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.
Q1-5. Rearrange the following sentences (A),(B),(C), (D), (E), (F), (G) and (H) in the proper sequence to form a meaningful paragraph, then answer the questions given below them.
A. experience today has changed significantly. Some of it is just, well, the weather.
B. Engineering and Medicine has outlined a rigorous, defensible, science-based system of extreme weather
C. in some sense, “caused” by climate change, because we have fundamentally altered the global climate and all the weather in it.
D. attribution to determine which events are tied to climate change.
E. LIKE politics, weather can be a contentious subject, especially when you throw climate change into the mix.
F. While true, this “all in” philosophy doesn’t adequately emphasize the fact that not all of the extreme weather we
G. But some of our weather has changed significantly, and now a new report from the National Academies of Sciences,
H. One view holds that no single storm or drought can be linked to climate change. The other argues that all such things are,
Q-1 Which of the following would be the LAST statement after rearrangement?
1. G
2. E
3. B
4. H
5. D
Q-2 Which of the following would be the SIXTH statement after rearrangement?
1. C
2. A
3. G
4. F
5. E
Q-3 Which of the following would be the SECOND statement after rearrangement?
1. H
2. D
3. B
4. E
5. C
Q-4 Which of the following would be the SEVENTH statement after rearrangement?
1. A
2. G
3. C
4. B
5. F
Q-5 Which of the following would be the FOURTH statement after rearrangement?
1. B
2. F
3. H
4. G
5. D
Q6-10. In the following passage there are blanks each of which has been numbered. These numbers are printed below the passage and against each five words have been suggested, one of which fits the blanks appropriately. Find out the appropriate word in each case.
The announcement in the Union Budget of an insurance scheme against (6) health expenditure for the weaker sections should become part of a calibrated plan to provide universal health coverage. When it comes to public health expenditure, India brings up the rear among even many developing countries. Budget 2016¬17 takes the incremental step of introducing some insurance protection against high out-of-pocket expenditure that (7) families into poverty. In this context, the plan to provide access to (8) for kidney failure at district hospitals through a dedicated national programme is an intervention that is overdue. Some States, such as Tamil Nadu, have insurance to pay for hospitalization through a government backed plan. As a scaled up national programme, there is much to learn from the experience of countries such as Thailand and Japan. What stands out about them, as evident from a study (9) by the World Bank and the Japanese government, is the use of general revenues to (10) payroll taxes in Thailand, and the firm capping of care costs through standardized benefits and standardized payments.
Q-6 Choose the correct option for (6)
1. catastrophic
2. fillip
3. eradicate
4. purge
5. mitigate
Q-7 Choose the correct option for (7)
1. perish
2. pull
3. pegged
4. extricate
5. pushes
Q-8 Choose the correct option for (8)
1. dialysis
2. purification
3. rupture
4. departure
5. division
Q-9 Choose the correct option for (9)
1. promoted
2. regulated
3. managed
4. improved
5. conducted
Q-10 Choose the correct option for (10)
1. decrease
2. augment
3. degrade
4. division
5. allocate
ANSWERS
Q1-5. The arrangement is EHCFAGBD. The rearrangement is regarding weather change due to climate disturbances caused by human activities.
Q1. (5)
Q2. (3)
Q3. (1)
Q4. (4)
Q5. (2)
Q6. (1)
For other options:
Fillip (v) - stimulate
Eradicate (v) – destroy, remove
Purge (n) - elimination, removal
Q7. (5) For other options:
Pegged (v) - attached
Extricate (V) - get out of a situation; relieve of responsibility
Q8. (1) For other options:
Purification (n) - freeing, cleansing
Rupture (n) - break, split
Q9. (5)
Q10. (2) Degrade (v) - shame, humiliate
Allocate (v) - assign; divide among
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