SBI PO Prelims 2022: English Language Quiz –10

SBI PO Prelims English Language Quiz

English Language is a part of almost all major competitive exams in the country and is perhaps the most scoring section also. Aspirants who regularly practice questions have a good chance of scoring well in the English Language Section. So here we are providing you with the SBI PO Prelims English Language Quiz to help you prepare better. This SBI PO Prelims English Language Quiz includes all of the most recent pattern-based questions, as well as Previous Year Questions. This SBI PO Prelims English Language Quiz is available to you at no cost. Candidates will be provided with a detailed explanation of each question in this SBI PO Prelims English Language Quiz. Candidates must practice this SBI PO Prelims English Language Quiz to achieve a good score in the English Language Section.

Directions (1-7): Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below them. Certain words/phrases have been printed in bold to help you locate them while answering some of the questions.

PARAGRAPH1: The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (MIB) recently mandated captioning for TV programming in order to make it accessible to the Deaf or Hard of Hearing population. The decision comes nearly four decades after the United States first implemented captioning for the same purpose. India’s phase-wise implementation plan requires all 800 plus channels to start this on at least one programme a week, beginning August 15, 2019, Independence Day. By 2020, 10% of all programming must have captions; the figure is to grow by 10% every year, covering up to 50% of all programming by 2025.

PARAGRAPH2: The policy impetus for this decision is rooted in the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016 which made “sub-titles” on TV a right. The major challenge for the Ministry now is to ensure compliance by all channels, state and private, as set in the time table. Captioning on TV for the aurally-challenged is not new. Many countries have followed the U.S.’s lead. Still, India’s foray into TV captioning is significant for two reasons. It is one of the first major countries in the Global South to embrace captioning for media access, Brazil being the other one. But India is the first country where the importance of captioning or Same Language Subtitling (SLS) has been established for mass reading literacy.

PARAGRAPH3: At a time when countries are searching for scalable and evidence-based solutions to achieve their Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), SLS in India, if implemented as mandated, is poised to make a massive contribution to SDG-4 on quality education; this is because quality education, foundationally, depends on good reading skills. India has a billion TV viewers. The average Indian watches TV for 3 hours and 46 minutes every day, according to the latest FICCI–EY Media & Entertainment report (2019). Film (24%) and general entertainment (53%) are the dominant genres. All of this content is now required to have SLS, in all languages. Scientific evidence suggests that SLS on TV would serve three goals: daily and automatic reading literacy practice for one billion viewers, including 500 million weak-readers who would benefit the most; Indian language improvement for one billion viewers, and, finally, media access for 65 million aurally challenged people.

PARAGRAPH4: All English channels in India have been implementing SLS for film and general entertainment content for over a decade. A fascinating study that compared ‘dubbing’ with ‘subtitling’ countries of English content on TV found that the population in the latter group has better English language proficiency. English channels in India added SLS on their own to help the Indian ear grasp unfamiliar English accents, causing a rise in viewership. Importantly, the English SLS experience establishes that it is not difficult for the entertainment industry to implement SLS system-wide, if it so desires. Studies in India are at the global forefront of advancing SLS for reading literacy, having proven in several TV pilots that: SLS causes automatic and inescapable reading engagement even among very weak readers who can barely decode a few letters; regular exposure to SLS leads to measurable reading skill improvement, and improved reading skills result in much higher rates of newspaper and other forms of reading. With frequent exposure to SLS over three to five years on content that people watch in any case, most weak readers can become functional and even good readers.

PARAGRAPH5: Inspired by the Indian experience, there is an active campaign in the United Kingdom to Turn-On-The-Subtitles (TOTS) by default in children’s programming. While India plans to follow in the footsteps of the U.S. and the U.K. to get started on captioning for media access, the U.K. is drawing on SLS work in India for reading literacy. India is in a unique position to scale up SLS on TV for both goals: media access and reading literacy. The cost of SLS is negligible for new content when incorporated in the production process itself. To institutionalise SLS on TV, broadcast policy could, therefore, simply mandate it for all new content produced and telecast after a set date.

  1. As per the passage, which of the following points corroborate the implementation of SLS in India?

(i) Accessibility to deaf population

(ii) Reading Literacy

(iii) Contribution to SDG-2

(iv) Media Access

(a) Only (i) and (iii)

(b) Only (ii) and (iv)

(c) Only (i), (ii) and (iii)

(d) Only (i), (ii) and (iv)

(e) All of the above.

Answer & Explanation
Ans. d

Exp. Evidence in support of the given argument can be found in the fifth paragraph of the given passage in which it is stated that ‘India is in a unique position to scale up SLS on TV for both goals: media access and reading literacy.’ From the given statement both (ii) and (iv) can be justified. Also, from the first paragraph in which it is stated, ‘mandated captioning for TV programming in order to make it accessible to the Deaf or Hard of Hearing population’ from this option (i) can be justified. However, option (iii) as can be seen from the statement, ‘Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), SLS in India, if implemented as mandated, is poised to make a massive contribution to SDG-4 on quality education’ From this statement it can be seen that SLS implementation will contribute to SDG- 4 not SDG-2 which makes option (iii) incorrect. Hence, the correct answer choice would be option (d)

  1. Which of the following could be appropriate word to describe the situation presented in italicized statement in the given passage?

(a) Speculative

(b) Irony

(c) Effusive

(d) Mirthful

(e) None of these.

