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SSCCGL English Language And Comprehension Solved Question Paper 2016

Multiple Choice Questions

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In each of the questions, four alternatives are given for the Idiom/Phrase. Choose the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the Idiom/Phrase and click the button corresponding to it.
Drag one's feet

Make something more complicated

Expedite

Be reluctant to act

Be reluctant to act

Be reluctant to act

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In each of the questions, four alternatives are given for the Idiom/Phrase. Choose the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the Idiom/Phrase and click the button corresponding to it.
Hope against hope

Think wishfully from time to time
Hoped with good reason
Nurture an impossible hope
Nurture an impossible hope

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In these questions, out of the four alternatives, choose the one which can be substituted for the given words/sentences and mark corresponding to it.
Lack of skill

Inertness
Insistence
Ineptness
Ineptness

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In these questions, out of the four alternatives, choose the one which can be substituted for the given words/sentences and mark corresponding to it.
Stick with a thick end used in mortar for pounding

Thistle
Stifle
Sceptre
Sceptre

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In these questions, out of the four alternatives, choose the one which can be substituted for the given words/sentences and mark corresponding to it.
An act when people vote in order to make a decision about a particular subject or policy rather than voting for a person

Election
Exit-poll
By-election
By-election

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A sentence/a part of the sentence is bold. Four alternatives are given to the bold part which will improve the sentence. Choose the correct alternative and click the button corresponding to it. In case no improvement is needed, click the button corresponding to No improvement.
Jane had told me that she hasn't done her homework.

told
tells
was telling
No improvement

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92. A sentence/a part of the sentence is bold. Four alternatives are given to the bold part which will improve the sentence. Choose the correct alternative and click the button corresponding to it. In case no improvement is needed, click the button corresponding to No improvement.
This survey is concerning your health as well as that of your family.

concerns with
is concerned with
concerns to
No improvement

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93. A sentence/a part of the sentence is bold. Four alternatives are given to the bold part which will improve the sentence. Choose the correct alternative and click the button corresponding to it. In case no improvement is needed, click the button corresponding to No improvement.
A city that is set on a hill cannot be hidden.

be hid
hide
be hiding
No improvement

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94. A sentence/a part of the sentence is bold. Four alternatives are given to the bold part which will improve the sentence. Choose the correct alternative and click the button corresponding to it. In case no improvement is needed, click the button corresponding to No improvement.
A black and white goat were grazing.

The white and the black goat
The black and white goat
A black and a white goat
No improvement

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95. A sentence/a part of the sentence is bold. Four alternatives are given to the bold part which will improve the sentence. Choose the correct alternative and click the button corresponding to it. In case no improvement is needed, click the button corresponding to No improvement.
I had took the papers to John's office.