Dear Students, SSC CGL Tier-1 Exam will be held from 5th August 2017 to 24 August 2017. You need to practice a lot in order to achieve 40+ marks in the English Section. We are providing quizzes which include sentence improvement, error detection, idioms, one-word substitution, reading comprehension, vocabulary related questions etc. we have also provided study notes on English for SSC CGL 2017 Exam. Practice all these questions, if any doubt, post your queries in the comment section, we will answer surely. Today in this quiz we have included fill in the blanks, reading comprehension and sentence improvements Questions. Learn and score maximum marks in SSC CGL 2017.
Directions (1-5): Each sentence below has one blank, each blank indicating that something has been omitted. Beneath the sentences are four words or set of words. Choose the word or set of words for each blank that best fits the meaning of the sentence as a whole.
Q1. It was as though the fact that neither of them had anything in common with the other nationality, upbringing, way of life, beliefs-made them therefore ready to accept each other without the usual barriers of __________ or conventionality.
(a) reticence
(b) speech
(c) diplomacy
(d) race
Q2. It had been a happy childhood, a normal boy’s childhood. Not luxurious, indeed __________ in many ways.
(a) basking
(b) Magnificent
(c) splendid
(d) spartan
Q3. Behind the normal __________ of daily life had been a dread of something that he himself did not understand.
(a) facade
(b) face
(c) schedule
(d) routine
Q4. This was a different man altogether. A younger man, __________, eager, unsure of himself, desperately anxious to please.
(a) mature
(b) experienced
(c) callow
(d) confident
Q5. I asked a question carelessly enough of one of the locals, who was clipping a hedge in a __________ fashion nearby.
(a) desultory
(b) result
(c) commendable
(d) peripatetic
Directions (6-10): A sentence/a part of the sentence is bold. Four alternatives are given to the bold part which will improve the sentence. Choose the correct alternative and click the button corresponding to it. In case no improvement is needed, click the button corresponding to “No improvement”.
Q6. The old woman invited the children to become a part in the celebration in her house.
(a) to be apart
(b) to take part
(c) to take apart
(d) No improvement
Q7. You are junior than me in age.
(a) to me in age.
(b) of me in age.
(c) to me at age.
(d) No improvement
Q8. Wealth is no doubts necessary for happiness in life.
(a) was no doubt necessary
(b) is no doubt necessary
(c) is no doubting necessary
(d) No improvement
Q9. Mumbai is larger than many other towns in India.
(a) large
(b) largest
(c) big
(d) No improvement
Q10. All people want to be happy, do they?
(a) don’t they?
(b) are they?
(c) didn’t they?
(d) No improvement
Directions (11-15): A passage is given with 5 questions following it. Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives and click the button corresponding to it.
Worry is a very common thing. Even children worry as much as grown up people. In his childhood, the writer used to fear that his parents would die suddenly at night. His fear and anxiety was just imaginary.When he was on the war front in Mesopotamia, the writer came to a certain conclusion on worrying. He was a subaltern officer. It was not his duty to plan future actions of war. He was there only to carry out what the superiors would decide. So it was useless to worry. When he took that stand he slept soundly without worry. Here, the writer had some real reason to worry. But he could get rid of it when he found it was useless to worry.
He followed the same principle when he was a prisoner of war and he was in Asiatic Turkey. There, too, he banished his worries because nothing of his future depended on himself. The future of the prisoners of war would depend on the various governments. Thus, he was able to live there without much worry though he was a prisoner.
But his deliberate suppression of worry during the war and as a prisoner did not wholly eradicate his worries. The fear had gone to his subconscious mind and remained there buried. After the war, the writer was at home. But whenever a member of his family was absent he feared all sorts of mishap happening to him or her. Moreover, he had a recurring nightmare that he had become a prisoner of war and the war was not going to end. The worries without any real cause here were the manifestations of the fears that he had banished deliberately earlier.
Q11. Why was the writer able to live in jail without much worry?
(a) Because nothing of his future depended on himself
(b) He was comfortable in jail
(c) Because he was a prisoner of war
(d) Because worry is a common thing
Q12. What was the fear of the writer in his childhood?
(a) That his parents might drive him out of home
(b) That his parents would die suddenly at night
(c) That he might fail in the examinations
(d) That he might be made a prisoner
Q13. Where was the writer when he concluded that worry was useless?
(a) The writer was in Asiatic Turkey
(b) The writer was at home
(c) The writer was on the war front in Mesopotamia
(d) The writer was in prison
Q14. What was the recurring nightmare of the writer after the war was over?
(a) He dreamt that he was a prisoner in a war that was not going to be over
(b) He dreamt that his wife was in hospital
(c) He dreamt that a member of his family had a mishap
(d) He dreamt he was a prisoner of war in Asiatic Turkey
Q15. How does a cause of worry trouble us if we suppress our worry deliberately?
(a) Causes of worry trouble us in various circumstances
(b) Causes of worry remain in the subconscious mind and trouble us through bad dreams
(c) Causes of worry cause imaginary anxiety
(d) We cannot take actions cautiously and carefully
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