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.

3.

• every

• present

• last

• self

Question 2:

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.

• absent

• profuse

• callous

• ordinary

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

• being

• organism

• Stance

Question 4:

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

Unable to speak distinctly or express oneself clearly

• Inapt

• Inarch

• Inane

• Inarticulate

Question 5:

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

The study of population and its dynamics

• Dysgraphia

• Democracy

• Demography

• Dermatology

Question 6:

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

One who gives money or help to another person or cause

• Benefactor

• Amateur

• Anarchist

• Agnostic

Question 7:

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

At one's elbow

• Strong grip

• Far away

• Next to someone

• Strong bond

Question 8:

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

Blow up

• To stand upright

• To suffice

• To live up greatly

• To destroy by an explosion

Question 9:

Direction :- Select the most appropriate SYNONYM of the word given in Bold/Underline.

Dearth

• Leakage

• Weakness

• Shortage

• Death

Question 10:

Direction :- Select the most appropriate SYNONYM of the word given in Bold/Underline.

Encroach

• Forget

• Disregard

• Intrude

• Ignore