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All TCS Questions Till October 2022

ERROR DETECTION
Identify the segment that contains a grammatical 6. Solar storms can / impact Earth-dwellers / in

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error. significantly ways.
1. Contented people seldom complaint against their MTS 06/07/2022 S1

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fate. (a) Solar storms can

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(b) impact Earth-dwellers

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(a) Contented people (b) their fate

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(c) seldom complaint (d) against

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2. At one time birds and animals lived peaceful
7. He had begun to dig / diligent along the / low
together.

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tideline and had / captured two clams.
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(a) At one time

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(a) captured two clams
(b) birds and animals lived
(b) low tideline and had
(c) No error
(c) diligent along the
(d) peaceful together
3. My new work is challenging and interesting. (d) He had begun to dig
8. In spite of hardly work / she was not able / to

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pass the exam.
(a) My new work is most challenging and
interesting. MTS 08/07/2022 S2

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(b) My new work is more challenging and more
interesting.
(c) My new work is challenge and interesting.
(d) My new work is most challenging and most
(a) In spite of hardly work
(b) No error
(c) to pass the exam

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(d) she was not able
interesting
9. The jute plant is usual harvested when it is at

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4. When you are under significant stress, it is hardly the flowering stage.
to process details and nuances.
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(a) when it is
(a) significant stress, it is hardly
(b) is usual harvested
(b) to process details and nuances
(c) at the flowering stage
(c) When you are under
(d) The jute plant
(d) No error
10. Residents should keep an / eye out for strangers
5. In many places, restoring mangrove forests can
be an extreme effective strategy. / acting suspecting in their areas

MTS 05/07/2022 S2 MTS 12/07/2022 S2

(a) forests can be an (a) eye out for strangers
(b) No error (b) No error
(c) In many places, restoring mangrove (c) Residents should keep an
(d) extreme effective strategy (d) acting suspecting in their areas

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11. You have to constant consider how your personal 18. The mother loving looked / at her baby / as the
behaviour is going to impact everyone around nurse / brought her in.
you. SSC CHSL 06/06/2022 S1
MTS 13/07/2022 S2 (a) The mother loving looked
(a) You have to constant consider (b) brought her in
(b) No error (c) at her baby
(c) to impact everyone around you (d) as the nurse
(d) how your personal behaviour is going 19. The careful crafted personality / of Anahita / did
not help her much / in the electoral campaign.
12. How the students approach / education today
has / altered significant. SSC CHSL 08/06/2022 S3
(a) did not help her much
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(b) The careful crafted personality
(a) altered significant
(c) of Anahita
(b) education today has

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(d) in the electoral campaign
(c) No error
20. The students / and the teachers / worked hardly

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(d) How the students approach / to make the event a success.

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13. Kangaroo leather is used to make items / that SSC CHSL 09/06/2022 S2
must be strong and flexible hence it is most /

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(a) and their teachers
common used in bullwhips.

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(b) worked hardly
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(c) The students
(a) Kangaroo leather is used to make items

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(d) to make the event a success

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(b) that must be strong and flexible hence it is 21. This question / is quite too / simple for me / to

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(d) No error (a) is quite too (b) to answer
14. Rahul sings / very sweet / when he is / in a good (c) simple for me (d) This question
mood. 22. Alex picked up the boxes quite easily even they

a
SSC CHSL 24/05/2022 S3 were heavy.
(a) very sweet (b) when he is CGL Pre-20/04/2022 S1

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(c) in a good mood (d) Rahul sings (a) quite easily (b) even they were heavy
15. The birds flew / fastly above / as we stood / on (c) the boxes (d) Alex picked up

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our terrace. 23. Get up from your place / slow, and / turn
SSC CHSL 27/05/2022 S2 around!
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(a) on our terrace (b) as we stood
(c) fastly above (d) The birds flew (a) Get up from your place

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(b) turn around
16. The thief / entered the house, / in the middle of
the night, / quiet. (c) slow and
(d) No error

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24. We yet / have time / to catch / the bus.
(a) The thief
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(b) in the middle of the night
(a) have time (b) to catch
(c) entered the house
(c) the bus (d) We yet
(d) quiet
25. You must avoid riding in a crowded bus / or
17. I remember vivid / the last road trip / we had / travelling in a metro / during rush hour / as both
before the pandemic hit. are quiet unpleasant experiences.
SSC CHSL 01/06/2022 S2 CGL 13/8/2021 S1
(a) the last road trip (a) You must avoid riding in a crowded bus
(b) we had (b) during rush hour
(c) before the pandemic hit (c) as both are quiet unpleasant experiences
(d) I remember vivid (d) or travelling in a metro

