English Language Quiz for IBPS 2020 Mains Exams- 28 December, 2020 | Miscellaneous

Direction (1-3): Select the
phrase/connector (STARTERS) from the
given three options which can be used to form a single sentence from the two
sentences given below, implying the same meaning as expressed in the statement
sentences.

Q1. (1) The required equipment for
research was not available in the Science College.

(2) So Venkataraman continued his
research in the Science Association.

(i)Owing to unavailability…

(ii)As the required equipment…

(iii)Since the required equipment…

(a)Only (i) is correct

(b)Only (ii) is correct

(c)Both (i) and (ii) are correct

(d)Both (ii) and (iii) are correct

(e)All are correct

Q2. (1) The Permanent Indus Commission
mandated to implement the 1960 Indus Waters Treaty (IWT) has met like
clockwork, 112 times in 56 years, annually in each country.

(2) It is despite the fact that
India-Pakistan ties is in the fraught and volatile framework (i)
Since India-Pakistan ties…

(ii)Despite the fact that…

(iii)Even in the fraught…

(a)Only (i) is correct

(b)Only (ii) is correct

(c)Both (i) and (iii) are correct

(d)Both (ii) and (iii) are correct

(e)All are correct

Q3. (1) Some of the Reliance Jio’s
competitors have referred to as Jio’s “predatory” approach to pricing.

(2) The telecommunications industry has
found itself buffeted on the one hand by a sharp decline in earnings, and on
the other by the high cost of servicing the debt that had helped incumbent
operators bid for and acquire the much-needed wireless spectrum at the
government’s auction of airwaves.

(i)While the telecommunications…

(ii)Finding itself buffeted…

(iii)Given what some of…

(a)Only (i) is correct

(b)Only (iii) is correct

(c)Both (ii) and (iii) are correct

(d)All are correct

(e)None is correct

Directions
(4-5): In each of the following sentence there
are three blank spaces. Below each sentence there are five options and each
option consists of three words which can be filled up in the blanks in the
sentence to make the sentence grammatically correct. Choose the option which
fits the blank most appropriately.

Q4. Ever since India’s
liberation, _____________ Indian government have made ____________efforts to project their
country as a ____________ secular state upholding equal rights for all religious minorities.

(a) successive, passionate, progressive

(b) Subsequent, genuine, clichéd

(d) Ensuing, prudent, conventional

(e) Countless, earnest, regressive

Q5. The Khmer Rouge regime
_____________ the cinema.
Actors, directors, and producers disappeared. But in the ___________ decades, enterprising filmmakers have ___________ in its resurgence, often on
small budgets.

(a)denigrated, current, heralded

(b) Truncated, ongoing, portended

(d) annihilated, interceding,
emerged

(e) decimated, intervening, ushered

Directions (6-10): Each of the following questions has a
paragraph from which last sentence has been deleted. From the given options,
choose the one that completes the paragraph in the most appropriate way.

Q6. Commerce and security are
increasingly linked for smaller Asian states as well and one of the biggest
sources of unease over China’s participation in RCEP and FTAAP is the
geopolitical uncertainty born of maritime and other disputes. The winds of
change are blowing here, though; Beijing has ramped down its assertive behavior
in the South China Sea since last year’s ruling by a tribunal at the Permanent
Court of Arbitration at The Hague and pursued diplomatic rapprochement with the
Philippines under Rodrigo Duterte, for example.

(a)Despite China’s many
protectionist shortcomings, public diplomacy by Beijing could provide the
lubrication necessary to position it to gain from TPP’s demise.

(b) It’s unclear whether India,
Japan, Australia, and Singapore would fully delink economic integration from
ongoing concerns about Chinese irredentism and militarization.

(c) These states may come to see China-inclusive trade deals
as opening the flood gates for low-priced Chinesegoods.
(d) The new trade arrangement would effectively be a new beast altogether and
not the TPP Trump just withdrew the United States from.
(e) It
remains far too early to celebrate either RCEP or FTAAP as a foregone
conclusion and especially as FTAs with significantly favorable terms for China.

