English Language Quiz For IBPS & SBI Exam | 08-07-2021

 

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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.

Q1-5 Read each part of the sentence to find out if there is any error in it. The error, if any, will be in one part of the sentence. The number of that part is the answer. If there is no error, mark your answer as (5).

Q1.The charm in the yellow metal seems(1)/ to be increasing as gold prices have(2) /raised by more than 20 per cent(3) /in the international market(4)./no error(5)

01. 1

02. 2

03. 3

04. 4

05. 5

Q2.Private schools who (1)/violated the closure guidance(2)/ were warned of (3)/ stringent action.(4)/no error(5)

01. 1

02. 2

03. 3

04. 4

05. 5

Q3.The failure of three successive(1)/ crop seasons has led to(2)/ a scarcity of pulses, (3)/driving in their prices.(4)/no error (5)

01. 1

02. 2

03. 3

04. 4

05. 5

Q4.Waiting for a flight is tiring,(1) /even if it is at the airport,(2)/ which is ranked among the(3)/ world’s best.(4)/no error(5)

01. 1

02. 2

03. 3

04. 4

05. 5

Q5.We currently have a collection(1) /of books and latest issue of(2) /various magazines (3)/in the reading room.(4)/ no error(5)

01. 1

02. 2

03. 3

04. 4

05. 5

Q6-10.In the following passage there are blanks each of which has been numbered. These numbers are given 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 is uniquely vulnerable to rising temperatures — it ranks in the top 20 in the Climate Change Vulnerability Index. Our average surface temperature, over the past four decades, has risen by 0.3° Celsius, (6) by a rising incidence of floods, droughts and cyclones. With the majority of all landholdings in India measuring less than a hectare, marginal farmers face a steep decline in household income and a concomitant rise in household poverty through exacerbated droughts. Climate change would impact soil health, with increasing surface temperatures leading to higher CO emissions and reducing natural nitrogen availability. (7) this by increasing chemical fertilizer usage could impact long-term soil fertility, leaving the soil open to greater erosion and desertification. Meanwhile, migration patterns, farmer suicides and (8) rural incomes, along with increasingly ad hoc land acquisition in the name of public goods, have politicised the idea of climate mitigation. Marginal farmland will increasingly be useless for agriculture.

Our dependency on rain continues to (9) — rain-fed agriculture is practised in the majority of our total cropped area supporting a significant proportion of the national food basket (55 per cent of rice, 90 per cent of pulses, 91 per cent of all coarse grain). Our regional crop patterns assume a specific range of weather (10) , failing to cope with the recent high periods of heavy rainfall with long dry intervals. In 2013, large crops of wheat, gram, lentils and mustard, weeks away from harvesting, were destroyed in untimely rains. India’s flood-affected area has doubled since Independence, despite generous state spending on flood protection schemes.

Q6.Choose the correct option for (6)

01. secluded

02. chaperon

03. solitude

04. accompanied

05. disguised

Q7.Choose the correct option for (7)

01. mitigating

02. enhancing

03. dwindle

04. appease

05. incite

Q8.Choose the correct option for (8)

01. flourish

02. stagnating

03. proliferate

04. convolution

05. dynamic

Q9.Choose the correct option for (9)

01. shrew

02. deplete

03. abridge

04. elevate

05. amplify

Q10.Choose the correct option for (10)

01. variability

02. unanimos

03. levity

04. melancholy

05. sparkle

Answers:-

Q.1 (3)

Q.2 (1)

Q.3 (4)

Q.4 (5)

Q.5 (5)

Q.6 (4)

Q.7 (1)

Q.8 (2)

Q.9 (5)

Q.10 (1)