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SSC CHSL 2023 Tier I — 17 August 2023, Shift 1

17 August 2023 · 9:00 AM–10:00 AM86 of the paper’s 100 questions+2 for a correct answer, −0.5 for a wrong one

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Questions from the Staff Selection Commission’s paper of 17 August 2023, 9:00 AM–10:00 AM. Each question’s answer is under it, hidden until you open it, and the full answer key is at the end. Take the paper as a timed practice test to be scored.

English Language

1. Select the most appropriate idiom for the underlined segment in the given sentence. When he made fun of the sage, who was already infuriated, it made a bad situation worse.
- (a) Made them at the loggerheads
- (b) Pulled someone’s legs
- (c) Added fuel to the fire
- (d) Budged up
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Answer: (c)
2. Select the most appropriate synonym of the given word. Quell
- (a) Invite
- (b) Beseech
- (c) Encourage
- (d) Suppress
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Answer: (d)
3. Select the most appropriate idiom for the following sentence. The recent strike of the employees left the factory and its machinery in disorder.
- (a) Need of the hour
- (b) Out of gear
- (c) Pin-money
- (d) Lock and key
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Answer: (b)
4. Select the option that can be used as a one-word substitute for the underlined group of words. ‘A Red, Red Rose’ by Robert Burns is a poem that tells a story and has a regular rhythm and rhyme scheme.
- (a) epic
- (b) haiku
- (c) ballad
- (d) sonnet
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Answer: (c)
5. Select the most appropriate homonym to fill in the blank. Should we go shopping for a ____ fan for our new house?
- (a) ceiling
- (b) sealink
- (c) sealing
- (d) selling
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Answer: (a)
6. 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. A crocodile / was swimming / in a river.
- (a) A crocodile
- (b) was swimming
- (c) No error
- (d) in a river
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7. Select the most appropriate option that can substitute the underlined segment in the given sentence. The performance of the musicians was rather worst than expected by the audience.
- (a) worst than expectation
- (b) worse was expected
- (c) worse than expected
- (d) bad as expected
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8. Select the most appropriate synonym of the given word from the following sentence. Damage Every war in the history originates because of the greed of the rulers which was satisfied after mass destruction.
- (a) Satisfied
- (b) Destruction
- (c) Greed
- (d) Originates
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Answer: (b)
9. Select the most appropriate synonym of the given word. Repercussion
- (a) Duplication
- (b) Consequence
- (c) Recusation
- (d) Apprehension
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Answer: (b)
10. Select the option that expresses the given sentence in active voice. It will be done by me.
- (a) I will do it.
- (b) I do it.
- (c) I did it.
- (d) I have done it.
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11. Select the most appropriate synonym of the underlined word in the given sentence. Let us adjourn the meeting here, as it is lunchtime now.
- (a) Postpone
- (b) Prohibit
- (c) Stimulate
- (d) Expedite
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Answer: (a)
12. Parts of a sentence are given below in jumbled order, except the first part. Arrange the parts in the correct order to form a meaningful sentence. As for the first historical fallacy,… A. only some specialists can unravel its inscrutable mysteries B. that the past was so different C. from the present that D. many people wrongly believe
- (a) BCDA
- (b) DCBA
- (c) DBCA
- (d) ABCD
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Answer: (c)
13. Select the most appropriate synonym of the given word. Hideous
- (a) Repulsive
- (b) Pretty
- (c) Attractive
- (d) Plain
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Answer: (a)
14. The following sentence has been split into four segments. Identify the segment that contains a grammatical error. An old man whom / we met while coming back / from our college lives / at my uncle’s place.
- (a) An old man whom
- (b) at my uncle’s place
- (c) we met while coming back
- (d) from our college lives
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15. Select the INCORRECTLY spelt word from the given sentence. The crowd jerred and laughed, but the young prince sprang to the gate with his face flushed.
- (a) Prince
- (b) Laughed
- (c) Sprang
- (d) Jerred
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16. Sentences of a paragraph are given below in jumbled order. Arrange the sentences in the correct order to form a meaningful and coherent paragraph. A.Despite numerous setbacks and rejections, he refused to give up on his dream of making it big. B.John had always been a talented musician, but he struggled to find his place in the competitive and cutthroat music industry. C.With the help of a supportive community of fellow musicians and fans, John continued to hone his craft and develop his own unique sound. D.Eventually, his hard work paid off and he landed a record deal with a major label.
- (a) BACD
- (b) DCAB
- (c) BDAC
- (d) CBAD
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17. Select the option that can be used as a one-word substitute for the given group of words. One who eats human flesh
- (a) Mammal
- (b) Vegetarian
- (c) Carnivore
- (d) Cannibal
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Answer: (d)
18. Select the INCORRECTLY spelt word.
- (a) Acknowledgment
- (b) Accomodate
- (c) Address
- (d) Acquire
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Answer: (b)
PassageFor questions 21–25
In the following passage some words have been deleted. Read the passage carefully and select the most appropriate option to fill in each blank.
Harry Potter was first introduced in the novel, ‘Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone’, as an orphan who is (1)________ by his guardian aunt and uncle and their son. On his 11th birthday Harry discovers that his parents were a witch and a wizard and that he, a wizard himself, has been invited to (2)______ Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. He also learns that his parents had not (3)_______ in a car accident, as his aunt and uncle had told him, but that they instead had been murdered by an evil wizard named Voldemort. Harry was the only person to have ever (4) ______ an attack by Voldemort—by somehow (5)_______ the latter’s ‘killing curse’—which left him with a lightning-bolt-shaped scar on his forehead.
21. Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank number 1.
- (a) crushed
- (b) mistreated
- (c) dispirited
- (d) bowed
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Answer: (b)
22. Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank number 2.
- (a) see
- (b) escort
- (c) accompany
- (d) attend
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23. Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank number 3.
- (a) perished
- (b) departed
- (c) lost
- (d) vanished
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Answer: (a)
24. Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank number 4.
- (a) survived
- (b) thrived
- (c) continued
- (d) tolerated
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Answer: (a)
25. Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank number 5.
- (a) rallying
- (b) recovering
- (c) failing
- (d) rebounding
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General Intelligence

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Quantitative Aptitude

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