SBI PO Prelims 2022: English Language Quiz –20

Exp. The passage talks about how the Arctic region was recently grappling with a heatwave that had taken over the entire region. It then goes on to talk about what needs to be done to make things better. It enlists a fairly simple idea of trying to bring down the level of greenhouse emissions. The second paragraph then talks how the countries had all signed a pact to make efforts to limit global warming and how that translates to maintaining zero emissions by every sector in every country of the world. The final passage talks whether such a goal would be attainable in all areas or not. The first blank is immediately followed by ‘European heatwave’ which tells us that the blank must be an adjective and definitely not a positive one like balmy or peasant. Hurtful means causing distress to someone’s feelings. Between harm and scorching, the latter better describes a heatwave.

Exp. All salubrious, salutary, productive and remedial mean ‘producing a beneficial effect’. The sentence is talking about bringing down greenhouse gas levels, the lower will be the stabilised temperature and lesser the devastating or disastrous consequences we’ll have to face.

Exp. Both seek and strive are verbs and since pursue itself is a verb, they aren’t the correct answers. Since the sentence talks about multiple goals that need to be achieved, both endeavour and attempt are also not correct options. ‘To pursue efforts’ means to seek or strive to attain (some object, goal etc.) making ‘efforts’ the correct option.

Exp. The sentence talks about halving the emissions for which every sector in every country needs to be producing about zero emissions. Because of the presence of ‘on’, none of the words approximation, standard, estimate or rate is a suitable option for the blank. Only ‘average’ provides both grammatical accuracy and meaning to the sentence.

Exp. In the last sentence it is given: long-haul on an electric plane any time soon. Long-haul means for longer time or distance and even if you ignore the phrase you realize that the sentence is trying to convey that there doesn’t seem to be any recent chances of flying or going airborne on an electric airplane anytime soon. But because the blank is not preceded by the words ‘being’ or ‘going’, neither airborne nor windborne are suitable options. Flying is both grammatically fitting and also provides the required meaning.

Exp. Going through the given sentence it can be clearly seen that the first sentences in the arrangement would be sentence (B). Next in the arrangement would be sentence (E) as the given sentence is throwing light on the fact that the rate cut was expected but the scale of the rate cut was unanticipated. The next sentence in the arrangement would be sentence (A) which is asking about the credibility of the extent of the rate cut. This will be then followed by sentence (C) and then sentence (D) to make a contextually meaningful paragraph. So the correct sequence of sentences after rearrangement is BEACD. Hence, the correct choice is option (d)

Exp. Going through the given sentence it can be clearly seen that the first sentences in the arrangement would be sentence (B). Next in the arrangement would be sentence (E) as the given sentence is throwing light on the fact that the rate cut was expected but the scale of the rate cut was unanticipated. The next sentence in the arrangement would be sentence (A) which is asking about the credibility of the extent of the rate cut. This will be then followed by sentence (C) and then sentence (D) to make a contextually meaningful paragraph. So the correct sequence of sentences after rearrangement is BEACD. Hence, the correct choice is option (d)

Exp. Going through the given sentence it can be clearly seen that the first sentences in the arrangement would be sentence (B). Next in the arrangement would be sentence (E) as the given sentence is throwing light on the fact that the rate cut was expected but the scale of the rate cut was unanticipated. The next sentence in the arrangement would be sentence (A) which is asking about the credibility of the extent of the rate cut. This will be then followed by sentence (C) and then sentence (D) to make a contextually meaningful paragraph. So the correct sequence of sentences after rearrangement is BEACD. Hence, the correct choice is option (a)

Exp. Going through the given sentence it can be clearly seen that the first sentences in the arrangement would be sentence (B). Next in the arrangement would be sentence (E) as the given sentence is throwing light on the fact that the rate cut was expected but the scale of the rate cut was unanticipated. The next sentence in the arrangement would be sentence (A) which is asking about the credibility of the extent of the rate cut. This will be then followed by sentence (C) and then sentence (D) to make a contextually meaningful paragraph. So the correct sequence of sentences after rearrangement is BEACD. Hence, the correct choice is option (b)

Exp. Going through the given sentence it can be clearly seen that the first sentences in the arrangement would be sentence (B). Next in the arrangement would be sentence (E) as the given sentence is throwing light on the fact that the rate cut was expected but the scale of the rate cut was unanticipated. The next sentence in the arrangement would be sentence (A) which is asking about the credibility of the extent of the rate cut. This will be then followed by sentence (C) and then sentence (D) to make a contextually meaningful paragraph. So the correct sequence of sentences after rearrangement is BEACD. Hence, the correct choice is option (c)