SSC-CGL 2022 English

Practice subject-wise previous year questions

Question 26

Comprehension

Select the most appropriate option that can substitute the underlined segment in the given sentence. If there is no need to substitute it, select ‘No substitution’. I have reached the hotel, by the time you call me.

will be reaching the hotel

No substitution

will have reached the hotel

had reached the hotel

Question 27

Comprehension

Select the most appropriate synonym of the underlined word in the given sentence. The promises made by the old minister were fulfilled.

Contemporary

Aged

Recent

Vernal

Question 28

Comprehension

Select the word that is OPPOSITE in meaning to the underlined word in the given sentence. He consolidated his position as the leader of the political party.

Weakened

Devised

Strengthened

Formulated

Question 29

Comprehension

Sentences of a paragraph are given below in jumbled order. Arrange the sentences in the correct order to form a meaningful and coherent paragraph. A.It is a very popular character and is the mascot for Walt Disney company. B.Mickey generally appears with his girlfriend Minnie Mouse and pet Pluto. C.The animated movies on Mickey mouse have been nominated for the Academy award. D.Mickey mouse is a fictional cartoon character created by Walt Disney in 1928.

DABC

ADBC

ACDB

BACD

Question 30

Comprehension

The following sentence has been divided into parts. One of them may contain an error. Select the part that contains the error from the given options. If you don’t find any error, mark ‘No error’ as your answer. The prisoner was / accused for stealing / from his landlord.

accused for stealing

The prisoner was

from his landlord

No error

Question 31

Comprehension

Select the most appropriate meaning of the underlined idiom in the given sentence. The lecture by the French professor seemed Latin and Greek to the young students.

Interesting

Lucid

Unbiased

Incomprehensible

Question 32

Comprehension

Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank. We ensure that you will get a ___________ chauffeur with the right car for your day.

novice

uniformed

dabbler

riotous

Question 33

Comprehension

Select the INCORRECTLY spelt word.

Compact

Compell

Currently

Savage

Question 34

Comprehension

Select the most appropriate synonym of the word ‘consensus’ from the following sentence. The landowner and the tenant mutually came to an agreement for decisive acceptance of its clause.

Decisive

Acceptance

Mutually

Agreement

Question 35

Comprehension

A sentence has been given with a blank to be filled with an appropriate word. Choose the correct alternative. She rubbed her hands over her arms, and then _______ her purse, headed inside the convenience store.

snapping

slaying

pinching

grabbing

Question 36

Comprehension

Select the most appropriate idiom that can substitute the italicised words in the given sentence. Some people still feel that they have very little freedom to be innovative in their work.

elbow room

an old lady

an old head on young shoulders

to make a pile

Question 37

Comprehension

Select the most appropriate option to replace the underlined segment in the given sentence. Old people acquire experience through age.

got experience

developed experience

experienced

gain experience

Question 38

Comprehension

Select the correct active form of the given sentence. AIDS will have been cured by the year 2070 by scientists.

Scientists will have cured AIDS by the year 2070.

Scientists cured AIDS by the year 2070.

Scientists will cure AIDS by the year 2070.

Scientists must have cured AIDS by the year 2070.

Question 39

Comprehension

Select the option that expresses the given sentence in active voice. Honest and polite people are admired by everyone.

Everyone has been admiring honest and polite people.

Everyone admired honest and polite people.

Everyone will admire honest and polite people.

Everyone admires honest and polite people.

Question 40

Comprehension

Choose the incorrectly spelt word.

Assidous

Disapproval

Devastation

Conjoined

Question 41

Comprehension

Select the appropriate option to replace the underlined word with the adverb of frequency. He did not admit that his team played badly.

never admitted

yesterday admitted

happily admitted

willingly admitted

Question 42

Comprehension

Select the correct direct form of the given sentence. Raveena asked me if I had her maid’s number.

Raveena asked me, "Do you have my maid's number?"

Raveena asked me, “Are you having my maid’s number.”

Raveena said to me, “Does you have my maid’s number.”

Raveena asked to me, “Have you have my maid’s number.”

Question 43

Comprehension

The question below consists of a set of labeled sentences. Out of the four options given, select the most logical order of the sentences to form a coherent paragraph. P. There once was a little boy who had a very bad temper. Q. The boy gradually began to control his temper over the next few weeks, and the number of nails he was hammering into the fence slowly decreased. R. His father decided to hand him a bag of nails and said that every time the boy lost his temper, he had to hammer a nail into the fence. S. On the first day, the boy hammered 37 nails into that fence .

QRSP

PRSQ

RPSQ

QPRS

Question 44

Comprehension

Select the most appropriate ANTONYM of the word established from the given sentence: Siben feels great satisfaction and gratified when he finds his pupils established successfully in the society when a lot have been displaced because of several failed attempts.

displaced

fail

gratified

pupils

Question 45

Comprehension

Select the option that expresses the given sentence in indirect speech. He said to him, "Is your name not Ahmed?"

He enquired is your name not Ahmed.

He enquired whether his name was not Ahmed.

He said whether his name was not Ahmed.

He said is your name not Ahmed.

Question 46

Comprehension

Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank number 1.

Ans 1. serve

drain

lag

debit

Question 47

Comprehension

Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank number 2

sometimes

nevertheless

whether

presumably

Question 48

Comprehension

Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank number 3.

express

disappear

Ans 1. express 2. disappear 3. collect

sterilise

Question 49

Comprehension

Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank number 4.

morbidly

bleakly

pithily

Question 50

Comprehension

Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank number 5.

behave

allow

caution

effeminate

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