English Language Quiz For Bank Foundation 2024-08th February

Directions (1-5): In each of the following sentence, there are two blank spaces. Below each sentence, there are five options and each blank is to be filled with the same word given below to make the sentence correct. Fill up the sentences with the correct word.

Q1. (I) Wynn’s breath caught at the stark pronouncement from the ………… deity.
(II) These ………. speeches were all that the multitudes got, but the disciples in private were taught their lesson of hope.

(a) roaring
(b) bombastic
(c) enigmatic
(d) ill-famed
(e) barbarous

Q2. (I) So long as they were powerful, the crown had treated with them, but when once their power began to …….., it was certain that the crown would crush them.
(II) These latter are few in number, and some of them barely suffice for purposes of agricultural irrigation, and in summer ……….. down to small nills.

(a) weak
(b) dwindle
(c) fragile
(d) demolish
(e) swindle

Q3. (I) He ……….. his last remaining strength, took hold of his left hand with his right, and reached the bushes.
(II) Lethington was to be tried, but his armed friends ……… in great numbers, and, secure in the castle, he and Kirkcaldy upheld the cause of Mary.

(a) contributed
(b) approached
(c) formed
(d) mobbed
(e) mustered

Q4. (I) She ………. into the food on her plate, discovering that Brandon wasn’t bragging about his mother’s cooking.
(II) She shivered despite her lamb’s wool coat, her hands ……….. deep into pockets that contained weapons.

(a) hidden
(b) drowned
(c) sank
(d) plunged
(e) kept

Q5. (I) Let everyone mind his own business, and ……….. to be what he was made.
(II) Do not stay to be an overseer of the poor, but ……….. to become one of the worthies of the world.

(a) endeavor
(b) enthusiasm
(c) strife
(d) attempt
(e) try

Solutions:

S1. Ans.(c)
Sol. enigmatic- maze; difficult to understand

S2. Ans.(b)
Sol. dwindle- to decrease or shrink; reduce

S3. Ans.(e)
Sol. mustered- gathered

S4. Ans.(d)
Sol. plunged- the act of submerging

S5. Ans.(a)
Sol. endeavor- efforts

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