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26. When she went for a walk / Maya couldn't take 34. Nobody has ever listened to me so attentive.
off her scarf / because it was / too much windy. CPO 23/11/2020 S3
CGL 17/8/2021 S3 (a) so attentive (b) ever listened
(a) too much windy (c) to me (d) Nobody has
(b) Maya couldn't take off her scarf 35. A confluence is a place when two or more rivers
(c) because it was meet.
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27. The army / marched fearless / towards / the (a) A confluence (b) rivers meet
enemy cantonment. (c) when two or more (d) is a place
CGL 23/8/2021 S1 36. This is only the decent dress that I have.
(a) marched fearless CGL Tier II - 18/11/2020

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(b) the enemy cantonment (a) This is (b) only the
(c) The army (c) that I have (d) decent dress

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(d) towards 37. Aren’t you such young to travel by yourself?

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28. The concept became / too much clear to me /
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after my tutor / showed me the diagram.

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(a) to travel (b) by yourself
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(c) such young (d) Aren’t you

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38. I learnt to adapt quickly to new schools because
(b) showed me the diagram we moved to new places quite frequent.

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(c) The concept became
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(d) after my tutor
(a) I learnt to adapt quickly

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29. Deepu’s mother / has repeated asked him / to
(b) we moved to new places
lower the volume / of his mobile.
(c) quite frequent
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(d) to new schools
(a) has repeated asked him
39. The big ship sank and everyone abroad drowned.
(b) to lower the volume
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(c) of his mobile
(a) sank (b) and everyone
(d) Deepu’s mother
(c) The big ship (d) abroad drowned.
30. Every participant gave so outstanding

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performance that it became difficult to choose the 40. No matter he tries hard he cannot play the guitar.
winner. CPO Tier II 27/9/2019

(a)
(b)
(c)

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Every participant gave
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so outstanding performance
to choose the winner
41.
(a) No matter
(c) he cannot
(b) he tries hard
(d) play the guitar
Why should always we have to wait for her to join
us?

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(d)
We

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that it became difficult
are yet living in the same house.

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(b) same house
(d) yet living
42.
(c) always we
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(a) for her to join her (b) Why should
(d) have to wai
They can't hardly believe that Article 370 is no
longer valid in Jammu and Kashmir.
CGL Tier II 12/9/2019
32. I am going / to home / soon after the /
programme gets over. (a) is no longer valid
CHSL 10/8/2021 S2 (b) in Jammu and Kashmir.
(a) soon after the (b) to home (c) that Article 370
(c) I am going (d) programme gets over (d) They can't hardly believe
33. He is / too immature / for handle / the situation. 43. Please go out and check if it is yet raining.
CPO Tier-II 26/07/2021 CGL Tier II 13/9/2019
(a) He is (b) too immature (a) and check (b) if it is
(c) the situation (d) for handle (c) yet raining (d) Please go out

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44. Found in many parts of India, the frangipani tree 47. I know that he wanted to go home earliest.
is a small, low –branching tree which is especial MTS 08/8/2019 S1
used for several medicinal purposes.
(a) go home earliest (b) I know that
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(c) No error (d) he wanted to
(a) a small, low –branching tree
48. The old man climbed seven floors with hardly no
(b) Found in many parts effort at all.
(c) The frangipani tree is CPO- 12/3/2019 S1
(d) which is especial used (a) climbed (b) at all
45. He lost all his hardly earned money. (c) The old man (d) hardly no effort
MTS 07/8/2019 S3 49. Although the toys are altogether in the cupboard
(a) all his (b) hardly earned money they are not properly arranged.

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46. She ran so fastly that I could not overtake her. (a) in the cupboard

(a) that I could

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(b) She ran so fastly
(d) not overtake her
(b)
(c)
(d)
are altogether
are not properly arranged
Although the toys

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Answer Key
(a) 5. (d) 6. (d) 7. (c) 8. (c)

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9. (b) 10. (d) 11. (a) 12. (a) 13. (c) 14. (a) 15. (c) 16. (d)

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17. (d) 18. (a) 19. (b) 20. (b) 21. (a) 22. (b) 23. (c) 24. (d)
25.
33.
41.
49.
(c)
(d)
(c)
(b)
26.
34.
42.
(a)

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(d)
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35.
43.
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(c)
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36.
44.
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37.
45.
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(c)
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38.
46.
(b)
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47.
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(a)
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40.
48.
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SENTENCE IMPROVEMENT
Select the option that will improve the underlined 8. We yet have time for catching the flight.
part of the sentence. In case no improvement is Phase-IX 09/02/2022 S3
needed, select ‘No Improvement’.
(a) still have time to catch
1. Keep the dog tied indoors; however, it may bite
some stranger. (b) have yet time to catch
CGL Mains 08/08/2022 (c) No improvement required
(a) No Improvement (b) else (d) have time still for catching
(c) yet (d) still 9. Life is hard, unpredictable, but though
manageable.

