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.
Q.1-5. Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below it certain words are given in bold to help you locate them while answering some of the questions
Here comes Amazon.com at last, sidling into India with Junglee.com. It is a suspiciously low-key entry, like a sneaky gambit in chess where a pawn footles forward only to clear the way for his queen. Whiff of brimstone but no heat of hellfire. At the moment Amazon appears to have little choice but to lurk. There are restrictions on FDI in multi-brand retail. So Junglee is not an e-retailer so much as an “online shopping service” to help consumers find and compare similar products from different sellers, and read reviews of those products by other consumers, before they decide which they would like to buy. “Products”, not “books”, because books are just one of about 30 categories. The newspapers carry guarded quotes from Indian e-commerce companies. Flipkart’s CEO told Business Standard something about FDI “going a long way” and the ultimate beneficiary being the “Indian consumer”. Flipkart is not on Junglee’s network, though uRead, Bookadda and others are Junglee claims 12 million products, but at least 9 million of them are the books sold on Amazon.com, with the dollar price converted into rupees. These books are usually available for much less in India — and that’s before you add Amazon’s awe-inspiring shipping charges and “customs duties”, which can easily double or treble the cost.So Indian sites still have time in which to mount a defence. The way to do it is to learn from Amazon.
There is a clue in the disingenuous way in which Junglee explains its name. “Junglee means ‘of the jungle’,” says the site. “We appreciate how overwhelming it can be to navigate the jungle of products, brands, sellers, shipping options, and payment methods, and make informed purchase decisions.” So Junglee will “make it simple for you to navigate this jungle”.
Literally, junglee does mean “of the jungle”. But most Indians don’t use the word like that. We use it to mean uncivilised, wild, ungovernable. It’s true that the online market is a bit junglee, in both senses. It does need a filter, a “shopping service” to catalogue, categorise and compare — like a search engine helps make sense of the Web. Any e-commerce site should be able to help consumers “navigate this jungle”. A truly successful one, however, will get its customers to do all the work Just glance at the average book page on Amazon.com. There is an astonishing number of ways in which a visitor can help shape the page’s content. He can contribute his own images of the book. He can sell his copy and get rated as a seller, or buy a used copy and rate the seller. He can “like” it. He can add it to his wish-list, and make the list public. He can star-rate it. He can put it on his baby’s gift registry. He can see what others who bought this book also bought, or what those who saw this page went and bought. He can write a review, or read, rate and comment on other readers’ reviews. He can visit those readers’ profiles. He can see how highly ranked the reviewers are, and what “badges” have been bestowed on them. If he reviews often and well he too may earn badges, one of which even entitles him to receive pre-release copies of books to review. He can dip into forums dedicated to this particular book or to related books and topics. He can see other users’ reading lists on which this book appears. The page is less about the book and more about the community it generates. Who needs marketing? It’s this sort of immersive engagement that Indian e-commerce sites have not yet developed. All the basic infrastructure is already there, however, on Junglee. If the locals plan to compete, they must hurry up and copy.
Q.1. What is Junglee.Com ?
(1) It is a new website for books only .
(2) It is the name under which Amazon.com shall be operating in India.
(3) It is an American bookstore ,which has recently been launched in India .
(4) It is the name of a new website that will be educating us about the forests all over the world. (5) It is the name of the Indian website which will have a new name Amazon.com and will be launched in America.
Q.2. Why does the another say that Amazon.com will have to hide at the moment?
(1) Because it is an illegal website .
(2) Because it is an American website ,it will have low acceptance in India ,initially.
(3) Because there are restrictions on FDI in multibrand retail.
(4) Because it is selling products , not books.
(5) Because it is in competition with Indian website Flipkart.
Q.3. How many products are there on Junglee .Com ?
(1) 9 million (2) 12 million (3) 10 million (4) 15 million (5) 8 million
Q.4. Which of the following is not on the network of Junglee .Com ?
(1) uRead (2) Bookadda (3) Goodreads (4) Flipkart (5) Both 3 and 4
Q.5. What does the author say about the books sold on Junglee.Com ?
(1) He says that they have a huge collection of books,nearly 9 million and no products at all.
(2) He says that the books are second -hand and are not in good condition.
(3) He says that Amazon has converted the dollar prices of the books into Indian currency.
(4) He says that the books available on this website after converting them into rupees are available for much less in India.
(5) Both 3 and 4
Q.6. Which of the following in TRUE in context of the passage?
(1) Amazon means 'of the Jungle'.
(2) The website gets its name because it has huge quantity of products ,brands, sellers, shipping options etc.
(3) On Junglee.Com visitor can contribute his own images of the book.
(4) The author is against the fact that on Amazon readers are building communities and there for Amazon needs no marketing.
(5) Indian e-commerce sites have developed this feature of forming communities.
Q.7. Which of the following cannot be done on Amazon.Com?
(A) The visitor can help shape the page's content.
(B) The visitor can see other reader's reading list on which his book appears.
(C) The visitor can rate the seller from whom he has bought a used copy of some book.
(D) The visitor can earn badges that may entitle him to receive pre-release copies of books to review.
(1) Only A (2) Only B (3) Both C and D (4) Only C (5) All are true
Q.8. Which of the following is NOT TRUE in context of the passage ?
(1) Amazon book's prices converted into rupees, is still costlier than those books available in India.
(2) Indian sites still have time to build up a defence to save their market.
(3) Indian's don't use the 'Junglee' word in its literal sense which is 'of the Jungle'.
(4) No e-ecommerce site should be able to help consumers 'Navigate the Junglee'.
(5) India still needs to develop immersive engagements like done by Amazon.com.
Q.9. What could be a suitable "TITLE' of the passage ?
(1) FDI in multi -brand retail.
(2) Law of the Junglee .
(3) Amazon books Uncivilized and Junglee : Flipkart .
(4) India should follow Amazon in FDI.
(5) Flipkart's competition with Amazon.
Q.10. Choose the word which is most nearly the OPPOSITE in meaning as the word printed in bold as used in the passage.
Q.10. Overwhelming
(1) usual (2) overweight (3) careless (4) freaking (5) overwork
ANSWERS
Q.1.(2)
Q.2.(3)
Q.3.(2)
Q.4.(4)
Q.5.(5)
Q.6.(2)
Q.7.(5)
Q.8.(4)
Q.9.(2)
Q.10.(1) overwhelming- amazing, uncommon,
astounding opposite of which can be usual or common .
For other options:
overweight - bulky, heavy.
careless - without sufficient attention
freaking -flipping out ,going mad.
overwork- overdo.
