English CAT, Bank Preliminary Objective Test

English CAT, Bank Preliminary Objective Test

English Language Solved Paper

Directions: Of the four alternatives given under each sentence, find the one that best fits into the blank space.

1.       In these days of inflation, the cost of consumer goods is …..

(a)    Ascending

(b)   Soaring

(c)    Climbing

(d)   Raising

Answer: (b)

2.       The curfew in the riot ridden area was ….. for a couple of hours.

(a)    Lifted

(b)   Released

(c)    Removed

(d)   Relaxed

Answer. (d)

3.       He was too ….. to make a statement before the principal.

(a)    Shy

(b)   Timid

(c)    Audacious

(d)   Coward

Answer: (b)

4.       The man is so ill that he can ….. walk.

(a)    Hardly

(b)   Nearly

(c)    Quite

(d)   Rarely

Answer: (a)

5.       Your case is so unique that I am not getting any ….. to support it.

(a)    Help

(b)   Precedent

(c)    Reason

(d)   Happening

Answer: (b)

6.       Usually the ascent of a mountain face is much easier than the …..

(a)    Descend

(b)   Fall

(c)    Descent

(d)   Decent

Answer: (c)

7.       If a speech is full of pompous words, it is …..

(a)    Verbose

(b)   Bombastic

(c)    Grandiose

(d)   Grandiloquent

Answer: (d)

8.       I keep my ….. opinions to myself.

(a)    Special

(b)   Private

(c)    Particular

(d)   Especial

Answer: (b)

9.       We had to pay the taxi more because he brought us by a ….. route.

(a)    Longer

(b)   Circumscribed

(c)    Circular

(d)   Circuitous

Answer: (d)

10.   She requested the student to ….. a little water in a vessel .

(a)    Procure

(b)   Collect

(c)    Fetch

(d)   Bring

Answer: (c)

11.   The suspect was taken to the police, but the ….. revealed nothing.

(a)    Inquiry

(b)   Interrogation

(c)    Probe

(d)   Investigation

Answer: (b)

12.   We don’t know what ….. him to commit this crime.

(a)    Excited

(b)   Roused

(c)    Prompted

(d)   Attracted

Answer: (c)

13.   He was in a ….. what to do and what not to do.

(a)    Startle

(b)   Fix

(c)    Trouble

(d)   Confusion

   Answer: (b)

14.   The Committee’s appeal to the people for money ….. little response .

(a)    Evoked

(b)   Provoked

(c)    Gained

(d)   Provided

Answer: (a)

15.   Rabindranath Tagore was a ….. writer of his times.

(a)    True

(b)   Fantastic

(c)    Profound

(d)   Prolific

Answer: (c)

16.   There was so much ….. material in the speech that it was difficult to know what the speaker wanted to say.

(a)    Banal

(b)   Extraneous

(c)    Superficial

(d)   Variegated

Answer: (c)

17.   His ….. handling resulted in all that destruction and damage.

(a)    Inept

(b)   Skilful

(c)    Sophisticated

(d)   Uncouth

Answer: (a)

18.   Infant mortality rate in china has ….. from 200 per thousand to 14 per thousand.

(a)    Restarted

(b)   Declined

(c)    Contracted

(d)   Minimized

Answer: (b)

19.   He is very ….. on meeting foreigners and befriending them

(a)    Anxious

(b)   Fond

(c)    Insistent

(d)   Keen

Answer: (d)

20.   The exhibition was a curious ….. of the old and the new.

(a)    Mélange

(b)   Fervor

(c)    Mixture

(d)   Blend

Answer: (a)

21.   Colgate has also set an ambitious aim of ….. an eight percent value share of the tooth paste market by the end

Of  the first year.

(a)    Keeping

(b)   Distributing

(c)    Cornering

(d)   Soliciting

Answer: (c)

22.   Many women in developing countries experience a cycle of poor health that ….. before they are born and

Persists through adulthood passing from generation to generation.

(a)    Derives

(b)   Establishes

(c)    Begins

(d)   Originates

Answer: (d)

23.   A man remains narrow-minded self complacent and ignorant unless he visits other people and ….. from them.

(a)    Hears

(b)   Earns

(c)    Learns

(d)   Borrows

Answer: (c)