English Language Questions | RBI GRADE "B" AND NICL AO 2017 |10.05.2017

Directions (1-5): Rearrange the following six sentences (A), (B), (C), (D), (E), (F) and (G) in the proper sequence to form a meaningful paragraph and then answer the questions given below. 

A. Among the essential features of this situation is that no one knows his place in society, his class position or social status, nor does anyone know his fortune in the distribution of natural assets and abilities, his intelligence, strength, and the like. 

B. This ensures that no one is advantaged or disadvantaged in the choice of principles by the outcome of natural chance or the contingency of social circumstances. 

C. It is understood as a purely hypothetical situation characterized so as to lead to a certain conception of justice. 

D. I shall even assume that the parties do not know their conceptions of the good or their special psychological propensities. 

E. Since all are similarly situated and no one is able to design principles to favor his particular condition, the principles of justice are the result of a fair agreement or bargain. 

F. In ‘justice as fairness’, the original position is not an actual historical state of affairs. 

G. The principles of justice are chosen behind a veil of ignorance. 

1. Which of the following should be the FIRST sentence after rearrangement? 

(a)E (b) G (c) C (d) D (e) F 

2. Which of the following should be the SECOND sentence after rearrangement? (a)A (b) E (c) C (d) G (e) F 

3. Which of the following should be the THIRD sentence after rearrangement? 

(a)A (b) B (c) D (d) E (e) G 

4. Which of the following should be the FIFTH sentence after rearrangement? 

(a)B (b) C (c) G (d) A (e) F 

5. Which of the following should be the SEVENTH (last) sentence after rearrangement? 

(a)A (b) E (c) D (d) D (e) F 

Directions (6 –10): In each of the following sentences there are two blank spaces. Below each five pairs of words have been denoted by numbers (a), (b), (c), (d) and (e).Find out which pair of words can be filled up in the blanks in the sentences in the same sequence to make the sentence meaningfully complete. 

6. The old miser’s _________ did him little good when he died without heir or friend, and all his precious money was _________ to the state. 

(a) frugality …. escheated 

(b) miserliness …. ordained 

(c) exemplariness …. given

(d) frugality …. ordained 

(e) indulgence …. Willed 

7. Unlike the other photojournalists, Rochelle despised the __________ nature of the newspaper business because she craved __________. 

(a) permutable .. habitude 

(b) flexible .. chaos 

(c) permutable .. chaos 

(d) flexible .. stable 

(e) heinous .. posterity 

8. In the plots of most Bollywood movies, there is/are a character/s with _____________ intentions, whose primary role is to try to ______________ the handsome hero in his noble mission. 

(a) Furtive, abet 

(b) malevolent, thwart 

(c) unsavory, depict 

(d) inappropriate, derail 

(f) Benevolent, obstruct 

9. After a natural spring was discovered in the arid region, the family’s old, abandoned farm was quickly _____________ into a profitable private business, centered around a state-of-the-art well that ______________valuable water. 

(a) turned, expiates 

(b) configured, manipulates 

(c) transformed, emanates 

(d) expropriated, eradicates 

(e) transpired, exhaled 

10. For some politicians, charm is a mere ____________adopted to get votes and _________criticism. 

(a) prerequisite, distort 

(b) affection, alleviate 

(c) tool, inflict 

(d) ruse, condone 

(e) contender, earn

Answer

1. (e); 2. (c); 3. (a); 4. (c); 5. (b); 6. (a); 7. (a); 8. (b); 9. (c); 10. (b);