SSC CGL & CHSL Quiz : English Language | 15-02-2020

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 the following passage, some of the words have been left out. Read the passage carefully and choose the correct answer to each question out of the four alternatives and fill in the blanks:

I will always __(A)__ the trip I made to the zoo in 1988. It was then I __(B)__ measles from one of my friends, Peter, who had __(C)__ along too. Before he met us at the zoo, he had gone to visit his cousin who was __(D)__ from measles. The next day, Peter was __(E)__ of a sore throat, a bad cold and high fever. When he was diagnosed by a doctor as having measles, his parents rang me up to warn me that I had been __(F)__ to measles too. By the next day, I was also showing/ having the same symptoms. My doctor __(G)__ me to stay at home for the next two weeks. I was quite pleased with the doctor ’s institution. I spent the time reading story-books, __(H)__ to the music and watching television. When I get bored, I would call up Peter, who also had to spend two weeks at home, for a chat. Unfortunately, the two weeks passed too/by quickly. When we __(I)__ to school, we had to work twice as hard to __(J)__ with the classmates. It was definitely not worth the ‘holiday’.

1. Choose the correct option for (A)

(a) be remember

(b) remembering

(c) remember

(d) remembered

2. Choose the correct option for (B)

(a) caught

(b) catching

(c) catch

(d) will catch

3. Choose the correct option for (C)

(a) going

(b) go

(c) went

(d) gone

4. Choose the correct option for (D)

(a) removed

(b) recovering

(c) recover

(d) revealed

5. Choose the correct option for (E)

(a) complaining

(b) explained

(c) complained

(d) complain

6. Choose the correct option for (F)

(a) expose

(b) exposable

(c) exposed

(d) exposing

7. Choose the correct option for (G)

(a) is advised

(b) advising

(c) advise

(d) advised

8. Choose the correct option for (H)

(a) listen

(b) listened

(c) listening

(d) looking

9. Choose the correct option for (I)

(a) return

(b) returned

(c) returning

(d) is returned

10. Choose the correct option for (J)

(a) catch up

(b) catch

(c) caught up

(d) catching up

ANSWER :

1. (c) ‘Will + v1’ is the correct structure.

2. (a) According to ‘the past incidence’.

3. (d) ‘had + V3’ is the correct structure.

4. (b) ‘was + V(ing)’ is the correct structure in active expression.

5. (a) Was/were + V (ing)’ is the correct structure in active expression.

6. (c) Has/have been+ V3’ is the correct structure in passive expression.

7. (d) To express the past incidence’ advised’ is only correct, for ‘ advising’ helping verb ‘was, were is required so that is not the right choice.

8. (c) As per the rule of ‘parallelism’.

9. (b) To express the past incidence’ returned’ is only correct, for ‘ returning’ helping verb ‘was, were is required so that is not the right choice.

10. (a) ‘to+ v1’: generally, is the correct structure.