Yak Reading Comprehension Practise Examination For Sbi Pos & Clerks 2018

SBI PO 2017 : Reading Comprehension Practice Test

Directions (1-10) : Read the next pas-sage carefully as well as reply the questions given below it. Certain words are printed inwards bold to assist you lot locate them spell answering but about of the questions. 

John Maynard Keynes, the trendiest dead economist of this apocalyptic moment, was the godfather of authorities stimulus. Keynes had the radical sentiment that throwing coin at recessions through aggressive deficit spending would resuscitate flatlined economies-and he wasn't likewise detail nigh where the coin was thrown. In the depths of the Depression, he suggested that the Treasury could "fill sometime bottles alongside banknotes, bury them at suitable depths inwards disused coal mines" as well as therefore sit down dorsum as well as scout a money-mining nail create jobs as well as prosperity. "It would, indeed, travel to a greater extent than sensible to construct houses as well as the like, "he wrote, but to a higher house would travel meliorate than nothing".

As President-elect Barack Obama prepares to throw coin at the electrical flow downturn -a stimulus packet starting at nigh $600 billion, addition the 2nd $350 billion chunk of the fiscal bailout -we all actually create appear to travel Keynesians now. Just nigh every skillful agrees that pumping $1 trillion into a moribund economy volition rev upwards the ethereal goods-and-services engine that Keynes called "aggregate demand" as well as induce at to the lowest degree but about short-term activity, fifty-fifty if it is all wasted on coin pits. But Keynes was also correct that in that place would travel to a greater extent than sensible ways to pass it. H5N1 trillion dollars' worth of bad ideas -sprawl-inducing highways as well as bridges to nowhere, ethanol plants as well as pipelines that accelerate global warming, taxation breaks for over-leveraged McMansion builders as well as burden-some novel long-term federal entitlements -would travel worse than mere waste.

It would travel smarter to purchase every American an iPod, a laid of Ginsu knives as well as 600 Subway foot-longs. It would travel smarter all the same to throw all that coin at things nosotros postulate to create anyway, which is the destination of Obama's upcoming American Recovery as well as Reinvestment Plan. It volition include a mix of taxation cuts, assistance to beleaguered set down as well as local governments, as well as spending to address needs ranging from nutrient stamps to computerized health records to span repairs to broad-band net-works to energy-efficiency retrofits, all designed to salvage or create three mil-lion to four ane 1000 one thousand jobs yesteryear the cease of 2010. Obama has said speed is his top priority because the faster Washington injects cash into the fiscal bloodstream, the meliorate it stands to assist avert a muftiyear slump alongside double-digit unemployment as well as deflation. But he also wants to purpose the stimulus to advance his long-term priorities: reducing ener-gy purpose as well as carbon emissions, cutting middle-class taxes, upgrading neglected infrastructure, reining inwards health-care costs as well as eventually reducing the budget deficits that exploded nether George W. Bush. Obamaff destination is to exploit this crisis inwards the best feel of the word, to showtime pursuing his vision of a greener, fairer, to a greater extent than competitive, to a greater extent than sustainable economy. Unfortunately, spell 21st century Washington has demonstrated an impressive mightiness to pass coin quickly, it has yet to seek that it tin give notice pass coin wisely. And the chum of a 1 alongside 12 zeros is already creating a feeding frenzy for the ages. Lobbyists for shoe companies, zoos, catfish farmers. mall owners, airlines, populace broadcasters, machine dealers as well as everyone else who tin give notice afford their retainers are lining upwards for a slice of the stimulus. States that embarked on raucous spending as well as tax-cutting sprees when they were even are begging for bail-outs forthwith that they're broke. And politicians are dusting off their on-funded mobster museums, water-slides as well as other pet projects for re-branding equally shovel create infrastructure investments. As Obama's aides scramble to gather something effective as well as transformative equally good equally politically achievable, they admit the tension betwixt his desires for speed as well as reform. 

1. John M. Keynes was advocate of which of the next suggestions ? 
1. Spending coin recklessly during recessions is suicidal 
2. Exorbitant spending during recessions is probable to boost economy 
3. Aggressive deficit spending is probable to travel fatal far economical meltdown. 
4. Government stimulus to economic scheme may non assist because of redtapism 
5. None of these 
2. Which of the next is TRUE nigh Keynes' philosophy ? 
1. Actual spending coin during meltdown is to a greater extent than of import than where as well as on what it is spent 
2. Government should travel selective inwards approach for spending coin during recession 
3. Filling sometime bottles alongside banknotes as well as burying them is an atrocious proposal 
4. Creating jobs as well as prosperity during recessions is almost an impracticable proposal 
5. None of these 
3. The writer of the passage calls Barack Obama as well as his squad equally "Keynesians" because _____________
1. Barack Obama has been reluctant to follow Keynes' philosophy
2. His squad is advising Barack to refrain from Keynes' philosophy 
3. Barack Obama as well as his squad accept decided to create total sometime bottles alongside banknotes 
4. Building houses has been nether the active consideration of Barack Obama as well as his team
5. None of these 
4. Highways, bridges, ethanol plants, etc. are considered yesteryear the writer equally _____________
1. reasonably appropriate propositions to Spend coin on 
2. measures that touching the surround adversely 
3. imprudent proposals to waste materials coin on 
4. tax saving schemes bestowed on builders 
5. None of these
5. Obama's upcoming American Recovery as well as Reinvestment Plan focuses on which of the next ? 
• A) Recovery of all debts from the debtors inwards a phased manner. 
• B) Pumping coin real liberally inwards projects that are mandatory. 
• C) Investing coin recklessly inwards whatever projection regardless of its utility. 
1. (A) only 
2. (B) only 
3. (C) only 
4. (B) as well as (C) only 
5. All (A), (B) as well as (C) 
6. Obama desires to accelerate the procedure of pumping coin alongside utmost rapidity equally the believes that it would-
• A) assist create reasonably high occupation opportunities. 
• B) avoid deflation. 
• C) inject cash into the already troubled economy 
1. (A) as well as (B) only
2. (B) as well as (C) only 
3. (A) as well as (C) only 
4. All (A), (B) as well as (C) 
5. None of these 

Directions (7-8) : Choose the give-and-take which is most OPPOSITE inwards pregnant to the give-and-take printed inwards bold equally used inwards the passage. 

7. MORIBUND 

1. declining 
2. waning 
3. thriving
4. pessimistic 
5. glorifying 

8. BELEAGUERED 

1. carefree 
2. harassed 
3. unevenfful 
4. stressful 
5. evaporating 

Directions (9-10) : Choose the give-and-take which is most nearly the SAME inwards pregnant to the give-and-take given inwards bold equally given inwards the passage. 

9. APOCALYPTIC 

1. unwelcome
2. disastrous 
3. risk-free
4. joyous 
5. ceremonious 

10. RESUSCITATE

1. melt down 
2. devastate 
3. mislead 
4. save 
5. deactivate

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