SSC English Question Paper:
Directions: In the following questions. Out of the four alternatives. Choose the one which best expresses the meaning of the given word.
Question: Lackluster
(a) Prosaic
(b) Vibrant
(c) Lively
(d) Spirited
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Question: Tremendous
(a) Awesome
(b) Remarkable
(c) Considerable
(d) Excessive
Question: Daring
(a) Brilliant
(b) Energetic
(c) Enthusiastic
(d) Courageous
Question: Spunk
(a) Timidity
(b) Weakness
(c) Diffidence
(d) Mettle
Question: Anticipate
(a) Antagonise
(b) Expect
(c) Accept
(d) Hope
Directions: Pick out the correct alternative that complete sentence which is changed into indirect Narration.
Question: The saint said to me, “Why do you not go to the temple daily?”
The saint:
(a) said to me that why I did not go to the temple daily.
(b) asked me that why I did not go to the temple daily.
(c) asked me that why I do not go to the temple daily.
(d) enquired of me why I did not go to the temple daily
Question: The teacher said to me, “Have you read this book?”
The teacher
(a) told to me that had I read this book.
(b) said to me that had I read this book.
(c) asked me if I had read that book.
(d) told me that I had read that book.
Directions: In each of these questions, out of the four alternatives, choose the one which can be substituted for the given sentence, group of words or clauses.
Question: Parts of a country behind the coast or a river’s banks.
(a) Swamps
(b) Archipelago
(c) Hinterland
(d) Isthmus
Question: One who promotes the idea of absence of government of any kind, when every man should be a law unto himself
(a) Anarchist
(b) Belligerent
(c) Iconoclast
(d) Agnostic
Directions: In the following questions, out of the four alternatives, choose the word opposite in meaning to the given word.
Question: AMELIORATE
(a) improve
(b) depend
(c) soften
(d) worsen
Question: JETTISON
(a) Accept
(b) Reward
(c) Preserve
(d) Consent
Question: EVANESCENT
(a) Imminent
(b) Permanent
(c) Pervasive
(d) Immanent
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Question: GROTESQUE
(a) funny
(b) irrational
(c) weak
(d) partisan
Question: DEVIOUS
(a) Straight
(b) Obvious
(c) Simple
(d) Superficial
Directions: In the following questions, groups of four words are given. In each group, one word is correctly spelt. Find the correctly spelt word.
Question:
(a) Abandon
(b) Accommodation
(c) Adranalin
(d) Advent
Question:
(a) Embad
(b) Elapse
(c) Exhilarate
(d) Exhort
Question:
(a) Cathedral
(b) Catastrephe
(c) Colloquial
(d) Coax
Question:
(a) Perplex
(b) Peninsula
(c) Perpetuate
(d) Pedastrain
Question:
(a) Trample
(b) Tuberculosis
(c) Trenquilizer
(d) Transcend
Directions: In these questions sentences are given below with blanks to be filled in with an appropriate word(s). Four alternatives are suggested for each question. Choose the correct alternative out of the four.
Question:
That hardly counts, _______
(a) does it?
(b) doesn’t it?
(c) do it?
(d) don’t it?
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Question:
Only people who are afraid to sign their names send _____ letters.
(a) unanimous
(b) anonymous
(c) official
(d) informal
Question:
The Unprecedented economic growth of China has ________ worldwide attention.
(a) attracted
(b) proposed
(c) neither
(d) perceived
Question:
The government is planning to set _______ family welfare centers for slums in cities.
(a) another
(b) with
(c) for
(d) up
Question:
Economic development and education have________ women more assertive.
(a) made
(b) prepared
(c) marked
(d) resulted
Directions for 10 questions: In the following passage, some of the words have been left out. First read the passage over and try to understand what it is about. Then fill in the blanks with the help of the alternatives given.
Long before Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru became free India’s first Prime Minister, he was the Municipal Chairman of Alahabad. One day the tax superintendent of water works department called on him, (1) a sheet of paper before him, the official said , “Sir, here is a list of people who (2) paid the water tax before the due date. According to the rules, their water supply had to be disconnected. Shall we go (3)” “Why do you (4) to ask me?” remarked Pandit. “The rule is clear. You may go (5) it “. “But, sir, some of them are very (6) citizens. Sir, your father’s name is also there in the list”, said the superintendent (7). “So what ?” Pandit almost shouted, The rules are for (8) and they have to be (9) without, any (10)” he , added firmly.
Question 1: (a) tearing
(b) concealing
(c) folding
(d) placing
Question 2: (a) often
(b) always
(c) haven’t
(d) had
Question 3: (a) ahead
(b) there
(c) home
(d) back
Question 4: (a) like
(b) hesitate
(c) hurry
(d) have
Question 5: (a) with
(b) by
(c) without
(d) towards
Question 6: (a) respectable
(b) intelligent
(c) quarrelsome
(d) ambitious
Question 7: (a) impolitely
(b) admirably
(c) furiously
(d) hesitantly
Question 8: (a) exceptionals
(b) observers
(c) everyone
(d) others
Question 9: (a) formulated
(b) made
(c) broken
(d) imposed
Question 10: (a) interest
(b) discrimination
(c) awakening
(d) notice
Directions to Solve: I felt the wall of the tunnel shiver. The master alarm squealed through my earphones. Almost simultaneously, Jack yelled down to me that there was a warning light on. Fleeting but spectacular sights snapped into ans out of view, the snow, the shower of debris, the moon, looming close and big, the dazzling sunshine for once unfiltered by layers of air. The last twelve hours before re-entry were particular bone-chilling. During this period, I had to go up in to command module. Even after the fiery re-entry splashing down in 81o water in south pacific, we could still see our frosty breath inside the command module.
