CPO Mini Mock English (07 June 2024)

Question 1:

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

To hit below the belt

• To attack in an unfair manner

• To hit off the mark

• To attack after warning

• To hit someone boldly

Question 2:

Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow.

The giraffe is the tallest land mammal alive, its long legs and neck contributing to its impressive stature. Males can be up to 18ft. (5.5m tall), females a little less.

In the wild, these beautiful creatures stretch their necks beyond those of antelope, kudu and even elephants to strip leaves from the untouched upper reaches of trees.

The french zoologist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck is usually credited as the first person to suggest that long necks have evolved in giraffes because they allow them to get to the parts other herbivores cannot reach. As the giraffe lives "in places where the soil is nearly always arid and barren. It is obliged to browse on the leaves of trees and to make constant efforts to reach them', he wrote in his 1809 book 'Philosophie Zoologique'. " From this habit long maintained in all its race, and that its neck is lengthened". The English naturalist Charles Darwin also thought the giraffe's extraordinary legs and neck must have something to do with foraging. "The giraffe, by its lofty stature, much elongated neck, fore-legs, head and tongue, has its whole frame beautifully adapted for browsing on the higher branches of trees", he wrote in 'On the origin of species' in 1859.

In short, giraffes' long necks are the result of generation upon generation of repeated stretching and inheritance. During the dry season when feeding competition should be most intense giraffes generally feed from low shrubs, not tall trees. What's more, giraffes feed most often and faster with their necks bent.Male giraffes often fight for access to females, a ritual referred to as "necking". The rivals stand flank to flank, then start to whack each other with their heads. The top or back of the well-armoured skull is used as a club to strike the neck, chest, ribs or legs of the opponent with a force capable of knocking a competitor off balance or unconscious. The largest males usually win these battles and do most of the breeding, says zoologist Anne Innis Dagg of the university of waterloo in Ontario, Canada, who has been studying giraffes since the 1950s. "The other giraffes don't get much breeding opportunity".There is also evidence that females are more receptive to advances from larger males.

How does a giraffe knock its opponent off balance or unconscious?

• By pulling the legs of the opponent

• By entangling its neck in the opponent's neck

• By using its head as a club and hitting the opponent

• By biting the opponent's neck, chest and ribs

Question 3:

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

To hit below the belt

• To attack in an unfair manner

• To attack after warning

• To hit someone boldly

• To hit off the mark

Question 4:

Direction :- Select the INCORRECTLY spelt word.

• Intend

• Disrupt

• Allready

• Patient

Question 5:

Which word in the given sentence is the ANTONYM of exonerate?

It was difficult to convict him of the falsity of his beliefs.

• convict

• beliefs

• difficult

• falsity

Question 6:

Direction :- Select the INCORRECTLY spelt word.

• prospect

• ambulence

• preamble

• chronic

Question 7:

Select the sentence with the appropriate use of preposition. 

• They rise with the morning lark and labour utmost almost dark.

• They rise with the morning lark and labour till almost dark.

• They rise with the morning lark and labour by almost dark.

• They rise with the morning lark and labour still almost dark.

Question 8:

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

Vanish

• Depart

• Disappear

• Conquer

• Emerge

Question 9:

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

This year, orange prices are forecast to grow, despite an expected increase in global _________.

• abduction

• assumption

• production

• organisation

Question 10:

Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow.

The giraffe is the tallest land mammal alive, its long legs and neck contributing to its impressive stature. Males can be up to 18ft. (5.5m tall), females a little less.

In the wild, these beautiful creatures stretch their necks beyond those of antelope, kudu and even elephants to strip leaves from the untouched upper reaches of trees.

The french zoologist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck is usually credited as the first person to suggest that long necks have evolved in giraffes because they allow them to get to the parts other herbivores cannot reach. As the giraffe lives "in places where the soil is nearly always arid and barren. It is obliged to browse on the leaves of trees and to make constant efforts to reach them', he wrote in his 1809 book 'Philosophie Zoologique'. " From this habit long maintained in all its race, and that its neck is lengthened". The English naturalist Charles Darwin also thought the giraffe's extraordinary legs and neck must have something to do with foraging. "The giraffe, by its lofty stature, much elongated neck, fore-legs, head and tongue, has its whole frame beautifully adapted for browsing on the higher branches of trees", he wrote in 'On the origin of species' in 1859.

In short, giraffes' long necks are the result of generation upon generation of repeated stretching and inheritance. During the dry season when feeding competition should be most intense giraffes generally feed from low shrubs, not tall trees. What's more, giraffes feed most often and faster with their necks bent.Male giraffes often fight for access to females, a ritual referred to as "necking". The rivals stand flank to flank, then start to whack each other with their heads. The top or back of the well-armoured skull is used as a club to strike the neck, chest, ribs or legs of the opponent with a force capable of knocking a competitor off balance or unconscious. The largest males usually win these battles and do most of the breeding, says zoologist Anne Innis Dagg of the university of waterloo in Ontario, Canada, who has been studying giraffes since the 1950s. "The other giraffes don't get much breeding opportunity".There is also evidence that females are more receptive to advances from larger males.

Which statement is NOT true according to the passage?

• The giraffe can eat leaves from the upper reaches of a tree where other animals cannot reach.

• The largest male giraffe usually wins the battles and does most of the breeding.

• A giraffe's hind-legs are longer than its fore-legs and help it to bend.

• Giraffe's long necks are the result of repeated stretching over the years.