English
Language Practice Questions for IBPS Clerk/RBI Asst. Mains – Set 3
Directions (1 – 5): The following questions consist
of a single sentence with one blank only. You are given four words as answer
choices you have to pick up incorrect pair in option, which will make the
sentence meaningfully incomplete or wrong.
1. Mannering’s personal diary, a record of ____
preoccupations and domestic details, belies the depth of thought for which he
was renowned in the academic world.
A. philosophical B. mundane C. petty D. weighty
a) AB
b) BC
c) AD
d) BD
e) CD
2. Animal welfare charities have found that
extensive advertising, especially over the Christmas period, can actually drive
down the volume of donations as people who view images of maltreated pets more
than a few times rapidly become ____ .
A. inured B. disgusted C. hardened D. overwrought
a) BD
b) BC
c) AD
d) AC
e) None fits
3. The study’s ____ conclusion is that during the
first half of the 20th Century improved standards of personal hygiene reduced
the risk of an individual’s contracting poliomyelitis, yet tended to make the
disease more lethal to communities.
A. paradoxical B. unwarranted C. long-awaited D. anomalous
a) AB
b) BC
c) BD
d) AD
e) All of them fits
4. The devotion to the syllabus and testing regime
has become so extreme that most school students close their minds to anything
____ to the needs of the examination.
A. related B. catering C. extraneous D. peripheral
a) AB
b) AC
c) AD
d) BC
e) CD
5. The ____ tone of the biography is entirely
unexpected since both the biographer in her previous works and her subject in
all that he has written have valued levity over solemnity.
A. lugubrious B. jocose C. ironic D. melancholy
a) BD
b) AC
c) BC
d) AB
e) CD
Directions (6 – 10): In the following questions, you
have to identify the correct sentence/s. For each of the following questions
find the sentence/s that are correct.
6. (A) When you look up a word,
the main thing that you want to know was its basic meaning.
(B) It’s time to winding up
the discussion now.
(C) A great many various
words in English have more than one meaning.
(D) That wasn’t a very fair
thing to say!
a) D only
b) A and D
c) A, B and D
d) All of the above are correct
e) None of the above
7. (A) She has a fair chance
of winning the first prize.
(B) Fair weather is
forecasted for tomorrow.
(C) There’s a fair on at
the park this very week.
(D) Don’t forget to wind
down your watch.
a) A only
b) A and C
c) A, B and C
d) None of the above are correct
e) Only A and B
8. (A) Every language has a lot
of different words with similar but slightly differing meanings.
(B) Words are used with each
other in fairly fixed ways in every language.
(C) Words do not only have
meanings, they also have associations.
(D) At an advanced level of any
language, it is important to develop an impression of what connotations certain
words have.
a) A only
b) A and C
c) A, B and C
d) All of the above are correct
e) Only (b)
9. (A) Make a special note of
any special characteristics that a word has had.
(B) The judge Mr. Dhuan
increased the sentence of life imprisonment.
(C) We had a lightish
dinner.
(D) Raveesh is very good at
putting on different accentuals.
a) A only
b) A and C
c) A, B and C
d) None of the above are correct
e) Only (b) and (c)
10. (A) I don’t like recorded
music, I prefer the real thing.
(B) These items are the
genuine articles.
(C) You can give a wide
summary of something.
(D) You can describe
something in minute detail.
a) A and C
b) A and B
c) B and D
d) C only
e) None of these
Directions (11 – 15): Which of the phrases (a), (b),
(c) or (d) given below should replace the phrase given in bold in the following
sentence to make the sentence meaningful and grammatically correct? If the sentence
is correct as it is and no correction is required mark (e) as the answer.
11. Men have been known how important the sun is
to them
a) Men have long known
b) Men have to know long
c) Men had long know
d) Men have long know
e) No correction required
12. I did not like his comments on my paper but I
had no alternative as I have agreed to
keep quiet.
a) I have to agree to keep quit
b) I had agreed to keep quiet
c) I had agreed for keeping quiet
d) I have to agree for keeping quiet
e) No correction required
13. Please do not give him any food if his temperature will rise.
a) if his temperature rises
b) if his temperature would rise
c) if his temperature shall rise
d) unless his temperature rises
e) No correction required
14. It is only in the 1980s that a new kind of unity appeared among the capitalist powers.
a) a kind of new unity appeared among
b) the kind of new unity appeared
among
c) a new kind of unity appeared with
d) a new kind of unity was appeared
among
e) No correction required
15. Change in agricultural growth and rural prices
are determinations of important
change in rural poverty.
a) important changes of
determinations
b) changes of important
determinations
c) important for determining of
change
d) important determinants of changes
e) No correction required
Answers:
1. C) 2. A) 3. B)
4. A) 5. C) 6. A)
7. A) 8. D) 9. A)
10. B) 11. A) 12. B)
13. A) 14. E) 15. D)
