English Quiz for LIC Assistant Mains 20th December

English Quiz for LIC Assistant Mains  

LIC Assistant Prelims 2019 result is out and LIC Assistant Mains examination date will be announced soon. The Prelims exam was conducted on the 30th and 31st of October 2019. Those who have made it should boost their preparation and put some extra effort to clear mains. Those who couldn’t qualify the Prelims stage, should look for the loopholes and try to fill them with doubled hard work. The English Language is a subject that you can master with lots of practice. Here, Adda 247 is providing English Quiz for LIC Mains 2019 that will help you to boost your score in the examination.

Direction (1-6): Rearrange the following sentences in the proper sequence to form a meaningful paragraph and then answer the questions given below.

(A) How many scientists does it take to make a team?
(B) Add too many scientists and the presumed risk is of slowing down due to administrative complexity; settle for too few and we’d suspect a paucity of conversations that are fundamental for the birth of new ideas.
(C) She prefers the verb “teaming”, rather than the noun “team” to capture the actions that are vital to a team’s emergence as an engine for generating and moving new ideas.
(D) Far from being just a riddle, the question is an important one for the way we build and manage the teams that are so central to realizing our organizational, scientific and technical futures.
(E) The work has been published in the prestigious journal Nature, which has concluded that team size still does matter and that small teams are more suited to greater risk-taking, while large teams are more suitable for the development of established ideas.
(F) After suffering some years of obscurity, team-size studies are enjoying renewed attention thanks to recent work by Lingfei Wu, Dashun Wang and James A. Evans.
(G) In addition, larger teams appear to facilitate broader search, while smaller teams appear to search deeper.

Q1. Considering statement (A) “How many scientists does it take to make a team?” as the first sentence of the rearranged paragraph, then which among the followings fails to become the part of the coherent paragraph?

(a) C
(b) D
(c) B
(d) F
(e) E

Q2. Among the following pairs which one of them is formed with two consecutive statements after the rearrangement?

(a) D – E
(b) C – F
(c) A – B
(d) C – E
(e) A – D

Q3. Considering statement (A) “How many scientists does it take to make a team?” as the first sentence of the rearranged paragraph, which of the following statement should be FOURTH sentence after the rearrangement? (Excluding the incoherent sentence)

(a) D
(b) B
(c) E
(d) C
(e) F

Q4. Considering statement (A) “How many scientists does it take to make a team? “as the first sentence of the rearranged paragraph, which of the following statements should follow last sentence after the rearrangement? (Excluding the incoherent sentence)
(a) The time spent practicing with a team, will improve your skills and give you countless hours of enjoyment.
(b) With that practice, you must work through each skill patiently and persistently until you have mastered it, and then continue using that skill so you won’t lose it.
(c) At a time when some researchers are suggesting that ideas are getting harder to find such insights as to how best to structure innovation teams can take on strategic importance.
(d) Who gets to speak, and who remains invisible?
(e) None of these

Q5. Considering statement (A) “How many scientists does it take to make a team?” as the first sentence of the rearranged paragraph, which of the following statement should be the PENULTIMATE sentence after the rearrangement? (Excluding the incoherent sentence)
(a) A
(b) D
(c) E
(d) C
(e) B

Q6. Considering statement (A) “How many scientists does it take to make a team?” as the first sentence of the rearranged paragraph, which of the following statement should LAST sentence after the rearrangement? (Excluding the incoherent sentence)
(a) C
(b) B
(c) E
(d) G
(e) F

Directions (7-11): In each of the given question, a statement is divided in four parts. Identify the part of the statement which contains grammatical error. If the given statement is correct, mark option ‘e’, no error, as your answer.

Q7. Border Force officers intercepted (A)/seven packages addressed to the (B)/same person which were found (C)/to contain a number of weapons. (D)/ No Error (E)
(a) A
(b) B
(c) C
(d) D
(e) E

Q8. Esper said he believes it (A)/ was a lawful order, (B)/and therefore he must either (C)/ follow it else resign. (D)/ No Error (E) 
(a) A
(b) B
(c) C
(d) D
(e) E

Q9. We made the decision many (A)/ years ago since rich people (B)/in smoke-filled rooms would not (C)/ pick the next president of the US. (D)/ No Error (E) 
 (a) A
(b) B
(c) C
(d) D
(e) E

Q10. The officer wonders whether the (A)/assailant planned a murder-suicide (B)/ attack when he seriously (C)/wounded by the police (D). No Error (E)  
(a) A
(b) B
(c) C
(d) D
(e) E

Q11. We enquired from the hotel’s (A)/entertainment manager if there (B)/were any faith-based (C)/entertainment for us. (D)/ No Error (E) 
(a) A
(b) B
(c) C
(d) D
(e) E

Directions (12-15): Which of the phrases (a), (b), (c) and (d) given below each
statement should replace the phrase printed in bold in the sentence to make it
grammatically correct? If the sentence is correct as it is given and ‘No correction
is required’, mark (e) as the answer.

