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SSC CGL 2016:- 120 Q
Instructions:-
The sentences given with blanks are to be filled with an appropriate word(s). Four alternatives are suggested for each question. For each question, choose the correct alternative and click the button corresponding to it.
Q1. What a _____ holiday!
Options:
1) momentous
2) memorable
3) momentary
4) immortal
Correct Answer: memorable
Q2. Many important projects have reached the final stage of _____.
Options:
1) accomplishment
2) initiation
3) resolution
4) implementation
Correct Answer: implementation
Q3. _____ you live long!
Options:
1) Might
2) May
3) Shall
4) Should
Correct Answer: May
Q4. Health is too important to be ___________.
Options:
1) discarded
2) disposed
3) neglected
4) detested
Correct Answer: neglected
Q5. I am _______________this crime.
Options:
1) ignorant on
2) innocent of
3) indebted to
4) ignoring
Correct Answer: innocent of
Q6. I was _____________ paying the toll tax.
Options:
1) free from
2) exonerated from
3) exempted from
4) exposed to
Correct Answer: exempted from
Q7. How did you __________ this rare book?
Options:
1) come with
2) come to
3) come by
4) come at
Correct Answer: come by
Q8. ____________ people as they are and have tolerance with their weaknesses.
Options:
1) Except
2) Access
3) Expect
4) Accept
Correct Answer: Accept
Q9. The two boys ______ each other for the first place.
Options:
1) contend for
2) fought with
3) vied with
4) struggled to
Correct Answer: vied with
Q10. The passengers were afraid but the captain ___________ them that there was no danger.
Options:
1) suggested
2) pleaded
3) advise
4) assured
Correct Answer: assured
Q11. I insisted ________ his leaving the place.
Options:
1) on
2) about
3) in
4) with
Correct Answer: on
Q12. Please don’t ________ me when I’m speaking.
Options:
1) interrupted
2) interrupts
3) interrupt
4) interrupting
Correct Answer: interrupt
Q13. The aim of a Peace Council is ________ rather than cure.
Options:
1) salvation
2) preservation
3) maintenance
4) cultivation
Correct Answer: preservation
Q14. He gives everyone _________ the class opportunities for practice.
Options:
1) at
2) in
3) of
4) on
Correct Answer: in
Q15. Harish soon gained _________ in English.
Options:
1) provincialism
2) proficiency
3) efficiency
4) Eminency
Correct Answer: proficiency
Q16. The clock has __________ for want of winding.
Options:
1) run down
2) run short
3) run past
4) run up
Correct Answer: run down
Q17. Few people know that flowers use textures to __________ different kinds of insects.
Options:
1) signal
2) feel
3) attract
4) Distract
Correct Answer: attract
Q18. They abandoned their comrades __________ the wolves.
Options:
1) by
2) between
3) on
4) among
Correct Answer: among
Q19. The clock has __________ for want of winding.
Options:
1) run down
2) run short
3) run past
4) run up
Correct Answer: run down
Q20. Few people know that flowers use textures to __________ different kinds of insects.
Options:
1) signal
2) feel
3) attract
4) distract
Correct Answer: attract
Q21. They abandoned their comrades __________ the wolves.
Options:
1) by
2) between
3) on
4) among
Correct Answer: among
Q22. What good fortune! I found the very thing I was _______________!
Options:
1) looking in
2) looking to
3) looking besides
4) looking for
Correct Answer: looking for
Q23. The swimmer ____________ his clothes and jumped into the river.
Options:
1) took off
2) took of
3) took out
4) took down
Correct Answer: took off
Q24. I will ______________ to Singapore next month.
Options:
1) be travelling
2) be travel
3) travels
4) am travelled
Correct Answer: be travelling
Q25. By a single mean act, he _____ out all his good deeds.
Options:
1) wiped
2) whipped
3) worked
4) whisked
Correct Answer: wiped
Q26. I was conscious _____ a break in my voice.
Options:
1) to
2) of
3) over
4) for
Correct Answer: of
Q27. The young woman broke _____ on hearing the news of her husband’s death.
Options:
1) up
2) down
3) off
4) in
Correct Answer: down
Q28. He is _______ connected.
Options:
1) respectively
2) respective
3) respectably
4) respectable
Correct Answer: respectably
Q29. After retirement Surti lived _______ Australia.
Options:
1) in
2) at
3) over in
4) over at
Correct Answer: in
Q30. He ________ the low pay.
Options:
1) moan at
2) complain about
3) grumbled at
4) ran after
Correct Answer: grumbled at
Q31. After a noisy and tumultuous supper, we __________ for the day.
Options:
1) retirement
2) retiring
3) retired
4) retire
Correct Answer: retired
Q32. The villager cried __________ his voice for help
Options:
1) on the top of
2) in the top of
3) from the top of
4) at the top of
Correct Answer: at the top of
Q33. Simon teaches children __________ water colour painting
Options:
1) the art on
2) the art in
3) the art by
4) the art of
Correct Answer: the art of
Q34. Do not _____ your own personal views upon the reader.
Options:
1) expose
2) interpose
3) express
4) impose
Correct Answer: impose
Q35. This school isn’t _____ from the last one.
Options:
1) more different
2) any different
3) difference
4) any difference
Correct Answer: any different
Q36. I have decided _____ my course of action.
Options:
1) upon
2) with
3) for
4) of
Correct Answer: upon
Q37. Light is _____ than sound.
Options:
1) faster
2) more faster
3) sounder
4) lighter
Correct Answer: faster
Q38. The man _____ for the purpose never did what was expected of him.
Options:
1) supplied
2) favoured
3) employed
4) cited
Correct Answer: employed
Q39. There was a serious _____ between the two brothers.
Options:
1) altercation
2) alteration
3) aberration
4) altieration
Correct Answer: altercation
Q40. The ship with its crew ______ gone to the bottom of the sea.
Options:
1) has
2) have
3) are
4) none
Correct Answer: have
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