English Test for SBI PO 2018 Prelim Exam – Set 13

Hello Aspirants

State Bank of India (SBI) is going to conduct examination for its recruitment for the post of Probationary Officers (SBI PO 2018) for a total of 2000 vacancies.

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The examination will be held in three phases i.e. Preliminary Examination, Main Examination and Group Exercise & Interview. The Preliminary Exam is scheduled on 1st, 7th & 8th of July 2018. Details of the exam are as under:

Practice the questions so as to familiarize yourself with the pattern of questions to be asked in the exam. 

Directions: In the passage given below there are 5 blanks with a word given in the bracket. Every blank has four alternative words given in options (A),(B),(C), and (D). You have to tell which word is APPROPRIATE according to the context. If the word given in the brackets is appropriate then mark your answer as “E”.

Implementation of Aadhar has been the subject of a severe criticism from various ____1_____ (quarters)—cabinet colleagues and bureaucrats, policy experts and activists, even a few state governments. Procedures for data collection and the potential errors therein to concerns over privacy, are being questioned. Besides, the existence of an older exercise, the National Population Register (NPR), led by the home ministry, is also posing a threat to the project. Most of the eminent ones accept the need for creating a systematic database of our ____2____ (aristocrat), the path to be taken for this has created a vertical divide in the government and is leading to a ____3____(blessing) war.
UIDAI’s process of using multiple registrars and enrolment agencies to collect individual data as well as its system of relying on ‘secondary information’ via existing identification documents has become a core debatable issue. The Registrar General of India (RGI) while compiling the National Population Register push for a method of public ____4_____ (awareness) in which individual data is collected directly and put up before the public to weed out any fraud. The method used in NPR helped villagers in Gujarat’s border areas expose ‘strangers’ (from Pakistan) on the rolls when the data was put up for public scrutiny. This reinforced the belief that the NPR process, despite being long and painstaking, is more foolproof. RGI and census commissioner Dr C. Chandramouli found the data collection for Aadhaar ____5____ (faulty) and stated “Our objection is to the data collection by other registrars who have a different orientation from ours. From a security point of view, they are not acceptable.” it was felt both programmes could pool their data and share information. But the home ministry has refused to use UID data for NPR.

1. elicit
   avarice
   disperse
   expels
   No Correction Required
   Option E
   

    

2. group
   elite
   citizenry
   foreigner
   No Correction Required
   Option C
   

    

3. receive
   entertain
   harbor
   turf
   No Correction Required
   Option D
   

    

4. blink
   scrutiny
   delusion
   oblivion
   No Correction Required
   Option B
   

    

5. correct
   whole
   complete
   exquisite
   No Correction Required
   Option E
   

    

Direction: Which of the sentences i, ii, iii, and iv given below are grammatically or structurally correct? Please note that more than one sentences can be correct so mark accordingly

6. I need to take back the shirt I lent you.
   i. take back
   ii. take it back
   iii. take back it
   iv. take the shirt back
   Only i
   Only i & ii
   All except iii
   All i, ii, iii
   All are correct
   Option C
   

    

7. I always run into Molly at the mall.
   i. run into Molly at the mall
   ii. run Molly into at the mall
   iii. run Molly at the mall into
   iv. run at the mall Molly into
   Only i
   All ii, iii & iv
   Only i & ii
   Only iii
   All are Correct
   Option A
   “Run into” is an example for an inseparable verb. (the object must come at the end because the verb and the preposition must stay together).

    

8. His students write down everything he says.
   i. write it down
   ii. write down it.
   iii. write everything he says down
   iv. write down everything he says
   Only i
   All except ii
   Only ii
   All except iv
   All are correct
   Option B
   

    

9. i. Be careful with the puppy! You can pick her up, but she gets scared very easily.
   ii. Gerald, could you pick up Cynthia after her ballet lesson? I have to work late.
   iii. Ron is driving to the airport. He’s going to pick his daughter up at 8pm. He’s excited to finally see her again!
   iv. She went over to the crying child and picked her up.
   Only i
   Only ii & iii
   All ii, iii & iv
   Only iv
   All are Correct
   Option E
   

    

10. It started to rain 10 minutes before the soccer game, so they called it off.
    i. called it off
    ii. called off it.
    iii. called the meeting off.
    iv. called off.
    Only i & iii
    Only ii
    All except iv
    Only ii
    All are Correct
    Option A