SSC CGL & MTS Quiz : English Language | 23-06-2021

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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.In the following questions some have error and some have none. Find out which part of a sentence has an error and mark the answer to the appropriate letter (A),(B) and C). If there is no error, mark your answer as (D).

Give your answers (A)/in your own words (B)/ as far as practical. (C)/ no error (D)

A. A

B. B

C. C

D. D

2-6. In the following passage from question, some of the words have been left out. First read the passage over and try to understand what it is about. Then fill in the blanks with the help of the alternatives given.

Scientists have developed a new machine-learning algorithm to help robots display appropriate social behaviour in interactions with humans. Advances in artificial intelligence (AI) are making virtual and robotic assistants _____ (A) capable in performing complex tasks, researchers said. For these “smart” machines to be considered safe and trustworthy collaborators with human partners, however, robots must be able to quickly assess a given situation and apply human social norms, they said.

Now, researchers at Brown University and Tufts University in the US have created a cognitive-computational model of human norms in a representation that can be coded into machines. They developed a machine-learning algorithm that _____ (B) machines to learn norms in unfamiliar situations drawing on human data.

The project funded by the US Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency(DARPA) represents important progress towards the development of AI systems that can “intuit” how to behave in certain situations in much the way people do. “The goal of this research effort was to understand and ____ (C) human normative systems and how they guide human behaviour, so that we can set guidelines for how to design next-generation AI machines that are able to help and _____ (D) effectively with humans,” said the DARPA programme manager.

As an example in which humans intuitively apply social norms of behaviour, consider a situation in which a cell phone rings in a quiet library, researchers said. A person receiving that call would quickly try to silence the _____ (E) phone, and whisper into the phone before going outside to continue the call in a normal voice. Today, an AI phone-answering system would not automatically respond with that kind of social sensitivity.

2.Choose the correct option for (A)

A. rare

B. increasingly

C. amnesia

D. heavenly

3.Choose the correct option for (B)

A. gave

B. allows

C. revert

D. chide

4.Choose the correct option for (C)

A. formalize

B. praising

C. sour

D. ignored

5.Choose the correct option for (D)

A. interact

B. shorten

C. tirade

D. guiding

6.Choose the correct option for (E)

A. distracting

B. annoys

C. shifts

D. assemble

7-8. Which of the following best expresses the meaning of the given Idiom/phrases?

7.Quick on the trigger

A. Quick to respond

B. Making mistakes

C. Good at handling guns

D. A fast runner

8.To smell a rat

A. To discover a new trend

B. Smell of a rat

C. To suspect something wrong

D. To hope even when there is no reason for it

9-10. In the questions given below, choose the word most similar in meaning to the given word and mark your answer.

9.Baffle

A. Sorry

B. Reveal

C. Confuse

D. Deceive

10.Banish

A. Expel

B. Polish

C. Force

D. Trick

Answers:-

Q.1 (C)

Q.2 (B)

Q.3 (B)

Q.4 (A)

Q.5 (A)

Q.6 (A)

Q.7 (A)

Q.8 (C)

Q.9 (C)

Q.10 (A)