CHSL Mini Mock English (01 June 2024)

Question 1:

Direction :- In the following passage, some words have been deleted. Read the passage carefully and select the most appropriate option to fill in each blank.

Many of the major supermarket chains have come under fire with accusations of (1) _________ unethical acts over the past decade. They've wasted tonnes of food, they've underpaid their suppliers and they've contributed to excessive plastic waste in their packaging, which has had its impact on our environment. But supermarkets and grocers are (2) ____________ to sit up and take notice. In response to (3) ______________ consumer backlash against the huge amounts of plastic waste generated by plastic packaging, some of the largest UK supermarkets have (4) __________ up a pact promising to transform packaging and cut plastic wastage. In a pledge to reuse, recycle or compost all plastic wastage by 2025, supermarkets are now beginning to take (5) ____________ responsibility for the part they play in contributing to the damage to our environment, with one major supermarket announcing their plan to eliminate all plastic packaging in their own-brand products by 2023.

4.

• bought

• settled

• signed

• resigned

Question 2:

Direction:- Select the most appropriate SYNONYM of the given word.

Salubrious

• Beneficial

• Vicarious

• Septic

• Insidious

Question 3:

Direction :- In the following passage, some words have been deleted. Read the passage carefully and select the most appropriate option to fill in each blank.

Many of the major supermarket chains have come under fire with accusations of (1) _________ unethical acts over the past decade. They've wasted tonnes of food, they've underpaid their suppliers and they've contributed to excessive plastic waste in their packaging, which has had its impact on our environment. But supermarkets and grocers are (2) ____________ to sit up and take notice. In response to (3) ______________ consumer backlash against the huge amounts of plastic waste generated by plastic packaging, some of the largest UK supermarkets have (4) __________ up a pact promising to transform packaging and cut plastic wastage. In a pledge to reuse, recycle or compost all plastic wastage by 2025, supermarkets are now beginning to take (5) ____________ responsibility for the part they play in contributing to the damage to our environment, with one major supermarket announcing their plan to eliminate all plastic packaging in their own-brand products by 2023.

1.

• much

• same

• most

• various

Question 4:

Direction :- In the following passage, some words have been deleted. Read the passage carefully and select the most appropriate option to fill in each blank.

Many of the major supermarket chains have come under fire with accusations of (1) _________ unethical acts over the past decade. They've wasted tonnes of food, they've underpaid their suppliers and they've contributed to excessive plastic waste in their packaging, which has had its impact on our environment. But supermarkets and grocers are (2) ____________ to sit up and take notice. In response to (3) ______________ consumer backlash against the huge amounts of plastic waste generated by plastic packaging, some of the largest UK supermarkets have (4) __________ up a pact promising to transform packaging and cut plastic wastage. In a pledge to reuse, recycle or compost all plastic wastage by 2025, supermarkets are now beginning to take (5) ____________ responsibility for the part they play in contributing to the damage to our environment, with one major supermarket announcing their plan to eliminate all plastic packaging in their own-brand products by 2023.

4.

• signed

• resigned

• bought

• settled

Question 5:

Direction :-Select the option that can be used as a one-word substitute for the given group of words,

The action of examining with care or reading carefully

• Perusal

• Persiflage

• Persuade

• Perverse

Question 6:

Direction :- Select the most appropriate meaning of the idiom given in Bold/Underline in the following Questions

A snake in the grass 

• A deceitful person

• A talkative person

• A timid person

• A wealthy personsol

Question 7:

Direction:- Select the most appropriate option to substitute the underline/Bold segment in the given sentence. If there is no need to improve it, select 'no improvement required'.

Vishnu and family are looking around into the possibility of moving to Canada.

• are looking into

• are looking upto

• look into

• are looking around to

Question 8:

Direction:- Select the most appropriate SYNONYM of the given word.

Austere

• Stern

• Brisk

• Promising

• Mitigating

Question 9:

Direction :- Select the correct indirect/direct form of the given sentence.

Priya assured me, "I can stay in tonight." 

• Priya told me that she could stay in tonight.

• Priya told me that she could stay in this night.

• Priya told me that she could stay in that night.

• Priya told me that she can stay in that night.

Question 10:

Direction :- Sentences of a paragraph are given below in jumbled order. Arrange the sentences in the correct order to form a meaningful and coherent paragraph.

A. To work as a journeyman he needed to have had the seven years of apprenticeship under his belt.

B. Under advice from his well-wishers at the University, Watt proceeded to London to learn his trade.

C. Watt made acquaintances with folks at the University of Glasgow.

D. In London, he found out that as an apprentice he had to spend seven years learning the trade.

• CBDA

• DABC

• BCDA

• ABCD