English Practice Questions for SBI PO 2017
Directions (1 – 8): Read the following passage carefully and
answer the questions given below it.
Having imposed a visa ban on seven
countries with Muslim majorities and supported plans to restrict the issuance
of H-1B visas, the President’s administration is turning its attention to
closing the United States “golden door” to legal migrants. Two leaked memoranda
indicate the White House is planning to restrict immigrant applicants and
existing migrants. The focus: those migrants likely to need or who already
receive welfare benefits. In parallel, two senators have tabled a bill that
would slash the number of legal migrants into the country by roughly half and
cut the issuance of green cards. This bill does not have the endorsement of the
White House. However, all these pointers indicate a strong political momentum
towards some sort of restriction on legal migration into the US that could
manifest itself tangibly in the coming months.
The large numbers of Indians who
hanker for residency and citizenship in the US have reason to be concerned.
Indians are the single largest inflow of legal migrants into the US having long
overtaken Mexicans and staying above Chinese the past few years. The
Indian-American community is now the largest Indian diaspora in the world – and
the most successful measured by education, income and political integration. It
is also among the most entrepreneurial and technologically savvy communities in
the US. The President’s administration seems to have kept this mind as its
memoranda talk of skewing the immigration rules in favour of the
highly-educated. And while the President has lashed out against immigration, he
has repeatedly exempted the highly-skilled immigrant.
It is not clear how and when this
anti-immigration sentiment will find its way into regulations and legislation.
With the ruling Republicans shifting away from their traditional support for
open borders, however, something should be expected. The President’s
administration has generally been positive about relations with India. The
President should take note that the Indian-American community, which has grown
from barely 200,000 in 1980 to over four million today, is a pillar of the
growing relationship between India and the US. While there are other areas of
strategic convergence, this people-to-people link has been a major source of
bilateral ballast. While immigration changes that aim at poorer migrants will
impact Indians less than others, Indian green-card holders awaiting US
citizenship already face years of delays. Further barriers will only sour
Indians of their, until now, remarkably successful American dream. Arguably
India may benefit from a reduced brain drain problem, but the larger issue will
be the dampening effect it will have on the India-US relationship and the crimp
it will put in the sort of job-creating entrepreneurship that the President
should be embracing.
1. Which of the following is TRUE in the context of the
passage?
(A) With the
ruling Republicans shifting away from their traditional support for open
borders, however, something should be expected.
(B) The
Indian-American community is now the largest Indian diaspora in the world – and
the most successful measured by education, income and political integration.
(C) This
bill does not have the endorsement of the White House.
a) All are true
b) Only A and B
c) Only A
d) Only C
e) Only B and C
2. Which of the following is NOT TRUE in the context of the
passage?
a) It is not clear how and when the anti-immigration
sentiment will find its way into regulations and legislation.
b) Arguably India may benefit from a reduced brain drain
problem.
c) Neither of the two leaked memoranda indicates the White
House is planning to restrict immigrant applicants and existing migrants.
d) The Indian-American community is among the most
entrepreneurial and technologically savvy communities in the US.
e) None of these
3. What effect has been seen with the restriction of the
issuance of H-1B?
a) The golden door opportunity to granted emigrant is seen to
be closed
b) No effect has been discussed in the passage.
c) Regulations and legislation will be reframed with this
restriction.
d) Those migrants likely to receive welfare benefits are
allowed to enter the US.
e) Both 3 and 4
4. How the anti-immigration sentiment will find its way into
regulations and legislation?
a) With the help of India the anti-immigration sentiment will
find its way.
b) The anti-immigration sentiment will find its way through
making cordial relations with the concerned authorities.
c) The author has not given any explanation.
d) The anti-immigration sentiment has found its way in 1980
in the form of an improper diplomacy.
e) Only 1 and 4
5. What effect may be considered on the Indians regarding
further barriers?
(A) Rancidity
will be seen regarding further barriers.
(B) Further
barriers will show positive ideation.
(C) Indian
green-card holders will face no problem.
a) Only A
b) Only B
c) Only C
d) Only B and C
e) Only A and C
6. Which of the following statement/s could be inferred TRUE
for the highly skilled immigrants when it comes to getting the U.S.
citizenship?
a) The highly-skilled immigrants are exempt from getting the
U.S citizenship
b) The highly-skilled immigrants can get the U.S citizenship
c) The highly-skilled immigrants are not considered for
getting the U.S. citizenship
d) The highly-skilled immigrants if muslim are not apllicable
for getting the U.S. citizenship
e) Only 3 and 4
7. What can be truly said about the Indians who hanker for
citizenship in the US?
(A) Nothing can
be said regard this.
(B) They
have reason to be worried.
(C) The
President’s administration has generally been positive about relations with
India.
a) Only A
b) Only B
c) Only C
d) Only A and C
e) Only B and C
8. Which of the following has/have been considered a major
source of bilateral ballast?
(A) People-to-people
link has been a major source of bilateral ballast.
(B) Job-creating
entrepreneurship has been a major source of bilateral ballast.
(C) Dampening
effect has been a major source of bilateral ballast.
a) Only A
b) Only B and C
c) Only B
d) Only C
e) All A, B and C
9. Rearrange the following sentences (A), (B), (C), (D), (E)
and (F) in the proper sequence to form a meaningful paragraph, then answer the
questions given below them. First and Last sentences of the arrangement already
given
(1) IST Centre
is not looking for scapegoats, says the Railway Minister,
(A) As
the National Investigation Agency (NIA) was probing the matter.
(B) He
would rather not pin the blame on anyone right now for the train derailment
last year
(C) He
won’t be able to comment on the NIA investigation.
(D) He
has noticed that there are several sabotage attempts.
(E) One
thing is for sure that there has been an unusual activity in the Railways in
the past few days.
(F) Expressing
concern over what he called a spate of “sabotage attempts” on trains, the
Railway Minister said
(8) When
he noticed them, we handed over the matter to the NIA.
Which of the following is the correct order of the sentences?
a) FBACED
b) FBCEDA
c) ABFCED
d) CBAFED
e) BACEDF
10. Rearrange the following sentences (A), (B), (C), (D), (E)
and (F) in the proper sequence to form a meaningful paragraph, then answer the
questions given below them. First and Last sentences of the arrangement already
given
(1) A
significant announcement in the budget pertaining to the financial sector is
that
(A)
The Financial Stability and Development Council, as it will be called, will
monitor macro prudential supervision of the economy,
(B)
It was felt that a “super regulator” would not preserve the autonomy of
individual regulators,
(C)
About setting up a new apex body to strengthen and institutionalise the
mechanism for maintaining financial stability.
(D)
Such as the RBI, SEBI and the IRDA.
(E) Earlier
attempts to create such a body did not fructify for various reasons.
(F) Including
the functioning of large conglomerates, and address inter-regulatory concerns.
(8) However,
there has been considerable vagueness about the functions of financial
regulators, as evidenced by certain recent, well publicised cases.
10. Which of the following is the correct order of the
sentences?
a) CAFEBD
b) EBCFDA
c) ABFCED
d) CBAFED
e) ACEDF
Answers:
1. A)
2. C)
3. A)
4. C)
5. A)
6. B)
7. B)
8. A)
9. A)
10. A)
