SSC CHSL MCQ 2021| English Section | 25 May 2021 | First Shift | CHSL Question Answer

Combined Higher Secondary Level Examination 2021 Tier I
Section : English Language
25/05/2022 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

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1. Select the option that can be used as a one-word substitute for the underlined group of words.
Ravi got the job easily because he speaks many languages.

Polyglot

Polynomial

Polycentric

Polysyllabic

2. Select the most appropriate synonym of the given word.
Loathe

Entrench

Abhor

Abjure

Meddle

3. From among the words given in bold, select the INCORRECTLY spelt word in the following sentence.
The popular ridikule of Puritanism in burlesque and doggerel is best exemplified in Butler’s Hudibras.

exemplified

ridikule

burlesque

doggerel

4. Select the most appropriate meaning of the given idiom.
A snake in the grass

A timid person

A deceitful person

A wealthy person

A talkative person

5. Select the INCORRECTLY spelt word

Guide

Geilty

Guard

Global

6. Select the most appropriate option to substitute the underline segment in the given sentence.
During the war, the comedian proved to be a man of music.

man of words

man of Mars

man of straw

man of grass

7. Select the denotation of the highlighted word.
The archer doesn’t get perturbed easily.

Initiated

Agitated

Animated

Triumphed

8. Select the most appropriate option that can substitute the underlined words in the given sentence.
All his bones could be counted because his body was totally shrivelled and wrinkled with age.

wizened

shrunken

dried

bony

9. Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank.
Asha was ___________ made a fool by her friend.

insistently

unknowingly

innocently

deliberately

10. Select the option that expresses the given sentence in passive voice.
You never hear of a happy billionaire.

A happy billionaire is never heard of.

A happy billionaire never heard of.

A happy billionaire is never heard by you.

No one hears a happy billionaire.

11. Select the option that expresses the given sentence in passive voice.
The most recent studies on the human body are likely to alter the face of health sciences.

The most recent studies on the human body are likely to be altered by the face of health sciences.

The face of health sciences will be altering the most recent studies on the human body.

The face of health sciences is likely to be altered by the most recent studies on the human body.

The most face of health sciences is likely to alter the recent studies on the human body.

12. The following sentence has been split into four segments. Identify the segment that contains a grammatical error.
The river / flowed besides / the hillock / in our village.

in our village

the hillock

flowed besides

The river

13. Select the most appropriate meaning of the given idiom.
Tit for tat

Prepare to leave

A wild guess

Counter attack

Go smoothly

14. Select the most appropriate ANTONYM of the underlined word in the following sentence.
Eventually the patient succumbed to her illness.

died

overcame

surrendered

advanced

15. Select the most appropriate option that can substitute the underlined segment in the given sentence.
Show me the better dress in the shop.

a better

a good

the best

the good

16. 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. Their brother, John, is more blatantly hostile to Jane, reminding her that she is a poor dependent of his mother.
B. Orphaned as an infant, Jane Eyre lives at Gateshead with her aunt, Sarah Reed, as the novel opens.
C. Her female cousins, Georgiana, and Eliza, tolerate, but don't love her.
D. Jane is ten years old, an outsider in the Reed family.

DCAB

DBCA

BDCA

BACD

17. Select the INCORRECTLY spelt word.

Beautycian

Mathematician

Musician

Technician

18. Select the most appropriate option that can substitute the underlined segment in the given sentence. If there is no need to substitute it, select ‘No substitution required’.

At the end of our first two weeks on the island, we were informed that our lawyers, Bram Fischer and Joel Joffe, were going to be visiting the following day.

we are informed

we get inform

No substitution required

we were inform

19. Select the most appropriate synonym of the given word.
Perilous

Dangerous

Stimulus

Secure

Impetus

20. Select the most appropriate synonym of the given word.
Serendipity

Sibilance

Godsend

Catastrophe

Surreptitious

21. 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.

Psychologists discovered that there are two routes (1) ___________ achievement: conformity and originality. Conformity means following the crowd (2) __________ conventional paths and (3) ___________ the status quo. Originality is taking the road (4) __________ travelled, championing a set of novel ideas that go against the grain but (5) __________ making things better.

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

against

on

off

to

22. 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.

Psychologists discovered that there are two routes (1) ___________ achievement: conformity and originality. Conformity means following the crowd (2) __________ conventional paths and (3) ___________ the status quo. Originality is taking the road (4) __________ travelled, championing a set of novel ideas that go against the grain but (5) __________ making things better.

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

down

beside

since

at

23. 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.

Psychologists discovered that there are two routes (1) ___________ achievement: conformity and originality. Conformity means following the crowd (2) __________ conventional paths and (3) ___________ the status quo. Originality is taking the road (4) __________ travelled, championing a set of novel ideas that go against the grain but (5) __________ making things better.

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

building

supplying

serving

maintaining

24. 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.

Psychologists discovered that there are two routes (1) ___________ achievement: conformity and originality. Conformity means following the crowd (2) __________ conventional paths and (3) ___________ the status quo. Originality is taking the road (4) __________ travelled, championing a set of novel ideas that go against the grain but (5) __________ making things better.

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

quietly

far

frequently

less

25. 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.

Psychologists discovered that there are two routes (1) ___________ achievement: conformity and originality. Conformity means following the crowd (2) __________ conventional paths and (3) ___________ the status quo. Originality is taking the road (4) __________ travelled, championing a set of novel ideas that go against the grain but (5) __________ making things better.

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

superficially

disinterestedly

advertently

ultimately

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