Fillers for IBPS Clerk Prelims Exam: 29th September 2018

IBPS Clerk Prelims is on its way and a lot of aspirants are heading towards new hopes with this upcoming opportunity. Thus, English Language can be an impetus for their success by helping them save crucial time and score good points in lesser time and effort. So, instead of boiling the ocean, try building up a strong vocabulary, an effective knowledge of grammar, and efficient comprehension skills so as to be on the ball to face this particular section. Here is a quiz on English Language being provided by Adda247 to let you practice the best of latest pattern English Questions for upcoming IBPS Clerk Exam.

Directions (1-15): In each of the following sentences, there is a blank space. Below the sentences, there are five options with one word each. Fill up the sentences with the word that makes the sentence grammatically and contextually correct.

Q1. A five-judge Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court led by Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra, on Thursday ________ the pre-Independence provision of adultery in the Indian Penal Code (IPC), which treats a married woman as a commodity owned by her husband.

Scrapped

Annulled

Demolished

Both (a) and (b)

All (a) (b) & (c)

Solution:

DEMOLISH means to pull or knock down (a building).Hence, only (a) & (b) fit in the given sentence grammatically and contextually.

Q2. Mr. Kumar told _________ that Mr. Greene told Ms. Swaraj he wanted to personally inform her about the Antiguan government and its Prime Minister’s “commitment on Mehul Choksi’s extradition.”

Reports

News

Reporters

Producers

Actors

Solution:

Among the given options, only option (c) fits in contextually as well as grammatically.

Q3. A three-judge Bench led by Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra _______ FIRs from being registered in relation to the film's name, songs or any of its contents.

Released

Barred

Warned

Declared

None of these

Solution:

Only ‘barred’ makes the given sentence meaningful as rest of the words are irrelevant.

Q4. The Commission has _________ an order of 17.45 lakh VVPATs to Bharat Electronics Limited and Electronics Corporation of India Limited for use in the coming Lok Sabha elections.

Held

Demanded

Recovered

Declared

Placed

Solution:

An order is always ‘placed’.
Here also, the sentence talks about a commission placing an order of 17.45 lakh VVPATs.

Q5. Adultery may not be the cause of an unhappy marriage but a result after all. It would be tantamount to ________ people who lived in an unhappy marriage, he observed.

Punish

Punishing

Warning

Stop

None of these

Solution:

Tantamount to something means being almost the same or having the same effect as something, usually something bad:
Hence, ‘tantamount to’ is followed by a reference to an act. Here this act is ‘the punishing of people who lived in unhappy marriages’. Using ‘punish’ here doesn’t make grammatical sense. Hence, option (b) is the correct answer here.

Q6. An _________ of the Himachal Pradesh State Disaster Management Authority said most of the 614 roads of the State, including Chandigarh-Manali Road, have been reopened.

Official

Minister

Driver

Both (a) & (b)

None of these

Solution:

The sentence starts with ‘An’, hence, must be followed by a vowel sound. Hence, (a) is the correct answer.

Q7. The weather conditions are favourable now and BRO ________ are on the job to clear debris from the roads.

People

Dogs

Astrologers

Community

Personnel

Solution:

‘People’ means public in general but ‘personnel’ means people employed in an organization. Hence, only (e) makes grammatical sense here.

Q8. China's foreign ministry said on Thursday that Beijing ________ not interfere in other countries’ internal matters after US president Donald Trump accused it of seeking to meddle in the Nov 6 US Congressional elections.

Has

Does

Have

None of these

Solution:

‘Beijing’ is a singular noun, so it’ll take ‘does’ with it.

Q9. Mr. Kasinath alleged that the corporators of the Opposition party (YSRCP) have joined TDP corporators in looting people in several _________.

Ways

Years

Dynasties

Parties

None of these

Solution:

Of all the options mentioned, only ‘ways’ make grammatical sense here.

Q10. Shops, business establishments and offices were partly closed in Kolkata and parts of West Bengal in the early hours on Wednesday following a 12-hour bandh ________ given by the BJP.

Missed call

Called

Miss call

Call

None of these

Solution:

‘Bandh call’ means an appeal for a general strike.

Q11. The strike by the Rajasthan Roadways employees _________ the 10th day on Wednesday, as the buses are off the road across the State.

Continued

Started

Entered

Declared

All (a), (b) & (c)

Solution:

Here, only option (c) is grammatically correct.

Q12. Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) on Monday said rains in the last few days have _______ pollutants from the air leading to improvement in air quality in the National Capital.

Been

Removed

Deleted

Blown

Blew

Solution:

For the given sentence, only ‘removed’ makes it meaningful.

Q13. Only 24 astronauts have flown beyond earth’s protective magnetic shield, in missions _______ a four-year period from December 1968 to December 1972.

Spanning

Extending

Ranging

All of the above

None of the above

Solution:

SPANNING: extending across (a period of time or a range of subjects).

Q14. SpaceX, Elon Musk’s space transportation company, has announced that its first private passenger on a voyage _______ the moon will be Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa, the founder and chief executive of online fashion retailer Zozo.

Inside

From

For

Around

Over

Solution:

Here, only ‘around the moon’ makes the sentence grammatically correct.

Q15. Works relating to land and revenue matters, ________ of certificates by different departments, release of scholarships and ration cards and the tasks of Panchayati Raj have come to a standstill because of the strike.

Eliminating

Extension

Writing

Verify

Issuance

Solution:

The given sentence talks about all the works affected by the strike. Here, ‘issuance’ fits in most appropriately to make the sentence grammatically correct as well as meaningful.

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