SSC CGL 2013 Tier 1 21 April Morning Shift

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Diamonds are priced higher than water because :

In the following questions, some parts of the sentences have errors and some are correct. Find out which part of a sentence has an error. The number of that part is your answer. If a sentence is free from error, then your answer is d: i.e. No Error.

In the following questions, sentences are given with blanks to be filled with an appropriate word(s). Four alternatives are suggested for each question. Choose the correct alternative out of the four.

In the following questions, out of the four alternatives, choose the one which best expresses the meaning of the given word.

In the following questions, choose the word opposite in meaning to the given word.

In the following questions, four alternatives are given for the Idiom/ Phrase printed in bold. Choose the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the Idiom/Phrase.

In the following questions, a sentence/ part of the sentence is printed in bold. Below are given alternatives to the bold sentence/part of the sentence at a:, b: and c: which may improve the sentence. Choose the correct alternative. In case no improvement is needed your answer is d.

In the following questions, out of the four alternatives, choose the one which can be substituted for the given words/ sentence.

In the following questions, four words are given in each question, out of which only one word is correctly spelt. Find the correctly spelt word.

In the following questions, you have a passage with 5 questions . Read the passages carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives.

The World Health Organisation is briefly called W.H.O. It is a specialised agency of the United Nations and was established in 1948. International health workers can be seen working in all kinds of surroundings: in
deserts, jungles, mountains, coconut groves, and rice fields. They help the sick to attain health and the healthy to maintain their health. This global health team assists the local health workers in stopping the spread of what are called communicable diseases, like cholera. These diseases can spread from one country to another and so can be a threat to world health. W.H.O. assists different national health authorities not only in controlling diseases but also in preventing them altogether. Total prevention of diseases is possible in a number of ways. Everyone knows how people, particularly children, are vaccinated against one disease or another. Similarly, most people are familiar with the spraying of houses with poisonous substances which kill disease-carrying insects.

“International health workers can be seen working in all kinds of surroundings : in deserts, jungles, mountains, coconut groves, and rice fields”. Here International means:

“W.H.O. assists different national health authorities not only in controlling diseases but also in preventing them, altogether”. The above sentence implies that:

In the following questions, you have two passages with 5 questions in each passage. Read the passages carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives.

Why don’t I have a telephone? Not because I pretend to be wise or pose as unusual. There are two chief reasons; because I don’t really like the telephone, and because I find I can still work and play, eat, breathe, and sleep without it. Why don’t I like the telephone? Because I think it is a pest and time waster. It may create unnecessary suspense and anxiety, as when you wait for an expected call, that doesn’t come; or irritating delay, as when you keep ringing a number that is always engaged. As for speaking in a public telephone booth, it seems to me really horrible. You would not use it unless you were in a hurry, and because you are in a hurry, you will find other people waiting before you. When you do get into the booth, you are half suffocated by the stale, unventilated air, flavoured with cheap face-powder and chain smoking; and by the time you have begun your conversation your back is chilled by the cold looks of somebody who is moving about restlessly to take your place.

If you have a telephone in your house, you will admit that it tends to ring when you least want it to ring: when you are asleep, or in the middle of a meal or a conversation, or when you are just going out, or when you are in your bath. Are you strong minded enough to ignore it, to say to yourself. “Ah well, it will be all the same in hundred years time”. You are not. You think there may be some important news or message for you. Have you never rushed dripping from the bath, of chewing from the table, or dazed from bed, only to be told that you are a wrong number? You were told the truth. In my opinion all telephone numbers are wrong numbers. IL of course, your telephone rings and you decide not to answer it, then you will have to listen to an idiotic bell ringing and ringing in what is supposed to be the privacy of your own home. You might as well buy a bicycle bell and ring it Yourself.

‘…………..your back is chilled by the cold looks of somebody’ means:

‘All telephone numbers are wrong numbers’, because:

‘Ah well, it will be all the same in hundred years time’. This sentence means :

He hates speaking in a public telephone booth because:

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Two pipes, P and Q can fill a cistern in 12 and 15 minutes respectively. If both are opened together and at the end of 3 minutes, the first is closed, how much longer will the cistern take to fill?

A swimmer swims from a point A against a current for 5 minutes and then swims backwards in favour of the current for next 5 minutes and comes to the point B. If AB = 100 metres, the speed of the swimmer (in km per hour) is :

A contractor undertook to finish a certain work in 124 days and employed 120 men. After 64 days, he found that he had already done 2/ 3 of the work. How many men can be discharged now so that the work may finish in time ?

