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.
'This' in the third sentence refers to
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Question 4:
Choose the correct option based on the given statements related to the Great Bath of Harappan Civilization.
हड़प्पा सभ्यता के विशाल स्नानागार से संबंधित दिए गए कथनों के आधार पर सही विकल्प का चयन कीजिए ।
Statement: The Great Bath was found at Mohenjodaro site of Harappan Civilization.
कथन : विशाल स्नानागार हड़प्पा सभ्यता के मोहनजोदड़ो स्थल में पाया गया था।
Statement II: The Great Bath was built by placing bricks in a certain order, coated with plaster and made water-proof by a layer of natural resin.
कथन II : विशाल स्नानागार को ईंटों को एक निश्चित क्रम में रखते हुए बनाया गया था, प्लास्टर से लेपित किया गया था और उसे प्राकृतिक राल की एक परत से जल-रोधी बनाया गया था।
Question 5:
With which of the following Government of India Acts did the Montagu-Chelmsford Reforms introduce Dyarchy in the provinces?
निम्नलिखित में से भारत सरकार के किस अधिनियम के साथ मांटेग्यू-चेम्सफोर्ड सुधारों ने प्रांतों में द्वैध शासन की शुरुआत की थी?
Question 6:
Direction :- Select the most appropriate ANTONYM of the word given in Bold/Underline .
The number of tests conducted dropped further on Saturday with a total of 67,624 tests of which 20% were the less precise rapid antigen tests.
Question 7:
Direction :- Select the most appropriate meaning of the idiom given in Bold/Underline in the following Questions
At loggerheads
Question 8:
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.
'This' in the third sentence refers to
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Question 10:
Who among the following became the first Indian to be invited to perform at the prestigious Lincoln Center Hall in the United States?
निम्नलिखित में से कौन संयुक्त राज्य अमेरिका के प्रतिष्ठित लिंकन सेंटर हॉल में प्रदर्शन के लिए आमंत्रित होने वाले पहले भारतीय बने?