IBPS Clerk Prelims English Quiz on Miscellaneous Topics
Directions (1-5): In the following questions a paragraph is given with two blanks. The paragraph is then provided with five options which consist of the words that can fill the given blanks. Choose that option as your answer which can fill the given blanks in the exact order as given in the option. If none of the given options fills the given blanks then choose option (e), ‘None of these’ as your answer.
Q1. Orienting state policy in _______ of this oligarchy and yet preventing any _______from below requires a discourse shift.
(a) Favor, Revolt
(b) Indent, Approval
(c) Enhancement, Envisage
(d) Apart, Advance
(e) Enthusiasm, Zeal
Sol. The correct answer choice is option (a). All other options are contextually and meaningfully incorrect. So our correct answer choice is option (a).
(a) Ettiquette, Upliftment
(b) uprooted, insurgency
(c) Moderate, Aggravate
(d) Follower, Flexible
(e) Setup, Sanction
Sol. The correct answer choice is option (b). All other options are contextually and meaningfully incorrect. So our correct answer choice is option (b).
(a) Pardon, Discord
(b) Harshness, Adversary
(c) Clamor, Original
(d) Stubborn, Commendable
(e) Rattle, Abrogate
Sol. The correct answer choice is option (c). All other options are contextually and meaningfully incorrect. So our correct answer choice is option (c).
(a) Misfortune, Foreign
(b) Pacify, Excite
(c) Augment, Contract
(d) Investments, Ambitions
(e) Abate, Enhance
Sol. The correct answer choice is option (d). All other options are contextually and meaningfully incorrect. So our correct answer choice is option (d).
(a) Entice, Repel
(b) Climb, Escalate
(c) Joint, Applaud
(d) Counsel, Approve
(e) Distract, Camouflage
Sol. The correct answer choice is option (e). All other options are contextually and meaningfully incorrect. So our correct answer choice is option (e).
Q6. Atrocity
(I) The government had responded that there had been no decrease in the atrocities committed on the SCs/STs despite the laws meant to protect their civil rights.
(II) A few major outstanding issues still atrocity, with the most pressing being the Teesta Water Sharing Agreement.
(III) The signing of the Land Boundary Agreement in 2015 was a milestone, where the two atrocity amicably resolved a long-outstanding issue.
(a) Only (I)
(b) Only (II)
(c) Only (III)
(d) Both (I) and (II)
(e) Both (II) and (III)
Sol. The term ‘Atrocity’ means ‘An extremely wicked or cruel act, typically one involving physical violence or injury’.
(I) The city’s eastward extension has given impetus to the demand to resurrect the clamour road project.
(II) The clamour by greens demanding the protection of the two-acre ecologically-sensitive Santhivanam grew louder.
(III) Clamour ring road proposed around Vyttila to decongest the biggest junction in Kerala too is a non-starter.
(a) Only (I)
(b) Only (II)
(c) Only (III)
(d) Both (I) and (II)
(e) Both (II) and (III)
Sol. The term ‘Clamour’ means ‘A loud and confused noise, especially that of people shouting’.
(I) The balance must be right between protecting privacy and allowing the state leeway to curb envisage.
(II) Technology companies that use end-to-end envisage have pleaded inability to open a back door for identifying originators.
(III) The proposed rules envisage new obligations for service providers.
(a) Only (I)
(b) Only (II)
(c) Only (III)
(d) Both (I) and (II)
(e) Both (II) and (III)
Sol. The term ‘Envisage’ means ‘Contemplate or conceive of as a possibility or a desirable future event’.
(I) The aim is to nullify the Muslim vote though the party is sympathetic to the cause of the aboriginal people.
(II) The BJP is likely to lose the nullify of Adivasis it had got in the last Lok Sabha elections.
(III) the party has set itself the nullify of negating or diluting the strength of the ruling Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS).
(a) Only (I)
(b) Only (II)
(c) Only (III)
(d) Both (I) and (II)
(e) Both (II) and (III)
Sol. The term ‘Nullify’ means ‘Make legally null and void;
Invalidate, Annul, Declare null and void, Render null and void.’
(I) China has resolved all its continental land preclude, except with India and Bhutan.
(II) The lack of a medium-term resolution does not preclude the two countries narrowing their boundary-related differences.
(III) Cleanliness and sanitation were central to Gandhi’s concerns for his preclude number of impoverished countrymen.
(a) Only (I)
(b) Only (II)
(c) Only (III)
(d) Both (I) and (II)
(e) Both (II) and (III)
Sol. The term ‘Preclude’ means ‘Prevent from happening; Make impossible, Prevent
Make it impossible for, make it impracticable for, Rule out.’
Q11. Ignoring urban proving (1) and adaptation is planning (2) costly, and losses are sapping(3) the vitality of the economy(4).
(a) 1-2
(b) 3-4
(c) 2-3
(d) 1-4
(e) None of these
Sol. The given words in their respective position do not make meaningful sentence .So after interchanging (1) with (2), the sentence is contextually and grammatically correct.
(a) 1-2
(b) 3-4
(c) 2-3
(d) 1-4
(e) None of these
Sol. Here, the words given in bold are arranged correctly making the sentence contextually and grammatically correct.
(a) 1-2
(b) 3-4
(c) 2-3
(d) 1-4
(e) None of these
Sol. The given words in their respective position do not make meaningful sentences.So after interchanging (3) with (4), the sentence is contextually and grammatically correct.
(a) 1-2
(b) 3-4
(c) 2-3
(d) 1-4
(e) None of these
S14. Ans. (c)
Sol. The given words in their respective position do not make meaningful sentence .So after interchanging (2) with (3), the sentence is contextually and grammatically correct.
(a) 1-2
(b) 3-4
(c) 2-3
(d) 1-4
(e) None of these
Sol. The given words in their respective position do not make meaningful sentence .So after interchanging (1) with (4), the sentence is contextually and grammatically correct.
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