As IBPS has released the official notification of the Common Recruitment Process for selection of personnel for Clerical cadre Posts and the exam is tentatively scheduled to be held December 2018 & January 2019. Looking at the notification, we have now started subject-wise quizzes for the exam. It will include quizzes of all the subjects- Quantitative Aptitude, English, Reasoning and Computer. All these quizzes will be strictly based on the latest pattern of the IBPS Clerk exam and will be beneficial for your preparations. So, keep following the quizzes which will provide you a set of 10 questions daily.
Here, we are providing you important questions of English Language for IBPS Clerk 2018 exam.
Direction Q1-5: The following questions contain five sentences as s. Find one sentence which does not relate to the central theme of the passage made by remaining four sentences.
Q1. A) The total population of all the coastal districts in India is around 171 million, which makes up 14.2% of India’s population.
B) India has a significantly large coastline measuring close to 7,517km, covering large swathes of territory across nine states and four union territories.
C) For areas falling under this category, the regulated zone extends only 100m inland from the high-tide line.
D) India’s coastal regions have witnessed tepid growth in terms of size and economy.
E) Contrasting this with China, where the coastal population stood at 590 million in 2010, roughly half the population of the country,
Q2. A) That’s the approach of General Motors Co., whose chief executive officer Mary Barra is scrapping a $1 billion investment in India and halting sales of Chevrolet models there altogether.
B) Thin profit margins in the market—overwhelmingly dominated by Maruti Suzuki India Ltd, with a 47% share—could weigh on GM globally for years to come.
C) In a world where major automakers are losing their minds about the potential of the fast-growing Indian market, it’s a refreshing change when a big player puts on its green eye-shades to take the contrarian view.
D) But in a world where the current big three car markets are contracting in unison for the first time since 2009, growth isn’t a small thing to sacrifice.
E) It takes guts to quit a market that’s expected to be the world’s biggest in about four years, but the automotive sector is currently the least-loved in the S&P 500.
Q3. A) Since March last year, when the rating company and its rival S&P Global Ratings cut their outlook on the People’s Republic’s credit standing, an eventual demotion has been the most likely outcome.
B) On one level, there’s nothing so surprising about Moody’s Investors Service’s decision to downgrade China’s sovereign debt one notch to A1.
C) Staying pat, and hoping that reality will eventually catch up with expectations, doesn’t always work. S&P saw that this week when it had to upgrade Indonesia to investment grade—five years after its rivals.
D) The timing is also puzzling because it’s embarrassingly close to last month’s all-important gathering of China’s top politicians on “safeguarding national financial-market security”.
E) Still, it mustn’t have been an easy decision, considering the tongue-lashing they got from the Chinese finance minister at last year’s Group of 20 meeting over the “bias” in their assessment.
Q4. A) A new study in Scientific Reports suggests it probably wasn’t for nutritional reasons. The research provides a calorie value for the human body in comparison to other animals eaten at the time.
B) Archeologist James Cole found that the human calorie count is significantly lower than that of mammoths, woolly rhino, and species of deer, which are known to have been consumed by hominins.
C) In the limited fossil evidence we have for prehistoric hominins, a group that includes humans and our immediate ancestors, there is surprisingly abundant evidence of cannibalism. So why were these individuals eating each other?
D) Considering the difficulty in hunting another human, these results suggests that cannibalism may not have been for nutritional reasons as has been previously reported.
E) Neanderthals, were extremely complex behaviorally, they were a symbolic species with jewelry, cultural diversity in terms of stone tool manufacture, and they had a complex attitude to the burial of their dead.
Q5. A) While traditional information can be provided in paper or pdf format, providing financial data in paper or pdf format may actually make the analysis difficult for researchers.
B) These included inspection reports of banks, reports of banks that went on liquidation, advisory notes issued to banks for violation of the Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA), list of banks which were issued show cause notices, contraventions and violations made by specific banks and actions taken against them.
C) The CPIO had rejected all such applications stating that the required disclosures are exempted on grounds of economic interests, commercial confidence, RBI’s fiduciary relationship with the banks, public interest, information exempted under the RTI Act, etc.
D) Between 2009 and 2011, the central public information officer (CPIO) of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) was flooded with numerous applications under the Right to Information (RTI) Act seeking information related to various issues.
E) These decisions of CPIO were challenged in Central Information Commission (CIC) which directed the CPIO to disclose the information sought by the applicants. The RBI later approached various high courts and eventually got a stay on CIC’s orders.
Q6-10: Each question below contains a statement with three blanks followed by four s. Choose which words can fill the three blanks and mark it as your answer.
Q6. The creation of NITI Aayog was ______ to be a game changer, to ______ new vigour and rigour in the policy planning process, involve key stakeholders, and address the ______ of the previous body.
A) proposed, absorb, challenges
B) proposed, address, success
C) expected, infuse, failures
D) supposed, implant, accomplishment
Q7. The Competition Commission with a _____ to protect the consumer from industry _____ has been fully functional for eight years now and has _____ a good reputation for itself.
A) goal, monsters, performed
B) command, monopoly, priced
C) mandate, cartelization, earned
D) score, growth, reached
Q8. The _____ for debt-waiver programmes comes from the theoretical argument that a high level of outstanding debt _____ the incentive for the debtor to ____ effort to repay.
A) support, reduces, exert
B) opposition, increases, increase
C) disapproval, forces, minimize
D) notice, moves, creditors
Q9. With weapons stolen from the government, a group of ______ begin to unleash _____on citizens worldwide and plan to get rich in the process—until a young man accidentally finds the kill switch to _____ their plans.
A) attacker, lawfulness, devise
B) gangsters, havoc, succeed
C) warrior, freedom, withdraw
D) belligerents, anarchy, destroy
Q10. Even now, after the chaos caused by India’s decision last November to _____ nearly 90% of its banknotes, few people would argue with the policy’s ______ assumption: Going cashless is, if _____ well, a good thing.
A) reduce, hidden, transferred
B) eliminate, underlying, handled
C) find, dominating, performed
D) hide, valued, viewed
ANSWERS
Q.1. (C) Explanation: The correct sequence is: BAED. The passage is comparing the costal population of India and that of China. This is the central Theme.
Q.2. (D) Explanation: The correct sequence is: CABE. The passage is based on the theme that General Motors is quitting Indian Market even after India is considered a fast growing automobile industry.
Q.3. (C) Explanation: The correct sequence is: BAED. The passage talks about Moody downgrading the sovereign debt rating of China.
Q.4. (E) Explanation: The correct sequence is: CABD. The passage is about cannibalism and is centered around the theme that why earlier people ate humans even when it was difficult to hunt a human and the calorific value of human was lesser than that of other animals.
Q.5. (A) Explanation: The correct sequence is: DBCE. The Passage is about the RTI filled for information from RBI, and how the CPIO of RBI rejected the RTI
Q.6. (C) Explanation: expected, infuse, failures
Q.7. (C) Explanation: mandate – give (someone) authority to act in a certain way.
cartelization- Cartelization means a group of industry participants coming together to fix pricing of products and services, limiting supply, or other restrictive practices.
Q.8. (A) Explanation: The support for debt-waiver programmes comes from the theoretical argument that a high level of outstanding debt reduces the incentive for the debtor to exert effort to repay.
Q.9. (D) Explanation:
belligerents- person engaged in war or conflict, as recognized by international law.
anarchy- a state of disorder due to absence or non-recognition of authority or other controlling systems.
Q.10. (B)
