Model Questions for IBPS PO PRELIM Exam : English Language Set-40

Directions: In the following passage, there are blanks, each of which has been numbered. These numbers are printed below the passage and against each, five words are suggested, one of which fits the blank appropriately. Find out the appropriate word in each case:

A friend in need is a friend indeed. A man who stands (1) his friend in (2) is a true friend. Selfless love is the base of true friendship. True friends share each other’s joy and sorrow, pain and pleasure. They do not fall (3) in adversity. They have full confidence in each other. They never (4) each other. (5) makes friend, adversity tries them. A selfless friend is a (6). A selfish friend is a curse. The first is an angle and the second ‘is a devil. One makes your career while the other (7) it.
True friendship means great self-sacrifice on the part of both. A true friend (8) pleasure and convenience. He goes out of his way and faces difficulties in his way with joy and even with pride. Joy and sorrow, success and failure, good fortune and misfortune, are equally (9) by a pair of true friends. They (10) the burden of life equally for they feel that they sail in the same boat and -that they rave to sink and swim together.

1. (1) to
    (2) with
    (3) for
    (4) by
    (5) of

2. (1) adversity
    (2) commotion
    (3) change
    (4) happiness
    (5) growth

3. (1) by
    (2) to
    (3) off
    (4) with
    (5) through

4. (1) postulate
    (2) commit
    (3) danger
    (4) deplete
    (5) betray

5. (1) Wealth
    (2) Prosperity
    (3) Man
    (4) Providence
    (5) Well-being

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6. (1) boon
    (2) forse
    (3) blessing
    (4) calamity
    (5) message

7. (1) throws
    (2) develops
    (3) constructs
    (4) mars
    (5) tacks

8. (1) foregoes
    (2) mitigates
    (3) evolves
    (4) appraises
    (5) prospers

9. (1) built
    (2) pleased
    (3) admired
    (4) advocated
    (5) shard

10. (1) expect
      (2) shoulder
      (3) dislike
      (4) propose
      (5) project