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English Comprehensive Quiz For SSC CGL And SSC CPO Exam 2018

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

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

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

Q4. THRONG
 Trickle
 Multitude
 Scantling
 Expurgate

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

Q6. WELTER
 Orderliness
 Tumble
 Mishmash
 Empathy

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

Q8. To lead astray
 To take back what you have said
 To misguide
 To achieve two results with one effort
 To apologize humbly

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

Q10.
 Machination
 Retrenchment
 Insoeuciant
 Colloquial

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

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

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

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










 SOLUTIONS

1.B
2.C
3.C
4.B
5.B
6.A
7.C
8.B
9.B
10.C
11.A
12.C
13.C
14.D
15.B