SSC CGL & MTS Quiz : English Language | 14 -02-2021

Dear Readers,

As SSC CGL & MTS notification is out and candidates have started their preparation for this exam. Mahendras also has started special quizzes for this examination. This series of quizzes are based on the latest pattern of the SSC CGL & MTS  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.

1-5. Which best expresses the meaning of the Idiom/phrases and mark your Answer.

1 The project is carried over to this year, and we need to keep the ball rolling.

A. to continue the work

B. more information

C. to do better

D. new strategies

2 The host team bore the palm in the league matches.

A. played quite well

B. was victorious

C. was defeated

D. played a very boring match

3 Just keep your wig on. Everything will be alright.

A. Hold on to your wig so it won’t fall off

B. Get another hair cut

C. Calm down

D. Take off your wig

4 Parents pay through their nose for their children’s education.

A. by taking loans

B. an extremely high price

C. grudgingly

D. willingly

5 Monica’s habit of picking holes in every relationship is very irksome

A. admiring people

B. finding fault

C. criticizing people

D. arguing with people

6-10. In the following questions, a part of the sentence is underlined below are given alternatives to the underlined part at (A), (B), (C) which may improve the sentence. Choose the correct alternative. In case no improvement is needed your answer is (D).

6 His life is hanging with a thread.

A. from

B. by

C. to

D. No improvement

7 After twenty years of exile, the prisoner was in the end of his tether.

A. on

B. though

C. at

D. No improvement

8 Grandfather is often so tired that he drops of in his armchair.

A. slides away

B. falls out

C. slips in

D. No improvement

9 The court was forced to respect the profundity of the learned judge’s knowledge.

A. probity

B. proximity

C. prodigality

D. No improvement

10 He has lost his nearly all many pets.

A. all his nearly many pets

B. his many pets nearly all of them

C. nearly all his many pets

D. No improvement

Answers:-

Q.1 (A)

Q.2 (B)

Q.3 (C)

Q.4 (B)

Q.5 (B)

Q.6 (B)

Q.7 (C)

Q.8 (D)

Q.9 (D)

Q.10 (D)