Dear Students, SSC CGL Tier-1 Exam will be held 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 (1-15): In the following questions, out of the four alternatives choose the one that can be substituted for the given words/phrase.
Q1. Person who looks at the dark side of everything
(a) pessimist
(b) idealist
(c) optimist
(d) Naturalism
Q2. Person who looks at the bright side of everything
(a) cynic
(b) pessimist
(c) optimist
(d) Strange
Q3. Person who abstains from all alcoholic drinks
(a) teetotaller
(b) ambitious
(c) abscond
(d) escape
Q4. Assumed pen-name of one who conceals his identity as a writer
(a) pompous
(b) plagiarist
(c) pseudonym
(d) philistine
Q5. Stage of growth between boyhood and youth
(a) infancy
(b) teenager
(c) old age
(d) adolescence
Q6. An organ of body cut off by surgery
(a) amputation
(b) imitation
(c) adaptation
(d) impartial
Q7. One who eats everything
(a) carnivorous
(b) herbivorous
(c) insectivorous
(d) omnivorous
Q8. Animal that eats flesh of other animals
(a) carnivorous
(b) benevolent
(c) insectivorous
(d) omnivorous
Q9. Animals that can live on land and water
(a) insectivorous
(b) dinosaurs
(c) amphibians
(d) reptile
Q10. One who is residing in a country of which he or she is not yet a full-fledged citizen
(a) lain
(b) lease
(c) enemy
(d) alien
Q11. Child without parents
(a) juvenile
(b) sprout
(c) orphan
(d) ankle biter
Q12. Easy to shape in desired form
(a) malleable
(b) stiff
(c) rigid
(d) brittle
Q13. Easy to carry over long distance
(a) fixed
(b) manageable
(c) portable
(d) convenient
Q14. An object through which light passes but people cannot see across clearly
(a) heavy
(b) cloudy
(c) opaque
(d) translucent
Q15. An object through which light passes and one can see through
(a) transparent
(b) opaque
(c) quite
(d) thick
