SBI PO Prelims 2017: Cloze Test – Set 4

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 word in each
case.

The current
(1) in the government penalises (2)  without a symmetric system of overtly
rewarding (3). This must change. To err is human and civil servants are
only human, even if some of them seem to believe that admittance to the IAS (4)
added the prefix ‘super’ to their species identity. What should (5) is
not if a civil servant made a mistake but if she(6) and creatively applied
herself to her job and produced (7).

A (8) of
sitting on one’s (9)  except when
standing up, with alacrity, to greet one’s superiors works well to avoid making
mistakes. It serves little, however, to serve the people, the (10) job
of a civil servant. And this assessment of whether a civil servant discharged
herself well or not must be performed in a manner that inspires confidence.

1. (a) system (b) body (c) procedure   (d) practice 
(e) job

2. (a) felonies (b) 
mistakes  (c) authenticities  (d) 
mismanagement   (e)  sin

3. (a) achievement 
(b) issues (c)  drudgery   (d)points  
(e)   system

4. (a) gradually (b) initially (c) recently  (d) 
immediately (e) automatically

5. (a) consider (b) count  
(c)  overshadow (d) apprehend  (e) fabricate

6. (a)   happily  (b)  
energetically (c) wrathfully (d)  
unwillingly (e)   angrily

7. (a)   errands (b)
efforts  (c)  results 
(d)  profits   (e) 
hindrances

8. (a)  way (b)
strategy (c)  responsibility  (d) guilt (e) 
wrath

9. (a)   haunches  (b) affinity (c)   vicinity 
(d) tiresome (e)   work

10. (a) supporting (b) essential (c)  only  
(d) unimportant (e) solitary