English Language - SSC CHSL 2021 Tier 1 Question Paper - 24 May 2021 -Afternoon Shift

Combined Higher Secondary Level Examination 2021 Tier I
English Language
24/05/2022 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM

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1. Select the most appropriate meaning of the idiom given in bold in the following sentence.

At supper, everyone was in high spirits.

cheerful

drunk

nervous

anxious

2. 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.

passive role in making the trends

futile part in making trendsfutile part in making trends

significant role in enduring the trends

docile part in enduring trends

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

I felt terribly jaded after working all weekend.

glutted

refreshed

spent

vigorous

4. Select the correctly spelt word to fill in the blank.

The people from sub-continent are very _____________.

superstitios

superstitious

supersticious

supersctitious

5. Select the denotation of the highlighted word.

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

Courage

Shyness

Gentleness

Slyness

6. Select the option that expresses the given sentence in active voice.

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

Bhavani was going to make a trip to the temple yesterday.

Bhavani made a trip to the village temple yesterday.

Bhavani tripped to the village temple yesterday.

Bhavani is going to make a trip to the temple today.

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

He dreams big than his friends.

bigger

more big

biggest

most big

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

Inane

Inapt

Inarch

Inarticulate

9. 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.

brilliant

slick

random

quick

10. Select the most appropriate meaning of the given idiom.

Gear up for

Start off

Pass into

Get ready for

Put on

11. 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.

ADBC

BCDA

CBDA

CDBA

12. Select the most appropriate meaning of the given idiom.

Call upon

To adjust

To stop

To follow

To order

13. Select the option that expresses the given sentence in passive voice.

The boy kicked the ball high into the air.

The ball will be kicked high into the air by the boy.

The ball was kicked high into the air by the boy.

The boy kicks the ball high into the air.

The boy had kicked the ball high into the air.

14. Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank.

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

illuminates

darkens

dims

spreads

15. 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

Band

Set

Faction

Cluster

16. Select the most appropriate synonym of the given word.

Abundant

Abysmal

Ephemeral

Scarce

Plentiful

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

Kiara will sign all the documents tomorrow.

Kiara was to be signed by tomorrow for all the documents.

Tomorrow Kiara will be signed by all the documents.

All the documents will be signed by Kiara tomorrow.

Kiara would have been signed tomorrow by all the documents.

18. Select the most appropriate ANTONYM of the highlighted word.

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

avarice

grace

sympathy

oppression

19. Select the INCORRECTLY spelt word.

Efficient

Layer

Committee

Feeld

20. Select the INCORRECTLY spelt word.

Martinet

Congenital

Phlegmatic

Occular

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.

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

despite

under

through

towards

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.

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

whose

whom

who

which

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.

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

every

self

last

present

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.

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

callous

absent

ordinary

profuse

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.

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

organism

being

cripple

stance

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