So, here we will provide you a set of 10 questions of English Language, important for SSC CHSL exam.
Directions (1-5): In the following questions sentences are given with blanks to be filled in with an appropriate word(s). Four alternatives are suggested for each question. Choose the correct alternative out of the four and mark your answer.
Q.1 Would you mind _______ to the Principal how the trouble started?
a) talking
b) remarking
c) telling
d) explaining
Q.2 Please do not ________ the offer made by the chairman.
a) refrain
b) refuse
c) refute
d) refuge
Q.3 It ________ to me that she was incurable.
a) happened
b) occurred
c) flashed
d) suggested
Q.4 I ________ he has been caught up in a traffic jam.
a) suspect
b) imagine
c) suppose
d) speculate
Q.5 During Diwali the shops are ________ of people.
a) full
b) busy
c) crowded
d) bubbling
Directions (6-10): Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below it.
S. N. Bose's experimental skill was not confined to physics alone. His energy has been channelized in several directions. One direction is which his energy flowed more consistently than in any other was the popularisation of science. In a newly independent country like India, determined to develop her industries as quickly as possible, there was every danger of leadership in scientific research falling into the hands of those whom C. P. Snow has called 'Slide Rule' scientists. As a safeguard against this, even before independence, Bose found a scientific journal in Bengali, Bijnan Parichaya, to spread scientific knowledge among the common people.
Q.6 Bose could allow his energy to flow successfully in several directions. Bose was thus-
a) a vivacious man
b) an energetic man
c) a versatile man
d) a virulent man
Q.7 S. N. Bose made a major contribution to the spread of scientific knowledge among common people-
a) By channelizing his energies in several directions.
b) By consistently working for the popularisation of science.
c) By becoming a 'slide-rule' scientist.
d) By founding a scientific journal in Bengali.
Q.8 It is learnt from the passage that India, immediately after becoming independent, sought to progress-
a) by means of industrialisation
b) by means of popularisation of science
c) by encouraging scientist like S. N. Bose
d) by offering the leadership of scientific research to slide-rule scientist
Q.9 A 'slide-rule' scientist is likely to be interested in -
a) spreading scientific knowledge among common people
b) diverting his energy in several channels
c) depriving common people of scientific knowledge
d) carrying on scientific research on stereotyped ideas
Q.10 S. N. Bose's scientific journal Binjnan Parichaya must have come out.
a) before 1947
b) after 1947
c) before 1947 and 1957
d) after 1957
Answers
Q.1 (d)
Q.2 (b)
Q.3 (c)
Q.4 (a)
Q.5 (c)
Q.6 (c)
Q.7 (b)
Q.8 (a)
Q.9 (d)
Q.10 (a)
