RBI Assistant Prelims English Daily Mock 9th January 2020
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Directions (1-8): In each of the following questions, a statement is given with two blanks. Followed by two columns, Column (A) contains words that might fill in the first blank and Column (B) contains words that might fill in the second blank. Choose among the options, the right pair of words that can fill in the blanks consecutively to make the sentence grammatically correct and contextually meaningful. If none of the options could fill in the blanks, mark your answer, “None of the above; (e)”.
Q1. In Somalia America carried out air strikes against al-Shabaab jihadists ______________ of planting a car bomb on the ___________________ of Mogadishu that killed at least 80 people.
Column (A)
(1) laid
(2) suspected
(3) concealed
Column (B)
(4) downfall
(5) outskirts
(6) reflected
(a) 1-4
(b) 2-5
(c) 3-6
(d) Both (a) & (b)
(e) None of the above
Q2. Binyamin Netanyahu, the prime minister of Israel, said he would ask parliament to grant him __________________ from _________________ in three corruption cases.
Column (A)
(1) immunity
(2) case
(3) freedom
Column (B)
(4) prosecution
(5) prison
(6) wanting
(a) 1-4
(b) 2-5
(c) 3-6
(d) Both (a) & (b)
(e) None of the above
Q3. The country doesn’t seem to have recovered from the __________________ caused by demonetisation and GST; and it has found the ________________ to be halting.
Column (A)
(1) attack
(2) aloof
(3) convulsions
Column (B)
(4) view
(5) unworthy
(6) recovery
(a) 1-4
(b) 2-5
(c) 3-6
(d) Both (a) & (b)
(e) None of the above
Q4. PAKISTAN closed India’s Consulate General in Karachi in 1994, ________________ because of public anger in the country following the __________________ of the Babri Masjid in Ayodhya.
Column (A)
(1) ostensibly
(2) uncharitable
(3) obstructing
Column (B)
(4) destruction
(5) devaluation
(6) substantial
(a) 1-4
(b) 2-5
(c) 3-6
(d) Both (a) & (b)
(e) None of the above
Q5. THE grotesque Nirbhaya gangrape-murder case of December 2012 gets a closure with the four death row convicts having _________________ the legal remedies in the seven-year trial and been finally sentenced to _________________ on January 22.
Column (A)
(1) damage
(2) exhausted
(3) reborn
Column (B)
(4) distort
(5) execution
(6) dubious
(a) 1-4
(b) 2-5
(c) 3-6
(d) Both (a) & (b)
(e) None of the above
Q6. The Pentagon’s ____________________ suggested there were no American casualties and only _________________ damage in the attacks.
Column (A)
(1) assessments
(2) inevitable
(3) figures
Column (B)
(4) minimal
(5) unworthy
(6) past
(a) 1-4
(b) 2-5
(c) 3-6
(d) Both (b) & (c)
(e) None of the above
Q7. The international community should now push for a diplomatic _______________ of the crisis and find ways to _____________ the nuclear deal which could bring long-term peace to the Gulf.
Column (A)
(1) contract
(2) cooperation
(3) settlement
Column (B)
(4) revisit
(5) spoil
(6) revive
(a) 1-4
(b) 2-5
(c) 3-6
(d) Both (a) & (b)
(e) None of the above
Q.8 The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has ________________ a ₹ 2,700-crore master plan to ________________ top infrastructure that will house its young Human Space Flight Centre (HSFC).
Column (A)
(1) proposed
(2) seen
(3) chosen
Column (B)
(4) create
(5) obvious
(6) facility
(a) 1-4
(b) 2-5
(c) 3-6
(d) Both (a) & (b)
(e) None of the above
Directions (9-15): Read each sentence to find out whether there is any grammatical or idiomatic error in it. The error, if any, will be in one part of the sentence. The number of that part is the answer. If there is ‘No error’, the answer is option (e). (Ignore errors of punctuation, if any.)
Q9. The boy was trembling (a)/ with anger when she drowned (b)/ all his books (c)/ and articles. (d)/ No error. (e)
Q10. When asked, he (a)/ took tea (b)/ and said that it (c)/ tasted sweetly. (d)/ No error. (e)
Q11. Don’t talk to (a)/ him, he always (b)/remains in temper (c)/ these days. (d)/ No error (e)
Q12. People in Darwin (a)/ had become so accustomed to cyclone warnings (b)/ that few of them paid any attention to the radio warnings (c)/ which began this morning. (d)/ No error (e)
Q13. Brahmaputra is (a)/ one of the longest rivers (b)/ that originate (c)/ in the Himalayas. (d)/ No error (e)
Q14. The trees in the forest (a)/ must be properly counted and numbered (b)/ and proper entries should be made (c)/ in the register. (d) / No error. (e)
Q15. These type of books (a)/ are certainly helpful to the students (b)/ preparing for the banking (c)/ service examinations. (d)/ No error. (e)
Solutions
S1. Ans. (b)
Sol. The words ‘suspected’ and ‘outskirts’ can fill in the blanks consecutively to make the sentence grammatically correct and contextually meaningful. Hence, option (b) is the right answer choice.
S2. Ans. (a)
Sol. The words ‘immunity’ and ‘prosecution’ can fill in the blanks consecutively to make the sentence grammatically correct and contextually meaningful. Hence, option (a) is the right answer choice.
S3. Ans. (c)
Sol. The words ‘convulsions’ and ‘recovery’can fill in the blanks consecutively to make the sentence grammatically correct and contextually meaningful. Hence, option (c) is the right answer choice.
Convulsion means –‘a sudden, violent, irregular movement of the body’
S4. Ans. (a)
Sol. The words ‘ostensibly’ and ‘destruction’ can fill in the blanks consecutively to make the sentence grammatically correct and contextually meaningful. Hence, option (a) is the right answer choice.
S5. Ans. (b)
Sol. ‘exhausted ‘and ‘execution’ can fill in the blanks consecutively to make the sentence grammatically correct and contextually meaningful. Hence, option (b) is the right answer choice.
S6. Ans. (a)
Sol. The words ‘assessments’ and ‘minimal’ can fill in the blanks consecutively to make the sentence grammatically correct and contextually meaningful. Hence, option (a) is the right answer choice.
S7. Ans. (c)
Sol. The words ‘settlement’ and ‘revive’ can fill in the blanks consecutively to make the sentence grammatically correct and contextually meaningful. Hence, option (c) is the right answer choice.
S8. Ans. (a)
Sol. ‘proposed ‘and ‘create’ can fill in the blanks consecutively to make the sentence grammatically correct and contextually meaningful. Hence, option (a) is the right answer choice.
S9 Ans. (a)
Sol. There is no error in the given statement.
S10. Ans. (d)
Sol. Replace ‘sweetly’ by ‘sweet’ as “taste, feel, seem, appear, look, smell, remain, etc.” are ‘Copula Verbs’ or Linking Verbs which take Adjective and not Adverb.
e.g. She tastes sweet [Adjective].
A rose smells sweet [Adjective].
She looks beautiful [Adjective].
She looks suspiciously [Adverb] at him.
S11. Ans. (c)
Sol. In place of ‘in temper’, use ‘in a temper’ which is idiomatic.
S12. Ans. (e)
Sol. Sentence is grammatically correct.
S13. Ans. (a)
Sol. ‘Brahmaputra’ is the name of a river. Hence ‘The’ will be used before ‘Brahmaputra’.
S14. Ans. (e)
Sol. Sentence is grammatically correct.
S15. Ans. (a)
Sol. Use ‘types’ in place of ‘type’ because after demonstrative adjectives like these/ those/ certain/ other etc. noun is always in plural number.
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