SSC CPO 26th July 2021 Paper 2

Select the correct active form of the given sentence.
May you be blessed with good health!

Given below are four sentences in jumbled order. Pick the option that gives their correct order.
A. The event was held to raise funds for the slum adopted by the school.
B. The Principal thanked everyone for the contributions which would help in the development activities.
C. The contributions from the parents and teachers were amazing.
D. The school Cultural Society organised a musical night last week.

Given below are six sentences A-F, of which A and F are static and B-E have been jumbled. Pick the option that gives the correct order of the jumbled sentences.
A. Timothy, the tiger cub was discovered by Grandfather in the Terai jungle near Dehra.
B. Grandfather picked him and brought him home.
C. One day when Grandfather was strolling in the jungle, he spotted a little tiger about 18 inches long.
D. The tiger cub was named Timothy by Grandfather and initially brought up entirely on milk.
E. The frightened animal was hiding among the intricate roots of a banyan tree.
F. Later, he was put on a diet of raw mutton and cod liver oil.

Given below are four sentences in jumbled order. Pick the option that gives their correct order.
A. Some were big and floated around while others were small and popped immediately.
B. Nancy’s uncle gifted her a bubble shooter for her birthday.
C. She chased them around, trying to hold them in her hands.
D. Now, Nancy could blow bubbles of all sizes.

Select the correct direct form of the given sentence.
He told you that he had not known that it was your birthday that day.

Given below are four sentences in jumbled order. Pick the option that gives their correct order.
A. Suddenly in the evening, a dark and menacing storm quickly gathered.
B. Prashant had gone to Ersama, a coastal town in Odisha, to spend the day with a friend.
C. The destruction wrought by the storm continued for the next 36 hours, although the wind speed reduced.
D. Winds beat against the houses with a fury never witnessed before.

Select the most appropriate meaning of the underlined idiom in the given sentence.
He runs for two hours at a stretch to build his stamina.

Identify the segment in the sentence which contains a grammatical error.
He is / afraid from / all insects / that crawl.

Given below are six sentences A-F, of which A and F are static and B-E have been jumbled. Pick the option that gives the correct order of the jumbled sentences.
A. Dr. Sadao Hoki’s house was built on a spot of the Japanese coast where he had played as a little boy.
B. His father had said, “Those islands are the stepping stones to the future for Japan.
C. His father had taken him to the islands of those seas and taught him things he had not forgotten.
D. As a boy, Sadao had climbed the pines, supporting himself on his bare feet as the men did in the South Seas.
E. The square stone house was set upon rocks above a beach outlined with bent pines.
F. “Where shall we step from them?” Sadao had asked seriously.

Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank.
He is ______ poorer than all his friends.