New Pattern Fill in the blanks – Type 4 Practice questions for SBI PO 2017
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New Pattern Fill in the blanks – Type 4 Practice questions for SBI PO 2017
Direction: In each of the following questions a short paragraph or a short story is given with one of the lines in the story missing and represented by a blank. Select the best out of the five answer choices given to make the story complete and coherent.
1. India is a long way from the 21st century. (______). But, look at the tens of crores of illiterate poor. With so many people spending their lives in a struggle for their next meal, how can the country get anywhere?
a) It is a really poor country.
b) This is 1997 – so, 3 years away
c) You might argue otherwise, pointing out numerous technical advancements.
d) I think you will agree with me.
e) None of these.
2. Raman looked at himself in the mirror, and was pleased. He loved to spend money on good clothes, and it showed. (_______).
a) There was mud on his shoes.
b) The gleaming leather belt complemented the subtle shade of his trousers, perfectly.
c) The yellow shirt, though creased, matched the creased brown pants that he wore.
d) He was getting late for his appointment.
e) None of these.
3. “Politics”, it is popularly said, “is the last resort of criminals”. With this kind of a popular perception, the election of Mr. Shwazee came as a breath of fresh air. (______).
a) He is a popular man.
b) He is honest, hardworking and dedicated.
c) He had grown up in that locality, and was still living in the same house that he was born in.
d) He promised to eradicate corruption in his area office.
e) None of these.
(`breathe of fresh air’ is the clue for the choice of the filler)
4. It seems unthinkable to Americans, that we actually need a law against spitting. The red spattered paths will tell them why. An uninformed foreigner could be forgiven for thinking that there is an epidemic of tuberculosis here.( ______).
a) He sees people coughing a lot.
b) People casually spit out blood-red mouthfuls of saliva.
c) The uncleared mounds of garbage would strengthen the thought.
d) He needs to learn more about our habits.
e) None of these.
5. Melghat tiger reserve is supposed to be a participant of the ambitious ‘Project Tiger’. But on any given day, a visitor is considered extremely lucky if he catches a glimpse of even a tiger. (______).
a) Tigers abound, but they are shy, and uncommonly fierce.
b) Rampant poaching, many a time in collusion with officials, have made the tiger very rare.
c) With its thick, striped coat and majestic stride, the tiger is truly the king of the jungle.
d) He is even luckier if he doesn’t end up as one!
e) None of these.
6. This is the surge economy, where more business is condensed into seconds than used to get done in a day. The only constant is change. (______).
a) The only way you can have your way is by remaining steadfast and not giving in to fads.
b) The only way to thrive is to be flexible.
c) Businesses are not what they used to be
d) It is the age of the Internet where you can check mails every second.
e) None of these.
(The two sentences highlight the rapid and continuous change in the economic system)
7. I loved passwords as a kid. Secret codes and special knocks played a vital role in securing the sprawling network of sheds, tents and dens. I commanded from my suburban bedroom. (________).
a) But Passcenter.com promised I would never have to remember another password again.
b) But I was known as the king of passwords.
c) But today they are the bane of my life, every other website wants the magic word before allowing me in.
d) But I loved passwords so much that I have a password for the lock in my wardrobe, my refrigerator, my music system.
e) None of these.
8. Strokes don’t just strike the elderly. These brain attacks, as the expert will tell you, can happen to anyone. (_______).
a) But some are at more risk than others.
b) But the elderly are 90% more likely to get an attack than the young.
c) People in Hong Kong are more likely to get an attack than those in India.
d) Pollution leads to an increase in strokes.
e) None of these
9. In today’s volatile IT environment, mere learning of tools will not suffice. It can give you an entry, it can’t enable you to succeed and sustain it. (______).
a) It can give you a headstart in the rat race.
b) You may win the race but not be satisfied.
c) It can give a job, not a career.
d) You need to grow into a complete professional.
e) None of these
10. A global shortage in knowledge workers translates into fatter paychecks. While low skill employees at the bottom of the scale tend to earn ordinary wages. (_______).
a) Doctors walk away with millions.
b) Those who are not doing run-of-the mill jobs earn much more.
c) Those in responsible position command higher salaries.
d) The higher the salary the greater the responsibility.
e) None of these
11. Despite the openness of management in dealing with change, there are bound to be misgiving and apprehension at various levels.( ______). This can take on various forms: the display of sales statistics on a day-to-day- basis; the celebration of achievements, however small at the individual level; and team building exercise.
a) These need to be addressed as part of a strategic communications plan.
b) These may give rise, ultimately, to serious labour problems.
c) It is then that is the way the cookie crumbles.
d) It may result in the proliferation of hitherto unheard of management tools.
e) None of these.
