SBI Clerk Pre-English Language Quiz – 15

SBI Clerk Pre-English Language Quiz

Aspirants have a strong possibility of scoring well in the English Language section if they practice quality questions on a regular basis. This section takes the least amount of time if the practice is done every day in a dedicated manner. In this article, we have come up with the SBI Clerk Pre-English Language Quiz to help you prepare better. Candidates will be provided with a detailed explanation for each question in this SBI PO Prelims English Language Quiz. This SBI Clerk Pre-English Language Quiz includes a variety of questions ranging in difficulty from easy to tough. This SBI Clerk Pre-English Language Quiz is totally FREE. This SBI Clerk Pre-English Language Quiz has important English Language Questions and Answers that will help you improve your exam score. Aspirants must practice this SBI Clerk Pre-English Language Quiz in order to be able to answer questions quickly and efficiently in upcoming exams.

Directions (1-5): Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below it.

Among those suffering from the global recession are millions of workers who are not even included in the official statistics: urban recyclers – the trash pickers, sorters, traders and reprocessors who extricate paper, cardboard and plastics from garbage heaps and prepare them for reuse. Their work is both unrecorded and largely unrecognized, even though in some parts of the World they handle as much as 20% of all waste. The World’s 15 million informal recyclers clean up cities prevent some trash from ending in landfills and thus, reduce climate change by saving energy on waste disposal techniques like incineration. In the developed countries they are the preferred ones since they recycle waste much more cheaply and efficiently than governments or private corporations can. In the developing World, on the other hand, they provide the only recycling services except for a few big cities. But as recession hits the markets Worldwide, the price of scrap metal, paper and plastic has also fallen. Recyclers throughout the World are experiencing a sharp drop in income. Trash pickers and scrapdealers saw a decline of as much as 80% in the price of scrap from October 2007 to October 2009. In some countries scrap dealers have shuttered so quickly that researchers at the Solid Waste Management Association didn’t have a chance to record their losses.

In Delhi, some 80% of families in the informal recycling business surveyed by an organization said they had cut back on “luxury foods,” which they defined as fruit, milk and meat. About 41% had stopped buying milk for their children. By this summer, most of those children, already malnourished, hadn’t had a glass of milk in nine months. Many of these children have also cut down on hours spent in school to work alongside their parents. Families have liquidated their most valuable assets – primarily copper from electrical wires – and have stopped sending remittances back to their rural villages. Many have also sold their emergency stores of grain. Their misery is not as familiar as that of the laid-off workers of big name but imploding, service sector corporation, but it is often more tragic.

Few countries have adopted emergency measures to help trash pickers. Brazil, for one, is providing recyclers, or “catadores,” with cheaper food, both through arrangements with local farmers and by offering food subsidies. Other countries, with the support of non-governmental organizations and donor agencies are following Brazil’s example. Unfortunately, most trash pickers operate outside official notice and end up falling through the cracks of programmes like these. In the long run, though, these invisible workers will remain especially vulnerable to economic slowdowns unless they are integrated into the formal business sector, where they can have insurance and reliable wages. This is not hard to accomplish. Informal junk shops should have to apply for licences, and governments should create or expand doorstep waste collection programmes to employ trash pickers. Instead of sorting through haphazard trash heaps and landfills, the pickers would have access to the cleaner scrap that comes from households.

The need of the hour, however, is a more immediate solution. An efficient but temporary solution would be for governments where they’d have to pay a small subsidy to waste dealers so they could purchase scrap from trash pickers at about 20% above the current price. This increase, if well advertised and broadly utilized, would bring recyclers a higher price and eventually bring them back from the brink. Trash pickers make our cities healthier and more liveable. We all stand to gain by making sure that the work of recycling remains sustainable for years to come.

  1. Which of the following is true regarding waste recycling in the developing countries?

(a) The government and private organizations services are much costlier than the informal recyclers.

(b) Barring a few cities, government waste recycling mechanism is completely lacking in these countries

(c) There has not been any effort in the developing countries to help the struggling recyclers

(d) Global recession has hit the recyclers of the developing countries

(e) None of these

Answer & Explanation
Ans. d

Exp. Refer to the second paragraph, “In the developed countries they are the preferred ones since they recycle waste much more cheaply and efficiently than governments or private corporations can. In the developing World, on the other hand, they provide the only recycling services except for a few big cities.”

