SSC CGL 2017 Tier-I exam is going on. These questions are based on the type of English questions asked in the SSC CGL Exam. Candidates having CGL Exam in the upcoming shifts can go through these questions and can expect these questions to be asked in upcoming shifts as well.
Directions (1-5): A sentence/a part of the sentence is highlighted in 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. Do you have some sugar?
(a) any sugar
(b) little sugar
(c) small sugar
(d) No improvement
Q2. Iago lied to Othello about his wife.
(a) lay
(b) laid
(c) lain
(d) No improvement
Q3. It is not possible to tell the entire story in nutshell.
(a) in a nutshell
(b) in the nut
(c) in a shell
(d) No improvement
Q4. It is all but same to me whether I am transferred to Mumbai or Kolkata.
(a) all or same
(b) all the same
(c) all one
(d) No improvement
Q5. Despite his father’s financial assistance, he was always hard off.
(a) hard in
(b) hard up
(c) hard out
(d) No improvement
Directions (6-7): In each of the questions, four alternatives are given for the Idiom/Phrase. Choose the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the Idiom/Phrase and click the button corresponding to it.
Q6. Fair – weather friend
(a) Honest only when easy and convenient
(b) Truthful only when easy and convenient
(c) Supports only when easy and convenient
(d) Temporary only when easy and convenient
Q7. Pull together
(a) Become friends
(b) Work harmoniously
(c) Be successful
(d) Live happily
Directions (8-10): Out of the four alternatives, choose the one which can be substituted for the given words/sentences and click the button corresponding to it.
Q8. A place where soldiers live
(a) Tanks
(b) Shacks
(c) Ordnance Depots
(d) Barracks
Q9. A man who collects old and new coins.
(a) Geologist
(b) Numismatist
(c) Archaeologist
(d) Zoologist
Q10. Regular users of places/restaurant etc.
(a) Client
(b) Clientele
(c) Often
(d) Usage
Directions (11-15): In each of the following sentences, a part of the sentence is left unfinished. Beneath each sentence, four different ways of completing the sentence are indicated. Choose the best alternative among the four.
Q11. __________ that in this apparent mess, two things need not be interfered with.
(a) It is important
(b) It is of cardinal importance
(c) It should be urgently understood
(d) It cannot be emphasized
Q12. The highest reward for a man’s toil is not what he gets for it, but what __________
(a) he makes out of it.
(b) he gets for others.
(c) he has overcome through it.
(d) he becomes by it.
Q13. Wines that yield a good commercial profit __________ in the same limited areas of France as now.
(a) seem to have been produced.
(b) appear to have a remarkable semblance
(c) bear a significant similarity in terms of production to those grown
(d) appear to have been similarly produced
Q14. In pursuance of their decision to resist what they saw as anti-labour policies, the company employees’ union launched agitation to __________.
(a) show their virility
(b) reaffirm their commitment to the company
(c) bring down the government
(d) demonstrate their strength
Q15. The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition as it has developed up to now, with all its diverse proponents, is that it consists of a __________ Plato.
(a) series of footnotes to
(b) set of prologues to
(c) collection of chapters on
(d) string of commentaries to
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