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Practice is the only key to polish one's preparation and to avoid repeating the mistakes. Either you are preparing for SSC CGL, CHSL, JE or any exam conducted by SSC, English is a very important section. Solving quizzes on daily basis can improve your fluency of understanding this section to the utmost. SSC CGL Tier 2 is is to be held from 17 Feb to 22 Feb 2018. English holding 200 questions in CGL Tier 2 can either make or break your chances of getting your dream job. Today, in this English quiz we are providing Reading Comprehension Quiz asked in various SSC Exams to check the basic knowledge of Word Spellings as it matters to the extent of cognizance in English Language. Attempt this quiz and learn effectively We wish you good luck for the upcoming Exams.
Directions (1-5): In the following questions, you have a brief passage with five questions following the passage. Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives and indicate your correct alternative.
The desire to be contemporary is, of course, new only in degree; it has existed to some extent in all previous periods that believed themselves to be progressive. The Renaissance had contempt for the Gothic centuries that had preceded it; the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries covered priceless mosaics with whitewash; the Romantic movement despised the age of the heroic couplet. Our age is the most parochial since Homer. We imagine ourselves at the apex of intelligence and cannot believe that the quaint clothes and cumbrous phrases can have invested people with thoughts that are still worthy of our attention.
The modern-minded man, although he believes profoundly in the wisdom of his period, must be presumed to be very modest about his personal powers.
Q1. The desire to be contemporary was there in the previous periods that were?
(a) stagnating
(b) progressive
(c) backward
(d) conventional
Q2. The eighteenth century covered priceless mosaics with?
(a) mud
(b) concrete
(c) paint
(d) whitewash
Q3. The Renaissance had contempt for?
(a) the Reformation
(b) the Industrial Revolution
(c) the Gothic centuries
(d) the French Revolution
Q4. The Romantic movement despised the age of?
(a) blank verse
(b) sonnet
(c) pastoral elegy
(d) heroic couplet
Q5. The modern-minded man believes profoundly in?
(a) the religion of his country
(b) the wisdom of his period
(c) the religion of his sect
(d) the government of his country
Directions (6-10): In the following questions, you have a brief passage with five questions following the passage. Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives and indicate your correct alternative.
Almost everybody allows himself or herself or herself some entirely unjustifiable generalizations on the subject of women. Married men, when they generalize on that subject, judge by their wives; women judge by themselves. It would be amusing to write a history of the views of men on women.
In antiquity, when male supremacy was unquestioned and Christian ethics were still unknown, women were harmless, rather silly, and a man who took them seriously was somewhat despised.
Plato’s great objection to the drama was that the playwright had to imitate women in creating his female roles. With the coming of Christianity, the woman took on a new part, that of the temptress; but at the same time, she was also found capable of being a saint.
Q6. Some unjustifiable generalizations are made on?
(a) infants
(b) adolescents
(c) teenagers
(d) women
Q7. Married men judge women by their?
(a) mothers
(b) sisters
(c) wives
(d) daughters
Q8. In antiquity, male supremacy was?
(a) doubtful
(b) dubious
(c) unquestioned
(d) questionable
Q9. In those days, a man who took women seriously was?
(a) admired
(b) despised
(c) respected
(d) ignored
Q10. With the coming of Christianity, women took on a new part of?
(a) temptress alone
(b) saint alone
(c) protector
(d) temptress and saint
Directions (11-15): In the following questions, you have a brief passage with five questions following the passage. Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives and indicate your correct alternative.
No one can seriously pretend to remain unaffected by advertisements; it is impossible to turn a blind eye to the solicitous overtures to buy this or that article that fills our streets, newspapers and magazines. Even in the sanctity of our living rooms, advertisers are waiting to pounce on their helpless victims as they tune into their favourite radio or television programmes. In time, no matter how hard we resist, clever little tunes and catch-phrases seep into our subconscious minds and stay there. Though they seem so varied, all these advertisements have one thing in common: they make strong appeals to our emotions.
Q11. The word ‘sanctity’ means?
(a) sacredness
(b) privacy
(c) privilege
(d) security
Q12. Which one of the following lines best expresses the meaning of the first sentence in the passage?
(a) All men are influenced by advertisements.
(b) Most men are influenced by advertisements.
(c) Some mean is not influenced by advertisements.
(d) Advertisements cannot influence everybody.
Q13. To turn a blind eye – its opposite meaning is to?
(a) perceive
(b) view
(c) visualize
(d) sight
Q14. The “helpless victims” are the?
(a) public
(b) spectators
(c) audience
(d) sellers
Q15. Advertisements are successful when we respond to them?
