SBI CLERK PRELIM LEVEL ENGLISH QUESTIONS
Directions (1-5): In the following questions, a sentence is given with a phrase highlighted in each. The highlighted phrase is grammatically incorrect, you are required to improve the highlighted phrase with the correct option.
1. As the Ambassador of France to India, making up new opportunities for Indian students in France has been a top priority since my appointment.
a) Hitting up
b) Opening up
c) Blowing up
d) Catching up
e) No improvement required.
2. Remember his today draws me face to face with these pressing issues of human concern.
a) Remembering him today.
b) Revitalizing him today.
c) Enacting him today.
d) Endangering him today.
e) No improvement required.
3. Enlargement was the biggest challenge at the Johannesburg summit. It can be a gamechanger for the international order, which are seeing turmoil that were unimagined at the dawn of this decade.
a) Which are seeing turmoils.
b) Which is seeing convulsions.
c) Those are seeing convergences.
d) That is seeing controversies.
e) No improvement required.
4. It has led to turmoil of weapons, civil wars and destructive nuclear power. This technology can only help dictators.
a) Led to extoll.
b) Lead to accumulation.
c) Led to stockpiling.
d) Lead to garnering.
e) No improvement required.
5. Initially, it was not expected to be a very different phenomenon from what had been seen earlier, and Pakistan as well as its terrorist proxies in the Kashmir Valley continued with their infiltration and violent attacks.
a) Continue of their infiltration.
b) Continue the infiltration.
c) Continue with the infiltration.
d) Continuing the infiltrating.
e) No improvement required.
Directions (06-10): In the following questions, a word is given and followed by three statements.
In the given statements, a word is highlighted in each, those may be either synonym or antonym to the highlighted word. You are required to find the sentence which has the same meaning as the highlighted word.
6. CHASTISE
a) Importers extolled the state’s policies as those fostered in achieving a lucrative target.
b) My teacher in the school reprimanded me for taking undue leave.c) The girl was severely contemplated by the people as she has participated in Olympics.
d) Both A and B.
e) All A, B and C.
7. BICKERING
a) People were protested against the government over trifling issues of the country.b) Doctors advised that the proper usage of drugis significant for the body to perform normally.
c) Economists were puzzled over the recent inflation and thought to have a meeting with RBI governor.
d) Both A and B.
e) All A, B and C.
8. THWART
a) The country concedes the young team players to play in the tournament.b) The receiver of the pension has finally acknowledged and wrote a letter to the pension office.
c) Procrastination is the major issue that foils us from achieving the goal.
d) Both A and C.
e) All A, B and C.
9. IMPLAUSIBLE
a) The evidences provided by the officers were declared improbable by the three judges.b) Priya is unlikely to convince her mother for the upcoming educational tour.
c) The judge was precise about the culprit’s intentions and sentenced him to death.
d) Both A and B.
e) All A, B and C.
10. AMELIORATE
a) Government has planned to enhance the wages of MGNREGS workers.b) The team had refined its members and asked them to play skillfully.
c) Debugger has rectified the mistakes in the program that has to be submitted today.
d) Both A and C.
e) All A, B and C.
Directions (11-15): In the following questions, a sentence is given with a blank. You are required to choose the appropriate word for the blank to make the sentence contextually correct and meaningful.
11. Almost everyone has some form of immunity, acquired either from vaccination, previous infection, or both. However, people will eventually become ______________ again because of waning immunity and new variants.
a) Vulnerable
b) Susceptible
c) Infect
d) Acquainted
e) None of these.
12. Education ______________ borders, serving as a bridge that enriches societies, and France believes that is the best investment we can make in the future of our strategic partnership.
a) Transcends
b) Accentuates
c) Crosses
d) Improves
e) None of these.
13. As we embark on this new chapter of our partnership, I am confident that the connections we __________ today will shape a brighter future for both our nations.
a) Explore
b) Cultivate
c) Suspect
d) Speculate
e) None of these.
14. The impression in India is that the middle and lower classes across the border are mostly _____________ on a single meal a day.
a) Subsisting
b) Observing
c) Acquiring
d) Garner
e) None of these.
15. India's public health system grapples with multifaceted challenges, encompassing inadequate funding, _______________ infrastructure, scarcity of medicines and diagnostic facilities, and a shortage of skilled medical practitioners.
a) Average
b) Sufficient
c) Excellent
d) Subpar
e) None of these.
Answer Key
1. Answer: B
2. Answer: A
3. Answer: B
4. Answer: C
5. Answer: E