Question: The word ‘Command Module’ used twice in the given passage indicates perhaps that it deals with
(a) an alarming journey
(b) a commanding situation
(c) a journey into outer space
(d) a frightful battle
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Question: Which one of the following reasons would one consider as more as possible for the warning lights to be on?
(a) There was a shower of debris.
(b) Jack was yelling.
(c) A catastrophe was imminent.
(d) The moon was looming close and big.
Question: The statement that the dazzling sunshine was “for once unfiltered by layers of air” means
(a) that the sun was very hot
(b) that there was no strong wind
(c) that the air was unpolluted
(d) none of above
Direction: Sentences given in each question, when properly sequenced form a coherent paragraph. Each sentence is labelled with letter. Choose the most logical order of sentences from among the given choices to construct a coherent paragraph.
Question: A. ‘Electricity’ is a subject enumerated in the Concurrent list, meaning that the Federal and State legislatures are competent to enact laws on the subject.
B. The Constitution of India has demarcated the legislative competence of the Federal and State legislatures in three different lists.
C. However, a State law cannot override, or be inconsistent with, a Federal law and in case of in consistency, the Federal law will override the State law.
D. The Union list contains matters within the exclusive domain of the Federal legislature, the State list contains matters within the exclusive domain of the State legislature, and the Concurrent list contains subjects on which both the Federal and the State legislatures are competent to enact laws.
(a) ACBD
(b) BDAC
(c) DABC
(d) BCDA
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Question: A. The Vikings were the terrorists whom Europe feared the most between the eighth and the twelfth centuries.
B. They set out on these voyages of dangerous adventure because they felt an even more unbearable fear than did their neighbours who stayed behind.
C. For they were tortured by the thought that their name and reputation might vanish into nothingness.
D. They managed to brave the seas to pillage, ransom, and create havoc from Constantinople to Lisbon and Dublin, even though they carried inside them all the usual fears of poor peasants as well as the loneliness of Scandinavia’s long nights.
(a) CDAB
(b) CBAD
(c) DABC
(d) ADBC
Question: A. Deprived of livelihood and income, they face penury, and as families split up and spread out, their community bonds crumble.
B. Oddly, all this happens in the name of development, and the victim are described as beneficiaries.
C. Cut off from their most vital resources, those uprooted are then robbed of their history traditions and culture.
D. Imagine the entire population of the continent of Australia turned out of their homes – eighteen million people losing their lands, evicted from their houses.
(a) DACB
(b) DBAC
(c) ACDB
(d) ABDC
Question: A. This chemical compound finds wide usage in diversified industries such as refectories, ceramics, etc.
B. Indal developed the requisite technology in-house at its Belgaum centre.
C. In 1982-83, it started developing special alumina, an import substitute.
D. In pursuit of its policy of adding value to the basic products, Indal has been adding value to alumina too.
(a) BCDA
(b) CDAB
(c) CBAD
(d) DCAB
Question: A. India accorded Most Favoured Nation (MFN) status to Pakistan long ago.
B. Matters have hardly improved since dialogue was broken off in early 1994.
C. Pakistan is still only talking about giving India MFN status in trade, even though it is obliged to under the World Trade Organization.
D. In some ways, they have worsened.
(a) CADB
(b) BDCA
(c) CBDA
(d) ACBD
Directions for 10 questions: In the following passage, some of the words have been left out. First read the passage over and try to understand what it is about. Then fill in the blanks with the help of the alternatives given.
Indian independence in 1947 was born against the (1) of the great Bengal famine of 1942-43. Speaking at Noakhali in 1946, Gandhi (2) that the first and (3) duty of independent India is to (4) an environment which (5) every Indian to earn his or her daily (6). Gandhiji was against making people beggars and that is why he stressed the need for (7) to earn rather than give (8) food on (9) of charity and (10)
Question 1: (a) milieu
(b) border
(c) backdrop
(d) barrenness
Question 2: (a) witnessed
(b) deliberated
(c) acceded
(d) emphasised
Question 3: (a) last
(b) second
(c)foremost
(d) free
Question 4: (a) create
(b) sustain
(c) conserve
(d) pollute
Question 5: (a) helps
(b) enables
(c) protects
(d) subsidises
Question 6: (a) meal
(b) living
(c) livelihood
(d) bread
Question 7: (a) methods
(b) policies
(c)opportunities
(d) activities
Question 8: (a) up
(b) in
(c) off
(d) away
Question 9: (a) grounds
(b) ruler
(c) systems
(d) considerations
Question 10: (a) generation
(b) nutrition
(c) deficiency
(d) patronage
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