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SSC CGL Tier 1
English Paper: 801
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No. of Questions: 50 Max. Marks: 50
Time: 15 Minutes Negative Marking: 0.25
Each question carries 1 marks Please use OMR Sheet.
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ENGLISH
Directions (1–5) : In the following question, Q6. I can _____________ him without
some parts of the sentences have errors and qualifications.
some are correct. Find out which part of a (a) recommend (b) commend
sentence has an error. The number of that
part is the answer. If a sentence is free from (c) praise (d) suggest
error, your answer is (d) i.e. No error. Q7. She let her horse__________ in the field.
Q1. (a) In his book/(b) Churchill describes/(c) (a) loosen (b) loose
That historical first meeting with Roosevelt. (c) loosely (d) lose
/(d) No error
Q8. It is hoped that a ________ will be reached
Q2. (a) The ant who was nearby/ (b) walked in the meeting.
forward and bit the hunter/ (c) sharply in the
(a) statement (b) comparison
ankle./(d) No error.
(c) compromise (d) compression
Q3. (a) They can promise you/(b)an
experience/(c) you won’t never forget/(d) No Q9. We are fortunate to have
error. extremely____________ and visionary leaders.
Q4. (a) The dress that the /(b) girl wore was / (a) competitive (b) complex
(c) more attractive than the other girls./(d) No (c) complaisant (d) competent
error.
Q10. Some people regard to the world as an
Q5. (a) Fifty years has passed /(b) since man ________.
first ventured /(c) into outer space/ (d) No
(a) imitation (b) allusion
error.
(c) illusion (d) elision
Directions (6 – 10): In the following question,
sentences are given with blanks to be filled in Directions (161 – 163.): In the following
with an appropriate word (s). Four question, out of the four alternatives, choose
alternatives are suggested for each question, the one which best expresses the meaning of
Choose the correct alternative out of the four the given word.
as your answer. Q11. Scintillating
(a) moving (b) interesting

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(c) burning (d) glittering (d) one with the common folk
Q12. Transient Q20. The Alpha and Omega
(a) fleeting (b ) transparent (a) Beginning and end
(c) feeble (d) fanciful (b) a Shakespearean play
Q13. Voracious (c) a Greek song
(a) hungry (b) hasty (d) a Swiss watch
(c)thirsty (d) greedy Q21. Jane earned pin money working part-
Directions (14 – 16): In the following time as a waitress,
question, choose the word opposite in (a) saved money
meaning to the given word. (b) additional money
Q14. Virtue (c) a small amount of money
(a) fault (b)vice (d) money to be spent only for luxuries and
(c)anger (d)ill-temper treats
Q15. Flexible Directions (22 – 31): In the following
(a)blunt (b)rigid question, a sentence/part of the sentence is
printed in bold. Below are given alternatives
(c)gentle (d) rough to the bold part at (a), (b), (c) which may
Q16. Obscure improve the sentence. Choose the correct
(a)clear (b) gloomy alternative. In case no improvement is needed,
your answer is (d).
(c)unpleasant (d) dark
Q22. Loose tea leaves are kept in a tea box.
Directions (17 – 21) : In the following
question, four alternatives are given for the (a) tin (b) cosy
Idiom/Phrase printed in bold in the sentence. (c) caddy (d) No improvement
Choose the alternative which best expresses Q23. Shakespeare is greater than any other
the meaning of the Idiom/Phrase. poet.
Q17. The present manner of delimitation has (a) greater than many poets
been done in a gerrymandering way.
(b) greater as any other poet
(a) In a legal and constitutional manner
(c) greater than all poets
(b) In a judicial and fair way
(d) no improvement
(c) In a manipulative and unfair way
Q24. I saw the woman whom you said lived
(d) In a dictative manner like the Germans next door.
Q18. The performance of the lead actors in the (a) that you said live next door
play brought the house down.
(b) who you said lived next door
(a) Made the audience applaud
enthusiastically (c) which you said lived next door
(b) made the audience leave (d) No improvement
(c) made the audience cry Q25. A thousand rupees are all that he wants.
(d) Made the audience request an encore. (a) are (b) was
Q19. People like her, who are salt of the (c) is (d) No improvement
earth, are very difficult to find. Q26. I have never been hearing from him
(a) dedicated to better the world since he left for America.
(b) good, honest and ideal (a) have never heard
(c) extraordinary (b) have never been hearing

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(c) was never heard (c) philatelist (d) coin collector

