CHSL Mini Mock English (20 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.

Novelists when they write novels tend to take an almost god-like attitude (1) _______ their subject, pretending to a total comprehension of the story, a man's life, (2) ________ they can therefore recount as God Himself might, nothing standing between them and the naked truth, the entire story meaningful in (3) ________ _detail. I am as little able to do this as the novelist is, even though my story is more important to me than any novelist's is to him for this is my story; it is the story of a man, not of an invented, or possible, or idealised or otherwise (4) _________ figure, but of a unique (5) _______of flesh and blood.

4.

• callous

• profuse

• absent

• ordinary

Question 2:

Direction :- The following sentence has been divided into parts. One of them contains an error. Select the part that contains the error from the given options.

Going to the weekly market / in every Tuesday / is a ritual that has been followed / by generations in my family.

• is a ritual that has been followed

• in every Tuesday

• by generations in my family

• Going to the weekly market

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.

Novelists when they write novels tend to take an almost god-like attitude (1) _______ their subject, pretending to a total comprehension of the story, a man's life, (2) ________ they can therefore recount as God Himself might, nothing standing between them and the naked truth, the entire story meaningful in (3) ________ _detail. I am as little able to do this as the novelist is, even though my story is more important to me than any novelist's is to him for this is my story; it is the story of a man, not of an invented, or possible, or idealised or otherwise (4) _________ figure, but of a unique (5) _______of flesh and blood.

5.

• cripple

• organism

• Stance

• being

Question 4:

Direction :- The following sentence has been divided into parts that contains an error. Select the part that contains the error from the given options.

Investing on real estate / can earn you quick profit / but it comes with / a certain amount of risk attached to it.

• a certain amount of risk attached to it

• but it comes with

• Investing on real estate

• can earn you quick profit

Question 5:

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

At one's elbow

• Next to someone

• Strong bond

• Far away

• Strong grip

Question 6:

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.

Novelists when they write novels tend to take an almost god-like attitude (1) _______ their subject, pretending to a total comprehension of the story, a man's life, (2) ________ they can therefore recount as God Himself might, nothing standing between them and the naked truth, the entire story meaningful in (3) ________ _detail. I am as little able to do this as the novelist is, even though my story is more important to me than any novelist's is to him for this is my story; it is the story of a man, not of an invented, or possible, or idealised or otherwise (4) _________ figure, but of a unique (5) _______of flesh and blood.

2.

• who

• whose

• which

• whom

Question 7:

Direction :- Select the INCORRECTLY spelt word.

• Boisterous

• Brusque

• Blizard

• Blonde

Question 8:

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.

Novelists when they write novels tend to take an almost god-like attitude (1) _______ their subject, pretending to a total comprehension of the story, a man's life, (2) ________ they can therefore recount as God Himself might, nothing standing between them and the naked truth, the entire story meaningful in (3) ________ _detail. I am as little able to do this as the novelist is, even though my story is more important to me than any novelist's is to him for this is my story; it is the story of a man, not of an invented, or possible, or idealised or otherwise (4) _________ figure, but of a unique (5) _______of flesh and blood.

1.

• towards

• through

• despite

• under

Question 9:

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

My family is my priority but there were times when I had to __________ because of work pressures.

• sit in

• look into

• pull away

• put off

Question 10:

Direction :- The following sentence has been divided into parts. One of them contains an error. Select the part that contains the error from the given options.

Going to the weekly market / in every Tuesday / is a ritual that has been followed / by generations in my family.

• Going to the weekly market

• by generations in my family

• is a ritual that has been followed

• in every Tuesday