Dear Students, SSC CGL Tier-1 Exam is being held from 5th August 2017 to 24 August 2017. You need to practice a lot in order to achieve 40+ marks in the English Section. We are providing quizzes which include sentence improvement, error detection, idioms, one-word substitution, reading comprehension, vocabulary related questions etc. we have also provided study notes on English for SSC CGL 2017 Exam. Practice all these questions, if any doubt, post your queries in the comment section, we will answer surely.
Directions (1-5): A sentence/a part of the sentence is bold. Four alternatives are given to the bold part which will improve the sentence. Choose the correct alternative and click the button corresponding to it. In case no improvement is needed, click the button corresponding to “No improvement”.
Q1. Jane had told me that she hasn’t done her homework.
(a) told
(b) tells
(c) was telling
Q2. This survey is concerning your health as well as that of your family.
(a) concerns with
(b) is concerned with
(c) concerns to
(d) no improvement
Q3. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hidden.
(a) be hid
(b) hide
(c) be hiding
(d) no improvement
Q4. A black and white goat were grazing.
(a) The white and the black goat
(b) A black and a white goat
(c) A black and the white goat
(d) no improvement
Q5. I had took the papers to John’s office.
(a) will took the papers
(b) taken the papers
(c) took the papers
(d) no improvement
Directions (6-15): In these questions, out of the four alternatives choose the one which can be substituted for the given words/sentence.
Q6. Study of statistics of population and births, deaths, diseases, etc.
(a) Century
(b) counting
(c) Headcount
(d) Demography
Q7. A type of mental illness in which one desires to steal
(a) Hypomania
(b) Hydrophobic
(c) Kleptomania
(d) Klebsiella
Q8. Someone who is fluent in many languages
(a) Polymers
(b) Polygyny
(c) Polygenetic
(d) Polyglot
Q9. Someone who collects and studies coins and medals
(a) Philatelic
(b) Bibliophile
(c) Numismatist
(d) Nuristan
Q10. Someone who studies the skin and diseases related to skin
(a) Cardiologist
(b) Endocrinologist
(c) Dermatologist
(d) Orthopedist
Q11. Words inscribed on a tomb
(a) Cenotaph
(b) Epitaph
(c) Epithet
(d) Epilogue
Q12. Large number of insects, birds etc. moving about
(a) Crowd
(b) Group
(c) Pack
(d) Swarm
Q13. A person who readily believes others
(a) Sensible
(b) Credulous
(c) Sensitive
(d) Credible
Q14. Dry weather with no rainfall
(a) Sunrise
(b) Dessert
(c) Drought
(d) Autumn
Q15. Unrelated to the subject
(a) Irrelevant
(b) Super giant
(c) Specific
(d) General
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