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English Comprehension PYQs

Reading comprehension, vocabulary, synonyms and antonyms, idiom usage, error spotting, sentence improvement, and cloze tests.

4200 Total Questions168 Official PapersYears: 2017–2022Search in English Comprehension
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Question 401

SSC Multi-Tasking Staff (MTS) 2022• General English• General English

Select the option that can be used as a one-word substitute for the given group of words.

A keeper or custodian of a museum

  1. AOption (a)

    Creator

  2. BOption (b)

    Developer

  3. COption (c)

    Master

  4. DOption (d)

    Curator

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Answer: (a)A.

Creator

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Question 402

SSC Multi-Tasking Staff (MTS) 2022• General English• General English

Select the most appropriate ANTONYM of the underlined word in the given sentence.

The list included many mundane, routine tasks.

  1. AOption (a)

    standard

  2. BOption (b)

    temporal

  3. COption (c)

    customary

  4. DOption (d)

    exceptional

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Answer: (a)A.

standard

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Question 403

SSC Multi-Tasking Staff (MTS) 2022• General English• General English

Select the option that will improve the underlined part of the sentence. In case no improvement is needed, select ‘No improvement required’.

The smell of this flower make me felt dizzy.

  1. AOption (a)

    making I feel

  2. BOption (b)

    makes me feel

  3. COption (c)

    make me feeling

  4. DOption (d)

    No improvement required

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Answer: (a)A.

making I feel

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Question 404

SSC Multi-Tasking Staff (MTS) 2022• General English• General English

Select the most appropriate synonym of the given word.

Hurdle

  1. AOption (a)

    Progress

  2. BOption (b)

    Impediment

  3. COption (c)

    Accessory

  4. DOption (d)

    Aid

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Answer: (a)A.

Progress

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Question 405

SSC Multi-Tasking Staff (MTS) 2022• General English• General English

Parts of the following sentence have been given as options. One of them may contain an error. Select the part that contains the error from the given options. If you don’t find any error, mark ‘No error’ as your answer.

Apart from Germany, they also visited Italy and Austria during its business trip.

  1. AOption (a)

    also visited Italy and Austria

  2. BOption (b)

    during its business trip

  3. COption (c)

    Apart from Germany, they

  4. DOption (d)

    No error.

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Answer: (a)A.

also visited Italy and Austria

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Question 406

SSC Multi-Tasking Staff (MTS) 2022• General English• General English

Select the option that will improve the underlined part of the given sentence. In case no improvement is needed, select 'No improvement required'.

Suspend all the employees which has been coming late.

  1. AOption (a)

    who have been coming

  2. BOption (b)

    who had came

  3. COption (c)

    that was been coming

  4. DOption (d)

    No improvement required

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Answer: (a)A.

who have been coming

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Question 407

SSC Multi-Tasking Staff (MTS) 2022• General English• General English

Select the option that can be used as a one-word substitute for the given group of words.

Any award, honour or laudatory notice

  1. AOption (a)

    Complement

  2. BOption (b)

    Deal

  3. COption (c)

    Statute

  4. DOption (d)

    Accolade

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Answer: (a)A.

Complement

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Question 408

SSC Multi-Tasking Staff (MTS) 2022• General English• General English

Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank.

Thinking of talent as innate makes our world more manageable and more comfortable as it relieves a person of the _______ of expectation.

  1. AOption (a)

    blessing

  2. BOption (b)

    assistance

  3. COption (c)

    burden

  4. DOption (d)

    compensation

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Answer: (a)A.

blessing

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Question 409

SSC Multi-Tasking Staff (MTS) 2022• General English• General English

Select the most appropriate ANTONYM of the given word.

Agitate

  1. AOption (a)

    Blame

  2. BOption (b)

    Strike

  3. COption (c)

    Distress

  4. DOption (d)

    Soothe

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Answer: (a)A.

Blame

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Question 410

SSC Multi-Tasking Staff (MTS) 2022• General English• General English

The following sentence has been split into four segments. Identify the segment that contains a grammatical error.

But this immortality / will have purchased / at the price of / his immortal part.

