English Quiz for SBI Clerk Pre | 20th July June English Quiz

English Quiz for SBI Clerk Pre

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Directions(1-10):In each of the following sentence, there are two blank spaces. Below the sentences, there are five options and the blanks are to be filled with the pair of words given below to make the sentences correct. Fill up the sentences with the correct word.

 

Q1. The “Hotspot” dispute has dragged on for several decades, and it would be unfortunate if the ………… of a final decision arrived at through ……….. adjudication is not monitored by an independent authority.

(a) exercise; strict

(b) execution; vigorous

(c) implementation; rigorous

(d) compliance; severe

(e) action; stringent

Answer & Explanation
Ans.1.(c)

Exp. Implementation- the process of moving an idea from concept or reality

Rigorous- severe or strict

 

Q2. The most welcome feature of such a mechanism is that an issue concerning the ……….. of thousands of farmers will be taken out of the political domain and ……….. to experts.

(a) liberty; empowered

(b) livelihood; entrusted

(c) subsistence; endowed

(d) life span; bestowed

(e) lives; acquainted

Answer & Explanation
Ans.2.(b)

Exp. Livelihood- well-being

Entrusted- to trust to the care of

 

Q3. Ordinarily, who gets the first shot at forming the government should not matter if neither group ………. in engineering ………..: the issue is best settled on the floor of the House in a confidence vote.

(a) indulged; infections

(b) engages; defections

(c) involves; defaults

(d) participates; mistakes

(e) engrossed; faults

Answer & Explanation
Ans.3.(b)

Exp. Engages- to keep busy or occupied

Defections- faults or malfunctions

 

Q4. The Chinese have made no ………. about the urgency of seeking India’s backing to ………. these headwinds blowing across the Pacific.

(a) actions; encounter

(b) steps; strokes

(c) plans; make

(d) bones; counter

(e) stones; forward

Answer & Explanation
Ans.4.(d)

Exp. “no bones about” is an idiom which means to say something directly without having any doubts

Counter- in opposition

 

Q5. There she plays the role of conductor, ………… and teasing the MPs to sing. Sometimes, when they literally sing a different tune, she …………, correcting their pitch and adding some lines.

(a) harassing; intimidates

(b) beckoning; interrupts

(c) making; intervenes

(d) calling; interferes

(e) cajoling; interjects

Answer & Explanation
Ans.5.(e)

Exp. Cajoling- to persuade someone to do something

Interjects- to insert something between other things

 

Q6. While the eager beavers sit in the front row, there are some who don’t want to be ……….. — Mohan Sen, for instance, sits at the back of the room, away from Ms. Chaterjee’s line of …………

(a) called; approach

(b) beckoned; vision

(c) reckoned; border

(d) noticed; reach

(e) seen; power

Answer & Explanation
Ans.6.(b)

Exp. Beckoned- to wave or nod to somebody with the intention to make the person come closer

Vision- view

 

Q7. She remained away from the ………… handling the relatively ………… IT department for over a year before getting Accounts in July last.

(a) attention; latent

(b) spotlight; enigmatic

(c) limelight; obscure

(d) noticed; ambiguous

(e) perception; vague

Answer & Explanation
Ans.7.(c)

Exp. Limelight- attention

Obscure- hard to understand

Q8. The government was fed up with constant …………. generated by her and it felt ……….. at every controversy she created.

(a) strife; hindered

(b) issues; neglected

(c) fights; embraced

(d) protests; ashamed

(e) controversies; embarrassed

Answer & Explanation
Ans.8.(e)

Exp. Controversies- a debate, discussion of opposing opinions; strife

Embarrassed- having a feeling of shameful discomfort

 

Q9. The press release was issued by the I&B Ministry, which had ……….. the guidelines and sought to punish journalists by cancelling their ……….. if found circulating fake news.

(a) formed; license

(b) modified; prescription

(c) changed; affiliation

(d) amended; accreditation

(e) rectified; approval

Answer & Explanation
Ans.9.(d)

Exp. Amended- that has been modified from a previous form

Accreditation- to ascribe or credit with.

 

Q10. Twelve people are ……….. killed after a flyover under construction collapsed in Varanasi on Tuesday. Many vehicles are buried under the ………. bridge near the railway station in Cantonment.

(a) hardly; demolished

(b) badly; deformed

(c) feared; collapsed

(d) drastically; weak

(e) completely; broken

Answer & Explanation
Ans.10.(c)

Exp. Feared- pertaining to someone or thing that causes great fear in others

Collapsed- to break apart and fall down suddenly.

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