Answer & Explanation
Ans. b

Exp. Speculative means engaged in, expressing, or based on conjecture rather than knowledge.

Irony means a state of affairs or an event that seems deliberately contrary to what one expects and is often wryly amusing as a result.

Effusive means showing or expressing gratitude, pleasure, or approval in an unrestrained or heartfelt manner.

Mirthful means full of amusement

As the given statement is talking about a situation in which India is planning to follow US and UK but instead UK is following India in regards of SLS. So, the appropriate answer choice would be option (b)

  1. Choose the appropriate reason(s) for non-implementation of SLS in India till date, as discussed in the passage.

(a) Huge number of channels

(b) Lack of regulatory body in media sector

(c) India’s huge TV watching population

(d) Both (a) and (b)

(e) None of these.

Answer & Explanation
Ans. e

Exp. There is no point mentioned in the passage which can provide us with the information to answer the given question. Hence, the correct answer choice would be option (e)

  1. Which of the following is similar in meaning to the word ‘IMPETUS’ as used in the passage?

(a) Stimulus

(b) Assertion

(c) Infuse

(d) Deterrent

(e) None of these.

Answer & Explanation
Ans. a

Exp. Impetus means something that makes a process or activity happen or happen more quickly.

Assertion means a confident and forceful statement of fact or belief.

Deterrent means a thing that discourages or is intended to discourage someone from doing something.
So, from the given options ‘stimulus’ is similar in meaning to the given word. Hence, the correct answer choice would be option (a)

  1. The stamen(s) which is/are FALSE in context of the given passage is/are

(a) Dubbing leads to better English language proficiency

(b) SLS is better in skill improvement as compared to newspaper

(c) All (a) (b) and (d)

(d) Film genre is dominating general entertainment genre in India

(e) None of these.

Answer & Explanation
Ans. c

Exp. Evidence in support of the given argument can be found from third and fourth paragraph of the given passage in which it is stated that ‘Film (24%) and general entertainment (53%) are the dominant genres’ and ‘A fascinating study that compared ‘dubbing’ with ‘subtitling’ countries of English content on TV found that the population in the latter group has better English language proficiency.’ From the given statement it can be inferred that option (a) and (d) are incorrect. Also, in paragraph four it is mentioned that ‘SLS leads to measurable reading skill improvement, and improved reading skills result in much higher rates of newspaper and other forms of reading’ from this we can clearly see that option (d) is incorrect. Hence, the correct answer choice would be option (c)

  1. The appropriate title of the passage could be

(a) Achieving SDG through SLS

(b) Challenges of SLS

(c) Learning from west- Captioning

(d) Aspects of SLS in India

(e) None of these.

Answer & Explanation
Ans. d

Exp. Going through the passage it can be seen that the author is talking about the captioning on TV and mainly in regional languages. So, the appropriate title for the given passage would be ‘Aspects of SLS in India’. Other options cannot be the suitable title of the given passage because they are the part of the entire passage but not the central theme. We can find reference to the given options but they are all discussed in context of SLS implementation in India. Hence, the correct answer choice would be option (d)

  1. As per the passage, which of the following points justify the implementation of SLS by foreign media in India on their own?

(i) Increase in viewers

(ii) Low implementation cost

(iii) Mandatory captioning in their country

(a) Only (i)

(b) Only (iii)

(c) Both (i) and (ii)

(d) Both (ii) and (iii)

(e) None of these.

Answer & Explanation
Ans. a

Exp. Evidence in support of the given argument can be found from the fourth paragraph of the given passage in which it is stated that, ‘English channels in India added SLS on their own to help the Indian ear grasp unfamiliar English accents, causing a rise in viewership.’ From the given statement, option (i) can be easily justified. However, no evidence can be found in support of the remaining two options. Hence, the correct answer choice would be option (a)

Directions (8-10): Read each sentence to find out whether there is any grammatical or idiomatic error in it. The error, if any, will be in one part of the sentence. The alphabet corresponding to that part is your answer. If there is ‘No error’, the answer is (e). (Ignore errors of punctuation, if any.) 

  1. Cochin State was one of (A)/the first to sign a Standstill Agreement (B)/ with the Indian Union in (C)/the build-up to Independence. (D)/No error

(a) D

(b) A

(c) B

(d) C

(e) No error.

Answer & Explanation
Ans. e

Exp. All the parts of the given sentence are grammatically as well as contextually correct. Sine it do not require any corrections, option (e) i.e. no error becomes the most viable answer choice.

  1. The idea of holding (A)/lakhs of people in detention (B)/centres are bound to be (C)/a self-defeating and disastrous one (D)/No error

(a) D

(b) A

(c) B

(d) C

(e) No error.

Answer & Explanation
Ans. d

Exp. Here, error lies in part (C) of the sentence. The use of ‘are’ here is incorrect instead it should be ‘is’ as per the subject verb agreement and the subject of the given sentence is ‘The idea’. Hence, the correct answer choice would be option (d)

  1. India’s automobile industry (A)/is experiencing a snowballing crisis (B)/of demand that shows no (C)/signs of abating, leave alone reversal. (D)/ No error

(a) D

(b) A

(c) B

(d) C

(e) No error.

Answer & Explanation
Ans. a

Exp. Here, error lies in part (D). The use of ‘reversal’ here is incorrect instead it should be ‘reversing’ as per the principle of parallelism. Hence, the correct answer choice would be option (a)

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