RBI OFFICER GRADE ‘B’ PHASE-I EXAM Held on : 21.11.2015(Part-II)

Total Questions: 50

1. In the given passage, there are blanks, each of which has been numbered. Against each five words are suggested, one of which fits the blank appropriately. Find the appropriate word in each case.

We have worked really (51) on helping those at the very bottom, but is that enough? Imagine how different the world would be if the (52) of much aid spending was not "ending $1.25 dollar-a-day poverty" but "(53) a fairer and more equitable world." Inequality is about much more than income and that is why it is such a valuable (54). If we took the wealth of the world's richest and used it to double, treble or even quadruple the incomes of the world's poorest three billion people would that be enough? It would make a big difference but those people would still be relatively poor and (55) of better, fuller lives.

Inequality, as a focal point for campaigns, (56) us to accept and explain that building a better world is a slow and perennial (57). Delivering a world where the quality of education, healthcare and national infrastructure available to every person is sufficient to bestow on them meaningful hope and ambition is hopefully the aim of "development".

It is not possible without (58) inequalities. Goals and targets will help us to keep moving forward but achieving them will not (59) success, which is why (60) its important role as an aspiration-we shouldn't be so belligerent about zero poverty and especially about whether aid is the tool to get us there.

Correct Answer: (3) hard

2. In the given passage, there are blanks, each of which has been numbered. Against each five words are suggested, one of which fits the blank appropriately. Find the appropriate word in each case.

We have worked really (51) on helping those at the very bottom, but is that enough? Imagine how different the world would be if the (52) of much aid spending was not "ending $1.25 dollar-a-day poverty" but "(53) a fairer and more equitable world." Inequality is about much more than income and that is why it is such a valuable (54). If we took the wealth of the world's richest and used it to double, treble or even quadruple the incomes of the world's poorest three billion people would that be enough? It would make a big difference but those people would still be relatively poor and (55) of better, fuller lives.

Inequality, as a focal point for campaigns, (56) us to accept and explain that building a better world is a slow and perennial (57). Delivering a world where the quality of education, healthcare and national infrastructure available to every person is sufficient to bestow on them meaningful hope and ambition is hopefully the aim of "development".

It is not possible without (58) inequalities. Goals and targets will help us to keep moving forward but achieving them will not (59) success, which is why (60) its important role as an aspiration-we shouldn't be so belligerent about zero poverty and especially about whether aid is the tool to get us there.

Correct Answer: (4) focus

3. In the given passage, there are blanks, each of which has been numbered. Against each five words are suggested, one of which fits the blank appropriately. Find the appropriate word in each case.

We have worked really (51) on helping those at the very bottom, but is that enough? Imagine how different the world would be if the (52) of much aid spending was not "ending $1.25 dollar-a-day poverty" but "(53) a fairer and more equitable world." Inequality is about much more than income and that is why it is such a valuable (54). If we took the wealth of the world's richest and used it to double, treble or even quadruple the incomes of the world's poorest three billion people would that be enough? It would make a big difference but those people would still be relatively poor and (55) of better, fuller lives.

Inequality, as a focal point for campaigns, (56) us to accept and explain that building a better world is a slow and perennial (57). Delivering a world where the quality of education, healthcare and national infrastructure available to every person is sufficient to bestow on them meaningful hope and ambition is hopefully the aim of "development".

It is not possible without (58) inequalities. Goals and targets will help us to keep moving forward but achieving them will not (59) success, which is why (60) its important role as an aspiration-we shouldn't be so belligerent about zero poverty and especially about whether aid is the tool to get us there.

Correct Answer: (1) creating

4. In the given passage, there are blanks, each of which has been numbered. Against each five words are suggested, one of which fits the blank appropriately. Find the appropriate word in each case.

