SSC CHSL 2023-17.08.2023-1 SSC Question Paper

Answer the next 5 Questions.
Comprehension:
In the following passage some words have been deleted. Read the passage carefully and select the most appropriate option to fill in each blank.

Harry Potter was first introduced in the novel, ‘Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone’, as an orphan who is (1)________ by his guardian aunt and uncle and their son. On his 11th birthday Harry discovers that his parents were a witch and a wizard and that he, a wizard himself, has been invited to (2)______ Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. He also learns that his parents had not (3)_______ in a car accident, as his aunt and uncle had told him, but that they instead had been murdered by an evil wizard named Voldemort. Harry was the only person to have ever (4) ______ an attack by Voldemort—by somehow (5)_______ the latter’s ‘killing curse’—which left him with a lightning-bolt-shaped scar on his forehead.

Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank number 1.

Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank number 2.

Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank number 3.

Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank number 4.

Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank number 5.

Section : General Intelligence
The second number in the given number pairs is obtained by performing certain mathematical operation(s) on the first number. The same operation(s) are followed in all the number pairs except one. Find that odd number pair.
(NOTE: Operations should be performed on whole numbers, without breaking down the numbers into their constituent digits. E.g. 13 - Operations on 13 such as adding / subtracting / multiplying, etc. to 13 can be performed. Breaking down 13 into 1 and 3 and then performing mathematical operations on 1 and 3 is not allowed.)

Select the correct mirror image of the given figure when the mirror is placed at MN as shown below.

Read the given statements and conclusions carefully. You have to take the given statements to be true even if they seem to be at variance from commonly known facts. You have to decide which conclusions logically follow(s) from the given statements.
Statements:
Some clowns are scary. All scary are ghosts. Some ghosts are friendly.
Conclusion (I) All ghosts are friendly.
Conclusion (II) All clowns are ghosts.

Select the combination of letters which when sequentially placed in the blanks of the given series will complete the series.
LMN_LMN_LM_NL_MMNN

The position of which letter will be exactly at the centre of the arrangement if each of the letters in the word ‘TOUCHED’ is arranged in reversed alphabetical order, i.e. starting from the first letter (Z)?