SSC CHSL Tier 1 (16 June 2024)

The correct answer is fresh.

• Stale means (of food) no longer fresh and pleasant to eat; hard, musty, or dry.

• The word that is an antonym of this is Fresh: (of food) recently made or obtained; not tinned, frozen, or otherwise preserved.

The correct answer is Plentiful

• The word meagre means lacking in quantity.

• The word plentiful which means existing in large quantities.

Thus, 'Plentiful' is the antonym of 'meagre'

• 'lives' should be there in place of 'live'

•If the subject is joined by 'as well as', 'with', 'together with', 'and not', 'in addition to', 'but', 'besides', 'except', 'rather than', 'accompanied by', 'like', 'unlike', 'no less than', 'nothing but', the verb will agree with the first subject.

• Here the first subject is 'The man' which is singular, so 'singular verb' should be used here.

Thus, the correct sentence is: The man with all the birds lives on my street.

The correct answer is option 2.

'Better' is the comparative degree of adjective and is used while comparing two things. Here, we will use the basic degree of the adjective as it is a general statement. So, we should use 'good' instead of 'better'.

• The correct answer is option 4.

• The use of phrase of 'good deal of in the given sentence is wrong.

• The correct phrase to be used in the given sentence is 'a good deal of' which means 'a large amount or quantity of something'.

• The given sentence is talking about spending of money.

• Therefore, the phrase 'a good deal of' fits in the context of the given sentence, hence, it will be used here.

The correct answer is option 2.

• While changing a sentence from direct form to indirect form 'said' is changed to 'asked'.

• 'Whether/if' is used to join reporting speech and reported speech.

• 'First-person' in the reported speech is changed according to the 'subject' in the reported speech.

• 'Today' is changed into 'that day'.

• Out of the given options, all these rules are followed only in option 2.

• Therefore, the correct sentence is 'Anshul asked if they should go to the zoo that day.'

The correct answer is A movie was being watched by us in this Cineplex yesterday.

•The given sentence is in an active voice form, hence we need to convert it into a passive voice form.

• We need to follow these instructions while changing the voice of an assertive sentence.

• Find the subject (We) and object (a movie) of the sentence and exchange their places.

• Use preposition by before agent/new object (us). (we changes into us)

• The given sentence is in the past continuous tense.

• The passive form for past continuous tense is:

was/were + being + past participle form of the verb.

• Since the new subject 'movie' is singular, the auxiliary verb will also be singular.

• So, 'were watching' changes to 'was being watched'.

• At last line up the remaining part.

• Following these steps, we finally get- A movie was being watched by us in this Cineplex yesterday.

The correct answer is completely.

• Lock, stock, and the barrel is a figure of speech used predominantly in the United Kingdom and North America, meaning all, total, everything.

• The effective portions of a gun (or more specifically a  musket) are the lock (used to hold ready the sparking mechanism), the stock (the portion held), and the barrel (the aiming guide and conveyor for the explosive-driven projectile). Collectively they are the whole weapon, and therefore everything.

• Example of use: Much to his wife's surprise, he cleaned out the basement, lock, stock, and barrel.

The correct answer is pay for everything

• Foot the bill means to pay the bill for something, typically when the amount is considered large or unreasonable.

• It is clear that option 3 is most appropriate because it is mentioned that Raju was shocked which is obviously because he had to pay for all his friends.

• So, options 1, 2 and 4 are incorrect.

The correct answer is option 2) i.e language

• The passage refers to a brief discussion on poetry and how it is perceived by humans.

• Let's see the meaning of the words given in the options:

• literature means the subject which deals with the literary creations of different poets, writers, etc.

• language refers to the common addressing tone of the art of poetry

• combination means the mixture of several important things which is not appropriate to the context of the sentence.

• flow means some process that is ongoing and continuous in this case, it highlights the subject of poetry.

•  It explains the emotional connection that a reader feels while reading poetry or the social diaspora that poetry offers to mankind.

• The construction after adding the word to the first blank is supposed to be: Poetry is the (1) language