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Question 151

DSSSB Assistant Superintendent 2026• Test of English Language and Comprehension 2

In the following passage, some of the words have been left out. Read the passage carefully and select the correct answer for the given blank out of the four alternatives.

Delhi’s air quality deteriorates with unfailing ________ at this time of the year, with large swathes of north India in the grip of a suffocating smog, but the State governments that can make it easier for millions to breathe do not act with any sense of ________. That it has turned into a public health emergency ________ the capital, with the air quality index touching extremely hazardous levels in some parts, necessitating the closure of primary schools, has further lowered its standing. It is unconscionable for governments, through ________ and inaction, to subject citizens to such toxic air, and cause extreme suffering especially _________ people with respiratory ailments and impaired lung function.

Delhi’s air quality deteriorates with unfailing ________ at this time of the year

  1. AOption (a)

    regular

  2. BOption (b)

    regularity

  3. COption (c)

    always

  4. DOption (d)

    sometimes

View answer & explanation

Correct answer

Answer: (b)B.

regularity

Why this answer is correct

The correct answer is 'regularity'.

Key Points

  • In the first blank of the passage, 'regularity' will be used.
  • The marked word 'regularity' means, the state or quality of being regular (नियमित होने की अवस्था या गुणवत्ता)
  • Example - She came to see her with increasing regularity.
  • This line of the passage wishes to convey that the air quality of Delhi worsens every year at this time. 'Sometimes' conveys the opposite of this while 'always' and 'regular' do not fit in grammatically with the rest of the sentence.
  • As per the context of the sentence, the most appropriate filler to be used is 'regularity'.

Hence, the correct answer is option (2).

Question 152

DSSSB Assistant Superintendent 2026• Test of English Language and Comprehension 2

In the following passage, some of the words have been left out. Read the passage carefully and select the correct answer for the given blank out of the four alternatives.

Delhi’s air quality deteriorates with unfailing ________ at this time of the year, with large swathes of north India in the grip of a suffocating smog, but the State governments that can make it easier for millions to breathe do not act with any sense of ________. That it has turned into a public health emergency ________ the capital, with the air quality index touching extremely hazardous levels in some parts, necessitating the closure of primary schools, has further lowered its standing. It is unconscionable for governments, through ________ and inaction, to subject citizens to such toxic air, and cause extreme suffering especially _________ people with respiratory ailments and impaired lung function.

but the State governments that can make it easier for millions to breathe do not act with any sense of ________. 

  1. AOption (a)

    laid back

  2. BOption (b)

    accomplishment

  3. COption (c)

    urgency

  4. DOption (d)

    panic

View answer & explanation

Correct answer

Answer: (c)C.

urgency

Why this answer is correct

The correct answer is 'urgency'.

Key Points

  • In the second blank of the passage, 'urgency' will be used.
  • The marked word 'urgency' means, importance requiring swift action (त्वरित कार्रवाई की आवश्यकता का महत्व)
  • Example - The discovery of the ozone hole gave urgency to the issue of CFCs.
  • This line of the passage shows that the state government has not been proactive and in fact has shown no importance to the matter.
  • As per the context of the sentence, the most appropriate filler to be used is 'urgency'.

Hence, the correct answer is option (3).

Additional Information

  • Let's look at the meaning of the other words:
  • accomplishment: something that has been achieved successfully (कुछ ऐसा जो सफलतापूर्वक हासिल किया गया है)
  • Example - The reduction of inflation was a remarkable accomplishment.

Question 153

DSSSB Assistant Superintendent 2026• Test of English Language and Comprehension 2

In the following passage, some of the words have been left out. Read the passage carefully and select the correct answer for the given blank out of the four alternatives.

Delhi’s air quality deteriorates with unfailing ________ at this time of the year, with large swathes of north India in the grip of a suffocating smog, but the State governments that can make it easier for millions to breathe do not act with any sense of ________. That it has turned into a public health emergency ________ the capital, with the air quality index touching extremely hazardous levels in some parts, necessitating the closure of primary schools, has further lowered its standing. It is unconscionable for governments, through ________ and inaction, to subject citizens to such toxic air, and cause extreme suffering especially _________ people with respiratory ailments and impaired lung function.

