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SSCCGL English Language And Comprehension Solved Question Paper 2016

Multiple Choice Questions

96. A passage is given with five questions following it. Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to each out of the four alternatives and mark corresponding to it.

To know language is to be able to speak it; even a child who does not yet attend School can speak his or her language. In order to speak a language, it is important to listen to it and read a few pages in it every day. A child picks up language and learns to talk just as (s)h learns to walk. Walking and talking comes naturally to a child as it grows. In our country, a child may grow up speaking more than one language, if these languages are spoken in the home and in the neighbourhood, we call this multilingualism. A child speaks a language or languages much before (s)he starts going to school. To know a language then is, first of all, to be able to speak it as easily and naturally as a three-year-old child does. Later on, the child will learn to read and write in a language, one has to speak it. But it is possible to speak a language but not able to read or write in it. A baby does not speak until it is nine months but it understands a few words at six months of age. It has been listening ever since it was born, and even a little before that. So the first strategy in speaking a language is to listen.

One of the activities of a child, before it is even born, is ..................

seeing

listening

understanding

understanding

listening

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97. A passage is given with five questions following it. Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to each out of the four alternatives and mark corresponding to it.

To know language is to be able to speak it; even a child who does not yet attend School can speak his or her language. In order to speak a language, it is important to listen to it and read a few pages in it every day. A child picks up language and learns to talk just as (s)h learns to walk. Walking and talking comes naturally to a child as it grows. In our country, a child may grow up speaking more than one language, if these languages are spoken in the home and in the neighbourhood, we call this multilingualism. A child speaks a language or languages much before (s)he starts going to school. To know a language then is, first of all, to be able to speak it as easily and naturally as a three-year-old child does. Later on, the child will learn to read and write in a language, one has to speak it. But it is possible to speak a language but not able to read or write in it. A baby does not speak until it is nine months but it understands a few words at six months of age. It has been listening ever since it was born, and even a little before that. So the first strategy in speaking a language is to listen.

It is necessary for one to .................. the language before (s)he writes in that language.

sing
spell
speak
speak

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98. A passage is given with five questions following it. Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to each out of the four alternatives and mark corresponding to it.

To know language is to be able to speak it; even a child who does not yet attend School can speak his or her language. In order to speak a language, it is important to listen to it and read a few pages in it every day. A child picks up language and learns to talk just as (s)h learns to walk. Walking and talking comes naturally to a child as it grows. In our country, a child may grow up speaking more than one language, if these languages are spoken in the home and in the neighbourhood, we call this multilingualism. A child speaks a language or languages much before (s)he starts going to school. To know a language then is, first of all, to be able to speak it as easily and naturally as a three-year-old child does. Later on, the child will learn to read and write in a language, one has to speak it. But it is possible to speak a language but not able to read or write in it. A baby does not speak until it is nine months but it understands a few words at six months of age. It has been listening ever since it was born, and even a little before that. So the first strategy in speaking a language is to listen.

Multilingualism means

speaking more than one language
speaking only one language
speaking any language
speaking any language

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99. A passage is given with five questions following it. Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to each out of the four alternatives and mark corresponding to it.

To know language is to be able to speak it; even a child who does not yet attend School can speak his or her language. In order to speak a language, it is important to listen to it and read a few pages in it every day. A child picks up language and learns to talk just as (s)h learns to walk. Walking and talking comes naturally to a child as it grows. In our country, a child may grow up speaking more than one language, if these languages are spoken in the home and in the neighbourhood, we call this multilingualism. A child speaks a language or languages much before (s)he starts going to school. To know a language then is, first of all, to be able to speak it as easily and naturally as a three-year-old child does. Later on, the child will learn to read and write in a language, one has to speak it. But it is possible to speak a language but not able to read or write in it. A baby does not speak until it is nine months but it understands a few words at six months of age. It has been listening ever since it was born, and even a little before that. So the first strategy in speaking a language is to listen.

A child has been ....................ever since it was born.

speaking
reading
walking
walking

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100. A passage is given with five questions following it. Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to each out of the four alternatives and mark corresponding to it.

To know language is to be able to speak it; even a child who does not yet attend School can speak his or her language. In order to speak a language, it is important to listen to it and read a few pages in it every day. A child picks up language and learns to talk just as (s)h learns to walk. Walking and talking comes naturally to a child as it grows. In our country, a child may grow up speaking more than one language, if these languages are spoken in the home and in the neighbourhood, we call this multilingualism. A child speaks a language or languages much before (s)he starts going to school. To know a language then is, first of all, to be able to speak it as easily and naturally as a three-year-old child does. Later on, the child will learn to read and write in a language, one has to speak it. But it is possible to speak a language but not able to read or write in it. A baby does not speak until it is nine months but it understands a few words at six months of age. It has been listening ever since it was born, and even a little before that. So the first strategy in speaking a language is to listen.

To know a language one must be able to