SSC CGL – SSC CPO 2019 Test 1

Select the most appropriate synonym of the given word.

FASCINATING

Select the most appropriate synonym of the given word.

ADEQUATE

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.<br><br> I had seen the magic shop from afar several times. I had passed (1) ___once or twice, a shop window of (2) ___little objects, magic balls, magic hens, wonderful cones, magic dolls and all those (3) ___of things. But never had I thought of going in (4)___one day, Gip hauled me by my finger - right (5) ___to the window.

Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank No.1.

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.<br><br> I had seen the magic shop from afar several times. I had passed (1) ___once or twice, a shop window of (2) ___little objects, magic balls, magic hens, wonderful cones, magic dolls and all those (3) ___of things. But never had I thought of going in (4)___one day, Gip hauled me by my finger - right (5) ___to the window.

Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank No.2.

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.<br><br> I had seen the magic shop from afar several times. I had passed (1) ___once or twice, a shop window of (2) ___little objects, magic balls, magic hens, wonderful cones, magic dolls and all those (3) ___of things. But never had I thought of going in (4)___one day, Gip hauled me by my finger - right (5) ___to the window.

Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank No.3.

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.<br><br> I had seen the magic shop from afar several times. I had passed (1) ___once or twice, a shop window of (2) ___little objects, magic balls, magic hens, wonderful cones, magic dolls and all those (3) ___of things. But never had I thought of going in (4)___one day, Gip hauled me by my finger - right (5) ___to the window.

Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank No.4.

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.<br><br> I had seen the magic shop from afar several times. I had passed (1) ___once or twice, a shop window of (2) ___little objects, magic balls, magic hens, wonderful cones, magic dolls and all those (3) ___of things. But never had I thought of going in (4)___one day, Gip hauled me by my finger - right (5) ___to the window.

Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank No.5.

Select the option that can be used as a one-word substitute for the given group of words.

Words written on a tombstone in the memory of the person who has died

Select the most appropriate ANTONYM of the given word.

INTENTIONAL

Select the most appropriate word to fill in the blank.

This is the girl ______ is going to IIT, Delhi.

Select the most appropriate word to fill in the blank.

If only we ____a light! It is depressing to wait in the dark.

Select the most appropriate word to fill in the blank.

We haven't been to Gangotri _____ almost ten years.

Select the most appropriate option to substitute the bold segment in the given sentence. If there is no need to substitute it, select 'No substitution'.

The authorities <strong>are looked on the matter.</strong>

Identify the segment in the sentence which contains the grammatical error.

A large section of a hotel under construction collapse in New Orleans last Saturday.

Select the most appropriate synonym of the given word.

CONTAMINATE

Select the INCORRECTLY spelt word.

Select the most appropriate ANTONYM of the given word.

LAMENT

Select the most appropriate meaning of the bold idiom in the given sentence.

Our PM is received <strong>with open arms </strong>wherever he goes.

Select the most appropriate ANTONYM of the given word.

ENRAGED

In the sentence identify the segment which contains the grammatical error.

Across his morning walk on a beach in Mamallapuram, Prime Minister Modi was seen picking up plastic litter, bottles, and other items.

Select the most appropriate word to fill in the blank.

He obtained 80% marks in Science in High School. He has qualified _____the science stream in plus two.

Select the option that can be used as a one-word substitute for the given group of words

A small building or room used for Christian worship in a school, prison, hospital or large private house.

Select the INCORRECTLY spelt word.

Select the most appropriate ANTONYM of the given word.

APPLAUD

Select the most appropriate word to fill in the blank.

Milk is _______ than any other food.

Select the most appropriate option to substitute the bold segment in the given sentence. If there is no need to substitute it, select 'No substitution'.

I enjoy <strong>to watch</strong> a good detective movie.

Select the INCORRECTLY spelt word.

Select the most appropriate synonym of the given word.

