English Quizzes For IBPS RRB PO/Clerk Mains 2022 : 25th August – Miscellaneous

TOPIC: Miscellaneous

Directions (1-5): Rearrange the following sentence (A), (B),
(C), (D), (E) and (F) to make a meaningful paragraph and answer the questions
which follow:

A. However
while reading they would not know when to pause and what to emphasize.

B. Since
then their use has been regularized and the punctuation rules have been
followed by all.

C. In
earlier days, people learnt by reading out loud.

D. But
not everybody used the same punctuations for the same thing.

E. To
address this problem, various signs depicting various punctuation were
introduced.

F. Thus
firmer guidelines regarding punctuations were framed so that everyone used them
in similar way.

Q1. Which
of the following sentence should be the SECOND after rearrangement?

(a) A

(b) B

(d) E

(e) F

Q2. Which
of the following sentence should be the THIRD after rearrangement?

(a) A

(b) E

(d) F

(e) C

Q3. Which
of the following sentence should be the FIFTH after rearrangement?

(a) B

(b) C

(d) E

(e) F

Q4. Which
of the following sentence should be the SIXTH (LAST) after
rearrangement?

(a) C

(b) E

(d) B

(e) F

Q5. Which
of the following sentence should be the FIRST after rearrangement?

(a) A

(b) B

(d) D

(e) E

Directions: (6-10): In these questions,
a sentence or a part of sentence is given in bold. Below are given alternatives
to the bold part which may improve the
sentence. Choose the correct alternative.

Q6. The teacher told us that the
prize would be presenting the next day.

(a) would be presented the next day

(b) would have been presented the
next day

(d) should be presented tomorrow

(e) No improvement required.

Q7. His speech was optimistic, but
at the end of it he stroke a note of
caution.

(a) strokes a note of caution

(b) struck for a note of caution

(d) struck a note of caution

(e) No improvement required.

Q8.
Men have been known how important the sun
is to them.

(a) Men have been knowing

(b) Men have to know long

(d) Men have long known

(e) No improvement required.

Q9. I did not like his comments on
my paper but I had no alternative as I
have agreed to keep quiet.

(a) I have to agree to keep quiet

(b) I had agreed to keep quiet

(d) I have to agree for keeping
quiet

(e) No improvement required.

Q10. Please give him medicines if his temperature will rise.

(a) if his temperature will arise

(b) if his temperature would rise

(d) unless his temperature rises

(e) No improvement required.

Directions
(11-15): The Following questions have two blanks, each
blank indicating that something has been omitted. Choose the set of words for
each blank that best fits the meaning of the sentence as a whole.

Q11. Our latest battle plan
_____________ some projects _____________ at saving the earth’s biological
diversity.

(a)
destroys, stirring

(b) covers, aimed

(d) encompasses, looked

(e) excludes, arriving

Q12. Unless the authorities adopt
the principle _____________, the strategies cannot become _____________.

(a) whole-heartedly, successful

(b) fully, defunct

(d) legitimately, noteworthy

(e) forcefully, trivial

Q13. Trying to _____________ a team
without a good and simple _____________ system is like trying to drive a car
without a steering wheel.

(a) form, working

(b) lead, exploratory

(d) run, guidance

(e)
Achieve, development

Q14._____________ members of a
group often _____________ influence the outcome of a consensus forecast.

(a) Permanent, extent

(b) Major, rightly

(d) Minority, inadvertently

(e) Dominant, unduly

Q15. Transforming _____________
bureaucracies into dynamic, customer-driven organizations is _____________
under any circumstances.

(a) ideal, essential

(b) lazy, undesirable

(d) civilised, ineffective

(e)
lethargic, unsurmountable

SOLUTIONS:

S1. Ans.
(a);