SSC CPO Tier 1 (09 June 2024)
Question 1:
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.
The soft layer of the earth's (1) _________ on which plants grow is referred to as soil. Soil includes a huge amount of both organic and inorganic (2) ___________. In the soil, the organic components known as humus are formed from (3) __________plant and animal remnants. These are combined with weathered particles of various rocks to form soil. Weathering occurs as a result of different chemical and physical (4) __________ that occur on the earth's surface. Soil formation is a (5) _________ process in general. For example, the creation of a 2.5 cm thick soil layer might take more than 1000 years.
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Question 2:
The first president of the All India Trade Union Congress was _______.
अखिल भारतीय ट्रेड यूनियन कांग्रेस के पहले अध्यक्ष _______थे।
Question 3:
Sisters Lalita and Nandini are known for playing which musical instrument?
ललिता और नंदिनी बहनें किस वाद्य यंत्र को बजाने के लिए जानी जाती हैं?
Question 4:
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?
Question 5:
Which activity marks the celebration of Uttarayan festival in Gujarat?
कौन सी गतिविधि गुजरात में उत्तरायण त्योहार के उत्सव का प्रतीक है?
Question 6:
Four letter-groups are given, out of which three are alike in some way and one is incoherent. Select the letter-cluster which is odd with the others.
चार अक्षर-समूह दिए गए हैं, जिनमें से तीन किसी तरह से संगत हैं और एक असंगत है। उस अक्षर-समूह का चयन करें, जो अन्य से असंगत है।
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Question 9:
Direction :- Select the most appropriate meaning of the idiom given in Bold/Underline in the following Questions
He is foaming at the mouth about the committee's decision.
Question 10:
Four words have been given, out of which three are alike in some way, while one is different. Choose the odd one out.
चार शब्द दिए गए हैं, जिनमें से तीन किसी तरह से समान हैं, जबकि एक असंगत है । असंगत का चयन करें।