English Language For All Banking Exams | 02- 02 - 19

Dear Aspirants,

As IBPS has released its official calendar of Online CWE for RRBs and PSBs examinations 2019, so its high time to start preparations for the coming year. Looking at the calendar, 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 all the upcoming competitive exams 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 all banking exams.

Q1-10. Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below it. Certain words have been printed in bold to help you locate them while answering some questions.

Boys and girls growing up in the city in the ’60s and ’70s were told to learn typing as an added skill to score a few extra points in the job market. Almost every middle class colony had a typing school where students sat on a wooden stool, hunched over a typewriter, trying to get right their first lesson in typing, “A quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.” The sentence apparently prepared them to type all alphabets of the language. Most sat with a ready whitener to erase any possible mistake. The less the whitener used the more skillful was the man behind the typewriter. Many took real pride in their speed, others were more fastidious and made somebody read out from the page clipped to a writing board. Remington typewriters became almost synonymous with the machine though in many parts of the country, Godrej and Boyce ruled the world of typewriters.

Evenings were particularly busy for these typing schools and their students. Some youngsters even added shorthand to their skills with the typewriter, thus preparing for a life of dictation.

Till around 20 years ago, the typewriters were almost ubiquitous. They could be found outside all courts, they could be seen behind police stations. The typists sat under a tree outside municipal office ready to type out affidavits, birth, marriage and death certificate. Some had proper shops in the heart of the city and thought nothing of asking future civil servants to wait in a queue. Others actually took copiously written notes from students in the evening and transformed them into neatly typed A-4 sheets by morning. And yes, in those days of pre-computers, all newspapers insisted on receiving neatly typed articles from freelancers. Considering typewriters were seen as a public amenity, few families had one to be proud of. That effectively meant that the typists at these shops often got to read the next morning’s op-ed before the editor!

All that is but gone now. For many years, the sound of the keys of typewriters has gone dead, replaced by the more gentle sound of a computer. Now laptops too have made an entry in the market once monopolized by typewriters.

Some old-timers, contrary to common perception, still hold on to the good old typing machines. Their business has nosedived but they sit glued to their machine next to young men with computers outside courts and police stations. Some set shop outside government offices, ready to type out elaborate documents for a measly sum.

1. What is meant by ‘the sound of the keys of typewriters has gone dead’- as mentioned in the passage?

01. The typewriters are inefficient machines.

02. The people using typewriters are dead.

03. No one knows how to operate a typewriter.

04. The typewriters are not being used as before.

05. Not clarified in the passage

2. Which of the following revealed that the typewriter has good typing skills?

01. Personality and qualification

02. Speed and background

03. Speed and accuracy

04. Qualification and speed

05. Qualification and speed

3. In what context has the author mentioned Godrej and Boyce?

01. To mention the new age computer brands

02. To mention the popular brands of typewriters

03. To mention the ink used in typewriters

04. The people who invented typewriters

05. Not mentioned in the passage

4. Why did the newspapers insist on receiving neatly typed articles from freelancers?

01. That left a good impression on the readers.

02. The handwriting made the article all the more interesting.

03. The freelancers were hard to find, in that time.

04. To ensure that there is no ambiguity.

05. Not mentioned in the passage

5. According to the passage, on which of the following places, can one still find typewriters?

A. Courts

B. Outside government offices

C. Libraries

D. Police stations

01. Only A

02. Only B and C

03. Only C and D

04. All except C

05. All of the above

6. Which of the following is/are TRUE in the context of the passage?

A. Remington typewriters were quite famous.

B. The typewriters could be easily spotted 20 years ago.

C. Birth, marriage and death certificates were typed on typewriters.

01. Only A

02. Only B

03. Only C

04. Only A and C

05. All of the above

7. Choose the word which is most nearly the SAME in meaning as the word printed in bold as used in the passage.

Nosedived

01. Reduced

02. Started

03. Covered

04. Flourished

05. Left

8. Choose the word which is most nearly the SAME in meaning as the word printed in bold as used in the passage.

Fastidious

01. Cantankerous

02. Meticulous

03. Ugly

04. Feeble

05. Lazy

9. Choose the word which is most nearly the OPPOSITE in meaning as the word printed in bold as used in the passage.
Ubiquitous

01. Household

02. General

03. Demanded

04. Rare

05. Expensive

10. Choose the word which is most nearly the OPPOSITE in meaning as the word printed in bold as used in the passage.
Contrary
01. Hostile

02. Legal

03. Monotonous

04. Absurdity

05. Similar

Answers:

Q1. (4)

Q2. (3)

Q3. (2)

Q4. (4)

Q5. (4)

Q6. (5)

Q7. (1)

Q8. (2)

Q9. (4)

Q10. (5)