SSC CGL Tier 2 (13 September) English Past Year Paper 2019 | SSC CGL Previous Year Papers PDF Download

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Q.1 Given below are four jumbled sentences. Pick the option that gives their correct order.
A. The ingredients must therefore be of the ?nest quality and in the right proportions.
B. When you have them right and keep practicing you are sure to bake some of the
yummiest cakes.
C. Success in life is just like baking a cake that requires many things.
D. Firstly, unless you have the right ingredients and recipe it is not going to work.
Ans
1. BCDA
2. CDAB
3. CABD
4. BADC
Question ID : 2390876616
Status : Answered
Chosen Option : 2
Q.2 Identify the best way to improve the underlined part of the given sentence. If there is no
improvement required, select ‘no improvement’-
In my lifetime, I have been greatly privileged to travel to some of the most wonderful places
in the world.
Ans
1. only a few of
2. least of the
3. none of
4. No improvement.
Question ID : 2390876501
Status : Answered
Chosen Option : 4
Q.3 Given below are four jumbled sentences. Pick the option that gives their correct order.
A. It requires continuous learning and sacri?ces.
B. To raise well behaved and responsible children one should be willing to invest a
considerable amount of time, patience and energy.
C. Instilling and inculcating good values in a child will go a long way in making him/her a
good person and a better citizen.
D. There is no doubt that parenting is among the most di?cult and demanding tasks in the
world.
Ans
1. DABC
2. BDCA
Section : CGLE Tier II Paper II English Language and Comprehension
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Q.1 Given below are four jumbled sentences. Pick the option that gives their correct order.
A. The ingredients must therefore be of the ?nest quality and in the right proportions.
B. When you have them right and keep practicing you are sure to bake some of the
yummiest cakes.
C. Success in life is just like baking a cake that requires many things.
D. Firstly, unless you have the right ingredients and recipe it is not going to work.
Ans
1. BCDA
2. CDAB
3. CABD
4. BADC
Question ID : 2390876616
Status : Answered
Chosen Option : 2
Q.2 Identify the best way to improve the underlined part of the given sentence. If there is no
improvement required, select ‘no improvement’-
In my lifetime, I have been greatly privileged to travel to some of the most wonderful places
in the world.
Ans
1. only a few of
2. least of the
3. none of
4. No improvement.
Question ID : 2390876501
Status : Answered
Chosen Option : 4
Q.3 Given below are four jumbled sentences. Pick the option that gives their correct order.
A. It requires continuous learning and sacri?ces.
B. To raise well behaved and responsible children one should be willing to invest a
considerable amount of time, patience and energy.
C. Instilling and inculcating good values in a child will go a long way in making him/her a
good person and a better citizen.
D. There is no doubt that parenting is among the most di?cult and demanding tasks in the
world.
Ans
1. DABC
2. BDCA
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3. ABCD
4. ACBD
Question ID : 2390876606
Status : Answered
Chosen Option : 1
Q.4 Select the segment which has an error.
Some of us are plan to go for a movie tonight.
Ans
1. Some of us
2. to go
3. are plan to go
4. for a movie
Question ID : 2390876489
Status : Answered
Chosen Option : 3
Q.5 Identify the best way to improve the underlined part of the given sentence. If there is no
improvement required, select ‘no improvement’-
Now that I having grow old , I often spend a lot of time thinking about my childhood.
Ans
1. had grown older
2. No improvement.
3. am growing older
4. has grown older
Question ID : 2390876506
Status : Answered
Chosen Option : 1
Q.6 Choose the most appropriate option to change the narration (direct / indirect) of the given
sentence.
Kapil said to his team, “If you don’t perform well in this match, you will not get a place in the
team. ”
Ans
1. Kapil warned to his team, if they don’t perform well in this match, they will not get a
place in the team.
2. Kapil told to his team if you don’t perform well in this match, you will not get a place
in the team.
3. Kapil warned his team that if they didn’t perform well in that match, they would not
get a place in the team.
4. Kapil said to his team that if you don’t perform well in that match, you will not get a
place in the team.
Question ID : 2390876554
Status : Answered
Chosen Option : 3
Q.7 Choose the most appropriate option to change the voice (active / passive) form of the given
sentence.
Were all formalities completed by you?
Ans
1. Will you complete all formalities?
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Q.1 Given below are four jumbled sentences. Pick the option that gives their correct order.
