Previous Years English Questions | SSC CGL 2017

August 6, 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.

Directions (1-6): In the following questions, the sentences have an error, Find out the error and mark as your correct response.

Q1. The man is mortal and ultimately, he has to leave everything here, yet how irrationally he remains attached to his worldly possessions.
(a) The man is mortal 
(b) and ultimately, he has to leave everything here, 
(c) yet how irrationally he remains attached to his worldly possessions.
(d) No error

Q2. On seeing him cough I asked him since how long he had been ailing.
(a) On seeing him cough 
(b) I asked him since how long 
(c) he had been ailing.
(d) No error

Q3. Unless your doctor has proved that you have a salt-related health problem there is no reason to give up.
(a) Unless your doctor has proved 
(b) that you have a salt-related health problem 
(c) there is no reason to give up.
(d) No error

Q4. The journalist, no matter how sound his judgement or how judicious his sense to perception is cannot impart to news the sober quality of history.
(a) The journalist, no matter how sound his judgement 
(b) or how judicious his sense to perception is 
(c) cannot impart to news the sober quality of history.
(d) No error

Q5. The examinee cut up all the long words from his book and made the answer simpler.
(a) The examinee cut up 
(b) all the long words from his book 
(c) and made the answer simpler.
(d) No error


Q6. They asked him to keep standing there till they had returned.
(a) They asked him 
(b) to keep standing there 
(c) till they had returned.
(d) No error

Directions (7-9): The sentences given with blanks are to be filled with an appropriate word(s). Four alternatives are suggested for each question. For each question, choose the correct alternative and click the button corresponding to it.

Q7. I like __________ in the sun.
(a) laying
(b) lay
(c) lie
(d) lying

Q8. Please do not __________ an offer made by the Chairman.
(a) deny
(b) refuse
(c) refrain
(d) refuge

Q9. The clerk asked for my __________.
(a) determination
(b) destiny
(c) destination
(d) designation

Directions (10-12): In each of the questions, four alternatives are given for the Idiom/Phrase. Choose the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the Idiom/Phrase and click the button corresponding to it.

Q10. Evening of life
(a) Old age
(b) A party
(c) Holiday
(d) None of these



Q11. Button her lip
(a) Tell us more
(b) Stop talking
(c) Invite us too
(d) Enjoy herself

Q12. Invent cock and bull stories
(a) Delightful fables
(b) Eco-friendly accounts
(c) Absurd and unlikely stories
(d) Credible tales

Directions (13-15): Out of the four alternatives, choose the one which can be substituted for the given words/sentences and click the button corresponding to it.

Q13. Act of making things like new again.
(a) Innovate
(b) Renovate
(c) Motivate
(d) Activate

Q14. One who knows everything.
(a) Omniscient
(b) Conscious
(c) Intellectual
(d) Learned

Q15. Any morbid dread of water.
(a) Hydrofoil
(b) Hydrophobia
(c) Hydraulic
(d) Hyacinth

SSC CGL 2017


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