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.
In each of the following questions, choose the alternative which best expresses the meaning of Idiom/Phrase underlined in the sentence.
1. Who will believe, your cock and bull story?
(a) Made-up story
(b) Common story
(c) Ambiguous story
(d) Authentic story
2. I can't wait to put on the old feedbag.
(a) To have a discussion
(b) To have a meeting
(c) To have a meal
(d) To have an opinion
3. You can't sit on the fence any longer—you need to choose who of these two we need to fire.
(a) halting between two opinions
(b) to be defeated and dejected
(c) to be in a tricky situation
(d) to be relaxed and comfortable
4. The manager is not dismissed, but he is definitely under a cloud.
(a) under scrutiny
(b) warned severely
(c) under suspension
(d) under suspicion
5. Do not pull a long face.
(a) look dejected
(b) look happy
(c) look ugly
(d) look tired
In the following questions, the 1st and the last part of the sentence are numbered 1 and 6. The rest of the sentence is split into four parts but not given in their proper order. Read the sentence and find out which of the four combinations is correct.
6.
1. These
P. about the heavenly
Q. experiments by the scientists
R. with amazing knowledge
S. will supply us
6. bodies.
(a) PSQR
(b) PSRQ
(c) QSRP
(d) RQPS
7.
1. Over 67 years
P. but the problems
Q. have remained
R. have passed
S. of the common man
6. as daunting as ever.
(a) SRQP
(b) QSPR
(c) QPRS
(d) RPSQ
8.
1. The President
P. from Tokyo
Q. where he
R. had been meeting
S. came back
6. other world leaders.
(a) QSPR
(b) SPQR
(c) PSQR
(d) RPQS
9.
1.Man’s
P. in the modern
Q. insatiable thirst for knowledge
R. the wonderful achievements of science
S. is at the root of
6- world.
(a) QSRP
(b) PQRS
(c) SQPR
(d) RSPQ
10.
1. Today
P. by the hunters for their
Q. are trapped or killed
R. millions of wild animals
S. each year
6. skin.
(a) SPRQ
(b) RQSP
(c) QPRS
(d) PSQR
Solution:
1. (a) cock and bull story – Made-up story
2. (c) Put on the old feedbag- To have a meal
3. (a) Sit on the fence – not to make a clear choice between two possibilities.
4. (d) Under a cloud - under suspicion
5. (a) Pull a long face - look dejected
6. (c) The passage is based on ‘experiments by the scientists’.
7. (d) The passage is based on ‘persistent problems of the common man’.
8. (b) The passage is based on ‘return of the President’.
9. (a) The passage is based on ‘man’s insatiable thirst for knowledge’.
10. (b) The passage is based on the ‘killing of animals’
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