English Language Quiz For SBI Clerk | 29-02-2020

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In the following passage, there are blanks each of which has been numbered. These numbers are given below the passage and against each five words have been suggested, one of which fits the blanks appropriately. Find out the appropriate word in each case.

No complaint, however, is more common than that of a (A) of money. Money, like wine, must always be scarce with those who have neither wherewithal to buy it nor credit to borrow it. Those who have either will (B) be in want of the money or of the wine they have occasion for.

It is general through a whole mercantile town and the country in its neighbourhood. Overtrading is the common (C) of it. Sober men, whose projects have been disproportioned to their capitals, are as likely to have neither wherewithal to buy money nor credit to borrow it, as prodigals whose expense has been disproportioned to their revenue. Before their projects can be brought to bear, their stock, and the credit, is gone.

They run about everywhere to borrow money, and everybody tells them that they have none to (D). Even such complaints of the scarcity of money do not always prove that the usual number of gold and silver pieces are not circulating in the country, but that many people want those pieces who have nothing to give for them.

When the profits of trade are (E) than ordinary, overtrading becomes a general error among great and small dealers. They do not send more money abroad than usual, but they buy upon credit an unusual quantity of goods.

Q-1 Choose the correct option for (A).

01. abundance

02. scarcity

03. availability

04. lending

05. printing

Q-2 Choose the correct option for (B).

01. likely

02. none

03. always

04. seldom

05. limited

Q-3 Choose the correct option for (C).

01. cause

02. reason

03. flaw

04. consequence

05. clause

Q-4 Choose the correct option for (D).

01. borrow

02. deposit

03. lend

04. impart

05. spend 

Q-5 Choose the correct option for (E).

01. shorter

02. greater

03. enough

04. less

05. wider

6. In the following question, read the sentence carefully, it is followed by other three sentences which may or may not convey the messages received from the sentence. Choose the sentence(s) which is/are conveying the accurate message.

Banks promote trade within the country by providing loans and advances to the traders and eases the process of trading between different countries.

A. The businesses, within specific regions abroad are promoted by providing advances.

B. Banks are against the trading beyond the boundaries of the country.

C. Trading is facilitated provided businessmen get loans and advances.

(1) Only A

(2) Only B

(3) Both A and C

(4) Only C

(5) Both B and C

7. In the following question, read the sentence carefully, it is followed by other three sentences which may or may not convey the messages received from the sentence. Choose the sentence(s) which is/are conveying the accurate message.

Gardening is a fairly physical activity which involves weeding, watering of plants, mulching, trellising and harvesting – all of which require physical labour from the gardener.

A. There is a lot of physical work that has to be done for gardening.

B. Weeding, watering, harvesting involve gardening as a physical activity.

C. Spreading compost does not involve physical work.

(1) Only A

(2) Only B

(3) Both A and C

(4) Only C

(5) Both B and C

8. In the following question, read the sentence carefully, it is followed by other three sentences which may or may not convey the messages received from the sentence. Choose the sentence(s) which is/are conveying the accurate message.

The decision of privatizing various sectors has come as a relief to the government which has reduced the wastage of government resources and wealth.

A. The situation was worrisome before privatization.

B. The government resources have been preserved through privatization.

C. Privatization of various sectors has relieved the government.

(1) Only A

(2) Only B

(3) Both A and C

(4) Only C

(5) All A, B and C

9. In the following question, read the sentence carefully, it is followed by other three sentences which may or may not convey the messages received from the sentence. Choose the sentence(s) which is/are conveying the accurate message.

A decent society prevents excessive wrongdoing with the help of effective injunctions against killing, maiming or ill-treating others.

A. A decent society is known for its wrongdoings.

B. A decent society helps effective injunctions to avoid killing, maiming, etc.

C. Ill-treating others is a wrongdoing which is prevented by decent societies.

(1) Only A

(2) Only B

(3) Both A and C

(4) Only C

(5) Both A and C

10. In the following question, read the sentence carefully, it is followed by other three sentences which may or may not convey the messages received from the sentence. Choose the sentence(s) which is/are conveying the accurate message.

While price hikes are inevitable in any economy, uncontrolled or badly controlled increases hit the population of a country hard and amplify the gap between the rich and the poor.

A. The rich and the poor can control the price hikes.

B. The population gets affected by uncontrolled price hikes.

C. Inflation reduces the gap between the poor and the rich.

(1) Only A

(2) Only B

(3) Both A and C

(4) Only C

(5) All A, B and C

Answer 

1. (2) Scarcity (n) – the state of being in short supply; shortage.

For other options-

Abundance (n) – a very large quantity of something.

2. (4) Seldom (adverb) – not often; rarely.

3. (1) 

4. (3) Lend (v) – grant to (someone) the use of (something) on the understanding that it will be returned.

5. (2)

6. (4) Sentence A states that business is promoted outside the country which is the opposite to what has been stated in the sentence.

There is no such description in the sentence that banks are not in favor of trading outside the country as mentioned in Sentence B.

7. (1) Sentence B states that weeding, watering, etc. involve gardening as a physical activity which is opposite to the sentence.

Sentence C states that spreading compost (mulching) does not involve physical work which is not true.

8.(5) All the three sentences can be correctly inferred from the given sentence.

9.(4) Sentence A is inappropriate as it completely contradicts the original sentence.

Sentence B conveys that society helps effective injunctions whereas according to the original sentence it takes the help of injunctions.

10. (2) For sentence A: There is nothing said like this in the given sentence, it is out of the context.

For sentence C: In the original sentence ‘ amplify the gap between the rich and the poor’ is given, but this sentence is opposite to that.