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. 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.
India will be world’s third largest economy by 23 but its energy demand will slow down to 4.5 percent, according to global energy giant BP plc.
By 23 China and India will be the world’s largest and third largest economies and energy (1), jointly accounting for about 35 percent of global population, GDP and energy demand, B’Ps Chief Economist Christof Ruhl said releasing BP’s Energy outlook 23.
There would be no (2) in energy demand as India industrializes. Demand growth slows to 4.5 percent per annum (vs.5.5 percent p.a. in 1999-21) as improvement in energy efficiency partly offset the energy needs of (3) and infrastructure expansion.
India’s (4) on imports to meet its gas needs will jump to 47 percent by 23 while the same for oil will grow to 91 percent. The nation will be 4 percent dependent on imports to meet its coal needs.
India (5) on a lower path of energy intensity, by 23 it consumes only about half the energy that China consumes today, at a similar income per capita level as in China today.
Q1. Choose the correct for (1)
1. economists
2. savers
3. consumers
4. user
5. producers
Q2. Choose the correct for (2)
1. improvement
2. point
3. surge
4. requirement
5. problematic
Q3. Choose the correct for (3)
1. industries
2. factories
3. reproduction
4. modernization
5. industrialisation
Q4. Choose the correct for (4)
1. problems
2. desire
3. failure
4. dependence
5. success
Q5. Choose the correct for (5)
1. remains
2. gets
3. desires
4. remaining
5. spoils
Q6-10. Rearrange the following sentences (A), (B), (C), (D), (E), (F) and (G) in the proper sequence to form a meaningful paragraph, then answer the questions given below them.
A. The other: the unpublished variety, those who have accumulated dozens of
B. whose faces are more recognizable than the covers of their books, who are pampered by their publishers,
C. people who routinely get published and yet never achieve celebrity, at the most a small set of dedicated readers
D. we-are-sorry and better-luck-elsewhere notes over the years but still haven’t given up.
E. There is another variety, though: writers to whom both struggle as well as success comes in small measures —
F. There are writers and there are writers. One: the celebrity variety,
G. who earn invitations to all the respectable lit fests across the country.
Q6. Which of the following would be the LAST statement after rearrangement?
1. C
2. D
3. G
4. F
5. A
Q7. Which of the following would be the THIRD statement after rearrangement?
1. B
2. E
3. C
4. A
5. G
Q8. Which of the following would be the SIXTH statement after rearrangement?
1. G
2. F
3. E
4. B
5. C
Q9. Which of the following would be the FIRST statement after rearrangement?
1. A
2. D
3. B
4. F
5. G
Q10. Which of the following would be the FOURTH statement after rearrangement?
1. D
2. A
3. E
4. B
5. F
Answers:
Q1. (3)
Q2. (3)
Q3. (5)
Q4. (4)
Q5. (1)
Q6. (1)
Q7. (5)
Q8. (3)
Q9. (4)
Q10. (2)
