English Quiz for SBI PO Prelims: 22nd June 2018

Q2. He delivered a jeremiad to a crowd at a church.

Q3. The ever-escalating advertising budgets have cancelled each other out.

Q4. Blacks worried that they would suffer disproportionate casualties, as they did early in the Vietnam war.

Q5. The first medium, a venerable Shinto ascetic in her sixties, scattered offerings of fruit and flowers.

Q6. He has focused his ire on the systems most flagrant abuse, the so-called soft money.

Q7. Venture capitalists were able to sell their stock for a nice return before the shares plummeted.

Q8. His execution in Vallegrande only enhanced Guevara’s mythical stature.

Direction (9-15): Which of the following phrases given below each sentence should replace the phrase printed in bold letters to make the sentence grammatically correct? Choose the best option among the five given alternatives that reflect the correct use of phrase in the context of the grammatically correct sentence. If the sentence is correct as it is, mark (e) i.e., “No correction required” as the answer.

Q10. As the highway passed through Rajaji National Park, I was praying for a clean passage, without jumbos regulating the traffic, specially having seen what an irritated tusker could do to a tiny Maruti car. We drove without an untoward incident.

Q11. The Olympics is the athletes’ call to greatness and even they, deafened by their own obstinate rhetoric, saw it clearly.

Q12. I may not have known much about managing investments, but I think I am a great debt manager.

Q13. When you look at the long term, investing in equity had proved to be a good way to create wealth.

Q14. A direct line between the two major capitals of world power could avert escalation of an untoward incident into a nuclear holocaust.

Q15. These children represent the broad spectrum of educational activity, from the severely retarded to the intellectually gifted.