English Quiz for SBI PO Prelims 2015 – Set 9

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Hello and welcome to ExamPundit. Here is a set of English Quiz for SBI PO Prelims 2015.

Read each sentence to
find out whether there is any grammatical error or idiomatic error in it. The
error, if any will be in one part of the sentence. The option (a), (b), (c) or
(d) of that part is the answer. If there is no error, the answer is (e) i.e.,
No error (Ignore the errors of punctuation, if any).

1. They never
thought (a) / that Joshi is (b) /oldest than the other (c) / Professors in the
Faculty (d) / No error (e)

2. I am likely
contact (a) / you sometime in (b) /next week to (c) / discuss with you in
detail (d) /No error (e)

3. He cannot
withdraw (a) / all his money (b) / unless he do not (c) / give advance notice (d)
/. No error (e)

4. Taken into
consideration (a) / the advice of his (b) /colleagues he decided (c) / to stay
in the institute (d) / No error (e)

5. The police has
making (a) / every effort to provide (b) / best help and (c) / attention to
each citizen (d) / No error (e)

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.

6. It is clear that the
US does not ________ itself answerable to world ________.

(a) consider, opinion

(b) bow, order

(d) deemed, favour

(e) recognise, fraternity

7. Terrorism is a
________ that still ________ us.

(a) menace, strike

(b) problem, evades

(d) misery, pain

(e) bane, afflicts

8. Decades of
uncontrolled illegal ________ from Bangladesh ________ the proportions of a
demographic invasion years ago.

(a) occupancy, managed

(b) flow, resulted

(d) immigration, acquired

(e) entry, drove

9. While modernising
India, the rural ________ has to be taken into ________ first.

(a) folk, considered

(b) area, confidence

(d) populace, priority

(e) sector, view

10. The current
worldwide ________ of Islamic terrorism make the task of ________ this menace
immensely difficult.

(a) support, avoiding

(b) links, countering

(d) trade, averting

(e) operation, supporting

Solutions:

1. Replace part (C) with “the oldest“
2. Preposition ‘to’ will be used before ‘contact’ in the first part of the sentence.
3. We should use, “unless he does” in the place of “unless he do not” in the third part of the sentence.
4. The correct phrase is ‘Taking into consideration’ or ‘having taken into consideration’.

5. Use ‘The police has been making’ in place of “The police has making’

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