That it has turned into a public health emergency ________ the capital

  1. AOption (a)

    on

  2. BOption (b)

    in

  3. COption (c)

    onto

  4. DOption (d)

    under

View answer & explanation

Correct answer

Answer: (b)B.

in

Why this answer is correct

The correct answer is 'in'.

Key Points

  • In the third blank of the passage, 'in' will be used.
  • 'In' is used to denote a location of something inside a space while on generally, denotes something above a surface or within proximity.
  • Example - Kolkata is in West Bengal.
  • This line of the passage tells us that the drop in air quality has turned into a public health emergency, and this has happened in Delhi.
  • As per the context of the sentence, the most appropriate filler to be used is 'in'.

 

Hence, the correct answer is option (2).

Additional Information

  • Let's look at the meaning of the other words:
  • 'On' is used as a preposition in time expressions with specific days of the week and is used to show the position of the object with respect to flat surfaces both big and small.
  • Example - The book is on the table over there.
  • 'Onto' indicates a movement from one place onto to surface of some type.
  • Example - Could you move those clothes onto the sofa?
  • The preposition ‘under’ is mainly used to show that something is situated below something or someone is going through some physical or emotional situation.
  • Example - It was raining, and we took shelter under a broken shed.

Question 154

DSSSB Assistant Superintendent 2026• Test of English Language and Comprehension 2

In the following passage, some of the words have been left out. Read the passage carefully and select the correct answer for the given blank out of the four alternatives.

Delhi’s air quality deteriorates with unfailing ________ at this time of the year, with large swathes of north India in the grip of a suffocating smog, but the State governments that can make it easier for millions to breathe do not act with any sense of ________. That it has turned into a public health emergency ________ the capital, with the air quality index touching extremely hazardous levels in some parts, necessitating the closure of primary schools, has further lowered its standing. It is unconscionable for governments, through ________ and inaction, to subject citizens to such toxic air, and cause extreme suffering especially _________ people with respiratory ailments and impaired lung function.

It is unconscionable for governments, through ________ and inaction,

  1. AOption (a)

    unconcerned

  2. BOption (b)

    indifference

  3. COption (c)

    steps

  4. DOption (d)

    measures

View answer & explanation

Correct answer

Answer: (b)B.

indifference

Why this answer is correct

The correct answer is 'indifference'.

Key Points

  • In the fourth blank of the passage, 'indifference' will be used.
  • The marked word 'indifference' means, lack of interest, concern, or sympathy (रुचि, चिंता या सहानुभूति की कमी)
  • Example - It cannot be regarded as a matter of indifference.
  • This line of the passage tries to convey that it is unpardonable for the government to be so unconcerned.
  • The words 'Steps' and 'measures' convey the opposite meaning and thus, can be eliminated.
  • 'Unconcerned' is contextually correct but incorrect grammatically.
  • As per the context of the sentence, the most appropriate filler to be used is 'indifference'.

Hence, the correct answer is option (2).

Question 155

DSSSB Assistant Superintendent 2026• Test of English Language and Comprehension 2

In the following passage, some of the words have been left out. Read the passage carefully and select the correct answer for the given blank out of the four alternatives.

Delhi’s air quality deteriorates with unfailing ________ at this time of the year, with large swathes of north India in the grip of a suffocating smog, but the State governments that can make it easier for millions to breathe do not act with any sense of ________. That it has turned into a public health emergency ________ the capital, with the air quality index touching extremely hazardous levels in some parts, necessitating the closure of primary schools, has further lowered its standing. It is unconscionable for governments, through ________ and inaction, to subject citizens to such toxic air, and cause extreme suffering especially _________ people with respiratory ailments and impaired lung function.

and cause extreme suffering especially _________ people with respiratory ailments and impaired lung function.

  1. AOption (a)

    in

  2. BOption (b)

    thereon

  3. COption (c)

    since

  4. DOption (d)

    among

View answer & explanation

Correct answer

Answer: (d)D.

among

Why this answer is correct

The correct answer is 'among'.

