English
Language Practice Questions for IBPS Clerk Mains – Set 4
Directions
(1 – 5): Choose the set of words for each blank that best fits sentence and are
grammatically correct.
1. Global credit rating agency Moody’s Investors
Services ________India’s sovereign rating for the first time in 13 years,
citing the country’s high ________ potential in the years to come, thanks to
economic and institutional reforms.
a) lowered…..development
b) raised……growth
c) downgrade……value
d) degraded…….industry
e) high…..gain
2. Gravely concerned over growing terrorism, India
and France decided to ________counter-terror cooperation, and asked the
international community to oppose countries which are financing, sheltering and
providing safe ________ to terrorists.
a) delude….. locations
b) gibe…..mien
c) collate….elude
d) strengthen……havens
e) None of these
3. ________from the State’s folklore and history,
prominent intellectuals of Bhubaneswar argued that the Odisha rasogulla is not
by any means a copy of Bengal’s, but rather a ________ .
a) Deciphering……..mutant
b) Mentioning…..cord
c) Citing…..canker
d) Referring…..captious
e) Quoting……variant
4. The poorest Arab nation has now plunged into
further ________ , with the UN warning of the________famine the world has seen
for many decades if the blockade is not lifted.
a) diplomacy….greatest
b) downtown……..great
c) bombing…….slowest
d) crisis……largest
e) incessant……resultant
5. The Government of Theresa May faced
________domestically from Opposition parties and members of the ruling
Conservative Party following Britain’s failure to________a seat on the
International Court of Justice for the first time in the court’s 71-year
history.
a) criticism……win
b) influence….proclaim
c) congratulate….stand
d) indictment….support
e) setting….believe
Directions
(6 – 10): Which of the phrases (A), (B), (C) and (D) given below should replace
the phrase given in bold and colored in the following sentence to make it
meaningful and grammatically correct. If the sentence is correct as it is and
‘No correction is required’, mark (E) as the answer.
6. The increased time devoting to watch television is one of the important causes of the decline in
reading ability.
A. devoted for the watch
B. devoted to watching
C. devoted for the watch of the
D. devoted to keep watch
E. No correction required
7. In the first round, the participants played in
the presence of an accomplice who was committed deliberate errors.
A. committed deliberate
B. was to be committed deliberate
C. had committed deliberately
D. committed deliberately
E. No correction required
8. The scenario was identical to the one that was to be observed in the previous tournament.
A. was observing
B. had been observed
C. was observed
D. was to observe
E. No correction required
9. Although he was seen with a drug-peddler, he is not necessarily
himself a drug-peddler.
A. it is not necessary that he be
himself a drug-peddler
B. he is not necessary to be a
drug-peddler himself
C. he was not necessary to be himself
a drug-peddler
D. he is not necessarily a drug
peddler himself
E. No correction required
10. We have already identified areas where
landslides are possible and start evacuation of residents to safer
locations.
A. starting evacuation
B. started evacuation
C. have started evacuate
D. start evacuating
E. No correction required
Directions
(11 – 15): In each question given below a sentence is given and is divided into
three parts I, II and III. For each part a correction statement is also given.
You have to determine which part requires correction and mark it as your
answer.
11. Over the last two decades, several areas of
the economy have been deemed sunrise sectors. This billing meant broad
recognition of the sector’s potential / to generate vast amount of jobs and
revenue. Policymakers put / measures in place such as tax breaks to encourage
these sectors.
a.
Over the last two decades, several areas of the economy have deemed sunrise
sectors. This billing meant broad recognition of the sector’s potential
b. to
generate vast amounts of jobs and revenue. Policymakers put
c. in
place measures such as tax breaks to encourage these sectors.
a) Only a & b
b) Only b & c
c) Only a & c
d) All a,b & c
e) No Correction Required
12. The government is well aware that timely
execution of the modernization plan hinges for creating a large / base of
domestic manufacturing. It has introduced the long-awaited strategic
partnership / model that will allow partnerships with overseas companies to
manufacture everything from submarines to fighter jets in India.
a.
The government is well aware that timely execution of the modernization plan
hinges on creating a large
b.
base of domestic manufacturing. It has introduced the long-awaited strategic
partnerships
c.
model that will allow partnerships with over the seas companies to manufacture
everything from submarines to fighter jets in India.
a) Only a
b) Only b
c) Only a & b
d) All a,b & c
e) No Correction Required
13. Manufacturing of the aerospace sector is a
complex / exercise for a number of reasons. It is capital-intensive, has / high
technological requirements and prolonged gestation period.
a.
Manufacturing for the aerospace sector is a complex
b.
exercise for a number of reasons. It is capital-intensive, and has
c.
high technological requirements and a prolonged gestation period.
a) Only a & b
b) Only b & c
c) Only a & c
d) All a, b & c
e) No Correction Required
14. Infrastructure plays a critical role in
building an A&D manufacturing base./ It requires all stakeholders to think
in terms of creating the right ecosystem. / The automobile manufacturing sector
benefited from having ancillary hubs around large car plants located in
Gurugram, Chennai and Pune.
a.
