SSCCGL Tier 1 English Comprehension Questions and Answers Online Test 10

1 . DIRECTIONS (Q.No.1-5)In the following questions four alternatives are given for the idiom/phrase italicised and underlined in the sentence choose the alternative which best expresses the meaning of idiom phiase.
Don't thrust your noseinto my affairs.

A. Advise me about

B. Be in opposition

C. Deal with

D. Meddle officiously in

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2 .He visits the doctor off and on.

A. everyday

B. regularly

C. never at all

D. occasionally

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3 .I cannot get along with a man who plays fast and loose

A. behaves in an unreliable and insincere way

B. has a loose tongue

C. lives a life of ease and luxury

D. does not know how to behave himself

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4 .There is no love lost between two neighbours

A. close friendship

B. cool indifference

C. intense dislike

D. a love hate relationship

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5 .Why do you wish to tread on the toes?

A. To give offence to them

B. To follow them grudgingly

C. To treat them indifferently

D. To be kicked by them

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6 .DIRECTIONS (Qs. 6-10) : In this section you have five short passages. Each is followed by questions based on the passage. First, read the passage and answer the questions based on the passage. You are required to select your answers from the given options.
PASSAGE
The heat-wave deepened during the following few days while Jack and I lazed about in the house and yards, wearing ragged shirts and discarded garments, because the more presentable ones were being packed by Mother. She was obviously not strong enough to cycle downto Hemisphere, where Father and Jack had been one week-end, to see and rent a cottage in Ropley, near Alresford. From this prospective journey Jack had returned with half a dozen photographs taken with a plate-camera which he had made for himself, the aperture being a pinhole. This was only one of his many ingenious artefacts. I had studied the pictures, which included a church that leaned backwards, in the hope of finding the perpetually teasing certainty which we look for when about to take some adventurous step into the unknown. But Ropley remained unreal
During the hot summer days the author and Jack

A. were taking adventurous steps into the unknown

B. went visiting several churches in Ropley

C. were busy repairing a camera

D. were passing their time idleness