SSC CHSL 1st June 2022 Shift-3

Select the option that expresses the given sentence in passive voice.
The lawyer had presented the facts of the case well.

Complete the collocation.
Since I like him a lot, I _____ him out.

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. It was in this spirit that my little ones crept about me the other evening to hear about their great-grandmother Field, who lived in a great house in Norfolk (a hundred times bigger than that in which they and papa lived), which had been the scene—so at least it was generally believed in that part of the country—of the tragic incidents which they had lately become familiar with from the ballad of the Children in the Wood.
B. Here, Alice put out one of her dear mother’s looks, too tender to be called upbraiding.
C. Children love to listen to stories about their elders when they were children ; to stretch their imagination to the conception of a traditionary great-uncle, or grandame, whom they never saw.
D. Certain it is, that the whole story of the children and their cruel uncle was to be seen fairly carved out in the wood upon the chimney-piece of the great hall— the whole story down to the Robin Redbreasts—till a foolish rich person pulled it down to set up a marble one of modern invention in its stead, with no story upon it.

Select the most appropriate ANTONYM of the given word.
Maverick

Select the option that can be used as a one-word substitute for the underlined group of words.
Shylock was a cut-throat and was known as someone who was only interested in the amount of money that he could get from a situation.

Select the most appropriate meaning of the given idiom.
Crocodile tears

Select the option that can be used as a one-word substitute for the underlined group of words.
Raman had always been attracted to the scientific study of sound and decided to take up a course in sound engineering to pursue his dream career.

Select the most appropriate meaning of the given idiom.
To hold good

Select the most appropriate synonym of the given word.
Allay

Select the most appropriate meaning of the given idiom.
It's all Greek to me