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Be a part of this revised study plan, visit SSCADDA website regularly to add up each day effort in your practice. SSC CGL and CPO Exam dates can surprise you anytime soon. It is time to knuckle down to get your dream job, Today, in this English quiz we are providing 15 Important English Questions with solutions. Attempt this quiz and prepare yourself flawlessly. We wish you good luck for the upcoming Exams.
Directions (1-2): Improve the bracketed part of the sentence.
Q1. How (long you are) here for?
longer you are
long are you
long you have been
No Improvement
Solution:
Interrogative Sentence takes helping verb (is, am, are) before the subject. Hence option B improves the sentence.
Q2. Each student from amongst the hundred students in the class (want to watch) this movie.
are wanting to watch
is wanting
wants to watch
No Improvement
Solution:
Each + Singular Noun + Singular Verb. Also Gerund form of want i.e. want + ing is not acceptable in general cases. Hence option D improves the sentence.
Directions (3-4): In the following questions, out of the four alternatives, select the word similar in meaning to the word given.
Q3. PERVERSITY
Cooperative
Accommodating
Waywardness
Reasonable
Solution:
Perversity: a deliberate desire to behave in an unreasonable or unacceptable way; contrariness. Waywardness: turned or turning away from what is right or proper; disobedient. Hence Perversity and Waywardness are synonyms to each other.
Q4. THRONG
Trickle
Multitude
Scantling
Expurgate
Solution:
Throng: a large, densely packed crowd. Multitude: a large number of people or things. Hence Throng and Multitude are synonyms to each other.
Directions (5-6): In the following questions, out of the four alternatives, select the word opposite in meaning to the word given.
Q5. VITIATE
Satiate
Elevate
Staggered
Prevaricate
Solution:
Vitiate: to lower in character, dignity, or quality. Elevate: to improve morally, intellectually, or culturally. Hence Vitiate and Elevate are antonyms to each other.
Q6. WELTER
Orderliness
Tumble
Mishmash
Empathy
Solution:
Welter: a state in which everything is out of order. Orderliness: the quality or state of being orderly. Tumble: a disordered mass of objects or material. Mishmash: a confused mixture of things. Hence Welter and Orderliness are antonyms to each other.
Directions (7-8): In the following questions, out of the four alternatives, select the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the idiom/phrase. Q7. A man of straw
A man of words
A man of wisdom
A weak person
A rich person
Solution:
Option C is the correct meaning.
Q8. To lead astray
To take back what you have said
To misguide
To achieve two results with one effort
To apologize humbly
Solution:
Option B is the correct meaning.
Directions (9-10): In the following questions, four words are given out of which one word is incorrectly spelt. Select the incorrectly spelt word.
Q9.
Curriculum
Absequatulate
Collaborate
Heretofore
Solution:
Correct Spelling is Absquatulate.
Q10.
Machination
Retrenchment
Insoeuciant
Colloquial
Solution:
Correct Spelling is Insouciant
Directions (11-15): In the following passage some of the words have been left out. Read the passage carefully and select the correct answer for the given blank out of the four alternatives.
Broadly speaking, education aims to _____ two objectives – first, to train the student in such a way as to make his life happy and _____, and secondly to provide him with _____ of various kinds. The knowledge imparted by education embodies the immense _____ acquired by the human race through ages. This knowledge, again, can be classified under two heads-one, relating to the _____ or reasoning, the other relating to the sphere of feeling.
Q11. Broadly speaking, education aims to _____ two objectives
achieve
determine
regress
mark
Solution:
Achieve: successfully bring about or reach (a desired objective or result) by effort, skill, or courage
Broadly speaking, education aims to _____ two objectives – first, to train the student in such a way as to make his life happy and _____, and secondly to provide him with _____ of various kinds. The knowledge imparted by education embodies the immense _____ acquired by the human race through ages. This knowledge, again, can be classified under two heads-one, relating to the _____ or reasoning, the other relating to the sphere of feeling.
Q12. such a way as to make his life happy and _____,
challenging
interesting
meaningful
boring
Solution:
Meaningful: serious, important, or worthwhile and hence fits in the context.
Broadly speaking, education aims to _____ two objectives – first, to train the student in such a way as to make his life happy and _____, and secondly to provide him with _____ of various kinds. The knowledge imparted by education embodies the immense _____ acquired by the human race through ages. This knowledge, again, can be classified under two heads-one, relating to the _____ or reasoning, the other relating to the sphere of feeling.
Q13. and secondly to provide him with _____ of various kinds.
resources
power
knowledge
money
Solution:
The subsequent part of the passage makes the usage of ‘Knowledge’ meaningful.
Broadly speaking, education aims to _____ two objectives – first, to train the student in such a way as to make his life happy and _____, and secondly to provide him with _____ of various kinds. The knowledge imparted by education embodies the immense _____ acquired by the human race through ages. This knowledge, again, can be classified under two heads-one, relating to the _____ or reasoning, the other relating to the sphere of feeling.
Q14. education embodies the immense _____ acquired by the
caliber
happiness
growth
experience
Broadly speaking, education aims to _____ two objectives – first, to train the student in such a way as to make his life happy and _____, and secondly to provide him with _____ of various kinds. The knowledge imparted by education embodies the immense _____ acquired by the human race through ages. This knowledge, again, can be classified under two heads-one, relating to the _____ or reasoning, the other relating to the sphere of feeling.
Q15. classified under two heads-one, relating to the _____ or reasoning, the other
emotions
intellect
senses
strength
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