  1. AOption (a)

    will have purchased

  2. BOption (b)

    at the price of

  3. COption (c)

    his immortal part

  4. DOption (d)

    But this immortality

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Answer: (a)A.

will have purchased

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Question 411

SSC Multi-Tasking Staff (MTS) 2022• General English• General English

Select the correctly spelt word.

  1. AOption (a)

    Tendency

  2. BOption (b)

    Tendensy

  3. COption (c)

    Tendincy

  4. DOption (d)

    Tendancy

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Answer: (a)A.

Tendency

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Question 412

SSC Multi-Tasking Staff (MTS) 2022• General English• General English

Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank.

As he went through the street on an ________ that morning, he saw a woman with a cat under her arm.

  1. AOption (a)

    Objection

  2. BOption (b)

    encasement

  3. COption (c)

    Errand

  4. DOption (d)

    Amendment

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Answer: (a)A.

Objection

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Question 413

SSC Multi-Tasking Staff (MTS) 2022• General English• General English

Select the option that can be used as a one-word substitute for the given group of words.

Something happening in three years

  1. AOption (a)

    Annual

  2. BOption (b)

    Triennial

  3. COption (c)

    Biennial

  4. DOption (d)

    millennial

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Answer: (a)A.

Annual

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Question 414

SSC Multi-Tasking Staff (MTS) 2022• General English• General English

Select the correctly spelt word.

  1. AOption (a)

    Imprudense

  2. BOption (b)

    Imprudence

  3. COption (c)

    Imprudance

  4. DOption (d)

    Imprudanse

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Answer: (a)A.

Imprudense

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Question 415

SSC Multi-Tasking Staff (MTS) 2022• General English• General English

Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank.

We are selling a single orange _______ ₹10 but nobody is ready to buy it.

  1. AOption (a)

    on

  2. BOption (b)

    to

  3. COption (c)

    with

  4. DOption (d)

    for

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Answer: (a)A.

on

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Question 416

SSC Multi-Tasking Staff (MTS) 2022• General English• General English

Select the most appropriate meaning of the underlined idiom in the given sentence.

I had never seen him lose his temper, and he governed our company with an iron hand.

  1. AOption (a)

    In anxiety

  2. BOption (b)

    At the service

  3. COption (c)

    To any degree

  4. DOption (d)

    strict and harsh control

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Answer: (a)A.

In anxiety

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Question 417

SSC Multi-Tasking Staff (MTS) 2022• General English• General English

The following sentence has been divided into parts. One of them may contain an error. Select the part that contains the error from the given options. If you don’t find any error, mark ‘No error’ as your answer.

Residents should keep an / eye out for strangers / acting suspecting in their areas

  1. AOption (a)

    eye out for strangers

  2. BOption (b)

    No error

  3. COption (c)

    Residents should keep an

  4. DOption (d)

    acting suspecting in their areas

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Answer: (a)A.

eye out for strangers

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Question 418

SSC Multi-Tasking Staff (MTS) 2022• General English• General English

Select the option that will improve the underlined part of the given sentence. In case no improvement is needed, select 'No improvement required'.

When a plastic comb is rubbed on dry hair, they acquired a static charge.

  1. AOption (a)

    it acquired a

  2. BOption (b)

    it acquires a

  3. COption (c)

    they acquire an

  4. DOption (d)

    No improvement required

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Answer: (a)A.

it acquired a

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Question 419

SSC Multi-Tasking Staff (MTS) 2022• General English• General English

Select the most appropriate meaning of the underlined idiom in the given sentence.

Come rain or shine, I will go to Paris tomorrow.

  1. AOption (a)

    At the last moment

  2. BOption (b)

    Whatever happens

  3. COption (c)

    To decide later

  4. DOption (d)

    To come before the decided time

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Answer: (a)A.

At the last moment

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Question 420

SSC Multi-Tasking Staff (MTS) 2022• General English• General English

Select the most appropriate synonym of the given word.

Laborious

  1. AOption (a)

    Unsophisticated

  2. BOption (b)

    Profane

  3. COption (c)

    Assiduous

  4. DOption (d)

    Pompous

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Answer: (a)A.

Unsophisticated

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