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SSC CGL| English ability| Direct and Indirect speech

 Direct and Indirect speech Q.1.  Find out the correct indirect speech for the given sentence. She said,’ I have baked a cake’ She said that she baked a cake She said that she had baked a cake. She said that I baked a cake. She said that she had bake a cake. Answer (2)  She said that she had baked a cake.   Q.2.  Choose the correct sentence.  Aviral said, ‘What a beautiful rainbow it is’. Aviral exclaimed wonderfully that the scenery was very beautiful. Aviral said with wonder that the scenery was very beautiful. Aviral exclaimed with wonder that the scenery is very beautiful. Aviral exclaimed with wonder that the scenery was very beautiful. Answer (4)  Aviral exclaimed with wonder that the scenery was very beautiful.   Q.3.  The correct indirect speech for ‘This world’, she said, ‘is full of sorrow. Wish that I were dead’. is? She observed that the world i...

SSC CGL| English ability| cloze test

 Cloze test Given below is a sample question for a cloze test, which shall enable you to understand the topic well and also to analyse the pattern of the questions appearing under this topic. Question: Read the passage given below and fill in the blanks with the suitable option: Earth, our home, is the third planet from the sun. It’s the only _________  (a)  known to have an atmosphere containing free oxygen, oceans of water on its surface and, of course, life. The fifth-largest planet of the Solar system is the Earth. It is smaller ________  (b)  the four gas giants — Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune — but larger than the three other rocky planets, Mercury, Mars and Venus. Earth has a diameter of roughly 8,000 miles and is ________  (c)  because gravity pulls matter into a ball. But, it is not perfectly round. Earth is really an “oblate spheroid,” because its spin causes it to be squashed at its poles and swollen at the equator. 71 per ce...

CAT EXAM| English ability| Articles

 Articles Q1.  ____ lilies in your backyard are beautiful. A The An No article Answer (2)   Q.2.  How much ____ snow do you get in winters? A An The No Article Answer (4)   Q.3 . Where’s ___ axe he just used? An A The No article Answer (3)    Q.4.  She ate ___ fruits for lunch. The A An No article Answer (4)   Q.5.  We saw ___ lions in ___ Safari The, the The, A The, no article No article, the Answer (4) 

SSC CGL| English ability| Synonyms and Antonyms

  Synonyms and Antonyms  Antonyms Question: 1 Choose the correct antonym of the given word Transmit (A) Televise (B) Withhold (C) Reply (D) Show   Question: 2 Choose the correct antonym of the given word False (A) Defective (B) True (C) Incorrect (D) Inaccurate   Question: 3 Choose the correct antonym of the given word Jocose (A) Diseased (B) Playful (C) Dull (D) Humorous   Question: 4 Choose the correct antonym of the given word Feral (A) Tame (B) Unyielding (C) Natural (D) Grim   Question: 5 Choose the correct antonym of the given word Dilettante (A) Professional (B) Tidy (C) Rapid (D) Stupid     Synonyms Question: 1 Choose the correct synonym of the given word: Qualm (A) Attribute (B) Altercation (C) Scruple (D) Crisis   Question: 2 Choose the correct synonym of the given word: Domain (A) Fielding (B) Marketing (C) Main (D) ...

SSC CGL| Logical ability| Seating arrangement

 Seating arrangement Directions (Q1 – Q5):  Read the information given below and answer the following questions: A total of 10 people, 5 men and 5 women are sitting in two parallel lines, facing each other. Five men, namely, Ajit, Bharat, Chirag, Dharam and Ejaz are facing to the south and the five women, Meenal, Neelu, Octavia, Preeti and Arpita are facing towards the north. Bharat, who is just next to the left of Dharam, is opposite to Arpita. Chirag and Neelu are diagonally opposite to each other. Ejaz is opposite Octavia who is just next to Meenal. Preeti, who is just to the left of Arpita, is opposite to Dharam. Meenal is at one end of the line Q 1.  Which two people are sitting at the two extreme ends of the line? Ejaz, Bharat Ajit, Chirag Chirag, Dharam Dharam, Bharat None of the Above Q 2.  Who is sitting right in front of Dharam? Neelu Meenal Octavia Preeti Arpita ...

SSC CGL| Arithmetic ability| Problems on ages

  Problems on ages Q 1.  The present age of Aradhana and Aadrika is in the ratio 3:4. 5 years back, the ratio of their ages was 2:3. What is the present age of Aradhana? 12 years 15 years 20 years 22 years 10 years Answer: (2) 15 years   Q 2.  If the total ages of Iqbal and Shikhar is 12 years more than the total age of Shikhar and Charu. Charu is how many years younger than Iqbal? 11 years 13 years 15 years None of the above Cannot be Determined Answer: (4) None of the Above   Q 3.  A father is twice as old as his daughter. If 20 years ago, the age of the father was 10 times the age of the daughter, what is the present age of the father? 40 years 32 years 33 years 45 years 22 years Answer: (4) 45 years   Q 4.  Arun is 2 years older than Bharat who is twice as old as Charat. If the total of the ages of Arun, Bhar...