English Language Quiz For SBI Clerk Prelims 2023-28th November

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 the phrase in the context of the grammatically correct sentence. If the sentence is correct as it is, mark “No correction required” as the answer.

Q1. With heavy rains in Bhagamandala, which is the source of the Cauvery, the volume of flow in the river is expected to maintain the inflow to the reservoirs in the downstream.

(a) is hoping to reach and accelerate
(b) is expected to decrease and decline
(c) is estimated to be fell
(d) is expected to increase and augment
(e) No correction required

Q2. The defense counsel argued that the documents submitted by the prosecution were fabricated by the authorities. The letters are unambiguously submitted. The veracity of their contents and authorship are yet to be proven.

(a) are an empty slogan
(b) are a vague submission
(c) are incomplete
(d) are offensive
(e) No correction required

Q3. While the Fisheries Department and Marine Enforcement will make all arrangements at the Azheekkal harbour to implement the ban, the Harbour Engineering Department will sharpen the amenities at the harbour.

(a) would impair the facilities
(b) will degrade the amenities
(c) will upgrade the amenities
(d) will however elevate the amenities
(e) No correction required

Q4. Another demand of traditional fishermen is extension of trawling ban to 90 days and prohibition of mechanized crafts with ring seine nets in coastal waters during the ban. Fishermen who become jobless during the time will be given financial assistance and free ration.

(a) will be given sufficient nutrition
(b) will be given adequate employment
(c) will be given proper equipment
(d) will be provided with complete amenities
(e) No correction required

Q5. According to the police, a quarrel broke up among the friends over a trivial issue and it subsequently resulted in stabbing, outside Ajanta Hotel near the railway station.

(a) a quarrel broke in
(b) a quarrel broke away
(c) a quarrel broke off
(d) a quarrel broke out
(e) No correction required

Directions (6-10): In the passage given below there are blanks given which are numbered. Below the options are given for each numbered blank to be filled correctly. Find out the appropriate word in each case which can most suitably complete the sentence without altering the meaning of the statement.

Q6. In 2012, the great American writer Philip Roth (6) _________________ to the world that he would stop writing. At the age of 79 — after a lifetime of 30-odd novels, a cupboard full of prizes, and more (7) ______________ and adulation than most writers could imagine — he declared that he was done (8)____________  away at paragraphs to build temples of prose. His literary back, after one too many Sistine Chapels in words, had given away. He was tired of being alone, standing in front of his computer, while his fingers and mind (9) _____________ to birth another novel. It wasn’t the literary (10) ___________ called the ‘novel’ that tired him; it was the very act of writing, the fog of loneliness in front of a blank page through which all who seek to write must ferry past.

(a) say
(b) reiterate
(c) called
(d) announced
(e) reveal

Q7. In 2012, the great American writer Philip Roth (6)……____________ . to the world that he would stop writing. At the age of 79 — after a lifetime of 30-odd novels, a cupboard full of prizes, and more (7) _______________ and adulation than most writers could imagine — he declared that he was done (8)____________  away at paragraphs to build temples of prose. His literary back, after one too many Sistine Chapels in words, had given away. He was tired of being alone, standing in front of his computer, while his fingers and mind (9) ____________ to birth another novel. It wasn’t the literary (10) _________ called the ‘novel’ that tired him; it was the very act of writing, the fog of loneliness in front of a blank page through which all who seek to write must ferry past.

(a) convincing
(b) commending
(c) adulteration
(d) censuring
(e) criticism

Q8. In 2012, the great American writer Philip Roth (6)……____________ . to the world that he would stop writing. At the age of 79 — after a lifetime of 30-odd novels, a cupboard full of prizes, and more (7) ____________ and adulation than most writers could imagine — he declared that he was done (8)____________  away at paragraphs to build temples of prose. His literary back, after one too many Sistine Chapels in words, had given away. He was tired of being alone, standing in front of his computer, while his fingers and mind (9) ____________ to birth another novel. It wasn’t the literary (10) _________ called the ‘novel’ that tired him; it was the very act of writing, the fog of loneliness in front of a blank page through which all who seek to write must ferry past.

(a) editing
(b) grinding
(c) chiselling
(d) finishing
(e) mashing

Q9. In 2012, the great American writer Philip Roth (6)……____________ . to the world that he would stop writing. At the age of 79 — after a lifetime of 30-odd novels, a cupboard full of prizes, and more (7) ____________ and adulation than most writers could imagine — he declared that he was done (8)____________  away at paragraphs to build temples of prose. His literary back, after one too many Sistine Chapels in words, had given away. He was tired of being alone, standing in front of his computer, while his fingers and mind (9) ____________ to birth another novel. It wasn’t the literary (10) _________ called the ‘novel’ that tired him; it was the very act of writing, the fog of loneliness in front of a blank page through which all who seek to write must ferry past.

(a) agonized
(b) start
(c) indulge
(d) involve
(e) delighted

Q10. In 2012, the great American writer Philip Roth (6)……____________ . to the world that he would stop writing. At the age of 79 — after a lifetime of 30-odd novels, a cupboard full of prizes, and more (7) ____________ and adulation than most writers could imagine — he declared that he was done (8)____________  away at paragraphs to build temples of prose. His literary back, after one too many Sistine Chapels in words, had given away. He was tired of being alone, standing in front of his computer, while his fingers and mind (9) ____________ to birth another novel. It wasn’t the literary (10) _________ called the ‘novel’ that tired him; it was the very act of writing, the fog of loneliness in front of a blank page through which all who seek to write must ferry past.

(a) artifice
(b) artifact
(c) composed
(d) capture
(e) series

Solutions

S1. Ans.(d)
Sol. ‘is expected to increase and augment’ as the context of the sentence talks about the heavy rains which means there will definitely be expectations of increment of the level of the inflow to the reservoirs

S2. Ans.(b)
Sol. ‘are a vague submission’ as the negative tone of the sentence says that the documents were fabricated , thus they were definitely be the vague submission

S3. Ans.(c)
Sol. ‘will upgrade the amenities’ is the best suited alternative that should replace the bold part in the sentence

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

S5. Ans.(d)
Sol. ‘a quarrel broke out’ is the only option that makes contextual and grammatical sense

S6. Ans.(d)
Sol. Announced– to give public notice; to make known

S7. Ans.(e)
Sol. Criticism– censure; a critical judgment passed or expressed

S8. Ans.(c)
Sol. Chiselling– to work with something; act of cheating; to get something by cheating

S9. Ans.(a)
Sol. Agonized– to suffer violent anguish; to writhe with agony

S10. Ans.(b)
Sol. Artifact– an object made or shaped by human hand

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