English Language Quiz for Bank Foundation 2023-28th july

Directions (1-10): In each of the following sentence, there are two blank spaces. Below each sentence, there are five options and each blank is to be filled with the same word given below to make the sentence correct. Fill up the sentences with the correct word.

Q1. (I) The ………. defiance was so sweetly uttered, he didn’t know how to respond.
(II) Sofia watched, astonished at the ……… display, and almost didn’t prep herself for her first encounter.

(a) combative
(b) cacophonous
(c) bold
(d) blatant
(e) belligerent

Q2. (I) So long as they were powerful, the crown had treated with them, but when once their power began to …….., it was certain that the crown would crush them.
(II) These latter are few in number, and some of them barely suffice for purposes of agricultural irrigation, and in summer ……….. down to small nills.

(a) weak
(b) dwindle
(c) fragile
(d) demolish
(e) swindle

Q3. (I) He ……….. his last remaining strength, took hold of his left hand with his right, and reached the bushes.
(II) Lethington was to be tried, but his armed friends ……… in great numbers, and, secure in the castle, he and Kirkcaldy upheld the cause of Mary.

(a) contributed
(b) approached
(c) formed
(d) mobbed
(e) mustered

Q4. (I) She ………. into the food on her plate, discovering that Brandon wasn’t bragging about his mother’s cooking.
(II) She shivered despite her lamb’s wool coat, her hands ……….. deep into pockets that contained weapons.

(a) hidden
(b) drowned
(c) sank
(d) plunged
(e) kept

Q5. (I) Let everyone mind his own business, and ……….. to be what he was made.
(II) Do not stay to be an overseer of the poor, but ……….. to become one of the worthies of the world.

(a) endeavor
(b) enthusiasm
(c) strife
(d) attempt
(e) try

Q6. (I) Wynn’s breath caught at the stark pronouncement from the ………… deity.
(II) These ………. speeches were all that the multitudes got, but the disciples in private were taught their lesson of hope.

(a) roaring
(b) bombastic
(c) enigmatic
(d) ill-famed
(e) barbarous

Q7. (I) If driven over hard they ……….. to the towns, where hands were needed as much as in the countryside, or migrated to districts where the statute was laxly administered.
(II) There upon he ……….. by night, and took sanctuary in the abbey of Beaulieu.

(a) eluded
(b) eloped
(c) abstained
(d) absconded
(e) vanished

Q8. (I) Pierre walked along, looking from side to side, counting his steps in threes, and ……….. them off on his fingers.
(II) But what then is to be made of the above ………… when it was taken over by the Apocalyptist who wrote in Domitian’s reign?

(a) reckoning
(b) beckoning
(c) writing
(d) hiding
(e) maintaining

Q9. (I) Among the other invertebrate groups there is also a large proportion of …….. species.
(II) Most notable of all, yellow fever was eradicated where it had been ………. for centuries.

(a) epidemic
(b) endemic
(c) endangered
(d) prevailing
(e) residing

Q10. (I) During the dry season the climate is healthy, but dysentery and ………. fever are not uncommon.
(II) By reason of their ……… action they are only suited for use in driving galleries or in pillar-and-stall workings.

(a) intermittent
(b) internment
(c) scattered
(d) rapidly
(e) drastic

Solutions:

S1. Ans.(d)

Sol. blatant– disagreeably clamorous; sounding loudly and harshly

S2. Ans.(b)

Sol. dwindle- to decrease or shrink; reduce

S3. Ans.(e)

Sol. mustered- gathered

S4. Ans.(d)

Sol. plunged– the act of submerging

S5. Ans.(a)

Sol. endeavor– efforts

S6. Ans.(c)

Sol. enigmatic- maze; difficult to understand

S7. Ans.(d)

Sol. abscond- to flee

S8. Ans.(a)

Sol. reckoning– the action of calculating or estimating

S9. Ans.(b)

Sol. endemic– native to particular area or culture

S10. Ans.(a)

Sol. intermittent- stopping and starting at intervals