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IBPS SO Prelims English Language 14th December

IBPS SO Prelims English Language 14th December | Latest Hindi Banking jobs_3.1As the date of IBPS SO Exam is coming nearer, hopes of aspirants are growing with every passing day. It’s time to test their hard work and they would want to make the best of this opportunity. Thus, English Language can play a vital role to get success. IBPS SO  English is all about well-planned strategy, time- management and strong grasp over English Language. So, stop boiling the ocean, and acquire command over vocabulary, enhance deep knowledge of grammar, and build competent comprehension skills to get the ball in the court in first attempt. Here is a quiz on English Language provided by Adda 247. It will help you practice latest pattern of English Questions for upcoming IBPS SO Pre Examination 2019.  

Directions
(1-5): In the given passage several blanks are given and for each blank four
alternatives are provided. Choose the option from which can fill in the blanks to
make a grammatically correct and contextually meaningful sentence. If none of
the given options can fit the blank then choose option (e) ‘None of these’ as
your answer.
Annamalai
vouches for the medium. In addition to documents, photographs, and objects, NGM
has 100 hours of ______________ (1)
related to Gandhi, including AK Chettiar’s 1941 documentary Mahatma Gandhi –
20th Century Prophet.
For a long
time, Chettiar’s film was untraceable. It was available in its original 15 MM
format but couldn’t be screened as the format had become ______________ (2). The film was digitised in 2014 in 4K.
The
Partition Museum in Amritsar has hundreds of stories of its survivors. “We have
collected thousands of oral histories. They are the stories of the ______________ (3) who lived through
it. As this generation is getting old, there is a need to document their
experiences and record their memories,” says Mallika Ahluwalia, the museum’s
co-founder and CEO.
The museum
also has archival ______________ (4)
of the trains, kafilas, and camps during the Partition. The oldest AV material
in the museum is footage from the ______________
(5)
struggle from around 1920, covering the Non-Cooperation movement and
the Khilafat movement.
Q1.
(a)
Remembering
(b)
Adversary
(c)
Recordings
(d) Banish
(e) None of
these
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2
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Q2.
(a)
Redundant
(b) Bluff
(c)
Circumference
(d)
Apprehensive
(e) None of
these
L1Difficulty
2
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test
Q3.
(a) Aptitude
(b) Cunning
(c) Disdain
(d)
Generation
(e) None of
these
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2
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Q4.
(a) Diminish
(b) Footage
(c) Emerge
(d)
Fragrance
(e) None of
these
L1Difficulty
2
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Q5.
(a) Freely
(b) Hasten
(c) Freedom
(d)
Habitation
(e) None of
these
L1Difficulty
2
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test
Directions
(6-10): In the sentences given below, four words have been highlighted and
placed in a sentence. Identify the correct sequence of the words in the
sentence. Identify the correct sequence and mark that option as your
answer. If the sequence is correct, mark your answer as option (e); No
rearrangement required.
Q6. The
government has been preferential (A)
and supporting the sector through reservation
(B)
for preferential access to credit, policies
(C)
purchase policy and some encouraging
(D)
in manufacturing as well.
(a) CBDA
(b) DCAB
(c) ABDC
(d) BDCA
(e) No
rearrangement required
L1Difficulty
2
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Q7. Vacancies
in the higher shortfall (A) threaten
every aspect of the judiciary (B)  delivery system and it is the courts, and very
seldom (C) the government, that
always take the blame for any justice
(D)
in justice.
(a) CBDA
(b) DCAB
(c) ABDC
(d) BDCA
(e) No
rearrangement required
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2
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rearrangement
Q8. Our
audio-visual recorded (A) are mostly
directly (B) and are ethnographic (C) or captured collections (D) from the field as well
as from in-house activities.
(a) CBDA
(b) DCAB
(c) ABDC
(d) BDCA
(e) No
rearrangement required
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2
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Q9. Rising (A) per capita incomes transformed (B) social indicators of expectancy (C), as literacy rates and
life development (D) rose everywhere.
(a) CBDA
(b) DCAB
(c) ABDC
(d) BDCA
(e) No
rearrangement required
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2
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Q10. In some
of these countries, the friendly (A) checks-and-balances
of political democracies (B) were
crucial to making institutionalised (C)
more development-oriented and people- governments
(D)
.
