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Day 139: SSC CGL English

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

  1. Question 1

    Sentence Rearrangement. Asked once: 23 Sep 2025 S1

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    Rearrange the following sentences to form a meaningful passage: 1. The shift to renewable energy sources is essential for the future of our planet. 2. Solar and wind energy are among the most promising alternatives to fossil fuels. 3. Governments must invest in renewable energy infrastructure. 4. Energy storage solutions are critical to ensuring a stable energy supply.

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  2. Question 2

    Spotting Errors. Asked once: 24 Sep 2025 S2

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    Find the part of the sentence that contains an error: The suddenness with which the issue escalated (1)/ took not only the negotiators but also the observers (2)/ by surprise who were expecting (3)/ a gradual resolution process. (4)

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  3. Question 3

    Vocabulary. Asked once: 26 Sep 2025 S3

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    Which spelling is correct for a word meaning 'deeply thoughtful or melancholy in tone'?

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  4. Question 4 (case study, 5 parts)

    Cloze Test. Asked once: 20 Sep 2025 S1

    In the given passage, some words have been deleted. Read the passage intently and choose the most appropriate option to fill in each blank: Postcolonial infrastructures often inhabit a schizochronic condition—a simultaneity of obsolescence and futurity. Flyovers half-finished, railway stations calcified mid-renovation, and electric grids oscillating between blackout and surplus do not signify simple malfunction. Rather, they manifest a (1) _____ temporality in which the present is neither a continuity of the past nor a stable projection of the future. These infrastructures function not as inert utilities but as affective indexes of temporal rupture. Modernity, once telegraphed through asphalt and concrete, now flickers within these arrested developments—gestures of progress suspended in bureaucratic amber. Here, functionality is beside the point. What matters is the performative (2) _____ of development: roads that signify mobility even when impassable, metros that symbolize futurity even when immobile. In this schema, infrastructure ceases to be an engineering problem and becomes a narrative technology—a spatial discourse that (3) _____ the nation-state’s promises into sedimented form. Bridges-to-be and always-rebuilding airports constitute not failure, but continuity: the continual renewal of unfinished intention. Such spatial artifacts require a recalibrated hermeneutics. To read them literally is to miss their symbolic resonance. Their disrepair is not decay but (4) _____: a visual vocabulary of state temporality, in which incompletion is the political idiom of continuity. This is the temporal grammar of anticipation without arrival. Thus, the postcolonial built environment articulates not stasis, but (5) _____—a condition where motion exists without direction, and progress is simulated through perpetual incompletion.
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    What should come in the place of blank number (1)?

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    What should come in the place of blank number (2)?

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    What should come in the place of blank number (3)?

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    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: 15 Sep 2025 S3

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    Select the correct option: Although the experiment had been meticulously designed, unforeseen variables ___ the reliability of its conclusions.

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