Sentence Improvement for SBI Clerk Prelims: 10th May 2018

Dear Aspirants,

Today is the Day 19  of the SBI Clerk 60 Days Study Plan. This section can be easy as pie if your basics are clear. Sometimes, even those who can communicate very well in English, fail to perform to the best of their ability in the banking exams. So, instead of boiling the ocean, try building up a strong vocabulary, an effective knowledge of grammar, and efficient comprehension skills so as to be on the ball to face this particular section. Here is a quiz on Sentence Improvement(Phrase replacement) being provided by Adda247 to let you practice the best of latest pattern English Questions.

Direction (1-15): Which of the following phrases given below each sentence should replace the phrase printed in bold letters to make the sentence meaningfully correct? Choose the best option among the five given alternatives that reflect the correct use of phrase in the context of the grammatically correct sentence. 

Q1. Hence, summarizing all these pundits, every Indian who was looking for a job was disappointed with multiple job offers.
(a) was shocked
(b) was threatened
(c) was besieged
(d) was helpless
(e) was exhausted

Q2. Perhaps the only thing the government needs to do now is to set up youth counseling centers across the country to help India’s youth decide which of their many job offers they should call, and match their career aspirations.
(a) they should ignore
(b) they should choose
(c) they should ponder upon
(d) they must consider
(e) they need to grab

Q3. The issue of jobs is a global issue that is emerging all major economies today, including the developed ones.
(a) that profits
(b) that should ignore
(c) that is challenged by
(d) that was facing
(e) that is confronting

Q4. There will be no wondering if, almost by a magical act, the Academy will present before us a writer who many of us had not known, but will now be the richer for being pushed to difficulties, as it did most recently in 2014 when it awarded French novelist Patrick Modiano.
(a) being motivated to excel
(b) being noticed to reveal
(c) being ignored to condemn
(d) being nudged to read
(e) being exasperated to exhaust

Q5. He is an improver, and counsels that the mark of a good translator, as it is of an editor, is to be able to determine what needs fixing in order to establish the dignity of task and help it be the best it can be to achieve its purpose.
(a) to reduce the pressure of the work
(b) to maintain the integrity of the work
(c) to examine the level of the task
(d) to maintain the status of the work done
(e) to ignore the guidelines of the task

Q6. In between notes engraved to books she’s recommended at a public library, presumably during her decade as a librarian in the American Midwest, there is one addressed to a rather fancy, over stylized personal library she stumbles upon at a party.
(a) extracted from the books
(b) hidden to books
(c) written to books
(d) encrypted to books
(e) erased from the books

Q7. In contrast, most of us bookshelf flowers have far more self-control, and are usually excited to purchase at and politely browse through endless shelves, whether at a bookshop, a public library, an acquaintance’s home and even our own more modest collections.
(a) eager to stole
(b) content to stare
(c) excited to explore
(d) helpless to find
(e) satisfied to search

Q8. Each reading experience is unique to its place and time, and cannot be copied In spite of my hopes, I know that no library can be fully resurrected.
(a) cannot be explained
(b) cannot be experienced again
(c) cannot be duplicated
(d) can be ignored
(e) can’t be overlooked

Q9. One thing I think is fearful, though, to find a way to acknowledge the limits of what you can know, and to be honest about what it is you don’t know.
(a) is typical
(b) is critical
(c) is crucial
(d) is ignorant
(e) is tactful

Q10. It is especially interesting to note the difference between colonial and free India on the question of women being explained under their own names.
(a) being enrolled
(b) being pushed
(c) being exploited
(d) being used
(e) being harassed

Q11. Together, they will test the capacity of cricket’s world powers to raise the level of the participants. 
(a) to duped the players
(b) to attract the audience
(c) to encourage the players
(d) to rise to the spirit of the game
(e) to work hard to determine the needs of the game

Q12.  One of the army commanders came to see the team. He told me that it was the first time that both the Taliban side and our side were shooting, but not at each other.
(a) reject the team
(b) condemn the team
(c) motivate the team
(d) scold the team
(e) congratulate the team

Q13.  When the book is launched, it’s as if you had been rudely searched, and you desire only to regain integrity, to return to being the person you usually are, in occupations, in thoughts, in language, in relationships.
(a) the book is entitled
(b) the book is finished
(c) the book is hidden
(d) the book is stolen
(e) the book is published

Q14. But the resounding call was for was for theory as the economic and political interests of both countries become increasingly, and variously, more global.
(a) was for plagiarism
(b) was for negotiation
(c) was for pragmatism
(d) was to ignore
(e) was to handle

Q15. At times husbands and wives are fearful of entering in each other’s company, in case a marriage gone bad results in one partner spilling the beans on the other to the authorities.
(a) of speaking their minds
(b) of rejecting the thoughts
(c) of scolding each other
(d) of knowing the wishes
(e) of recruiting