Previous Years English Questions For SSC CGL And SSC CPO Exam 2018: 5 September

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Directions (1-5): A passage is given with 5 questions following it. Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives and click the button corresponding to it.

In general it is better to use too little make-up than too much. The audience should not be aware that the actor's face is painted. For the actor who is playing his own age, the artist uses make-up to strengthen the features, particularly eyes and mouth, and to add lifelike colour to the face. Character make-up does these things in addition to transforming the face to another age, another type or another race. This transformation, particularly for young actors playing old characters, can be helped greatly by hats and hairdos. Make-up consists of applying a base colour, then modelling the face by highlighting and shadowing (sinking the cheeks, for example, with a darker colour). Sometimes, modelling is done by applying false (putty or plastic) noses, enlarged eyebrows, or scars. Lines to suggest wrinkles are drawn on with a dark make-up pencil (brown or maroon, not black) or brush. Each line is highlighted with another line, either white or a light tint of the base colour. Lips are outlined and coloured, and a similar colour is applied to the cheeks. After make-up is complete, powder is applied.

Q1. The artist uses make-up to strengthen the features, particularly eyes and mouth, and to add life like colours to the face for the actor who is playing _____ .

the lead role

the old man or woman

his own age

the role of the clown

Q2. What do artists use to help young actors playing old men?

Wig and moustache

Hats and hairdos

Wheel chairs and walking sticks

False noses, enlarged eyebrows or scars

Q3. What is the correct sequence for make-up?

Modelling the face by highlighting and shadowing then applying a base colour

Highlighting and shadowing, then applying a base colour and modelling the face

Applying a base colour, then modelling the face by highlighting and shadowing

Shadowing and modelling, then applying a base colour for highlighting

Q4. Lines are drawn with a dark make-up pencil or brush to suggest _____ .

dimples

wrinkles

smiles

pimples

Q5. When is powder usually applied?

Before the make-up

As make-up foundation

After the make-up

During the make-up

Directions (6-10): A passage is given with 5 questions following it. Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives and click the button corresponding to it.

A knowledge of grammar is essential for good speaking and writing, by which one's mind is judged. Studying grammar means hard work: it must be learned as a whole, with no part omitted, and it demands much thought and patience. But, once acquired, it can give a life-time's pleasure and profit. Its study requires no physical hardship, no special room or expenses. If people spent only their leisure time studying grammar they could master it in one year. The author learned it in less than a year. As a private soldier earning sixpence a day, he sat on his bed and studied. Unable to afford candle or oil, he read in winter by firelight (when it was his turn). If he could manage it thus, and with no outside encouragement, then any youth, however poor or busy, could do the same.

Q6. Why should we learn grammar?

To develop speaking skills

To develop writing skills

To have a mastery over language

To acquire good speaking and writing skills

Q7. How does the world judge a man's mind?

By his dress

By his manners

By his appearance

By his speech and writing

Q8. How long would it take to gain mastery over grammar?

One year

Six months

Two years

Ten months

Q9. What is the occupation of the writer?

Teacher

Soldier

Artist

Clerk

Q10. The learning of grammar should be

patient, thoughtful and holistic

thoughtful, patient and piecemeal

holistic, thoughtful and rapid

thoughtful, rapid and piecemeal

Directions (11-13): Choose the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the Idiom/Phrase and click the button corresponding to it.

Q11. Gate crasher

Invader

Thief

Uninvited guest

Children

Q12. Angle for something

To measure the dimensions of an object

To leave something after achieving it

To try to get something in an indirect way

To sit and make a decision

Q13. Drive home

Find one's roots

To lay emphasis on

To do a safe driving

To draw something out of boredom

Directions (14-15): Out of the four alternatives, choose the one which can be substituted for the given words/sentences and click the button corresponding to it.

Q14. One who pretends to be what he is not

Hypocrite

Pessimist

Optimist

Infallible

Q15. A paper/story/poem first written out by hand

Handicraft

Manuscript

Handiwork

Thesis

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