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Day 131: SSC CGL English

5 questions (9 parts). Try each one first, then open its answer.

  1. Question 1

    Sentence Rearrangement. Asked once: 26 Sep 2025 S3

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    Rearrange the following sentences to form a meaningful passage: 1. Scientists had long theorized the existence of gravitational waves. 2. Their detection confirmed a major prediction of Einstein’s theory. 3. They were eventually observed by LIGO in 2015. 4. The event opened new avenues in astrophysics.

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  2. Question 2

    Spotting Errors. Asked once: 26 Sep 2025 S3

    95
    Choose the most suitable option to replace the highlighted part of the sentence: They *discussed the problem in details*.

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  3. Question 3

    Vocabulary. Asked once: 26 Sep 2025 S3

    84
    Select the most appropriate synonym of the given word: CONFLAGRATION

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  4. Question 4 (case study, 5 parts)

    Cloze Test. Asked once: 23 Sep 2025 S3

    In the following passage, some words have been deleted. Read the passage intently and choose the most appropriate option to fill in each blank: The pursuit of global equity in the anthropocene is less a matter of distributive justice and more a theatre of ontological misrecognition. While the Global North presents technocratic solutions as universally applicable, such solutions often encode assumptions of temporal supremacy and civilizational [1] _______. Climate finance, for instance, masquerades as benevolence while entrenching hierarchies of surveillance and dependence. The epistemes of the South, rather than being engaged on their own terms, are often reconfigured through extractive logics of “capacity building,” a term whose etymology betrays its colonial [2] _______. Embedded within these discourses is the idea that certain populations must be “readied” for modernity—thus reproducing a pedagogical asymmetry that masks itself as aid.Meanwhile, planetary imaginaries are increasingly framed through cartographies of emergency. The language of “tipping points” and “irreversible loss” evokes a moral urgency that, paradoxically, facilitates a form of ecological [3] _______, wherein radical structural reform is substituted by incremental techno-fixes. Carbon offsets, biodiversity credits, and green financialization proliferate not as correctives, but as symptoms of an underlying refusal to dislodge anthropocentric capitalism. In such a milieu, protest is not silence-breaking but often met with strategic [4] _______, where rhetorical accommodation obscures institutional inertia. Civil society is co-opted, not crushed. The subaltern voice is archived, not amplified. Thus, to reclaim ecological justice is not merely to demand inclusion, but to interrogate the ontologies that define inclusion itself. Absent this, the dream of planetary stewardship will remain a ceremonial [5] _______, rich in symbolism, barren in substance.
    83
    What should come in the place of blank number [1] ?

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    84
    What should come in the place of blank number [2]?

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    85
    What should come in the place of blank number [3]?

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    86
    What should come in the place of blank number [4]?

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    What should come in the place of blank number [5]?

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  5. Question 5

    Fill in the Blanks. Asked once: 19 Sep 2025 S1

    84
    Choose the correct semantic fit: The intervention was seen as a _____ to escalating tensions.

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