CPO Mini Mock English(21 June 2024)

Question 1:

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

Stoical  

• ruffled

• equivocal

• apathetic

• panicky

Question 2:

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

A list of the books referred to in a scholarly work

• bibliography

• calligraphy

• holography

• bibliophile

Question 3:

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

The Allies ____________ the war in 1945.

• were winning

• have won 

• win

• won

Question 4:

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

Walking on thin ice

• doing something risky

• performing a ballet

• slipping on ice

• walking carefully

Question 5:

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

I have nobody__________ I can confide in.

• which

• whom

• whose

• whoever

Question 6:

Direction :- Select the most appropriate option to substitute the underline/Bold segment in the given sentence. If there is no need to improve it, select 'no improvement required'.

Every year the family goes for a pilgrim to the temple at Tirupati.

• from the pilgrimage

• at the pilgrim

• No substitution required

• on a pilgrimage

Question 7:

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

To spend winter in a dormant state

• convalesce

• hibernate

• connote

• hoist

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.

Over the past year, Dr Hemmings has been conducting research on the big cat phenomenon and has already (1) ___________ the remains of some wild animals that may have been eaten by (2) __________ far larger than any of the country's known carnivores. The project has (3) ____________ an analysis of twenty skeletal animal remains (4). ___________ from across Gloucestershire and other nearby counties. The bones were selected because the (5). ___________ of their death led people to believe that these animals may have been killed by a big cat.

5.

• opportunities

• potential

• affairs

• circumstances

Question 9:

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

To spend winter in a dormant state

• hibernate

• connote

• hoist

• convalesce

Question 10:

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

Success is the ____________ of taking risks, everybody knows.

• by-product

• burden

• pressure

• tension