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 Select the most appropriate meaning of the underlined idiom in the given sentence.
A mountaineer has to walk the tightrope as a small slip can prove to be fatal.
1. be very cautious
2. be well trained
3. be very nervous
4. be an expert
Q.2 Select the word which means the same as the group of words given.
A place for storing guns and military equipment.
1. aviary
2. archive
3. apiary
4. arsenal
Q.3 Select the correct passive form of the given sentence.
She never trusted anyone.
1. Anyone is not trusted by her.
2. Her trust was never for anyone.
3. She was never trusted by anyone.
4. No one was ever trusted by her.
Q.4 Given below are four jumbled sentences. Select the option that gives their correct order.
A. Then, they spread as the unmined coal starts burning with oxygen drawn from pores and mine shafts.
B. An entire township- Jharia is to be relocated because of the uncontrollable underground fires.
C. These fires start mostly from burning trash close to coal pits.
D. This is a grave threat as poisonous fumes of carbon monoxide rise up from underground fires.
1. CDAB
2. BCAD
3. BDAC
4. DCAB
Q.5 Select the most appropriate meaning of the underlined idiom in the given sentence.
The boss is going to blow his top when he discovers the blatant mistake in the balance sheet.
1. be very angry
2. be very embarrassed
3. dismiss from a job
4. attack fiercely
Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions based on it.
The greatest thing this age can be proud of is the birth of man in the consciousness of men. In his drunken orgies of power and national pride man may flout and jeer at it. when[m1] organised national selfishness, racial antipathy and commercial self-seeking begin to display their ugly deformities in all their nakedness, then comes the time for man to know that his salvation is not in political organisations and extended trade relations, not in any mechanical re-arrangement of social system but in a deeper transformation of life, in the liberation of consciousness in love, in the realisation of God in man.
Q-6. In this passage, the phrase "God in man" implies
A. God having assumed the shape of a man
B. neither fully godly nor fully human
C. man being transformed into God
D. the divine qualities in a man
Q-7. The author uses the expression 'ugly deformities' to show his indignation at
A. political organisations
B. the liberation of human consciousness
C. selfishness and materialism of the people
D. the drunken orgies of power
Q-8. According to the author, "salvation" of human beings lies-
A. in the extended trade relations
B. in the spiritual transformation of life
C. in the liberation of consciousness in love
D. both (B) and (C)
Q-9. In the phrase "the birth of Man in the consciousness of men", MAN stands for
A. power and arrogance
B. egocentricity
C. noble human qualities
D. an idealistic notion of the human self
Q-10. People jeer at the 'birth of Man' in the human consciousness when they
A. begin to think of themselves as God
B. become power hungry
C. restructure the social system
D. become mentally deranged
Answers:
1. (1) walk the tightrope - To do something that requires extreme care and precision.
2. (4) Aviary (n)- a large cage, building, or enclosure for keeping birds in.
Apiary (n)- a place where bees are kept.
3. (4)
4. (2) The passage is based on ‘uncontrollable underground fires’.
5. (1) blow his top – to be very angry
6. (4) ‘God’ implies here ‘good qualities’.
7. (3) Ugly’ implies here ‘bad qualities’.
8. (4) Both (B) and (C) as the answer lie in the last line of the passage.
9. (4) The answer can only be inferred by understanding the passage.
10. (2) The answer lies in the second line of the passage.
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