English Sectional Test (SSC CGL)

1. In the sentence identify the segment which contains the grammatical error.
Due to the Cyclone Idai vast areas of land have been flooded, roads destroyed and communications disrupting in Zimbabwe and Mosambique.

2. Scientists at Cambridge University are……how plants can give us sustainable energy.

3. Select the most appropriate option for substitute the underlined segment in the in the given sentence. If no substitution is required, select No improvement.
If you join this job now, it proves to be good in the long run.

4. Select the word which means the same as the group of words given.
A person ,animal or plant belonging originally to a place

5. A person without a settled home or regular work who wanders from place to place and lives by begging.(one word substitution)

6. Given below are four jumbled sentences. Select the option that gives their correct order.
A. The elephant tusks were tracked from the Democratic Republic of Congo for two months.
B. Customs officials in Thailand say it’s the biggest seizure in the country’s history.
C. Four tones of ivory, with a market value of $6 million-it was an impressive haul.
D. Officials say they were being transported to Laos, from where they believed the ivory would be sold to customers across Asia.

7. Select the synonym of the given word.
TILT

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

I look for a better job for the last two months, but nothing is in sight.

9. Select the most appropriate meaning of the given idiom.
Get out of hand

10. Given below are four jumbled sentences. Select the option that given their correct order.
A. That sort of pollution, which is also widespread in other South East Asian nations, regularly kills wildlife like whales and turtles that ingest the waste.
B. Environmental groups have tagged the Philippines as one of the world’s biggest ocean polluters due to its reliance on single-use plastic.
C. In Thailand also, a whale died last year after swallowing more than 80 plastic bags.
D. In the latest case, a whale with 40 kilos of plastic trash in its stomach died on Saturday in southern Philippines where it was stranded a day earlier.

11. Select the correct active form of the given sentence.
The main gate of the building was being guarded by gun-totting guards.

12. TENDER (antonym)

13. ESCALATE (antonym)

14. GARRULOUS (synonyms)

15. Select the correct passive form of the given form of the given sentence.
Do not park your car in front of my house.

16. Select the wrongly spelt word.

17. Select the wrongly spelt words.

18. Select the most appropriate word to fill in the blanks.
The State Government argued that it could not………..the increase in the teacher’s salaries as awarded by the court.

19. Select the most appropriate meaning of the given idiom.
Cost an arm and a leg

20. She got two quick promotions in order that she has good communication skills.(find error)