SSC GD/CPO/CHSL Quiz : English Language | 22-12-2023

 

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.

Q-1 Given below are four jumbled sentences. Select the option that gives their correct order. A. The elephant tusks were tracked from the Democratic Republic of Congo for two months. B. Customs officials in Thailand say it's the biggest seizure in the country's history. C. Four tonnes of ivory, with a market value of $6 million - it was an impressive haul. D. Officials say they were being transported to Laos, from where they believed the ivory would be sold to customers across Asia.

(A) ABCD

(B) CABD

(C) ACDB

(D) CBAD

Q-2 Select the correct active form of the given sentence. The main gate of the building was being guarded by gun-toting guards.

(A) The main gate of the building were guarding gun[1]totting guards.

(B) Gun-totting guards guarded the main gate of the building.

(C) Gun-totting guards were guarding the main gate of the building.

(D) Gun-totting guards have been guarding the main gate of the building.

Q-3 Select the most appropriate option to substitute the underlined segment in the given sentence. If no substitution is required, select No improvement. I look for a better job for the last two months, but nothing is insight.

(A) have been looking for a better job

(B) have looked for a better job

(C) No improvement

(D) looked for a better job

Q-4 In the following question, out of the four alternatives, choose the one which can be substituted for the given sentence and mark it as your answer. A person without a settled home or regular work who wanders from place to place and lives by begging.

(A) truant

(B) vagrant

(C) itinerant

(D) migrant

Q-5 Select the wrongly spelt word.

(A) comparable

(B) comparison

(C) compitition

(D) communication

Q-6 Select the most appropriate option to substitute the underlined segment in the given sentence. If no substitution is required, select No improvement. If you join this job now, it proves to be good in the long run.

(A) it will prove to be good

(B) it proves good

(C) No improvement

(D) it has proved to be good

Q-7 Select the most appropriate word to fill in the blank. Scientists at Cambridge University are ______ how plants can give us sustainable energy.

(A) scrutinizing

(B) investigating

(C) looking

(D) inspecting

Q-8 Select the most appropriate meaning of the given idiom. Costs an arm and a leg

(A) rarely available

(B) easy to obtain

(C) nothing to lose

(D) very expensive

Q-9 In the sentence identify the segment which contains the grammatical error. Due to the Cyclone Idai vast areas of land have been flooded, roads destroyed and communications disrupting in Zimbabwe and Mozambique.

(A) vast areas of land have been flooded

(B) and communications disrupting

(C) Due to the Cyclone Idai

(D) roads destroyed

Q-10 Select the synonym of the given word.

TILT

(A) support

(B) straighten

(C) cross

(D) slant

Answers:-

Q.1 (4)

Q.2 (3)

Q.3 (1)

Q.4 (2)

Q.5 (3)

Q.6 (1)

Q.7 (2)

Q.8 (4)

Q.9 (2)

Q.10 (4)