SBI PO Prelims 2017: Cloze Test – Set 4


Hello and welcome to exampundit. Here is a set of English Quiz for SBI PO Prelims on Cloze Test.

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

Answers & Solutions – Tap to show
1. (a)  Because the rest options do not provide a proper meaning.
2. (d) Option fits best
3. (a) Option fits best
4. (e) Option fits best
5. (b) Option fits best.
6. (b) The sentence has a positive meaning.
7. (c) Option fits best.
8. (b) Option fits best.
9. (a) ‘On one’s haunches is an idiom meaning sitting down.
10.  (b)Option fits best.

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