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English Language Quiz For IBPS & SBI Exam | 15-02-2021

Swati Mahendras



 Dear Readers,

Mahendras has started special quizzes for IBPS & SBI Exam so that you can practice more and more to crack the examination. This IBPS & SBI Exam special quiz series will mold your preparations in the right direction and the regular practice of these quizzes will be really very helpful in scoring good marks in the Examination. Here we are providing you the important question of reasoning ability for the IBPS & SBI Exam.


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

All is not lost in India’s bid to join the high table of global nuclear commerce by gaining membership of the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG), which saw a sharp setback at the NSG plenary in Seoul, South Korea, with China and at least seven other nations reiterating concerns about non-signatories to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) being admitted. Indian negotiators emphasised that the country’s entry into the elite nuclear club, which frames rules for members’ nuclear trade with other nations, is justified on the basis of its clean non-proliferation record, a factor important in the NSG giving India.

Unfortunately, the 48-member Group could not arrive at a consensus on this issue. But within days of the plenary, a U.S. official has said there is a path forward that could see India becoming a full member of the regime by the end of the year; meanwhile, an encouraging sign for South Block has come in the form of an ambassador being appointed to facilitate continued discussion on India.

History too points to the prospects of an emerging inflection point in India’s campaign for NSG membership: the waiver granted to India in September 2008 came in the wake of an NSG meeting in August of that year at which strident resistance to India’s bid was evident, resistance that was ultimately blunted by proactive diplomacy.

Nonetheless, the failed attempt at Seoul is an opportune moment for New Delhi to introspect about how much political and diplomatic currency it is willing to expend in the face of unrelenting opposition; also about what alternative means there are, if any, to secure its strategic goals. Indeed the 2008 waiver, which emerged in parallel to the India-U.S. civil nuclear agreement, has helped India move forward with nuclear reactor agreements with others including Russia and France, and fuel supply arrangements with Australia.

It is true that under the amendments introduced to NSG rules between 2010 and 2013, paragraph 6 was revised to prohibit trade in enrichment and reprocessing (ENR) with any non-signatory of the NPT, effectively an ENR trade ban between NSG members and India. It is argued that to prevent such amendments deleterious to Indian interests from being passed in the future, it is better to be an influential insider than an outsider supplicant. Yet, is it worth sitting at the NSG table as a “second class citizen” subject to an ENR ban when India has indigenous ENR options?

At its heart, the NSG quagmire harkens back to the elemental conundrum of non-alignment. If that concept is today viewed in terms of India acting with a strategic autonomy, there is no need, given our vast energy market, to be insecure about finding economic partners on the global nuclear stage.

1 What were the amendments that were introduced under NSG?

01. To the prospects of an emerging inflection point in India’s campaign for NSG membership

02. A path forward that could see India becoming a full member of the regime

03. To prohibit trade in enrichment and reprocessing (ENR) with any non-signatory of the NPT, effectively an ENR trade ban between NSG members and India.

04. Which frames rules for members’ nuclear trade with other nations.

05. To facilitate continued discussion on India.

2 Choose the word most SIMILAR in meaning to the word given in bold, as used in the passage.

Insecure

01. Unconfident

02. Secure

03. Preserve

04. Confine

05. Hurricane

3 Choose the word most SIMILAR in meaning to the word given in bold, as used in the passage.

Deleterious

01. Beneficial

02. Advantageous

03. Detrimental

04. Creep

05. Uproar

4 Choose the word which is most nearly the OPPOSITE in meaning as the word given in bold as used in the passage.

Reiterating

01. Repeating

02. Recapitulate

03. Restates

04. Taking back

05. Urge

5 Choose the word which is most nearly the OPPOSITE in meaning as the word given in bold as used in the passage.

Consensus

01. Agreement

02. Unanimity

03. Fierce

04. Anomaly

05. Disagreement

6 On which basis Indian negotiators emphasised that the country’s entry into the elite nuclear club, which frames rules for members’ nuclear trade with other nations, is justified?

01. finding economic partners on the global nuclear stage.

02. India acting with a strategic autonomy.

03. ENR trade ban between NSG members and India

04. the NSG quagmire harkens back to the elemental conundrum of non-alignment

05. its clean non-proliferation record, a factor important in the NSG giving India a country-specific waiver.

7 Who said “there is a path forward that could see India becoming a full member of the regime meanwhile, an encouraging sign for South Block has come in the form of an ambassador being appointed to facilitate continued discussion on India”?

01. An Indian official

02. A U.S official

03. A French official

04. A Portugese official

05. A Greek official

8 Find out which sentence is definitely TRUE according to the passage?

(A) It is better to be an influential supplicant than an outsider insider

(B) India acting with a strategic autonomy, there is no need, given our vast energy market, to be insecure about finding economic partners on the global nuclear stage.

(C) It is not argued that to prevent such amendments deleterious to Indian interests from being passed in the future, it is better to be an influential insider than an outsider supplicant.

01. Only A

02. Only B

03. Only C

04. Both B and C

05. Both A and B

9 Find out which sentence is NOT TRUE according to the passage?

01. All is not lost in India’s bid to join the high table of global nuclear commerce by gaining membership of the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG)

02. Indian negotiators emphasised that the country’s entry into the elite nuclear club is justified on the basis of its clean non-proliferation record, a factor important in the NSG giving India.

03. The 48-member Group could not arrive at a consensus on this issue.

04. The waiver granted to India came in the wake of an NSG meeting in at which strident resistance to India’s bid was evident, resistance that was ultimately blunted by proactive diplomacy

05. An official said there is no path forward that could see India becoming a full member of the regime.

10 What according to the author can be the most suitable title of the given passage?

01. NSG –A long term process for India

02. NSG - An unttainable goal

03. NSG – A Dream of India

04. NSG – planning and speculations

05. NSG and India.

Answers:-

Q.1 (3)

Q.2 (1)

Q.3 (3)

Q.4 (4)

Q.5 (5)

Q.6 (5)

Q.7 (2)

Q.8 (2)

Q.9 (5)

Q.10 (1)

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