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. Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below it.
In the world we have made health an end in itself? We have forgotten that health is really a means to enable a person to do his work and do it well. A lot of modern medicine is concerned with promotion of good health .Many patients as well as many physicians pay very little attention to health: but very much attention to health makes some people imagine that they are ill. Our great concern with health is shown by the medical columns in newspapers, the health articles in popular and the popularity on television programme and all those books on medicine. We talk about health all the time yet for the most only result is more people with imaginary illness. The healthy man should not be wasting any time talking about health. He should be using health for work the work he does and the work that good health makes possible.
1 The passage suggests that
A. health is an end in itself
B. health is a blessing
C. health is only a means to an end
D. we should not talk about health
2 Talking about health all the time makes people-
A. always suffer from imaginary illness
B. sometimes suffer from imaginary illness
C. rarely suffer from imaginary illness
D. often suffer from imaginary illness
3 A healthy man should be concerned with-
A. his work which good health makes possible
B. looking after his health
C. his health which makes work possible
D. talking about health
4 Modern medicine is primarily concerned with-
A. promotion of good health
B. people suffering from imaginary illness
C. people suffering from real illness
D. increased efficiency in work
5 The passage tells us -
A. how medicine should be manufactured
B. what a healthy man should or should not do
C. what the television programme should be about
D. how best to imagine illness
6 In the questions given below choose the word most opposite in meaning to the given word and mark your answer.
Susceptible
A. incredible
B. immune
C. predictable
D. unpredictable
7 In the following question, out of the four alternatives, choose the one which can be substituted for the given words/sentence and mark your answer.
To secretly store more than what is allowed-
A. Hoard
B. Store
C. Hide
D. Aboard
8-10. In questions given below, a sentence has been given in Direct/Indirect form’ Out of the four alternatives suggested, select the one which best expresses the same sentence in Indirect/Direct form.
8 He said ,"Be quiet and listen to my words."
A. He urged them to be quiet and listen to his words.
B. He urged them and said be quiet and listen to his words.
C. He said they should be quiet and listen to his words.
D. He said you should be quiet and listen to my words.
9 Pawan said to me,"If I hear any news ,I'll phone you"
A. Pawan told me that if he heard any news, he will phone me.
B. Pawan told me that if he heard any news, he would phone me.
C. Pawan told me if he heard any news, he would phone me.
D. Pawan told me that if he will hear any news, he would phone me.
10 The captain said to his men ,''Stand at ease"
A. The captain urged his men to stand at ease
B. The captain requested his men to stand at ease
C. The captain commanded his men to stand at ease
D. The captain told his men to stand at ease
Answers:-
Q.1 (A)
Q.2 (D)
Q.3 (A)
Q.4 (B)
Q.5 (B)
Q.6 (B)
Q.7 (A)
Q.8 (A)
Q.9 (B)
Q.10 (C)
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