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SBI PO Pre 2022 English Language Quiz –1
English Language a very important role in banking and other competitive exams. Grammar, vocabulary, and comprehension are three important sections of the English language in competitive exams. A section on the English Language is included in both the preliminary and main exams for SBI PO. In this article, we have come up with the SBI PO pre–English Language Quiz to enhance your preparation. A detailed explanation of each will be provided in this SBI PO 2022 English Language Quiz. All types of Questions for prelims and mains are included in this SBI PO 2022 English Language Quiz. This SBI PO pre–English Language Quiz is completely FREE.
Directions (1-5): Read the following passage carefully and answer the question given below it. Certain words/phrases in the passage are printed in bold to help you locate them while answering some of the questions.
‘Animal Farm’: What Orwell Really Meant, anti-Stalinist intellectuals of his acquaintance claimed that the parable of Animal Farm meant that revolution always ended badly for the underdog, “hence to hell with it and hail the status quo.” He himself read the book as applying solely to Russia and not making any larger statement about the philosophy of revolution. “I’ve been impressed with how many leftists I know make this criticism quite independently of each other—impressed because it didn’t occur to me when reading the book and still doesn’t seem correct to me.
In an essay called ‘Why I Write’ written in 1947, Orwell says that his desire has been to make political writing into an art. He starts to write a book, he says, from ‘a sense of injustice, not from the idea that he is going to produce a great work of art: I write it because there is some lie I want to expose, some fact to which I want to draw attention, and my initial concern is to get a hearing. From the sketch of the political background to Animal farm it will be quite clear that one of the purposes of the book is to expose the lie which (it seemed to Orwell) Stalinist Russia had become. It was supposed to be a Socialist Union of States, but it had become a dictatorship. Not only that. There were socialists in Britain and in the West generally who were so eager to advance the cause that everything the Soviet Union did had to be accepted. The Soviet Union, in fact, damaged the cause of true socialism. In a preface he wrote to Animal farm he says that for the past ten years I have been convinced that the destruction of the Soviet myth was essential if we wanted a revival of the ‘socialist movement’.
Animal farm attempts, through a simplification of Soviet history, to clarify in the minds of readers what Orwell felt Russia had become. The clarification is to get people to face the facts of injustice, of brutality. And hopefully to get them to think out for themselves some way in which a true and democratic socialism (in Orwell’s phrase) will be brought about. But Orwell’s purpose goes beyond the particular example of the Russia Revolution. In Animal Farm he criticizes something inherent in an all revolutions and he himself was conscious of this. Russia is the immediate example, but the book, Orwell himself said, is intended as a satire on dictatorship in general. The time will come when the details of Russian history that roused Orwell’s anger will be forgotten, and Animal Farm will be read for its bitter, ironic analysis of the stages all revolutions tend to go through. In Animal Farm Orwell is thinking of the French Revolution and of the Spanish Civil War as well as the Bolshevik Rebellion of 1917. After the initial excitement and enthusiasm, when personal interests are almost forgotten, Orwell seems to say, the hard facts of life begin to make themselves felt again.
To survive one must produce food, and to produce food one must organize. To organize one needs administrators,and they will be among the most intelligent and the most ambitious. Administrative authority gradually becomes power and power becomes tyranny. Orwell sees this process as something that is almost inevitable in human affairs, Revolution among them. In Animal Farm this process works itself out with a logic that is simple and effective. Was it Orwell’s purpose then to present the reader with a view of man’s inability to change himself?
Such a view would be directly contrary to Orwell’s own, very personal brand of socialism, but there is no doubt that part of him, at least, felt that there was something wrong with human nature and that political systems, because human, had a tendency towards corruption and tyranny. Animal Farm is a powerful parable of that tendency. It would also be possible to take the view that Animal Farm confronts its readers with the tendencies towards tyranny in Revolution so that they may be warned. Such things having happened before, they may very well happen again if care is not taken to avoid them, next time. The reader will have to make up his own mind as to whether Orwell was a moral pessimist or a moralistic socialist. It may be that they are the same thing. Animal Farm is a work that raises questions not just about political systems, but about human nature itself. Can man change, or is he condemned to a see-saw of systems that all end up the same? Because one of Orwell’s deepest purposes was primarily moral, it is not surprising that he chose a form traditionally associated with the moral as a means of achieving his purpose: the animal fable.
- As per the passage, all of the following statements indicates Orwell’s purpose(s) in writing Animal Farm except-
(a) To expose the ‘Soviet myth’. As he saw that the mindless acceptance of everything that Stalin did in the name of socialism was damaging socialism itself.
