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As we all know, Verbal Aptitude is an
important component of a number of competitive examinations such as the UPSC
Civil Services Examination, Banking Entrance Examinations, SSC CGL/CHSL
Examination, MBA Entrance Examination, Combined Defence Services Examination, etc.
In order to help you practice and improve your verbal ability, we are providing
you this English Quiz.
Given below are a few questions from
SSC examinations held in the last few years. Leave your answers/ responses in
the comments section below and soon we’ll let you know the correct answers!
Directions
(Q. Nos. 1-5) In the following passage some of the words have been left out.
First read the passage over and try to understand what is about. Then, fill in
the blanks with the help of the alternatives given.
About 1675, Leeuwenhock, the son of a
Dutch lens-grinder, saw through his lens minute, moving forms in a drop of
……(1)….water. Soon some of the scientists began to study these animalcul
‘ae’, ‘little animals’ as they were first called. They made drawings of what they saw, and these ……(2)…. are
very much like those of the bacteria drawn by scientists today. Many people
….(3)…. at the reports of the early scientists
……(4)…. no more attention to them than they ….(5)…. to `a tale told
by an idiot’. It was nearly two hundred years later that anything new was
learned about bacteria.
1. (a) stationary (b) clear (c)
fresh (d) stagnant
2. (a) pictures (b)
paintings (c) scribbling (d) drawings
3. (a) repudiated (b) denounced (c) pooh-poohed (d)
scoffed
4. (a) paying (b)
awarding (c) applying (d) dilating
5. (a) could (b) might (c) should (d) would
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Answers:
1(d) 2(d)
3(d) 4(a) 5(d)