English Language Quiz For IBPS | RBI | SBI | NABARD | LIC | 23-08-2023

 

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Q1. In the following question, a sentence with two highlighted words is given. You have to choose the option that consists of the SYNONYM of the first word and the ANTONYM of the second word.

The most important problem faced by farmers during the lockdown was the loss of markets, stemming from the disruption in supply chains, closure of mandis and a fall in consumer food demand.

1) Driving interruption

2) Impelling, break

3) Advancing, separation

4) Impeding, appease

5) Actuating severance

Solution: 4

Q2. In the following question, a sentence with two highlighted words is given. You have to choose the option that consists of the SYNONYM of the first word and the ANTONYM of the second word.

The company made audacious moves to benefit from the inevitable changes in the world economic structure.

1) Impudent, dubious

2) Demure, ineluctable

3) Honest, certain

4) Inconspicuous, necessary

5) Courteous, inescapable

Solution: 1

Q3. In the following question, a sentence with two highlighted words is given. You have to choose the option which consists of the SYNONYM of the first word and the ANTONYM of the second word.

They protect and even reinvent the core of their business by tapping into evolving consumer preferences with agility.

1) Inhaling, dexterity

2) Progressing, disability

3) Absorbing, nimbleness

4) Decreasing deftness

5) Blocking, litheness

Solution: 2

Q4. In the following question, a sentence with two highlighted words is given. You have to choose the option that consists of the SYNONYM of the first word and the ANTONYM of the second word.

Along with diligent liquidity and balance sheet management, they pursue a proactive M&A pipeline.

1) Assiduous, heedless

2) Dormant, farseeing

3) Latent, prescient

4) Quiescent, visionary

5) Dull, insightful

Solution: 1

Q5. In the following question, a sentence with two highlighted words is given. You have to choose the option that consists of the SYNONYM of the first word and the ANTONYM of the second word.

Of course, significant reforms around logistics, training, labour and ease of doing business will be required, but the dividends will be significant over the medium term.

1) Frailty, abet

2) Feebleness, proficiency

3) Chaos, facility

4) Hopelessness, mastery

5) Management, complicate

Solution: 5

Read the following passage and answer the questions based on it.

Do Indians have the potential to pay more tax? Most individual taxpayers will respond with a vehement ‘No’. But the Finance Minister is quite convinced that there’s room to collect more. Recently pointing out that India is still “far from being a tax-compliant society”, he noted that the tax-to-GDP ratio is low, and there’s room to bump it up by another 1.5 percentage points. So, why is there such a sharp dichotomy between the perception of citizens — who feel they are taxed at every turn, and the government — who thinks that there’s room to extract more? The answer could lie in the flawed measurement of tax compliance.

The metric that is often used to drive home the poor culture of compliance in India is the small proportion of the population paying direct taxes. In FY18, 6.84 crore entities (individuals, HUFs and businesses) filed their Income Tax Returns. Of these, there were about 6 crore individual assessments. A straightforward comparison of this number with the population estimate (132 crores) suggests that only 4.5 per cent of Indians pay income tax. But that’s a flawed comparison because an individual can be said to be ‘evading’ income tax only if he is (____) to pay it in the first place. Therefore, the most important step to assessing actual tax compliance in India is to estimate the proportion of the population that is liable to pay income tax.

To begin with, the tax liability is dependent on the age and employment status of the individual. As per the last Census (2011), only about half of India’s population fell in the working age group of 20- to 59-year-olds. Only half of this working-age population, in turn, was employed throughout the year (what the Census calls Main Workers). Now, applying this to the current population count of 132 crores, there would be 33 crore individuals who earn a regular salary or wage and can be realistically expected to pay income tax on it. But then, Indian tax laws offer a complete exemption to one large category of wage-earners — those earning their daily bread from agriculture.

Now, Census data tell us that roughly half of the main workers were either cultivators or agricultural labourers. That immediately puts about 16.5 crore of those 33 crore main workers out of the tax net, leaving the taxable population at 16.5 crore. Of that, 4.3 crore individuals already filed their I-T returns for salary income in the assessment year 2016. In effect, at least a fourth of the wage earners are already in the tax net.

Q6. Which of the following can be inferred as the theme of the passage?

1) People are quite convinced that there’s room to collect more individual taxes.

2) India needs more collection of taxes to meet the financial needs of the country.

3) Most people in India are reluctant to pay direct taxes.

4) India needs more stringent laws to stop tax evasion.

5) The government and the citizens do not think alike.

Solution: 3

Q7. Which of the following can replace the word ‘room’ given in bold in the passage?

1) Home

2) Requirements

3) Range

4) Scope

5) Leeway

Solution: 4

Q8. What is the tone of the given passage?

1) Nostalgic

2) Didactic

3) Critical

4) Sarcastic

5) Satirical

Solution: 3

Q9. Which of the following word can fill the blank space in the 2nd paragraph to make it meaningful?

1) Unable

2) Compatible

3) Willing

4) Capable

5) Liable

Solution: 5

Q10. Why, In India only a small proportion of earning population is liable to pay income tax?

1) Tax liability is depends on various factors like age group and status of employment

2) Part of the population earning their daily bread from agriculture are exempted from paying tax.

3) India is an agriculture-based country.

4) Data provided by Census often ends up being faulty.

5) None of the above.

Solution: 2