Practice Quiz on Cloze test and Sentence Fillers for SBI PO 2017
Directions (1 – 8): In the passage given below there are 5
blanks, each followed by a word given in bracket. Even blank has four
alternative words given in options (A),(B),(C) and (D). You have to tell which
word will best suit the respective blank. Mark (E) as your answer if the work
given in bold after the blank is your answer i.e “No change required”.
Surely, Asia has (1)______ [less]
infrastructure. Everywhere you look it seems there are new roads, subways,
airports, and power plants. But that’s only part of the story. More than 400
million people in the region go without electricity, and as much as 30% of
electricity generated in countries like Nepal and Cambodia is (2)______
[generated] in transmission and distribution. Many roads are low quality and
dangerous for motorists and pedestrians alike. Around 300 million Asians still
have no access to safe, clean drinking water, including half the rural
populations of Afghanistan, Kiribati and Papua New Guinea. Roughly 1.5 billion
people lack basic sanitation facilities (3)____ [much] as toilets.
The need for more infrastructure is (4)_______
[improving] the capacity of countries to fund it. Though nearly $900 billion is
spent a year on infrastructure in Asia and the Pacific, that’s substantially
less than the $1.5 trillion that ADB estimates the region needs annually from
2016 until 2030 to keep (5)_______ [charged] with economic growth. The
estimated annual need rises to $1.7 trillion when climate change impacts are (6)______
[sliced] in. If this problem is not addressed, subpar infrastructure will stunt
economic growth. Power (7)______ [generation] hurt factory productivity; bad
roads, ports and airports stifle flows of people, goods, and services across
cities, countries, and regions. The traffic jams (8)______ [plaguing] Asia’s
cities have huge economic and environmental costs. Bad health limits
opportunities: How can parents give children the schooling they need to find a
good job when they don’t even have clean water?
1.
a) default
b) better
c) enough
d) damaged
e) No correction required
2.
a) lost
b) enough
c) possible
d) contained
e) No correction required
3.
a) seen
b) such
c) convenient
d) before
e) No correction required
4.
a) apprehending
b) challenging
c) estimating
d) outpacing
e) No correction required
5.
a) look
b) pace
c) bear
d) zoom
e) No correction required
6.
a) factored
b) connected
c) disorganised
d) portioned
e) No correction required
7.
a) growth
b) excess
c) plants
d) outages
e) No correction required
8.
a) molesting
b) possessing
c) clearing
d) containing
e) No correction required
Directions (9 – 13): In
each of the following questions a short passage is given with one of the lines
in the passage missing and represented by a blank. Select the best out of the
five answer choices given, to make the passage complete and coherent.
9. The Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council has done well to
clear a Bill that guarantees to fully compensate states for five years for any
revenue loss during transition to the new tax regime. A legal backing provides
comfort, but there should be ways to prevent states from slacking off on
revenue collections. GST subsumes all indirect levies and avoids cascading of
taxes, leading to potential revenue loss for states, but they will gain from
being able to tax services. (_____________)Sensibly, states will be compensated
on the basis of revenue projections from 2015-16 — when growth and revenue
collections were buoyant.
a) The GST Council should drop the anti-profiteering
mechanism to ostensibly keep a check on the pricing policy of producers.
b) It goes against the grain of a non-adversarial tax regime.
c) A precise estimate of gain or loss is not possible at this
stage.
d) Such a change in approach will, at least partially,
safeguard the Centre’s revenues.
e) A protracted slowdown due to demonetisation would hurt
their revenues next year.
10. During Donald Trump’s inauguration speech he declared that
America’s “forgotten men and women” will be “forgotten no longer”. Then,
earlier this month, he vowed to bring back jobs to states that have been “hurt
so badly” by globalisation. (__________)They were vital contributors to his
election: three-quarters of white men who left education at 18 and voted in
November did so for Mr Trump, the highest share of any similarly sized
demographic group. And despite the president′s tumultuous start in office, they
have remained loyal to him.
a) “Forgotten men” are just as important economically as they
are politically.
b) And during the president′s short political career, he has
shown a tenuous grasp of statistics.
c) By “forgotten” people, he means above all white
working-class men.
d) For each component, it measures the gap between white
working-class men and all other men.
e) This group had good reason to hanker for change: in recent
years its economic performance has lagged behind that of American men as a
whole by ever-greater amounts.
11. Identity and language are closely entwined, but the high
level of bilingualism in Malta has made code-switching rife. The use of English
is increasingly present in informal speech—some words are even adopted and
given a new life in Italian forms. (___________) Others dismiss such concerns
as irrelevant. Professor Joseph Brincat, who teaches linguistics at the
University of Malta, says it is too early to say whether Maltese will survive.
a) Maltese developed in parallel with the nationalities of
those who ruled it, absorbing new elements and fitting them into its simplified
Arabic structures.
b) Some fear this intrusion could cause the language to be
abandoned.
c) Much like its society, Malta’s language is the result of
centuries of cultural mingling.
d) From as early as the ninth century until 1964, when the
country became independent, a series of conquerors left their mark on all
aspects of Maltese life
e) The Sicilians and the Knights of Malta followed.
12. (_____________) Terrorists and criminals cross national
borders easily. Law-enforcement should be able to do the same. The police
should have access to databases such as passenger name records on internal
European flights, and the fingerprints of people who have arrived claiming refugee
status. Interior ministers are already pushing strongly for this. Public
worries about privacy and abuse of power are reasonable, but the answer to that
is good intelligence oversight.
a) Each government sets different rules for what data may be
looked at, by whom and with what authority.
b) The attacks also reignited a long-running debate about
encryption—encoding messages such as e-mails, in ways that even government
intelligence agencies cannot break
c) Breaking down barriers to information-sharing is a much
better idea.
d) The internet has fostered a culture in which anybody can
pretend to be who they like, or give no details at all.
e) We do not allow anonymous births, cars, planes or
bank-accounts. Insisting on absolute anonymity online looks a bit anomalous.
13. (____________) Cricket is no exception. Technological
advancement is an indispensable part of the game now. Analytics and numbers
determine the value of a player and every move is closely monitored to
determine his strengths and weaknesses. A small fault can be easily exploited
with the assistance of sophisticated software.
a) In this scenario, when a batsman or a bowler shows rapid
progress at the international level, it indicates the humongous amount of work
he’s put in to strengthen his technicalities.
b) The young players entertained the crowd with their talent.
c) The modern generation of players are juggling with three
formats of the game.
d) There is no room for imperfection here.
e) Development in any field is closely associated with the
growth of technology.
Answers:
1. C) 2. A)
3. B) 4. D) 5. B)
6. A) 7. D) 8. E)
9. C) Explanation: Previous
sentence mentions about revenue loss for states and also gains for them. Option
C fits the blank as it is coherent with previous and next both statement.
10. C) Explanation: Option
C defines the first sentence of the passage. So it will fit the blank
11. B) Explanation: Some fear this… Others dismiss such..
Means comparing two things.
12. C) Explanation: See this statement: The police should
have access to databases, it gives us an idea that the author is talking about
giving some power to police which it doesnot has now (something about access to
database). Also look at this line: Public worries about privacy. it gives us an
idea that people are worrdied about if there information is shared do easily
with the police ther might be leak of data or privacy. Seeing all this we can
conclude that Answer is Option C
13. E)
