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Sunday, 21 April 2013

Solution of SSC CGL TIER-1 (ENGLISH SECTION) MORNING AND EVENING SHIFT

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Sentence Correction:
1. Sudoku was first designed in the 1970s (A) / by a retired architect (B) / and freelance puzzle constructor. (C) / No error (D)
Ans : D

2. Each one of you (A) / must make up their mind (B) / as I did. (C) No error (D)
Ans: B

3. During the last few years (A) / the company works hard (B) / to modernise its image. (C) / No error (D)
Ans: B

4. After he had apologised to the magistrate profusely (A) for having broke the promise (B) / the magistrate was happy to forgive him. (C) / No error (D)
Ans: B

5. This stamp is only one  (A)/ of the design (B) / ever printed. (C)/ No error (D)
Ans: B*

Fill in the blanks
6.What ....................? It ............................. wonderful.
Ans: are you cooking, smells.

7. We had ................ money left, so we went out for a meal. We decided to abandon our trip as we had ........................ money left.
Ans: A little, little

8. Please write to me ......... this address.
Ans: at*

9. On Tuesday it's the carnival, ....................... everybody gets dressed up in a fancy costume. So we will meet at John's house, ................ is about a couple of kilometers away.
Ans: when, which

10. I hate him for the simple reason that he keeps singing his own praise continually talking about himself. He is an irritating....................... . He is a real................................. because for anything he does he always expects something in return, a selfish person indeed.
Ans: Egotist, Egoist.

Synonyms:
11. Insolent
Ans: disrespectful

12.Innocuous
Ans: harmless

13. Ingenuous
Ans: Innocent

Antonyms:
14. Diffidence
Ans: self-assurance

15. Amateur
Ans: Professional

16. Overt
Ans: Hidden

Idiom/Phrases:
17. He is leaving the USA "for good".
Ans: permanently

18. Communicative English is the "Achilles' heel" for the job aspirants.
Ans: Weak spot

19. He is known for "blowing his own trumpet".
Ans: boasting.

20. He "cut the Gordian knot" by practicing what he preached.
Ans: removed the difficulty

21. He "took a leap in the dark" with his latest investment in stocks.
Ans: took a risk

Choose the correct alternative:
22. He found a " wooden broken chair" in the room.
Ans: broken wooden chair.

23. The starving and crawling people in the television programme "looked" more like beasts that tiring creatures.
Ans: seemed *

24. Five year ago today, I "am sitting" in a small Japanese car, driving across Poland towards Berlin.
Ans: was sitting

25. He could not look  anything in the dark room.
Ans: see

26. No one could explain how a calm and balanced person like him could penetrate such a mindless act on his friends.
Ans: perpetrate

27. They left the hotel by car where they had been staying.
Ans: No improvement.

28. Having only a few hours left, she wondered as she would finish the assignment.
Ans: whether

29. Will you lend me few rupees in this hour of need?
Ans: lend me a few rupees

30. I took the cycle which he bought yesterday.
Ans: that he had bought yesterday

31. Anyone who would speak withe authority on the poets of the Renaissance must have a broad acquaintance with the writers of classical antiquity.
Ans: Anyone desirous for speaking.*

One Word Substitution
32. The Production of raw silk.
Ans: sericulture

33. Politicians are notorious for doing undue favour to their relatives.
Ans: nepotism

34. A person who helps even a stranger in difficulty.
Ans: altruist

35. A person who readily believes others.
Ans: Credulous

36. Meaningless language with an exaggerated style intended to impress.
Ans: Rhetoric

37. The political leader has an evil reputation. He is not trusted.
Ans: is notorious

38. The conference takes place once in three years.
Ans: triennial

Correctly spelt word:
39. Ans: heterogeneous

40: Ans: perjury

Passage-1:

41: The spirit of Renaissance
Ans: lies in breaking all shackles of backwardness and narrow mindedness

42: Find the option that is opposite in meaning to alien.
Ans: indigenous

43: The Bengal Renaissance was different from the 16th century Erupean Renaissance because:
Ans: Unlike the Bengalis, Europeans were not under foreign rule.

44. The Bengal Renaissance gathered momentum in 19th century because:
Ans: there was an abundance  of intellectual and creative activities in Bengal then.

