SSC GL 2012

Solved Question Paper - ENGLISH LANGUAGE held on 01 July 2012 (P.M.)

ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND COMPREHENSION

Directions : In question Nos. 26 to 30, a part of the sentence is underlined. Below are given alternatives to the underlined part at (A), (B), (C) which may improve the sentence. Choose the correct alternative. In case no improvement is needed your answer is (D). Mark your answer in the Answer Sheet.


Question

26. Sordid and sensational books tend to vitiate the public taste.

  1. divide
  2. distract
  3. distort
  4. No improvement

27. By studying AIDS has engaged many researchers in the last decade.

  1. Important study
  2. Now that the study
  3. The study of
  4. No improvement

28. His Master's thesis was highly estimated and is now being prepared for publication.

  1. was highly discussed
  2. was highly commended
  3. is highly appraised
  4. No improvement

29. No sooner had she realized her blunder than she began to take corrective measures.

  1. then she began to take
  2. than she began taking
  3. when she began to take
  4. No improvement

30. A good scholar must be precise and possess originality.

  1. must be precise and original
  2. must be possess precision and original
  3. must be precision and possess originality
  4. No improvement

Directions : In question Nos. 31 to 35, out of the four alternatives choose the one which be substituted for the given words/sentence.


Question

31. One who loves books

  1. Bibliophile
  2. Bibliophagist
  3. Bibliophoebe
  4. Bibliographer

32. Speaking without preparation

  1. Deliberate
  2. Fluent
  3. Loquacious
  4. Extempore

33. Special trial of the Head of State by Parliament.

  1. Impingement
  2. Infringement
  3. Impeachment
  4. Impediment

34. Someone able to use both hands with equal skill

  1. Ambivalent
  2. Amphibious
  3. Ambiguous
  4. Ambidextrous

35. Cure of all diseases

  1. Curable
  2. Panacea
  3. Incurable
  4. Curative

Directions : In question Nos. 36 to 40, four words are given in each question, out of which only one word is correctly spelt. Find the correctly spelt word and indicate it in the Answer Sheet by blackening the appropriate rectangle.


Question

36.

  1. pleintive
  2. sustein
  3. villain
  4. alleince

37.

  1. comissioner
  2. commissionar
  3. commissioner
  4. commissioner

38.

  1. aprentice
  2. advertise
  3. treatice
  4. sencitive

39.

  1. suprintendent
  2. supirentendent
  3. superintendent
  4. superentendent

40.

  1. symetry
  2. symmitry
  3. symatry
  4. symmetry



Directions : In question Nos. 41 to 50, you have two brief passages with 5 questions following each passage. Read the passages carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives and mark it by blackening the appropriate rectangle in the Answer Sheet.


Question

PASSAGE - I (Question number 41-45)

Two years later, in November 1895, he signed his final will. He left the bulk of his fortune, amounting to about £ 1,75,000 to a trust fund administered by Swedish and Norwegian trustees. The annual interest shall be awarded as prizes to those persons who during the previous year have rendered the greatest services to mankind. The interest shall be divided into five equal parts -- now amounting to about £ 8,000 each -- one of which shall be awarded to the person who has made the most important discovery or invention in the realm of physics, one to the person who has made the most important chemical discovery or improvement, one to the person who has made the most important physiological or medical discovery, one to the person who has produced the most outstanding work of literature, idealistic in character, and one to the person who has done the best work for the brotherhood of nations, the abolition or reduction of standing armies, as well as for the formation or popularization of peace congress.

41. The said prize is awarded

  1. once in 5 years
  2. every year
  3. once in 4 years
  4. once in 2 years

42. Which is the prize that is referred to in the passage?

  1. Nobel Prize
  2. Magsaysay Award
  3. Pulitzer Prize
  4. Booker Prize

43. The number of prizes in the field of science are

  1. Four
  2. One
  3. Three
  4. Five

44. Total annual prize money amounts to

  1. £ 8,000
  2. £ 1,750,000
  3. £ 350,000
  4. £ 40,000

45. Prize is awarded for outstanding work in

  1. Chemistry
  2. Literature
  3. Physics
  4. All the above

PASSAGE - II (Question number 46-50)

If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry, that is a sign that you are subconsciously aware of having no good reason for thinking as you do. If someone maintains that two and two are five, or that Iceland is on the Equator, you feel pity rather than anger, unless you know so little arithmetic or geography that his opinion shakes your own contrary conviction.

46. If someone else's opinion makes us angry, it means that

  1. we are subconsciously aware of having no good reason for becoming angry
  2. there may be good reasons for his opinion but we are not consciously aware of them
  3. our own opinion is bot based on good rason and we know this subconsciously
  4. we are not consciously aware of any reason for our own opinion

47. "You own contrary conviction" refers to

  1. the fact that you feel pity rather than anger
  2. the opinion that two and two are four and that Iceland is a long way from the Equator
  3. the opinion that two and two are five and Iceland is on the Equator
  4. the fact that you know so little about arithmetic or geography

48. Conviction means

  1. persuasion
  2. disbelief
  3. strong belief
  4. ignorance

49. The writer says if someone maintains that two and two are five you feel pity because you

  1. have sympathy
  2. don't agree with him
  3. want to help the person
  4. feel sorry for his ignorance

50. The second sentence in the passage

  1. builds up the argument of the first sentence by restating it from the opposite point of view
  2. makes the main point which has only been introduced by the first sentence
  3. simply adds a further point to the argument already stated in the first sentence
  4. illustrates the point made in the first sentence