SBI PO English Language Quiz: 18th April

Directions (1-15): In each Question below, a sentence is given with four words given in Bold in the sentence. Among these bold words one may be wrongly spelt or incorrectly used with respect to the context of the passage. The option of that word is the answer. If all four words are correctly spelt or used mark (e). i.e. 'All Correct' as the answer.

Q1. Retail inflation as measured by the consumer price index have reached a five-month high of 2.86% in March 2019 due to the rise in food and fuel prices.

Q2. The first image of a black hole is a reassurance of science and reson.

Q3. While price gains still remain below the RBI’s stated inflation threshold of 4%, the trajectory is hardly bound to be reassure.

Q4. The black hole itself cannot be seen, because light cannot escpe its intense gravitational attraction.

Q5. The so-called event horizon that enveloping the black hole is the point of no return and any object transgressing this boundary is lost.

Q6. Visual proof of the existence of black holes cames a century after they appeared in scientific literature.

Q7. A black hole marks the end of spacetime as commonly understood and nothing that enters it can escape from the tremendous gravitational attraction.

Q8. Titan and Earth are the solar system’s two places with stand bodies of liquid on their surface.

Q9. Challenging a common perception, a new study suggests primitive ponds may have provided a suitable environment for creating the earth’s first life forms, more so than the oceans.

Q10. In 2017, a consortium of institutions around the world decided to pool the scaning abilities of eight telescopes — from Hawaii to the South Pole — and focus on getting a picture of a black hole.

Q11. Since the 1970s, astronomers have known that their are ‘super massive’ black holes (about a billion times heavier than the sun) in the Milky Way or galaxies close to it.

Q12. While black holes themselves are invisible, the region around them — the luminous frenzy of charged particles from matter in their vicinty — is, in theory, ‘visible’.

Q13. The treatment of tuberculosis is becoming more difficult as most patients don’t adhere to the treatment regimen which include six to nine months of daily antibiotics.

Q14. A good massage will leave you with supple muscles afterwards.

Q15. Scientists have discovered a unique oil eating bacteria in the Mariana Trench, the deepest part of the earth’s oceans, a find that may pave way for sustainable ways to clean up oils spills.