SBI PO English Preparation 2019 (Day-22)

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“Be not afraid of growing slowly; be afraid only of standing still”

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Direction (1-10): In a passage given below there are 10 blanks, each followed by a word given in bold. Even blank has four words given in options (a), (b), (c) and (d). You have to choose which word can be used as an alternate of the one given in the bold. Choose (e) as your answer if none of the option can replace the word given in the bold after the blank.

The Central Statistics Office (CSO) expects India’s economy to grow 7.2% by March 31. This is short of 7.4% growth (1)_____ (projected) by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) recently.

First-half growth was (2) _____ (reckoned) at 7.6%, implying growth slowed down significantly in the second half. Nevertheless, if growth holds, it will point to a(3)_____ (acceleration) from last fiscal’s 6.7%, and indicate that the economy has put behind it the twin shocks of demonetisation in November 2016 and the (4)_____ (clumsy), snag-riddled rollout of the goods and services tax (GST) in July 2017. Evidently, the ongoing remediation of those (5)_____ (snags) has been having a positive effect.

The good news is the CSO’s projection of a (6)_____ (exhilarating), 12.2% leap in gross fixed capital formation (GFCF), in real terms. The reported, successive three quarters of double-digit growth in GFCF has led CSO to suggest a GFCF/GDP ratio of 29.5% (at current prices) this fiscal, up one full percentage point over the level for the past two years.

However, data (7)_____ (compiled) by the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE) showed a fall in investment projects being completed, as well as a 30% drop in new investments projects taken up between December 2016 and December 2018. Obviously, (8)_____ (temporal) and other gaps can skew data.

So, policymakers, lacking the luxury of sitting still, must press ahead with meaningful reform. Growth led by utilities, construction and manufacturing, all have risen more than 8%, with utilities at 9.4%. This last is a hard-to-measure area, involving sectors like electricity, water and gas where inefficiencies are (9)_____ (rampant).

Disaggregated data suggest construction is a (10)_____ (laggard), with the exception of a few centrally-funded projects. At 3.8%, farm growth appears healthy. The good news is an uptick in bank lending of late.

 

1) ?

a) Enlightening

b) Stripe

c) Calculated

d) Anticipated

e) None of the above

2) ?

a) Count

b) Provisional

c) Keep

d) Figured

e) None of the above

3) ?

a) Obscure

b) Augmentation

c)Quickening

d)Deterioration

e) None of the above

4) ?

a) Comprehensive

b)Inept

c) Accustomed

d) Familiar

e) None of the above

5) ?

a) Calamity

b) Catastrophe

c) Hitches

d) Intensify

e) None of the above

6) ?

a) Extract

b)Exciting

c) Sporadic

d) Coalesced

e) None of the above

7) ?

a) Provided

b) Delivered

c)Accumulated

d) Stocked

e) None of the above

8) ?

a) Typical

b) Average

c) Mediocre

d) Chronological

e) None of the above

9) ?

a) Infrequent

b) Sporadic

c) Extensive

d) Management

e) None of the above

10) ?

a) Administrative

b) Tangible

c) Scatter

d) Straggler

e) None of the above

Answers:

Directions (1-10):

1) Answer: d)

According to the sentence “Anticipated” will be used which means Projected.

2) Answer: d)

According to the sentence “Figured” will be used as it means “calculated”.

3) Answer: c)

According to the sentence “Quickening” will be used as it means “Speeding up”.

4) Answer: b)

According to the sentence “Inept” will be used as it means “Incompetent”.

5) Answer: c)

According to the sentence “Hitches” will be used as it means “Problems”.

6) Answer: b)

According to the sentence “Exciting” will be used as it means “Sensational / Thrilling”.

7) Answer: c)

According to the sentence “Accumulated” will be used as it means “Gathered”.

8) Answer: d)

According to the sentence “Chronological” will be used as it means Sequential.

9) Answer: c)

According to the sentence “Extensive” will be used as it means Widespread.

10) Answer: d)

According to the sentence “Straggler” will be used as it means Lazybones.

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