SSC GD & MTS Quiz : English Language | 11-11-2021

Dear Readers,

As SSC GD & 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 GD & 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 Choose the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the Idiom/phrases.

1 By opposing his proposal fell foul of him.

A. quarreled with

B. felt annoyed with

C. agreed with

D. did not agree with

2 I can not put up with your misconduct any longer.

A. excuse

B. refuse

C. accept

D. tolerate

3 The young and the old sat cheek by jowl in the large audience.

A. very near

B. very far

C. tongue tied

D. irritated

4 My neighbour had to pay through his nose for a brand new car.

A. pay huge loans

B. pay a reasonable price

C. pay an extremely high price

D. make a quick buck

5 The party high command wanted to stave off an open battle.

A. postpone

B. wait and see

C. allow it to take its own course

D. prevent

6-10 Read the following passage carefully and answer the given questions.

Primitive man was probably more concerned with fire as a source of warmth and as a means of cooking food than as a source of light. Before he discovered less laborious ways of making fire, he had to preserve it, and whenever he went on a journey he carried a firebrand with him. His discovery that the firebrand, from which the torch may very well have developed, could be used for illumination was probably incidental to the primary purpose of preserving a flame.

Lamps, too, probably developed by accident. Early man may have had his first conception of a lamp while watching a twig or fiber burning in the molten fat dropped from a roasting carcass. All he had to do was to fashion a vessel to contain fat and float a lighted reed in it. Such lamps, which were made of hollowed stones or sea shells, have persisted in identical form up to quite recent times.

6 Primitive man's most important use for fire was-

A. to provide warmth

B. to cook food

C. to provide light

D. Both A and B

7 The firebrand was used to-

A. prevent accidents

B. provide light

C. scare animals

D. save labour

8 By 'primary' the author means-

A. primitive

B. fundamental

C. elemental

D. essential

9 Lamps probably developed through mere :

A. hazard

B. fate

C. chance

D. planning

10 Early lamps were made by :

A. using a reed as a wick in the fat

B. letting a reed soak the fat

C. putting the fat in a shell and lighting it

D. floating a reed in the sea-shell

Answers:-

Q.1 (B)

Q.2 (D)

Q.3 (A)

Q.4 (C)

Q.5 (A)

Q.6 (D)

Q.7 (B)

Q.8 (D)

Q.9 (C)

Q.10 (A)