We have worked really (51) on helping those at the very bottom, but is that enough? Imagine how different the world would be if the (52) of much aid spending was not "ending $1.25 dollar-a-day poverty" but "(53) a fairer and more equitable world." Inequality is about much more than income and that is why it is such a valuable (54). If we took the wealth of the world's richest and used it to double, treble or even quadruple the incomes of the world's poorest three billion people would that be enough? It would make a big difference but those people would still be relatively poor and (55) of better, fuller lives.

Inequality, as a focal point for campaigns, (56) us to accept and explain that building a better world is a slow and perennial (57). Delivering a world where the quality of education, healthcare and national infrastructure available to every person is sufficient to bestow on them meaningful hope and ambition is hopefully the aim of "development".

It is not possible without (58) inequalities. Goals and targets will help us to keep moving forward but achieving them will not (59) success, which is why (60) its important role as an aspiration-we shouldn't be so belligerent about zero poverty and especially about whether aid is the tool to get us there.

Correct Answer: (2) resource
Solution:Resource (Noun) = something that can be used to help achieve an aim etc.

5. In the given passage, there are blanks, each of which has been numbered. Against each five words are suggested, one of which fits the blank appropriately. Find the appropriate word in each case.

We have worked really (51) on helping those at the very bottom, but is that enough? Imagine how different the world would be if the (52) of much aid spending was not "ending $1.25 dollar-a-day poverty" but "(53) a fairer and more equitable world." Inequality is about much more than income and that is why it is such a valuable (54). If we took the wealth of the world's richest and used it to double, treble or even quadruple the incomes of the world's poorest three billion people would that be enough? It would make a big difference but those people would still be relatively poor and (55) of better, fuller lives.

Inequality, as a focal point for campaigns, (56) us to accept and explain that building a better world is a slow and perennial (57). Delivering a world where the quality of education, healthcare and national infrastructure available to every person is sufficient to bestow on them meaningful hope and ambition is hopefully the aim of "development".

It is not possible without (58) inequalities. Goals and targets will help us to keep moving forward but achieving them will not (59) success, which is why (60) its important role as an aspiration-we shouldn't be so belligerent about zero poverty and especially about whether aid is the tool to get us there.

Correct Answer: (5) lamenting
Solution:Lament = to feel or express great sadness or disappointment.

6. In the given passage, there are blanks, each of which has been numbered. Against each five words are suggested, one of which fits the blank appropriately. Find the appropriate word in each case.

We have worked really (51) on helping those at the very bottom, but is that enough? Imagine how different the world would be if the (52) of much aid spending was not "ending $1.25 dollar-a-day poverty" but "(53) a fairer and more equitable world." Inequality is about much more than income and that is why it is such a valuable (54). If we took the wealth of the world's richest and used it to double, treble or even quadruple the incomes of the world's poorest three billion people would that be enough? It would make a big difference but those people would still be relatively poor and (55) of better, fuller lives.

Inequality, as a focal point for campaigns, (56) us to accept and explain that building a better world is a slow and perennial (57). Delivering a world where the quality of education, healthcare and national infrastructure available to every person is sufficient to bestow on them meaningful hope and ambition is hopefully the aim of "development".

It is not possible without (58) inequalities. Goals and targets will help us to keep moving forward but achieving them will not (59) success, which is why (60) its important role as an aspiration-we shouldn't be so belligerent about zero poverty and especially about whether aid is the tool to get us there.

Correct Answer: (2) makes

7. In the given passage, there are blanks, each of which has been numbered. Against each five words are suggested, one of which fits the blank appropriately. Find the appropriate word in each case.

We have worked really (51) on helping those at the very bottom, but is that enough? Imagine how different the world would be if the (52) of much aid spending was not "ending $1.25 dollar-a-day poverty" but "(53) a fairer and more equitable world." Inequality is about much more than income and that is why it is such a valuable (54). If we took the wealth of the world's richest and used it to double, treble or even quadruple the incomes of the world's poorest three billion people would that be enough? It would make a big difference but those people would still be relatively poor and (55) of better, fuller lives.

Inequality, as a focal point for campaigns, (56) us to accept and explain that building a better world is a slow and perennial (57). Delivering a world where the quality of education, healthcare and national infrastructure available to every person is sufficient to bestow on them meaningful hope and ambition is hopefully the aim of "development".

