SSC CHSL English Mock Test Paper 010

Comprehension:
In the following passage some words have been deleted. Fill in the blanks with the help of the alternatives given. Select the most appropriate option for each number. Anders couldn't get to the bank until just before it closed, so of course the (1) ______ was endless and he got (2) ______ behind two women whose loud, stupid conversation put him in a murderous (3) ______ . He was never in the best of tempers (4) ______. Anders - a book critic known for the weary, elegant savagery with which he (5) ______ almost everything he reviewed.

 Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank No. 5.

Comprehension:
In the following passage some words have been deleted. Fill in the blanks with the help of the alternatives given. Select the most appropriate option for each number. Anders couldn't get to the bank until just before it closed, so of course the (1) ______ was endless and he got (2) ______ behind two women whose loud, stupid conversation put him in a murderous (3) ______ . He was never in the best of tempers (4) ______. Anders - a book critic known for the weary, elegant savagery with which he (5) ______ almost everything he reviewed.

 Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank No. 4.

Comprehension:
In the following passage some words have been deleted. Fill in the blanks with the help of the alternatives given. Select the most appropriate option for each number. Anders couldn't get to the bank until just before it closed, so of course the (1) ______ was endless and he got (2) ______ behind two women whose loud, stupid conversation put him in a murderous (3) ______ . He was never in the best of tempers (4) ______. Anders - a book critic known for the weary, elegant savagery with which he (5) ______ almost everything he reviewed.

 Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank No. 3.

Comprehension:
In the following passage some words have been deleted. Fill in the blanks with the help of the alternatives given. Select the most appropriate option for each number. Anders couldn't get to the bank until just before it closed, so of course the (1) ______ was endless and he got (2) ______ behind two women whose loud, stupid conversation put him in a murderous (3) ______ . He was never in the best of tempers (4) ______. Anders - a book critic known for the weary, elegant savagery with which he (5) ______ almost everything he reviewed.

 Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank No. 2.

Comprehension:
In the following passage some words have been deleted. Fill in the blanks with the help of the alternatives given. Select the most appropriate option for each number. Anders couldn't get to the bank until just before it closed, so of course the (1) ______ was endless and he got (2) ______ behind two women whose loud, stupid conversation put him in a murderous (3) ______ . He was never in the best of tempers (4) ______. Anders - a book critic known for the weary, elegant savagery with which he (5) ______ almost everything he reviewed.

 Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank No. 1.

Select the word that is closest in meaning (SYNONYM) to the word given below.
SIMPLE

Select the most appropriate one-word substitution for the given group of words.
Feeling or expressing overwhelming happiness or joyful excitement.

Choose the incorrectly spelt word.

Parts of the following sentence are given as options. Identify the part that contains a grammatical error. If there is no error, select 'No error'.
Once I run in / the Sonoran Desert in Arizona / after a huge rain event.

Improve the underlined part of the sentence. Choose ‘No improvement’ as an answer if the sentence is grammatically correct.
She hang up the clothes in the closet.

The given sentence is in active voice. Change the voice of the sentence. Select the correct option from the sentences given in options.
Pranav painted his house.

Some parts of one or more sentences have been jumbled up, and labelled A, B, C and D. Select the option that gives the correct sequence in which these parts can be rearranged to form a meaningful and grammatically correct sentence.
They walked down the hall of
A. rocked them to sleep and played songs for them
B. had cost them seventy-five
C. thousand rupees. This house clothed and fed them
D. their soundproofed home, which

Select the word segment that substitutes (replaces) the bracketed word segment correctly and completes the sentence meaningfully. Select the option 'no correction required' if the sentence is correct as given.
The guests (has just arrived).

Choose the word that is opposite in meaning to the given word.
Brittle

Select the most appropriate antonym of the given word.
OPAQUE

Parts of the following sentence are given as options. Identify the part that contains a grammatical error. If there is no error, select 'No error'.
You care for him / even more than for myself, / he cried bitterly.

Choose the correctly spelt word.

Choose the option that is the correct direct form of the sentence.
He said that he had taken French lessons on Duolingo.

Fill in the blank with an appropriate option.
How can seawater from the oceans be ______ fresh water that is suitable for people to drink?

Choose the word that can substitute the given sentence.
The art of identifying a disease from its signs and symptoms

Select the most appropriate meaning of the given idiom.
Wear your heart on your sleeve

Select the most appropriate meaning of the given idiom.
Sea change

Rearrange the parts of the sentence in correct order.
The study led
P. collaborators from Bristol, Cambridge and Germany
Q. by scientists at the University of Bath and including
R. used fossils and analysed genetic differences between
S. modern snakes to reconstruct snake evolution

Choose the word that is opposite in meaning to the given word.
Obfuscate

Some parts of a sentence have been jumbled up, and labelled P, Q, R and S. Select theoption that gives the correct sequence in which these parts can be rearranged to form a meaningful and grammatically correct sentence.
Many psychological, neurological
P. and different thinking skills that make them leaders rather than followers
Q. studies generally indicate that leaders truly are born with different personality traits
R. to discover if leadership truly can be a learned trait, and
S. and sociological tests have been conducted by scientists