English Quiz for SBI PO Mains 2016 – Set 9

[Directions 1-10] – In the following passage, there are blanks, each of which has been numbered. These numbers are printed below the passage and against each, five words are suggested, one of which fits the blank appropriately. Find out the appropriate word in each case.

Mobile phones are changing the world we live in. Kenya was regarded as a poor ______(1) lacking hospitals, running water, electricity, education, ______(2) etc. Mobile phone technology has ______(3) all this. Today, 92 per cent of Kenyans ______(4) the Internet using their mobile phones. Farmers can ______(5) only check the prices of crops but also ______(6) with customers directly. Banking services are ______(7) available through mobile phones. A ______(8) by the World Bank shows that ______(9) countries where more people use mobile phones ______(10) by 0.6 per cent to 1.2 per cent every year. This technology has also helped the world come closer together as it allows people from different countries to interact with each other.

1. 1) neighbour 2) performance 3) country 4) development 5) choice

2. 1) tend 2) roads 3) poverty 4) peoples 5) leader

3. 1) changed 2) discovered 3) created 4) transform 5) made

4. 1) go 2) access 3) connect 4) used 5) online

5. 1) decide 2) allow 3) simply 4) not 5) still

6. 1) handle 2) supply 3) deal 4) argument 5) sell

7. 1) cheap 2) easy 3) income 4) also 5) though

8. 1) report 2) fund 3) researcher 4) wish 5) solution

9. 1) more 2) any 3) because 4) in 5) those

10. 1) increase 2) work 3) value 4) rise 5) grow