SSC CHSL 2021 Tier-1 English Paper Mock Test-2 (24-5-2022 Shift-2)

Q.1 Select the most appropriate ANTONYM of the underlined word in the following sentence.

I felt terribly jaded after working all weekend.

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Q.2 Select the most appropriate meaning of the given idiom.

Gear up for

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Q.3 Select the option that will improve the underlined part of the given sentence.

One’s family plays a very major role to continue the trends and age-old traditions.

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Q.4 Select the INCORRECTLY spelt word.

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Q.5 Select the most appropriate ANTONYM of the underlined word.

The malice he developed for all caused a lot of damage.

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Q.6 Select the correctly spelt word to fill in the blank.

The people from sub-continent are very _____________.

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Q.7 Select the option that expresses the given sentence in passive voice.

Kiara will sign all the documents tomorrow.

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Q.8 Select the option that can be used as a one-word substitute for the given group of words.

Unable to speak distinctly or express oneself clearly

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Q.9 Select the most appropriate meaning of the given idiom.

Call upon

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Q.10 Select the INCORRECTLY spelt word.

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Q.11 Select the most appropriate synonym of the word given in the brackets to fill in the blank.

The university team won the match in the end with a ____________ (cunning) move.

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Q.12 Select the option that expresses the given sentence in active voice.

A trip to the village temple was made by Bhavani yesterday.

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Q.13 Select the most appropriate option that can substitute the underlined segment in the given sentence.

He dreams big than his friends.

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Q.14 Select the most appropriate synonym of the given word.

Abundant

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Q.15 Sentences of a paragraph are given below in jumbled order. Arrange the sentences in the correct order to form a meaningful and coherent paragraph.

A. The first time that I was seated behind a curtain in a dining car, I felt as if the curtain had been dropped on my selfhood and could never adjust to the separate waiting rooms, separate eating places, separate rest rooms, partly because the separate was always unequal, and partly because the very idea of separation did something to my sense of dignity and self-respect.

B. One Sunday, we went to church in Simsbury, and we were the only Negroes there and on Sunday mornings I was the religious leader and spoke on any text I wanted to 107 boys.

C. Just before going to college I went to Simsbury, Connecticut, and worked for a whole summer on a tobacco farm to earn a little school money to supplement what my parents were doing.

D. After that summer in Connecticut, it was a bitter feeling going back to segregation and it was hard to understand why I could ride wherever I pleased on the train from New York to Washington and then had to change to a Jim Crow car at the nation’s capital in order to continue the trip to Atlanta.

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Q.16 Select the option that can be used as a one-word substitute for the given group of words.

A small organised dissenting group within a larger one

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Q.17 Select the option that expresses the given sentence in passive voice.

The boy kicked the ball high into the air.

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Q.18 Select the most appropriate meaning of the idiom given in underline in the following sentence.

At supper, everyone was in high spirits.

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Q.19 Select the denotation of the highlighted word.

The guile of the businessman is well known to his contemporaries.

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Q.20 Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank.

A wise king’s wisdom _____________the land like the sun.

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Comprehension:

In the following passage, some words have been deleted. Read the passage carefully and select the most appropriate option to fill in each blank.

Novelists when they write novels tend to take an almost god-like attitude (1) ___________ their subject, pretending to a total comprehension of the story, a man's life, (2) __________ they can therefore recount as God Himself might, nothing standing between them and the naked truth, the entire story meaningful in (3) ___________ detail. I am as little able to do this as the novelist is, even though my story is more important to me than any novelist's is to him – for this is my story; it is the story of a man, not of an invented, or possible, or idealised or otherwise (4) __________ figure, but of a unique (5) ___________ of flesh and blood.

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Q.21 Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank number 1.

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Comprehension:

In the following passage, some words have been deleted. Read the passage carefully and select the most appropriate option to fill in each blank.

Novelists when they write novels tend to take an almost god-like attitude (1) ___________ their subject, pretending to a total comprehension of the story, a man's life, (2) __________ they can therefore recount as God Himself might, nothing standing between them and the naked truth, the entire story meaningful in (3) ___________ detail. I am as little able to do this as the novelist is, even though my story is more important to me than any novelist's is to him – for this is my story; it is the story of a man, not of an invented, or possible, or idealised or otherwise (4) __________ figure, but of a unique (5) ___________ of flesh and blood.

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Q.22 Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank number 2.

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Comprehension:

In the following passage, some words have been deleted. Read the passage carefully and select the most appropriate option to fill in each blank.

Novelists when they write novels tend to take an almost god-like attitude (1) ___________ their subject, pretending to a total comprehension of the story, a man's life, (2) __________ they can therefore recount as God Himself might, nothing standing between them and the naked truth, the entire story meaningful in (3) ___________ detail. I am as little able to do this as the novelist is, even though my story is more important to me than any novelist's is to him – for this is my story; it is the story of a man, not of an invented, or possible, or idealised or otherwise (4) __________ figure, but of a unique (5) ___________ of flesh and blood.

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Q.23 Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank number 3.

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Comprehension:

In the following passage, some words have been deleted. Read the passage carefully and select the most appropriate option to fill in each blank.

Novelists when they write novels tend to take an almost god-like attitude (1) ___________ their subject, pretending to a total comprehension of the story, a man's life, (2) __________ they can therefore recount as God Himself might, nothing standing between them and the naked truth, the entire story meaningful in (3) ___________ detail. I am as little able to do this as the novelist is, even though my story is more important to me than any novelist's is to him – for this is my story; it is the story of a man, not of an invented, or possible, or idealised or otherwise (4) __________ figure, but of a unique (5) ___________ of flesh and blood.

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Q.24 Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank number 4.

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Comprehension:

In the following passage, some words have been deleted. Read the passage carefully and select the most appropriate option to fill in each blank.

Novelists when they write novels tend to take an almost god-like attitude (1) ___________ their subject, pretending to a total comprehension of the story, a man's life, (2) __________ they can therefore recount as God Himself might, nothing standing between them and the naked truth, the entire story meaningful in (3) ___________ detail. I am as little able to do this as the novelist is, even though my story is more important to me than any novelist's is to him – for this is my story; it is the story of a man, not of an invented, or possible, or idealised or otherwise (4) __________ figure, but of a unique (5) ___________ of flesh and blood.

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Q.25 Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank number 5.

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