  1. Which step does the author suggest in order to immediately bring the waste recyclers back from the adversity?

(a) Enabling the scrap dealers to purchase scrap at a price higher than that of the market

(b) By advertising recycling as a profitable business amongst the informal recyclers

(c) Banning the waste collection by informal trash pickers

(d) Supporting the families of the recyclers until the recession tides over

(e) None of these

Answer & Explanation
Ans. a

Exp. Refer to the first paragraph, “An efficient but temporary solution would be for governments where they’d have to pay a small subsidy to waste dealers so they could purchase scrap from trash pickers at about 20% above the current price.”

  1. Which of the following is intended in the given passage?

(a) To highlight the domination of the big-name service industry corporations in the scrap dealing business

(b) To highlight various factors responsible for the prevailing malnutrition in children of the informal recyclers

(c) To suggest the steps which can help the anguished recyclers

(d) To explain the measures which can be taken in order to make recycling more energy efficient

(e) None of these

Answer & Explanation
Ans. d

Exp. It is quite clear from the passage that it is conveying the measures which can be undertaken to make recycling more energy efficient.

  1. Why, according to the author, are the urban recyclers facing a sharp decline in their business?

(a) Recession has adversely affected the prices of scrap thus, making it an unprofitable business

(b) Many governmental and private organizations have entered the business providing a comparatively better service

(c) Their work has been gradually derecognized by the government

(d) Recycling and waste disposing techniques are cost inefficient

(e) None of these

Answer & Explanation
Ans. a

Exp. Refer to the first paragraph, “But as recession hits the markets Worldwide, the price of scrap metal, paper and plastic has also fallen. Recyclers throughout the World are experiencing a sharp drop in income. Trash pickers and scrap dealers saw a decline of as much as 80% in the price of scrap from October 2007 to October 2009.”

  1. What measures does the author suggest to help the informal recyclers in the times to come?

(a) To encourage them to work in union with the private organizations

(b) To provide them subsidies in food and education throughout their business career

(c) To record their losses precisely with the research conducted by Solid Waste Management Association and then take appropriate steps

(d) To involve them in the organized sector so as to enable them to have a stable income

(e) None of these

Answer & Explanation
Ans. d

Exp. Refer to the third paragraph, “In the long run, though, these invisible workers will remain especially vulnerable to economic slowdowns unless they are integrated into the formal business sector, where they can have insurance and reliable wages.”

Direction (6-10): The following question consists of a sentence which is divided into three parts which contain grammatical errors in one or more than one part of the sentence. If there is an error in any part of the sentence, find the correct alternatives to replace those parts from the three options given below each question to make the sentence grammatically correct. If there is an error in any part of the sentence and none of the alternatives is correct to replace that part, then choose (d), i.e., None of the (I), (II) and (III) as your answer. If the given sentence is grammatically correct or does not require any correction, choose (e), i.e., No correction required as your answer.

  1. The joint team lose to Sweden in a practice game this week and their are (I)/ questions over how the two sets of players will get along, but with supporters (II)/ of both countries cheering their side on together in a time of escalating political tensions, scorecards seem immaterial. (III)

(I) The joint team lost to Sweden in a practice game this week and there are

(II) questions over how the two sets of players will get along, let with supporters

(III) of both countries cheering their side on together with a time of escalating political tensions, scorecards seem immaterial

(a)Only (I)
(b)Only (II)
(c)Both (I) and (III)
(d)None of the (I), (II) and (III)
(e)No correction required

Answer & Explanation
Ans. a

Exp. In the first part of the sentence “lose” should be replaced with “lost” as the given sentence is in the past tense. Moreover, “their” in the first part of the sentence is incorrect, it should be replaced with “there” as “there” is used to indicate the fact or existence of something. Both the other parts of the sentence are grammatically and contextually correct. Hence, option (a) is the correct choice.

