SSC CGL Quiz : English Language | 17-06-2023

Dear Readers,

As SSC  CGL  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 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.

Q.01. Select the most appropriate word to fill in the blank.

The police used tear gas to ______ the crowd.

(A) disburse

(B) collect

(C) attack

(D) disperse

Q.2. Select the most appropriate meaning of the given idiom.

Take something with a pinch of salt

(A) To take long to understand what is being said

(B) To think of oneself as always right

(C) To consider everyone a liar

(D) To believe only part of something

Q.3. Select the word that means the same as the given group of words.

A person weak and disabled by illness

(A) Activist

(B) Invalid

(C) Athlete

(D) Petitioner

Q.4. Select the INCORRECTLY spelt word.

(A) Preamble

(B) Pnemonia

(C) Miscellaneous

(D) Deviation

In the following passage some words have been deleted. Fill in the blanks with the help of the alternatives given. Select the most appropriate option for each blank.

All her life Ms. Foster had a great fear of missing a train, a plane, a boat or ______ (A) a theatre curtain. In other respects, she was not a ______ (B) nervous woman. But the mere thought of ______ (C) on occasions like these would throw her _______ (D) such a nervous state that a tiny muscle in the corner of her left eye would _______ (E) twitch .Thiswould disappear once she had boarded the plane etc.

Q.5. Select the most appropriate option for blank (A).

(A) quite

(B) extremely

(C) even

(D) hardly

Q.6. Select the most appropriate option for blank (B).

(A) usual

(B) general

(C) particular

(D) particularly

Q.7. Select the most appropriate option for blank (C).

(A) be later

(B) being late

(C) be late

(D) being later

Q.8. Select the most appropriate option for blank (D).

(A) into

(B) up

(C) away

(D) in

Q.9. Select the most appropriate option for blank (E).

(A) begun over

(B) begun to

(C) begin to

(D) begin over

Q.10. Select the INCORRECTLY spelt word.

(A) Conscientious

(B) Constraint

(C) Resultant

(D) Expanse

Answer Key-

1-Sol. (1)

2-Sol. (4)

3-Sol. (2)

4-Sol. (2)

5-Sol. (3)

6-Sol. (4)

7-Sol. (2)

8-Sol. (1)

9-Sol. (3)

10-Sol. (1)