English Language Quiz for Prelims Exams- SBI & IBPS 2020- 6th January, 2021

Direction (1-5): Read each sentence to find out whether there is any grammatical error 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 (5). (Ignore errors of punctuation, if any.)

Q1. Your over-independent on a)/ others even for b)/ trivial
matters may c)/ prove disadvantageous. d)/ No error e)

Q2. People who are a)/ fortunate enough to own b)/ a personal library are
always c)/ held in high esteem by me. d)/ No error e)

Q3. A small loaf of bread a)/ given with
affection b)/ is far superior to c)/ a delicious dish served with indifferently.
d)/ No error e)

Q4. Everybody know a)/ that his failure
can b) be attributed only c)/ to his lack of practice d.) No error e)

Q5. Most of the popular tele-serials a)/
are not only illogical b)/ in their story line c)/ but also crude in their
presentation. d)/ No error e)

Directions (6-10): Rearrange the following
six sentences (A), (B), (C), (D), (E), and (F) in the proper sequence to form a
meaningful paragraph and then answer the questions given below.

(A) Just
like history has witnessed many forms of government.

(B) Government
may take several forms.

(C) If
these normal forms are perverted, monarchy becomes tyranny, aristocracy becomes
oligarchy and polity becomes democracy.

(D) Aristotle
had given a six-fold classification of governments-three normal and three
perverted forms of government.

(E) Thus,
Aristotle regarded democracy as the worst form of government, but he felt that
the potential capacity of the citizens for sound collective judgements could
assure the success of this form.

(F) The
three normal types of government are monarchy, rule by one person; aristocracy,
rule by a few; polity, rule by the many.

Q6. Which of the following should be the
THIRD sentence after rearrangement?

(a) B

(b) A

(d) E

(e) D

Q7. Which of the following should be the
LAST (SIXTH) sentence after rearrangement?

(a) F

(b) E

(d) D

(e) C

Q8. Which of the following should be the
FIRST sentence after rearrangement?

(a) B

(b) C

(d) E

(e) F

Q9. Which of the following should be the
FOURTH sentence after rearrangement?

(a) A

(b) B

(d) C

(e) D

Q10. Which of the following should be
the SECOND sentence after rearrangement?

(a) D

(b) F

(d) A

(e) E

Direction (11-15):
In the following passage there are blanks, each of which has been numbered.
These numbers are printed below the passage and against each five words have
been suggested, one of which fills the blanks appropriately. Find out the
appropriate word in each case.

Traditional bank architecture is based on bank branches.
These branches ensure the physical (11)

of a customer’s savings. A customer may go there to
deposit and withdraw money, negotiate loans and

(12) in
other financial transactions. In the past two decades banking architecture has
changed-the

Automated Teller Machine (ATM) has been a big luxury and credit and debit cards have created new

financial spaces. (13) the bank branch has remained the bedrock of the banking
system-after all a

person needs a bank account in a branch before he can
operate a debit or ATM card. This may be

about to change as technocrats now view cell phones as the new architecture of virtual banks. This

has the potential to make branches (14). Cell phone banking looks especially relevant for India
since

it can penetrate the countryside cheaply and effectively. The world over cell phones is spreading at a phenomenal rate and
in India alone new cell phone connections are growing at the rate of six
million a month a rate of customer (15) that no bank can dream of.

Q11. (a) confidentiality (b) guarantee (c) knowledge (d)
security (e) presence

Q12. (a) enable (b) engage (c) pursue (d) imitate (e) regulate

Q13. (a) Yet (b) Until (c) Despite (d) Although (e) Even

Q14. (a) retreat (b) expired (c) essential (d) obsolete (e) extant

Q15.
(a) satisfaction (b) relationship (c) discount (d) base (e) expansion

SOLUTIONS:

S1. Ans. (a)

Sol. ‘Your over-dependence
on’ is the correct usage. As ‘dependent’ is an adjective, its noun form will be
used as a subject.

S2. Ans. (e)

Sol. No error

S3. Ans. (d)

Sol. The word ‘indifferently’ has wrongly
been used. It should be replaced with its noun form ‘indifference’.
S4. Ans. (a)

Sol. ‘Everybody’ is a singular noun.
Hence, the correct verb should be ‘knows’, not ‘know’

S5.
Ans. (e)

Sol.
No error

S6. Ans. (e)