HSSC CET Paper/Dt.-05-11-2022 Second Shift Ist Paper

Total Questions: 100

31. Find out the correctly spelt word—

Correct Answer: (a) pretentiousness

32. Choose the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the underlined idiom.

He had a hair-breadth escape from the accident.

Correct Answer: (a) narrow

33. Life history of a man written by himself is called ..............

Correct Answer: (a) Autobiography

34. Select the word that is most similar in meaning to the given word.

Prosaic

Correct Answer: (d) Uninspiring

35. Find out a word from the above passage which is the antonym of 'legal'.

Read the following passage carefully and answer questions 35, 36 and 37.

Tiger is one of the key wildlife species in the faunal web. In 1973, the authorities realised that the tiger population had dwindled very fast. The major threats to tiger population are numerous such as poaching for trade, shrinking habitat, depletion of prey base species, etc. The trade of tiger skins and the use of their bones in traditional medicines left the tiger population on the verge of extinction. Since India and Nepal provide habitat to about two-thirds of the surviving tiger population in the world, these two nations became prime targets for poaching and illegal trading. "Project Tiger", one of the well-publicised wildlife campaigns in the world, was launched in 1973 in India. Tiger conservation has been viewed not only as an effort to save the endangered species but also as a means of preserving bio-type of sizeable magnitude.

Correct Answer: (b) illegal

36. The skin and bones of tiger are also used ....................

Read the following passage carefully and answer questions 35, 36 and 37.

Tiger is one of the key wildlife species in the faunal web. In 1973, the authorities realised that the tiger population had dwindled very fast. The major threats to tiger population are numerous such as poaching for trade, shrinking habitat, depletion of prey base species, etc. The trade of tiger skins and the use of their bones in traditional medicines left the tiger population on the verge of extinction. Since India and Nepal provide habitat to about two-thirds of the surviving tiger population in the world, these two nations became prime targets for poaching and illegal trading. "Project Tiger", one of the well-publicised wildlife campaigns in the world, was launched in 1973 in India. Tiger conservation has been viewed not only as an effort to save the endangered species but also as a means of preserving bio-type of sizeable magnitude.

Correct Answer: (a) in traditional medicines

37. The major threat to tiger populations is ....................

Read the following passage carefully and answer questions 35, 36 and 37.

Tiger is one of the key wildlife species in the faunal web. In 1973, the authorities realised that the tiger population had dwindled very fast. The major threats to tiger population are numerous such as poaching for trade, shrinking habitat, depletion of prey base species, etc. The trade of tiger skins and the use of their bones in traditional medicines left the tiger population on the verge of extinction. Since India and Nepal provide habitat to about two-thirds of the surviving tiger population in the world, these two nations became prime targets for poaching and illegal trading. "Project Tiger", one of the well-publicised wildlife campaigns in the world, was launched in 1973 in India. Tiger conservation has been viewed not only as an effort to save the endangered species but also as a means of preserving bio-type of sizeable magnitude.

Correct Answer: (b) Poaching for trade

38. Read the sentence to find out whether there any grammatical mistake in it.

 

Mark the number of the part with error as your answer. If there is ‘no error’ mark (4).

A. The scientist was seemed 

B. to be excited  

C. over the result of his experiment

Correct Answer: (c) A

39. Rearrange the following parts of sentence labelled as PQRS to make a meaningful sentence.

P — leave no regret are
Q — gained over ignorance
R — the only victories which
S — those which are

Correct Answer: (a) RPSQ

40. Choose the alternative which best expresses then given sentence in Active Voice.

It is being read by us.

Correct Answer: (d) We are reading it