(a) CBDA
(b) DCAB
(c) ABDC
(d) BDCA
(e) No
rearrangement required
L1Difficulty
2
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Directions(11-15):
In the sentences given below, four words have been highlighted and may be
placed incorrectly in a sentence. Choose among the options having the correct
interchange of the words. If all the words are placed correctly, mark your
answer as option (e); No interchange required.
Q11. The
most model (A) solution proposed (B) using a simplistic
input-output common (C) is to
increase the number (D) of
judges. 
(a) A-D
(b) B-C
(c) A-C
(d) A-B
(e) No
interchange required
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2
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Q12. The ideological (A) issue of Government related (B) private ownership is versus
(C) to the strategic issue about national (D) security.
(a) A-D
(b) B-C
(c) A-C
(d) A-B
(e) No
interchange required
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2
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Q13. If the appoint (A) reiterates the names (B), the court said, the government (C) has no option but to collegium (D) the judges.
(a) A-D
(b) B-C
(c) A-C
(d) A-B
(e) No
interchange required
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2
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Q14. Given
that revenue (A) collections are not
enough, the Government is perhaps planning
(B)
the sale of well-running PSUs to meet
(C)
the fiscal deficit (D)
target.
 (a)
A-D
(b) B-C
(c) A-C
(d) A-B
(e) No
interchange required
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2
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Q15. China allow (A) a market system but does not adopted (B) this to cloud its thinking
when it comes to strategic (C)
national issues; the control then remains
(D)
with the Government. 
(a) A-D
(b) B-C
(c) A-C
(d) A-B
(e) No
interchange required
L1Difficulty
2
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rearrangement
Solutions
S1. Ans. (c)
Sol. Recordings fits in the blank (1) to make a
grammatically correct and contextually meaningful sentence. Hence, option (c) is the right answer choice.
S2. Ans. (a)
Sol. Redundant fits in the blank (2) to make a
grammatically correct and contextually meaningful sentence. Hence, option (a) is the right answer choice.
S3. Ans. (d)
Sol. Generation fits in the blank (3) to make a
grammatically correct and contextually meaningful sentence. Hence, option (d) is the right answer choice.
S4. Ans. (b)
Sol. Footage fits in the blank (4) to make a
grammatically correct and contextually meaningful sentence. Hence, option (b) is the right answer choice.
S5. Ans. (c)
Sol. Freedom fits in the blank (5) to make a
grammatically correct and contextually meaningful sentence. Hence, option (c) is the right answer choice.
S6. Ans. (b)
Sol.  The correct sequence of the words is DCAB; encouraging, policies, preferential,
and reservation.
Hence, option (b) is
the right answer choice.
S7. Ans. (d)
Sol. The
correct sequence of the words is BDCA;
judiciary, justice, seldom, and shortfall.
Hence, option (d) is the right answer choice.
S8. Ans. (b)
Sol. The
correct sequence of the words is DCAB;
collections, ethnographic, recorded, and directly.
Hence, option (b) is the right answer choice.
S9. Ans. (c)
Sol. The
correct sequence of the words is ABDC;
rising, transformed, development, and expectancy.
Hence, option (c) is the right answer choice.
S10. Ans.
(a)
Sol. The
correct sequence of the words is CBDA; institutionalised,
democracies, governments, and friendly.
Hence, option (a) is the right answer choice.
S11. Ans.
(c)
Sol. A-C; ‘model-common’ will be interchange to
make the sentence grammatically correct and contextually meaningful. Hence, option (c) is the right answer choice.
S12. Ans.
(b)
Sol. B-C; ‘related-versus’ will be interchange to
make the sentence grammatically correct and contextually meaningful. Hence, option (b) is the right answer choice.
S13. Ans.
(a)
Sol. A-D; ‘appoint-collegium’ will be interchange
to make the sentence grammatically correct and contextually meaningful. Hence, option (a) is the right answer choice.
S14. Ans.
(e)
Sol. The
given sentence is grammatically correct and contextually meaningful. Also, the
highlighted words are correctly placed. Hence, option (e); No interchange required is the right answer choice.
S15. Ans.
(d)
Sol. A-B; ‘allow-adopted’ will be interchange to
make the sentence grammatically correct and contextually meaningful. Hence, option (d) is the right answer choice.