Solution of English Section of SSC CGL Tier -1 (JR series, AB 2013)

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Antonyms

1. Lunacy

Ans: Sanity

2. Obtuse

Ans: Sharp-witted

3. Inadvertently

Ans: Deliberately

Idioms/Phrases

4. What egged you on to become a social worker?

Ans: Urged

5. Many politicians in India are not fit to hold a candle to Mahatma Gandhi.

Ans: Inferior

6. She must be paying through the nose for the face left.

Ans: paying too much

7. He is putting the cart before the horse by purchasing furniture before buying a house.

Ans: doing a thing in the wrong way.

8. Casting pearls before swine.

Ans: offering good things to undeserving people

Sentence improvement:

9. It became clear that the strangers were heading into a serious disaster.

Ans: towards

10. Twenty kms are not a great distance in these days of fast moving vehicles.
Ans: is not a great distance

11. I adapted a new method to solve the problem.
Ans: I adopted*

12. Hoping not to be disturbed, I sat down in my easy chair to read the book,  I won as a prize.
Ans: I had won as a prize

13. If you are living near a market place you should be ready to bear the disturbances caused by traffic.
Ans: to bear with*

14. The more they earn, more they spend on luxury items.
Ans: the more they spend

15. You have come here with a view to insult me.
Ans: of insulting me

16. A little rail-road engine was employed by a station yard for doing small pieces of work.
Ans: was used at the station yard

17. From an aesthetic point of view, the painting did not appeal to me.
Ans: From an aesthetic point of view, the painting had a little appeal to me.

18. The child tossed in bed burning the fever.
Ans: The child burning with fever, tossed in bed

One Word Substituion
19. An apartment building in which each apartment is owned separately by the people living in it, but also containing shared areas.
Ans: condominium

20. A group of three powerful people
Ans: Trio

21. Operation of the body after death.
Ans: post-mortem

22. Not allowing the passage of light
Ans: opaque

23. Science regarding principles of classification.
Ans: Taxonomy

24. A political leader appealing to popular desires and prejudices.
Ans; Demagogue

25. Enclosed in a small closed space.
Ans: claustrophobia

Correctly spelt word
26. Ans: Connivance 

27. Ans: Maintenance

PASSAGE
28. According to the passage, the cyber-world is
Ans: ungovernable

29. The author is of the opinion that
Ans: the centre should arrest the guilty

30. Which of the following is closest to the meaning of 'nebulous'?
Ans: vague

31. The author's seriousness regarding the situation can best be described in the following sentences. Pick the odd one out.
Ans: The politicians deflect attention from their own incompetence*

32.The word 'spurious' means
Ans: fake

33. The author warns us against
Ans; dangers inherent in the cyber-world

34. 'Parody' means
Ans: ridicule

35. What is the opposite of 'wrong headed'?
Ans: sane

36. The passage suggests different ways of keeping the public busy with 'inessentials'. Pick the odd one out.
Ans: By getting involved in a discourse on bilateral relations.

37. The following is a list of statements made by the author of the above passage. Pick the odd one out.
Ans: The precedent for such action was set recently by the chief minister of West Bengal*

Sentence Correction:
38. In India (A) working woman lead a life of dual responsiblities (B) if they are married and have a family. (C) No error. (D)
Ans: B

39. Greatly to our surprise (A) we find the ringleader (B) was lame. (C) No error. (D)
Ans: B

40. They have (A) played a game (B) last week. (C) No error (D)
Ans: A

41. The teacher made the boys (A) to do the sum (B) all over again (C) No error. (D)
Ans: B

42. Many overseas students (A) attend colleges (B) in the Great Britain.(C) No error (D)
Ans: B*

Fill in the blank
43. Student-parking should be .......................; students should not be charged to buy parking stickers.
Ans: free

44. If you have roses growing in your garden, you can make a lovely .............. Of flowers.
Ans: bouquet 

45. The ...................... of the middle school is a woman of .............
Ans: Principal, Principle 

46. With the changing times, most of the students have become business-like they are......................... and want to take only those courses which they find rewarding.
Ans: pragmatic

47. 1. John's at................... institute studying French.
      2. They're building....................... school at the end of our street.
      3. Do they live in.......... United kingdom or somewhere else?
Ans: an, a the

Synonyms
48. Parsimony
Ans: bankruptcy

49. Tribulation
Ans: suffering

50. Ramparts
Ans: parapet

(* means the answers are not clear)


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