English Language Quiz For SBI / RBI Main Exam | 27-03-2020

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Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below it.

Researchers from the Oxford Internet Institute, a multidisciplinary research and teaching department of the University of Oxford, have been monitoring the digital space over the last three years to study the organised manipulation of social media. Their latest findings, published in a study titled ‘The Global Disinformation Order’, is very disturbing. The study shows evidence of organised social media manipulation campaigns that have taken place in 70 countries, up from 48 countries in 2018 and 28 countries in 2017. In each country, there is at least one political party or government agency using social media to shape public attitudes domestically.

The findings further state that social media has been co-opted by many authoritarian regimes. In 26 countries, computational propaganda is being used as a tool of information control in three distinct ways: to suppress fundamental human rights, discredit political opponents, and drown out dissenting opinions. The study explains how a handful of sophisticated state actors use computational propaganda for foreign influence operations. Facebook and Twitter attributed foreign influence operations to seven countries. It is important to remember that India is among the seven countries. The others are China, Iran, Pakistan, Russia, Saudi Arabia and Venezuela. The study is particularly damning of Facebook. It reads: “Despite there being more social networking platforms than ever, Facebook remains the platform of choice for social media manipulation. In 56 countries, we found evidence of formally organised computational propaganda campaigns on Facebook.”

Former editor’s reflection on the current Brexit mess in the U.K. seems not only to endorse the study but also points out a new lurking danger. He wrote: “Most foot soldiers in journalism do the job because they absolutely believe in the role of good information in good democracies. Something is stopping them: and the sooner we can fix that the better.” He has a simple proposition: “good democracy relies on good information.” He defines good information as the one “that is not only true but also believed”. His short article, “End front-page falsehoods and regain the public’s trust”, explains how we stopped trusting: “We’re no longer very willing to believe almost anybody. Most surveys of trust find very little faith in what government or politicians tell us. But there are also extraordinarily low levels of trust in most media. Nearly two-thirds of people say they can no longer tell good journalism from rumour or falsehoods.”

I became a journalist in an era of certainty. Everyone in the profession loved to quote the famous playwright Arthur Miller: “A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.” Digital disruption has created many silos in our public discourse. Instead of dialogue we have been reduced to becoming recipients of the noise generated by echo chambers. They have become so powerful that they deny the space to even give the other person the benefit of the doubt.

The time has come to break out of these silos. There is a need to talk to people outside our comfort zones and initiate dialogues. Prime-time television debates have no dialogue; they may be best termed as concurrent monologues. The Readers’ Editor, as an interlocutor between the newspaper and its readers, has a moral obligation to support initiatives that bring back the spirit of the “nation talking to itself” not just among journalists but also among citizens.

In the U.S., the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) and the SPJ Foundation launched a project in Casper, Wyoming, because it wanted to get “a deep understanding of the reasons so many people distrust news organisations and their reporting.” The SPJ made it clear that its fundamental assumption was that journalism plays an important role in a democracy, so it is of concern when citizens don’t trust the media’s news coverage, particularly reporting that holds elected officials accountable for actions that can impact the public. For six months, a small group of residents in Casper, Wyoming, set aside two hours every week to discuss the press. Though the study was not a scientific one, there was tremendous value in hearing participants honestly and it paved the way for a mutual exchange of ideas.

Q1. According to the passage, clever misinformation is used as-

A. A contraption for information control.

B. An equipment to organize information.

C. A tool to shape public viewpoint.

1. Only A

2. Only B

3. Only C

4. Both A and B

5. Both B and C


Q2.What was/were the assumption/s made by the Society of Professional Journalists, as mentioned in the passage?

(A) News organizations and their reporting cannot be regarded as reliable.

(B) It is a major concern why citizens are unable to trust news coverage.

(C) The actions of elected officials can have a high impact on the public.


(1) Only A

(2) Only B

(3) Only C

(4) Both A and B

(5) Both B and C


Q3. Which of the following statements is/are NOT TRUE in the context of the passage? 

(1) Over the last three years, researchers have been surveilling the political space.

(2) Information can be termed as good if it is believed to be true.

(3) The generated disruption is creating many silos in our private discussion.

(4) Both (1) and (3)

(5) None of the above.


Q4. Which of the following facts is/are related to computational plugging, according to the passage?

(A) It is used as a means to subdue basic human rights.

(B) It is used as a tool to submerge collaborative opinions.

(C) It acts as an equipment to harm the reputation of political opponents.


1. Only A

2. Only B

3. Only C

4. Both A and C

5. Both B and C


Q5. Which of the following statement is/are TRUE in the context of the passage? 

(A) We should be in our comfort zone while talking to the people around us.

(B) Most surveys find that two-thirds of people have faith in Government and politicians.

(C) Facebook is deemed as the best alternative for the media manipulation.

(1) Only A

(2) Only B

(3) Only C

(4) Both A and B

(5) Both B and C 

Directions (6-10): Choose the most appropriate option among the given options to complete the sentence and make it meaningfully correct.


Q6. The impact of obesity cannot be overlooked because obese people are _____________ with their health and that is what leading to various health issues, such as diabetes, heart ailments, cancerous diseases, arthritis, etc.

(1) Emanating

(2) Compromising

(3) Disputing

(4) Disagreeing

(5) Involving


Q7. We as human beings often assume that as maximum portion of the earth is covered with water; pollutants from the land and atmosphere will easily get ___________ and will ultimately disappear in the water.

(1) Stiffened

(2) Thinned

(3) Diluted

(4) Intensified

(5) Coagulated


Q8. Despite the prevailing __________, city has also a real-school with good buildings, founded in 1865, and attended by about 300 pupils in 1900.

(1) Profligacy

(2) Immorality

(3) Abundance

(4) Poverty

(5) Profusion

Q9. As for autonomy and political reforms it has already been remarked that the change from the old ___________ was only superficial.

(1) Commotion

(2) Bedlam

(3) Regime

(4) Anarchy

(5) Entropy


Q10. The other ___________on which we can learn from what happened with other technologies is about their possibly conflictual embedding in society.

(1) Dimensions

(2) Regrets

(3) Laments

(4) Elations

(5) Alterations


Answers


1. (1)

2. (5)

3. (4)

4. (1)

5. (3)

6. (2)

7. (3)

8. (4)

9. (3)

10. (1)