Dear Readers,
As SSC GD/CPO/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 GD/CPO/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.
Read the passage and answer the questions that follow.
The first time that Agha Shahid Ali spoke to me about his approaching death was on 25 April 2001. The conversation began routinely. I had telephoned to remind him that we had been invited to a friend’s house for lunch. Although he had been under treatment for cancer for some fourteen months, Shahid was still on his feet and perfectly lucid, except for occasional lapses of memory. I heard him thumbing through his engagement book and then suddenly he said: ‘Oh dear. I can’t see a be fine; you have to be strong...’ From the window of my study I could see a corner of the building in which he lived, some eight blocks away. It was just a few months since he moved there: he had been living a few miles away, in Manhattan, when he had a sudden blackout in February 2000. After tests revealed that he had a malignant brain tumour, he decided to move to Brooklyn, to be close to his youngest sister, Sameetah, who teaches at the Pratt Institute—a few blocks away from the street where I live. Shahid ignored my reassurances. He began to laugh and it was then that I realised that he was dead serious. I understood that he was entrusting me with a quite specific charge: he wanted me to remember him not through the spoken recitatives of memory and friendship, but through the written word. He knew that my instincts would have led me to search for reasons to avoid writing about his death: I would have told myself that I was not a poet; that our friendship was of recent date; that there were many others who knew him much better and would be writing from greater understanding and knowledge. All this Shahid had guessed and he had decided to shut off those routes while there was still time. ‘You must write about me.’ Finally, I said: ‘Shahid, I will: I’ll do the best I can.’
Q.1. What did Shahid request the narrator to do?
(A) Write about him after his death
(B) Take him along for lunch at their friend’s place
(C) Move to his house in Manhattan
(D) Be strong and bear the loss bravely
Q.2. Shahid was perfectly ‘lucid’. This suggests he was:
(A) confused
(B) in a delirium
(C) speaking coherently
(D) not intelligible
Q.3. Shahid’s voice was full of ‘jocularity’. This means it was:
(A) humorous
(B) bitter
(C) melodious
(D) sorrowful
4-Which of these was NOT an excuse that the narrator thought of to decline Shahid’s request?
(A) That others knew Shahid better
(B) That their friendship was quite recent
(C) That he was too busy
(D) That he was not a poet
Q.5. Select the correct passive form of the given sentence.
May you achieve success in all your endeavours.
(A) May success will be achieved by you in all your endeavours.
(B) Success might be achieved by you in all your endeavours.
(C) May success be achieved by you in all your endeavours.
(D) Success has been achieved by you in all your endeavours.
Q.6. Select the most appropriate option to improve the underlined segment in the given sentence. If there is no need to improve it, select ‘No improvement’.
He is bent to harm my reputation by false accusations.
(A) bent on harming
(B) bent to harming
(C) bend to harm
(D) No improvement
Q.7. Select the most appropriate meaning of the given idiom.
Do a good turn
(A) Render a service
(B) Wait for a turn
(C) Return a gift
(D) Make a profit
Q.8. Select the correct active form of the given sentence.
By whom has this mischief been done?
(A) Who has been doing this mischief?
(B) Who did this mischief?
(C) Who has done this mischief?
(D) Who is doing this mischief?
Q9. Given below are four sentences in jumbled order.
Pick the option that gives their correct order.
A. Combining Vitamins A, C and D3 with Zinc and Probioticsgives agoodflu-fightingremedy.
B. Vitamin C plays a vital role in maintaining the body’s natural defence.
C. It also supports a healthy immune system.
D. People with low vitamin C are at a much greater risk of getting infections.
(A) BCDA
(B) ADCB
(C) BADC
(D) DCBA
Q.10. Identify the segment in the sentence which contains a grammatical error.
The girl besides you in high heels is my younger sister.
(A) younger sister
(B) in high heels
(C) is my
(D) The girl besides you
Answers:-
Q.1 (1)
Q.2 (3)
Q.3 (1)
Q.4 (3)
Q.5 (3)
Q.6 (1)
Q.7 (4)
Q.8 (3)
Q.9 (1)
Q.10 (4)
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