(a) intellectually
(b) blindly
(c) helplessly
(d) emotionally
Practice is the only key to polish one's preparation and to avoid repeating the mistakes. Either you are preparing for SSC CGL, CHSL, JE or any exam conducted by SSC, English is a very important section. Solving quizzes on daily basis can improve your fluency of understanding this section to the utmost. SSC CGL Tier 2 is is to be held from 17 Feb to 22 Feb 2018. English holding 200 questions in CGL Tier 2 can either make or break your chances of getting your dream job. Today, in this English quiz we are providing Reading Comprehension Quiz asked in various SSC Exams to check the basic knowledge of Word Spellings as it matters to the extent of cognizance in English Language. Attempt this quiz and learn effectively We wish you good luck for the upcoming Exams.
Directions (1-5): In the following questions, you have a brief passage with five questions following the passage. Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives and indicate your correct alternative.
The desire to be contemporary is, of course, new only in degree; it has existed to some extent in all previous periods that believed themselves to be progressive. The Renaissance had contempt for the Gothic centuries that had preceded it; the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries covered priceless mosaics with whitewash; the Romantic movement despised the age of the heroic couplet. Our age is the most parochial since Homer. We imagine ourselves at the apex of intelligence and cannot believe that the quaint clothes and cumbrous phrases can have invested people with thoughts that are still worthy of our attention.
The modern-minded man, although he believes profoundly in the wisdom of his period, must be presumed to be very modest about his personal powers.
Q1. The desire to be contemporary was there in the previous periods that were?
(a) stagnating
(b) progressive
(c) backward
(d) conventional
Q2. The eighteenth century covered priceless mosaics with?
(a) mud
(b) concrete
(c) paint
(d) whitewash
Q3. The Renaissance had contempt for?
(a) the Reformation
(b) the Industrial Revolution
(c) the Gothic centuries
(d) the French Revolution
Q4. The Romantic movement despised the age of?
(a) blank verse
(b) sonnet
(c) pastoral elegy
(d) heroic couplet
Q5. The modern-minded man believes profoundly in?
(a) the religion of his country
(b) the wisdom of his period
(c) the religion of his sect
(d) the government of his country
Directions (6-10): In the following questions, you have a brief passage with five questions following the passage. Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives and indicate your correct alternative.
Almost everybody allows himself or herself or herself some entirely unjustifiable generalizations on the subject of women. Married men, when they generalize on that subject, judge by their wives; women judge by themselves. It would be amusing to write a history of the views of men on women.
In antiquity, when male supremacy was unquestioned and Christian ethics were still unknown, women were harmless, rather silly, and a man who took them seriously was somewhat despised.
Plato’s great objection to the drama was that the playwright had to imitate women in creating his female roles. With the coming of Christianity, the woman took on a new part, that of the temptress; but at the same time, she was also found capable of being a saint.
Q6. Some unjustifiable generalizations are made on?
(a) infants
(b) adolescents
(c) teenagers
(d) women
Q7. Married men judge women by their?
(a) mothers
(b) sisters
(c) wives
(d) daughters
Q8. In antiquity, male supremacy was?
(a) doubtful
(b) dubious
(c) unquestioned
(d) questionable
Q9. In those days, a man who took women seriously was?
(a) admired
(b) despised
(c) respected
(d) ignored
Q10. With the coming of Christianity, women took on a new part of?
(a) temptress alone
(b) saint alone
(c) protector
(d) temptress and saint
Directions (11-15): In the following questions, you have a brief passage with five questions following the passage. Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives and indicate your correct alternative.
No one can seriously pretend to remain unaffected by advertisements; it is impossible to turn a blind eye to the solicitous overtures to buy this or that article that fills our streets, newspapers and magazines. Even in the sanctity of our living rooms, advertisers are waiting to pounce on their helpless victims as they tune into their favourite radio or television programmes. In time, no matter how hard we resist, clever little tunes and catch-phrases seep into our subconscious minds and stay there. Though they seem so varied, all these advertisements have one thing in common: they make strong appeals to our emotions.
Q11. The word ‘sanctity’ means?
(a) sacredness
(b) privacy
(c) privilege
(d) security
Q12. Which one of the following lines best expresses the meaning of the first sentence in the passage?
(a) All men are influenced by advertisements.
(b) Most men are influenced by advertisements.
(c) Some mean is not influenced by advertisements.
(d) Advertisements cannot influence everybody.
Q13. To turn a blind eye – its opposite meaning is to?
(a) perceive
(b) view
(c) visualize
(d) sight
Q14. The “helpless victims” are the?
(a) public
(b) spectators
(c) audience
(d) sellers
Q15. Advertisements are successful when we respond to them?
(a) intellectually
(b) blindly
(c) helplessly
(d) emotionally
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