ENGLISH SENTENCE COMPLETION FOR BANKING & SSC

SENTENCE COMPLETION

Q-1 How you define your retirement will obviously differ based on your own imperatives and your personal reality. For sports persons, retirement comes early, once the body starts to age. For Government employees, retirement happens at age 58. For the private sector, it happens at age 60. ________________________. The only category which can possibly select his own retirement would be a businessperson or a professional and even these people speak about “hanging up their gloves” to do something else.
1) Here are a few questions to ponder over as you look ahead to your retirement years
2) Keeping your mind and body healthy, throughout your life is essential, as you get older.
3) Politicians are in a class of their own and never retire
4) For some like Judges, retirement is at 65
5) Remember that the answers to each of these lie within yourself

Q-2 I looked out of the window. The sky was tar-black and the big clouds were moving towards me. I heard a tapping on the window and then it became a pitter-patter.________________________. Puddles began plinking as the rainfall became heavier. The roofs of the cars danced with spray and I could hear the murmuring of the rain through the window. It sounded like the buzzing of angry bees.
1) There was much to say about how happy we all were to see these big, heavy drops of water fall from the sky
2) People ran for cover outside and umbrellas were opened as the clouds spat out their beads of water
3) As the morning progressed and the rain began to harden in a steady stream
4) All around me were ecstatic faces, broad smiles and people standing in the rain with open arms, heads cast to the sky
5) very clearly, was that of joy and gratitude for something that so many people may take for granted

Q-3 Taking the present turmoil after enactment by the present government in a northern state, election fever settling down, it now becomes a matter of mature regulation. There may be penalties attached to cow stealing, or such arbitration that puts an end to the matter right away, with less abrasion as is possible. The matter also concerns hygienic storage and retailing of animal meat. Token of respect for each other may be established.________________________.
1) in as much it is no longer fashionable to keep the patchy growths menfolk unless of course it is on the face
2) no government found it worth to interfere, as division and deprivation, disrespect for another’s belief
3) or unbaked rumours that were to be divisive for the existing faiths
4) The common man is running for other promises for his survival
5) This is just the inverted image of President Obama’s great stress to conclude the Heidelberg Summit

Q-4 There is a big difference, of course, between the Kerala action and Gandhi’s. The Kerala activists killed to make a political point, but Gandhi’s action was compassionate. The calf was sick and in pain; it had broken its leg, developed sores all over its body and the veterinarian had given up hope. “The suffering of the animal was so great that it________________________,” he wrote in an account of the incident.
1) Interactive sessions with state and central government officials make sense
2) Businesses will also face inventory, logistics, budgeting and working capital issues as they move to the new regime
3) Concerns over the lack of preparedness of small and medium enterprises to transit
4) rates for commodities such as bullion need to be finalised
5) could not even turn its side without excruciating pain

Q-5 It has been a fortnight of relentless terrorist attacks, targeting children and senior citizens, ordinary people from Baghdad to Kabul to London to Manchester. It is time for the global community to work together to fight back. It is a common war.________________________. It also requires countries like India, Germany, France and Britain to push back on Washington to go after all governments that support and fund terror, and not play favourites.
1) US President Donald Trump has done great harm to the global effort on terror by holding Tehran solely responsible for funding and shielding terrorists
2) The terror attacks this past fortnight, like most before, are carried out by the Islamic State (IS) and al-Qaeda
3) That means confronting governments that provide support and finance to terror outfits
4) There is evidence that Pakistan is providing safe haven for terrorists
5) There is intelligence evidence that Saudi Arabia has been funding IS affiliates in countries like Yemen

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