(d) No improvement Q36. A supplement to a will
Q27. The camera I bought recently is not (a) furlough (b) adjunct
convenient. (c) effusion (d) codicil
(a) easy to use (b) hard to use Q37. Estimation of a thing’s worth
(c) difficult to use (d) No improvement (a) pay (b) goodness
Q28. You are a mechanic, aren’t you? (c) appraisal (d) beliefs
(a) wasn’t (b) isn’t Q38. To free completely from blame
(c) are (d) No improvement (a) let go (b) clear
Q29. Sincere workers do not rest till they (c) exonerate (d) release
have reached perfection in their work.
Directions (39 – 40) : In the following
(a) they had achieved questions, four words are given in each
(b) they have achieved question, out of which only one word is
(c) they having reached correctly spelt. Find the correctly spelt word.
(d) No improvement Q39. (a) silohoutte (b) silhouette
(c) silohoutte (d) silhoutte
Q30. The interesting tale had its beginning
more than fifty years ago. Q40. (a) kleptomaniec (b) cleptomaniac
(c) kleptomaniac (d) cleptomeniac
(a) began (b ) was started
Directions (41- 50): In the following
(c) initiated (d) No improvement questions, you have two passages with 5
Q31. One of her friends had just got down questions in each passage. Read the passages
from the bus. carefully and choose the best answer to each
(a) alighted from (b) arrived in question out of the four alternatives.
(c) landed from (d) No improvement Passage I (Q. Nos. 41 to 45)
Directions (32-38): In the following question, India is chiefly an agricultural land. The
out of the four alternatives, choose the one cultivation of crops depends on a proper
which can be substituted for the given supply of water throughout the year. Since
words/sentences. olden times, large parts of our country have
suffered from occasional periods of too much
Q32. A person who works for an employer for
rain and those of roughs. People have known
a fixed period of time in order to learn the
that if surplus flood water could be stored
particular skills needed in their job
away for use during the dry season, these
(a) labourer (b) worker problems will be solved. Unfortunately, they
(c) employee (d) apprentice had neither the knowledge nor the means to
do much in this direction. Whatever little they
Q33. A word or practice that has gone out of
knew, they tried to put into practice. They dug
use
canals to drain water from perennial rivers.
(a) Obsolete (b) absolute This was heavy and expensive work and
(c) outdated (d) old-fashioned practicable over only a small area. Large tanks
Q34. Favoritism granted in politics or were excavated and small dams built to hold
business to relatives back floods. But it was not possible to do
anything on a countrywide scale.
(a) monotheism (b) nepotism
Q41. The term ‘perennial’ means
(c) hedonism (d) red tapism
(a) rivers flowing into canals
Q35. A person who collects coins
(b) flowing once a year
(a) ornithologist (b) numismatist
(c) flowing throughout the year
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(d) flowing during the monsoon to respond). Of course, there is some

Q42. How has our country suffered since information you need to keep for days, Months
olden times? or even years. What you need here is long-tem
memory. With this, the potential is there to
(a) It has suffered due to the zamindari remember something forever.
(b) It has suffered from heavy rains or severe Q46. The information stored in you sensory
droughts memory generally
(c) It has suffered under the British Rule (a) Stays with you forever
(d) It has suffered due to the caste system (b) stays with you for a short while
Q43. Why were the people unable to solve the (c) Disappears completely
problem?
(d) lingers in your brain
(a) Absence of will power
Q47. To convert a sensory memory into a
(b) They were indifferent to the problem? short-term memory we must
(c) They lacked knowledge and the means to (a) ignore a sensory input completely
solve the problem
(b) focus on the information
(d) inadequate finance
(c) concentrate on what we are looking at
Q44. ‘Excavated’ means
(d) be consciously attentive to sensory input
(a) to fill (b) to make caves
Q48. Short-term memory allows us to
(c) to dig (d) to flood
(a) remember events for many years
Q195. India’s economy is chiefly
(b) remember an event during childhood
(a) Socialistic (b) industrial
(c) remember simple things like appointments
(c) mixed (d) agricultural
(d) remember plenty of dates and numbers
Passage II (Q. Nos. 46 to 50)
Q49. Long-term memory helps us
Stop reading this passage for a few seconds
and look around the room you’re in. Without (a) forget unimportant things
any perceived effort at all on your part, your (b) remember a thing for a long time
brain will register everything with-in the scope (c) forget things for a long time
of you vision. But where does all that
information known as sensory memory go? (d) erase short-term memory
Well, pretty quickly, it vanishes. Q50. The information that your brain stores
So what if you want to hold on to these within a fleeting moment is called
fleeting memories for longer? The answer is (a) memory level
obvious: you need to pay conscious attention (b) sensory memory
to the sensory input we are receiving. By
(c) short-term memory
focusing on it, you can take the information to
the next memory level, and turn it into (d) long-term memory.
working- or short - term memory. This enables
you, say, to remember the works you’ve just
read so that what follows makes overall sense.
True to its name, short-term memory lasts for
only a few seconds to a few minutes, but it
plays a vital role in our daily lives, allowing us
to write down doctor’s appointment, make
everyday decisions or have a conversation
(think about it : you have to recall what
someone said to you five seconds ago in order

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