Previous Years English Questions for SSC CGL Tier-1 2017

July 29, 2017    

Previous Years English Questions for SSC CGL Tier-1 Exam 2017

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 error detection, one word substitutions, and sentence improvements Questions. Learn and score maximum marks in SSC CGL 2017. 

Directions (1-5): The sentences are given in different parts. Read each sentence to find out whether there is an error in any part. No sentence has more than one error.  

Q1. Education helps us understand and tolerate differences and so holds out the promise that we can live together harmoniously.
(a) Education helps us understand and tolerate differences 
(b) and so holds out the promise 
(c) that we can live together harmoniously.
(d) No error

Q2. He refused to disclose to his friends whether he will leave for England immediately after finishing his studies.
(a) He refused to disclose to his friends 
(b) whether he will leave for England 
(c) immediately after finishing his studies.
(d) No error

Q3. Despite for her protests, I decided to buy the saree which she did not like.
(a) Despite for her protests, 
(b) I decided to buy 
(c) the saree which she did not like.
(d) No error

Q4. The government warned the shopkeepers that if they persist in charging unfair prices their licences would be cancelled.
(a) The government warned the shopkeepers 
(b) that if they persist in charging unfair prices 
(c) their licences would be cancelled.
(d) No error

Q5. The famous poet and the scholar Dr. Suman has been ailing for the last one month.
(a) The famous poet and the scholar 
(b) Dr. Suman has been ailing for 
(c) the last one month.
(d) No error

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. Jane had told me that she hasn't done her homework.
(a) told
(b) tells
(c) was telling
(d) no improvement

Q7. This survey is concerning your health as well as that of your family.
(a) concerns with
(b) is concerned with
(c) concerns to
(d) no improvement

Q8. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hidden.
(a) be hid
(b) hide
(c) be hiding
(d) no improvement

Q9. A black and white goat were grazing.
(a) The white and the black goat
(b) A black and a white goat
(c) A black and  the white goat
(d) no improvement

Q10. I had took the papers to John's office.
(a) will took the papers
(b) taken the papers
(c) took the papers
(d) no improvement

Directions (11-15): In the following questions, out of the four alternatives choose the one that can be substituted for the given word/phrase:  

Q11. Perceptible to the ear 
(a) audible 
(b) laudable 
(c) raiseable 
(d) adorable 

Q12. A government that is carried on through officers 
(a) bureaucracy 
(b) officiousness 
(c) class-one 
(d) dictatorship 

Q13. Something that occurs at irregular intervals in time or occasionally 
(a) obvious 
(b) sporadic 
(c) monotonous 
(d) ambiguous 

Q14. People working in the same department or office 
(a) fellows 
(b) colleagues 
(c) mates 
(d) companions 

Q15. Animals that eat flesh  
(a) herbivorous 
(b) omnivorous 
(c) carnivorous 
(d) vegetarian 



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Previous Years English Questions for SSC CGL Tier-1 2017 4.5 5 Yateendra sahu July 29, 2017 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 4...


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