(b) To expose the nature of revolution itself. As he saw the revolutions decaying into rules of terror.
(c) To expose the inherent frailties of the human nature to usurp and misuse power for corrupt motives.
(d) To forewarn his readers of the tyranny in revolution that may endanger the future of socialism and their society.
(e) To draw the attention of the oppressed and get a hearing from the ideologues and the socialists for having produced a great work of art.
- Which of the following statements does not represent the image of Orwell which the author wants to create in the minds of the readers?
(a) That Orwell despite being an Englishman upheld and advocated the principles of socialism.
(b) That he belongs to that breed of intellectuals who make use of their art as a weapon against injustice, corruption, and tyranny.
(c) Inspite of his cognizance of human tendencies to get corrupt amidst blanket power, he was hopeful that he could make people think out for themselves to bring about democratic socialism.
(d) That he had an exaggerated notion of himself as the representative of the social and moral conscience in a world that was bereft and oblivious of the same sublime virtues.
(e) None of the above.
- A suitable title for the passage is
(a) A criticism of ‘Animal Farm’
(b) Orwell and Dictatorship.
(c) Russia- A lie which needed to be exposed.
(d) Political writing and its impact.
(e) The purpose behind writing ‘Animal Farm’.
- ‘Animal farm’ can be best categorized as:
(a) A political analysis of the Bolshevik revolution of 1917.
(b) A socio-politico and ideological account of the erstwhile Soviet Union.
(c) A political satire on the Russian brand of socialism and its rule of terror.
(d) A moral fable a la Aesop’s mode narrated through animals.
(e) An exposition of corruption in people.
- Why did Orwell choose animals to relate his account and thoughts to his readers?
(a) To remind us that though we have been accepting the tradition of the animal fable the moral of the fable relates to us as humans.
(b) Because, relating humans with animals and vice versa was a novel literary practice in the genre of satire writing.
(c) It’s easier to arouse the sympathy of the reader with animal characters than that with the human ones.
(d) He probably wanted to escape any counterattack by the soviet dictators.
(e) He despite his will to expose the lie did not have the audacity to put his mind straight.
Directions (6-10): In each question below, there are two or three sentences. Those are to be synthesized in one sentence. Such synthesized sentences are denoted by (A), (B) & (C), you have to find out which one or more of these three are most similar in meaning of the original two or three sentences.
- Petroleum industry is going to face certain challenges. These challenges would be imminent in the next two decades. For success, it must predict these challenges now.
(A) In the next two decades, petroleum industry must face the challenges which it has now predicted.
(B) If petroleum industry determines to succeed in facing the challenges which are likely to be posed in the next two decades, it must be able to predict them now.
(C) If petroleum industry wants to predict the challenges it is likely to face in the next two decades, it must successfully face them.
(a) Only A and B
(b) Only B and C
(c) Only A and C
(d) Only A
(e) Only B
- Two men can now do this job. Previously it required sixteen men.
(A) Two men can now do a job formerly requiring sixteen.
(B) Two men, instead of the previously sixteen, can now do this job.
(C) In place of two men who can do this job now, there is a requirement of sixteen men in the past.
(a) Only A
(b) Only B
(c) Only C
(d) Only A and C
(e) Only B and C
- They were curious. They asked us a question. They wanted to know why we had left the comfortable hotel and gone to the desert.
(A) Out of curiosity they inquired why we had gone to the desert leaving the comfortable hotel.
(B) They asked us why we were curious to leave the comfortable hotel and go to the desert.
(C) They were curious to know the reason for our leaving the comfortable hotel and going to the desert.
(a) Only A and B
(b) Only B and C
(c) Only A and C
(d) All the three
(e) None of these
- They could play exceedingly well. They were defeated in the last round. The captain motivated them to overcome the defeat.
(A) The captain’s motivation helped them to overcome the earlier defeat and play exceedingly well.
(B) Despite earlier defeat they played exceedingly well due to the caption’s efforts to motivate them.
(C) Despite the captain’s motivation, they were defeated earlier but could play exceedingly well now.
(a) Only A
(b) Only B
(c) Only C
(d) Only A and B
(e) None of these
- His marriage is at a far-off place. I do not want to undertake such a long journey to attend it. In fact, there is no earthly reason to justify such a long journey.
(A) There is no reason to justify such a distant place for his marriage as it would take me a long time to reach it.
(B) There is no earthly reason for me to undertake a long journey to attend his marriage.
(C) Because his marriage is at a far-off place, I would not be able to undertake such a long journey as it is not justifiable.
(a) Only A and B
(b) Only B and C
(c) Only A and C
(d) Only C
(e) Only B
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