SSC CGL 30 August 2015 Tier 1

Instructions

In the following questions, read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives.

Half a century ago, a person was far More likely to die from heart disease. Now, cancer is the No. 1 cause of death. Troubling as this sounds, the comparison is unfair. Cancer is, ,by far the harder problem a condition deeply ingrained in the nature of multicellular life. Given these obstacles, cancer researchers are fighting and even winning smaller battles : reducing the death toll from childhood cancers and preventing and sometimes even curing cancers that strike people in their prime. But when it comes to diseases of the elderly, there can be no decisive victory.
The diseases that one killed earlier in life bubonic plague, smallpox, influenza, tuberculosis were easier obstacles. Each had a precise cause that could be confronted. The toll of heart diseases has been pushed into the future, with diet, exercise and medicine that help control blood pressure and cholesterol. Because of these interventions people between 55 and 84 are increasingly more likely to die from cancer than from heart disease.

SSC CGL 30 August 2015 Tier 1 - Question 71


Which of the following statements is UNTRUE (with reference to the given passage)?

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SSC CGL 30 August 2015 Tier 1 - Question 72


“The toll of heart disease has been pushed into the future” means that

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SSC CGL 30 August 2015 Tier 1 - Question 73


“Cancer is by far the harder problem“. (Improve the sentence)

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SSC CGL 30 August 2015 Tier 1 - Question 74


According to the writer, why is cancer more difficult to deal with than heart disease?

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Instructions

In the following questions, read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives.

It is strange that, according to his position in life, an extravagant man is admired or despised. A successful businessman does nothing to increase his popularity by being careful with his money. He is expected to display his success, to have a smart car, an expensive life, and to be lavish with his hospitality. If he is not so, he is considered mean and his reputation in business may even suffer in consequence.

The paradox remains that if he had not been careful with his money in the first place, he would never have achieved his present wealth. Among the two income groups, a different set of values exists. The young clerk who makes his wife a present of a new dress when he hadn’t paid his house rent, is condemned as extravagant. Carefulness’with money to the point of meanness is applauded as a virtue. Nothing in his life is considered more worthy than paying his bills. The ideal wife for such a man separates her housekeeping money into joyless little piles, and she is able to face the milkman with equanimity and never knows the guilt of buying something she can’t really afford.

SSC CGL 30 August 2015 Tier 1 - Question 75


The phrase ‘lavish with his hospitality’ here means :

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SSC CGL 30 August 2015 Tier 1 - Question 76


We understand from the passage that

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SSC CGL 30 August 2015 Tier 1 - Question 77


How does the housewife, according to the writer, feel when she saves money?

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SSC CGL 30 August 2015 Tier 1 - Question 78


The statement ‘she is able to face the milkman with equanimity’ implies that

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SSC CGL 30 August 2015 Tier 1 - Question 79


In the opinion of the writer, a successful businessman

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Instructions

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 the answer. If a sentence is free from error, your answer is (4) i.e. No error.

SSC CGL 30 August 2015 Tier 1 - Question 80


After he was caught cheating he was disqualified to appear at the examination.

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