English Quiz for RBI Assistant 2015 - Set 3

In each of the following sentences there are two blank spaces. Below each sentence there are five pairs of words denoted by options (a), (b), (c), (d) and (e). Find out which pair of words can be filled up in the blanks in the sentence in the same sequence to make it meaningfully complete.

1. He is usually ________, but today he appears rather ________.

(a) strict, unwell

(b) tense, restless

(c) quiet, calm

(d) happy, humorous

(e) calm, disturbed

2. The priest addressed the ________ for more than an hour and was listened to with ________ attention.

(a) staff, acute

(b) church, pindrop

(c) congregation, rapt

(d) audience, heavenly

(e) crew, silent

3. On the ________ of the enquiry, if it is found that the ________ are true, the enquiry officer will report the matter to the higher authority.

(a) demand, finding

(b) completion, allegations

(c) trial, charges

(d) withdrawal, inferences

(e) establishment, results

4. His ________ speech has seriously ________ the young minds.

(a) audacious, delighted

(b) maiden, flattered

(c) humorous, twisted

(d) eccentric, questioned

(e) irresponsible, misled

5. He is so ________ that everyone is always ________ to help him in his work.

(a) magnanimous, eager

(b) generous, supportive

(c) adamant, enthusiastic

(d) miserly, ignorant

(e) abusive, critical

6. Now that the war clouds have ________ to some extent, there is ________ to be a sense of relief in the subcontinent.

(a) disappeared, chance

(b) receded, bound

(c) blackened, astonishingly

(d) emerged, symbolically

(e) lasted, certain

7. India’s long experience in dealing with ________ in the North-east and Punjab should prove ________ in dealing with the Kashmir problem.

(a) miscreants, detrimental

(b) terrorism, success

(c) ultras, witty

(d) insurgency, handy

(e) chaos, informative

8. Kashmir problem is going to be far more ________ than finding an end to crossborder ________.

(a) intractable, infiltration

(b) stagnant, miscreants

(c) alarming, disputes

(d) serious, militants

(e) concerning, skirmish

9. The leaders of the two parties would have ________ their own cause better if only they had ________ from such indulgence.

(a) protected, stopped

(b) shown, rebuked

(c) decried, distanced

(d) evolved, maintained

(e) served, refrained

10. The ________ of joint patrolling is premature till both sides built up adequate ________ trust.

(a) idea, military

(b) concept, mutual

(c) question, universal

(d) system, policy

(e) debate, nuclear