HSSC CLERK EXAM 22.09.2019 (Shift – I)

71. Complete the analogy:

Play: Director:: Newspaper: ?

(1) Manager
(2) Columnist
(3) Owner
(4) Editor

Correct Answer: (4) Editor

Solution:Director is a person who is in charge of a play and tells the actors how to play their parts. Similarly, Editor writes and edits the articles of the newspaper.

72. You have been traveling all day.

You_______be very tired.

Fill in the blank with appropriate word from the options:

(1) must have
(2) could
(3) can
(4) must

Correct Answer: (4) must

Solution:We use must to make an assumption about something that is very likely to be true. You must be so tired after running that marathon.

73. I have lost one of my gloves.

I_______dropped it somewhere.

Fill in the blank with appropriate word from the options:

Use appropriate linker to fill in the blank:

(1) must have
(2) would
(3) must
(4) could

Correct Answer: (1) must have

Solution:We use must have to show that the action definitely happened.

74. He has neither attended the meeting,__________has he sent a message.

Choose the correct word to fill in the blank:

(1) nor
(2) yet
(3) or
(4) but

Correct Answer: (1) nor

Solution:Neither_______nor is correct form of correlative.

75. We must not violate the__________of law.

Fill in the blanks with appropriate phrase:

(1) Caneons
(2) Cenons
(3) Canons
(4) Cannons

Correct Answer: (3) Canons

Solution:Canon (Noun) = a general law, rule, principle.

76. The robbers___________the defence less travellers,

Choose the part of the following sentence which has an error:

(1) set upon
(2) set off
(3) set out
(4) make out

Correct Answer: (3) set out

Solution:Set off = begin a journey; set out.

Set upon = attack violently.

Make out = progress; to deal with a situation, usually in a successful way.

77. Our happiness or our sorrow is largely due to our own actions.

Change the following sentence into simple present tense:

(1) due to our own actions
(2) No error
(3) Our happiness or our sorrow
(4) is largely

Correct Answer: (2) No error

78. They are playing cricket.

Choose the correct indirect form of the following sentence from the given options:

(1) They played cricket.
(2) They have been playing cricket.
(3) They have played cricket.
(4) They play cricket.

Correct Answer: (4) They play cricket.

Solution:Structure of sentence in present simple:

Subject + Verb + Object

79. She said, "The earth goes round the sun".

(1) She said that the earth going round the sun.
(2) She said that the earth has gone round the sun.
(3) She told that the earth go round the sun.
(4) She said that the earth goes round the sun.

Correct Answer: (4) She said that the earth goes round the sun.

Solution:Connective ⇒ that It is a universal truth.

Hence, tense of Reported Speech remains unchanged.

80. 'उड़ान' शब्द की भाववाचक संज्ञा है

(1) उड़ाप
(2) उड़ान
(3) उड़ाई
(4) उड़ोहर

Correct Answer: (2) उड़ान

Solution:'उड़ना' शब्द जो कि क्रिया है, उसका भाववाचक संज्ञा रूप 'उड़ान' होगा।

संज्ञा के जिस रूप से भाव, विचार आदि का बोध हो, उसे भाववाचक संज्ञा कहते हैं।