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SSC CPO Tier 2 Mini Mock Test-5

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Question 1

Direction: Choose the most appropriate option to change the narration (direct/indirect) of the given sentence.

Ram says to me, “You are smart.”

Question 2

Choose the most appropriate option to change the narration (direct/indirect) of the given sentence.

The teacher said to the students, “You should obey your parents. You should be of help to them.”

Question 3

Direction: In the following question, a sentence has been given in Direct/Indirect. Out of the four alternatives suggested, select the one which best expresses the same sentence in Direct/Indirect as your answer.
He said, "The Sun rises in the East."

Question 4

Choose the most appropriate option to change the voice (active/passive) form of the given sentence.

She bought a diamond necklace.

Question 5

Choose the most appropriate option to change the voice (active/passive) form of the given sentence.

We waste much time on trifles.

Question 6

Identify the best way to improve the underlined part of the given sentence. If there is no improvement required, select ‘no Improvement’.
Neither plants nor animals can survive without oxygen.

Question 7

Direction: Improve the bracketed part of the sentence.

Question 8

Identify the best way to improve the underlined part of the given sentence. If there is no improvement required, select ‘no Improvement’.
He speaks not only English but Hindi as well.

Question 9

Read the following passage and fill in each blank with words chosen from options given.
An ant was being carried along with the current. It was trying to reach the bank but ________ (1). A parrot on a tree on the bank was watching all this. It took ________ (2) on the ant. It ________ (3) a leaf from the tree and dropped it close to the ant. The ant climbed on the leaf. After some time the leaf ________ (4) the bank. In this way, the life of the ant was saved. Really the parrot was both kind and ________ (5).

Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank No.1

Question 10

Read the following passage and fill in each blank with words chosen from options given.
An ant was being carried along with the current. It was trying to reach the bank but ________ (1). A parrot on a tree on the bank was watching all this. It took ________ (2) on the ant. It ________ (3) a leaf from the tree and dropped it close to the ant. The ant climbed on the leaf. After some time the leaf ________ (4) the bank. In this way, the life of the ant was saved. Really the parrot was both kind and ________ (5).

Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank No.2

Question 11

Read the following passage and fill in each blank with words chosen from options given.
An ant was being carried along with the current. It was trying to reach the bank but ________ (1). A parrot on a tree on the bank was watching all this. It took ________ (2) on the ant. It ________ (3) a leaf from the tree and dropped it close to the ant. The ant climbed on the leaf. After some time the leaf ________ (4) the bank. In this way, the life of the ant was saved. Really the parrot was both kind and ________ (5).

Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank No.3

Question 12

Read the following passage and fill in each blank with words chosen from options given.
An ant was being carried along with the current. It was trying to reach the bank but ________ (1). A parrot on a tree on the bank was watching all this. It took ________ (2) on the ant. It ________ (3) a leaf from the tree and dropped it close to the ant. The ant climbed on the leaf. After some time the leaf ________ (4) the bank. In this way, the life of the ant was saved. Really the parrot was both kind and ________ (5).

Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank No.4

Question 13

Read the following passage and fill in each blank with words chosen from options given.
An ant was being carried along with the current. It was trying to reach the bank but ________ (1). A parrot on a tree on the bank was watching all this. It took ________ (2) on the ant. It ________ (3) a leaf from the tree and dropped it close to the ant. The ant climbed on the leaf. After some time the leaf ________ (4) the bank. In this way, the life of the ant was saved. Really the parrot was both kind and ________ (5).

Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank No.5

Question 14

Direction: In the following questions, you have brief passage with some questions.  Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to each questions out the four alternatives.

Passage
Speech is a great blessing but it can also be a great curse, for while it helps us to make our intentions and desires known to our fellows, it can also, if we use it carelessly, make our attitude completely misunderstood. A slip of the tongue, the use of an unusual word, or of an ambiguous word, and so on, may create an enemy where we had hoped different vocabularies, and the ordinary speech of an educated man may strike an uneducated listener as pompous. Unwittingly, we may use a word which bears a different meaning of our listener from what it does to men of our own class. Thus speech is not a gift to from what it use lightly without thought, but one which demands careful handing. Only a fool will express himself alike to all kinds and condition only a of men.
Speech can be a curse, because it can

Question 15

Direction: In the following questions, you have brief passage with some questions.  Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to each questions out the four alternatives.

Passage
Speech is a great blessing but it can also be a great curse, for while it helps us to make our intentions and desires known to our fellows, it can also, if we use it carelessly, make our attitude completely misunderstood. A slip of the tongue, the use of an unusual word, or of an ambiguous word, and so on, may create an enemy where we had hoped different vocabularies, and the ordinary speech of an educated man may strike an uneducated listener as pompous. Unwittingly, we may use a word which bears a different meaning of our listener from what it does to men of our own class. Thus speech is not a gift to from what it use lightly without thought, but one which demands careful handing. Only a fool will express himself alike to all kinds and condition only a of men.
The best way to win a friend is to avoid

Question 16

Direction: In the following questions, you have brief passage with some questions.  Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to each questions out the four alternatives.

Passage
Speech is a great blessing but it can also be a great curse, for while it helps us to make our intentions and desires known to our fellows, it can also, if we use it carelessly, make our attitude completely misunderstood. A slip of the tongue, the use of an unusual word, or of an ambiguous word, and so on, may create an enemy where we had hoped different vocabularies, and the ordinary speech of an educated man may strike an uneducated listener as pompous. Unwittingly, we may use a word which bears a different meaning of our listener from what it does to men of our own class. Thus speech is not a gift to from what it use lightly without thought, but one which demands careful handing. Only a fool will express himself alike to all kinds and condition only a of men.
A ‘slip of the tongue’ means something said

Question 17

Direction: In the following questions, you have brief passage with some questions.  Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to each questions out the four alternatives.

Passage
Speech is a great blessing but it can also be a great curse, for while it helps us to make our intentions and desires known to our fellows, it can also, if we use it carelessly, make our attitude completely misunderstood. A slip of the tongue, the use of an unusual word, or of an ambiguous word, and so on, may create an enemy where we had hoped different vocabularies, and the ordinary speech of an educated man may strike an uneducated listener as pompous. Unwittingly, we may use a word which bears a different meaning of our listener from what it does to men of our own class. Thus speech is not a gift to from what it use lightly without thought, but one which demands careful handing. Only a fool will express himself alike to all kinds and condition only a of men.
While talking to an uneducated person, we should use

Question 18

Direction: In the following questions, you have brief passage with some questions.  Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to each questions out the four alternatives.

Passage
Speech is a great blessing but it can also be a great curse, for while it helps us to make our intentions and desires known to our fellows, it can also, if we use it carelessly, make our attitude completely misunderstood. A slip of the tongue, the use of an unusual word, or of an ambiguous word, and so on, may create an enemy where we had hoped different vocabularies, and the ordinary speech of an educated man may strike an uneducated listener as pompous. Unwittingly, we may use a word which bears a different meaning of our listener from what it does to men of our own class. Thus speech is not a gift to from what it use lightly without thought, but one which demands careful handing. Only a fool will express himself alike to all kinds and condition only a of men.
If one used the same style of language with everyone, one would sound

Question 19

In the following questions out of the four alternatives, choose the one which can be substituted for the given words/sentence
With much liveliness and a sense of purpose

Question 20

Select the word which means the same as the group of words given.

Estimation of a thing's worth.
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