Key Points

  • In the fifth blank of the passage, 'among' will be used.
  • 'Among' is a preposition, which is used to indicate a division, choice, or differentiation involving three or more participants.
  • Example - The old king called the three princesses to divide his kingdom among them.
  • The sentence states that toxic air is especially causing suffering among a specific set of people – the ones with respiratory issues.
  • Since the sentence points out an issue within a specific group, the correct word is 'among' which means in the middle of.

Hence, the correct answer is option (4).

Additional Information

  • Let's look at the meaning of the other words:
  • We use 'since' as a preposition with a date, a time or a noun phrase.
  • Example - I have been happily married since the age of 21.
  • 'Thereon' means on the thing that has been mentioned.
  • Example - The highway and structures thereon are being repaired.
  • 'In' is used when you want to indicate a position within a general space. In is defined as being inside an area or residing somewhere. This applies to a town, city, state, country, or residence.
  • Example - She moved in with her boyfriend this weekend.

Question 156

DSSSB Assistant Superintendent 2026• Test of English Language and Comprehension 2

Read the given passage and answer the questions that follow:

A report suggested that, on average, Indian viewers spend approximately 8 hours 29 minutes watching online video content, which is far more than the global trend of six hours and 45 minutes. This clearly shows how much the popularity of online streaming content in India. A web series, in simpler words, is a series of short video episodes, which are released over a certain period to tell a story to the viewers. It is designed like a television daily soap or series, except that it's watched on web platforms.

Earlier, it was much popular in western countries, but with globalization, the trend of online content streaming became popular in India. The introduction of Netflix, Amazon Prime, ALT Balaji, MX Player, TVF, and some other websites and App-based online video streaming platforms and faster internet services have become very popular in the Indian entertainment industry. Even a large number of viewership comes from YouTube – the famous video streaming platform owned by the search engine giant Google. With growing popularity, online content streaming has become a lucrative opportunity for content producers, and it further has resulted in more and more content being uploaded on the Internet.

The main target audience of the web series and other online streaming content is the younger generation, mainly comprised of teenagers and youth between 18 to 30 years of age. However, the audience includes people of 30 to 50+ years of age as well. These online video streaming platforms focus on the 'binge-watch' model. To understand this better, suppose you have decided to sit and watch just one of the web series episodes for a day, which hardly takes 30 minutes. You find yourself tempted to watch more and more episodes, even though you know you'll be killing several hours of the day on the same.

According to the passage, on average global viewers spends watching online video content for:

  1. AOption (a)

    8 hours and 29 minutes

  2. BOption (b)

    6 hours and 45 minutes

  3. COption (c)

    6 hours and 30 minutes

  4. DOption (d)

    8 hours and 30 minutes

View answer & explanation

Correct answer

Answer: (b)B.

6 hours and 45 minutes

Why this answer is correct

The correct answer is option 2) i.e. '6 hours and 45 minutes.'

Key Points 

  • The first sentence of the first paragraph says that " A report suggested that, on average ... which is far more than the global trend of 6 hours and 45 minutes."
  • From the above sentence, we can conclude that global viewers spend 6 hours and 45 minutes on average time in watching online video content.
  • Hence, the only possible answer is option 2.

Question 157

DSSSB Assistant Superintendent 2026• Test of English Language and Comprehension 2

Read the given passage and answer the questions that follow:

A report suggested that, on average, Indian viewers spend approximately 8 hours 29 minutes watching online video content, which is far more than the global trend of six hours and 45 minutes. This clearly shows how much the popularity of online streaming content in India. A web series, in simpler words, is a series of short video episodes, which are released over a certain period to tell a story to the viewers. It is designed like a television daily soap or series, except that it's watched on web platforms.

Earlier, it was much popular in western countries, but with globalization, the trend of online content streaming became popular in India. The introduction of Netflix, Amazon Prime, ALT Balaji, MX Player, TVF, and some other websites and App-based online video streaming platforms and faster internet services have become very popular in the Indian entertainment industry. Even a large number of viewership comes from YouTube – the famous video streaming platform owned by the search engine giant Google. With growing popularity, online content streaming has become a lucrative opportunity for content producers, and it further has resulted in more and more content being uploaded on the Internet.