It is not possible without (58) inequalities. Goals and targets will help us to keep moving forward but achieving them will not (59) success, which is why (60) its important role as an aspiration-we shouldn't be so belligerent about zero poverty and especially about whether aid is the tool to get us there.

Correct Answer: (2) endeavour

8. In the given passage, there are blanks, each of which has been numbered. Against each five words are suggested, one of which fits the blank appropriately. Find the appropriate word in each case.

We have worked really (51) on helping those at the very bottom, but is that enough? Imagine how different the world would be if the (52) of much aid spending was not "ending $1.25 dollar-a-day poverty" but "(53) a fairer and more equitable world." Inequality is about much more than income and that is why it is such a valuable (54). If we took the wealth of the world's richest and used it to double, treble or even quadruple the incomes of the world's poorest three billion people would that be enough? It would make a big difference but those people would still be relatively poor and (55) of better, fuller lives.

Inequality, as a focal point for campaigns, (56) us to accept and explain that building a better world is a slow and perennial (57). Delivering a world where the quality of education, healthcare and national infrastructure available to every person is sufficient to bestow on them meaningful hope and ambition is hopefully the aim of "development".

It is not possible without (58) inequalities. Goals and targets will help us to keep moving forward but achieving them will not (59) success, which is why (60) its important role as an aspiration-we shouldn't be so belligerent about zero poverty and especially about whether aid is the tool to get us there.

Correct Answer: (5) tackling
Solution:Tackle (Verb) = To make a determined effort to deal with a different problem.

9. In the given passage, there are blanks, each of which has been numbered. Against each five words are suggested, one of which fits the blank appropriately. Find the appropriate word in each case.

We have worked really (51) on helping those at the very bottom, but is that enough? Imagine how different the world would be if the (52) of much aid spending was not "ending $1.25 dollar-a-day poverty" but "(53) a fairer and more equitable world." Inequality is about much more than income and that is why it is such a valuable (54). If we took the wealth of the world's richest and used it to double, treble or even quadruple the incomes of the world's poorest three billion people would that be enough? It would make a big difference but those people would still be relatively poor and (55) of better, fuller lives.

Inequality, as a focal point for campaigns, (56) us to accept and explain that building a better world is a slow and perennial (57). Delivering a world where the quality of education, healthcare and national infrastructure available to every person is sufficient to bestow on them meaningful hope and ambition is hopefully the aim of "development".

It is not possible without (58) inequalities. Goals and targets will help us to keep moving forward but achieving them will not (59) success, which is why (60) its important role as an aspiration-we shouldn't be so belligerent about zero poverty and especially about whether aid is the tool to get us there.

Correct Answer: (1) result in
Solution:Resultt in = to make something happen.

10. In the given passage, there are blanks, each of which has been numbered. Against each five words are suggested, one of which fits the blank appropriately. Find the appropriate word in each case.

We have worked really (51) on helping those at the very bottom, but is that enough? Imagine how different the world would be if the (52) of much aid spending was not "ending $1.25 dollar-a-day poverty" but "(53) a fairer and more equitable world." Inequality is about much more than income and that is why it is such a valuable (54). If we took the wealth of the world's richest and used it to double, treble or even quadruple the incomes of the world's poorest three billion people would that be enough? It would make a big difference but those people would still be relatively poor and (55) of better, fuller lives.

Inequality, as a focal point for campaigns, (56) us to accept and explain that building a better world is a slow and perennial (57). Delivering a world where the quality of education, healthcare and national infrastructure available to every person is sufficient to bestow on them meaningful hope and ambition is hopefully the aim of "development".

It is not possible without (58) inequalities. Goals and targets will help us to keep moving forward but achieving them will not (59) success, which is why (60) its important role as an aspiration-we shouldn't be so belligerent about zero poverty and especially about whether aid is the tool to get us there.

Correct Answer: (2) despite