SUBSEQUENT

Select the most appropriate option to substitute the bold segment in the given sentence. If there is no need to substitute it, select 'No substitution'.

I <strong>couldn't got some sleep</strong> because the people in the next room were talking very loudly.

Select the INCORRECTLY spelt word.

Select the most appropriate option to substitute the bold segment in the given sentence. If there is no need to substitute it, select 'No substitution'.

Rahul thinks that this is <strong>quite the cheap </strong>restaurant.

Select the INCORRECTLY spelt word.

Identify the segment in the sentence which contains the grammatical error. If there is no error, select 'No error'

We watched the workmen to repair the tiles of the kitchen.

Select the option that can be used as a one-word substitute for the given group of words.

A person who believes that war and violence are unjustifiable

Select the most appropriate option to substitute the bold segment in the given sentence. If there is no need to substitute it, select 'No substitution'.

The tree was uprooted by the storm last evening, <strong>isn't it?</strong>

Select the most appropriate meaning of the bold idiom in the given sentence.

In spite of her severe accident she <strong>took heart </strong>and moved forward.

Select the most appropriate synonym of the given word.

TRANQUIL

Select the most appropriate ANTONYM of the given word.

INFINITE

Select the option that can be used as a one-word substitute for the given group of words.

A person who can endure pain or hardship without showing his feelings or complaining

Select the option that can be used as a one-word substitute for the given group of words.

A person who held a job or office before the current holder

Select the option that can be used as a one-word substitute for the given group of words.

Trying to find my lost ring in the college is like<strong> looking for a needle in a haystack.</strong>

In the sentence identify the segment which contains the grammatical error.

'Plogging' is an international trend, in which someone picking up trash while jogging or brisk walking.

Identify the segment in the sentence which contains the grammatical error. If there is no error, select 'No error'

In about two weeks our holidays will start

Select the most appropriate meaning of the bold idiom in the given sentence.

<strong>Off and on</strong> I take a break from my hectic schedule to refresh myself.

Read the following passage and answer the questions given after it.<br><br> The excitement of bird watchers on spotting a particular species for the very first time is unparalleled. With eyes shining and pride bursting, they exclaim, "I had a lifer today", or "It was a lifer for me". For the longest time, I couldn't fathom what all the fuss was about. I mean, at some point in their lives, even a crow or mynah would have been a lifer - seen for the very first time. So, here, I've done a bit of jugaad with the term and define it as a bird that you see maybe (but not necessarily) for the first time, but which has made a lasting, life-changing impact on you. Then I recalled some of my own "lifers". <br><br> Number 1 is the little coppersmith barbet. The first bird I saw through brand new, big and powerful binoculars - and it was solely responsible for my getting interested in birds. The fellow looked like a tubby little clown with hiccups and that just blew me away. <br><br> I will never forget the first time I saw grey hornbills aeons ago: over sullen grey skies in the Borivali National Park (now called Sanjay Gandhi National Park) - squealing as they flew high up across the sky. They looked as if they had just left Jurassic Park. Or, for that matter, their larger, more glamorous, cousins - Great pied hornbills. Tramping through a streambed in Kalagarh (near Corbett), we suddenly heard this rasping, whooshing, sound. Up there, in the clear blue, were six-seven huge black-and-white birds with colossal yellow beaks flying in tandem across the clear blue sky, their wings making the rasping sound. <br><br> Say "paradise flycatcher" and a birder's eyes will begin to glint: "Where? When? Will it be there now?" are questions that will be shot out like machine-gun bullets. The first time I saw a full grown milk-white-and-glossy-black male, with its glamorous 18-inch streamer tail, was at the Sultanpur National Park in Haryana. But I remember better the flycatchers, that made me run around in a tea garden in Palampur, teasingly whistling at me from one end to the other. The nesting pair in Naukuchiatal was more accommodating except that I had to stand knee- deep in the hotel's garbage dump to get a good view of them flitting to and fro the gully nearby. To compensate, one actually flew nearly down to my feet to snatch up a bluebottle I had missed. <br><br> Of course, there have been rarities: the highlight of the regular Bharatpur (the Keoladeo National Park) visits was the darshan of VIP Siberian cranes. Then they stopped coming, which was a first indication of their slow extinction - even if it was just "local" to our area. The gloriously uppity Great Indian bustards in the Karera Sanctuary (Madhya Pradesh) were another unforgettable sighting. The sheer disdain with which they flounced away from our howling, jolting jeep and took to their wings was a lesson in being put in your place. Now, not only does the sanctuary not exist anymore but those magnificent muscular birds are crashing to total extinction.

