1. Select the most appropriate antonym of the given word.
ACCEPT
(a) Reject
(b) Acquire
(c) Obtain
(d) Release
2. Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank.
Technology can be……….and people seem to be more attached to screens than ever before.
(a) addictive
(b) infatuated
(c) incorrigible
(d) contagious
3. Select the correctly spelt word.
(a) Challeng
(b) Challange
(c) Chalenge
(d) Challenge
4. Select the correct active form of the given sentence.
Let the bell be rung every forty minutes.
(a) The bell should be rung every forty minutes
(b) Ring the bell every forty minutes.
(c) The bell ought to be rung every forty minutes
(d) Let the bell keep ringing every forty minutes.
5. Select the word which means the same as the group of words given.
Something which is fit to be eaten
(a) Unpalatable
(b) Delicious
(c) Edible
(d) Tasty
6. Select the most appropriate option to substitute the underlined segment in the given sentence. If no substitution is required, select No improvement.
Biologists believe that increased human activity means an accelerated rate of change in habitat for all creatures of the world.
(a) No improvement
(b) human activity meant a accelerated rate in change
(c) human activities mean an accelerated rate from change
(d) human activity is meaning an accelerated rate of change
SSC CGL 2018 : All Shift English Paper Solution
7. Given below are four jumbled sentences. Select the option that gives their correct order.
A. Here, the picture perfect Fresh Quarter and heritage laden Tamil streets blend into one another.
B. The conflict of coexistence is evident in many metropolitan cities.
C. The old and new, like two different worlds, surviving side by side yet never crossing that chasm.
D. There is a place though Puducherry, where contrasts are celebrated like nowhere else.
(a) BACD
(b) BCDA
(c) DCBA
(d) CDAB
8. Select the word which means the same as the group of words given.
Something which cannot be understood
(a) Illegible
(b) Incomprehensible
(C) Inexplicable
(d) Infallible
9. Select the correct passive form of the given sentence.
He is clicking good pictures with his new camera.
(a) Good pictures were clicked with his new camera.
(b) Good pictures have been clicked with his new camera.
(c) Good pictures are being clicked with his new camera.
(d) Good pictures are clicked with his new camera.
10. In the sentence identify the segment which contains the grammatical error.
No sooner did he see the tiger when he ran as fast as he could.
(a) No sooner did
(b) he see the tiger
(c) when he ran
(d) as fast as he could
SSC CHSL 2018 : All Shift English Paper Solution
11. Select the most appropriate synonym of the given word.
PENSIVE
(a) Spontaneous
(b) Spiteful
(c) Reflective
(d) Tragic
12. Select the most appropriate meaning of the underlined idiom in the given sentence.
Coming from an affluent family, she found herself a square peg in a round hole when she married a poor farmer and moved to a small village.
(a) in a favourable situation
(b) unhappy and regretful
(c) a misfit in the environment
(d) in a financial crisis
13. Select the most appropriate synonym of the given word.
VINDICTIVE
(a) Watchful
(b) Revengeful
(c) Forceful
(d) Helpful
14. Select the most appropriate meaning of the underlined idiom in the given sentence.
When his envious competitor extended a hand of friendship, he smelt a rat.
(a) detected something wrong
(b) felt very pleased
(c) became complaisant
(d) behaved arrogantly
15. In the sentence identify the segment which contains the grammatical error.
The match is about to begin since the captain as well as the team are on the field.
(a) are on the field
(b) The match is about to begin
(c) since the captain
(d) as well as the team
16. Given below are four jumbled sentences. Select the option that gives their correct order.
A. European cloth manufactures therefore had to depend on a plant called wood to make dyes.
B. However, cloth dyers preferred indigo which produced a rich blue colour.
C. Being a plant of the temperate zones, wood was easily available in Europe.
D. Indian indigo was very expensive and only small quantities reached the European markets.
(a) CBDA
(b) DCAB
(c) ACBD
(d) DACB
17. Select the most appropriate antonym of the given word.
AFFINITY
(a) Aversion
(b) Attraction
(c) Empathy
(d) Preference
18. Select the most appropriate option to substitute the underlined segment in the given sentence. If no substitution is required, select No improvement.
A reason why there are so much misconception of dyslexia could be the sheer invisibility of the disorder.
(a) there are so much misconceptions against dyslexia
(b) there are so many misconceptions about dyslexia
(c) there are so many misconception around dyslexia.
(d) No improvement
Directions (19-23): 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 blank.
Telling someone something that you admire about them can be called a random act…..(19)…..kindness. It takes almost no…..(20)….., yet it pays enormous dividends. Many people…..(21)…..their entire lives wishing that others would…..(22)…..them. Expectations are more from family and friends, …..(23)….., even compliments from strangers feel good
if they are genuine.
19. Choose the correct option for 19
(a) with
(b) of
(c) from
(d) in
20. Choose the correct option for 20
(a) venture
(b) work
(c) effort
(d) attempt
21. Choose the correct option for 21
(a) spent
(b) had spent
(c) have been spending
(d) spend
22. Choose the correct option for 22
(a) confess
(b) acknowledge
(c) concede
(d) admit
23. Choose the correct option for 23
(a) so
(b) however
(c) and
(d) unless
24. Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank.
People of the other generation…………….over the good old school days.
(a) remember
(b) remind
(c) retribute
(d) reminisce
25. Select the correctly spelt word.
(a) Concentious
(b) Conscentious
(c) Conscientious
(d) Consenteous
