SBI Clerk Prelims Full Mock Test 01

1. Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given after it. Every morning, before the shops open, a small team of volunteers in a coastal town walks along the beach with gloves and sacks. They pick up plastic bottles, fishing nets and food wrappers washed in by the tide. The group began five years ago with just three friends who were tired of seeing their favourite beach covered in rubbish. Today it has more than two hundred members, including schoolchildren, retired teachers and fishermen. At first, many people laughed at the effort. They said the sea would bring back the waste the very next day, so cleaning was pointless. The volunteers agreed that cleaning alone could not solve the problem. They began to talk to shopkeepers about using fewer plastic bags and asked restaurants to stop handing out plastic straws. Fishermen in the group showed others how old nets could be repaired instead of being thrown into the water. Slowly, the town changed. Several shops now give paper bags, and a local school runs a monthly competition for the class that collects the most waste. Tourists who once complained about the dirty beach now take photographs of it. The volunteers say the biggest change is not in the sand but in people's attitude. Children who join the cleaning drives remind their parents not to litter, and the habit spreads from one home to the next. The group still faces problems. Money for gloves and sacks is limited, and the rainy season brings huge amounts of waste from rivers upstream. But its members believe that every small action counts and that a clean beach is a shared responsibility.

   Q1.How did the volunteer group begin?

   • A.Fishermen started it to sell old nets
   • B.Three friends started it because their favourite beach was covered in rubbish
   • C.A school started it as a project
   • D.Tourists paid for it
   • E.The town council ordered it

2. Q2.Why did many people laugh at the effort at first?

   • A.They thought the sea would bring the waste back the next day
   • B.They wanted the beach closed
   • C.They believed the beach was already clean
   • D.They disliked fishermen
   • E.They thought the volunteers were paid

3. Q3.Which of the following steps did the volunteers take besides cleaning?

   • A.They asked shops and restaurants to cut down on plastic
   • B.They stopped fishermen from fishing
   • C.They built a wall along the sea
   • D.They banned tourists from the beach
   • E.They sold the waste to factories

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