SSC CGL Tier-2 Paper-1 English Sectional Mock Test 03

1. For fifty years, Elias repaired clocks in a shop so small that customers had to step inside one at a time. He never advertised, and he never turned a clock away, no matter how broken. When the town's new shopping centre opened with a watch shop that promised repairs in an hour, Elias's customers thinned, but he changed nothing. He still took each clock apart by hand, cleaned every wheel, and returned it with a note saying when it would next need attention. One winter, the shopping centre's watch shop closed, as suddenly as it had opened, and people brought their watches back to Elias, who repaired them without a word about the past. When Elias died, the town found that he had left the shop, and a sum of money for its upkeep, to his apprentice, a girl of nineteen who had arrived from another country and spoke little of the town's language. She kept the shop open, and she kept his rule: no clock turned away. The shop is still there, and the clocks of the town still keep time, though few people now remember the name of the man who taught the girl.

   Q1.Which of the following best expresses the central idea of the passage?

   • A.Elias died without leaving anything behind.
   • B.Watch shops promise repairs in an hour.
   • C.A clockmaker's patience and generosity outlast a faster rival, and his craft lives on through his apprentice.
   • D.Shopping centres destroy small businesses.

2. Q2.Why did Elias's customers thin?

   • A.Because he moved to another town.
   • B.Because he raised his prices.
   • C.Because a new watch shop promised repairs in an hour.
   • D.Because he refused to repair watches.

3. Q3.What did Elias leave to his apprentice?

   • A.The shop and a sum of money for its upkeep.
   • B.A note about every clock.
   • C.Only his tools.
   • D.The shopping centre's watch shop.

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