A. The ingredients must therefore be of the ?nest quality and in the right proportions.
B. When you have them right and keep practicing you are sure to bake some of the
yummiest cakes.
C. Success in life is just like baking a cake that requires many things.
D. Firstly, unless you have the right ingredients and recipe it is not going to work.
Ans
1. BCDA
2. CDAB
3. CABD
4. BADC
Question ID : 2390876616
Status : Answered
Chosen Option : 2
Q.2 Identify the best way to improve the underlined part of the given sentence. If there is no
improvement required, select ‘no improvement’-
In my lifetime, I have been greatly privileged to travel to some of the most wonderful places
in the world.
Ans
1. only a few of
2. least of the
3. none of
4. No improvement.
Question ID : 2390876501
Status : Answered
Chosen Option : 4
Q.3 Given below are four jumbled sentences. Pick the option that gives their correct order.
A. It requires continuous learning and sacri?ces.
B. To raise well behaved and responsible children one should be willing to invest a
considerable amount of time, patience and energy.
C. Instilling and inculcating good values in a child will go a long way in making him/her a
good person and a better citizen.
D. There is no doubt that parenting is among the most di?cult and demanding tasks in the
world.
Ans
1. DABC
2. BDCA
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3. ABCD
4. ACBD
Question ID : 2390876606
Status : Answered
Chosen Option : 1
Q.4 Select the segment which has an error.
Some of us are plan to go for a movie tonight.
Ans
1. Some of us
2. to go
3. are plan to go
4. for a movie
Question ID : 2390876489
Status : Answered
Chosen Option : 3
Q.5 Identify the best way to improve the underlined part of the given sentence. If there is no
improvement required, select ‘no improvement’-
Now that I having grow old , I often spend a lot of time thinking about my childhood.
Ans
1. had grown older
2. No improvement.
3. am growing older
4. has grown older
Question ID : 2390876506
Status : Answered
Chosen Option : 1
Q.6 Choose the most appropriate option to change the narration (direct / indirect) of the given
sentence.
Kapil said to his team, “If you don’t perform well in this match, you will not get a place in the
team. ”
Ans
1. Kapil warned to his team, if they don’t perform well in this match, they will not get a
place in the team.
2. Kapil told to his team if you don’t perform well in this match, you will not get a place
in the team.
3. Kapil warned his team that if they didn’t perform well in that match, they would not
get a place in the team.
4. Kapil said to his team that if you don’t perform well in that match, you will not get a
place in the team.
Question ID : 2390876554
Status : Answered
Chosen Option : 3
Q.7 Choose the most appropriate option to change the voice (active / passive) form of the given
sentence.
Were all formalities completed by you?
Ans
1. Will you complete all formalities?
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2. Have you been completing all formalities?
3. Did you complete all formalities?
4. Have you completed all formalities?
Question ID : 2390876534
Status : Answered
Chosen Option : 3
Q.8 Select the most appropriate idiom ( in the context) to ?ll in the sentence. 
The residents of my colony ______ in trying to ?nd out about the increasing number of car
thefts.
Ans
1. pulled all the stops
2. hit the sack
3. beat about the bush
4. hit a purple patch
Question ID : 2390876627
Status : Answered
Chosen Option : 1
Q.9 Choose the most appropriate option to change the voice (active / passive) form of the given
sentence.
One should leave o?ce on time to maintain good work life balance.
Ans
1. O?ce is being left on time to maintain good work life balance.
2. O?ce should be left on time to maintain good work life balance.
3. O?ce will be left on time to maintain good work life balance.
4. O?ce has to be left on time to maintain good work life balance.
Question ID : 2390876523
Status : Answered
Chosen Option : 2
Q.10 Choose the most appropriate option to change the narration (direct / indirect) of the given
sentence.
She said to her friend, "Where did you go yesterday?"
Ans
1. She asked her friend where she had gone the day before.
2. She asked her friend where she was going yesterday.
3. She asked her friend where she went yesterday.
4. She asked her friend where had she gone the day before.
Question ID : 2390876546
Status : Answered
Chosen Option : 1
Q.11 Select the most appropriate option to ?ll in the blank.
All human beings must learn to live in ______ with nature.
Ans
1. pleasure
2. harmony
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Q.1 Given below are four jumbled sentences. Pick the option that gives their correct order.
A. The ingredients must therefore be of the ?nest quality and in the right proportions.
B. When you have them right and keep practicing you are sure to bake some of the
yummiest cakes.
