SSC MTS | CHSL Quiz : English Language | 28-06-2022

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.

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

“I must find a hiding place, “He thought, “and in the next few seconds or I am done for.” Scarcely had the thought crossed his mind that the lane took a sudden turning so that he found himself hidden from his pursuers. There are circumstances in which the least energetic of mankind learn to act with speed and decision. This was such an occasion for Rehmat Ali and those who knew him best would have been the most astonished at the lad’s boldness. He stopped dead, threw the box of jewellery over a garden wall and, leaping upwards with incredible lightness, he seized the top of the wall with his hands and tumbled headlong into the garden.

Q1 Rehamat Ali is most likely:

A. a burglar

B. a policeman

C. a night watchman

D. a jogger

Q2 What kind of a person was Rehmat Ali originally?

A. slow and steady

B. azy and indecisive

C. reflective in nature

D. bold and decisive

Q3 The expression ‘to stop dead’ means:

A. to be paralysed

B. to come to complete halt

C. to die suddenly

D. be close to death

Q4 Rehamt Ali found himself hidden from his pursuers because:

A. he had gone around an unexpected bend

B. his pursuers could not run fast enough

C. he had stopped dead

D. he had acted with speed and decision

Q5 There are circumstances in which the least energetic of mankind learn to act with speed and decision, and the most cautious forget their care.’ Rehmat illustrates this by:

A. running away from his pursuers

B. by stopping dead

C. turning into a lane

D. jumping into the garden

Q6-10 Out of the four alternatives, choose the one which best expresses the meaning of the given word and mark the Answer .

Q6 Onslaught

A. Counterattack

B. Resistance

C. Defense

D. Invasion

Q7 Ignominy

A. Esteer

B. Unsuitable

C. Disgrace

D. Awry

Q8 Grotesque

A. Exposure

B. Stupidity

C. Absurd

D. Trial

Q9-10 In questions given below, a part of the sentence is highlighted. Below are given alternatives to the highlighted part at (A), (B) and (C) which may improve the sentence. Choose the correct alternative. In case no improvement is needed your answer is (D).

Q9 Anyone who would speak with authority on the poets of the Renaissance must have a broad acquaintance with the writers of classical antiquity.

A. Anyone who will speak

B. If one would speak

C. Anyone desirous for speaking

D. No improvement

Q10 Having only a few hours left, she wondered as she would finish the assignment.

A. that if

B. whether

C. that

D. No improvement

Answers:-

Q.1 (A)

Q.2 (B)

Q.3 (B)

Q.4 (A)

Q.5 (D)

Q.6 (D)

Q.7 (C)

Q.8 (C)

Q.9 (C)

Q.10 (B)