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Here is the English Lanugage Quiz to help you practice with the best
of latest pattern questions for the upcoming IBPS PO, IBPS Clerk and other bank
and Insurance Exams.
Directions (1 – 3): In the given passage, there are sentences which have been numbered at the
beginning. In each of these sentences, four words have been highlighted and
underlined. Find out if the words are grammatically and contextually
appropriate. Select the option with the inappropriate word as the answer. If
all words are appropriate, mark 'all are correct' as the answer.
The Indian Railways are set to launch
their 'Make in India' smart coaches with new features like black box and
artificial intelligence (AI)-powered CCTVs, matching international standards.
(1) Named
'Smart Trains', the coaches have been equipped with sensors that
can detect defects on bearings, wheels, and the railway track,
giving conversant inputs to those in the control room to avoid
accidents, carry out maintenance, and to improve efficiency of
operations.
(2) The maiden
smart coach was unveiled at the Modern Coach Factory in Rae Bareli
on Tuesday as part of launching 100 such trains in a piloted
project to improve the safety and security of commuters,
and to boost efficiency.
(3) The black
box, being introduced for the first time by Indian Railways, has
a powerful multi-dimensional communication interface
to provide information on passengers and coach clarity on
real-time basis.
1.
a) Equipped
b) Detect
c) Conversant
d) Efficiency
e) All are correct
2.
a) Unveiled
b) Piloted
c) Improve
d) Commuters
e) All are correct
3.
a) Being
b) Powerful
c) Interface
d) Clarity
e) All are correct
Direction (4 – 6): Of the given 5 sentences, 3 sentences are arranged in sequential order
while 2 sentences have been interchanged. Read the questions that follow and
answer them accordingly.
A. In 2006,
the landscape of the music industry was very different from what it is today.
B. For Daniel
Ek and Martin Lorentzon, two Swedish serial entrepreneurs, this presented an
incredible opportunity.
C. Peer-to-peer
music sharing service Napster was long dead and buried, having been hunted to
extinction by the Recording Industry Association of America's lawyers.
D. Internet
radio was still in its infancy; it would be two more years before iHeartRadio
and Pandora launched their respective online radio stations.
E. Even the
music industry itself was struggling: Sales of physical media such as CDs had
fallen consistently for the past several years, and the record labels
themselves seemed to have few ideas.
4. Which of the following pair of sentences has to be interchanged to
form a meaningful paragraph?
a) AD
b) BE
c) AC
d) CE
e) BD
5. Upon rearrangement, which of the following will logically follow
statement E?
I. Ek and
Lorentzon spent hours hanging out in Ek's apartment in a suburb of Stockholm as
they brainstormed ideas for their new business venture.
II. Convinced
that there must be a better way for people to find and listen to new music, the
two men began brainstorming ideas for their next business venture.
III. Spotify
has since become the most popular streaming music service, boasting more than
70M paid subscribers.
a) Both I & II
b) Only II
c) Both II & III
d) Both I & III
6. Upon rearrangement, which of the following will logically follow
statement C?
I. Napster
laid the groundwork for Spotify's success by introducing a new way to listen to
music without the limitations of physical media or ownership.
II. What made
Spotify such a bold, ambitious idea was doing the same thing Napster did - but
legally.
III. But it
quickly became apparent that piracy had limitations beyond its illegality.
a) Only I
b) Only II
c) Only III
d) All of the above
e) None of the above
Directions (7 – 10): Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow.
Advaita is one of the most
influential schools of Vedanta, which is one of the six orthodox philosophical
systems (darshans) of Indian philosophy. While its followers find its main
tenets already fully expressed in the Upanishads and systematized by the
Brahma-sutras (also known as the Vedanta-sutras), it has its historical
beginning with the 7th-century-CE thinker Gaudapada, author of the
Mandukya-karika, a commentary in verse form on the Mandukya Upanishad.
Gaudapada builds further on the
Mahayana Buddhist concept of shunyata ("emptiness"). He argues that
there is no duality; the mind, awake or dreaming, moves through maya
("illusion"); and nonduality (advaita) is the only final truth. That
truth is concealed by the ignorance of illusion. There is no becoming, either
of a thing by itself or of a thing out of some other thing. There is ultimately
no individual self or soul (jiva), only the atman (universal soul), in which
individuals may be temporarily delineated, just as the space in a jar
delineates a part of the larger space around it: when the jar is broken, the
individual space becomes once more part of the larger space.
The medieval Indian philosopher
Shankara, or Shankaracharya ("Master Shankara"; c. 700 - 750), builds
further on Gaudapada's foundation, principally in his commentary on the
Brahma-sutras, the Shari-raka-mimamsa-bhashya ("Commentary on the Study of
the Self"). Shankara in his philosophy starts not with logical analysis
from the empirical world but rather directly with the Absolute (brahman). If
interpreted correctly, he argues, the Upanishads teach the nature of brahman.
In making that argument, he develops a complete epistemology to account for the
human error in taking the phenomenal world for the real one. Fundamental for
Shankara is the tenet that brahman is real and the world is unreal. Any change,
duality, or plurality is an illusion. The self is nothing but brahman. Insight
into that identity results in spiritual release (moksha). Brahman is outside
time, space, and causality, which are simply forms of empirical experience. No
distinction in brahman or from brahman is possible.
Shankara points to scriptural texts,
either stating identity ("Thou art that") or denying difference
("There is no duality here"), as declaring the true meaning of
brahman without qualities (nirguna). Other texts that ascribe qualities
(saguna) to brahman refer not to the true nature of brahman but to its
personality as God (Ishvara). Human perception of the unitary and infinite
brahman as the plural and finite is due to human beings' innate habit of
superimposition (adhyasa), by which a thou is ascribed to the I (I am tired; I
am happy; I am perceiving). The habit stems from human ignorance (ajnana or
avidya), which can be avoided only by the realization of the identity of
brahman. Nevertheless, the empirical world is not totally unreal, for it is a
misapprehension of the real brahman. A rope is mistaken for a snake; there is
only a rope and no snake, but, as long as it is thought of as a snake, it is
one.
Shankara had many followers who
continued and elaborated his work, notably the 9th-century philosopher
Vachaspati Mishra. Advaita literature is extremely extensive, and its influence
is still felt in modern Hindu thought.
7. Why do humans perceive brahman to be plural and infinite?
a) Superstition carried forward from
ages
b) Ignorance about the identity of
the brahman
c) Too much of importance to the self
d) Delineating brahman from God
e) None of the above
8. Which of the following is not derived from Shankaracharya's
philosophy?
I. The nature
of brahman is best done in the Upanishads.
II. The
brahman is real, while the world is not.
III. Humans
avoid taking the world as real.
IV. No
distinction from brahman is possible.
a) I only
b) II only
c) III only
d) IV only
e) Both II and III
9. Which of the following is not true?
I. There is
ultimately only the individual self, not the atman.
II. The truth
does not get hidden by the ignorance of illusion.
III. The mind
moves through maya (illusion).
a) I only
b) II only
c) III only
d) Both I and II
e) Both II and III
10. Which of the following is the name of the book written by Gaudapada?
a) Mandukya Upanishad
b) Vedanta Sutras
c) Shari-raka-mimamsa-bhashya
d) Brahma Sutras
e) Mandukya-karika
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