Practice
English Questions and Answer for SSC CGL Mains Set-2:
The list of practice English questions and
answer for SSC CGL Mains Exam is given here, Candidates those who are all
preparing for the examination can use this practice questions.
Directions
(1-5): Choose the best alternatives from the given options which best expresses
the meaning.
1).LUXURIANT
a)
Luxury-loving
b)
Lovely
c)
Rich
d)
Abundant
2).CANTANKEROUS
a)
Cancerous
b)
Ferocious
c)
Quarrelsome
d)
Fissiparous
3).ONUS
a)
Sadness
b)
Happiness
c)
Responsibility
d)
Criticism
4).DERISION
a)
Humiliation
b)
Embarrassment
c)
Ridicule
d)
Condemnation
5).TRITE
a)
Common Place
b)
Clever
c)
Brief
d)
Impudent
Directions (6-10): In the
following passage, you have one brief passage with 5 questions following the passage.
Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of
the four alternatives.
PASSAGE
Every profession or trade, every art and every
science has its technical Vocabulary, the function of which is partly to
designate things or processes which have no names in ordinary English and
partly to secure greater exactness in nomenclature. Such special dialects or
jargons are necessary in technical discussion of any kind. Being universally
understood by the devotees of the particular science or art, they have the
precision of a mathematical formula. Besides, they save time for it is much
more economical to name a process than to describe it. Thousands of these
technical terms are very properly included in every large dictionary. Yet as a
whole they are rather on the outskirts of the English language than actually
within its borders.
Different
occupations, however, differ widely in the character of their special vocabularies.
In trades and handicrafts and other vocations like farming and fishing that
have occupied great numbers of men from remote times, the technical vocabulary
is very old. An average man now uses these in his own vocabulary. The special
dialects of law, medicine, divinity and philosophy have become familiar to
cultivated persons.
6).Special words used in technical discussion
a)
May become a part of common speech
b)
Never last long
c)
Should resemble mathematical
formula
d)
Should be confined to scientific
fields
7).The writer of this article is
a)
A scientist
b)
A politician
c)
A linguist
d)
A businessman
8).This passage is primarily concerned with
a)
Various occupation and professions
b)
Technical terminology
c)
Scientific undertakings
d)
A new language
9).It is true that
a)
Various professions and
occupations interchange words.
b)
There is always a non technical
word that may be substituted for the technical word.
c)
The average man often uses in his
own vocabulary what was once technical language not meant for him.
d)
Everyone is interested in
scientific findings.
10).In recent years there has been a marked
increase in the number of technical terms in nomenclature of
a)
Farming
b)
Fishing
c)
Sports
d)
Government
Answers:
1). d) 2). c) 3). c) 4). c) 5).
a) 6). c) 7).
c) 8). b) 9).
c) 10). d)
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