English Language Practice Questions IBPS Clerk – Set 16
Directions (1
– 5): Please select the most appropriate option out of the five options given
for each of the following sentences, which in your view should be grammatically
and structurally correct. Please note that the meaning and context of the sentence
must not change.
1.
a) Solar
manufacturers are getting desperate as they say they have marginalised in the
country’s ambitious solar energy programme.
b) Solar
manufacturers are getting in desperated as they say they have marginalised in
the country’s ambitious solar energy programme.
c) Solar
manufacturers are getting desperate as they say they have been marginalised in
the country’s ambitious solar energy programme.
d) Solar
manufacturers are getting desperated as they say they have been marginalised in
the country’s ambitious solar energy program.
2.
a) Point-of-sale
software provider is helping retailers to compute sales with real-time changes
in the tax rate under the GST and automating the invoicing and report
generation required for compliance procedures.
b)
Point-of-sale software provider is helping retailers to compute sales with
real-time changes in tax under the GST and automating the invoicing and report
generation required for compliance procedures.
c)
Point-of-sale software provider is helping retailers compute sales with
real-time changes in tax rate under the GST and automating the invoice and
report generation required for compliance procedures.
d)
Point-of-sale software provider is helping retailers compute sales with
real-time changes in the tax rate under the GST and automating the invoicing
and report generation required by compliance procedures.
e) None is
correct
3.
a) Ever
since the Dalai Lama and his followers fled from Lhasa in 1959 to take shelter
in India, China has been implacably hostile towards the pontiff.
b) Ever
since the Dalai Lama and his followers fled in Lhasa in 1959 to take shelter in
India, China has been implacably hostile towards the pontiff.
c) Ever
since the Dalai Lama and his followers fled Lhasa in 1959 to shelter in India,
China was implacably hostile against the pontiff.
d) Ever
since the Dalai Lama and his followers fled Lhasa in 1959 to take shelter in
India, China has been implacably hostile towards the pontiff.
e) None is
correct
4.
a) The city
of Charminar remains the city with the best quality of living in the country
for the third consecutive years.
b) The city
of the Charminar remains the city with the best quality of living in the
country for the third consecutive year.
c) The city
of the Charminar remains the city with the best quality of living in the
country for third consecutive years.
d) The city
of Charminar remains the city with best quality of living in the country for
the third consecutive year.
e) None is
correct
5.
a) A video
of a baby monkey crying over the body of her mother killed by a road mishap
went viral and was featured in top dailies across the world.
b) A video
of a baby monkey crying over the body of her mother killed in a road mishap
goes viral and is featured in top dailies across the world.
c) A video
of a baby monkey crying over the body of her mother killed in a road mishap
went viral and was featured in top dailies across the world.
d) A video
of a baby monkey crying over the body of her mother killed from a road mishap
went viral and was featured in top daily across the world.
e) None is
correct
Directions (6
– 10): Select the phrase/connector from the given three options which can be used
to form a single sentence from the two sentences given below, implying the same
meaning expressed in the statement sentences.
6. With the
advent of goods and services tax, the Centre is now planning to integrate the
direct and indirect taxation system for all indirect tax payers. This can be
done by linking the GST number with the PAN issued by the income tax
department.
(A) The PAN issued
...........
(B) The direct and
indirect ...........
(C) The centre, with
the ...........
a) Only (A)
b) Only (B)
c) Only (C)
d) Only (A)
and (B)
e) None of
the above
7. The
Reserve Bank of India has finalised norms for peer-to-peer (P2P) lending
platform. Final guidelines are expected to be released in 2-3 weeks.
(A) The norms
...........
(B) Peer-to-peer
platform ...........
(C) The expected
...........
a) Only (A)
b) Only (B)
c) Only (C)
d) Only (B)
and (C)
e) None of
the above
8. SIERA
ODC building looks like any other IT Office building from outside. No posh or
massive structure, but if you enter the office complex of this IT solutions
company you will realise what the so-called “Green Building” means and is much
talked about.
(A) Without any posh
...........
(B) What is so called
...........
(C) If you enter
...........
a) Only (A)
b) Only (B)
c) Only (C)
d) Only (A)
and (C)
e) None of
the above
9. BMW
India has just launched the all-new 5 series. This is the seventh generation of
the premium executive sedan and it is being locally produced at the company’s
plant near Chennai.
(A) The seventh
generation ...........
(B) The all-new 5
series ...........
(C) The locally
produced ...........
a) Only (A)
b) Only (B)
c) Only (C)
d) Only (B)
and (C)
e) None of
the above
10. In the
past three years the economic landscape has changed significantly. This is
primarily because the country is witnessing two fundamental resets.
(A) Primarily because
...........
(B) Two fundamental
resets ...........
(C) To witness
...........
a) Only (A)
b) Only (B)
c) Only (C)
d) Only (A)
and (C)
e) None of
the above
Directions (11
– 15): 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 choices given to make the passage complete and coherent.
(Coherent means logically complete and sound.)
11. “Judge
a man by his questions, rather than his answers,” Voltaire advised. Google has
become one of the most successful firms in history by heeding that advice.
