SBI Clerk 2018: English Quiz for Prelims – 24

Hello and welcome to exampundit. Here is a set of English Quiz for SBI Clerk 2018 Prelims examination based on error detection & para jumble.

1. (A) There is not a single Lingayat or Veera Shaiva community member in that committee. (B) Whose expertise has this committee depended on to reach its conclusions, whose depositions were accorded importance? (C) How are we to then believe that all aspects of the situation have been examined? (D)For any community, caste or religion to be examined, shouldn’t there be a representative of someone who belongs to that community?

(a) BCAD
(b) DACB
(c) ACDB
(d) No Change

Answer

Option: B

 

2. (A)Somebody had presented a memorandum demanding this and he just forwarded it with his signature, asking that it be examined as per norms, which is the usual thing to do as Ministers.(B)There is no difference between Mr. Siddaramaiah and the British who also sought to divide communities and societies.(C)That is very different from the way Mr. Siddaramaiah has expedited the matter. (D) He had asked that this issue be examined.

(a) ADCB
(b) ACDB
(c) BCAD
(d) No Change

Answer

Option: A

 

3. (A)The unit measures approximately 6,360 square feet, with six bedrooms and six bathrooms, according to the listing. (B)Features include a marble-floored foyer, black-lacquered and gold-leaf gilded doors and custom moldings and overhead lighting.(C)The great room has views of Columbus Circle and the south end of Central Park and has parquet de Versailles wood floors that were saved and reconstructed from a French château, the listing shows.(D)Mr. Tada heads Tokyo-based Daisho Development, a company that develops and owns office buildings in cities such as Sydney, Singapore and Tokyo, according to its website.

(a) ACDB
(b) DBAC
(c) BCAD
(d) No Change

Answer

Option: D

 

4. (A)The Defence Ministry said on Twitter that formidable supersonic cruise missile BrahMos was successfully flight tested at 8:42 AM today at Pokhran test range, Rajasthan.(B) So far, the seeker, a critical technology in missiles, had come from Russia.(C)Supersonic cruise missile BrahMos was on Thursday successfully flight-tested for the first time with an indigenous seeker. (D) The precision strike weapon with Indian-made seeker flew in its designated trajectory and hit the target with pin-point accuracy.

(a) CBAD
(b) BCAD
(c) ABDC
(d) No change

Answer

Option: A

 

5. (A)Here are some of the key points to remember as you plan your trip to Amsterdam.(B) It is the capital and most populous city in the Netherlands and often referred to as the “Venice of the North” because of its expansive system of bridges and canals. (C)It is famous for its beautiful canals, top art museum, cycling culture, and Red Light District. (D)Amsterdam is one of the most popular travel destinations in the world.

(a) BCDA
(b) DBCA
(c) DCBA
(d) No Change

Answer

Option: C

 

6. (A)New Zealand’s Trent Boult rips/ (B)according to England’s top order to reduce the visitors/(C) to 23 for eight inside the first hour of the day-night first /(D)Test at Eden Park on Thursday.

(a) B
(b) C
(c) D
(d) No error

Answer

Option: A ( according to should be replaced by through)

 

7. (A)There’s something curiously/(B) common about several playback singers/(C) of yesteryear – most of them have had no formal/(D) training in music in their inflective years.

(a) A
(b) C
(c) D
(d) No error

Answer

Option: C (inflective should be replaced by formative)

 

8. (A)Altering the very meaning of the /(B)creative process itself, in Eswari’s music,/(C) the melody began in the composer’s mind and /(D)ended in the singer’s articulation of it.

(a) C
(b) D
(c) B
(d) No error

Answer

Option: D

 

9. (A)In fact, this folk abandon/ (B) that was part of her sensibility,/(C) catapulted her into one of the /(D) finest singer of cabaret songs.

(a) B
(b) D
(c) A
(d) No error

Answer

Option: B ( singer should be in plural number- “singers” )

 

10. (A)If one considers her huge body/(B) of work across Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Malyalam and Hindi,/(C) Eswari is perhaps among the most/(D) versatile singers India has produced.

(a) D
(b) C
(c) A
(d) No error

Answer

Option: D

 

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