SSC CGL & MTS Quiz : English Language | 14-06-2021

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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 In the following question 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.

1.His ---------- of the topics was so good that students had few doubts to raise at the end.

A. Handling

B. Clarity

C. Exposure

D. Exposition

2.I request you to ------- your crime.

A. Apologise

B. Agree

C. Confess

D. Pardon

3.I am given to ------- that you are going abroad.

A. Understand

B. Learn

C. Think

D. Apprehend

4.The tyrant ------ anyone whom he regarded as a rival.

A. Massacared

B. Killed

C. Exterminated

D. Slaughtered

5.Through they didnot speak to each other much,there was a -------- understanding between them.

A. Placid

B. Contractual

C. Verbal

D. Tacit

Read the following passage carefully and answer the question given below it.

Something is radically wrong with the entire structure of human relationships that makes man delight in killing man,whether it be in the name of civilization or religion or anything else.Two wrongs do not make a right, hatred must beget hatred. It is this fundamental truth that women have got to bring home to the people in their respective countries.No peace treaties can avail that have revenge as their basis and self righteous arrogance and hypocrisy in the so called victors.But women are the nature preservers of life.

6.Which of the following expresses most accurately the idea contained in the opening sentence of the passage?

A. Man destroying another man is a painful practise.

B. A social structure that permits people to kill each other for religion is inherently rotten.

C. It is strange that one religion encourages its followers of another religion.

D. It is wrong on man's part to derive pleasure out of killing others for any motive whatsoever.

7.The expression " Two wrongs do not make a right" means that

A. A wrong action in retaliation does not mend matters.

B. Harted destroys the person who perpetrates it.

C. A tit for tat policy aggravates hatred.

D. Even repeated assertions of a wrong statement donot make it right.

8.Which of the following statement is not implied in the passage?

A. It is human tendency to kill others professing different religion

B. It is the duty of women to foster peace and harmony.

C. Peace treaties among nations tend to establish peace in the world.

D. If you hate someone,he is bound to respond with the same feeling.

9.Which word is opposite in meaning to 'preserver' as used in the passage?

A. Enemy

B. Destroyer

C. Rival

D. Belligerent

10.Which of the following would sum up most suitably the central idea of the passage?

A. The role of women in the world of hatred and violence.

B. Man's instinct of destroying others.

C. Hatred leads to further hatred.

D. The significance of peace treaties

Answers:-

Q.1 (D)

Q.2 (C)

Q.3 (A)

Q.4 (C)

Q.5 (D)

Q.6 (D)

Q.7 (A)

Q.8 (C)

Q.9 (B)

Q.10 (A)