tata Textile Mills.
D. He started his career as an apprentice in his father's store.
A ACBD
B ACDB
C ADCB
D ADBC
Q.3 In the following question, select the most appropriate meaning of the idiom given below:
Straight from the horse's mouth
A hear something from someone who has many followers on social media
B hear something from someone who has direct, personal knowledge
C get information from a popular television channel
D believe someone who is very confident
Q.4 Given below are four sentences, three of which, are jumbled. Pick the option that gives the correct order.
A. The Qutub Minar is one of the most important monuments in Delhi.
B. Was it just built by a king to please himself or is there a reason behind its construction?
C. It towers over the city like a sentinel.
D. But if we look at its height, one wonders why it was built.
A ADBC
B ACDB
C ABDC
D ACBD
Read the following passage and answer the questions.
Where is this going?' That is the question at the heart of River of Life, River of Death, as author Victor Mallet travels the length of the Ganges. Beginning at its ice cave source in the Himalayan foothills he follows the water through the holy confluence at Allahabad. The spindly banks of Varanasi city and onwards to the delta in Bangladesh where in its parting gift to the land the river spews millions of tons of fertile silt on to the rice fields of Bengal and the mangroves of the Sundarbans. It is the same question he asks about the treatment of the Ganges both good and bad. The river leads a double life being the most worshipped waterway in the world and also one of the most polluted. The Ganges and its tributaries are now subject to sewage pollution that is half a million times over the Indian recommended limit for bathing in places not to mention the unchecked runoff from heavy metals, fertilizers, carcinogens and the occasional corpse. As Mallet observes the danger of contamination does not put off the millions of revellers at Kumbh Mela. It is a Hindu pilgrimage thought to be the largest gathering of people anywhere described to him as a spiritual expo... where you will be talking one moment to a visiting Mumbai businessman and next to a marijuana-stoned yogi. He suggests the pollution might never deter them. He is told by one bather: we do believe that anyone who takes in this water he becomes pure also because it is always pure. There is a collective sense that the spirit of the Ganges is so sacred that she can never be spoiled. He informs the reader in the preface — almost everyone knows the problems are real. His journey down the Ganges is one of investigation rather than discovery. Mallet investigates the potential of the river to become a cradle for antibiotic-resistant infections — or superbugs — that could be exported to other regions by global travel. He points out that some 450 million people depend on the Ganges water basin for survival, and many more for its religious and cultural importance. The Ganges is a goddess and a mother to everyone from the politician in the north, to the humblest Hindu living in the far south or running a motel in the United States. There is hope. Mallet draws some parallels to clean-ups of the Rhine and the Thames. He points to the design feat of Kumbh Mela, which as 'a pop-up megacity' for two million pilgrims has better infrastructure and waste treatment than many Indian cities. 'In the minds of both Indians and foreigners this raises important questions... if the authorities can build infrastructure so efficiently for this short but very large festival why can they not do the same for permanent villages and towns?’
Q.5 Which one of the options fills in the blank and completes the statement below correctly?
The average believer is of the faith-driven conviction that the river Ganges………
A shall never be the object of an investigation
B can never be spoiled
C will never infect the believer
D may never die due to pollution
Q.6 Which of the following options fills in the blank and completes the statement below correctly?
The Ganges is a mother to the devout Hindu; however, it is to the non-Hindu Indian ...... and .........
A an interesting tourist spot; a zone for adventure sports
B a spectacle: a locus for the Khumb Melas
C a cultural icon; provider of life
D a source of water; a garbage bin
Q.7 Which of the following options faithfully sums up the main ideas of the passage?
A An objective assessment of the river Ganges, life-giving and death-threatening, fosters not only faith but also hope among its admirers of its redemption in future.
B The river Ganges is a river that gives life and hopes to all but it is a pity that its abusers are not aware that they are pushing it to its extinction.
C The Ganges is multifaceted personality — venerated as a mother, it tolerates as a mother all the pollutants thrown into it.
D The Ganges is a holy river for Hindus who venerate it, live off it but also pollute it.
Q.8 Which of the options fills in the blank and completes the statement below correctly?
The river Ganges is "the most worshipped waterway in the world and also one of the most polluted" This brings to light, in reality, .........
A the contrarian nature of the average Indian
B the democratic space it provides to the CEO and the Yogi
C the dangers of bathing in the river at any place
D the double life that the river leads.
Q.9 Which of the following statements is FALSE?
A Victor Mallet asks the question 'Where is it going?' of the river Ganges which has a metaphorical relevance too.
B A clean River Ganges is as feasible as a clean River Thames or River Rhine.
C The Kumbh Mela is a witness not only to the devotion of a section of Indians but also their skills of crowd management.
D The Ganges carries superbugs and it is a problem known to all Indians.
Q.10. In the following question, select the most appropriate synonym of the given word.
DISTASTE
A neutral
B loathing
C tasteless
D banal
Solution:
1. (A) Bob Tilman confessed that he was not happy about the announcement.
2. (D) The passage is based on ‘Jamshed ji Tata’.
3. (B) Straight from the horse's mouth - From the original or most reliable source.
4. (B) The passage is based on ‘The Qutub Minar’.
5. (B) The answer lies in the fifteenth line of the passage.
6. (A) The answer can be best understood by reading the passage.
7. (C) The answer can be best understood by reading the passage.
8. (A) The answer can be best understood by reading the sixth line of the passage
9. (D) The correct statement is- the potential of the river to become a cradle for antibiotic-resistant infections — or superbugs — that could be exported to other regions by global travel
10. (B) Distaste (n)- mild dislike or aversion.
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