CHSL Mini Mock English (24 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.

While I was sitting there (1) _________ over my failure to keep from having to spend (2) _______ glistering summer months on the freaking Cote of Azur, Grandmere started (3) __________ me from the phone. She kept (4) _________ her fingers on the phone to catch my attention. I just sat there blinking at her until finally she put her hand over the receiver and (5) _______ (so that nobody listens), "Amelia! In my bedroom, there is something for you".

3.

• disconcerting

• upsetting

• dismissing

• beckoning

Question 2:

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

A good turn

• A helpful act

• A pleasant experience

• A lucky chance

• A great opportunity

Question 3:

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

Wise managers __________ opinions, get information, ask advice, act __________ and know the art of ____________ responsibilities to the subordinates.

• coerce, translucently, relegating

• solicit, transparently, delegating

• condemn, transnationally, elevating

• entrust, transiently, accelerating

Question 4:

Direction:- Select the option that expresses the given sentence in the Active/Passive voice.

Admittance was refused to him by the airport security.

• The airport security had refused him admittance.

• The airport security refused him admittance.

• The airport security has refused him admittance

• The airport security is refusing him admittance.

Question 5:

Select the sentence which does NOT have a spelling error.

• The art and science of designing buildings is called archtiecture.

• The art and science of designing buildings is called architecchure.

• The art and science of designing buildings is called architectrue.

• The art and science of designing buildings is called architecture.

Question 6:

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

Animal that can live both on land and in water

• vertebrate

• amphibian

• arboreal

• mammal

Question 7:

Direction:- Select the option that expresses the given sentence in the Active/Passive voice.

Admittance was refused to him by the airport security.

• The airport security had refused him admittance.

• The airport security has refused him admittance

• The airport security refused him admittance.

• The airport security is refusing him admittance.

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.

While I was sitting there (1) _________ over my failure to keep from having to spend (2) _______ glistering summer months on the freaking Cote of Azur, Grandmere started (3) __________ me from the phone. She kept (4) _________ her fingers on the phone to catch my attention. I just sat there blinking at her until finally she put her hand over the receiver and (5) _______ (so that nobody listens), "Amelia! In my bedroom, there is something for you".

5.

• commended

• hissed

• lauded

• cheered

Question 9:

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.

While I was sitting there (1) _________ over my failure to keep from having to spend (2) _______ glistering summer months on the freaking Cote of Azur, Grandmere started (3) __________ me from the phone. She kept (4) _________ her fingers on the phone to catch my attention. I just sat there blinking at her until finally she put her hand over the receiver and (5) _______ (so that nobody listens), "Amelia! In my bedroom, there is something for you".

3.

• disconcerting

• upsetting

• dismissing

• beckoning

Question 10:

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

We're asking them to ____________ the deadline.

• enlarge

• increase

• broaden

• extend