45. The Bengal Renaissance movement:
Ans: wanted social reform to improve the lot of the weak and the downtrodden.

Passage - 2:

46. The expression ' to stop dead' means:
Ans: to come to a complete halt

47. Rehmat Ali is most likely:
Ans: a burglar

48 'There are circumstances in which the least energetic of mankind learn to act with speed and decision, and the most cautious forget their care.' Rehmat illustrates this by
Ans: jumping into the garden*

49. What kind of a person was Rehmat Ali orginally?
Ans: lazy and indecisive

50. Rehmat Ali found himself hidden from his pursuers because:
Ans: he had acted with speed and decision*

SOLUTION OF EVENING SHIFT PAPER


Sentence Correction:
1. The Cruel lady made (A) / her step-daughter to do (B) all the household chores. (C) No error (D)
Ans:B

2. My sister asked me (A) / that how long (B) I would stay there. (C) No error (D)
Ans: B

3. The teacher, as well as the students, (A) have gone on an excursion (B) to Oooty during their summer vacation. (C) No error (D)
Ans: B

4. The US (A) don't want (B) India in the Security. (C) No error (D)
Ans: B

5. You can eat (A) as much as you like (B) at the newly lunch bar. (C) No error (D)
Ans: C

Fill in the Blanks

6. He was assured by his friends ...................... every type of help in an emergency.
Ans: of

7. Our monthly expenditure......................by five hundred rupees when we decided to buy milk from the milkman.
Ans: got up*

8. ............................ the people looked well enough, but when one looked more closely one saw that their faces were filled with despair.
Ans: At first Sight*

9. The work ...................., he left his office.
Ans: having been completed*

10. He was not a man ........................... intelligence.
Ans: Devoid of

Synonyms:
11. Advocated
Ans: Support

12. Preamble
Ans: Introduction

13. Students are asked to collate for an important programme by the principal.
Ans: Assemble

Antonyms:
14. Accolade
Ans: blame

15. Ambiguous
Ans: clear

16. Wary
Ans: Rash

Idioms\ Phrases:
17. I am out of my wits and therefore cannot find a way to solve the problem immediately.
Ans: Greatly confused

18.Villagers always call a spade a spade.
Ans: to speak in a straightforward manner.

19. To play second fiddle
Ans: take a subordinate role

20. Mary broke a dining-room window and had to face the music when her father got home.
Ans: accept the punishment

21. Why are you jumping down my throat? I wasn't even in the house when it happened.
Ans: Scolding me

Sentence Improvement:
22.During his long discourse, he did not touch that point.
Ans: touch upon

23. The workers are hell bent at getting what is due to them.
Ans: hell bent upon getting

24. While crossing the highway, a five year old child was knocked out by a passing car.
Ans: down

25. We are looking forward to see you tomorrow.
Ans. looking forward to seeing 

26. The clients are waiting outside since morning and will continue to wait until you meet them.
Ans: have been waiting

27. If he had time he will call you.
Ans: has

28. He may have grown taller when I last saw him.
Ans: since I last saw him

29. He who will bid the highest will get the product.
Ans: who bids the highest

30. John had told me that he hasn't done it yet.
Ans: tells

31. They could not tell me why did he not eat his lunch.
Ans: why he did not eat

One word substitution:
32. One who cannot be corrected:
Ans: Incorrigible

33. A general pardon granted by the Government to political offenders.
Ans: Amnesty

34. Detailed plan of a journey:
Ans: Itinerary

35.Stealing of ideas or writing of someone else.
Ans: plagiarism

36. One who hates women:
Ans: Misogynist

37. A school boy who cuts classes frequently is a:
Ans: Truant

38. A person who consumes human flesh:
Ans: Cannibal

Correctly Spelt word:
39. Ans: foreign

40. Ans: equipped 

PASSAGE -1 

41. " International  health workers can be seen working in all kinds of surroundings : in desert, jungles, mountains, coconut groves, and rice fields". Here International means:
Ans: belonging to an organisation which has something to do with different nations.

42. "Total prevention of diseases is possible in a number of ways". The author has given illustrations of:
Ans: only two such ways

43." They help the sick to attain health and the healthy to maintain their health". Here they stands for:
Ans: International health workers

44. " It is a specialised  agency of the United Nations and was established in 1948". Here specialised means:
Ans: made suitable for a particular purpose

45. "W.H.O. assists different national health authorities not only in controlling diseases but also in preventing them altogether." The above sentence implies that:
Ans: W.H.O. assists both in controlling diseases and in preventing them.

PASSAGE -2
46'.............. your back is chilled by the cold looks of somebody' means:
Ans: you feel uneasy because the person next in the queue looks at you restlessly.

47. 'All telephone numbers are wrong numbers', because:
Ans: none of the statements given above*

48. The author does not have a telephone because:
Ans: he thinks that it can create unnecessary suspense and anxiety

49. 'Ah well, it will be all the same in hundred years time'. This sentence means:
Ans: Things will remain the same for 100 years to come.

50. He hates speaking in a public telephone booth because:
Ans: he is suffocated by the stale, unventilated air, flavoured with cheap face pwder and chain smoking.


(The answers marked with * needs some discussion for improving the answer)


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