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