English Language Quiz For Bank Mains Exam 2023-23rd October

Directions (1-5): In each of the following sentences, part/parts of the sentence is/are left blank. Beneath each sentence, four different ways of completing the sentence are indicated. Choose the best alternative from among the four.

Q1. In pursuance of their decision to resist what they saw as anti-labor policies, the company employees’ union launched agitation to ____________ .
(a) show their virility
(b) reaffirm their commitment to the company
(c) bring down the government
(d) demonstrate their strength
(e) make their demands completely fulfilled

Q2. The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition as it has developed up to now, with all its diverse proponents, is that it consists of a ____________ Plato.
(a) series of footnotes to
(b) set of prologues to
(c) collection of chapters on
(d) string of commentaries to
(e) compilation of events

Q3. The interest generated by the soccer World Cup is ____________ compared to the way cricket ____________ the nation.
(a) milder, fascinates
(b) lukewarm, electrifies
(c) tepid, inspires
(d) unusual, grips
(e) ruthless, controls

Q4. No doubt, it was our own government but it was being run on borrowed ideas, using ____________ solutions.
(a) worn out
(b) second hand
(c) impractical
(d) appropriate
(e) meager

Q5. The telephone symbolizes that awkward ____________ in all communication technologies; while it ____________ to bring us together, it keeps us apart.
(a) paradox, declines
(b) irony, dives
(c) paradox, tries
(d) irony, wishes
(e) paradigm, targets

Solutions

S1. Ans.(d)
Sol. ‘demonstrate their strength’ as in the given sentence, the contextual meaning of the sentence comes to be a union’s protest which is done by the company’s employees the ultimate goal of which is to show the strength they have.

S2. Ans.(a)
Sol. ‘series of footnotes to’ is the most appropriate answer that makes the grammatical as well as contextual sense here.

S3. Ans.(b)
Sol. ‘lukewarm’ here refers to intensity of the interest people in the Soccer World cup. Here, the writer is doing a comparison between the two games and says that the way cricket ‘electrifies’ (charges or instills with the spirit) the people is far more than the soccer World Cup does.

S4. Ans.(b)
Sol. ‘second hand’ makes the contextual sense here.

S5. Ans.(c)
Sol. As the telephone symbolizes the awkward ‘paradox’ of the communication, it ‘tries’ to bring the people together.