SSC CGL Tier-2 30-November-2016 English

1. Prices of food products are going up.
P. Seven straight weeks of rising prices have burnt holes in common man's pockets.
Q. But it ruled out any "blind control" to rein in the increasing rates.
R. Wholesale price-based inflation has already touched over a three-year high.
S. The government has admitted that containing inflation would be a more difficult task.
6. This may hurt economic growth and reforms.

1. The biggest villain in Deadwood has always been one thing: Fire.
P. In less than an hour the flames were leaping through the tree-tops.
Q. In our own times, a great fire threatened the town yet again.
R. The wind roared through the forest carrying the flames almost to the edge of town.
S. It all began when some waste-paper caught fire at the foot of the valley.
6. Fire-brigades arrived from all parts of the country to save Deadwood.

1. Health and fitness have now become one of the major concerns.
P. This made life active and alert.
Q. Earlier humans used to hunt for their living.
R. Now, life has become more simple and easy.
S. Due to which their body had to undergo a lot of physical exercise.
6. Everything we need is just a phone call away.

1. My friend Peter went to live in a village.
P. But it was a very slow animal.
Q. So Peter bought a donkey for five hundred rupees.
R. One day his neighbour told him that he must buy a donkey.
S. Every family there had a donkey to carry things for them.
6. It did not like to work.

1. The master returned home after sometime.
P. The snake was lying dead under the cradle.
Q. He went into the room where the baby was sleeping.
R. It had been killed by his dog.
S. He noticed a snake.
6. He realised that his dog had saved his baby.

1. In summer tiny oysters are collected.
P. Then each oyster is taken out and a small hole is drilled in its shell.
Q. There they are kept for three years.
R. A tiny piece of sand is put inside the oyster.
S. They are placed in trays and planted in the sea.
6. Then the oysters are again left in the sea.

1. Time flows on without any stop.
P. In fact change is the law of nature.
Q. The condition in which a man lives; his ideas and thoughts are changing from age to age.
R. This is true not only of physical life.
S. That is why, things are always changing.
6. Thus, our mode of living and ideas are different from those of our grandfathers.

1.Adversity is a curse.
P. When every thing goes on well, we are tempted to take matters easy.
Q. But, it has its uses also.
R. But adversity prompts us to exert ourselves.
S. We fall into a life of comfort and idleness.
6. This develops our latent powers, enabling us to prosper in life.

1. Giving advice is a difficult task.
P. Moreover one doesn't know oneself, amid ambiguity, how can one know others.
Q. It is a wonder how such people like politicians, reformers and people suchlike are so confident as to invent measures to live their life.
R. Life is but one and mistakes are often irrepairable.
S. Unless he knows another person, how can he advise?
6. I find it very difficult to give advice.

1. A traveller had spent many a year in Africa.
P."How did you manage it?" asked one of his friends, greatly impressed.
Q. On his return home, he narrated his adventures to his friends.
R. "Oh, it was nothing", replied the traveller.
S. "When I was in El Doab", he said, "I made fifty Arabs run!"
6. "I ran, and they ran after me!"