Q7. While the world is struggling to come to terms with the new
US President, one person has emerged like his moral antipode — Angela Merkel.
One year ago, Der Spiegel depicted the German Chancellor with a blue-rimmed
sari, “Mother Angela”, Saint Teresa of the refugees. Against Donald Trump’s
proclaimed isolationalism and racism, she, who in her first statement reminded
him of human dignity, appears all the more like an example of humanitarian
politics.

(a) However, this Merkel picture is misleading and false.

(b) Nonetheless, her leading role in the EU refugee crisis
earned her worldwide recognition.

(d) What about Merkel’s efforts to convince other European
countries to take in refugees?

(e) The truth is, Merkel doesn’t think the floating, bloated,
perished bodies are her problem.

Q8. Today,
while there is an urgent need to resuscitate that process, there seems no
serious movement in that direction. One can only regret the absence of spaces
in our country for social and political engagement on the “Kashmir issue” and
“issues of Kashmir”. We need people-to-people relations that sustain and
outlive us. Looking at Kashmir only through a security prism is dangerous and
counter-productive in the long run.

(a) Economic measures won’t be a substitute for political ones.

(b) But Delhi lacks emotion or empathy for Kashmir and its
responses have often been in terms of economic packages rather than serious and
honest political outreach.

(c) It’s another feeling of defeat for our youth, which
further taints the idea of the political mainstream on the ground in Kashmir.

(d) A healing touch and not a military crackdown should form the
core of the Kashmir policy.

(e) These youngsters need good parenting rather than policing.

Q9.Crucially, Nehru’s ceaseless concern for the mind of India
is missed. He wanted that mind to be innovative, rational and free. When a
coercive call was made anywhere in the land, Nehru rose at once to denounce it.
More than his 14 years in prison, his 55 years of tireless service, his
accomplishments as prime minister for 17 years, it was his love of personal
liberty that India needs to recall today.

(a) Not many books stimulated a couple of Indian generations
the way Nehru’s Autobiography and Discovery of India did.

(b) It was hard to understand how a lover of individual liberty
like Nehru could overlook the Soviet state’s oppressions

(d) And also his flair with words.

(e) And although socialism, which Nehru was advocating, held
an appeal for me, so did Rajaji’s critique of the emerging licence-permit-quota
raj over which, it seemed, Nehru was presiding.

Q10. A third
criticism of the CSO estimate is that it fails to capture the performance of
the informal economy, which clearly bore the brunt of the note ban. This
criticism is partly valid.Over 40-45% of the Indian economy is informal and
hardly any data points relating to it are available at a quarterly frequency.
Therefore, what the CSO does to arrive at its quick estimates of the GDP is to
take the available data from the organised sector and extrapolate it to infer
informal activity. Thus, the GVA for agriculture is guesstimated based on
kharif and rabi crop prospects. The GVA for services is inferred from sales tax
collections, deposits and credit, telephone connections and so on.
Manufacturing GVA uses the index of industrial production and listed company
filings. Owing to such guesswork, it is quite likely that the quarterly GVA
estimate, which mainly uses data from the formal sector, painted a rosier
picture of growth than the ground reality.

(a) There is no obfuscation here, because assessing the GVA and adding back
net taxes is the global prescription for GDP estimation by the output method.

(b) Is the CSO implying that vacuuming up 86% of cash in circulation had no impact on the
economy?

Well, that is
a wrong reading of the numbers.

(c) But then, if the CSO — with its access to multiple data
sources — has no way to estimate the quarterly performance of the informal
sector, neither does anyone else.
(d) The CSO has been both transparent and consistent with its
methods, allowing little room for suspicions of window-dressing.
(e) So the CSO does admit that economic activity has been
impacted by the note ban. But isn’t it estimating too mild an impact, with the
Q3 GVA growth at 6.6%, against 7% last year?

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

(A) India’s assistance in the defence
sector has been modest and based on specific requests by the government of
Afghanistan.

(B) Surveys conducted by various Afghan and foreign news agencies over the
years show that the Afghan people ranked Indian assistance as the most suitable
because of the positive role India played in the development programme of
Afghanistan.
(C) The cumulative level of committed Indian assistance to Afghanistan amounts
to $2 billion.
(D) India has a close strategic partnership with Afghanistan covering a broad
spectrum of areas which include political, security, trade and economic
cooperation as well as capacity development.
(E) It has been at the forefront in respect of assistance for the
reconstruction of Afghanistan and can be expected to do more in different
sectors.
(F) New Delhi is always ready for more intensive bilateral relations.

