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Day 170: SSC CGL English

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

  1. Question 1 (case study, 5 parts)

    Cloze Test. Asked once: 17 Sep 2024 S3

    In the following passage, some words have been deleted. Read the passage carefully and select the most appropriate option to fill in each blank. Rory Cooper was a top aide to former House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, the up-and-coming Virginia Republican who lost a 2014 House primary. He was also a prominent Never Trumper, openly (1)______________ how awful he found the 45th president. The cause Cooper has (2)______________ himself to for the past year, though, is closer to home. He is, as he puts it in his Twitter bio, ‘Apparently Mr. Open the Schools’. A father of a fifth grader, a second grader and a kindergartner, Cooper is (3) ___________ because the public schools in Fairfax, Virginia, where he lives, have not reopened. Fairfax, in the Washington, D.C., suburbs, is one of the school districts that has moved (4) ___________ toward in-person learning, and it is still not close: only in the past few weeks have students started to return to classrooms, and only about half of those eligible have opted to go back, for an (5) ________________ of two days a week.
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    Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank no. 1

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

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

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

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

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  2. Question 2

    Fill in the Blanks. Asked once: 20 Jul 2023 S4

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    Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank. The young one of a lion is called a __________.

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  3. Question 3

    Grammar. Asked once: 20 Sep 2025 S1

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    Choose the correct phrasal verb: The professor asked the student to _____ on her thesis argument.

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  4. Question 4

    Idioms and Phrases. Asked once: 20 Sep 2025 S1

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    Choose the correct meaning of idiom: Flash in the pan

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  5. Question 5

    Reading Comprehension. Asked once: 27 Jul 2023 S3

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    Select the most appropriate ANTONYM of the word ‘Naïve’ from the given sentence. After years of working in politics, she had become cynical and jaded, convinced that all politicians were corrupt and that the system was rigged against the people.

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