SSC MTS | CHSL Quiz : English Language | 31-05-2022

Dear Readers,

As SSC MTS |   CHSL 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 MTS |   CHSL   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 have we 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 magazines and its popularity on television programmes and all the 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 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

2 A healthy man should be concerned with-

A. his work which good health makes possible

B. his health

C. his health which makes work tedious

D. talking about health

3 Talking about health all the time makes people-

A. always suffer from imaginary illness

B. never suffer from imaginary illness

C. rarely suffer from imaginary illness

D. often suffer from imaginary illness

4 The passage suggests that-

A. health is an end in itself

B. health is a means to do one’s work well

C. health is only a means to an end

D. we should not talk about health

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

6-10. In the questions given below, choose the word most opposite in meaning to the given word and mark your answer.

6 Susceptible

A. incredible

B. immune

C. predictable

D. unpredictable

7 Frugal

A. miserly

B. gluttonous

C. plentiful

D. extravagant

8 Cessation

A. commencement

B. renewal

C. ongoing

D. interruption

9 Procrastinate

A. experiment

B. expedite

C. exclude

D. propagate

10 Potent

A. inefficient

B. soft

C. fragile

D. strong

Answers:-

Q.1 (B)

Q.2 (A)

Q.3 (D)

Q.4 (A)

Q.5 (B)

Q.6 (B)

Q.7 (D)

Q.8 (A)

Q.9 (B)

Q.10 (A)