  1. The Bharatiya Janata Party do not depend on the numerical strength (I)/ of any alliance partner for its survival in government at the Centre, (II)/ whether it could well need all the help it can get in 2019 for the next Lok Sabha election. (III)

(I) The Bharatiya Janata Party does not depend on the numerical strength

(II) of any alliance partner for its survival in government of the Centre,

(III) but, it could well need all the help it can get in 2019 for the next Lok Sabha election.

(a)Only (I)
(b) Only (II)
(c)Both (I) and (III)
(d)None of the (I), (II) and (III)
(e)No correction required

Answer & Explanation
Ans. c

Exp. In the first part of the sentence replace “do” with “does” as the subject “The Bharatiya Janata Party” is singular which will require a singular verb. The third person singular present of do is “does”. Moreover, in the third part of the sentence replace the conjunction “whether” with “but” as “whether” is used to express a doubt or choice between alternatives whereas; “but” is used to introduce a phrase or clause contrasting with what has already been mentioned. Here the information in the sentence is not providing any alternatives, instead, it is expressing a contrasting clause about the help required by Bharatiya Janata Party. Hence, the rationale, given makes option (c) viable.

  1. In desperate attempt to reach to the root of the tensions (I)/ Gandhi appealed to Golwalker, the leader of the Rashtriya Sayamsevak Sangh who (II)/ he reckoned was the chief power loci of the Hindu extremists. (III)

(I) In a desperate attempt to reach to the root of the tensions

(II) Gandhi appealed to Golwalker, the leader of the Rashtriya Sayamsevak Sangh which

(III) he reckoned was the chief power loci of the Hindu extremists.

(a)Only (I)
(b) Only (III)
(c)Both (I) and (II)
(d)None of the (I), (II) and (III)
(e)No correction required

Answer & Explanation
Ans. c

Exp. The error is in the first and the second part of the sentence. In the first part of the sentence, the article “a” is missing before the adjective “desperate” as if the noun is modified by an adjective, the choice between the articles “a” and “an” depends on the initial sound of the adjective that immediately follows the article: Also, in the second part of the sentence the relative pronoun “which” is incorrectly used to connect the later clause of the sentence as the subject “Rashtriya Sayamsevak Sangh” is not a single person instead it is a group of people, therefore, it requires the relative pronoun replacing “who” with “which”. A significant difference in the usage of “which” and “who” is ‘which’ is used for non-living things and ‘who’ is used for persons. Hence, the correct choice is option (c).

  1. As the overall allocation for health and social protection (I)/ had not increased significantly there was uncertainty (II)/ about how this programme would be financed. (III)

(I) As the overall allocation for health and social protection

(II) had not increased significantly there was uncertainty

(III) about how this programme would be financed

(a)Only (I)
(b) Only (III)
(c)Both (I) and (III)
(d)None of the (I), (II) and (III)
(e)No correction required

Answer & Explanation
Ans. e

Exp. Option (e) is the correct choice. No correction is required in any part of the sentence as it is grammatically and contextually correct.

  1. Central bank in Europe, Japan and the United States have also flagged concerning (I)/ about the unit and these week saw several commercial lenders say (II)/ they would stop allowing their customers to buy bitcoin through their credit cards owing for debt concerns. (III)

(I) Central bank in Europe, Japan and the United States have also flagged concerns

(II) about the unit and this week saw several commercial lenders say

(III) they would stop allowing their customers to buy bitcoin through their credit cards owing to debt concerns.

(a)Only (I)
(b)Only (II)
(c)All (I), (II) and (III)
(d)None of the (I), (II) and (III)
(e)No correction required

Answer & Explanation
Ans. c

Exp. All three parts of the sentence reside error in them. In the first part of the sentence, the word “concerning” is incorrectly used. “concerning” is the verb whereas; the sentence requires its noun form which is “concerns”. “concerning” is an ongoing activity while “concerns” here as a noun means the anxiety or the problem to deal with. Moreover, in the second part of the sentence “these” should be replaced with “this” as the sentence is describing about a single week thus, the singular form “these” is required i.e., “this”. Later, in the third part the preposition “for” is incorrect. “owing to” is a phrase which means ‘because of or on account of’. Hence, all three parts consists error in them making option (c) the correct choice.

 

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