According to the passage which sanctuary does NOT exist anymore?

Read the following passage and answer the questions given after it.<br><br> The excitement of bird watchers on spotting a particular species for the very first time is unparalleled. With eyes shining and pride bursting, they exclaim, "I had a lifer today", or "It was a lifer for me". For the longest time, I couldn't fathom what all the fuss was about. I mean, at some point in their lives, even a crow or mynah would have been a lifer - seen for the very first time. So, here, I've done a bit of jugaad with the term and define it as a bird that you see maybe (but not necessarily) for the first time, but which has made a lasting, life-changing impact on you. Then I recalled some of my own "lifers". <br><br> Number 1 is the little coppersmith barbet. The first bird I saw through brand new, big and powerful binoculars - and it was solely responsible for my getting interested in birds. The fellow looked like a tubby little clown with hiccups and that just blew me away. <br><br> I will never forget the first time I saw grey hornbills aeons ago: over sullen grey skies in the Borivali National Park (now called Sanjay Gandhi National Park) - squealing as they flew high up across the sky. They looked as if they had just left Jurassic Park. Or, for that matter, their larger, more glamorous, cousins - Great pied hornbills. Tramping through a streambed in Kalagarh (near Corbett), we suddenly heard this rasping, whooshing, sound. Up there, in the clear blue, were six-seven huge black-and-white birds with colossal yellow beaks flying in tandem across the clear blue sky, their wings making the rasping sound. <br><br> Say "paradise flycatcher" and a birder's eyes will begin to glint: "Where? When? Will it be there now?" are questions that will be shot out like machine-gun bullets. The first time I saw a full grown milk-white-and-glossy-black male, with its glamorous 18-inch streamer tail, was at the Sultanpur National Park in Haryana. But I remember better the flycatchers, that made me run around in a tea garden in Palampur, teasingly whistling at me from one end to the other. The nesting pair in Naukuchiatal was more accommodating except that I had to stand knee- deep in the hotel's garbage dump to get a good view of them flitting to and fro the gully nearby. To compensate, one actually flew nearly down to my feet to snatch up a bluebottle I had missed. <br><br> Of course, there have been rarities: the highlight of the regular Bharatpur (the Keoladeo National Park) visits was the darshan of VIP Siberian cranes. Then they stopped coming, which was a first indication of their slow extinction - even if it was just "local" to our area. The gloriously uppity Great Indian bustards in the Karera Sanctuary (Madhya Pradesh) were another unforgettable sighting. The sheer disdain with which they flounced away from our howling, jolting jeep and took to their wings was a lesson in being put in your place. Now, not only does the sanctuary not exist anymore but those magnificent muscular birds are crashing to total extinction.

Which pair of birds did the author see in Naukuchiatal?

