The list of English passage with questions and answer for FCI, SSC
CHSL and SSC CGL Mains Exams were given here, Candidates those who are all
preparing for the examination can use this practice questions.
Directions
(1-10): In the following questions, you have a passage with 10 questions. Read
the passage carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the
four alternatives.
Once upon a time, there was an ugly girl. She was short and dumpy,
had one leg a bit shorter than the other, and her eyebrows met in the middle.
The ugly girl gutted fish for a living, so her hands smelt funny and her dress
was covered in scales. She had no mother or brother, no father, sister, or any
friends. She lived in a ramshackle house on the outskirts of the village, and
she never complained.
One by one, the village girls married the local lads, and up the path to the
church they’d prance, smiling all the way. At the weddings, the ugly girl
always stood at the back of the church, smelling slightly of brine.The village
women gossiped about the ugly girl. They wondered what she did with the money
she earned. The ugly girl never bought a new frock, never made repairs to the
house, and never drank in the village tavern.Now,it so happened that outside
the village, in a great damp swamp, lived an old basket maker who was famed for
the quality of his work. One day the old basket-maker heard a knock on his
door. When he opened it, the ugly girl stood there. In her hand, she held six
gold coins.’I want you to make me a husband, ‘she said.’Come back in a month, ‘he
replied.well,the old basket –maker was greatly moved that the ugly girl had
entrusted him with such an important task. He resolved to make her the best
husband he could. He made the wicker husband broad of shoulder and long of leg,
and all the other things women like. He made him strong of arm and elegant of
neck, and his brows were wide and wellspaced.His hair was a fine dark brown,
his eyes a greenish hazel. When the day came, the ugly girl knocked on the
basket-maker’s door. ‘He says today is too soon. He will be in the church
tomorrow, at ten, ‘said the basket-maker. The ugly girl went away, and spent
the day scraping scales from her dress.
Later that night, there was a knock on the door of the village tailor. When the
tailor opened it, the wicker husband stood outside. ‘Lend me a suit’, he said. ‘I
am getting married in the morning, and I cannot go to church naked.’Aaaaaaaargh!
Yelled the tailor, and ran out the back door. The tailor’s wife came out.
Wiping her hands. What’s going on? ‘She said. ‘Lend me some suit,’ said the wicker
husband. ‘I am getting married tomorrow, and I cannot go to my wedding naked.’
The tailor’s wife gives him a suit, and slammed the door in his face. Next,
there was a knock on the door of the village shoe-maker. When the shoe maker
opened it, the wicker husband stood there. ‘Lend me some shoes,’ he said. ‘I am
getting married in the morning, and I cannot go to my wedding barefoot. ‘Aaaaaaaaaarghl’
yelled the shoe-maker, and he ran out the back door. The shoe maker’s wife came
out, her hands trembling. ‘What do you want?’ She said. ‘I am getting married
in the morning, and I cannot go to my wedding barefoot.’ ‘The shoe –marker’s
wife gave him a pair of shoes, and slammed the door in his face. Next, the
wicker husband went to the village inn. ‘Give me a drink, ‘said the wicker
husband. ‘I am getting married tommorow, and I wish to celebrate’.’Aaaaaaaaaaaarghl’
yelled the inn-keeper and all his customers, and out they ran. The poor wicker
husband went behind the bar, and poured himself a drink. When the ugly girl got
to church in the morning, she was mighty pleased to find her husband so
handsome, and so well turned out.
1).The wicker husband was
a) Fair
and handsome
b) ugly
c) dark
d) miserly
2).where did the girl find her husband?
a) In
the church
b) In
the village
c) By
the river-side
d) In
the town
3).The house of the girl was
a) Well-built
b) Properly
maintained
c) Badly
built and maintained
d) Nice
and beautiful
4).The girl lived
a) With
her mother
b) With
her father
c) With
her father
d) alone
5).The girl was
a) quarrelsome
b) naughty
c) polite
d) tricky
6).The girl lived
a) outside
of a town
b) outside
of a village
c) in
a slum
d) in
a flat
7).The girl always remained
a) unkempt
b) neat
and clean
c) properly
dressed
d) elegant
8).Who made the husband for the girl?
a) The
villagers
b) The
carpenter
c) The
priest of the church
d) The
basket-marker
9).For marking the husband, the creator asked the girl to come
back in a
a) day
b) week
c) year
d) month
10).The wicker husband got his suit by
a) borrowing
b) purchasing
c) gift
d) theft
Answers:
1). a) 2). a) 3). c) 4). d) 5). c) 6).b) 7). a) 8). d) 9).
d) 10). a)
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