SSCCGL English Language And Comprehension

Question 26

Sentences are given with blanks to be filled in with an appropriate word(s). Four alternatives are suggested for each question. Choose the correct alternative out of the four and indicate it.
He was ............... by nature and so avoided all company.

  • cordial

  • anti-social

  • gregarious

  • timid

Solution

D.

timid

Question 27

Sentences are given with blanks to be filled in with an appropriate word(s). Four alternatives are suggested for each question. Choose the correct alternative out of the four and indicate it.
Jim suffered a ..................... of fortune.

  • regress

  • revert

  • reversal

  • reverse

Solution

C.

reversal

Question 28

Sentences are given with blanks to be filled in with an appropriate word(s). Four alternatives are suggested for each question. Choose the correct alternative out of the four and indicate it.
The United Kingdom ....................England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.

  • comprises

  • comprises of

  • combines

  • consists

Solution

A.

comprises

Question 29

You have a passage with 5 questions following. Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives.
                                                    Passage
The capitalist system does not foster healthy relations among human beings. A few people own all the means of production and others have to sell their labour under conditions imposed upon them. The emphasis of capitalism being on the supreme importance of material wealth, the intensity of its appeal is to the acquisitive tendency. It promotes worship of economic power with little regard to the means employed for its acquisition and the end that it serves. By its exploitation of human beings to the limits of endurance, its concentration is on the largest profit rather than maximum production. Thus, the division of human society is done on the basis of profit motive. All this is injurious to human dignity and when the harrowed poor turn to the founders of religion for succour, they rather offer a subtle dense for the established order. They promise future happiness for present suffering. They conjure up visions of paradise to soothe the suffering majority and censure the revolt of the tortured men. The system imposes injustice, the religion justifies it.
In a capitalist system of society each man wishes

  • to have visions of paradise

  • to produce maximum wealth

  • to acquire maximum wealth

  • to soothe the sufferings of other

Solution

C.

to acquire maximum wealth

Question 30

You have a passage with 5 questions following. Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives.
                                                    Passage
The capitalist system does not foster healthy relations among human beings. A few people own all the means of production and others have to sell their labour under conditions imposed upon them. The emphasis of capitalism being on the supreme importance of material wealth, the intensity of its appeal is to the acquisitive tendency. It promotes worship of economic power with little regard to the means employed for its acquisition and the end that it serves. By its exploitation of human beings to the limits of endurance, its concentration is on the largest profit rather than maximum production. Thus, the division of human society is done on the basis of profit motive. All this is injurious to human dignity and when the harrowed poor turn to the founders of religion for succour, they rather offer a subtle dense for the established order. They promise future happiness for present suffering. They conjure up visions of paradise to soothe the suffering majority and censure the revolt of the tortured men. The system imposes injustice, the religion justifies it.
The established order is supported by religion to

  • balance the suffering of the poor with hopes of future reward

  • perpetuate the injustice imposed by the capitalist system

  • help the tortured men to seek redress

  • alleviate the suffering of the poor in the capitalist 

Solution

D.

alleviate the suffering of the poor in the capitalist