Read the following passage and answer the questions given after it.<br><br> The excitement of bird watchers on spotting a particular species for the very first time is unparalleled. With eyes shining and pride bursting, they exclaim, "I had a lifer today", or "It was a lifer for me". For the longest time, I couldn't fathom what all the fuss was about. I mean, at some point in their lives, even a crow or mynah would have been a lifer - seen for the very first time. So, here, I've done a bit of jugaad with the term and define it as a bird that you see maybe (but not necessarily) for the first time, but which has made a lasting, life-changing impact on you. Then I recalled some of my own "lifers". <br><br> Number 1 is the little coppersmith barbet. The first bird I saw through brand new, big and powerful binoculars - and it was solely responsible for my getting interested in birds. The fellow looked like a tubby little clown with hiccups and that just blew me away. <br><br> I will never forget the first time I saw grey hornbills aeons ago: over sullen grey skies in the Borivali National Park (now called Sanjay Gandhi National Park) - squealing as they flew high up across the sky. They looked as if they had just left Jurassic Park. Or, for that matter, their larger, more glamorous, cousins - Great pied hornbills. Tramping through a streambed in Kalagarh (near Corbett), we suddenly heard this rasping, whooshing, sound. Up there, in the clear blue, were six-seven huge black-and-white birds with colossal yellow beaks flying in tandem across the clear blue sky, their wings making the rasping sound. <br><br> Say "paradise flycatcher" and a birder's eyes will begin to glint: "Where? When? Will it be there now?" are questions that will be shot out like machine-gun bullets. The first time I saw a full grown milk-white-and-glossy-black male, with its glamorous 18-inch streamer tail, was at the Sultanpur National Park in Haryana. But I remember better the flycatchers, that made me run around in a tea garden in Palampur, teasingly whistling at me from one end to the other. The nesting pair in Naukuchiatal was more accommodating except that I had to stand knee- deep in the hotel's garbage dump to get a good view of them flitting to and fro the gully nearby. To compensate, one actually flew nearly down to my feet to snatch up a bluebottle I had missed. <br><br> Of course, there have been rarities: the highlight of the regular Bharatpur (the Keoladeo National Park) visits was the darshan of VIP Siberian cranes. Then they stopped coming, which was a first indication of their slow extinction - even if it was just "local" to our area. The gloriously uppity Great Indian bustards in the Karera Sanctuary (Madhya Pradesh) were another unforgettable sighting. The sheer disdain with which they flounced away from our howling, jolting jeep and took to their wings was a lesson in being put in your place. Now, not only does the sanctuary not exist anymore but those magnificent muscular birds are crashing to total extinction.

Which bird is black and white with a huge yellow beak?

Read the following passage and answer the questions given after it.<br><br> The excitement of bird watchers on spotting a particular species for the very first time is unparalleled. With eyes shining and pride bursting, they exclaim, "I had a lifer today", or "It was a lifer for me". For the longest time, I couldn't fathom what all the fuss was about. I mean, at some point in their lives, even a crow or mynah would have been a lifer - seen for the very first time. So, here, I've done a bit of jugaad with the term and define it as a bird that you see maybe (but not necessarily) for the first time, but which has made a lasting, life-changing impact on you. Then I recalled some of my own "lifers". <br><br> Number 1 is the little coppersmith barbet. The first bird I saw through brand new, big and powerful binoculars - and it was solely responsible for my getting interested in birds. The fellow looked like a tubby little clown with hiccups and that just blew me away. <br><br> I will never forget the first time I saw grey hornbills aeons ago: over sullen grey skies in the Borivali National Park (now called Sanjay Gandhi National Park) - squealing as they flew high up across the sky. They looked as if they had just left Jurassic Park. Or, for that matter, their larger, more glamorous, cousins - Great pied hornbills. Tramping through a streambed in Kalagarh (near Corbett), we suddenly heard this rasping, whooshing, sound. Up there, in the clear blue, were six-seven huge black-and-white birds with colossal yellow beaks flying in tandem across the clear blue sky, their wings making the rasping sound. <br><br> Say "paradise flycatcher" and a birder's eyes will begin to glint: "Where? When? Will it be there now?" are questions that will be shot out like machine-gun bullets. The first time I saw a full grown milk-white-and-glossy-black male, with its glamorous 18-inch streamer tail, was at the Sultanpur National Park in Haryana. But I remember better the flycatchers, that made me run around in a tea garden in Palampur, teasingly whistling at me from one end to the other. The nesting pair in Naukuchiatal was more accommodating except that I had to stand knee- deep in the hotel's garbage dump to get a good view of them flitting to and fro the gully nearby. To compensate, one actually flew nearly down to my feet to snatch up a bluebottle I had missed. <br><br> Of course, there have been rarities: the highlight of the regular Bharatpur (the Keoladeo National Park) visits was the darshan of VIP Siberian cranes. Then they stopped coming, which was a first indication of their slow extinction - even if it was just "local" to our area. The gloriously uppity Great Indian bustards in the Karera Sanctuary (Madhya Pradesh) were another unforgettable sighting. The sheer disdain with which they flounced away from our howling, jolting jeep and took to their wings was a lesson in being put in your place. Now, not only does the sanctuary not exist anymore but those magnificent muscular birds are crashing to total extinction.

