SSC-CGL 2019 English

Practice subject-wise previous year questions

Question 451

Comprehension

Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank No.(5)

structuring

expanding

adapting

explaining

Question 452

Comprehension

Select the most appropriate antonym of the given word. WEAKNESS

Disability

Strength

Illness

Bravery

Question 453

Comprehension

Select the most appropriate antonym of the given word. TYRANT

Benefactor

Champion

Despot

Rival

Question 454

Comprehension

Select the correct active form of the given sentence. He was given a book for his birthday by her.

She give a book to him for his birthday.

She has gave him a book for his birthday

She will be giving him a book for his birthday.

She gave him a book for his birthday.

Question 455

Comprehension

Select the most appropriate meaning of the underlined idiom in the given sentence. The idea of making a children's park has been nipped in the bud by the local council.

dropped at an early stage

encouraged strongly

will be considered at a later time

changed completely

Question 456

Comprehension

Select the most appropriate option to substitute the underlined segment in the given sentence. If no substitution is required, select 'No improvement'. Applications are to be sent to the Principal before 30 th May.

No improvement

will be send to

are sending to

were being send to

Question 457

Comprehension

Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank No.(5)

shells

young ones

eggs

pebbles

Question 458

Comprehension

Given below are four jumbled sentences. Select the option that gives their correct order. A. It is a popular tourist spot for watching the sunset and sunrise over the ocean. B. Kanyakumari is a coastal town in the State of Tamil Nadu on India's southern tip. C. It is also a noted pilgrimage site, thanks to its Bagvathi Amman Temple and Our Lady of Ransom Church, a centre of Indian Catholicism. D. Jutting out into the Laccadive sea, the town was known as Cape Comorin during the British rule.

BDAC

DCAB

ACDB

BCDA

Question 459

Comprehension

Select the most appropriate antonym of the given word. PUBLIC

common

restricted

private

ready

Question 460

Comprehension

Select the most appropriate meaning of the underlined idiom in the given sentence. The invigilator did not know that the two boys were exchanging notes under his nose.

rolled into small pellets

written in small letters

right in front of him

wrapped in handkerchiefs

Question 461

Comprehension

Select the most appropriate synonym of the given word. HOSTILITY

enmity

sympathy

friendship

goodwill

Question 462

Comprehension

Select the most appropriate meaning of the underlined idiom in the given sentence. Let us have all the regulations in black and white.

painted in colour

in writing

written on the black- board

printed in coloured ink

Question 463

Comprehension

Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank. Today, _______ society is literally poisoning the earth with acid rain.

industrialized

cosmopolitan

growing

developing

Question 464

Comprehension

Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank No.(1)

snakes

turtles

animal

fish

Question 465

Comprehension

In the sentence identify the segment which contains the grammatical error. You may left the class when you have completed the test.

You may left

when you have

completed the test

the class

Question 466

Comprehension

Select the correct passive form of the given sentence. They will put away their woollens after the festival of Holi.

Their woollens are being put away after the festival of Holi.

Their woollens will be put away by them after the festival of Holi.

Their woollens have been put away after the festival of Holi by them

Their woollens are put away after the festival of Holi.

Question 467

Comprehension

Select the most appropriate synonym of the given word. INSULT

offer

apply

offend

remove

Question 468

Comprehension

Select the most appropriate antonym of the given word. PROGRESSIVE

repeated

moving

conservative

aristocratic

Question 469

Comprehension

Select the correctly spelt word.

scissors

teribble

clettering

sweatter

Question 470

Comprehension

Select the word which means the same as the group of words given. impossible to satisfy

satisfiable

contented

insatiable

satisfactory

Question 471

Comprehension

Select the correct active form of the given sentence. Rudra was laughed at by all his friends when he wore his socks inside-out.

All his friends laughed at Rudra when he wore his socks inside-out.

When Rudra wore his socks inside-out all his friends were laughing at him.

All his friends will be laughing at Rudra for wearing his socks inside-out.

If Rudra wears his socks inside-out all his friends will laugh at him.

Question 472

Comprehension

Select the word which means the same as the group of words given. liable to break easily

brittle

soft

bent

thin

Question 473

Comprehension

Select the most appropriate option to substitute the underlined segment in the given sentence. If no substitution is required, select No improvement. For how long you are living in this city?

No improvement

are you been living

have you been living

are you live

Question 474

Comprehension

Given below are four jumbled sentences. Select the option that gives their correct order. A. He would sit at the edge of her mother's bed and stare into her crib. B. Arvind bumbled down the interminable corridor, suddenly reminded of his daughter in the days after she was born. C. As a proportion to the fragment of life his daughter had seen, an hour was a vast sprawling space. D. Some days he would imagine the world through her eyes and he would feel in his heart how long an hour actually was.

DACB

BCDA

ABCD

BADC

Question 475

Comprehension

Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank. I am quite satisfied that I have not been ________ in doing whatever was needful for building up their character.

affectionate

caring

devoted

negligent

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