SSC CPO Tier 1 (09 June 2024)
Question 1:
Direction :-Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow.
Our civilization is more secure because it is much more widely spread. Most of the previous civilizations came to an end because uncivilized peoples broke in and destroyed them. This was the fate of Babylon, Assyria, India, China, Greece and Rome. Previous civilizations were specialized and limited like an oasis in a surrounding desert of savagery. Eventually, the desert closed in and the oasis was no more. But to-day, it is the oasis which is spreading over the desert. Practically no part of the world is untouched by it. For the first time, the world has now a chance of becoming a single whole, a unity. To-day, the food we eat comes from all over the world. The things in a grocer's shop are from the ends of the earth. There are oranges from Brazil, grapes from Africa, rice from India, tea from china, sugar from Columbia etc. To-day the world is beginning to look more like one enormous box. Therefore, there is little danger upon our civilization from outside. The danger comes only from within; it is a danger from among us.
To-day, the sharing-out of money the sharing-out of food, clothing, houses and books, is still very unfair. In England alone, in sharing out of the National Income, we find that one half is divided among every sixteen people and the seventeenth person gets the other half. So while some few people live in luxury, many have not even enough to eat and drink and wear. Again, in England to-day, thousands of people live in dreadful surroundings. There are many families of five or six persons who live in a single room; in this same room they are born and in this same room they die, because, they are too poor to afford another room. Until everyone gets his proper share of necessary and delightful things, our civilization will not be perfect.
What according to the writer was the desert that surrounded the oasis?
Question 2: 
Question 3:
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'.
His last trip around the world taking a toll on his health.
Question 4:
Direction :- Select the INCORRECTLY spelt word.
Question 5: 
Question 6:
Select the set in which the given numbers have the same relation as the numbers in the following set.
उस समुच्चय (सेट) का चयन करें, जिसमें दी गई संख्याओं के मध्य वैसा ही संबंध हो, जैसा संबंध निम्नलिखित समुच्चय की संख्याओं के मध्य है।
(6, 17, 612)
Question 7:
In a circle with centre O, PQR is a tangent to it at point Q. AB is a chord of the circle parallel to the tangent such that ∠BQR = 70°. Find the value of ∠AQB.
केंद्र O वाले एक वृत्त में, PQR इस पर स्थित बिंदु Q पर एक स्पर्श रेखा है। AB वृत्त में एक जीवा है जो स्पर्श रेखा से इस प्रकार समानांतर है कि ∠BQR = 70° है । ∠AQB का मान ज्ञात करें ।
Question 8:
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'.
His last trip around the world taking a toll on his health.
Question 9:
Q, R, S, T, U, V, W and X are seated around a square table facing the centre. Some of them are seated at the corners of the table while some are seated exactly in the middle of the sides. X is seated second to the left of W. W is seated at one of the corners. V is the immediate neighbour of U and T . R is seated third to the left of T. U is not seated at any of the corners. Neither X nor U is the neighbour of S, and Q is sitting immediate left of R .How many persons are seated between S and V when counted from the left of S?
Q, R, S, T, U, V, W और X एक वर्गाकार मेज के चारों ओर केंद्र की ओर मुख करके बैठे हैं। उनमें से कुछ मेज के कोनों पर बैठे है। जबकि कुछ भुजाओं के ठीक मध्य में बैठे हैं। X, W के बाईं ओर से दूसरे स्थान पर बैठा है। W किसी एक कोने में बैठा है। T और U का निकटतम पड़ोसी V है। R, T के बाई ओर से तीसरे स्थान पर बैठा है। U किसी भी एक कोने में नहीं बैठा है। U न तो X और न ही S का पड़ोसी है तथा Q , R के तुरंत बाएं बैठा है । S के बाईं ओर से गिनने पर S और V के बीच में कितने व्यक्ति बैठे है?
Question 10: 
