SSC CGL English Comprehension Practice Test – 2024
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Name: Free SSC CGL Practice Online Test
Subject: English Comprehension
Questions: 08 objective type
Duration: 06 minutes
Directions ( 1 – 5 ) You have a brief passage with five questions following the passage. Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives.
A reason why people at school read books is to please their teacher. The teachers has said that this, that, or the other is a good book, and that it is a sign of good taste to enjoy it. So a number of boys and girls, anxious to please their teacher, get the book and read it. Two or three of them may genuinely like it, for its own sake, and be grateful to the teacher for putting it in their way. But many will not honestly like it, or will persuade themselves that they like it. And that does a great deal of harm. The people who cannot like book run the risk of two things happening to them; either they are put off the idea of the book-let us suppose the book was David Copperfield – either they are put off the idea of classical novels, or they take a dislike to Dickens, and decide firmly never to waste their time on anything of the sort again; or they get a guilty conscience about the whole thing, they feel that they do not like what they ought to like and that therefore there is something wrong with them.
They are quite mistaken, of course. There is nothing wrong with them. The mistake has all been on the teacher’s side. What has happened is that they have been shoved up against for it. It is like giving a young child food only suitable for an adult. Result: indigestion, violent stomach ache, and a rooted dislike of that article of food evermore.
Q1. The passage is about what
1) we should do to make children read
2) we should not do when we ask children to read
3) teachers should teach in the classroom
4) treatment is to be given for indigestion
Answer: (1) We should do to make children read
Q2. The writer says that teachers should
1) prevent children from reading any book
2) compel children to read moral stories
3) stop compiling children to read books recommended by them
4) carefully supervise what children read
Answer: (3) stop compelling children to read books recommended by them
Q3. According to the author many boys and girls read books to
1) win the favour of their teachers
2) spend money in a useful way
3) express their gratitude to their teachers
4) Show other that they are lovers of books
Answer: (3) express their gratitude to their teachers
Q4. “ The mistake has been on the teacher’s side’. Here the ‘mistake’ refers to
1) making the children to please the teacher
2) asking the children to read books which teachers do not like
3) discouraging children from reading more books
4) recommending them the books intended for adults
Answer: (4) recommending them the books intended for adults
Q5. Indigestion and violent stomach-ache will be the result if the child
1) reader books not suitable for his age
2) does not read any book
3) is forced to eat food meant for adults
4) is not taken to doctor regular
Answer: (1) reader books not suitable for his age
Q6.Direction (6-10): In the following lowing questions, some of the sentences have errors and some have none. Find out which part of a sentence has an error. The number of that part is the answer. If there is no error, your answer is (4) i.e No error.
- Scarcely had (1) / I arrived than (2)/ the train left. (3)/ No error. (4)
1) 1
2) 2
3) 3
4) 4
Answer:(2) Scarcely should be followed by when and not by than.
For example,
Scarcely, had gone, when (not than) a policeman knocked at the door.
Hence, than should be replaced with when.
Q7. The reason why (1) / he was rejected (2) / was because he was too young. (3) No error. (4).
1) 1
2) 2
3) 3
4) 4
Incorrect
Answer:3 After such openings as The reason is, The reason why, the clause, containing the reason must not begin with “because’ but with ‘that’
For example,
The reason why he is absent is that he is ill. Hence, because should be replaced with that.
Q8. Teachers of various school (1)/ met to discuss about (2)/ how to improve the standard of English. (3)/ No error. (4)
1)
2)
3)
4)
Answer: (2) The error lies in part (2) of the sentence. The preposition ‘ about has superfluously been used here.
For example,
We discussed when to go/ when we should go.
9. His tradition – bound attitude (1)/ had to be a constant source of dissatisfaction (2) / among the younger members of the family. (3)/ No error. (4).
1)
2)
3)
4)
Answer: (4) No error
I got 50% .well not bad as I’m in class 11. But somehow I’ll have to improve it.