Q11. Which of the following should be
the first sentence after
rearrangement?

(a) B

(b) F

(d) E

(e) C

Q12. Which of the following should be
the third sentence after
rearrangement?

(a) A

(b) D

(d) E

(e) C

Q13. Which of the following should be
the fifth sentence after
rearrangement?

(a) B

(b) F

(d) E

(e) D

Q14. Which of the following should be
the last sentence after
rearrangement?

(a) D

(b) E

(d) B

(e) C

Q15. Which of the following should be
the second sentence after
rearrangement?

(a) C

(b) A

(d) F

(e) E

SOLUTIONS:

S1. Ans. (e)

Sol. (i) Owing to unavailability of the required
equipment for research in the Science College, Venkataraman continued his
research in the Science Association.

(ii) As the required equipment for
research was not available in the Science College, Venkataraman continued his
research in the Science Association.

(iii) Since the required equipment for
research was not available in the Science College, Venkataraman continued his
research in the Science Association.

S2. Ans. (d)

Sol.

(ii)Despite the fact that India-Pakistan
ties is in the fraught and volatile framework, the Permanent Indus Commission
mandated to implement the 1960 Indus Waters Treaty (IWT) has met like
clockwork, 112 times in 56 years, annually in each country.

(iii) Even in the fraught and volatile
framework of India-Pakistan ties, the Permanent Indus Commission mandated to
implement the 1960 Indus Waters Treaty (IWT) has met like clockwork, 112 times
in 56 years, annually in each country.

S3. Ans. (b)

Sol. Given what some of the Reliance
Jio’s competitors have referred to as Jio’s “predatory” approach to pricing,
the telecommunications industry has found itself buffeted on the one hand by a
sharp decline in earnings, and on the other by the high cost of servicing the
debt that had helped incumbent operators bid for and acquire the much-needed
wireless spectrum at the government’s auction of airwaves.

S4. Ans.(a)

Sol.

Progressive means happening
or developing gradually or in stages.

Successive means following
one another or following others.

Subsequent means coming
after something in time; following.

Ensuing means happen or
occur afterwards or as a result.

S5. Ans.(e)

Sol.

Decimated means
drastically reduce the strength or effectiveness of (something).

Intervening means take part
in something so as to prevent or alter a result or course of events.

Ushered means to show or
guide (someone) somewhere.

S6. Ans. (b)

Sol. While
going through the passage, we can conclude that the paragraph is all about the
discontent over China’s participation in RCEP and FTAAP. Only option (b) is
relevant to the passage as it tells about the analysis of other countries about
Chinese irredentism and militarization. Other options fails to connect with the
paragraph.

S7. Ans. (a)

Sol. The paragraph talks about German chancellor Angela
Merkel who appears like an example of humanitarian politics unlike Donald Trump
and then there is contrasting statement which fits the paragraph perfectly as
it shows the other side of the coin (Angela Merkel’s image) in a most suitable
manner.

S8. Ans.(d)

Sol. The last line of the given paragraph clearly indicates
that the author wants a change in the approach which here is to look for
measures other than military approach we usually take.

S9. Ans. (d)

Sol. Sentence (d) is appropriate conclusion to the paragraph
as it completes the paragraph by glorifying Nehru. The paragraph talks about
the ideas and words of Jawaharlal Nehru. Option (c) is incorrect as critical
reactions are not mentioned in the paragraph, similarly option (a) is incorrect
as it is talking about autobiography which is also not at all indicated in the
paragraph/ passage.

S10. Ans.(c)

Sol. Option
(c) is the correct choice as the given paragraph questions the authenticity of
the CSO estimate and option (c) provides us with a suitable conclusion. Most other options are either talking about
its transparency which is out of context or are talking about what it is
implying which just questions is authenticity further and is not in continuance
with the flow of the passage and thus only option (c) can be the most suitable
choice.

S11. Ans. (c)