SSC CGL 2020 : 13 Aug 2021 Shift 2 Previous Year Paper English Language PDF

Select the most appropriate synonym of the given word.

Prompt

Select the INCORRECTLY spelt word.

Select the INCORRECTLY spelt word.

Select the most appropriate ANTONYM of the given word.

Hope

Select the option that can be used as a one-word substitute for the given group of words.

A self-governing country or region

Select the option that expresses the given sentence in reported speech.

“Is he alright now?” I asked my neighbour’s wife about her husband, Mr. Gulyani.

Select the option that expresses the given sentence in passive voice.

The sunrays burned my face

Select the option that can be used as a one-word substitute for the given group of words.

A place where coins, medals or tokens are made

The following sentence has been split into four segments. Identify the segment that contains a grammatical error.

The woodcutter felled / some trees / with hardly / many effort at all.

Select the most appropriate meaning of the following idiom.

To take a chill pill

Select the most appropriate ANTONYM of the given word.

Putrefy

Select the option that will improve the underlined part of the given sentence. In case no improvement is needed select ‘No improvement required’.

Fierce competition against restaurants has driven up the prices.

Select the most appropriate option to substitute the underlined segment in the given sentence. If no substitution is required, select ‘No substitution required’.

“Can you give me so many examples of subordinate clauses?”, the teacher asked the class.

The following sentence has been divided into parts. One of them may contain an error. Select the part that contains the error from the given options. If you don’t find any error, mark ‘No error’ in your answer.

The river appears to have / got its name / from the town nearby.

Sentences of a paragraph are given below in jumbled order. Arrange the sentences in the right order to form a meaningful and coherent paragraph.

A. “Excellently well,” said she; “we have everything that we want; I have but one prayer, that we may have a heavy storm of rain to water our plants.”

B. A man who had two daughters married one to a gardener and the other to a potter.

C. Off he went to the potter's home and asked his other daughter how matters were with her.

D. After a while he paid a visit to the gardener's home and asked his daughter how she was, and how it fared with her.

Sentences of a paragraph are given below in jumbled order. Arrange the sentences in the right order to form a meaningful and coherent paragraph.

A. While India is home to 75 per cent of the tigers in the world, the Global Tiger Day, as it is also known - sees awareness events organised in the country, as well as in neighbouring Bangladesh and Nepal.

B. Its primary objective is to preserve the natural habitat of the tiger.

C. International Tiger Day was initiated in 2010, at the Saint Petersburg Tiger Summit.

D. This annual event observed on 29 July, aims to create awareness on tiger conservation.

Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank.

Help from relatives ______ him in difficult times.

Select the most appropriate synonym of the given word.

Dedicated

Select the most appropriate meaning of the following idiom.

To walk on air

Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank.

The interviewer asked Gautam, “Can you tell me what your ______ in life are?”

Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank number 1.

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

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

Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank number 4

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