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Solved English Question Paper of SSC Combined Graduate Level (CGL) Exam 2014 Tier-I held on 26.10.2014. Test Form No- 898 NH 0

Directions (1-5):In the following questions, some parts of the sentences have errors and some are correct. Find out which part of a sentence has an error. The number of that part is the answer. If a sentence is free from error, your answer is (4) i.e. No error.

1. The new device (1) / aims at eliminating (2) / the risk of short-circuiting. (3) / No error (4)



2. I wish to heartily (1) / congratulate you for (2) / your astounding success. (3) / No error (4)



3. The visitor took the vacant seat (1) / next from mine (2) / one of the many huge sofas in the room. (3) / No error (4)



4. He was (1) / a learnt man among lords, (2) / and a lord among learned man. (3) / No error (4)



5. With our great annoyance (1) / we found the ground (2) / filled with broken glasses. (3) / No error (4)



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Directions (6-10):In the following questions, sentences are given with blanks to be filled in with an appropriate word (s). Four alternatives are suggested for each question. Choose the correct alternative out of the four.

6. Her true feelings manifested themselves in her sarcastic remarks, only then was her _________ revealed.

  • 1) sarcasm
  • 2) charm
  • 3) sweetness
  • 4) bitterness


7. The book provides an overview of European wines that should prove inviting to both the virtual _______ and the experienced connoisseur.

  • 1) zealot
  • 2) glutton
  • 3) prodigal
  • 4) novice


8. The sun is shining brightly, please ________ the light.

  • 1) take off
  • 2) put on
  • 3) put off
  • 4) put out


9. This practice was brought ________ to prevent certain abuses.

  • 1) down
  • 2) off
  • 3) about
  • 4) in


10. This package was supposed _________ yesterday.

  • 1) to be delivering
  • 2) not to be delivered
  • 3) to have been delivered
  • 4) to deliver


Directions (11-13):In the following questions, out of the four alternatives, choose the one which best expresses the meaning of the given word.

11. Garble

  • 1) Confuse
  • 2) Hide
  • 3) Communicate
  • 4) Explain


12. Pinnacle

  • 1) Capsule
  • 2) Heart
  • 3) Summit
  • 4) Pit


13. Brutalize

  • 1) Stir
  • 2) Ill-treat
  • 3) Devise
  • 4) Strike


Directions (14-16):In the following questions, choose the word opposite in meaning to the given word as your answer.

14. Denounce

  • 1) Signify
  • 2) Confirm
  • 3) Grant
  • 4) Praise


15. Cease

  • 1) Abandon
  • 2) Initiate
  • 3) Confront
  • 4) Confiscate


16. Seamy

  • 1) Honest
  • 2) Pure
  • 3) Unpleasant
  • 4) Sincere


Directions (17-21):In the following questions, four alternatives are given for the Idiom/Phrase printed in bold in the sentence. Choose the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the Idiom/Phrase.

17. The secretary's thoughtless remark added fuel to the fire.

  • 1) added humour to the situation
  • 2) worsened the difficult situation
  • 3) helped in improving the situation
  • 4) prevented the situation


18. He could not get money from his master because he rubbed him up the wrong way.

  • 1) irked or irritated him
  • 2) asked him to speed up
  • 3) suggested a wrong method
  • 4) advised him to be strict


19. Ask Mr. Das. He can give you all the news you need : he always in the swim.

  • 1) giving news to others
  • 2) at the swimming pool
  • 3) in search of news
  • 4) well-informed and up-to-date


20. You have been trying to solve this puzzle for a long time, be careful so that you avoid barking up the wrong tree.

  • 1) trying to solve problems
  • 2) trying to find something at a wrong place
  • 3) keep working constantly
  • 4) climbing the wrong tree


21. I'll be able to do my job very well when I know the ropes.

  • 1) become bolder
  • 2) work in silence
  • 3) learn the procedures
  • 4) gain confidence


Directions (22-31):In the following questions, a part of the sentence is printed in bold. Below are given alternatives to the bold part at (1), (2), (3) which may improve the sentence. Choose the correct alternative. In case no improvement is needed your answer is (4).

