English Quizzes For Bank Foundation 2023- 27th January

Directions (1-9): 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 (e). (Ignore errors of punctuation, if any)

Q1. My friend lived at the top (A)/ of an old house (B)/ which had been (C)/ converted into a flat. (D)/ No error (E)
(a) A
(b)B
(c)C
(d)D
(e)E

Q2. A public safety advertising (A)/campaign in Russia (B)/ hope to draw attention (C)/ of pedestrians crossing the road. (D)/ No error. (E)
(a) A
(b)B
(c)C
(d)D
(e)E

Q3. A cash prize was (A)/ award to the most (B)/ successful salesman of the (C)/ year by the President of the company. (D)/ No error (E)
(a) A
(b)B
(c)C
(d)D
(e)E

Q4. The Renaissance was (A)/ a time to ‘re-awakening’ (B)/ in both the arts (C)/ and the science. (D)/ No error. (E)
(a) A
(b)B
(c)C
(d)D
(e)E

Q5. Sugar-sweetened drinks does not (A)/ pose any particular health risk, and (B)/ are not a unique risk factor (C)/ for obesity or heart disease. (D)/ No error (E)
(a) A
(b)B
(c)C
(d)D
(e)E

Q6. Airline managements should note (A)/ that the ultimate passenger unfriendliness (B)/ is to have their planes crash (C)/ due to adopted of unsafe procedures. (D)/ No error (E)
(a) A
(b)B
(c)C
(d)D
(e)E

Q7. The award ceremony ended (A)/ on a note of good cheer (B)/ with audiences responding warmly (C)/ to its lineup of films. (D)/ No error (E)
(a) A
(b)B
(c)C
(d)D
(e)E

Q8. Meenakshi’s performance in the (A) / film was better than (B) / Sangeeta’s but not (C) / so better as Madhuri’s. (D) / No Error. (E)
(a) A
(b)B
(c)C
(d)D
(e)E

Q9. The actress was ordered to (A)/ wear an alcohol monitoring bracelet and (B)/ submit to random weekly drug testing after (C)/ she failed to appear for a court date last week. (D)/ No error (E)
(a) A
(b)B
(c)C
(d)D
(e)E

Directions (10-15): In each of the following sentences, a part of the sentence has been italicized. Below are given alternatives to the part italicized which may improve the sentence. Choose the correct alternative. Wherever no improvement is needed choose ‘No correction required’ or ‘No Improvement’ as the answer.

Q10. The increased time devoting to watch television is one of the important causes of decline in reading ability.
(a) devoted for the watch
(b) devoted to watching
(c) devoted for the watch of the
(d) devoted to keep watch
(e) No correction required

Q11.In the production of desert trees, Nature seems sometimes to have been experimenting with the truly strange.
(a) seem to have been sometimes experimenting
(b) seems sometimes to have been experimented
(c) sometimes seem to be experimented
(d) sometimes seem to have experimented
(e) No correction required

Q12.In the first round, the participants played in the presence of an accomplice who was committed deliberate errors.
(a) committed deliberate
(b) was to be committed deliberate
(c) had committed deliberately
(d) committed deliberately
(e) No correction required

Q13. We should realize that the chance of accident may be as great or greater in our homes than in a train or on the road.
(a) may be at least as great in our home as
(b) was at least as great as in homes
(c) can be as great or greater in our homes than
(d) may be at least as great or greater in our homes than
(e) No correction required

Q14. Primitive man believing that a crime created an imbalance which could be rectified only by punishing the wrongdoer.
(a) believes that a crime created
(b) believed that a crime created
(c) believed that a criminal created
(d) believed that a crime creates
(e) No correction required

Q15. Calamities and indigence in the past was afflicting more than at present.
(a) were more afflicting
(b) was afflicted more
(c) were more afflict
(d) was afflict more
(e) No correction required

Solutions:

S1. Ans.(c)
Sol. Use ‘has’ in place of ‘had’ as present perfect passive verb should be used because ‘an old house’ in the past is converted into a ‘flat’ now.

S2. Ans.(c)
Sol. Use ‘hopes’ in place of ‘hope’ as in the sentence the subject ‘campaign’ is singular.

S3. Ans.(b)
Sol. Use ‘awarded’ as the subject ‘A cash prize’ is passive hence verb should be passive too.

S4. Ans.(b)
Sol. Use ‘for’ in place of ‘to’.

S5. Ans.(a)
Sol. ‘Sugar-sweetened drinks do not’ is correct use as plural subject is followed by plural verb.

S6. Ans.(d)
Sol. ‘due to adoption (Noun) of unsafe procedures’ is correct use.

S7. Ans.(c)
Sol. The plural of audience is audience only. So, ‘with audience responding warmly’ is correct use.

S8. Ans.(d)
Sol. ‘good’ will be used in place of ‘better’ as when two persons/ things is compared in positive degree, then ‘so/ as + positive degree + as’ is used.
Ex. Rakhi is not so/ as good as Venna.

S9. Ans.(e)
Sol. No error.

S10. Ans.(b)
Sol. Here, time is ‘devoted’ to ‘doing’ something. So the correct from coming after ‘to’ is ‘watching’.

S11. Ans.(e)
Sol. No correction required.

S12. Ans.(a)
Sol. ‘Committed’ (v.t.) here means performed. ‘Was committed’ (v.i.) has a different meaning. It means ‘pledge oneself or engage oneself’.

S13. Ans.(e)
Sol. No correction required.

S14. Ans.(b)
Sol. The correct sentence is ‘believed that a crime created’ because that is a conjunction which should be preceded by principal verb(believed).

S15. Ans.(a)
Sol. The correct sentence is ‘were more afflicting’ because ‘Calamities’ and ‘Indigence’ make plural subjects and hence verb should be plural.