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help you practise and improve your verbal ability, we provide you this English
Quiz.
Given below are a few questions from SSC examinations held in
the last few years. Leave your answers/ responses in the comments section below
and soon we’ll let you know the correct answers!
Directions (Q. Nos. 1-5) In the questions given below,
read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of
the four alternatives
A man may usually be known by the books he reads as well
as by the company he keeps, for there is a companionship of books as well as of
men and one should always live in the best company whether it be of books or of
men. A good book may be among the best of friends. It is the same today that it
always was and it will never change. It is the most patient and cheerful of companions. It does not turn its back upon us in
times of adversity or distress. It always receives us with the same kindness,
arousing and interesting us in youth comforting and consoling us in age.
1. The statement ‘A good book may be among the
best of friends’ means
(a) our friends read
the same good books
(b) a good book is the
worst enemy
(c) books may be good friends, but not better
than good men
(d) a good book can be
included among the best friends of mankind
2. According to the
passage,” A man may be known by the books he reads”, because
(a) his selection of
books generally reveals his temperament and character
(b) his reading habit
shows that he is a scholar
(c) the books he reads
affects his thinking and character
(d) books provide him a
lot of information
3. Which of the following statements is not
true?
(a) A good book serves
as a permanent friend.
(b) Good books and good
men provide good company.
(c) A good book never betrays us.
(d) Sometimes we may
have to be patient with a book as it may bore us.
4. Which one of the following would be the most
suitable title for the passage?
(a) Importance of books
in old age
(b) Books show the
reader’s character
(c) Books are man’s
abiding friends
(d) Books are useful
for our youth
5. A book is a ……….
(a) burden (b) adversary (c) critic (d) companion
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Answers
1(d) 2(a) 3(d) 4(c)
5(d)