Staff Selection Commission (SSC) MULTI-TASKING STAFF (MTS) Recruitment Exam 2020 Solved Paper (Exam Held on 05-10-2021)

                           English Language

1. Select the most appropriate synonym of the given word.
ndulgence
(A) Accuracy
(B) Leniency ✔
(C) Diligence
(D) Attentiveness

2. Select the most appropriate meaning of the given idiom.
By the same token
(A) Use the same password
(B) Use the same ticket
(C) In the same way ✔
(D) In the same bus

3. Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank.
Today, banking in a seamless world ............. a distinct reality.
(A) are
(B) was
(C) have
(D) is ✔

4. Identify the segment in the sentence which contains a grammatical error.
Have you decided what you what to become when you grown up.
(A) when you grown up ✔
(B) to become
(C) Have you decided
(D) what you want

5. Select the most appropriate Antonym of the given word.
Sly
(A) Thick
(B) Slow
(C) Honest ✔
(D) Stiff

6. Identify the segment in the sentence which contains a grammatical error. Seldom has the discoveries of the world's greatest discoverers, like Copernicus or Galileo, been forgotten.
(A) like Copernicus or Galileo
(B) of the world's greatest discoverers
(C) been forgotten
(D) Seldom has the discoveries ✔

7. Select the Incorrectly spelt word.
(A) Obvious
(B) Queer
(C) Hesitete ✔
(D) Dealer

8. Select the Incorrectly spelt word.
(A) Outhority ✔
(B) Condition
(C) Meddle
(D) Edible

9. Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank.
The ................ for a vaccine could take up to a year.
(A) chase
(B) pursuit
(C) track
(D) search ✔

10. Select the most appropriate option to substitute the underlined segment in the given sentence. If there is no need to substitute it, select 'No substitution required'.
I can't live at a place which is far from the sea.
(A) No substitution required ✔
(B) hasn't lived
(C) can't lived
(D) couldn't being live

11. Select the most appropriate synonym of the given word.
Protest
(A) Support
(B) Assist
(C) Object ✔
(D) Favour

12. Select the most appropriate one-word substitution for the given words.
One who interferes in the affairs of others, often for selfish reasons.
(A) Interloper ✔
(B) Interpreter
(C) Foreigner
(D) Stranger

13. Select the most appropriate Antonym of the given word.
Narrow
(A) Wide ✔
(B) Firm
(C) Tight
(D) Solid

14. Select the most appropriate meaning of the given idiom.
To get on the nerves
(A) To soothe
(B) To have an illness
(C) To give medicine
(D) To irritate ✔

15. Select the most appropriate one-word substitution for the given group of words.
Restore (someone) to health or normal life after imprisonment, addiction, or illness
(A) Refurbish
(B) Renovate
(C) Reinstate
(D) Rehabilitate ✔

16. Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank.
I hope your parents ................ soon.
(A) are recovering
(B) recover ✔
(C) should recover
(D) are recover

17. Select the most appropriate option to substitute the underlined segment in the given sentence. If there is no need to substitute it, select 'No substitution required.
There are many birds in the verandah today. Hema, please feed those.
(A) fed those
(B) No substitution required
(C) fed them
(D) feed them ✔

18. Identify the segment in the sentence which contains a grammatical error.
We do hope you are enjoy this online course in art and craft.
(A) in art and craft
(B) you are enjoy
(C) We do hope
(D) this online course

19. Select the most appropriate option to substitute the underlined segment in the given sentence. If there is no need to substitute it, select 'No substitution required'.
During the winter months the bears go without food by nearly six to seven months.
(A) No substitution required
(B) from almost
(C) for almost ✔
(D) for quite

20. Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank.
Many ................ tales evoke the memory of Akbar and Birbal.
(A) populous
(B) popular ✔
(C) populated
(D) populist

Directions (Q.Nos. 21-25) In the following passage some words have been deleted. Fill in the blanks with the help of the alternatives given. Select the most appropriate option for each blank.

One day while the magistrate was walking (1) ......... a market he saw a crowd outside a poultry shop. (2).. enquiring what the matter was (3) ............ learnt that a peasant had accidentally (4) ........... a heavy sack on a chicken, (5) ......... it to death.

21. Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank no. 1.
(A) along
(B) over
(C) through ✔
(D) aside

22. Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank no. 2.
(A) Whereas
(B) How
(C) On ✔
(D) So

23. Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank no. 3.
(A) she
(B) he ✔
(C) they
(D) him

24. Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank no. 4.
(A) selected
(B) dropped ✔
(C) picked
(D) filled

25. Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank no. 5.
(A) creeping
(B) covering
(C) crushing ✔
(D) crumbling