Infrastructure play a critical role in building an A&D manufacturing base.
b.
It requires all stakeholder to think in terms of creating the right ecosystem.
c.
The automobile manufacturing sector benefit from having ancillary hubs around
large car plants located in Gurugram, Chennai and Pune.
a) Only a
b) Only b
c) Only c
d) All a,b & c
e) No Correction Required
15. While there has been a sea change in the
government’s attitude toward / private companies in A&D sector, the defence
public sector undertakings, / which hitherto held a monopoly, view the private
sector as competition.
a.
While there has been a sea change in the government’s attitude towards
b.
private companies in the A&D sector, the defence public sector
undertakings,
c.
which hitherto hold a monopoly, view the private sector as competition.
a) Only a & b
b) Only b & c
c) Only c & a
d) All a,b & c
e) No Correction Required
Answers with Explanations:
1. B) On reading the sentence, it is
evident that the first word to fit in the first blank must be in past tense.
So, C and E cannot be the answers. The latter part of the sentence mentions ‘
thanks to economic and institutional reforms.’ – therefore the rating has been
good. A and D therefore cannot fit the first blank. Only option B correctly
fits both the blanks. Hence, option B is the right choice.
2. D) Delude means to deceive. Gibe means
to mock. Mien means personal bearing. Collate means to make a careful
comparison. Elude means to run away. Any of these words doesn’t contextually
relate to the sentence. Hence, A , B and C cannot be the answers. Only D can
fit the blank appropriately.
Havens means a place of
shelter or safety.
3. E) Decipher
means to succeed in understanding and mutant means a mutant form-both of these
doesn’t fit with the context of the sentence.
Mentioning, citing,
referring and quoting-all can fit the first blank of the sentence appropriately.
Cord means a thin rope.
Canker means cancer. Captious means tendency to find faults. Any of these
doesn’t fit the context of the second blank. Variant means something that is
slightly different from other similar things. Variant fits the second blank most
correctly. Hence, E is the right choice.
4. D) Downtown
means in or into a downtown area. Incessant means to continuing without pause
or interruption. Both of these doesn’t fit the first blank of the sentence
correctly. Hence, B and E are not the answers. Also C is inappropriate. The
mention of the adjective ‘poorest’ suggests that the first blank must consist a
word with similar meaning. Therefore option A doesn’t fit in. Plunge into
further crisis makes sense. Also, largest famine of the world makes sense. So,
D is the right choice.
5. A) The
sentence mentions Britain’s failure, hence it is evident that it will face
‘criticism.’ Also, a seat can be won. None of the other options than A make
sense. A is the correct answer.
6. B) Here,
time is ‘devoted’ to ‘doing’ something. So the correct from coming after ‘to’
is ‘watching’.
7. A) Committed’
(v.t.) here means performed. ‘Was committed’ (v.i.) has a different meaning. It
means ‘pledge oneself or engage oneself’.
8. B) The
scenario was identical to what had already been observed in a previous instance
from the time of speaking. So, past perfect tense (had + been + past
participle) is necessary.
9. D) In
the given sentence, the adverb ‘necessarily’ placed as it is modifies ‘himself’
which it is not supposed to do.
10. B) Parallel
construction demands ‘started’, not ‘start’ with ‘we have identified….’ Two
sentences have been combined with ‘and’ here: (i) ‘we have
identified….possible’ (ii) ‘(we have) started evacuation….locations’.
11. B) Over
the last two decades, several areas of the economy have been deemed sunrise
sectors. This billing meant broad recognition of the sector’s potential to
generate vast amounts of jobs and revenue. Policymakers put in place measures
such as tax breaks to encourage these sectors. amount = A quantity of
something, especially the total of a thing or things in number, size, value, or
extent amounts = to communicate the complexity of content, source, time or
space.
12. A) The
government is well aware that timely execution of the modernization plan hinges
on creating a large base of domestic manufacturing. It has introduced the
long-awaited strategic partnership model that will allow partnerships with
overseas companies to manufacture everything from submarines to fighter jets in
India. hinge on = to depend on sth.
13. C) Manufacturing
for the aerospace sector is a complex exercise for a number of reasons. It is
capital-intensive, has high technological requirements and a prolonged
gestation period. for = For the purpose or motive of of = expressing the
relationship between a part and a whole
14. E) Infrastructure
plays a critical role in building an A&D manufacturing base. It requires
all stakeholders to think in terms of creating the right ecosystem. The
automobile manufacturing sector benefited from having ancillary hubs around
large car plants located in Gurugram, Chennai and Pune.
15. A) While
there has been a sea change in the government’s attitude towards private
companies in the A&D sector, the defence public sector undertakings, which
hitherto held a monopoly, view the private sector as competition.