___________ But for years there has been a lingering question about Google: can
it create a new, highly profitable unit to rival its search business?
a) In the
past five years, Alphabet, formed as a holding company for Google and other
disparate projects, has spent $46 bn on research and development.
b) Search
advertising in particular makes up around three-quarters of Alphabet’s total ad
revenues.
c) Alphabet
has also been trying to sell its malfunctioning robotics business, Boston
Dynamics.
d) It
evaluates the intention of web-surfer’s queries and returns relevant
advertising alongside search results.
e)
Meanwhile, the way that people navigate their way around the internet is also
changing, which could eventually pose a threat to Google’s search-advertising
business.
12. Mr
Trump wants to offer a one-time tax rebate of 10% to firms that repatriate
their cash. To put an end to the barmy incentives, Mr Ryan would stop taxing
foreign profits. ________. Meanwhile, firms would no longer be able to knock
off the cost of imported goods when adding up their profits. In combination,
these two changes are dubbed “border adjustment”.
a) This
would make American’s corporate tax very similar to a value-added tax (VAT) – a
kind of border – adjusted sales tax.
b) Mr
Ryan’s proposal would more or less reverse this.
c) Mr Trump
has often complained about the VAT Mexico imposes on American goods, when
Mexican exports flowing north incur no such levy.
d) In
theory, border adjustments do not affect trade, because export subsidies and
import taxes both push up the dollar.
e) In fact,
he wants to ignore foreign activity altogether, including profits made by
selling American goods abroad.
13. Irony
is not dead in the Middle East. In April, Saudi Arabia, a land where women may
not drive, or leave the country without the written permission of a male
“guardian” or appear in public without an all-enveloping cloak, was elected to
the UN’s Committee on Women’s Rights. Now that same monarchy, where the
government censors everything from political dissent to risque Rubens
paintings, is trying to shut down the only big, feisty broadcaster in the Arab
world, Al Jazeera. ________. It is as if China had ordered Britain to abolish
the BBC.
a) It
harbours dozens of people the Saudis do not like, including some with close
links to groups affiliated to al-Qaeda.
b) This is
an extraordinary, extra-territorial assault on free speech.
c) When it
broadcast Osama bin Laden’s tape-recorded message from his cave in Afghanistan,
many concluded that it was not reporting a big news story so much as promoting
terrorism.
d) All
these banks were wrong.
e) Yet on
any fair accounting, Al Jazeera performs a valuable service by adding to the
supply of news and views about the Middle East.
14. For
more than two decades after the early 1980s, it seemed as if the financial
markets were moving in only one direction. _________. Since the 2008 financial
crisis this particular aspect of globalisation has stalled, and even partly
retreated. The reversal is illustrated by the triennial survey of foreign
exchange markets, conducted by the Bank of International Settlements (BIS).
a) More and
more money was flowing across borders, capital markets were becoming
increasingly integrated.
b) After
all, as Asian countries found out in the 1990s, too much “hot money” flowing
into an economy can be destabilising.
c) The
implication of deglobalisation depends on why showdown is happening.
d) Before
the crisis, cross-border banking activity was closely correlated with measures
of risk apetite.
e) When the
economic outlook was good, banks were happy to lend abroad; in the face of
shocks, they retreated back to their home base.
15. Should
it be a crime for a husband to hit his wife? ________. But not in Russia, where
the Duma (parliament) voted recently to decriminalise domestic violence against
family members unless it is a repeat offence or causes serious medical damage.
The change is part of a state-sponsored turn to traditionalism during Vladimir
Putin’s third presidential term. It has exposed deep fault lines. Many Russians
now embrace the liberal notion of individual rights, but others are moving in
the opposite direction.
a)
Activists warn that decriminalisation will legitimise abuse.
b) That
pleased civil-society groups that had been pushing for tougher rules.
c) In many
countries this question no longer needs discussing.
d) Anna
Zhavnerovich does not agree that tolerating domestic abuse leads to strong
families.
e) Domestic
violence has deep cultural roots.
Answers with Explanations:
1. C) 2. C)
3. D) 4. E) 5. C)
6. C) The centre, with the advent of
goods and services tax, is now planning to integrate the direct and indirect
taxation system for all indirect tax payers by linking the GST number with the
PAN issued by the income tax department.
7. A) The norms
for peer-to-peer (P2P) lending platform has been finalised by the RBI and the
final guidelines are expected to be released in 2-3 weeks.
8. D) (A) Without
any posh or massive structure SIERA ODC building looks like any other IT office
building from outside, but if you enter the office complex of this IT solutions
company you will realise what the so-called” Green Building” means and is much
talked about.
(C)
It you enter the office complex of IT solutions company SIERA ODC which looks
like any other IT office building from outside without any posh or massive
structure, you will realise what the so called “Green Building” means and is
much talked about
9. B) The all-new
5 Series, just launched by BMW India, is the seventh generation of the premium
executive sedan and it is being locally produced at the company’s plant near
Chennai.
10. A) Primarily
because the country is witnessing two fundamental resets, the economic
landscape has changed significantly in the past three years.
11. D) 12. E)
13. B) 14. A) 15. C)