C. Success in life is just like baking a cake that requires many things.
D. Firstly, unless you have the right ingredients and recipe it is not going to work.
Ans
1. BCDA
2. CDAB
3. CABD
4. BADC
Question ID : 2390876616
Status : Answered
Chosen Option : 2
Q.2 Identify the best way to improve the underlined part of the given sentence. If there is no
improvement required, select ‘no improvement’-
In my lifetime, I have been greatly privileged to travel to some of the most wonderful places
in the world.
Ans
1. only a few of
2. least of the
3. none of
4. No improvement.
Question ID : 2390876501
Status : Answered
Chosen Option : 4
Q.3 Given below are four jumbled sentences. Pick the option that gives their correct order.
A. It requires continuous learning and sacri?ces.
B. To raise well behaved and responsible children one should be willing to invest a
considerable amount of time, patience and energy.
C. Instilling and inculcating good values in a child will go a long way in making him/her a
good person and a better citizen.
D. There is no doubt that parenting is among the most di?cult and demanding tasks in the
world.
Ans
1. DABC
2. BDCA
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3. ABCD
4. ACBD
Question ID : 2390876606
Status : Answered
Chosen Option : 1
Q.4 Select the segment which has an error.
Some of us are plan to go for a movie tonight.
Ans
1. Some of us
2. to go
3. are plan to go
4. for a movie
Question ID : 2390876489
Status : Answered
Chosen Option : 3
Q.5 Identify the best way to improve the underlined part of the given sentence. If there is no
improvement required, select ‘no improvement’-
Now that I having grow old , I often spend a lot of time thinking about my childhood.
Ans
1. had grown older
2. No improvement.
3. am growing older
4. has grown older
Question ID : 2390876506
Status : Answered
Chosen Option : 1
Q.6 Choose the most appropriate option to change the narration (direct / indirect) of the given
sentence.
Kapil said to his team, “If you don’t perform well in this match, you will not get a place in the
team. ”
Ans
1. Kapil warned to his team, if they don’t perform well in this match, they will not get a
place in the team.
2. Kapil told to his team if you don’t perform well in this match, you will not get a place
in the team.
3. Kapil warned his team that if they didn’t perform well in that match, they would not
get a place in the team.
4. Kapil said to his team that if you don’t perform well in that match, you will not get a
place in the team.
Question ID : 2390876554
Status : Answered
Chosen Option : 3
Q.7 Choose the most appropriate option to change the voice (active / passive) form of the given
sentence.
Were all formalities completed by you?
Ans
1. Will you complete all formalities?
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2. Have you been completing all formalities?
3. Did you complete all formalities?
4. Have you completed all formalities?
Question ID : 2390876534
Status : Answered
Chosen Option : 3
Q.8 Select the most appropriate idiom ( in the context) to ?ll in the sentence. 
The residents of my colony ______ in trying to ?nd out about the increasing number of car
thefts.
Ans
1. pulled all the stops
2. hit the sack
3. beat about the bush
4. hit a purple patch
Question ID : 2390876627
Status : Answered
Chosen Option : 1
Q.9 Choose the most appropriate option to change the voice (active / passive) form of the given
sentence.
One should leave o?ce on time to maintain good work life balance.
Ans
1. O?ce is being left on time to maintain good work life balance.
2. O?ce should be left on time to maintain good work life balance.
3. O?ce will be left on time to maintain good work life balance.
4. O?ce has to be left on time to maintain good work life balance.
Question ID : 2390876523
Status : Answered
Chosen Option : 2
Q.10 Choose the most appropriate option to change the narration (direct / indirect) of the given
sentence.
She said to her friend, "Where did you go yesterday?"
Ans
1. She asked her friend where she had gone the day before.
2. She asked her friend where she was going yesterday.
3. She asked her friend where she went yesterday.
4. She asked her friend where had she gone the day before.
Question ID : 2390876546
Status : Answered
Chosen Option : 1
Q.11 Select the most appropriate option to ?ll in the blank.
All human beings must learn to live in ______ with nature.
Ans
1. pleasure
2. harmony
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3. kindness
4. admiration
Question ID : 2390876566
Status : Answered
Chosen Option : 2
Q.12 Choose the most appropriate option to change the voice (active / passive) form of the given
sentence.
They shifted the venue of the conference.
