SBI Clerk 2011

Each sentence below has a blank/s, each blank indicates that something has been omitted: Choose the word/s that best it/s the meaning of the sentence as a whole:

In each question below, four words printed in bold type are given. These are numbered (A), (B), (C) and (D). One of these words printed in bold may either be wrongly spelt or inappropriate in the context of the sentence: Find out the word that in inappropriate or wrongly spelt, if any. The number of that word is your answer. It all the words printed in bold are correctly spelt and appropriate in the context of the sentence then mark (5) i.e: ‘All Correct’ as your answers.

Rearrange that following six sentences/ group of sentences/( I ), (2), (3), (4), (5) and (6) in the proper sequence to form a meaningful paragraph; then answer the questions given below them.

1. The merchant greadily counted his gold and said, “The purse I dropped had 200 pieces of gold in it. You’ve already stolen more than the reward! Go away or I will tell the police:”
2. The judge, looking towards the merchant said, “you stated that the purse you lost contained 200 pieces of gold: Well, that’s considerable: cost. But the purse this beggar found had only 100 pieces of gold”.
3. Being an honest man, the beggar came forward and handed the purse to the merchant saying, “Here is your purse: May have my reward now?”
4. “This purse therefore cannot be the one you lost.” And, with that, the judge gave the purse and all the gold to the beggar.
5. A beggar found a leather purse that someone had dropped in the marketplace: On opening it, he discovered that it contained 100 pieces of gold: Then he heard a merchant shout, “A reward! A reward to the one who finds my leather purse”.
6. “I am an honest man,” said the beggar defiantly “Let us take this matter to the court. The judge patiently listened to both sides of the story.