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Day 227: SSC CGL English

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

  1. Question 1

    Vocabulary. Asked once: 21 Sep 2025 S3

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    Fill in the blank with the correctly spelt word. His ________ disregard for protocol annoyed his superiors.

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  2. Question 2 (case study, 5 parts)

    Cloze Test. Asked once: 18 Jul 2023 S2

    In the following passage, some words have been deleted. Read the passage carefully and select the most appropriate option to fill in each blank. The Maasais live in (1)_________ very beautiful part of Africa. They live on the wide plains in southern and northern Kenya and northern Tanzania. The area (2)_______ of miles of rolling grass land, on which you can find thorny bushes and rocky hills. The people move from one place to another according to the seasons, looking for grasses and other plants (3)________ which their cattle can graze. They have no permanent home. When they want to settle in a place for some time, they build a kind of camp called a ‘Manyatta’, where a few families live for a (4)_________ weeks or months. Then they move on again, taking their few (5)_______ with them, and burning the old ‘Manyatta’ to the ground.
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    Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank number 1.

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    Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank number 2.

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    Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank number 3.

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    Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank number 4.

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    Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank number 5.

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  3. Question 3

    Grammar. Asked once: 25 Jul 2023 S4

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    Select the grammatically correct sentence.

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  4. Question 4

    Idioms and Phrases. Asked once: 18 Sep 2024 S3

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    Select the most appropriate meaning of the given idiom. Hit the roof

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  5. Question 5

    Sentence Rearrangement. Asked once: 27 Jul 2023 S1

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    Sentences of a paragraph are given below in jumbled order. Arrange the sentences in the correct order to form a meaningful and coherent paragraph. A. The government's recent efforts have concentrated on strengthening these ties. B. The textile industry in India is one of the country's oldest, stretching back several centuries. C. The textile business is immensely diverse, with hand-spun and hand-woven textiles at one end of the spectrum and capital-intensive modern mills at the other. D. Its tight ties to agriculture (for raw materials such as cotton) and the country's old history and traditions in terms of textiles set it apart from other sectors in the country.

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