SSC CGL 2020 : 13 Aug 2021 Shift 3 Previous Year Paper English Language PDF

Directions: Select the most appropriate synonym of the given word.

Iota

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

Many of the apples was rotten.

Directions: 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. When he reached his town, he went to his house and knocked at the door.

B. A man went away from his home.

C. Disappointed, he decided to take it himself.

D. One day he wrote a letter to his family, but could not find anyone to take the letter to his town.

Directions: Select the most appropriate ANTONYM of the given word.

Pompous

Directions: Select the most appropriate meaning of the given idiom.

Want to curl up and die

Directions: Select the INCORRECTLY spelt word.

Directions: Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank.

The advanced nations face no population problem since they were already settling down to zero growth _______ in the population.

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

Although the children studied hard, but they could not understand the topic without the help of the teacher.

Directions: Select the most appropriate synonym of the given word.

Yield (n)

Directions: The following sentence has been divided into parts. One of them contains an error. Select the part that contains the error from the given options.

Lack of required / vitamins and minerals / lead against / several complications / in the human body.

Directions: Select the most appropriate ANTONYM of the given word.

Widespread

Directions: Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank.

The door _______ in the strong wind.

Directions: Select the INCORRECTLY spelt word.

Directions: The following sentence has been divided into parts. One of them contains an error. Select the part that contains the error from the given options.

The Dussehra celebrations / in Mysore / this year / are grandest than / in any other part / of the state.

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

One who does not take any alcoholic drink

Directions: Select the option that expresses the given sentence in indirect speech.

“Read the instructions before you start making the dish,” Deepa's mother said to her.

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

Close all the windows.

Directions: Select the most appropriate meaning of the given idiom.

Be at a loss for words

Directions: 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. At length the olive tree's branches broke with the snow's weight, at once despoiling it of its beauty and killing the tree.

B. A shower of snow fell upon them and, finding the Olive full of foliage, it settled upon its branches.

C. Finding the fig tree without leaves, the snow fell through the branches to the ground and did not injure it at all.

D. The olive tree ridiculed the fig tree because, while she was green all year round, the fig tree changed its leaves with the seasons.

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

A person who is trained to travel in a spacecraft

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