SSC CGL Quiz : English Language | 02-08-2023

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.

1. Given below are four sentences in jumbled order. Select the option that gives their correct order.

A. In such places, strong winds blow raising heaps of sand.

B. Some deserts are almost totally without water.

C. These dunes shift and move endlessly across the desert.

D. This sand is deposited in huge mounds called ‘sand dunes’.

1. BADC

2. BACD

3. CDBA

4. DACB

2. Given below are four sentences in jumbled order. Select the option that gives their correct order.

A. No version of the origin of California’s name has been fully accepted, but there is wide support for the contention that it derived from an early 16th-century Spanish novel.

B. California is a constituent state of the United States of America.

C. It was admitted as the 31st state of the union on 9 September 1850 and by the early 1960s it was the most populous U.S. state.

D. The influence of the Spanish settlers of the 18th and 19th centuries is evident in California’s architecture and place-names.

1. DACB

2. BACD

3. ADCB

4. BCAD

3. Select the most appropriate meaning of the given idiom.

A sea change

1. Going on a trip abroad

2. Getting transferred overseas

3. Complete transformation

4. Health-related vacation

4. Select the most appropriate synonym of the given word.

Novice

1. Beginner

2. Silent

3. Adept

4. Expert

5. Select the most appropriate option to substitute the underlined segment in the given sentence. If there is no need to substitute it, select ‘No substitution required’.

There was a bell over the door that jingled whenever a customer entered.

1. that jingle when

2. which jingled wherever

3. who jingles whenever

4. No substitution required

6. Select the most appropriate option to substitute the underlined segment in the given sentence. If there is no need to substitute it, select ‘No substitution required’.

Kunal did not anticipate the need, so he did not carries his own water bottle.

1. so he did not carried his own

2. so he does not carry his own

3. so he did not carry his own

4. No substitution required

7. Select the most appropriate ANTONYM of the given word.

Hazy

1. Dim

2. Clear

3. Faint

4. Soft

8. Select the most appropriate antonym of the given word.

SPURIOUS

1. phony

2. genuine

3. counterfeit

4. artificial

9. Select the most appropriate word to fill in the blank.

The team leader asked for a ______ report to be given, in not more than one page.

1. curt

2. concise

3. complex

4. compound

10. Select the misspelt word.

1. cruel

2. coarse

3. junior

4. brutle

Answers:-

Q.1 (1)

Q.2 (4)

Q.3 (3)

Q.4 (1)

Q.5 (4)

Q.6 (3)

Q.7 (2)

Q.8 (2)

Q.9 (2)

Q.10 (4)