English Quiz for SBI Clerk Prelims 2018: 8th April 2018

This section can be easy as pie if your basics are clear. Sometimes, even those who can communicate very well in English, fail to perform to the best of their ability in the banking exams. So, instead of boiling the ocean, try building up a strong vocabulary, an effective knowledge of grammar, and efficient comprehension skills so as to be on the ball to face this particular section. Here is a quiz of English Language being provided by Adda247 to let you practice the best of latest pattern English Questions.

Directions (1-15): Rearrange the following five sentences (A), (B), (C), (D) and (E) in the proper sequence to form a meaningful paragraph and then answer the questions given below.


Q1. (A) The magistrate gave the benefit of the doubt to the four other actors,
(B) In Rajasthan for the film Hum Saath Saath Hain , Mr. Khan was charged with killing
(C) accused of accompanying him in a Gypsy car while the two blackbucks were being hunted on the night of October 1-2, 1998.
(D) In its 201-page judgment, the court described Mr. Khan, 52, as an actor whose conduct was followed by the common people.
(E) two endangered blackbucks in Kankani village, near here.
(a) DCAEB
(b) DACEB
(c) DACBE
(d) DEACB
(e) DEABC

Q2.(A) Prima facie it was not open to declare this court’s order as void or ineffective as was sought to be done
(B) by way of ordinance. We, therefore, stay the operation of the ordinance and make it clear that no student shall be permitted
(C) in medical colleges in any manner pursuant to the ordinance
(D) to reap any benefit of any action taken and they shall not be permitted to attend the college or the classes or continue
(E) In our prima facie view, the ordinance in question blatantly seeks to nullify the binding effect of the order passed by this court.
(a) ECADB
(b) EABDC
(c) ECDBA
(d) EDBCA
(e) EBCDA

Q3. (A) Dr. Martin Luther King, the Negro apostle of non-violence and racial amity, was felled by an assassin’s bullet early last night in Memphis city in the Southern State of Tennessee.
(B) Emergency surgery proved of no avail, and the 39-year-old Nobel Peace Prize winner, who is acknowledged to be the greatest leader the civil rights movement has known,
(C) Like Mr. John Kennedy, who also was killed in a southern city, Dr. King was the victim of a distant sniper armed with a rifle fitted with a telescopic sight.
(D) joined the ranks of martyrs like Mahatma Gandhi, whose teachings he had imbibed and practised.
(E) Shot while he was standing on a balcony outside the door of his hotel room, Dr. King was rushed to hospital unconscious, and bleeding from a huge neck wound.
(a) AEBDC
(b) ABCDE
(c) ADBCE
(d) ABDCE
(e) AECDB

Q4. (A) The confidence of parliament has been numerically settled in favour of the Prime Minister now, with Tamil and Muslim parties backing him in the crucial vote, but in electoral terms the question of political supremacy is still open.
(B) Mr. Wickremesinghe and their common rival, former president Mahinda Rajapaksa, is likely to continue.
(C) The resounding defeat of a no-confidence motion against Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe in Sri Lanka’s parliament provides
(D) However, it may not end the prevailing political uncertainty as the three-way competition among President Maithripala Sirisena,
(E) an opportunity for its bickering leaders to reassess their priorities.
(a) CDBEA
(b) CADEB
(c) CBDEA
(d) CBAED
(e) CEDBA

Q5. (A) Sir Sidney Rowlatt left Calcutta for Home on Wednesday night.
(B) It is understood that the Rowlatt Commission, which was engaged for the last three months in the investigation of revolutionary movement in India and
(C) In the course of their investigation the members paid a visit to the Punjab.
(D)  The committee began its labour on the 5th January and sat from day to day till the beginning of April.
(E) the policy of internment, recently finished its labours and the draft report has been signed by the members.
(a) BDEAC
(b) BCEAD
(c) BDCEA
(d) BEADC
(e) BACED

Q6. (A) It will be a test of character, more than tennis skills, for Ramkumar Ramanathan when he takes on Chinese sensation Yibing Wu in the first match of the Asia-Oceania Davis Cup tie here on Friday.
(B) It will be a best of three sets format this time and Ramkumar with a 6-4 win-loss record in Davis Cup would be expected to give a strong start for India.
(C) The 18-year-old Wu, who had won the US Open juniors singles and doubles titles last year, and followed that with a Challenger title in Shanghai, has played only two matches this season on the Tour, owing to injury.
(D) He had also given a very good account of his ability in the World Group play-off against Canada in September last year when he beat Brayden Schnur in four sets.
(E) The 23-year-old Indian has been playing well in the professional circuit in the last few months, to take his ranking to a career-best 132.
(a) ABCDE
(b) AEDBC
(c) ABDEC
(d) ADCBE
(e) ACBED

Q7. (A) clean and jerk and in the total setting a new Commonwealth and Commonwealth Games records in all the three sequences.
(B) The 23-year-old from Manipur, the reigning World champion in women’s 48kg, improved upon her personal bests in snatch,
(C)  weightlifting competitions of the XXI Commonwealth Games here on Thursday.
(D) Mirabai Chanu Saikhom stood on the top of podium, all smiles and holding aloft the gold medal on the opening day of the
(E) It made an excellent picture.
(a) EDCBA
(b) EABCD
(c) ECBDA
(d) EDACB
(e) EBADC

Q8. (A) has been put on hold owing to co-star Irrfan Khan‘s health issues.
(B) It was also one of the few times a female lead has been at the forefront of such a large-scale Bollywood film.
(C) Deepika Padukone was last seen in Sanjay Leela Bhansali‘s Padmaavat, one of the highest-grossing Indian films of all time.
(D) Padukone’s next movie, an adaptation of the book Mafia Queens of Mumbai helmed by Vishal Bhardwaj,
(E) She told Film Companion about the kind of roles she wishes would come her way and how success has empowered her.
(a) CADBE
(b) CEABD
(c) CDEAB
(d) CBADE
(e) CBDAE