एसबीआई पीओ और बॉब पीओ 2017 के लिए अंग्रेजी की प्रश्नोतरी

Directions (1-15): In each of the following sentences, five options are given. You are required to identify the best way of writing the BOLD part in the given sentence in the context of the correct usage of standard written English. Option A repeats the question sentence, if the given sentence is correct as it is. Then, choose option A as correct answer choice. 

Q1. Unlike the original National Museum of Science and Technology in Italy, where the models are encased in glass or operated only by staff members, the Virtual Leonardo Project, an online version of the museum, encourages visitors to “touch” each exhibit, which thereby activates the animated functions of the piece.

(a) exhibit, which thereby activates 

(b) exhibit, in turn an activation of

(c) exhibit, and it will activate

(d) exhibit and thereby activate

(e) exhibit which, as a result, activates

Q2. More and more in recent years, cities are stressing the arts as a means to greater economic development and investing millions of dollars in cultural activities, despite strained municipal budgets and fading federal support.

(a) to greater economic development and investing

(b) to greater development economically and investing

(c) of greater economic development and invest

(d) of greater development, economically and invest

(e) for greater economic development and the investment of

Q3. Combining enormous physical strength with higher intelligence, the Neanderthals appear as equipped for facing any obstacle the environment could put in their path, but their relatively sudden disappearance during the Paleolithic era indicates that an inability to adapt to some environmental change led to their extinction.

(a) appear as equipped for facing any obstacle the environment could put in their path,

(b) appear to have been equipped to face any obstacle the environment could put in their path,

(c) appear as equipped to face any obstacle the environment could put in their paths,

(d) appeared as equipped to face any obstacle the environment could put in their paths,

(e) appeared to have been equipped for facing any obstacle the environment could put in their path,

Q4. A 1972 agreement between Canada and the United States reduced the amount of phosphates that municipalities had been allowed to dump into the Great Lakes.

(a) reduced the amount of phosphates that municipalities had been allowed to dump

(b) reduced the phosphate amount that municipalities had been dumping

(c) reduces the phosphate amount municipalities have been allowed to dump

(d) reduced the amount of phosphates that municipalities are allowed to dump

(e) reduces the amount of phosphates allowed for dumping by municipalities

Q5. A proposal has been made to trim the horns from rhinoceroses to discourage poachers; the question is whether tourists will continue to visit game parks and see rhinoceroses after their horns are trimmed.

(a) whether tourists will continue to visit game parks and see rhinoceroses after their horns are

(b) whether tourists will continue to visit game parks to see one once their horns are

(c) whether tourists will continue to visit game parks to see rhinoceroses once the animals’ horns have been

(d) if tourists will continue to visit game parks and see rhinoceroses once the animals’ horns are

(e) if tourists will continue to visit game parks to see one after the animals’ horns have been

Q6. Retailers reported moderate gains in their November sales, as much because of their sales of a year earlier being so bad as that shoppers were getting a head start on buying their holiday gifts.

(a) of their sales of a year earlier being so bad as that

(b) of their sales a year earlier having been as bad as because

(c) of their sales a year earlier being as bad as because

(d) their sales a year earlier had been so bad as because

(e) their sales of a year earlier were as bad as that

Q7. The only way for growers to salvage frozen citrus is to process them quickly into juice concentrate before they rot when warmer weather returns.

(a) to process them quickly into juice concentrate before they rot when warmer weather returns

(b) if they are quickly processed into juice concentrate before warmer weather returns to rot them

(c) for them to be processed quickly into juice concentrate before the fruit rots when warmer weather returns

(d) if the fruit is quickly processed into juice concentrate before they rot when warmer weather returns

(e) to have it quickly processed into juice concentrate before warmer weather returns and rots the fruit

Q8. Fossils of the arm of a sloth found in Puerto Rico in 1991, and dated at 34 million years old, made it the earliest known mammal of the Greater Antilles Islands.

