CHSL Mini Mock English (20 June 2024)

Question 1:

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

At one's elbow

• Strong grip

• Strong bond

• Far away

• Next to someone

Question 2:

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

Despicable

• Commendable

• Desirable

• Laudable

• Contemptible

Question 3:

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

• Inarch

• Inapt

• Inane

• Inarticulate

Question 4:

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 5:

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

The government enterprises were privatized as they were __________ heavy losses on a daily basis.

• demanding

• incurring

• earning

• containing

Question 6:

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

Judicious

• Modest

• Reserved

• Foolish

• Authoritative

Question 7:

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.

• Investing on real estate

• can earn you quick profit

• a certain amount of risk attached to it

• but it comes with

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.

3.

• self

• present

• every

• last

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

• pull away

• look into

• put off

Question 10:

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

• absent

• ordinary

• profuse