SSC CGL Tier II 6th March 2023 Shift 1

Select the option that can be used as a one-word substitute for the given group of words.

The science and art of growing vegetables, fruits and flowers

Select the option that can be used as a one-word substitute for the given group of words.

One who is a boot licker and flatterer.

Select the option that expresses the given sentence in indirect speech.

I said to Mohan, “He has a green book.”

Select the most appropriate homonym to fill in the blank.
The farmers grow ________ in their fields.

Select the INCORRECTLY spelt word.

Sentences of a paragraph are given below in jumbled order. Arrange the sentences in the correct order to form a meaningful and coherent paragraph.
A. Fort Hare was more than that: it was a beacon for African scholars from all over Southern Central and Eastern Africa.
B. Until 1960, the University College of Fort Hare, in the municipality of Alice, about twenty miles due east from Healdtown, was the only residential center of higher education for blacks in South Africa.
C. For young black South Africans like myself, it was Oxford and Cambridge, Harvard and Yale, all rolled into one.
D. The regent was anxious for me to attend Fort Hare and I was gratified to be accepted there. I felt that I was being groomed for success in the world.

Select the option that will improve the underlined part of the given sentence.

Riya ran as fastly as a cheetah and saved the child from falling.

Sentences of a paragraph are given below in jumbled order. Arrange the sentences in the correct order to form a meaningful and coherent paragraph.

A.We reached there at about 10 a.m.
B.The first ride we took was the Fury Wheel. It was really big, all of us were yelling and crying!
C.Yesterday, my friends and I went on a short picnic to an amusement park.
D.Even though we had reached on time there was a serpentine queue for the tickets. I took the entrance ticket.

Sentences of a paragraph are given below in jumbled order. Arrange the sentences in the correct order to form a meaningful and coherent paragraph.
A. Helping parents become savvier at picking care options and tossing retention bonuses to caregivers are others.
B. These fixes, importantly, can make child care more affordable for parents and offer life rafts to centres haemorrhaging workers.
C. The most proposed government solution for child care involves building on top of this flawed system is offering more vouchers to purchase private child care.
D. But they do little to address the structural needs: improved quality for kids, better wages and working conditions for workers, and more choices in the low-income
neighbourhoods.

Select the most appropriate meaning of the given idiom.

Achilles’ Heel