SBI Associated Clerk 2011 Question Paper (1st Shift)

When 'a plan is put to execution' it means that the plan is being carried out. Here, it means that the team started carrying out the plan very next day.

In the context of given sentence, 'to open' means 'to begin' or 'to start'.

So, the sentence can also be read as- 'Mrs Nayak started the discussion.....'

The course of things refer to the succession of unexpected.
In the context of the given sentence, it means succession of unexpected.

In legal context, when something comes into force like an act or law, it means that it will 'begin to be implemented'.

The phrase 'to put one's foot down' means 'to assert something strongly'.

The correct sentence will read as-

Nuclear waste will still be radioactive even after twenty thousand years so it must be disposed very carefully.

And hence, 'will still being' needs to be replaced by 'will still be'.

The correct usage will be 'whose attic had been.....' .
Hence, the correct sensible sentence is-
My friend lived at the top of an old house whose attic had been converted into a flat.

The correct sentence is,
A public safety advertising campaign in Russia 'hopes to draw' attention of pedestrians crossing the road.
There is only one campaign and hence it will take singular form of the verb 'hope'.

The sentence describes the event that happened in past. Hence past tense of the verb 'award' i.e 'awarded' must be used.

The correct sentence will read as: A cash prize was awarded to the most successful salesman of the year by the president of the company.

Here, 'to re-awakening' fails to make any grammatical sense. The coorect usage should be 'of re-awakening'.
The correct sentence is-   
The Renaissance was a time of re-awakening in both the arts and the sciences.
Hence, the option is B.