English Quiz for SBI PO | IBPS – Set 132

1) In Buddhism, it is impossible to keep ethics and psychology ________ from one another, because they ________ at so many points.
a) apart, meet
b) aloof, merge
c) separate, overlap
d) consider, desirous
e) disjoint, converge

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Answer c) separate, overlap

2) I don’t ________ I shall be ________ to go.
a) know, wanting
b) consider, desirous
c) think, able
d) believe, liking
e) feel, available

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Answer c) think, able

3) Restlessness among the students of colleges and universities has ________ from their deep rooted feeling that their views and aspirations are ________ by their elders.
a) arisen, humiliated
b) followed, disregarded
c) stemmed, ignored
d) started, neglected
e) percolated, pooh-poohed

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Answer c) stemmed, ignored

4) Shalini was not ________ by the criticism and paid no ________ even when her best friend talked against her.
a) bothered, attention
b) troubled, mind
c) threatened, warning
d) deterred, heed
e) shaken, indication

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Answer a) bothered, attention

5) There is no glory in war ________ the blood it ________.
a) thinking, demands
b) considering, sheds
c) worth, costs
d) comparing, spills
e) none of the above

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Answer b) considering, sheds

6) Hitler cast a ________ and ________ shadow upon world history.
a) colossal, frightful
b) herculean, gloomy
c) gigantic, horrifying
d) huge, vast
e) none of these.

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Answer c) gigantic, horrifying

7) When Somesh ________ me coming to his table, he smiled and ________ me a chair.
a) found, signalled
b) met, sat
c) looked, gave
d) saw, offered
e) welcomed, took

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Answer d) saw, offered

8) Although the leader’s life was both ________ and painful, yet it was not without ________ for he had accomplished many of his goals.
a) magnificent, success
b) happy, frustration
c) thrilling, ambition
d) purposeful, danger
e) arduous, satisfaction

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Answer e) arduous, satisfaction

9) Wars usually result from ________ among the parties involved and a failure to ________ them peacefully.
a) doubts, dispel
b) hostilities, debate
c) frustrations, understand
d) disagreements, resolve
e) none of the above.

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Answer b) hostilities, debate

10) Though he is reputed for his technical ________, his books were sadly ________ of the work of others as he lacked originality.
a) advice, unconscious
b) skill, independent
c) knowledge, ignorant
d) expertise, derivative
e) dependence, indicative

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Answer d) expertise, derivative