Set-14 Fill in the blanks For SBI PO and SBI Clerk 2019 | Must Go Through These Questions

• Unlikely, retreat
• Faint, departure
• Slight, reply
• Contrary, shelter
• None of these

10. While being liberal in its ………………….. for rural India, the Budget has been ……………. in its giveaways to the middle class and the corporate sector.

Check your Answers below:

• Directions (1-5): In each of the question given below a/an idiom/phrase is given in Bold/ or a blank is given which is then followed by five options which tries to decipher its meaning as used in the sentence. Choose the option which gives the meaning of the phrase most appropriately in context of the given sentence.
  

  1. Question

  Don’t forget to _____________ seatbelts before the plane takes off.

  • do up
  • do with
  • do away
  • do by
  • do in
  Ans:
  Do up means to complete dressing up.

• 2. Question

  Make sure to _____________ these samples of medicine at doctors chamber.

  • drop by
  • drop in
  • drop of
  • drop off
  • drop down
  Ans:
  Drop off means To drop in between travel to a specific point.

• 3. Question

  They _____________ in riverside mall almost all the day.

  • hang round
  • hang about
  • hang by
  • hang up
  • hang in
  Ans:
  Roam meaninglessly.

• 4. Question

  Let’s ________ tonight on the occasion of our anniversary.

  • eat out
  • eat into
  • eat up
  • eat in
  • eat at
  Ans:
  Eat out is a literally same meaning as that of phrasal verb.

• 5. Question

  I ______________ the film , but don’t know much about the background story .

  • heard about
  • heard from
  • heard off
  • heard in
  • heard of
  Ans:
  Hear of something is a proper phrase.

• 6. Question

  Directions:(6-10) Each sentence given below has two blanks, each blank represents that something has been omitted. Choose the correct set of words from the options given below, which gives the best meaning of the sentence as a whole. If no option is right, choose the option ‘None of these’.

  If the Union Budget is construed as an annual tug­of-war ……………populism and fiscal prudence, arguably it is the latter that …………….. in the past four budgets tabled by the NDA.

  • Among, universal
  • Middle, steady
  • Between, prevailed
  • Within, limited
  • None of these.
  Ans:
  The correct option is ‘between, prevailed ’. Here, ‘between’ will be used because after that, only two variables are given. ‘Prevailed is right because its meaning is to dominate i.e., having superior power or influence.

• 7. Question

  The Narendra Modi government has taken …………….in having restored the ………………. to the path of fiscal consolidation.

  • Pride, economy
  • Self-esteem, care
  • Ego, reduction
  • Face, austerity
  • None of these
    Ans:
  The correct option is ‘Pride, economy’. Here, ‘pride’ is correct as its meaning is to have proud. ‘Economy’ is used for India’s economic system.

• 8. Question

  One ……………of anxiety is overheated asset markets the world over. In India too, equity valuations have been ………………. stretched.

  • Expert, severely
  • Source, extremely
  • Birthplace, remarkably
  • spring, Drastically
  • None of these
    Ans:
  The correct option is ‘Source, extremely’. Here, ‘source’ means the beginning or point of supply. ‘Extremely’ means with high intensity.

• 9. Question

  It is …………….. that they will beat a hasty …………….from shares or mutual funds just because of a modest levy.

  • Unlikely, retreat
  • Faint, departure
  • Slight, reply
  • Contrary, shelter
  • None of these
    Ans:
  The correct option will be ‘Unlikely, retreat’. Here, ‘unlikely’ means not probable. The meaning of ‘retreat’ is maturity or act of withdrawing. Both the words in the options are suitable in the sentence.

• 10. Question

  While being liberal in its ………………….. for rural India, the Budget has been ……………. in its giveaways to the middle class and the corporate sector.

  • Message, stingy
  • Publication, conserving
  • edict, tight
  • Announcements, frugal
  • None of these
  Ans:
  The correct option will be ‘Announcements, frugal’. As per the meaning of the sentence, ‘announcements’ is the correct word to be used for budgets representation. ‘Frugal’ means economical.