SSC CHSL 20th March 2023 Shift-3

Given below are four jumbled sentences. Pick the option that gives their correct order.
P. The average adult gets two to four colds a year, while the average child may get six to eight.
Q. It is the most frequent infectious disease in humans.
R. They occur more commonly during the winter.
S. The common cold, also known simply as the cold, is a viral infectious disease of the
upper respiratory tract that primarily affects the nose.

Select the most appropriate meaning of the given idiom.
New kid on the block

In the following question, out of the given four alternatives, select the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the Idiom/Phrase.
Cast someone adrift

Fill in the blank with an appropriate option.
It was past the mid-hour of the night, and was quite ______ and dark.

Identify the segment in the sentence which contains a grammatical error. If there is no error, then select the option "No error".
I felt that / I was be groomed / for success in the world.

Choose the word that can substitute the given group of words.
A lover of good food

Choose the option that is the correct indirect form of the sentence.
I said, ‘I’m not very happy at work.'

Fill in the blank with the most suitable word.
The scientists ______ that the chefs relied on a specific motion.

Select the word segment that substitutes (replaces) the bracketed word segment correctly and completes the sentence meaningfully. In case no improvement is needed, select ‘No improvement’.
Nonetheless, (many an old poets, such as Tennyson and Browning, has) kept their romances to the end.

Fill in the blank with an appropriate option.
We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can ______ those goals.