SSC Combined Graduate Level Exam: 2012 (Tier-2)
Paper – II (Held On 16.09.2012) [Part-3]
English Language & Comprehension
101. He has seen many ups and downs in life but he has never been as much dejected as he is today.
(A) So much in dejection
(B) So dejection
(C) That much dejected
(D) No Improvement
102. Socrates had many disciples and most great of them Plato.
(A) The greatest
(B) Greatest
(C) The greater
(D) No improvement
103. Neither the judge nor I am ready to announce who is the winner.
(A) Are ready to announce who the winner is.
(B) Is ready to announce who is the winner
(C) Am ready to announce who the winner is.
(D) No Improvement
104. The crowd was anomalous but orderly.
(A) Indiscipline
(B) Uncontrollable
(C) Clamorous
(D) No improvement
105. No sooner had I entered the house when the lights went out
(A) Then
(B) Started
(C) Solved
(D) No improvement
106. The lawyer often instigated arguments
(A) Lost
(B) started
(C) solved
(D) No improvement
107. After adequate deliberations, the council can see scarcely any valid reason for its reviewing
(A) can see scarcely any valid reason for its
(B) Can scarcely see any valid reason for its
(C) cant not see scarcely see valid reason for its
(D) No improvement
108. The vice principal decided to resign when
(A) Passed of
(B) passed out
(C) passed by
(D) No Improvement
109. I always proper staying indoors to go out on a summer day.
(A) than going out
(B) to going out
(C) than to go out
(D) No improvement
110.Were the politicians to assess them selves they would find that they have lost their credibility long back?
(A) have been losing their
(B) had lost their credibility
(C) have lost their credentials
(D) No improvement
111. The opposition is very weak to pose any serious challenge in Uttar Pradesh,
(A) very
(B) rather too much weak
(C) too weak
(D) No improvement
112. The government has no choice than to curtail the subsidies in order to contain the increasing fiscal deficit
(A) but to curtail
(B) only to curtail
(C) other than to curtailing
(D) No improvement
113. There is no place in the bus, it is already over crowded
(A) vacancy
(B) room
(C) berth
(D) No improvement
114. If only I had known about your arrival I might have come to the station to receive might have come to