SSC English Lower Division Clerk Solved Paper Notes

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LOWER-DIVISION CLERK

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1 The truant schoolboy told cock-and-bull stories to escape punishment.

(a) interesting and thrilling

(b) absurd and unbelievable

(e) authentic and realistic

(d) drab and boring

2. This argument does not hold water.

(a) seem rejectable

(b) seem approvable

(c) seem logical

(d) seem acceptable

3. To be down to earth

(a) To be realistic

(e) To be pretentious

(b) To be impractical

(d) To be unreasonable

4. Rohini reached the examination hall in the nick of time.

(a) just before time

(b) very late

(c) just after time

(d) seem acceptable

5. ELEMENTARY

(a) Complex

(b) Hard

(c) Involved

(d) Compound

6. ACCUMULATE

(a) Disperse

(b) Aware

(c) Below

(d) Dismiss

7. RESIST

(a) Yield

(b) Remain

(c) Adjust

(d) Decline

8. CONCUR

(a) Disagree

(b) Agree

(c) Praise

(d) Weak

9. The agreement between the management and the workers were drafted by an advisory board.

(a) An advisory board drafted the agreement between the management and the workers.

(b) An advisory board had drafted the agreement between the management and the workers.

(c) An advisory board is drafting the agreement between the management and the workers.

(d) The agreement between the management and the workers is being drafted by an advisory board.

10. Put up the tent.

(a) The tent is being put up.

(b) Let the tent being put up.

(c) The tent has been put up

(d) Let the tent be put up.

11. One should have their teeth checked every six months.

(a) their teeth checked

(b) No error

(e) every six months.

(d) One should have

12. An honest person is upright in speech, thought, and deed,

(a) A honest person

(b) is upright

(c) No error

(d) in speech, thought, and deed.

13. It is painful to say that some youngsters are killing time without doing anything useful.

(a) killing time without doing anything useful.

(b) some youngsters are

(c) It is painful to say that

(d) No error

14.  We, in India, can look forward to a comfortable and settle life in the twenty-first century.

(a) life in the twenty-first century.

(b) No error

(c) to a comfortable and settle

(d) We, in India can look forward

15. All religions show us the path

(a) SQPR

(b) QPRS

(c) QSPR

(d) SRQP

16. The Narmada Dam Project

(a) SRQP

(b) RPSQ

(c) PQRS

(d) PSRQ

17. While

(a) PQSR

(b) RQSP

(c) PSQR

(d) RSQP

18. Television,

(a) PQRS

(b) SRQP

(c) RSQP

(d) RSPQ

19. (a) Decisive

(b) Decesieve

(c) Decisive

(d) Decisive

20. (a) Millennium

(b) Millennium

(c) Millenium

(d) Millenium

21. (a) Alkali

(b) Alkalise

(c) Alkali

(d) Alkali

22. (a) Amature

(b) Amateur

(c) Amateur

(d) Amateur

23. The speeding car………………….a man this morning.

(a) hit out

(b) pushed out

(c) knocked down

(d) hit about

24. The terrorists made a vain attempt to. bridge.

(a) blow up

(b) blowdown

(c) blowout

(d) blow over

25. Politics is the last………………….of scoundrels.

(a) result

(b) report

(c) resort

(d) retort

26. Take care. …………..your health

(a) about

(b) of

(c) over

(d) for

27. We’ve got a new big house.

(a) big new house

(b) house new big

(c) No improvement

(d) house big new

28. The President of India administers the oath of office to the Council of Ministers.

(a) supervises the oath-taking ceremony

(b) No improvement

(c) imposes the promise

(d) reads out the oath

29. I shall write to you when I reach Agra.

(a) will write to you

(b) would write to you

(c) No improvement

(d) should write to you

30. Being a wet day, he stayed at home.

(a) Though

(b) Since

(c) As it was

(d) No improvement

31. (ix)

(a) go

(b) are

(c) come

(d) sit

32. (1)

(a) into

(b) so

(c) with

(d) to

33. (viii)

(a) therefore

(b) so

(c) however

(d) hence

34. (iii)

(a) unselfish

(c) kind

(b) glum

(d) comic

35. (v)

(a) intention

(b) capacity

(c) feeling

(d) sense

36. (vii)

(a) like

(b) dislike

(c) hate

(d) opt

37. (vii)

(a) closer

(b) apart

(c) home

(d) far

38. (vi)…the

(a) away

(b) over

(c) on

(d) at

39. (ii)

(a) upon

(b) at

(c) over

(d) into

40. (x)

(a) widens

(b) broadens

(c) lessens

(d) grows

41. A person in charge of a museum.

(a) Architect

(b) Philatelist

(c) Curator

(d) Mayor

42. The first public performance of a musical or theatrical work or the first showing of a film.

(a) Debut

(b) Opener

(c) Premiere

(d) Preview

43. One who cannot make any mistake.

(a) Inaudible

(b) Illegible

(e) Invisible

(d) Infallible

44. An act of misappropriation of money

(a) Corruption

(b) Misconduct

(c) Embezzlement

(d) Debasement

45. ACQUIRE

(a) Renounce

(b) Procure

(c) Lose

(d) Relinquish

46. FILTHY

(a) Dirty

(b) Immaculate

(c) Spotless

(d) Clean

47. MISTAKE

(a) Error

(b) Accurate

(c) Mistook

(d) Precise

48. ANNOY

(a) Revoke

(b) Offend

(c) Refuse

(d) Lazy

49. Ravi asked me, “Have you seen the Taj Mahal?

(a) Ravi asked me if I have seen the Taj Mahal

(b) Ravi asked me if I saw the Taj Mahal.

(c) Ravi asked me did I see the Taj Mahal.

(d) Ravi asked me if I had seen the Taj Mahal.

50. Robin said, “Hurrah! I have topped again

(a) Robin exclaimed joyfully that he has topped again.

(b) Robin exclaimed joyfully that he had been topped again.

(c) Robin exclaimed joyfully that he had topped again.

(d) Robin exclaimed joyfully that they would have topped again.