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2. Rupak visits his mother on a regular basis.
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(a) still controllable (b) despite practicable
(a) regularly (b) weekly
(c) although bearable (d) though achievable

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(c) daily (d) everyday
10. We might as well watch a film on TV as there’s

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3. My mother looked at Sana and me with her

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nothing much to do.
mouth slight openly.

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(a) may as well as
(a) an openly slight

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(b) No improvement required
(b) No improvement required

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(c) might well

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(c) open slight
(d) may as such

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(d) slightly open
11. The dress may pleasantly be delivered to us at
4. I work hardly too earn bread and butter for my
the earliest.
family.
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(a) work hardest too (a) may kindly
(b) No substitution required

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(b) work hard to
(c) No improvement required (c) must pleasantly
(d) works hardly to (d) might kindly

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5. Caffeine is a diuretic that makes you urinate 12. This work is much heavy to do by one person
more often. single-handedly.

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(a) No improvement required (a) too heavy to do

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(b) more much often (b) much heavy to be done
(c) many often (c) too heavy to be done

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(d) oftenly more (d) No improvement required
6. Viren examined careful all the possibilities of data 13. A sincere person creates goodwill whenever he

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theft. goes.
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(a) carefully examined (a) wherever
(b) No improvement required (b) No improvement required
(c) examine careful (c) if ever
(d) careful examined (d) somewhere
7. He knows how bad I wanted a baby. 14. The place is too much noisy.
MTS 25/07/2022 S3 CGL 16/8/2021 S1
(a) how badly (a) No substitution
(b) what bad (b) much too much noisy
(c) No improvement required (c) too noisy
(d) badly how (d) much noisy

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15. Many artisans were almost without any work 24. You will have to pay heavy for your crimes.
during the pandemic.
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CGL 23/8/2021 S3
(a) No improvement
(a) No substitution
(b) any without almost (b) to pay heavily
(c) without any almost (c) to be paying heavily
(d) almost any without (d) to paid heavily
16. There was a bell over the door that jingled 25. I like the place which I Iive but it would be
whenever a customer entered. wonderful to live in the mountains.
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CHSL 21/10/2020 S1
(a) which jingled wherever
(a) who (b) when
(b) who jingles whenever

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(c) No substitution (c) where (d) No Improvement
(d) that jingle when 26. It is evident from current research that young

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17. If he doesn't reach the station in time, he would adults is more like to develop an interest in

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sure miss the train. spoken English if there is a change in
CHSL 4/8/2021 S1 methodology.

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(a) would surely miss (b) No substitution

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(c) will sure missing (d) will surely miss
Sometimes the family liking to play a game
(a) are more likely
(c) are more like
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(b) No Improvement
(d) is more likely

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together after dinner.
27. The director wanted Aziz to play the role of the

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doctor as well also that of the apprentice.

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(a) Sometimes the family likes

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(b) Sometime the family likes
(c) No substitution required (a) and also of (b) No improvement.
(d) Sometimes the family are like (c) as well as (d) as well
19. Despite living in the same neighbourhood, we 28. Rahul thinks that this is quite the cheap
only did not greet each other. restaurant.

a
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(a) still (b) mainly
(a) so a cheap (b) so the cheap
(c) even (d) No improvement

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(c) No substitution (d) quite a cheap
20. He went to foreign for higher education.
29. The World Health Organisation warned the

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CPO Tier-II 26/07/2021
Government that even many people were likely
(a) went to abroad (b) has gone to foreign
to die of epidemics than of the tsunami.
(c) No substitution (d) went abroad

a
21. Suman performed at the festival well yesterday. CPO 12/12/2019 S3
CPO Tier I 25/11/2020 S3 (a) that so many people are likely

22.
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(a) at the festival yesterday well
(b) No substitution required

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(c) well at the festival yesterday
(d) yesterday at the festival wel
The hotels were heavy booked for the festival in
Banaras.
30.
(b) No improvement
(c) that even most people are going to be likely
(d) that more people were likely
The children trying hardly, and learnt the poems.
CPO 13/12/2019 S3
CGL Tier II 15/11/2020 (a) no improvement (b) hardly trying
(a) were heavily booked (c) tried hard (d) hardly tried
(b) are heavy booked 31. It has been raining very hardly since morning.
(c) were heavily booking CPO Tier II 27/09/2019
(d) No substitution required (a) is been raining very hardly
23. A hole is in my pocket.
(b) No improvement
CGL Tier II 16/11/2020
(c) have been raining very hardly
(a) A hole there is (b) A hole are there
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32. I had to go to Delhi, however, I changed my mind 39. Your coming home to dinner on time should be
and decided not to go. a rule rather the exception.
CPO Tier II 27/09/2019 CGL Tier-1- 11/06/2019 S1
(a) therefore I change my mind (a) shall be a rule rather than a exception
(b) nevertheless I change my mind (b) No improvement
(c) however I will change my mind
(c) should be a rule rather being the exception
(d) No improvement
(d) should be the rule rather than the exception
33. His large income was still insufficiently to meet
the growing demands of his family. 40. She was so tired to work any longer.
CGL Tier II 13/09/2019 CGL Tier-1- 11/06/2019 S3
(a) No improvement (a) too tired to work (b) so tiring to work

