English Quiz for SBI PO Prelims 2015 - Set 12

In the following passage, some of the words have been left out, each of which is indicated by a number. Find the suitable word from the options given against each number and fill up the blanks with appropriate words to make the paragraph meaningfully:

In the workshops Arsh offer employees about __1__ their self-esteem, he __2__ the following questions: “Do you believe you have a long-lasting impact on the lives of your clients? Several years from now, will your clients __3__ you or experiences from your services? And if so, what do you hope they will remember?” He asks these questions because he has spoken with many employees who __4__ if they __5__ have an impact on the clients and others in their presentation. __6__ about their possible influence are often more __7__ when employees talk about clients who are __8__ with learning difficulties of soft wares clients who frequently experience soft wares as the technology in which their deficits rather than their strengths are displayed. Obviously, whether employees believe they have an impact on the lives of their clients is linked to their own self-esteem and their own sense of competence. When employees believe that what they are doing is of little __9__, their motivation and energy will be minimal, and they cannot help but convey this to others. When those others are clients, what will result is a software technology __10__ of excitement and learning and filled with boredom and perhaps anger.

1. (a) scampering (b) fostering (c) strewing (d) exemplary (e) undermining

2. (a) poses (b) embrace (c) heralds (d) behoove (e) tarnish

3. (a) enact (b) parole (c) sworn (d) delineate (e) remember

4. (a) refrain (b) stalemate (c) destitute (d) wonder (e) whim

5. (a) hitherto (b) ostensibly (c) truly (d) avowedly (e) obviously

6. (a) doubts (b) accede (c) request (d) enact (e) siege

7. (a) portrayed (b) pronounced (c) fickle (d) gloomed (e) urged

8. (a) restrained (b) celebrated (c) opponent (d) burdened (e) discriminated

9. (a) consequence (b) deadlock (c) way–ward (d) complicate (e) disparage

10. (a) precise (b) devoid (c) reneging (d) posits (e) callous

Winners of this Quiz:
1. Dreamer
2. Optimus Prime
3. Megha/Avishek/Priyanka