Ans
1. They are shifting the venue of the conference.
2. The venue of the conference was shifted.
3. The venue of the conference has been shifted.
4. They were shifting the venue of the conference.
Question ID : 2390876532
Status : Answered
Chosen Option : 2
Q.13 Choose the most appropriate option to change the narration (direct / indirect) of the given
sentence.
Father hugged me and said, “What a beautiful painting!”
Ans
1. Father hugs me and says that my painting was very beautiful.
2. Father hugged me and exclaimed that my painting was very beautiful.
3. Father hugged me and exclaimed I had made a very beautiful painting.
4. Father hugs me and exclaimed that my painting is very beautiful.
Question ID : 2390876559
Status : Answered
Chosen Option : 2
Q.14 Select the segment which has an error. 
Is she go to visit her parents in the evening?
Ans
1. her parents
2. to visit
3. Is she go
4. in the evening
Question ID : 2390876488
Status : Answered
Chosen Option : 3
Q.15 Choose the most appropriate option to change the voice (active / passive) form of the given
sentence.
My grandmother believes that drinking a glass of milk at bedtime is essential for health.
Ans
1. It is believed by my grandmother that drinking a glass of milk at bedtime is essential
for health.
2. It is being believed by my grandmother that drinking a glass of milk at bedtime is
essential for health..
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Q.1 Given below are four jumbled sentences. Pick the option that gives their correct order.
A. The ingredients must therefore be of the ?nest quality and in the right proportions.
B. When you have them right and keep practicing you are sure to bake some of the
yummiest cakes.
C. Success in life is just like baking a cake that requires many things.
D. Firstly, unless you have the right ingredients and recipe it is not going to work.
Ans
1. BCDA
2. CDAB
3. CABD
4. BADC
Question ID : 2390876616
Status : Answered
Chosen Option : 2
Q.2 Identify the best way to improve the underlined part of the given sentence. If there is no
improvement required, select ‘no improvement’-
In my lifetime, I have been greatly privileged to travel to some of the most wonderful places
in the world.
Ans
1. only a few of
2. least of the
3. none of
4. No improvement.
Question ID : 2390876501
Status : Answered
Chosen Option : 4
Q.3 Given below are four jumbled sentences. Pick the option that gives their correct order.
A. It requires continuous learning and sacri?ces.
B. To raise well behaved and responsible children one should be willing to invest a
considerable amount of time, patience and energy.
C. Instilling and inculcating good values in a child will go a long way in making him/her a
good person and a better citizen.
D. There is no doubt that parenting is among the most di?cult and demanding tasks in the
world.
Ans
1. DABC
2. BDCA
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3. ABCD
4. ACBD
Question ID : 2390876606
Status : Answered
Chosen Option : 1
Q.4 Select the segment which has an error.
Some of us are plan to go for a movie tonight.
Ans
1. Some of us
2. to go
3. are plan to go
4. for a movie
Question ID : 2390876489
Status : Answered
Chosen Option : 3
Q.5 Identify the best way to improve the underlined part of the given sentence. If there is no
improvement required, select ‘no improvement’-
Now that I having grow old , I often spend a lot of time thinking about my childhood.
Ans
1. had grown older
2. No improvement.
3. am growing older
4. has grown older
Question ID : 2390876506
Status : Answered
Chosen Option : 1
Q.6 Choose the most appropriate option to change the narration (direct / indirect) of the given
sentence.
Kapil said to his team, “If you don’t perform well in this match, you will not get a place in the
team. ”
Ans
1. Kapil warned to his team, if they don’t perform well in this match, they will not get a
place in the team.
2. Kapil told to his team if you don’t perform well in this match, you will not get a place
in the team.
3. Kapil warned his team that if they didn’t perform well in that match, they would not
get a place in the team.
4. Kapil said to his team that if you don’t perform well in that match, you will not get a
place in the team.
Question ID : 2390876554
Status : Answered
Chosen Option : 3
Q.7 Choose the most appropriate option to change the voice (active / passive) form of the given
sentence.
Were all formalities completed by you?
Ans
1. Will you complete all formalities?
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2. Have you been completing all formalities?
3. Did you complete all formalities?
4. Have you completed all formalities?
Question ID : 2390876534
Status : Answered
Chosen Option : 3
Q.8 Select the most appropriate idiom ( in the context) to ?ll in the sentence. 
The residents of my colony ______ in trying to ?nd out about the increasing number of car
thefts.
