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SSC CGL 2024 PYQ — Question 25

SSC CGL - 17 Sep 2024 - Shift 3 • English • Q25

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In the following passage, some words have been deleted. Read the passage carefully and select the most appropriate option to fill in each blank.

Rory Cooper was a top aide to former House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, the up-and-coming Virginia Republican who lost a 2014 House primary. He was also a prominent Never Trumper, openly (1)______________ how awful he found the 45th president. The cause Cooper has (2)______________ himself to for the past year, though, is closer to home. He is, as he puts it in his Twitter bio, ‘Apparently Mr. Open the Schools’. A father of a fifth grader, a second grader and a kindergartner, Cooper is (3) ___________ because the public schools in Fairfax, Virginia, where he lives, have not reopened. Fairfax, in the Washington, D.C., suburbs, is one of the school districts that has moved (4) ___________ toward in-person learning, and it is still not close: only in the past few weeks have students started to return to classrooms, and only about half of those eligible have opted to go back, for an (5) ________________ of two days a week.

Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank no. 5.

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Correct answer: A

Explanation

The correct answer is option 1 i.e. average.

Context: The sentence explains that students have only recently begun returning to school, and even then, only for a limited number of days per week. The blank requires a word that conveys a typical or calculated number of days.

Meaning of the words:

  • Average: A typical or normal number obtained by dividing the sum of values by the number of values; the usual number.

  • Amount: A quantity or measure of something.

  • Ideal: The most perfect or suitable condition.

  • Understanding: The ability to comprehend or grasp.

Correct word: Average

Reason: The sentence talks about how many days per week students are attending school on average (i.e., typically, not exactly for everyone but a general figure). Therefore, average fits perfectly because it reflects the mean number of days across the student population.

Hence, the chosen options are correct.