English Sentence Completion Quiz for IBPS, RBI, SBI, NICL and other bank and insurance exams
Directions
(1 – 10): In each of the following questions a short passage is given with one
of the lines in the passage missing and represented by a blank. Select the best
out of the five answer choices given, to make the passage complete and coherent
(Coherent means logically complete and sound.)
1. In a concerted drive against corruption, black
money, money laundering, and terrorism among others, the Government of India
initiated a massive demonitisation drive from the midnight of 8th November
2016. (____________________). This decision was also, in fact aimed at curbing
financing of terrorism through the proceeds of Fake Indian Currency Notes
(FICN) and use of such funds for subversive activities such as espionage,
smuggling of arms, drugs and other contrabands into India, and for eliminating
Black Money which cast a long shadow of parallel economy on our real/formal
economy.
A) The government accepted the
recommendations of RBI to issue the Two Thousand and Five Hundred Rupee Notes.
B) No restriction was placed on any
kind of non-cash payments by cheques/demand drafts, debit or credit cards and
electronic fund transfer etc.
C) To ensure welfare of farmers,
steps were taken to provide sufficient funds to the farmers to buy inputs such
as good quality seeds, fertilizers and pesticides etc for sowing of Rabi crops.
D) Firstly, five hundred and one
thousand rupee notes ceased to be legal tender from the midnight of 8th
novermber 2016.
E) Similarly, steps were taken to
provide funds to traders to pay wages to daily wagers.
2. Today, India enjoys a pride of place in the
international arena not only as a fast emerging economy but also as a vast pool
of powerful human resource consisting of suitable and educated personnel.
Highly educated, tech-savvy and scientifically trained Indian citizens are
engaged in a variety of employments in every nook and corner of the world doing
India proud. One of the note-wothy achievements over the years has been the
increased literacy level. (_____________________). today, as per 2011, census,
our literacy rate come to 74.4 per cent. Kerala with 93.91 and Mizoram with
91.58 per cent lead and inspire other states to achieve further heights.
A)
There have been challenges and shortcoming in this journey too.
B) At the time of attaining freedom,
Indian's literacy rate was just12 per cent.
C) Access to education is still a
dream for many especially in the remote and rural areas.
D) Equitable educational access to
tribals, marginalised, SCs and STs is a major point of concern with- policy
makers trying to bring than, into the nation building process.
E) In accessible schools become
safety concerns as also lack of toilets for girls in rural areas resulting in
alarming levles of drop outs.
3. As per the World Economic and Social Outlook
Report, 2016, 12 per cent of the workforce in the developed countries and 46
per cent of the workforce in the developing countries are in informal
employment. Of this two thirds of the informal employment is in South Asia
comprising about 72 per cent workers of the workforce.
(__________________________). In fact a major worrisome trend is the relentless
informalisation of work in the formal sector.
A) In India this proportion is much
larger with more than 90 per cent of workers being in vulnerable informal
employment relations.
B) In this context of India's policy
makers face the challenges of designing and implementing a floor of labour
rights, with a comprehensive vision of a 'national labour market'.
C) For workers in informal
employment, there is an urgent need to ensure universal social protection that
improves their conditions of work and helps them live a life with dignity.
D) This was accompanied by the fact
that over 80 per cent of the new jobs created in recent years have been casusal
in nature.
E) As has been noted earlier only a
inenuscule proportion of the total workforce, which is part of the organised
sector enjoy some protective coverage.
4. The Crisil Report says that 'the demonetisation
move could change the face of the Indian economy'. According to Mauro F Guillen
'the move could stifle some business that are legal and clean, if they use cash
payment. But everyone will adjust. (_______________________).
A) Demonetisation and cash less
economy in the long run will have negative impact on black money.
B) Income earned through
demonetisation, if spent on various developmental activities, will enhance
development and raise the quality of life of the people.
C) And while it can hurt some small
business and individual it is better to do it than not.
D) The self help groups (SHGs) can be
of great help to the people in the promotion of digital banking system in the
rural areas.
E) India big one of the emerging
economics in the world must try to achieve high 'transparent and distributive
growth rate.
5. The mission of Swach Bharat will be successful
only if rural areas are covered. Incentivising Swachh villages by providing
them piped water will induce other nearby villages to adopt clean. hygienic
habits. (_________________________). What is more important is, that a lot of
funds will be saved if rural areas are healthy, lesser medical expenditure will
be required. Villagers will spend on better food and clothing if their money is
saved.
A) Village level understanding of
soil and research work will be an enabler to maximise produce from farms.
B) A combination of local knowledge
and agriculture expertise is very good for rural economy.
C) Horticulture funds will help in
creating new openings for farmers who can sow alternative seeds.
D) Open defecation free villages and
now big given priority for piped water supply.
E) In this way, India will have clean
villages as well as availability of potable water for all.