The main target audience of the web series and other online streaming content is the younger generation, mainly comprised of teenagers and youth between 18 to 30 years of age. However, the audience includes people of 30 to 50+ years of age as well. These online video streaming platforms focus on the 'binge-watch' model. To understand this better, suppose you have decided to sit and watch just one of the web series episodes for a day, which hardly takes 30 minutes. You find yourself tempted to watch more and more episodes, even though you know you'll be killing several hours of the day on the same.

According to the passage, a web series is:

  1. AOption (a)

    a series of long stories.

  2. BOption (b)

    a series of short stories that ends within a week.

  3. COption (c)

    a long series made short for the convenience of the audience.

  4. DOption (d)

    a series of short video episodes.

View answer & explanation

Correct answer

Answer: (d)D.

a series of short video episodes.

Why this answer is correct

The correct answer is option 4) i.e. 'a series of short video episodes.'

Key Points 

  • The third sentence of the first paragraph says that "a web series, in simpler words, is a series of short video episodes, which are released over a certain period to tell a story to the viewers."
  • Therefore from the above sentence, we can certainly say that a web series is a series of short video episodes released on web video platforms over a certain time period to tell a story in video format to the audience.
  • Hence, the only possible answer is option 4.

Question 158

DSSSB Assistant Superintendent 2026• Test of English Language and Comprehension 2

Read the given passage and answer the questions that follow:

A report suggested that, on average, Indian viewers spend approximately 8 hours 29 minutes watching online video content, which is far more than the global trend of six hours and 45 minutes. This clearly shows how much the popularity of online streaming content in India. A web series, in simpler words, is a series of short video episodes, which are released over a certain period to tell a story to the viewers. It is designed like a television daily soap or series, except that it's watched on web platforms.

Earlier, it was much popular in western countries, but with globalization, the trend of online content streaming became popular in India. The introduction of Netflix, Amazon Prime, ALT Balaji, MX Player, TVF, and some other websites and App-based online video streaming platforms and faster internet services have become very popular in the Indian entertainment industry. Even a large number of viewership comes from YouTube – the famous video streaming platform owned by the search engine giant Google. With growing popularity, online content streaming has become a lucrative opportunity for content producers, and it further has resulted in more and more content being uploaded on the Internet.

The main target audience of the web series and other online streaming content is the younger generation, mainly comprised of teenagers and youth between 18 to 30 years of age. However, the audience includes people of 30 to 50+ years of age as well. These online video streaming platforms focus on the 'binge-watch' model. To understand this better, suppose you have decided to sit and watch just one of the web series episodes for a day, which hardly takes 30 minutes. You find yourself tempted to watch more and more episodes, even though you know you'll be killing several hours of the day on the same.

According to the passage, the binge-watch model is:

  1. AOption (a)

    to make the series addictive for the audience to finish in one go.

  2. BOption (b)

    to sit and watch just one of the web series episodes for a day.

  3. COption (c)

    watching multiple TV series of different genres at the same time.

  4. DOption (d)

    the process of making the web series less addictive.

View answer & explanation

Correct answer

Answer: (a)A.

to make the series addictive for the audience to finish in one go.

Why this answer is correct

The correct answer is option 1) i.e. 'to make the series addictive for the audience to finish in one go.'

Key Points 

  • The third, fourth and fifth sentence of the last paragraph says that "These online video streaming platforms focus on the 'binge-watch' model… tempted to watch more and more episodes, even though you know you'll be killing several hours of the day on the same."
  • From the above sentence, we can conclude that the binge-watch model is developed to lure the audience into consuming addictive video series content and finish them in one go.
  • Hence, the only possible answer is option 1.

Question 159

DSSSB Assistant Superintendent 2026• Test of English Language and Comprehension 2

Read the given passage and answer the questions that follow:

A report suggested that, on average, Indian viewers spend approximately 8 hours 29 minutes watching online video content, which is far more than the global trend of six hours and 45 minutes. This clearly shows how much the popularity of online streaming content in India. A web series, in simpler words, is a series of short video episodes, which are released over a certain period to tell a story to the viewers. It is designed like a television daily soap or series, except that it's watched on web platforms.

