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.

2.

• start

• being starting

• starting

• being start

Question 2:

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'.

I was forbidden to take any drink.  

• prohibited from snubbing

• prohibited from receiving

• prohibited from rejecting

• prohibited from rebuffing

Question 3:

Direction :- Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank.

This part of the sea ________with sharks.

• expands

• suffices

• crowds

• teems

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.

5.

• every

• little

• any

• some

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

• Persuade

• Perusal

• Perverse

• Persiflage

Question 6:

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.

• ABCD

• CBDA

• DABC

• BCDA

Question 7:

The following sentence has been divided into parts, which contains an error. Select the part that contains the error from the given options.

Amphan, the more severe cyclone in the Bay of Bengal Since the super cyclone of 1999, made landfall in the afternoon on Wednesday.

• the more severe cyclone

• since the super cyclone

• made landfall

• in the afternoon

Question 8:

The following sentence has been divided into parts, which contains an error. Select the part that contains the error from the given options.

A probe has been ordered by the incident that occurred at the celebrations.

• by the incident

• that occurred at the celebrations

• A probe has been ordered

• No error

Question 9:

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

• Persuade

• Perusal

• Persiflage

• Perverse

Question 10:

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 that night.

• Priya told me that she could stay in tonight.

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

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