SSC CGL & MTS Quiz : English Language | 06-09-2021

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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.

Q1-5 Read the following passage carefully and answer the given questions.

“We’re safe. From this one.” That was a quote from NASA’s planetary defense officer, after a large asteroid soared narrowly — by cosmic standards — past the Earth, the closest approach by such an object in more than a decade. The asteroid, discovered three years ago and known by astronomers as 2014 JO25, is approximately 2,000 feet end-to-end, larger than the Willis Tower in Chicago, though its unusual shape made it its size difficult to assess before it passed. It will be visible through telescopes for several nights. The last time a similarly sized asteroid passed within such a close distance was September 2004, when Toutatis, a 3.1 mile-long asteroid, came within four lunar distances of Earth.

It is the first time in four centuries that JO25 has been so close to the planet, and the asteroid will not come within a similar distance for another 500 years. Congress gave NASA the task of tracking all large objects that come within any reasonable range of Earth. The agency’s Near-Earth Object Observations Program tracks any object that is 140 meters or larger that comes within five million miles of the Earth. NASA, using statistical analysis, projects that there are somewhere between 25,000 and 26,000 asteroids in that category, though it has identified only about 7,700 thus far.

Scientists at NASA have said that such large asteroids have no significant chance of hitting Earth within the next hundred years. But the agency still takes the time to run drills preparing for such a contingency. Two spacecraft would be called upon to nudge an asteroid called Didymos, changing the speed of its orbit as a test of the way a threatening asteroid might be dealt with in the future.

Q1 Name a 3.1 mile-long asteroid which came within four lunar distances of Earth?

A. Toutatis

B. The Rock

C. LSA 127

D. Erdogrein

Q2 What can be the most suitable title of the passage?

A. Asteroid called Didymos.

B. The criteria would keep the agency focused on asteroids.

C. Changing the speed of the orbit.

D. Asteroid misses Earth narrowly, by cosmic standards.

Q3 Within which of the following distances does the program track any object?

A. Which comes within six million miles of the Earth.

B. Which comes within nine million miles of the Earth.

C. Which comes within five million miles of the Earth.

D. Which comes within three million miles of the Earth.

Q4 As per the passage, what have Scientists at NASA said?

A. that large asteroids have no significant chance of hitting Earth within the next hundred years.

B. that they know the way of a threatening asteroid.

C. that they’ll run drills preparing for a contingency.

D. that they’ll call upon to nudge an asteroid.

Q5 “We’re safe. From this one.” why was this quote written by the NASA’s planetary defense officer?

A. because large aneroids have no significant chance of hitting the earth for next hundred years

B. because the agency's Near Earth Programme can track any object that is 140 metres away from it.

C. after a large asteroid soared narrowly past the Earth.

D. Both A and B

Q6-10 In the following questions 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 and mark your answer.

Q6 The Court refused to ___ its previous judgement.

A. banish

B. revisit

C. see

D. underfill

Q7 ____ is the aim and object of his costly plan?

A. how

B. why

C. what

D. whom

Q8 Those engaged in ____ jobs need physical exercise.

A. stringent

B. sedentary

C. scion

D. tacit

Q9 Some days before the festival a blast ripped through a bustling market in Agra.

A. blast ripped on

B. blast rip at

C. blast ripping that

D. No Improvement

Q10 There were several areas where the CNBC’s team decided to go at feedback it had received.

A. to go in

B. to go by

C. to go for

D. No Improvement

Answers:-

Q.1 (A)

Q.2 (D)

Q.3 (C)

Q.4 (A)

Q.5 (C)

Q.6 (B)

Q.7 (C)

Q.8 (B)

Q.9 (D)

Q.10 (B)