12. Every organization has rules that are never written down and seldom discussed. These pertain to the expectations of the employees in the organization. (______). Thus the onus is on the employees to piece them together by observation, trail-and-error and insightful questioning.
a) The employees are frequently the ones who actually perpetuate these rules.
b) These unwritten rules can play a major role in an employees success-or failure.
c) The employers expect the employees to adhere to these spelled-out rules.
d) Never underestimate the power of the unwritten rules of the organization.
e) None of these.
13. Twenty years ago, SK Shelgikar, the Videocon group’s chief financial strategist, took a decision. Two decades later he would walk away from it all to fulfil his moral obligations to society.( ______). Over the past few months, he has quietly withdrawn from an active role in the group, and now operates in a purely advisory capacity.
a) And two decades is a long, long, time.
b) It took great courage to do so.
c) And he has kept his word.
d) But he obviously stayed on for forty years.
e) None of these.
14. I agree with the contention that management theories were not invented because management gurus had nothing better to do.( _______). Perhaps the confusion and criticism would end if we called these theories too, philosophies. After all theories must be proved; philosophies may just be beliefs .
a) That would be like suggesting that the philosophies of Plato and Aristotle evolved because these people were too lazy to work!
b) This would be like the pot calling the kettle black.
c) This causes a lot of resentment against the management gurus who are actually trying to do something good for the corporate world today.
d) Otherwise so many people would not have believes in them so much.
e) None of these
15. The trade mark law grants the manufacturer or trader an exclusive right in the use of a mark to identify his goods and thus distinguish them from other goods. (______). Legislation all over defines and protects this property.
a) The trademark should be distinctive and not descriptive.
b) Trade mark as a property is registerable in India under the Trade Marks Act.
c) Devising a good trademark and obtaining registration for the same creates an intellectual property in the trade mark.
d) It may be intended to be used or already in use, but it should be sufficiently unlike any other trademark used by other people.
e) None of these
16. As organizations move increasingly towards self directed employees, directive behaviour in terms of giving a complete set of instructions to be followed like an automaton will no longer be necessary. (______). The CEO must be prepared instead to preach the importance of shared effort to bring forth involvement and commitment.
a) The new leader must not only be tolerant of mistakes, but also leave room for them in his strategic planning.
b) These forms of the new leadership are already prevalent in parts of corporate India.
c) Within the company too, changes are redefining the concept of leadership.
d) That can neutralise the power that can be unleashed by empowered employees and defeat the very purpose of these groupings.
e) None of these.
17. In alternating layers of experiment and theory these three men built up the modern theory of electromagnetism and demonstrated the identity of light with electromagnetic waves. ( _______). The mechanical details, which remained to be adjusted in order to utilise their discoveries for a practical system of telegraphy, needed considerable ingenuity.
a) The machine that they discovered is one of profound intellectual interests.
b) They brought together and unified an endless variety of apparently detached phenomena and displayed a cumulative mental power which cannot but afford delight to every generous spirit.
c) The instance of wireless telegraphy will serve to illustrate the difference between the two points of view.
d) Almost all the serious intellectual labour required for the possibility of this invention is due to three men, Faraday, Maxwell and Hertz.
e) None of these.
18. Indeed some of the developments which contributed most to the growth of industrial America were a positive disadvantage to labour.( ______). Mechanisation tended to the whole to lower the standard of labour.
a) The skills which working men had painfully acquired ceased to have their old time value for the machine could do better.
b) Machinery had a tendency to usurp the place of the worker in the economy of industry.
c) Two of these we can note briefly, the mechanisation of industry and the rise of the corporation.
d) Working men were reduced to a mere part of the mechanical process.
e) None of these.
19. The simple fact is that civil aviation operates by its own set of diktats. (________). An airline lives or dies by its knowledge or ignorance of the special rules of the game.
a) The conventional management mantras of production, marketing, labour economies do not apply in the air.
b) More have died than survived especially in the US after deregulation of routes and fares disrupted the peace of the club.
c) The first law of airline economics is that as many people as possible must be placed on seats.
d) Complexities arise if the airlines try a two tier salary system to drive down costs.
e) None of these.
