Dear Friends, SBI Clerk 2018 Notification has been released we hope you all have started your preparation. Here we have started New Series of Practice Materials specially for SBI Clerk 2018. Aspirants those who are preparing for the exams can use this “20-20” English Questions.
[WpProQuiz 1315]Click “Start Quiz” to attend these Questions and view Explanation
Daily Practice Test Schedule | Good Luck
| Topic | Daily Publishing Time |
| Daily News Papers & Editorials | 8.00 AM |
| Current Affairs Quiz | 9.00 AM |
| Logical Reasoning | 10.00 AM |
| Quantitative Aptitude “20-20” | 11.00 AM |
| Vocabulary (Based on The Hindu) | 12.00 PM |
| Static GK Quiz | 1.00 PM |
| English Language “20-20” | 2.00 PM |
| Banking Awareness Quiz | 3.00 PM |
| Reasoning Puzzles & Seating | 4.00 PM |
| Daily Current Affairs Updates | 5.00 PM |
| Data Interpretation / Application Sums (Topic Wise) | 6.00 PM |
| Reasoning Ability “20-20” | 7.00 PM |
| English Language (New Pattern Questions) | 8.00 PM |
| General / Financial Awareness Quiz | 9.00 PM |
Directions (Q. 1-5) Read each sentence to find out whether there is any grammatical error in it. The error, if any, will be in one part of the sentence. The number of that part is the answer. If there is no error, the answer is (e), i.e., no error. (Ignore the errors of punctuation, if any.)
Directions (Q. 6-10): In given sentences phrase is represented in bold which may be incorrect so you have to find the correct phrase in place of that if the phrase is correct in the given sentences than mark no correction required as your answer.
A) Coinciding
B) Coincides
C) Coincided
A) Broken through
B) Break by
C) Breaking through
A) Trained to handle
B) Training to handle
C) Training for handling
A) Always remember
B) Always remembered
C) Always remembering
A) Joined me at
B) Joins me in
C) Joining me in
Directions (Q. 11-20): Read the following passage carefully and answer the given questions. Certain words/phrases are given in bold to help you locate them while answering some of the questions.
At first glance the patriarchy appears to be thriving. More than 90% of presidents and prime ministers are male, as are all nearly big corporate bosses. Men dominate finance, technology, films, sports, music and even stand-up comedy. In much of the world they still enjoy social and legal, privileges simply because they have a Y chromosome, So it might seem odd to worry about the plight of men.
Yet there is plenty of cause concern. Men cluster at the bottom as well at the top. Poorly educated men in rich countries have had difficulty coping with the enormous changes in labour market and the home over the past half-century. As technology and trade have devalued brawn, less-educated men have struggled to find a role in the workplace. Women, on the other hand, are surging into expanding sectors such as health care and education, helped by their superior skills. As education has become more important, boys have also fallen behind girls in school (except at the very top). Men who lose jobs in manufacturing often never work again. And men without work find it hard to support a family. The result for low-skilled men, is a poisonous combination of no job, no family and no prospects.
Some tend to focus on economics. Shrinking job opportunities for men, they say, are entrenching poverty and destroying families. In America pay for men with only a high-school certificate fell by 21% in real terms between 1979 and 2013, for women with similar qualifications it raised by 3%. Around a fifth of working-age American men with only a high-school have no job. But both economic and social changes are to blame, and the two causes reinforce each other. Moreover, these problems are likely to get worse. Technology will disrupt more industries, creating benefits for society but rendering workers who fail to update their skills redundant. The OECD, a think-tank, predicts that the solute number of single-parent households will continue to rise in nearly all rich countries. Boys who grow up without fathers are more likely to have trouble forming lasting relationships, creating a cycle of male dysfunction.
What can be done? Part of the solution lies in a change in cultural attitudes. Over the past generation, men have learned that they need to help with child care and have changed their behaviour. Women have learned that they can be surgeons and physicists not at the cost of motherhood. Policymakers also need to lend a hand, because foolish laws are making the problem worse. Governments need to recognise that boys’ underachievement is a serious problem and set about fixing it. Some sensible policies that are good for everybody are particularly good for boys. Early-childhood education provides boys with more structure and a better chance of developing verbal and social skills. Countries with successful vocational systems such as Germany have done a better job motivating, non-academic boys and guiding them into jobs. But policymakers need to reinvent vocational education for an age when trainers are more likely to get jobs in hospitals than factories. The growing equality of the genders is one of the biggest achievements of the post-war era people have greater opportunities than ever before to achieve their ambitions regardless of their gender. But some even have failed to cope with this new world. It is time to give them a hand.
11).What do the statistics in the passage with regard to America indicate?
12). According to the passage, what can be said about families today?
13). Choose the word/group of words which is most nearly the same in meaning as the word ENJOY given in bold as used in the passage.
14). Choose the word/group of words which is opposite in meaning as the word ENTRENCHING given in bold as used in the passage.
15). Which of the following best describes the author’s opinion about vocational education?
16). Choose the word/group of words which is most nearly the same in meaning as the word STRUCTURE given in bold as used in the passage.
17). Which of the following is true in the context of the passage?
18). Which of the following is an appropriate title for the passage?
19).Which of the following factors has/have an impact on the current state of male employment?
(A) Men’s failure to update their skills.
(B) Single parent households with an absent father.
(C) Adoption of technological changes in low skill jobs.
20).Choose the word/group of words which is opposite in meaning as the word SURGING given in bold as used in the passage.
Answers:
Directions (Q. 1-5)
Replace “is” with “was”
Insert “the” before “resultant”
Replace “beyond” with “under”
Replace “steady” with “steadily”
Replace “thought” with “think”
Directions (Q. 6-10):
‘has’ is used before the verb, which is used for present perfect tense with verb in second form, so it will be ‘coincided’.
When ‘be’ is used, so the verb will be ‘broken through’.
The correct phrase will be ‘training to handle’ which has correct form of verb and appropriate preposition.
The correct phrase will be ‘always remember’ because this clause is in future tense, so first form of the sentence is used.
The correct phrase will be ‘joining me in’ because here, the situation is of past but it mentioning about that time, so resent participle is used.
Direction (11-15):
11). Answer: a)
12). Answer: d)
13). Answer: d)
14). Answer: b)
15). Answer: c)
16). Answer: c)
17). Answer: c)
18). Answer: b)
19). Answer: d)
20). Answer: e)
This post was last modified on July 22, 2019 2:41 pm