SBI PO English Language Quiz: 26th April

The State Bank of India conducts a three-level examination to recruit Probationary Officers every year. Thus, the English Language can be an impetus for your success as it helps you save crucial time and score good points in lesser time and effort. 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 on English Language being provided by Adda247 to let you practice the best of latest pattern English Questions for SBI PO Examination 2019-20.

Directions (1-15): In the questions given below a sentence(s) is given with two blanks in each. Corresponding to each question two columns are given with three words in each column. Which combination of words from the two columns will perfectly fit into the blanks to make the sentence contextually correct and meaningful. 


Q1. No matter who ——————- in May, we will need to fight against this ———————– broad brush-stroke politics.

Q2. The ———————– in industrial activity and the ——————- in retail inflation pose a policy challenge.

Q3. Jet Airways ——————— a temporary halt of its operations from Wednesday night as funds to keep the airline going ——————— up.

Q4. The collapse of Jet has caused ———————- in the market and also raised some serious questions over why the domestic airline industry is proving to be so ——————— for enterprises.

Q5. There have been more than half-a-dozen private airline companies that have fallen by the ————- in the last decade and more and it is well-known how Air India is —————— up with government support.

Q6. While it is true that fuel costs, which account for about half of the —————- of running an airline, have been difficult to manage, the fact is that reckless competition is responsible for the sorry —————- of the industry.

Q7. It is time that airlines took ——————– of their collective plight and stopped ——————— each other on fares.

Q8. It is ———————– that airfares have largely stayed stable over several years, benefiting passengers but ————————- airlines.

Q9. Modernising colonial era laws is a long-delayed project, but the draft Indian Forest Act, 2019 is ——————– short of being a transformative ——————— of legislation.

Q10. India’s forests play a key role in ————————— the lives of not just the adivasis and other traditional dwellers, but everyone in the subcontinent, through their ———————- on the climate and monsoons.

Q11. As the ————————— for elections to the 17th Lok Sabha begins, the world’s largest democracy has a ——————— to re-imagine itself.

Q12. India did make some dangerous turns and show signs of ————————-, especially during the Emergency in the 1970s, but in the long term it expanded the ————————– of its democracy through widening representation, devolution of power and redistribution of resources.

Q13. The ————————– of Indian democracy have been pronounced in the last five years and some of its long-term gains have been —————————-.

Q14. The ECI has announced a series of fresh ———————- to strengthen the integrity of the electoral process and curb some rapidly ——————— hazards such as the spread of falsehoods aimed at creating social polarisation for consolidation of votes.

Q15. Though the promise of Indian democracy has not been fully ————— , voters have remained ————– to it.

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