English Language Quiz For SBI Clerk Prelims 2021- 14th June , Para-jumble

Directions (1-5): Rearrange the following
sentences (A), (B), (C), (D) and (E) in the proper sequence to form a
meaningful paragraph and then answer the questions given below.

A. In his order dated
November 2, Information Commissioner M. Sridhar Acharyulu has come down heavily
on the RBI and its chief for failing to uphold the interest of the public at
large and not fulfilling its statutory duty to the depositors, the economy and
the banking sector, by privileging individual banks’ interests over its
obligation to ensure transparency.

B. While the central bank has
repeatedly acknowledged the gravity of the problem it faces, including in
ensuring more accountability from the more numerous public sector banks over
which it wants greater control, it has consistently invoked both the risk to
the country’s “economic interest” and its “fiduciary” relationship with lenders
to avoid sharing information on the largest defaulters with RTI applicants.

C. The Reserve Bank of India
finds itself in the midst of another tangle.

D. The Central Information
Commission (CIC) has directed RBI Governor Urjit Patel to show cause “why
maximum penalty should not be imposed on him for” the central bank’s ostensible
“defiance” of Supreme Court orders on disclosing the names of willful
defaulters on bank loans worth hundreds of crores of rupees.

E. At the heart of the matter
is the issue of burgeoning bad loans at the country’s commercial banks, which
by the RBI’s own admission had, at the gross level, surged to 11.6% of all
advances as on March 31, 2018, from September 2017’s 10.2% level.

Q1. Which of the following is the SECOND sentence
after rearrangement?

(a) A

(b) B

(d) D

(e) E

Q2. Which of the following is the FOURTH sentence
after rearrangement?

(a) A

(b) B

(d) D

(e) E

Q3. Which of the following is the THIRD sentence
after rearrangement?

(a) A

(b) B

(d) D

(e) E

Q4. Which of the following is the LAST sentence
after rearrangement?

(a) A

(b) B

(d) D

(e) E

Q5. Which
of the following is the FIRST sentence after rearrangement?

(a) A

(b) B

(d) D

(e) E

Directions (6-10): Rearrange the following
sentences (A), (B), (C), (D) and (E) in the proper sequence to form a
meaningful paragraph and then answer the questions given below.

A. The Druk Phuensum Tshogpa, on the other hand, won the first
Bhutanese elections in 2008, and the first round of the election in 2013 before
losing to the PDP and it maintains a strong traditional base.

B. The results of Bhutan’s general election will have
significant repercussions for South Asia.

C. The first round held in September has already delivered a
surprise verdict, with the ousting of the incumbent People’s Democratic Party.

D. The Druk Nyamrup Tshogpa, that won the maximum number of
votes in the first round this year, is a political neophyte.

E. The two parties left in the fray represent opposites in
terms of their experience.

Q6. Which
of the following is the PENULTIMATE step after rearrangement?

(a) A

(b) B

(d) D

(e) E

Q7. Which
of the following is the LAST step after rearrangement?

(a) A

(b) B

(d) D

(e) E

Q8. Which of the following is the FIRST step after
rearrangement?

(a) A

(b) B

(d) D

(e) E

Q9. Which of the following is the SECOND step
after rearrangement?

(a) A

(b) B

(d) D

(e) E

Q10. Which of the following is the THIRD step
after rearrangement?

(a) A

(b) B

(d) D

(e) E

Directions (11-15): Rearrange the following
sentences (A), (B), (C), (D) and (E) in the proper sequence to form a
meaningful paragraph and then answer the questions given below.

A. But the government has staved off the challenge by
successfully arguing that it is essentially a transformative scheme primarily
aimed at reaching benefits and subsidies to the poor and the marginalised.

B. Ever
since a nine-judge Bench ruled unanimously last year that privacy is a
fundamental right, opinion began to gain ground that the unique identification
programme was vulnerable in the face of judicial scrutiny.

C. It was projected by sceptics, detractors and activists as
an intrusion on citizens’ privacy, a byword for a purported surveillance
system, a grand project to harvest personal data for commercial exploitation by
private parties and profiling by the state.

D. The Aadhaar project has survived a fierce legal challenge.

E. Four of the five judges on a Constitution Bench ruled that
the law enabling the implementation of the programme does not violate the right
to privacy of citizens; instead, the project empowers marginalised sections and
procures dignity for them along with services, benefits and subsidies by
leveraging the power of technology.

Q11. Which of the following is the SECOND sentence
after rearrangement?

(a) A

(b) B

(d) D

(e) E

Q12. Which
of the following is the THIRD sentence after rearrangement?

(a) A

(b) B

(d) D

(e) E

Q13. Which of the following is the LAST sentence
after rearrangement?

(a) A

(b) B

(d) D

(e) E

Q14. Which
of the following is the FOURTH sentence after rearrangement?

(a) A

(b) B

(d) D

(e) E

Q15. Which of the following is the FIRST sentence
after rearrangement?

(a) A

(b) B

(d) D

(e) E

Solutions:

S1. Ans.(d)