22. Ram filled ink into his pen before leaving for school.

  • 1) filled ink in his pen
  • 2) filled ink on his pen
  • 3) filled his pen with ink
  • 4) No improvement


23. The toys he bought for Suzy are too good to be cheap.

  • 1) are so much good to be cheap
  • 2) were so good to be cheap
  • 3) are so good that to be cheap
  • 4) No improvement


24. I did one mistake in the dictation test today.

  • 1) I made a mistake in
  • 2) I did a mistake at
  • 3) I did a mistake in
  • 4) No improvement


25. John has been detained at a meeting.

  • 1) by the meeting
  • 2) in meeting
  • 3) on a meeting
  • 4) No improvement


26. The butler was as devoted as a faithful dog.

  • 1) a faithful cat
  • 2) a faithful friend
  • 3) a faithful pet
  • 4) No improvement


27. The government representative furnished the reporters all details.

  • 1) provided the reporters all details
  • 2) furnished the reporters with all the details
  • 3) furnished reporters all details
  • 4) No improvement


28. It was raining so heavily yesterday that I could not move out for my usual work.

  • 1) I could not go out for my usual walk
  • 2) I could not go to my usual walk
  • 3) I could not move for my usual walk
  • 4) No improvement


29. There is an error in grammar in this sentence.

  • 1) a written error
  • 2) a grammatical error
  • 3) a grammar error
  • 4) No improvement


30. He denied that he had not forged my signature.

  • 1) would not forge
  • 2) did not forge
  • 3) had forged
  • 4) No improvement


31. To his astonishment and admiration he got the information that it was only the picture of a curtain.

  • 1) found
  • 2) received the information
  • 3) saw clearly
  • 4) No information


Directions (32-38):In the following questions, out of the four alternatives, choose the one which can be substituted for the given words/sentence.

32. Study of caves

  • 1) Speleology
  • 2) Seismology
  • 3) Topology
  • 4) Numismatics


33. Government by the few

  • 1) Oligarchy
  • 2) Autocracy
  • 3) Monarchy
  • 4) Anarchy


34. Materials that change naturally by the action of bacteria

  • 1) Inflammable
  • 2) Perishable
  • 3) Biological
  • 4) Biodegradable


35. Having a stale smell or taste

  • 1) Rancid
  • 2) Insipid
  • 3) Savoury
  • 4) Tepid


36. A wooden object used for connecting animals that are pulling a vehicle

  • 1) Rein
  • 2) Leash
  • 3) Whip
  • 4) Yoke


37. A man who knows a lot about things like food, music and art

  • 1) Priest
  • 2) Optimist
  • 3) Hostage
  • 4) Connoisseur


38. A doctor who specializes in diseases of the nose

  • 1) Rhinologist
  • 2) Otologist
  • 3) Pathologist
  • 4) Podiatrist


Directions (39-40):In the following questions, four words are given in each question, out of which only one word is correctly spelt. Find the correctly spelt word.

39.

  • 1) Inteligibelity
  • 2) Inteligibillity
  • 3) Intelligibility
  • 4) Inteligibility


40.

