English Quiz for IBPS Clerk Prelims 20th of October

With every day passed, competition is increasing in leaps and bounds and it is necessary to work smarter to sail through any exam. Having a proper study plan and the updated questions to brush up your knowledge in addition to well-organized study notes for the same can help you with your preparation. IBPS RRB PO/Clerk is going to be the tough exam so you can not afford to leave any important topics. If you deal with the section with accuracy, it can do wonders and can fetch you good marks. As English is the most dreaded subject among students, we are here to provide you with the new questions with the detailed solution so that you can make it this time in IBPS RRB PO/Clerk.

Directions (1-5): In the following questions five sentences are given with a phrase highlighted. These phrases may or may not be correct. Following the sentences are four phrases, from which one phrase will replace the incorrect phrase. The number of that correct phrase will be your answer. If the phrase is correct then option (e) i.e. “No replacement required” will be your answer.

Q1. Whichever agency having giving such data, it is a sensitive subject and they should do it responsibly. 
(a) Whoever agency’s giving
(b) Whichever agency had gave
(c) Whichever agency is giving
(d) Whoever agencies has giving
(e)  No replacement required
L1Difficulty 2
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Q2. Till pollution for outside is not solves, Delhi will suffer like this in October and November.
(a) for outside is not solve
(b) from outside is not solved
(c) of outside has not solving
(d) off outside having not solution
(e) No replacement required
L1Difficulty 2
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Q3. States should own responsibility to prevention air pollution just like enforcing law to prevent other crimes.
(a) to prevent air pollution
(b) for prevent air pollution
(c) for prevented air pollution
(d) from prevention of air pollution
(e) No replacement required
L1Difficulty 2
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Q4. Just like enforcing law to prevent other crimes, the State has to own responsible too enforce law to prevent pollution. 
(a) own respondents for enforces
(b) owing to responsibilities enforced
(c) owning to be responsible for enforces
(d) own responsibility to enforce
(e) No replacement required
L1Difficulty 2
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Q5. It seems impossible that Delhi government would not able to spend the remaining 76% of the budget outlay. 
(a) will be able to spend
(b) will not being able to spend
(c) will being able not to spend
(d) would being able to spending
(e) No replacement required
L1Difficulty 2
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Directions (6-10): In the following question a sentence is given following with three words. Choose among the following words which reflect its meaning in the sentence correctly.

Q6. The high-octane hearings between the __________ sides were not without drama on the final day.
(A) Rival
(B) Applaud
(C) Accuse
(a) Only A
(b) Only B
(c) Only C
(d) Both A and C
(e) Both B and C
L1Difficulty 2
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Q7. He sought a week’s time to file an additional affidavit to __________the court of these factors.
(A) Misfortune
(B) Adversary
(C) Appraise
(a) Only A
(b) Only B
(c) Only C
(d) Both A and C
(e) Both B and C
L1Difficulty 2
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Q8. You must indicate the reasons for claiming such __________. 
(A) Inflexible
(B) Privilege
(C) Disciple
(a) Only A
(b) Only B
(c) Only C
(d) Both A and C
(e) Both B and C
L1Difficulty 2
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Q9. The Bench finally __________the question of recusal of Justice Mishra for orders.
(A) Reserved
(B) Commendable
(C) Stubborn
(a) Only A
(b) Only B
(c) Only C
(d) Both A and C
(e) Both B and C
L1Difficulty 2
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Q10. The arrest was made under the __________of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act. 
(A) Actual
(B) Provision
(C) Prohibited
(a) Only A
(b) Only B
(c) Only C
(d) Both A and C
(e) Both B and C
L1Difficulty 2
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Directions (11-15): In the following passage there are blanks, each of which has been numbered. These numbers are printed below the passage and against each, five words are suggested, one of which fits the blank appropriately. Find out the appropriate word in each case.


If Rip Van Winkle was an academic economist and woke up from a two-decade long sleep this week, he would be ______________(11) by the news of the Nobel Prize in Economics this year awarded to Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, and Michael Kremer for pioneering the use of ______________ (12) control trials (RCTs) in development economics. Back in the late 1990s, this was not a well-known concept, let alone a widely ______________ (13) research method. Moreover, research in economics was still largely theoretical although the shift in a more ______________ (14) direction had already started.
It is true that the concept of randomised experiments is well-known in medical trials, and the idea itself goes back to the statistician Ronald Fisher back in the 1930s. RCTs use the following insight: you select two groups that are similar and then randomly select one to receive the treatment (a drug, or a policy) being tested and then compare the outcome of this group (called the treatment group) with that of the other group (called the control group). If the difference is statistically ______________ (15), then that is attributed to the treatment. Using this method in economics has altered our views about what policies work and what do not.

Q11. 
(a) Renounce
(b) Baffled
(c) Harmony
(d) Follower
(e) Pardon
L1Difficulty 1
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Q12. 
(a) Brilliant
(b) Disjoin
(c) Proliferate
(d) Randomised
(e) Deficient
L1Difficulty 1
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Q13. 
(a) Practised
(b) Hollowness
(c) Gaiety
(d) Judicial
(e) Chaos
L1Difficulty 1
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Q14. 
(a) Return
(b) Utterance
(c) Empirical
(d) Immune
(e) Investigate
L1Difficulty 1
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Q15. 
(a) Possibly
(b) Aesthetically
(c) Applaud
(d) Reality
(e) Significant
L1Difficulty 1
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S1. Ans. (c)
Sol. The right answer choice is option (c).

S2. Ans. (b)
Sol. The right answer choice is option (b).

S3. Ans. (a)
Sol. The right answer choice is option (a).

S4. Ans. (d)
Sol. The right answer choice is option (d).

S5. Ans. (a)
Sol. The right answer choice is option (a).

S6. Ans. (a)
Sol. The right answer choice is option (a). ‘Rival’ reflects its meaning in the sentence correctly.

S7. Ans. (c)
Sol. The right answer choice is option (c). ‘Appraise’ reflects its meaning in the sentence correctly.

S8. Ans. (b)
Sol. The right answer choice is option (b). ‘Privilege’ reflects its meaning in the sentence correctly.

S9. Ans. (a)
Sol. The right answer choice is option (a). ‘Reserved’ reflects its meaning in the sentence correctly.

S10. Ans. (b)
Sol. The right answer choice is option (b). ‘Provision’ reflects its meaning in the sentence correctly.

S11. Ans. (b)
Sol. The right answer choice is option (b). The term ‘baffled’ fits appropriately in the blank (11). It means ‘totally bewilder or perplex’.

S12. Ans. (d)
Sol. The right answer choice is option (d). The term ‘randomised’ fits appropriately in the blank (12). It means ‘make random in order or arrangement; employ random selection or sampling in (an experiment or procedure)’.

S13. Ans. (a)
Sol. The right answer choice is option (a). The term ‘practised’ fits appropriately in the blank (13). It means ‘expert, typically as the result of much experience’.

S14. Ans. (c)
Sol. The right answer choice is option (c). The term ‘empirical’ fits appropriately in the blank (14). It means ‘based on, concerned with, or verifiable by observation or experience rather than theory or pure logic’.

S15. Ans. (e)
Sol. The right answer choice is option (e). The term ‘significant’ fits appropriately in the blank (15). It means ‘sufficiently great or important to be worthy of attention; noteworthy’ or ‘having a particular meaning; indicative of something’.