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Previous Years English Questions For SSC CGL And SSC CPO Exam 2018

Directions (1-2): 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.

Q1. She must sometimes __________ to run away.
 has wanted
 have wanted
 having want
 has want

Q2. The bank decided to ___________ them the money as they were reliable clients.
 let
 lend
 borrow
 lease

Directions (3-4): Improve the bracketed part of the sentence.

Q3. (Both of them have not) apologized yet.
 Neither of them has
 Any of them have
 None of the two
 No improvement

Q4. His appointment as coach is yet another (feather in his wing).
 feather in his hat
 badge in his hat
 feather in his cap
 No improvement

Directions(5-6): Out of the four alternatives, choose the one which can be substituted for the given words/sentences and click the button corresponding to it.

Q5. Drug which causes people to sleep easily
 Poppy
 Soporific
 Beguile
 Pedant

Q6. A person of South African Dutch descent
 Boar
 Boer
 Boor
 Bore

Directions (7-8): 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.

Q7. For keeps
 Temporarily
 Madly
 Forever
 Calmly

Q8. Pale into insignificance
 Seeming less important
 To fall sick
 Too good to ignore
 To be upset over someone’s loss.

Directions (9-10): Four words are given, out of which only one word is spelt correctly. Choose the correctly spelt word and click the button corresponding to it.

Q9.
 discripency
 discripancy
 discrepancy
 descripancy

Q10.
 Alleviate
 Allaviate
 Alliveate
 Allaevate

Directions (11-15) : A passage is given with 5 questions following it. Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives and click the button corresponding to it.

There is a growing parallel between India and Europe in terms of language policy and challenges of maintaining a balance between regional languages, minority languages and the rising demand for English.

The EU's language policy promotes multinationalism and the idea that every EU citizen should learn and speak at least two foreign languages in addition to their mother tongue. In practice, the foreign language curriculum in European countries is dominated now by the need to learn English. So the defacto policy is that children should, in addition to the language of their member state, learn English and one other European language. English has become not only the language of business across Europe, but also the corporate language of many French, German, Dutch and Spanish enterprises. The trend across Europe is for schools to begin teaching English in Class I, treating it as a basic skill rather than a foreign language. This trend began in earnest only after 2000. However, the methods to teach English are diverse - an increasingly popular trend is towards bilingual schools, which teach through more than one language medium.

Q11. There is a parallel between India and Europe as regards
 language policy
 trade policy
 foreign policy
 cultural policy

Q12. According to the passage, the foreign language policy in the EU aims to foster.
 English
 Multilingualism
 Bilingualism
 Only native language

Q13. The passage says that the rising demand for English in the EU is because of
 immigrants
 emigrants
 Government policy
 trade and commerce

Q14. EU schools regard English as
 a foreign language
 a difficult language
 a basic skill
 an adult skill

Q15. In Europe the usual pattern is that
 children should study English late in life
 children should start learning English from class I
 children may not study English when they are at school
 children ought to study English just as a lingua franca










SOLUTIONS

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