SSC CGL Mock – Tier I Mock Test 10 – Section D · English Comprehension
SSC CGL Mock – Tier I Mock Test 10 – Section D · English Comprehension – 25 questions, subject: Full Mock Tests. Every question has the correct answer with a one-line explanation; tap "Show Answer". Free practice for TNPSC, UPSC, SSC, Bank and RRB exams – Shanmugam IAS Academy, Coimbatore.
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Directions (Q 76–78): Each sentence below is divided into three segments. Select the segment that contains a grammatical error. If there is no error, select 'No error'.
Correct Answer: B [all my luggages]
Explanation:
'luggage' is uncountable → 'all my luggage'.
Spot the errorThe house / whose roof was damaged / belong to my uncle.
Correct Answer: C [belong to my uncle.]
Explanation:
The subject is 'The house' (singular) → 'belongs to my uncle'.
Spot the errorHe told / that he would / come early.
Correct Answer: A [He told]
Explanation:
'tell' needs a personal object → 'He said that …' (or 'He told me that …').
Directions (Q 79–80): Select the most appropriate option to improve the underlined part of the sentence. If no improvement is needed, select 'No improvement'.
Correct Answer: D [No improvement]
Explanation:
'Hardly' at the start → inversion 'had he left … when'.
Sentence improvementThe old man was too weak to walk without a stick.
Correct Answer: D [No improvement]
Explanation:
'too + adjective + to-infinitive' is the correct pattern.
Directions (Q 81–83): Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank.
Correct Answer: A [abide by]
Explanation:
'abide by' = obey, act according to.
Verb patternThe doctor _______ him to give up smoking.
Correct Answer: B [advised]
Explanation:
Only 'advise' takes object + to-infinitive here; 'suggest', 'insist' and 'demand' do not.
StructureShe was _______ tired that she fell asleep at once.
Correct Answer: D [so]
Explanation:
'so + adjective + that' shows a result.
Directions (Q 84): Select the option that expresses the given sentence in active voice.
Correct Answer: C [Our team won the match.]
Explanation:
'was won' is past simple → active past simple 'won'.
Directions (Q 85): Select the option that expresses the given sentence in direct speech.
Correct Answer: A [He said to me, "Are you coming?"]
Explanation:
Reverse the change: whether I was coming → "Are you coming?" with 'said to me'.
Directions (Q 86): The sentences of a paragraph are given below in jumbled order. Select the option that arranges them in a logical sequence.
Q. So she borrowed an old guitar from her cousin.
R. Within a year, she was playing at her college festival.
S. Rekha wanted to learn the guitar, but she had no money for lessons.
Correct Answer: C [SQPR]
Explanation:
Wish and problem → 'So' → 'then' → 'Within a year'.
Directions (Q 87–88): Select the most appropriate SYNONYM of the given word.
Correct Answer: B [unimportant]
Explanation:
trivial = of little importance.
SynonymDEBRIS
Correct Answer: D [rubble]
Explanation:
debris = scattered broken pieces, rubble.
Directions (Q 89–90): Select the most appropriate ANTONYM of the given word.
Correct Answer: A [diverge]
Explanation:
converge = come together; opposite = diverge.
AntonymCONDEMN
Correct Answer: D [praise]
Explanation:
condemn = express strong disapproval; opposite = praise.
Directions (Q 91–92): Select the most appropriate meaning of the given idiom or phrase.
Correct Answer: B [to become too nervous to do something one had planned]
Explanation:
'get cold feet' = lose courage just before doing something.
Idiomto turn a deaf ear
Correct Answer: C [to refuse to listen]
Explanation:
'turn a deaf ear (to)' = deliberately ignore.
Directions (Q 93–94): Select the option that can be used as a one-word substitute for the given group of words.
Correct Answer: D [immigrant]
Explanation:
immigrant = one who comes into a country to live; an emigrant leaves his or her own country.
One-word substitutionAn official count of a country's population
Correct Answer: C [census]
Explanation:
census = an official count of the population.
Directions (Q 95): Select the correctly spelt word to fill in the blank.
Correct Answer: B [exaggerate]
Explanation:
ex-ag-ger-ate: one x, double g, '-erate'.
Directions (Q 96–100): Read the passage carefully and answer the questions that follow.
Lakshmi's father was a handloom weaver in a small town known for its silk saris. When power looms arrived and cheaper saris flooded the market, his orders dwindled. Lakshmi, who had just finished college, watched him sit idle at the loom for days.
She did not know how to weave, but she knew how to use the internet. She photographed her father's saris in the morning light, wrote a short note about the weeks of work behind each piece, and put them up for sale online. For a month nothing happened. Then a buyer from a distant city ordered two saris and wrote back that she had never seen such fine work.
Orders began to trickle in, then to flow. Lakshmi's father had to call two retired weavers from the street to help him. Lakshmi herself never learned to weave, but she says she learned something equally useful: that good work needs not only skill but also someone who can tell its story.
Correct Answer: A [Cheaper saris made on power looms flooded the market.]
Explanation:
The passage says: 'When power looms arrived and cheaper saris flooded the market, his orders dwindled'.
RC – detailWhat did Lakshmi do to help her father?
Correct Answer: D [She put his saris up for sale online with photographs and notes.]
Explanation:
The passage says: 'put them up for sale online'.
RC – detailWhat did the first buyer write back?
Correct Answer: B [that she had never seen such fine work]
Explanation:
The passage says: 'wrote back that she had never seen such fine work'.
RC – vocabularyAs used in the passage, 'his orders dwindled' means that his orders
Correct Answer: C [became fewer and fewer]
Explanation:
Cheaper competition reduced his work – 'dwindled' = became gradually fewer.
RC – main ideaWhat lesson did Lakshmi draw from the experience?