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(b) was still insufficient

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(c) have been still insufficient
(d) was being yet insufficient
41.
(c) No improvement (d) so tired to not work
I am very much pleased to see you here today.
CGL Tier-1- 12/06/2019 S2
34.

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The fire spread through the building very quick

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but fortunately nobody was injured.
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(a) No improvement (b) very pleasing
(c) too much pleased (d) very pleased

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42. The avalanche of new data have been as

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(a) spreads through the building quickly
overwhelming that many scientists who were

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(b) spread through the building very quickly skeptical about Bronze Age migrations into India

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(c) spreading through building very quick have changed their opinions.

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(d) no improvemen

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The Head has been so busy to go through these
files and resolve the matter.
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(a) such busy to go through
CPO 15/03/2019 S1
(a) The avalanche of new data has been as
overwhelming
(b) The avalanche of new data has been so
overwhelming

a
(b) too busy to go through
(c) The avalanche of new data have been so
(c) No Improvement
overwhelming
(d) too so busy to go through

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(d) No improvement
36. We have never seen so strong blizzard. The wind
speed was 130 km/h. 43. South Asia, reaching from Afghanistan in the

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CGL Tier-1- 06/06/2019 S2 west to Bangladesh in the east, is home to at last
six hundred languages belonging to six large
(a) so strong the blizzard

a
language families.
(b) such strong a blizzard
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(c) such a strong blizzard
(d) No improvement (a) No improvement.
37. Each dancer performed very well that it was (b) home to at least six hundred languages

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difficult to judge who the best was.

(a) such well that

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(b) so well that
(c) No improvement (d) such very well that
His school was 7 km away from his house. I
wondered how he covered so long distance daily
44.
(c) home to at least six hundred language
(d) home to at most six hundred languages
While there is still a debate about why depression,
anxiety and suicide have skyrocketed among
people, today, ubiquitous smartphone use plays
surely a part.
on foot
CPO 15/03/2019 S3
CGL Tier-1- 07/06/2019 S2
(a) No improvement.
(a) so long the distance
(b) smartphone use surely plays a part
(b) No Improvement
(c) smartphone usage plays a part surely
(c) such long distance
(d) such a long distance (d) smartphone use would surely play a part

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45. Amnesty International had a reputation of being 47. It makes no difference to overall health whether
you lose weight slow or quick according to new
a hard place to work so the word ‘toxic’ was used
research by York University.
to describe the Amnesty work culture so far back
CPO 16/03/2019 S1
as the 1990s.
(a) whether you lose weight slow or quickly
CPO 15/03/2019 S3 (b) whether you lose weight slowly or quickly
(a) as far back as the 1990s (c) whether you lose weight slowly or quick
(b) as far back the 1990s (d) No substitution required
(c) No improvement 48. Just as technology has changed the way we shop,
book a taxi, hold business meetings, and even
(d) so far back as the 1990 find a parking spot, so too is it transforming the
way we accessed healthcare wherever we are in
46. Authorities has been regular issuing avalanche the world.

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warnings for vulnerable areas that have witnessed
CPO 16/03/2019 S1
heavy snowfall.
(a) so too is it transforming the way we access

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CPO 15/03/2019 S3 healthcare
(b) so too was it transforming the way we

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(a) have been regular issuing
accessed healthcare
(b) No improvement

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(c) so too had it transforming the way we access
(c) has been regularly issue

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(d) have been regularly issuing
healthcare
(d) No substitution required

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Answer Key

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1. (b) 2. (a) 3. (a) 4. (b) 5. (a) 6. (a) 7. (a) 8. (a)
9. (a) 10. (b) 11. (a) 12. (c) 13. (a) 14. (c) 15. (a) 16. (c)

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17. (d) 18. (a) 19. (a) 20. (d) 21. (c) 22. (a) 23. (d) 24. (b)
25. (c) 26. (a) 27. (c) 28. (d) 29. (d) 30. (c) 31. (d) 32. (d)
33. (b) 34. (b) 35. (b) 36. (c) 37. (b) 38. (d) 39. (d) 40. (a)
41. (d) 42. (b) 43. (b) 44. (b) 45. (a) 46. (d) 47. (b) 48. (a)

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