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English Quiz

Dear PaGaLGuY readers, English Comprehension and English Language skills form an integral part of a number of competitive examinations, such as the SSC CGL, SSC CHSL exams, Banking Entrance exams, UPSC Civil Services Preliminary Examination, MBA entrance exams, Combined Defence Services Examination, etc. Given the importance of this section, we bring you this English Language Quiz to help you practise and improve.

This quiz has questions from actual SSC examinations held during the last few years. Solve this quiz and leave your responses/ answers in the comments section below. We will soon let you know the correct answers!

In the following passage, some of the words have been left out. Read the passage carefully and fill in each of the blanks by using the correct answer to each question from among the four given alternatives.

One fine morning, a ___1__ man knocked at the doors of the home for the aged run by nuns. He told the nun in-charge that as he had been __2__ to Delhi, he wanted to leave his servant-maid in the __3__ of the nuns. He assured the nun of sending some money every month __4___ she was an orphan. The nun ___5__ her saying that she had got an excellent master.

1. (a) nice                    (b) good                   (c) gentle                  (d) bad 

2. (a) changed           (b) transferred         (c) moved                 (d) shifted

3. (a) custody            (b) protection           (c) comfort                (d) home

4. (a) though              (b)if                           (c) because              (d) and

5. (a) consoled          (b) condoled             (c) loved                   (d) praised

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