English Language Quiz For Bank of Baroda SO 2023-01st June

Directions (1-5): In the following questions a sentence is given with a blank in it. Following each sentence five words are provided. Choose the appropriate word that can fill the given blank to make the sentence both grammatically and contextually correct.

Q1. Insurance industry looks to update risk models as climate risks ______________.
(a) Defame
(b) Ruin
(c) Escalate
(d) Vindicate
(e) Occupation

Q2. A major trade _________ is brewing over the export of Canadian softwood lumber to the United States.
(a) Remove
(b) Dispute
(c) Expel
(d) Rendition
(e) Yielding

Q3. Achieving an even skin tone is another ___________beauty process that many of us could do without.
(a) Restrained
(b) Encouraged
(c) Shocking
(d) Vanquished
(e) Protracted

Q4. Her position seemed ever more __________ by the minute, and it was clear that I would have to rescue her.
(a) Precarious
(b) Conjecture
(c) Competent
(d) Unable
(e) Substantiate

Q5. With secession, Philadelphia’s unionists believed that the very foundation of their prosperity as a class had been placed in _________.
(a) Confused
(b) Reconciliation
(c) Estranged
(d) Jeopardy
(e) Muddle

Directions (6-10): In each of the following questions, two statements are given with a blank in each. The question is then followed by five options. Choose the most suitable word that can fit in both the blanks to make it a contextually meaningful and grammatically correct sentence. If none of the words can fit in the blank, mark your answer as “None of these”, (e).

Q6.
(I) My plan was moving a little quicker than ___________so I decided to take things slow after the next step.
(II) The auditorium was packed and places were booked well in advance for this eagerly ____________ show.
(a) Anticipated
(b) Bewildered
(c) Befuddling
(d) Extracted
(e) None of these

Q7.
(I) The new machine features a _________, all-in-one design that resembles a large iPod.
(II) On the up-side, the service was excellent and the _________ decor of the flagstone basement instantly relaxing.
(a) Continuous
(b) Sentinel
(c) Minimalist
(d) Testimony
(e) None of these

Q8.
(I) During the vulnerability of adolescence, a young music fan’s love for a musician can quickly ____________ into idolatry.
(II) Such varied images of what might ___________ at a meeting suggests the novelty of the institution itself.
(a) Keeper
(b) Disproof
(c) Regulation
(d) Transpire
(e) None of these

Q9.
(I) We see a system that will __________ a 20-year-old for selling drugs but not a police officer for choking the life out of a citizen.
(II) Her ambition was painted as ruthless and her lack of money only further served to ____________ her as a greedy criminal.
(a) Absolve
(b) Indict
(c) Invasion
(d) Impeached
(e) None of these

Q10.
(I) Frustrated by the slow and ____________ police investigation, the victim’s brother, Cliff, retraces the delivery route in search of clues.
(II) The hospital released her with the tests proving __________, and warned her to be careful if she was feeling slightly woozy or dizzy.
(a) Menace
(b) Inconclusive
(c) Reassure
(d) Imaginative
(e) None of these

Solutions

S1. Ans. (c)
Sol. Option (c) can fill the given blank to make the sentence both grammatically and contextually correct.

S2. Ans. (b)
Sol. Option (b) can fill the given blank to make the sentence both grammatically and contextually correct.

S3. Ans. (e)
Sol. Option (e) can fill the given blank to make the sentence both grammatically and contextually correct.

S4. Ans. (a)
Sol. Option (a) can fill the given blank to make the sentence both grammatically and contextually correct.

 S5. Ans. (d)
Sol. Option (d) can fill the given blank to make the sentence both grammatically and contextually correct.

S6. Ans. (a)
Sol. Option (a) can fit in both the blanks to make it a contextually meaningful and grammatically correct sentence. Hence, option (a) is the right answer choice.

S7. Ans. (c)
Sol. Option (c) can fit in both the blanks to make it a contextually meaningful and grammatically correct sentence. Hence, option (c) is the right answer choice.

S8. Ans. (d)
Sol. Option (d) can fit in both the blanks to make it a contextually meaningful and grammatically correct sentence. Hence, option (d) is the right answer choice.

 S9. Ans. (b)
Sol. Option (b) can fit in both the blanks to make it a contextually meaningful and grammatically correct sentence. Hence, option (b) is the right answer choice.

S10. Ans. (b)
Sol. Option (b) can fit in both the blanks to make it a contextually meaningful and grammatically correct sentence. Hence, option (b) is the right answer choice.