Dear Readers,
Just a few days are left for SBI PO and NIACL Assistant Examination. It is time to pace up your preparation with New Pattern Questions of English section for SBI PO Prelims and NIACL Assistant Prelims 2017. These English questions will also help you in preparing for BOB PO and NIACL AO 2017 recruitment examination. We have also provided study notes for the grammatical part.
Directions (1-5): In each of the following sentences, five options are given. You are required to identify the best way of writing the sentence in the context of the correct usage of standard written English. While doing so, you have to ensure that the message being conveyed remains the same in all the cases.
Q1. If we cooperate together by dividing up the booty, we shall be able to work together smoothly in the future.
(a) If we cooperate together by dividing up the booty, we shall be able to work together smoothly in the future.
(b) If we cooperate by dividing up the booty, we shall be able to work together smoothly in the future.
(c) If we cooperate by dividing up the booty together, we shall be able to work together smoothly in the future.
(d) If we cooperate with each other by dividing the booty, we shall be able to work together smoothly in the future.
(e) If we cooperate with one other by dividing up the booty, we will be able to work smoothly together in future.
Q2. The entire cast and crew of the film, enjoyed splashing in the pool, bathing in the ocean, and, particularly, to sun bathe on the shore.
(a) The entire cast and crew of the film, enjoyed splashing in the pool, bathing in the ocean, and, particularly, to sun bathe on the shore.
(b) The entire cast and crew of the film, enjoyed splashing in the pool, to have a bath in the ocean, and, particularly to sun bathe on the shore.
(c) The entire cast and crew of the film, enjoyed swimming in the pool to bathe in the ocean, and, particularly sun bathing on the shore.
(d) The entire cast and crew of the film, enjoyed swimming in the pool, bathing in the ocean, and, particularly, sun bathing on the shore.
(e) The entire cast and crew of the film, enjoyed splashing in the pool, bathing in the ocean, particularly to sun bathing on the shore.
Q3. Crossing the street, a bus almost crushed us to death.
(a) Crossing the street, a bus almost crushed us to death.
(b) A bus almost crushed us, crossing the street.
(c) As we crossed the street, a bus almost crushed us.
(d) A bus, crossing the street, almost crushed us.
(e) While we crossed a street, a bus almost crushed us.
Q4. The moral of the entire store is how money doesn’t make you happy.
(a) The moral of the entire story is how money doesn’t make you happy.
(b) The moral of the entire story is that money doesn’t make you happy.
(c) In this novel, its moral of the story is how money doesn’t make you happy.
(d) That money does not make you happy, is the entire moral of the story.
(e) The moral of the story is that as to how money doesn’t make you happy.
Q5. Entertainment being recognized as an important factor in improving mental and physical health and thereby reducing human misery and poverty.
(a) Entertainment being recognized as an important factor in improving mental and physical health and thereby reducing human misery and poverty.
(b) Recognising entertainment as an important factor in improving mental and physical health and thereby reducing human misery and poverty.
(c) Recognising of it being an important factor in improving mental and physical health entertainment reduces human misery and poverty.
(d) Entertainment is recognized as an important factor in improving mental and physical health and thereby reducing human misery and poverty.
(e) Entertainment while being recognized as an important factor in improving mental and physical health and thereby reducing human misery and poverty.
Directions (6-10): Rearrange the following FIVE sentences (A), (B), (C), (D), (E) in the proper sequence to form a meaningful paragraph; then answer the questions given below them.
A. A slight move of the steering wheel in the wrong direction would wreak havoc, but we cruise carefree, because we have reasonable expectations about the behavior of other drivers.
B. That framework has to be based on global civics, a system of conscious responsibilities that we are ready to take on-and corresponding rights that we are ready to claim-after due deliberation.
C. In an increasingly interdependent world, we need a corresponding global framework to put our minds at relative ease.
D. Every day millions of people drive at high speeds encased in a ton of metal, and they do so extremely close to others who are doing the same thing.
E. Our expectations of other drivers, which serve to mitigate the theoretical risks of driving, can exist because people adhere to a framework of laws, habits and conventions about how to operate automobiles.
Q6. Which of the following will be the FIRST sentence after rearrangement?
(a) B
(b) C
(c) D
(d) E
(e) A
Q7. Which of the following will be the SECOND sentence after rearrangement?
(a) A
(b) B
(c) C
(d) D
(e) E
Q8. Which of the following will be the THIRD sentence after rearrangement?
(a) B
(b) C
(c) D
(d) E
(e) A
Q9. Which of the following will be the FIFTH sentence after rearrangement?
(a) A
(b) B
(c) C
(d) D
(e) E
Q10. Which of the following will be the fourth sentence after rearrangement?
(a) B
(b) C
(c) D
(d) E
(e) A
Directions (11-15): Rearrange the following SIX sentences (A), (B), (C), (D), (E) and (F) in the proper sequence to form a meaningful paragraph; then answer the questions given below them.
A. On a worldwide scale, nuclear energy is thus only a small component of the global energy mix, and its share, contrary to widespread belief, is not on the rise.
B. Yet that renaissance never seems to come.
C. In July 2010, there was a total of 439 nuclear power plants with a net installed capacity of 373.038 GW(e), about 1.2 GW(e) more than at the beginning of 2006.
D. Nuclear fission’s contribution to total electric energy has decreased from about 18% more than ten years ago to about 14% in 2008.
E. Repeatedly in recent years there have been calls for a revival of civilian nuclear power.
F. Indeed, of the more than 200 countries in the world, only 30 use nuclear power.
Q11. Which of the following will be the FIRST sentence after rearrangement?
(a) B
(b) C
(c) D
(d) E
(e) F
Q12. Which of the following will be the SECOND sentence after rearrangement?
(a) A
(b) B
(c) C
(d) D
(e) E
Q13. Which of the following will be the THIRD sentence after rearrangement?
(a) B
(b) C
(c) D
(d) E
(e) F
Q14. Which of the following will be the FIFTH sentence after rearrangement?
(a) A
(b) B
(c) C
(d) D
(e) E
Q15. Which of the following will be the FOURTH sentence after rearrangement?
(a) B
(b) C
(c) D
(d) E
(e) A