6. China’s birth rate was roughly the same in the
1990s, and significantly higher around its 1980s peak. Unfortunately, it will
take more than ending legal restrictions for the country to accelerate the
recent improvement. A survey conducted in 2015 found that three-quarters of
Chinese said they did not want a second child mainly because of the expense and
lack of support. ________
A) The commission suggests that the
government introduce child-friendly measures like tax breaks and prolonged
maternity leave for families with two children.
B) A previous version of this story
said that the National Health and Family Planning Commission announced a figure
of almost 18m births in 2016.
C) By 2050, pensioners will number
around 370m and account for more than one-quarter of the population.
D) Government officials now eagerly
project that the rising birth rate could add 30m more people to the workforce
by 2050.
E) None of these
7. Ms Elson and her colleagues argue that, once
you break down public spending, the opportunities stand out. For instance, if
the British government diverted investment worth 2% of GDP from construction to
the care sector, it could create 1.5m jobs instead of 750,000._______
A) When Uganda first looked at its
budget through a gender lens, it discovered that little of the spending on
agriculture was going to support women farmers, though they did most of the
work.
B) Many governments treat spending on
physical infrastructure as an investment, but spending on social infrastructure,
such as child care, as a cost yet such spending also increases productivity and
growth—partly by increasing the number of women in the workforce.
C) Gender budgeting identifies
policies that are unequal as well as opportunities to spend money on helping
women and which have a high return culture was going to support women farmers,
though they did most of the work.
D) In Rwanda spending aimed at
keeping girls in school—such as providing basic sanitation—has led to higher
enrolment > culture was going to support women farmers, though they did most
of the work.
E) None of these
8. Not everything has gone well for gender
budgeting, however. Some initiatives have proved half-hearted, short-lived or
prey to party politics. Egypt introduced the concept in 2009, encouraged by
international donors; when the donors left, it petered out. Australia was the
first country to have gender budgeting._________
A) Other countries have issued
sexual-equality statements and begun tracking data, but have not changed budget
allocations
B) Gender budgeting has won the
backing of international financial institutions.
C) But today’s conservative
government saw it as left-leaning and anti-austerity and dropped it in 2014,
the year after it took office.
D) Professing loyalty to an idea is
easier than acting on its implications.
E) None of these
9. CHINA is the most populous country in the
world, but is also one of the fastest-ageing. So it was with some fanfare that
the National Health and Family Planning Commission announced on January 22nd
that the country’s birth rate shot up in 2016._________
A) The National Bureau of Statistics
also announced its own figures around the same time.
B) At first glance, this sum sounds
enormous: it is roughly the entire population of Peru.
C) This places a bigger financial
burden on the dwindling share of workers who must support them.
D) Almost 18.5m babies were born last
year, an annual jump of 11.5%.
E) None of these
10. The unpleasant sensations of the start were
less poignant now. They merged at last into a kind of hysterical exhilaration. I
remarked indeed a clumsy swaying of the machine, for which I was unable to
account. _________________
A) There were others coming, and
presently a little group of perhaps eight or ten of these exquisite creatures
were about me.
B) The stained-glass windows, which
displayed only a geometrical pattern, were broken in many places, and the
curtains that hung across the lower end were thick with dust.
C) But my mind was too confused to
attend to it, so with a kind of madness growing upon me, I flung myself into
futurity.
D) Indeed, I found afterwards that
horses, cattle, sheep, dogs, had followed the Ichthyosaurus into extinction.
E) None of these
Answers with Explanations:
1. D) 2. B) 3. A)
4. C) 5. E)
6. A) The passage ends on this note that
people themselves do not want a second child in China. Therefore option (A) is
the best fit here as it mentions ways to encourage people to have a second
child. The rest of the options fail to convey any meaning here. Option (B) is
irrelevant. Option (C) does not mention any solution to the problem. Option (D)
is not appropriate here.
7. B) The
last sentence in the passage states that investment on the care sector would
create more jobs. Thus option (B) is the best fit as it explains the process
and how it happens. The rest of the statements do not convey any meaning
here.
8. C) Since
the last line of the passage is about Australia adopting gender budgeting. Thus
option (C) is the best fit here as it mentions the current state of the
country. The rest of them do not fit here.
9. D) The
last line in the passage mentions the increase in the growth rate of
population. Thus option (D) is the best fit here which mentions the statistics.
The rest of the options fail to convey any meaning and cannot be placed here.
Option (B) is incomplete and can be clearly understood that it is wrong.
10. C) The
passage describes a situation where someone is doing something with a machine. The
last line of the passage mentions some response in the machine. Option (A)
seems a situation that is not connected here. Option (B) describes the
condition of windows and curtains which is irrelevant here. Option (D) does not
fit here as well. Option (C) mentions the state of the mind of the protagonist
which can fit here as it states the reaction of the person as the machine showed
some activity. Thus option (C) is the correct answer.
