SSC CGL Quiz : English Language | 29.11.19

As SSC CGL 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 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.

Directions (1-5): Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below it.

In the world have we 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. taling about health 

Q.3 Talking about health all the time makes people- 

A. always suffer from imaginery illness 

B. sometimes suffer from imaginery illness 

C. rarely suffer from imaginery illness 

D. often suffer from imaginery 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

Q6-10. The 1st and the last part of the sentence/ paragraph are numbered I and 6. The rest of the sentence/paragraph is split into four parts and named P, Q, R and S. These four parts are not given in their proper order. Read the sentence/paragraph and find out which of the four combinations is correct and mark your answer. 

Q6. 1. The factor that besets India’s growth is population explosion.

P. Sometimes religion also has role to play in this.

Q. So many factors contribute to the rise in population.

R. There has been phenomenal growth in population over the last century.

S. They are people’s ignorance and early marriages.

6. Therefore, if we do not control birth, India’s growth in every other facet of life will be offset by the steep increase in population.

A. PRQS

B. QRSP

C. RQSP

D. RPQS

Q7. 1 . Whatever be the cause

P. and if that is not checked

Q. the people who had mingled with Indian society

R. are very slowly dying out

S. like sugar and milk

6. Indian society will certainly lose.

A. PSRQ

B. RQSP

C. QSRP

D. QSPR

Q8. 1. Climate change due

P. to rice production

Q. causing changes in rainfall

R. is the new challenge

S. to global warming

6. and a matter of concern for agrarians ocieties

A. SPQR

B. RQSP

C. SQRP

D. PSQR

Q9. 1. Continuous reports from doctors

P. how people live and what they eat

Q. who are measuring the incidence of heart attack

R. disclose the pattern linking

S. all over the world

6. with the number of heart attack they have.

A. QSRP

B. PSRQ

C. RQPS

D. SPRQ

Q10. 1. Lightning is simply a large electrical

P. Charges jumping from one cloud to

Q. Earth. This occurs because difference positive

R. spark. It is caused by electric

5. another, or from a cloud to the

6. and negative charges are created between clouds.

A. RPSQ

B. SQPR

C. SRQP

D. QSPR

Answers:

Q.1 (B) 

Q.2 (A) 

Q.3 (D) 

Q.4 (A) 

Q.5 (B) 

Q6. (C)

Q7. (C)

Q8. (C)

Q9.  (A)

Q10. (A)