Reading Comprehension for SSC CHSL 2017

Directions (1-10): In the following passages, some of the words have been left out. First read the passage over and try to understand what it is about. Then fill in the blanks with the help of the alternatives given. Mark your answer in the Answer-Sheet.

Science (1) the average man and woman in two ways already.  He or she benefits by its (2), driving in a motor-car or omnibus instead of a horse-drawn (3), being treated for disease by a doctor or surgeon rather than a priest or a (4), being (5) with an automatic pistol or a shell in (6) of a dagger or battle-axe. It also affects his or her opinions. Almost everyone believes that the earth is (7) and the heavens, nearly (8), instead of solid. And we are beginning to believe in our animal (9) and the possibility of vast improvements in (10) nature by biological methods.

Q1.
(a) Effects
(b) Affects
(c) Helps
(d) Alienates

Q2.
(a) Implication
(b) Applications
(c) Use
(d) Admission

Q3.
(a) Automobile
(b) Carom
(c) Vehicle
(d) Cart

Q4.
(a) Quack
(b) Magician
(c) Swindler
(d) Witch

Q5.
(a) Hacked
(b) Killed
(c) Murdered
(d) Gagged

Q6.
(a) Lieu
(b) Spite
(c) Place
(d) Want

Q7.
(a) Flat
(b) Oval
(c) Opaque
(d) Round

Q8.
(a) Hollow
(b) Empty
(c) Vacant
(d) Fallow

Q9.
(a) Ancestry
(b) Progeny
(c) Lineage
(d) Association

Q10.
(a) Humane
(b) Human
(c) Animal
(d) Basic

Directions (11-15): In the following passages, some of the words have been left out. First read the passage over and try to understand what it is about. Then fill in the blanks with the help of the alternatives given. Mark your answer in the Answer-Sheet.

Jawaharlal Nehru was probably the first important public leader to realise that if India were to (11) its problems, it would have to (12) the age of science. The Government of free India was one of the first in the world to set up a department of science and technology. The (13) the Government has attached to science is also clear (14) the fact that the portfolio of science and technology has always been (15) by the Prime Minister himself.

Q11.
(a) Usher
(b) Work
(c) Solve
(d) Face

Q12.
(a) Enter
(b) Come
(c) Continue
(d) Direct

Q13.
(a) Depth
(b) Weight
(c) Budget
(d) Importance

Q14.
(a) For
(b) When
(c) Above
(d) From

Q15.
(a) Offered
(b) Held
(c) Charged
(d) Appointed

Solutions :

S1. Ans.(b) 
Sol. Affects fits in the context of the sentence correctly. ‘Alienates’ and ‘effects’ does not fit in the context. ‘effects’ is a Noun. But we need verb. Hence ‘Affects’ is correct word.

S2. Ans.(b) 
Sol. Applications- fits in the context of the sentence correctly.

S3. Ans.(c) 
Sol. Vehicle- fits in the context of the sentence correctly.

S4. Ans.(d) 
Sol. Witch-a woman thought to have evil magic powers, popularly depicted as wearing a black cloak and pointed hat, and flying on a broomstick.

S5. Ans.(b) 
Sol. Killed- fits in the context of the sentence correctly.

S6. Ans.(c) 
Sol. Place fits in the context of the sentence correctly.

S7. Ans.(d) 
Sol. Round fits in the context of the sentence correctly.

S8. Ans.(b) 
Sol. Empty- fits in the context of the sentence correctly.

S9. Ans.(a) 
Sol. Ancestry-one's family or ethnic descent.

S10. Ans.(b) 
Sol.  Human- fits in the context of the sentence correctly.

S11. Ans.(c) 
Sol.  Solve- fits in the context of the sentence correctly.

S12. Ans.(a) 
Sol.  Enter- fits in the context of the sentence correctly.

S13. Ans.(d) 
Sol.  Importance- fits in the context of the sentence correctly.

S14. Ans.(d) 
Sol.  From -fits in the context of the sentence correctly.

S15. Ans.(b) 
Sol.  Held- fits in the context of the sentence correctly.

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