Dear Aspirants,
This section can be easy as pie if your basics are clear. Sometimes, even those who can communicate very well in English, fail to perform to the best of their ability in the banking exams. So, instead of boiling the ocean, try building up a strong vocabulary, an effective knowledge of grammar, and efficient comprehension skills so as to be on the ball to face this particular section. Here is a quiz on Cloze Tests being provided by Adda247 to let you practice the best of latest pattern English Questions.
Directions (1-10): In the following passage there are blanks, each of which has been numbered. Four words are suggested against each number which may or may not fit into the sentence contextually. These numbers are printed below the passage and against each, five options are given. Find out the most appropriate alternative [word(s)] which fits into the blank appropriately and thus giving a contextual meaning to the paragraph.
Seldom has a physicist (1) commanded/charged/assigned/recalled the attention of a world audience the way Stephen Hawking managed to do in his (2) amazing/miraculously/poorly/remarkable extended life-span of 76 years. (3) Overlooked/Defined/Diagnosed/Qualified at 21 with motor neuron disease ALS, Hawking defied the prediction that he had but a couple of years left to live, (4) for/with/at/in more than half a century. As Stephen himself noted, he was born (5) accurately/exactly/precisely/perfectly three centuries after Galileo. He would have noted, were he aware that the end was (6) nigh/almost/anticipate/essential in the early hours of March 14 that this day was Albert Einstein’s birthday.
In many (7) respects/aspect/regard/acclaim, the phenomenon of the celebrity scientist in the 20th century (8) commenced/originated/emanated/evolved with Albert Einstein. For Galileo, Kepler or Copernicus to acquire that status was (9) desperate/excited/rabid/fraught with danger as it challenged religious authority, a sin for which Galileo had to pay, though not so tragically as the (10) meek/reckless/discreet/rapid Giordano Bruno who was burnt at the stake.
Q1.
(a) charged
(b) recalled
(c) commanded
(d) assigned
(e) None of the above
Q2.
(a) miraculously
(b) poorly
(c) amazing
(d) remarkable
(e) Both (c) and (d)
Q3.
(a) Qualified
(b) Overlooked
(c) Diagnosed
(d) Defined
(e) None of the above
Q4.
(a) in
(b) for
(c) with
(d) at
(e) None of the above
Q5.
(a) precisely
(b) perfectly
(c) exactly
(d) accurately
(e) All of the above
Q6.
(a) almost
(b) essential
(c) nigh
(d) anticipate
(e) Both (a) and (c)
Q7.
(a) acclaim
(b) regard
(c) aspect
(d) respects
(e) All of the above
Q8.
(a) originated
(b) evolved
(c) commenced
(d) emanated
(e) All of the above
Q9.
(a) excited
(b) fraught
(c) desperate
(d) rabid
(e) Both (a) and (b)
Q10.
(a) discreet
(b) rapid
(c) reckless
(d) meek
(e) None of the above
Directions (11–15): Which of the words/phrases (a), (b), (c) and (d) given below should replace the words/phrases given in bold in the following sentences to make it meaningful and grammatically correct? If the given words perfectly fit into the sentence and do not require any replacement, choose (e) i.e. ‘No replacement required’ as the answer.
Q11. The American College Health Association viewed 100,000 college students at 53 American campuses and fixed that 84 percent of them feel unable to cope, 79 percent are energized, 60 percent feel very sad and more than half are exploiting overwhelming anxiety.
(a) surveyed, found, exhausted, experiencing
(b) checked, raised, limped, doing
(c) examined, predicted, blown, trying
(d) assessed, concluded, lost, neglecting
(e) No replacement required
Q12. There are certain books which when you put them down keep you absolutely still for a while. Apart from making you acutely aware of an alternate reality, they never fail to produce a flash of insight, a spark of intuition that would not occur to you otherwise.
(a) dubious, roughly, wisdom, perception
(b) strict, severely, ignorance, feeling
(c) definite, plainly, guile, smartness
(d) concrete, overtly, sharp, idea
(e) No replacement required
Q13. Although the desirable butterfly has a life span of one or two weeks, or a wondrous flower usually sink within a day, yet each of them fixedly spreads silently the message of cheer unlike humans, quite concern of the chances of their survival even for the all-too-brief period allotted to them.
(a) pretty, expand, explicitly, insensible
(b) engaged, diminish, inevitably, abstract
(c) bewitching, wilts, unfailingly, oblivious
(d) lovely, fade, assuredly, sensitive
(e) No replacement required
Q14. Various other research studies cite that the American first-use option and keeping its weapons on tardy launch mode plays a large role in forcing Russia and China to field a delayed amount of their nuclear forces in a launch-under-attack mode so as to avoid any kind of serving nuclear strike.
(a) show, prompt, sizable, disarming
(b) arrays, rapid, considerable, charming
(c) views, immediate, gross, silky
(d) parade, activate, massive, civil
(e) No replacement required
Q15. The issue of development as underlined in Doha Development Round is important, and that is related to unjustified subsidies given by developed nations, and this can’t be sacrificed. Discussion on Doha Development Round is still pending and that has to be completed.
(a) subject, reasonable, absolved, improbable
(b) source, flimsy, honored, clouded
(c) question, false, revoked, overdue
(d) deal, idle, repudiated, sneaky
(e) No replacement required
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