SSC English Online Quiz-1

1. In the following question, some part of the sentence may have errors. Find out which part of the sentence has an error and select the appropriate option. If a sentence is free from error, select ‘No Error’.

As I see it, he appears (1)/ to be unreasonable anxious (2)/ about pleasing his wife. (3)/ No Error (4)

2. In the following question, some part of the sentence may have errors. Find out which part of the sentence has an error and select the appropriate option. If a sentence is free from error, select ‘No Error’.

My friend’s actual job (A) / involves a lot (B) /of administration. (C) / No Error (D) .

3. In the following question, the sentence given with blank to be filled in with an appropriate word. Select the correct alternative out of the four and indicate it by selecting the appropriate option.

The Myth of Sisyphus by Camus is ______ popular.

4. In the following question, the sentence given with blank to be filled in with an appropriate word. Select the correct alternative out of the four and indicate it by selecting the appropriate option.

He is indifferent ………… praise and blame.

5. In the following question, out of the four alternatives, select the word similar in meaning to the word given.

CANDID

6. In the following question, out of the four alternatives, select the word similar in meaning to the word given.

preacher

7. In the following question, out of the four alternatives, select the word opposite in meaning to the word given.

DEBACLE

8. In the following question, out of the four alternatives, select the word opposite in meaning to the word given.

CORDIAL

9. In the following question, out of the four alternatives, select the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the idiom/phrase.

Draconian law

10. In the following question, out of the four alternatives, select the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the idiom/phrase.

Ring fencing

11. Improve the bracketed part of the sentence

By the end of this decade, doctors surely (must have discover) a cure for cancer.

12. Improve the bracketed part of the sentence

What would you like (to do it) for your birthday?

13. In the following question, out of the four alternatives, select the alternative which is the best substitute of the phrase.

Concern for one’s own area or region at the expense of national or supranational unity

14. In the following question, out of the four alternatives, select the alternative which is the best substitute of the phrase.

Involving or showing violence and bloodshed

15. there are four different words, out of which only one word is correctly spelt. Find the correctly spelt word.

16. there are four different words out of which one is correctly spelt. Find the correctly spelt word.

17. Select the most logical order of sentences from among the options.
P: Any leader asked to address the plenary session of the World Economic Forum at Davos has an opportunity to do two things.
Q: The first is to pitch his (or her) country strongly to foreign companies and investors.
R: The second is to build the brand of both the individual and the country by looking at issues and concerns beyond those that just concern his or her country.
S: The world, after all, is sorely lacking in statesmen (and stateswomen) of global stature.

18. select the most logical order of the sentences to form a coherent paragraph.
P- The aim must be to ensure that our country does not experience either paucity or a-surfeit of trained manpower in any specific segment of our economy.
Q- When we set about the task of higher education, we should be absolutely clear in our perception of the goals of education in the specific context of our nation’s development.
R- No doubt, one of the important aims of education would be to create the required range and nature of trained manpower assessed to be needed by different sectors of national growth.
S- The entire educational apparatus must be geared progressively to fulfill the requirements of different phases of our growth in every sector primary, secondary and tertiary.

19. select the one which best expresses the same sentence in Passive/Active Voice.
“I bought her a computer.”

20. Q.20:- select the one which best expresses the same sentence in Indirect/Direct speech.
The beggar said to me, “Please give me something to eat.”