  • 1) Exterpate
  • 2) Extirpeit
  • 3) Extirpate
  • 4) Extripaite


Directions (41-50):In the following questions, you have two brief passages with 5 questions following each passage. Read the passages carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives.
PASSAGE-I (Q. Nos. 41 to 45)
A crucial element that defines the soap opera is the open ended nature of the narrative, with stories spanning several episodes. One of the defining features that makes a television program a soap opera, according to Albert Moran is "that form of television that works with a continuous open narrative. Each episode ends with a promise that the storyline is to be continued in another episode."
In 2012, Robert Lloyd of the Los Angeles Times wrote of daily dramas, "Although melodramatically eventful, soap operas such as this also have a luxury of space that makes them seem more naturalistic, indeed, the economics of the form demand long scenes, and conversations that a 22-episodes-per-season weekly series might dispense with in half a dozen lines of dialogue may be drawn out, as here, for pages. You spend more time even with the minor characters, the apparent villains grow less apparently villainous."
Soap opera story lines run concurrently, intersect and lead into further developments. An individual episode of a soap opera will generally switch between several different concurrent narrative threads that may at times interconnect and effect one another or may run entirely independent of each other. Evening soap operas and serials that run for only a part of the year tend to bring things to a dramatic end of season cliffhanger.

41. A soap opera has the space for it be more

  • 1) artistic
  • 2) naturalistic
  • 3) dramatic
  • 4) tragic


42. The economics of soap opera form demands for it to have

  • 1) long scenes
  • 2) luxurious space
  • 3) melodramatic events
  • 4) promising story lines


43. An individual episode of a soap opera generally switches between

  • 1) more time spent with minor characters
  • 2) apparent villains that grow less apparent villainous
  • 3) successive intersections of events
  • 4) different concurrent narrative threads


44. Soap operas that run for a part of the year usually end in

  • 1) a cliff
  • 2) an episode
  • 3) a cliffhanger
  • 4) a sequence


45. What does the author mean by the open-ended nature of soap operas?

  • 1) Each episode ends with a promise that the storyline is to be continued in another episode
  • 2) Every episode has a different story
  • 3) Every episode ends abruptly
  • 4) Consecutive episodes have no connection


PASSAGE-II (Q. Nos. 46 to 50)
Two or three days and nights went by; I reckon I might say they swum by, they slid along so quiet and smooth and lovely. Here is the way we put it in the time. It was a monstrous big river down there - sometimes a mile and a half wide; we ran nights, and laid up and hid daytimes; soon as night was most gone we stopped navigating and tied up - nearly always in the dead water under a towhead; and then cut young cottonwoods and willows, and hid the raft with them. Then we set out the lines. Next we slid into the river and had a swim, so as to freshen up and cool off; then we set down on the sandy bottom where the water was about knee deep and watched the daylight come. Not a sound anywhere - perfectly still - just like the whole world was asleep only sometimes the bullfrogs a cluttering maybe. The first thing to see, looking away over the water was a kind of dull line - that was the woods on 't' other side; you couldn't make nothing else out; then a pale place in the sky; then more paleness spreading around; then the river softened up away off, and wasn't black any more, but gray; you could see little dark spots drifting along ever so far away - trading scows and such things and long black streaks - rafts; sometimes you could hear a sweep creaking or jumbled up voices, it was so still and sounds come so far and by you could see a streak on the water which you know by the look of the streak that there's a snag there in a swift current which breaks on it and makes that streak look that way.

46. They stopped navigating

  • 1) at night
  • 2) at dusk
  • 3) at daytime
  • 4) at dawn


47. After a swim in the moor they

  • 1) set down on the sandy bottom where the water was about ankle deep and watched the daylight come.
  • 2) set down on the sandy bottom where the water was about knee deep and watched the daylight come.
  • 3) set down on the sandy shore and watched the daylight come.
  • 4) set down on the sandy bottom and watched the daylight come.


48. In the stillness of the night

  • 1) sounds come so far
  • 2) the bullfrogs also were asleep
  • 3) the whole world was asleep
  • 4) a sweep creaking or jumbled up voices could be heard


49. The streak on the water looks as it does because

  • 1) the swift current has broken the streak
  • 2) the streak has been swept by the swift current to the shore
  • 3) of a snag there in the swift current which breaks on it
  • 4) the streak has been swept by the swift current


50. How did the days and nights go by, according to the writer?

  • 1) They slid along so quiet and smooth and lovely
  • 2) They slid along so smooth and quietly
  • 3) They slid along so smooth and soft and quietly
  • 4) They slid along so quietly and smooth and softly