What does the word 'lifer' mean for the author?

Read the following passage and answer the questions given after it.<br><br> The excitement of bird watchers on spotting a particular species for the very first time is unparalleled. With eyes shining and pride bursting, they exclaim, "I had a lifer today", or "It was a lifer for me". For the longest time, I couldn't fathom what all the fuss was about. I mean, at some point in their lives, even a crow or mynah would have been a lifer - seen for the very first time. So, here, I've done a bit of jugaad with the term and define it as a bird that you see maybe (but not necessarily) for the first time, but which has made a lasting, life-changing impact on you. Then I recalled some of my own "lifers". <br><br> Number 1 is the little coppersmith barbet. The first bird I saw through brand new, big and powerful binoculars - and it was solely responsible for my getting interested in birds. The fellow looked like a tubby little clown with hiccups and that just blew me away. <br><br> I will never forget the first time I saw grey hornbills aeons ago: over sullen grey skies in the Borivali National Park (now called Sanjay Gandhi National Park) - squealing as they flew high up across the sky. They looked as if they had just left Jurassic Park. Or, for that matter, their larger, more glamorous, cousins - Great pied hornbills. Tramping through a streambed in Kalagarh (near Corbett), we suddenly heard this rasping, whooshing, sound. Up there, in the clear blue, were six-seven huge black-and-white birds with colossal yellow beaks flying in tandem across the clear blue sky, their wings making the rasping sound. <br><br> Say "paradise flycatcher" and a birder's eyes will begin to glint: "Where? When? Will it be there now?" are questions that will be shot out like machine-gun bullets. The first time I saw a full grown milk-white-and-glossy-black male, with its glamorous 18-inch streamer tail, was at the Sultanpur National Park in Haryana. But I remember better the flycatchers, that made me run around in a tea garden in Palampur, teasingly whistling at me from one end to the other. The nesting pair in Naukuchiatal was more accommodating except that I had to stand knee- deep in the hotel's garbage dump to get a good view of them flitting to and fro the gully nearby. To compensate, one actually flew nearly down to my feet to snatch up a bluebottle I had missed. <br><br> Of course, there have been rarities: the highlight of the regular Bharatpur (the Keoladeo National Park) visits was the darshan of VIP Siberian cranes. Then they stopped coming, which was a first indication of their slow extinction - even if it was just "local" to our area. The gloriously uppity Great Indian bustards in the Karera Sanctuary (Madhya Pradesh) were another unforgettable sighting. The sheer disdain with which they flounced away from our howling, jolting jeep and took to their wings was a lesson in being put in your place. Now, not only does the sanctuary not exist anymore but those magnificent muscular birds are crashing to total extinction.

Match the words with their meaning. <br> Words Meanings<br> a. fathom 1. team<br> b. aeons 2. understand<br> c. tandem 3. ages

Select the most appropriate meaning of the bold idiom in the given sentence.

Mrs. Arora has <strong>got the green light</strong> from the principal to organise a science conference in the college.