Dear Aspirants,
Welcome to Mentor for Bank Exams. Here I am giving English Practice Questions for SBI PO 2017, based on previous SBI
PO/Clerk, IBPS PO/CLERK, LIC AAO, RRB, SSC CGL EXAM and other competitive exams.
Kindly make use of these!!!
Directions (1 – 5): In each of the following sentences words or
phrases have been underlined. Identify the required correction from the options.
1. The Romanians may be restive under Soviet direction — but they
are tied to Moscow by ideological and military links.
a) they are tied to Moscow by ideological and military links
b) they are preparing for a great revolution
c) secretly they rather enjoy the prestige of being protected
by the mighty Soviets
d) there is nothing they can so about it
e) they are tied under Moscow to ideological and military
links
2. Contemplating whether to exist with an
insatiable romantic temperament, he was the author and largely the subject of a
number of memorable novels.
a) Contemplating whether to exist
b) Combining realistic details
c) Miscegenation a brilliant mind
d) Aware that he had been born
e) Contemplating under exist
3. In Martin Amis' new novel, the narrator is trapped — and
hurtling towards a terrible secret, its resolution and the dreadful revelations
it brings, ally to give an excruciating vision of guilt.
a) ally to give an excruciating vision of guilt
b) to us give a vivid picture of guilt
c) is a painful picture of a guilt ridden world
d) does not really solve all the questions in the narrator’s
mind
e) ally in giving an excruciate vision of quilt
4. The growing trade in audio-visual content offers
common cause for Hollywood and Bollywood, provided India
demonstrates the will to enforce protection of intellectual
property.
a) trade in audio-visual
b) offers common cause for
c) provided India demonstrates the
d) protection of intellectual property
e) No correction is
required
5. Employment
growth of 1.7 per cent
a year between 1964 and 2014 is set to drop to just 0.3 per
cent a year over the next 50 years in the G-19 country and
Nigeria.
a) Employment growth of
b) is set to drop to just
c) 0.3 per cent a year over
d) in the G-19 country
e) No correction is required
6. Parallels exist between these requirements and the
initiatives taken to control tobacco consumption, from which important ______________can
be learnt, especially with respect to the use of international legal
instruments.
a) tutorials
b) lessons
c) practice
d) point
e) habits
7. Dr. Patel will need little time to settle in, given his
insider _____________ and experience in working with officials at the Finance
Ministry. But as in all such transitions, there will also be ____________ change.
a) beginning, legendary
b) center, imaginary
c) cutting, pretended
d) focus, fictitious
e) credentials, substantive
8. Though one eye is kept firmly on the _________, the company
now also promotes _________contemporary art.
a) Present, experimental
b) Future, popular
c) Present, popular
d) Market, popular
e) Past, popular
9. Indian intellectuals may boast, if they are so inclined, of
being __________ to the most elitist among the intellectual ____________ of the
world.
a) subordinate, traditions
b) heirs, cliques
c) ancestors, societies
d) heir, traditions
e) None of these
10. A cross-section of children were interviewed, and they
matter-of-factly ___________ problems, at the same time __________ showed the
way to plausible solutions.
a) Noted, painstakingly
b) Created, obviously
c) Pinpointed, painstakingly
d) Marked, Surely
e) Pinpointed, Surely
Answers:
1. A) No other
choice states why they are tied to Moscow. E is grammatically incorrect.
2. B) The best possible and logical answer
is (B) combining realsitic details.
3. A) The original phrase is best suited
here.
4. E) No correction is required
5. C) it should be in the G-19 countries; Replace
“country” with “countries”
6. B) 7. E)
8. B) 9. D) 10. C)