Earlier, it was much popular in western countries, but with globalization, the trend of online content streaming became popular in India. The introduction of Netflix, Amazon Prime, ALT Balaji, MX Player, TVF, and some other websites and App-based online video streaming platforms and faster internet services have become very popular in the Indian entertainment industry. Even a large number of viewership comes from YouTube – the famous video streaming platform owned by the search engine giant Google. With growing popularity, online content streaming has become a lucrative opportunity for content producers, and it further has resulted in more and more content being uploaded on the Internet.

The main target audience of the web series and other online streaming content is the younger generation, mainly comprised of teenagers and youth between 18 to 30 years of age. However, the audience includes people of 30 to 50+ years of age as well. These online video streaming platforms focus on the 'binge-watch' model. To understand this better, suppose you have decided to sit and watch just one of the web series episodes for a day, which hardly takes 30 minutes. You find yourself tempted to watch more and more episodes, even though you know you'll be killing several hours of the day on the same.

'Killing hours' suggests:

  1. AOption (a)

    to destroy clocks

  2. BOption (b)

    to work till late nights

  3. COption (c)

    to spend time doing something which is not important

  4. DOption (d)

    to spend time efficiently

View answer & explanation

Correct answer

Answer: (c)C.

to spend time doing something which is not important

Why this answer is correct

The correct answer is option 3) i.e. “to spend time doing something which is not important.”

Key Points 

  • Let’s look at the meaning of the given idiom/ phrase:
  • The phrase ‘Killing hours’ means to engage in an activity, usually a rather aimless or idle one.
  • Example:
  • ​The kids nowadays are killing hours watching stupid cartoons.
  • Hence, the only possible answer is option 3 ‘to spend time doing something which is not important', which exactly resembles the meaning of the given idiom/ phrase.

 

Correct meaning: to spend time doing something which is not important.

Question 160

DSSSB Assistant Superintendent 2026• Test of English Language and Comprehension 2

Read the given passage and answer the questions that follow:

A report suggested that, on average, Indian viewers spend approximately 8 hours 29 minutes watching online video content, which is far more than the global trend of six hours and 45 minutes. This clearly shows how much the popularity of online streaming content in India. A web series, in simpler words, is a series of short video episodes, which are released over a certain period to tell a story to the viewers. It is designed like a television daily soap or series, except that it's watched on web platforms.

Earlier, it was much popular in western countries, but with globalization, the trend of online content streaming became popular in India. The introduction of Netflix, Amazon Prime, ALT Balaji, MX Player, TVF, and some other websites and App-based online video streaming platforms and faster internet services have become very popular in the Indian entertainment industry. Even a large number of viewership comes from YouTube – the famous video streaming platform owned by the search engine giant Google. With growing popularity, online content streaming has become a lucrative opportunity for content producers, and it further has resulted in more and more content being uploaded on the Internet.

The main target audience of the web series and other online streaming content is the younger generation, mainly comprised of teenagers and youth between 18 to 30 years of age. However, the audience includes people of 30 to 50+ years of age as well. These online video streaming platforms focus on the 'binge-watch' model. To understand this better, suppose you have decided to sit and watch just one of the web series episodes for a day, which hardly takes 30 minutes. You find yourself tempted to watch more and more episodes, even though you know you'll be killing several hours of the day on the same.

The word ‘lucrative' (in paragraph 2) means:

  1. AOption (a)

    loss making

  2. BOption (b)

    profitable

  3. COption (c)

    entertaining

  4. DOption (d)

    majestic

View answer & explanation

Correct answer

Answer: (b)B.

profitable

Why this answer is correct

The correct answer is  option 2) i.e. 'profitable.'

Key Points 

  • Let's look at the meaning of the given word:
  • Lucrative- producing much money or making a large profit.
  • Example: 
  • Samuel advised his friend to find jobs in the USA for lucrative income.
  • Clearly, 'profitable' is closest in meaning to the given word.
  • Therefore the correct answer is option 2.
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