(a) sloth found in Puerto Rico in 1991, and dated at 34 million years old, made it the earliest known mammal of

(b) sloth, that they found in Puerto Rico in 1991, has been dated at 34 million years old, thus making it the earliest mammal known on

(c) sloth that was found in Puerto Rico in 1991, was dated at 34 million years old, making this the earliest known mammal of

(d) sloth, found in Puerto Rico in 1991, have been dated at 34 million years old, making the sloth the earliest known mammal on

(e) sloth which, found in Puerto Rico in 1991, was dated at 34 million years old, made the sloth the earliest known mammal of

Q9. Defense attorneys have occasionally argued that their clients’ misconduct stemmed from a reaction to something ingested, but in attributing criminal or delinquent behavior to some food allergy, the perpetrators are in effect told that they are not responsible for their actions.

(a) in attributing criminal or delinquent behavior to some food allergy,

(b) if criminal or delinquent behavior is attributed to an allergy to some food,

(c) in attributing behavior that is criminal or delinquent to an allergy to some food, 

(d) if some food allergy is attributed as the cause of criminal or delinquent behavior,

(e) in attributing a food allergy as the cause of criminal or delinquent behavior,

Q10. A report by the American Academy for the Advancement of Science has concluded that much of the currently uncontrolled dioxins to which North Americans are exposed comes from the incineration of wastes.

(a) much of the currently uncontrolled dioxins to which North Americans are exposed comes

(b) much of the currently uncontrolled dioxins that North Americans are exposed to come

(c) much of the dioxins that are currently uncontrolled and that North Americans are exposed to comes

(d) many of the dioxins that are currently uncontrolled and North Americans are exposed to come

(e) many of the currently uncontrolled dioxins to which North Americans are exposed come

Q11. Recently physicians have determined that stomach ulcers are not caused by stress, alcohol, or rich foods, but a bacterium that dwells in the mucous lining of the stomach.

(a) not caused by stress, alcohol, or rich foods, but

(b) not caused by stress, alcohol, or rich foods, but are by

(c) caused not by stress, alcohol, or rich foods, but by

(d) caused not by stress, alcohol, and rich foods, but

(e) caused not by stress, alcohol, and rich foods, but are by

Q12. According to a recent poll, owning and living in a freestanding house on its own land is still a goal of a majority of young adults, like that of earlier generations.

(a) like that of earlier generations

(b) as that for earlier generations

(c) just as earlier generations did

(d) as have earlier generations 

(e) as it was of earlier generations

Q13. In 2000, a mere two dozen products accounted for half the increase in spending on prescription drugs, a phenomenon that is explained not just because of more expensive drugs but by the fact that doctors are writing many more prescriptions for higher-cost drugs.

(a) a phenomenon that is explained not just because of more expensive drugs but by the fact that doctors are writing

(b) a phenomenon that is explained not just by the fact that drugs are becoming more expensive but also by the fact that doctors are writing

(c) a phenomenon occurring not just because of drugs that are becoming more expensive but because of doctors having also written

(d) which occurred not just because drugs are becoming more expensive but doctors are also writing

(e) which occurred not just because of more expensive drugs but because doctors have also written

Q14. Often visible as smog, ozone is formed in the atmosphere from hydrocarbons and nitrogen oxides, two major pollutants emitted by automobiles, react with sunlight.

(a) ozone is formed in the atmosphere from

(b) ozone is formed in the atmosphere when

(c) ozone is formed in the atmosphere, and when

(d) ozone, formed in the atmosphere when

(e) ozone, formed in the atmosphere from

Q15. Salt deposits and moisture threaten to destroy the Mohenjo-Daro excavation in Pakistan, the site of an ancient civilization that flourished at the same time as the civilizations in the Nine Delta and the river valleys of the Tigris and Euphrates.

(a) that flourished at the same time as the civilizations

(b) that had flourished at the same time as had the civilizations

(c) that flourished at the same time those had

(d) flourishing at the same time as those did

(e) flourishing at the same time as those were

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