SSC CGL 2013 Tier 1

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Directions : In these questions you have a passage with 10 questions. Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four.
The postmaster first took up his duties in the village of Ulapur. Though the village was a small one, there was an indigo factory nearby and the propritor, an Englishman, had managed to get a post office established. Our postmaster belonged to Calcutta. He felt like a fish out of water in this remove village. His office and living-room were in a dark thatched shed, not far from a green, silmy pond, surrounded on all sides by a dense growth. The men employed in the indigo factory had no leisure, moreover they were hardly desirable companions for decent folk. Nor is a Calcutta boy an adept in the art of associating with others. Among strangers he appears either proud or ill at ease. At any rate the postmaster had but little company, nor had he much to do. At times he tried his hand at writing a verse or two. That the movement of the leaves and clouds of the sky were enough to fill life with joy - such were the sentiments to which he sought to give expression. But God knows that the poor fellow would have felt it as the gift of a new life, if some genie of the Arabian Nights had in one night swept away the trees, leaves and all, and replaced them with a macadamised road, hiding the clouds from view with rows of tall houses.

Question 191

What does the idiom 'fish out of water' suggest?

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Question 192

Find a word in the passage which is the opposite of 'near'.

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For the following questions answer them individually

Question 193

Find a word in the passage which means 'the owner of a business'.

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Question 194

The adjective used to describe the postmaster's living-room is

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Question 195

What does the phrase 'ill at ease' in the passage mean?

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Question 196

What does the phrase 'little company' in the passage mean?

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Question 197

At times, the postmaster wrote

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Question 198

The postmaster wrote on the

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Question 199

The word 'genie' means

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Question 200

Which factory was situated near the village Ulapur?

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