If the lengths of the sides of a triangle are in the ratio 4 : 5 : 6 and the inradius of the triangle is 3 cm, then the altitude of the triangle corresponding to the largest side as base is :

Each of the two circles of same radius a passes through the centre of the other; If the circles cut each other at the points A and Band 0, 0′ be their centres, area of the quadrilateral AOBO’ is :

The arithmetic mean of the scores of a group of students in a test was 52. The brightest 20% of them secured a mean score of 80 and the dullest 25%, a mean score of 31. The mean score of remaining 55% is :

The curved surface area and the total surface area of a cylinder are in the ratio 1:2 If the total surface area of the right cylinder is 616 cm , then its volume is :

A person observed that he required 30 seconds less time to cross a circular ground along its diameter than to cover it once along the boundary. If his speed was 30 m/minute, then the radius of the circular ground is $$(Take \pi=\frac{22}{7})$$

A sum of money is sufficient to pay A’ s wages for 21 days and B’s wages for 28 days. The same money is sufficient to pay the wages of both for

A man standing in one corner of a square football field observes that the angle subtended by a pole in the corner just diagonally opposite to this corner is 60°. When he retires 80 m from the corner, along the same straight line, he finds the angle to be 30°. The length of the field, in m, is :

A, B, C walk 1 km in 5 minutes, 8 minutes and 10 minutes respectively. C starts walking from a point, at a certain time, B starts from the same point 1 minutes later and A starts from the same point 2 minutes later than C. Then A meets B and C at times.

A person bought two bicycles for 1600 and sold the first at 10% profit and the second at 20% profit. If he sold the first at 20% profit and the second at 10% profit, he would get 5 more. The difference of the cost price of the two bicycles was

The table given below shows production of five types of cars by a company from the year 1998 to 2003. Study the table and answer the question.

In which year the production of cars of all types taken together was approximately equal to the average of the total production during the period :

A health drink company prepares the drinks of three different flavours P, Q, R. The production of three flavours over a period of sixyears has been expressed on bar graph provided below. Study the graph and answer the questions.

(Production of 3 different flavours of health drinks of a company in 6 years in Lakh bottles)

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Arrange the following words as per order in the dictionary
(i) Ambitious
(ii) Ambiguous
(iii) Ambiguity
(iv) Animation
(v) Animals

In the following questions find the odd word/ number/letters/number pair from the given alternatives.

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Which one of the given responses would be a meaningful order of the following ?
(i) Pupa
(ii) Larva
(iii) Moth
(iv) Eggs

Which one of the given responses would be a meaningful order of the following continents in descending order of area ?
(i) South America
(ii) Africa
(iii) Europe
(iv) Australia
(v) North America

In the following questions, a series is given, with one term missing. Choose the correct alternative from the given ones.

Ram and Sam start walking towards North and cover 20 metres. Ram turns to his left and Sam to his right. After sometime, Rain walks 10 metres, in the same direction in which he turned. On the other hand, Sam walks only 7 metres. Later, Ram turns towards his left and Sam to his right. Both walk 25 metres forward. How far is Ram from Sam now ?

In the following questions, from the given alternatives select the word which cannot be formed using letters of the given word.

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There are 19 hockey players in a club. On a particular day, 14 were wearing the hockey shirts prescribed. None of them were without either hockey pants or shirts. Eleven were wearing the prescribed hockey pants. How many were in complete uniform ?

If - stands for addition, ÷ for multiplication, × for substraction, and + for division, then which of the following is correct ?

A direction pole was situated on the Road Crossing. Due to an accident, the pole turned in such a manner that the pointer which was showing East, started showing South. Sita, a traveller went to the wrong direction thinking it to be West. In what direction actually she was travelling ?

Ram cycled 10 km southward from his home, turned right and cycled 6 km, turned right, cycled 10 km, turned left and cycled 15 km. How many km will he have cycled to reach straight home ?

In the following questions, two statements are given followed by two conclusions I and II. You have to consider the two statements to be true even if they seem to be at variance from commonly known facts. You have to decide which of the given conclusions, if any, follow from the given statements.

Statements :
I. Some keys are locks, some locks are numbers.
II. All numbers are letters, all letters are words.
Conclusions :
I. Some words are numbers.
II. Some locks are letters.

Statements :
I. The constitution assures the fundamental rights.
II. Parliament has right to amend the constitution.
Conclusions :
I. Parliament included fundamental rights in the constitution.
II. Parliament did not assure the fundamental rights.

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A cube which is painted red on the outer surface is of 2 inches height, 2 inches wide and 2 inches across. If it is cut into one-inch cubes as shown by dotted lines, indicate the number of cubes which are red on two sides only ?

In the given figure, Circle represents persons having Car, triangle represents persons having Motor Cycle, square represents persons having Autorickshaws, rectangle represents persons having Cycle. Find the region where persons having Car, Motor Cycle, Cycle but not Autorickshaw.

In the following questions, study the following diagram carefully and answer the questions based on it.

The diagram shows the survey on a sample of 1000 persons with reference to their knowledge of English, Hindi and Marathi. 105 people know…….languages.

In the following questions, which answer figure will complete the pattern in the question figure ?

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A word is represented by only one set of numbers as given in any one of the alternatives. The sets of numbers given in the alternatives are represented by two classes of alphabets as in two matrices given below. The columns and rows of Matrix I are numbered from 0 to 4 and that of Matrix II are numbered from 5 to 9 A letter from these matrices can be represented first by its row and next by its column, e.g., ‘N’ can be represented by 02, 24 etc. and ‘Q’ can be represented by 56, 78 etc. Similarly, you have to identify the set for the word ‘SPORTS’.

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