English Language Quiz For Bank of Baroda SO 2023-11th June

Directions (1-5): 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.

Q1. It is essential that one carry enough food and water for the entire journey. While it is cold, it can get uncomfortably warm as one climbs, so dressing in layers is advisable.

(a) that one carried enough food

(b) that one carries enough food

(c) which one carries enough food

(d) to carrying enough fooding

(e) No correction required

Q2. The Egyptians believed that the soul journey with the sun into afterlife, and so they built their temples and palaces on the east and elaborate tombs on the west bank of the River Nile.

(a) that the soul journeying

(b) that the soul journeys

(c) that the soul journeyed

(d) that the soul will journey

(e) No correction required

Q3. He’s world’s best player, he wants to score at all costs but he needs to remain calm and the goals will come in a burst.

(a) the world’s best player

(b) the world’s better player

(c) the world’s good player

(d) world’s more best player

(e) No correction required

Q4. Scientists have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) system that can better predict the risk of death in patients with heart disease than human experts.

(a) had developed an artificial intelligence

(b) has developed an artificial intelligence

(c) will have developed an artificial intelligence

(d) will developed an artificial intelligence

(e) No correction required

Q5. Agriculture is the biggest industry in the State and it all begun with farmers buying material, be it seeds, fertilisers, pesticides, or machinery.

(a) it all will begins with

(b) it all beginning with

(c) it all begin with

(d) it all begins with

(e) No correction required

Directions (6-10): Choose, out of the given five options, (in each question) the word which is not the synonym of the given bold word

Q6. ARCHETYPAL

(a) quintessential

(b) ideal

(c) atypical

(d) prototype

(e) paradigm

Q7. CAVORT

(a) stew

(b) frisk

(c) play

(d) gambol

(e) romp

Q8. DEBUNK

(a) demystify

(b) flatter

(c) puncture

(d) expose

(e) disparage

Q9. DOGMATIC

(a) arbitrary

(b) stubborn

(c) arrogant

(d) emphatically

(e) fluctuating

Q10. ENFRANCHISE

(a) emancipate

(b) liberate

(c) incarcerates

(d) manumit

(e) release

Solutions

S1. Ans.(b)
Sol. ‘that one carries enough food’ because singular subject will always be followed by the singular form of the verb.

S2. Ans.(c)
Sol. ‘that the soul journeyed’ as the given sentence is in past form of the tense.

S3. Ans.(a)
Sol. ‘the world’s best player’ as it is the case of the superlative degree in the degree of comparison. Thus, it will be followed by the article ‘the’ as per the grammatical rule.

S4. Ans.(e)
Sol. No correction required

S5. Ans.(d)
Sol. ‘it all begins with’ as the sentence is in the present form of tense.

S6. Ans.(c)
Sol. Meaning: of an original type after which other things are patterned
Antonym: atypical

S7. Ans.(a)
Sol. Meaning: play boisterously
Antonym: stew

S8. Ans.(b)
Sol. Meaning: expose while ridiculing
Antonym: flatter

S9. Ans.(e)
Sol. Meaning: pertaining to a code of beliefs accepted as authoritative
Antonym: fluctuating

S10. Ans.(c)
Sol. Meaning: grant freedom to, as from slavery or servitude
Antonym: incarcerate