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.

Which important feature of modern life troubles the writer most? 

  • Older civilizations do not exist anymore. 

  • There is inequality in the distribution of things. 

  • People do not care for their fellow beings.

  • Civilizations have become dependent.

Question 2:

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? 

  • Civilization 

  • The poorer people 

  • Savagery 

  • Some rich countries 

Question 3:

Direction :-Read the following passages 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.

Which of the following statements is NOT true according to the facts given in the passage. 

  • Goods are transported from far-off places. 

  • Most people share their money equally. 

  • Some ancient civilizations have been destroyed.

  • Some people do not have adequate space to live. 

Question 4:

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

Plants of a particular region

  • Flinch

  • Fauna

  • Flora

  • Flotsam 

Question 5:

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

A shortened version of a larger work

  • Shorts 

  • Summary 

  • Abridgement 

  • Précis 

Question 6:

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

She lived in well-resourced surroundings. 

  • No substitute 

  • luxuriousness 

  • luxurious 

  • luxury 

Question 7:

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

Formal forgiveness of a person's sins 

  • Ablutions 

  • Absolution 

  • Absolutism 

  • Forgiveness 

Question 8:

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

A perfectionist 

  • Ambidextrous 

  • Optimist 

  • Omniscient 

  • Meticulous 

Question 9:

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

Fail to notice; ignore; condone (an offence etc.) 

  • Overlook 

  • Overlie 

  • Overly 

  • Overlong 

Question 10:

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

A room where dead bodies are kept until burial 

  • Mortuary 

  • Safari 

  • Sanatorium 

  • Museum 

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