SBI PO Mains 2017: English Quiz based on New Pattern - 8

Directions for questions 1 to 5: Each of these questions has a paragraph from which the last sentence has been deleted. From the given options, choose the one that completes the paragraph in the most appropriate way.

1. Based on the information we have it is difficult to predict how migration numbers will change with the impacts of warming. Given the scale of uncertainties, most reported numbers are good guesses. Perhaps more people will move to other rural and urban areas with an increase in droughts, fall in agricultural yield, water shortage, and floods. People will be vulnerable to many effects: globalisation, water shortage, famine, poverty and so on. _________

(a) Seasonal migration during floods or droughts may intensify and then become permanent.

(b) They will experience them simultaneously and respond to them based on how these impinge on their daily lives.

(c) Migration of people is not a good trend.

(d) Fewer people will migrate if there are no droughts or floods.

2. Until a hundred years ago as humans we had a simple, uncomplicated biological connect. It was a straight-forward equation: we drew roughly 3000 calories each of energy out of Earth for our food and life’s sustenance. Today that number per capita has grown to 100,000 calories. We still need only 3000 calories each to nourish life itself. _________

(a) All the rest of this energy is what we extract from Earth for everything else besides keeping ourselves alive.

(b) In some countries, like the US, this per capita number runs at over 200,000 calories.

(c) But average Indian consumes much more calories than that.

(d) But life today has become much more complicated so we consume more energy than what we need for sustenance.

3. Much like Big Tobacco once did with nicotine, the soda industry and high-fructose corn syrup producers of America have maintained a ridiculous state of flat-out denial about the links between soda consumption and obesity. “Sodas don’t make you fat,” they insist. Meanwhile, as Americans guzzle down insanely large quantities of soda and liquid sugar with each passing year, rates of obesity and diabetes continue to steadily climb. _________

(a) There are 2 million people in America who are suffering from diabetes.

(b) Surely diet must have something to do with it, right?

(c) Obesity has become a major problem in the entire world.

(d) Soda consumption and obesity are very strongly linked whether companies accept it or not.

4. To develop an understanding of the system under investigation, scientists build real-world models and make predictions with them. The models are tentative at first, but over time they are revised and refined, and can lead the community to novel problem solutions. _________

(a) Hence the community improves.

(b) Some scientists even develop incorrect models

(c) These solutions then help in coming the community forward.

(d) Models, thus, play a big role in the creative thinking processes of scientists.

5. In a certain type of supernova, the detonation starts with a flame ball buried deep inside a white dwarf. The flame ball is much lighter than its surroundings

(a) Hence it does not detonate.

(b) in some other supernova the process is somewhat different.

(c) so it rises rapidly making a plume topped with an accelerating smoke ring.

(d) The energy produced is much more than generated by a nuclear fission