English Questions for SSC CGL Exam 2017

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Dear Students, SSC CGL Tier-1 Exam is conducting from 1st August 2017 to 20 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 (Q1-10): In the following questions, out of the four alternatives, choose the one which best expresses the meaning of the given word as you answer.

Q1.Subsume
(a)Include
(b)Assume something
(c)Imagine
(d)Substantial

Q2.Ersatz
(a)chirpy
(b)artificial
(c)genial
(d)laceration

Q3.Parochial
(a)sanguine
(b)exalting
(c)conservative
(d)bounteous

Q4.Lugubrious
(a)moderate
(b)mournful
(c)lecherous
(d)salubrious

Q5.Redress
(a)dress up again
(b) Remedy
(c)unsettle
(d)collapse

Q6.Instil
(a)oppose
(b)static
(c)permeate
(d)enact

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Q7.Flout
(a)defy
(b)deity
(c)loot
(d)grim

Q8.Peevish
(a)precept
(b)exemplary
(c)Cranky
(d)ruse

Q9. LAMPOON
(a)abaft
(b)pooling
(c)row
(d)ridicule

Q10.Incursion
(a)journey
(b)excursion
(c)aggression
(d)incorrect

Directions: (11-15): In these questions, read each sentence to find out whether there is any error in it. The error, if any, will be in one part of the sentence. The number of that part is the answer. If there is no error, the answer is (D). (Ignore errors of Punctuation, if any.)

Q11. After making me wait for two agonising hours the great man called me in and asking me what do I want?
(a) After making me wait for two agonising hours
(b) the great man called me in
(c) and asking me what do I want?
(d) No error

Q12.The green paint on the wall provides a suitable contrast with the yellow doors.
(a) The green paint on the wall
(b) provides a suitable contrast
(c) with the yellow doors
(d) No error

Q13. The various consequences of the decision taken by the Finance ministry was not foreseen by the bureaucrats.
(a) The various consequences of
(b) the decision taken by the
(c) Finance ministry was not foreseen by the bureaucrats.
(d) No error

Q14.These days, job opportunities are not as better as thus used to be in the early, 70’s.
(a) These days, job opportunities are not as better
(b) as thus used to be
(c) in the early, 70’s.
(d) No error

Q15. There is a temple before my house.
(a) There is
(b) a temple
(c) before my house.
(d) No error

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