Q12. The duty of the state to preserve public order should never extends to the suppress of political views contrary to those of the government.
(a) Extend to the suppression of political
(b) Extension to the suppressing of political
(c) Extending too the suppresses of political
(d) Extension off the suppress of political
(e) None of these

Q13. Every citizen, every group, and every community subscribing to its own notion of justness and fair play.
(a) Subscribes too its owning notion
(b) Subscribing to the own notions
(c) Subscribes to its own notion
(d) Subscribed of it is owning notion
(e) None of these

Q14. With 300-plus Lok Sabha seats under its belt, the ruling party having developed a fascination for authoritative violence.
(a) Party having developing a
(b) Party’s has developed a
(c) Party have developed an
(d) Party has developed a
(e) None of these

Q15. Corporate India senses a fear in the air but is not permitted to voice its apprehensions.
(a) Are not permitted to
(b) Has not permitted to
(c) Have not permitting to
(d) Having not permits to
(e) None of these

S1. Ans. (a)
Sol. The correct sequence of the given statements after rearrangement will be ADBFEG. We cannot find any context to fit in the statement (C) is the given passage. Hence, option (a) is the most suitable answer choice.

S2. Ans. (e)
Sol. The correct sequence of the given statements after rearrangement will be ADBFEG. We cannot find any context to fit in the statement (C) is the given passage. Hence, option (e) is the most suitable answer choice.

S3. Ans. (e)
Sol. The correct sequence of the given statements after rearrangement will be ADBFEG. We cannot find any context to fit in the statement (C) is the given passage. Hence, option (e) is the most suitable answer choice.

S4. Ans. (c)
Sol.  The correct sequence of the given statements after rearrangement will be ADBFEG. Among the given options, most suitable statement to follow the last statement will be the statement given in option (c).

S5. Ans. (c)
Sol. The correct sequence of the given statements after rearrangement will be ADBFEG. We cannot find any context to fit in the statement (C) is the given passage. Hence, option (c) is the most suitable answer choice.

S6. Ans. (d)
Sol. The correct sequence of the given statements after rearrangement will be ADBFEG. We cannot find any context to fit in the statement (C) is the given passage. Hence, option (d) is the most suitable answer choice.

S7. Ans. (c)
Sol. Here, the error lies in part (C). ‘Which’ will be used instead of ‘that’ because ‘that’ is used after ‘the same’ if the verb is specified. Hence, option (c) is the right answer choice.

S8. Ans. (d)
Sol. Here, the error lies in part (D). ‘else’ will be replaced by ‘or’ because in part (C), ‘either’ is used and we use ‘either-or’ and not ‘either-else’. Hence, option (d) is the right answer choice.

S9. Ans. (b)
Sol. Here, the error lies in part (B). Instead of ‘since’, ‘that’ will be used because after ‘ago’, ‘that’ conjunction is used. Hence, option (d) is the right answer choice.

S10. Ans. (c)
Sol. Here, the error lies in the part (C). ‘Was’ will be used after ‘he’ because the next part (D) is in passive voice. Hence, option (c) is the right answer.

S11. Ans. (c)
Sol.  Here, the error lies in part (C), ‘were’ will be replaced by ‘was’. Hence, option (c) is the right answer choice.

S12. Ans. (a)
Sol. ‘Extend to the suppression of political’ is the phrase to replace the phrase printed in bold in the sentence to make it grammatically correct. Hence, option (a) is the right answer choice.

S13. Ans. (c)
Sol. ‘Subscribes to its own notion’ is the phrase to replace the phrase printed in bold in the sentence to make it grammatically correct. Hence, option (c) is the right answer choice.

S14. Ans. (d) 
Sol. ‘party has developed a’ is the phrase to replace the phrase printed in bold in the sentence to make it grammatically correct. Hence, option (d) is the right answer choice.

S15. Ans. (e)
Sol. here the sentence is correct both grammatically and contextually and therefore no replacement is required here. Hence, option (e) is the right answer choice.