Ans
1. pulled all the stops
2. hit the sack
3. beat about the bush
4. hit a purple patch
Question ID : 2390876627
Status : Answered
Chosen Option : 1
Q.9 Choose the most appropriate option to change the voice (active / passive) form of the given
sentence.
One should leave o?ce on time to maintain good work life balance.
Ans
1. O?ce is being left on time to maintain good work life balance.
2. O?ce should be left on time to maintain good work life balance.
3. O?ce will be left on time to maintain good work life balance.
4. O?ce has to be left on time to maintain good work life balance.
Question ID : 2390876523
Status : Answered
Chosen Option : 2
Q.10 Choose the most appropriate option to change the narration (direct / indirect) of the given
sentence.
She said to her friend, "Where did you go yesterday?"
Ans
1. She asked her friend where she had gone the day before.
2. She asked her friend where she was going yesterday.
3. She asked her friend where she went yesterday.
4. She asked her friend where had she gone the day before.
Question ID : 2390876546
Status : Answered
Chosen Option : 1
Q.11 Select the most appropriate option to ?ll in the blank.
All human beings must learn to live in ______ with nature.
Ans
1. pleasure
2. harmony
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3. kindness
4. admiration
Question ID : 2390876566
Status : Answered
Chosen Option : 2
Q.12 Choose the most appropriate option to change the voice (active / passive) form of the given
sentence.
They shifted the venue of the conference.
Ans
1. They are shifting the venue of the conference.
2. The venue of the conference was shifted.
3. The venue of the conference has been shifted.
4. They were shifting the venue of the conference.
Question ID : 2390876532
Status : Answered
Chosen Option : 2
Q.13 Choose the most appropriate option to change the narration (direct / indirect) of the given
sentence.
Father hugged me and said, “What a beautiful painting!”
Ans
1. Father hugs me and says that my painting was very beautiful.
2. Father hugged me and exclaimed that my painting was very beautiful.
3. Father hugged me and exclaimed I had made a very beautiful painting.
4. Father hugs me and exclaimed that my painting is very beautiful.
Question ID : 2390876559
Status : Answered
Chosen Option : 2
Q.14 Select the segment which has an error. 
Is she go to visit her parents in the evening?
Ans
1. her parents
2. to visit
3. Is she go
4. in the evening
Question ID : 2390876488
Status : Answered
Chosen Option : 3
Q.15 Choose the most appropriate option to change the voice (active / passive) form of the given
sentence.
My grandmother believes that drinking a glass of milk at bedtime is essential for health.
Ans
1. It is believed by my grandmother that drinking a glass of milk at bedtime is essential
for health.
2. It is being believed by my grandmother that drinking a glass of milk at bedtime is
essential for health..
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3. It has been believed by my grandmother that drinking a glass of milk at bedtime is
essential for health.
4. It will have been believed by my grandmother that drinking a glass of milk at
bedtime is essential for health..
Question ID : 2390876520
Status : Answered
Chosen Option : 1
Q.16 Choose the most appropriate option to change the voice (active / passive) form of the given
sentence.
We expect an important announcement regarding the foreign policy today.
Ans
1. An important announcement regarding the foreign policy was expected today.
2. An important announcement regarding the foreign policy is expected today.
3. We had been expected an important announcement regarding the foreign policy
today.
4. An important announcement regarding the foreign policy will be expected today.
Question ID : 2390876528
Status : Answered
Chosen Option : 2
Q.17 Find a word that is the synonym of - 
onerous
Ans
1. abundant
2. honourable
3. arduous
4. accessible
Question ID : 2390876620
Status : Answered
Chosen Option : 3
Q.18 Given below are four jumbled sentences. Pick the option that gives their correct order. 
A. Spoon the brownie batter into the prepared pan and bake for 30 to 40 minutes.
B. Now beat in eggs and vanilla extract, and add cocoa and mix until well combined. 
C. To make chocolate chip brownies mix together melted butter, brown sugar and white
sugar using a wooden spoon or hand mixer.
D. Next, stir in ?our and salt and mix until ?our is incorporated, and then add some
chocolate chips.
Ans
1. CABD
2. ADCB
3. CDBA
4. ACDB
Question ID : 2390876613
Status : Answered
Chosen Option : 3
Q.19 Identify the best way to improve the underlined part of the given sentence. If there is no
improvement required, select ‘no improvement’-
Shyamalan’s movie ‘The Sixth Sense’ starring Bruce Willis was a great success but doesn’t
win all Academy Award as expected.
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