English Quizzes For IBPS Clerk Prelims 2022 : 14th July – Miscellaneous

TOPIC: Miscellaneous

Directions (1-10): In
the following passage there are words highlighted in bold, each of which has
been numbered. These numbers are printed below the passage and against each,
four words are suggested, one of which fits the blank appropriately. Find out
the appropriate word in each case. If the word highlighted in bold does not
require any replacement, choose (e) as your answer.

Delhi has permitted
(1) a public emergency, on account of poor air characterisitic (2). It is not just the national capital that accepts (3) from noxious air, filled,
in particular, with particles smaller than 2.5 microns in diameter. Many cities
in India are similarly(4) placed.
Air pollution activates (5) cancer,
lung disease and heart attacks. It is a public health risk that injures (6) the quality of life and
productivity. This much is obvious. What must be also taken into account is
that sustained (7) poor quality of
the air one has to radiate (8) is a
sharply negative factor, for drawing in investment. Which investor in his right
senses mendicates(9) to set up shop
in a place where people are guaranteed to turn delicately (10) and only the desperate would take up jobs?

Q1.
(a)rendered
(b) exposed
(c) disclosed
(d) declared

(e)
No improvement required

Q2.
(a) enrichment
(b) indication
(c) quality
(d) surroundings
(e) No improvement required

Q3.
(a) approves
(b) suffers
(c) recognises
(d) concedes
(e) No improvement required

Q4.
(a) inseperably
(b) intently
(c) essentially
(d) comparatively
(e) No improvement required

Q5.
(a) causes 
(b) impels
(c) inspires

(d)
influences
(e) No improvement required

Q6.
(a) tumbles
(b) blisters
(c) terminates
(d) lowers
(e) No improvement required

Q7.
(a) mitigated
(b) settled
(c) inbred
(d) inveterated
(e) No improvement required

Q8.
(a) survive
(b) breathe
(c) vapourize
(d) expel
(e) No improvement required

Q9.
(a) attempts
(b) desire
(c) wants
(d) proposes
(e) No improvement required

Q10.
(a) sickly
(b) wanely
(c) tamely
(d) lividly
(e) No improvement required

Directions
(11-15): Read each sentence to find out whether there is any grammatical or
idiomatic 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’, the answer is
(e). (Ignore errors of punctuation, if any.)

Q11. As soon as we (a)/enter the hotel, the (b)/Manager welcomes us
and (c)/took us to the table. (d)/No Error (e)

(a) A

(b) B

(c) C

(d) D

(e) E

Q12. In spite of our several request (a)/ the owner of the house
(b)/did not open (c)/the door of his house. (d)/No Error (e)

(a) A

(b) B

(c) C

(d) D

(e) E

Q13. The manager concluded that(a)/either Mahesh (b)/or Teja were
(c)/responsible for the last week’s theft. (d)/No Error (e)

(a) A

(b) B

(c) C

(d) D

(e) E

Q14. I have told suresh (a)/that it will not be possible (b)/for me to
carry on (c)/this kind of work. (d)/ No error. (e)
(a) A

(b) B

(c) C

(d) D

(e) E

Q15. In today meeting (a)/we must first discuss (b)/and thrash out the
problem (c)/one by one. (d)/No error (e)

(a) A

(b) B

(c) C

(d) D

(e) E

SOLUTIONS: 

S1.
Ans. (d)

Sol.
‘declared’ is the correct word as other words are not making the sentence
meaningful.

S2.
Ans. (c)

Sol.
‘quality’ is the correct word to be replaced as here in the paragraph, air
pollution has been discussed.

S3.
Ans. (b)

Sol.
‘suffers’ is making the sentence meaningful.

Concede
means admit.

S4.
Ans. (e)

Sol.  No improvement is required here.

S5.
Ans. (a)

Sol.
‘causes’ is the correct word as the sentence tells about the effect of air
pollution on health.

S6.
Ans. (d)

Sol.
‘lowers’ is the most appropriate word making the sentence meaningful as it
tells about the degradation in quality of life due to air pollution.

S7.
Ans. (e)

Sol.
No improvement is required here.

S8.
Ans. (b)

Sol.
‘breathe’ is the correct word to be replaced.

S9.
Ans. (c)

Sol.
‘wants’ best suits the purpose.

S10.
Ans. (a)

Sol.
‘sickly’ best suits the purpose.

Lividly
means furiously angry.

Wanely
means diminish.

Tamely
means not dangerous or frightened of people, domesticated.

S11. Ans. (d)

Sol. ‘takes’ will be used in place of ‘took’ as the sentence is in
present tense.

S12. Ans. (a)

Sol. ‘requests’ will be used in place of ‘request’ because ‘several,
many, various, few, a few, very few’ tells the number hence nouns after them is
used as plural.

S13. Ans. (c)

Sol. ‘was’ will be used in place of ‘were’ as if ‘either…or,
neither…nor, not only…but also’ is connected with two singular nouns then the
verb which is used is singular.

Ex. Either Sita and Mira was guilty.

Neither john nor Tom is late.

S14. Ans. (e)

Sol. The sentence is grammatically correct. 

S15. Ans. (a)

Sol. ‘In today’s meeting’ will be used in place of ‘In today meeting’.