IBPS RRB Mains Daily English Mock 8th October-Miscellaneous

  

Direction (1-5): Which of
the phrase/ word from the options (a), (b), (c) and (d) given below each
sentence should replace the phrase printed in bold letters to make the sentence
grammatically correct? If the sentence is correct as it is, mark (e) i.e., “No
correction required” as the answer.

 

Q1. 
When the police started asking questions, the suspect clammed up.

(a) camped down

(b) clamped up

(c) clam out

(d) clamed off

(e) No Correction Required

 

Q2. The implication is that these may be
black funds and they are to be
tracked and the people

behind them will be caught.

(a) are on track

(b) is being tracked

(c) have been tracked

(d) are being tracked

(e) No improvement is required

 

Q3. I must look after my French before going to Paris next month.

(a) brush in for

(b) catch up

(c) brush up on

(d) bring in on

(e) No Correction Required

 

Q4. If this is freedom of speech, then
it must been curtailed immediately.

(a) have being curtailing

(b) must be curtailed
(c) must have been curtailed
(d) have been curtailed
(e) No correction required

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Q5. India has suffered from terrorism.
So has Pakistan. And it turns out,
now the first world too is not immune.

(a) turning out to
(b) it turns to
(c) it turned out to be
(d) it turning out
(e) No improvement required

 

Direction (6-10): There are two different sentences with a blank space in each question.
Choose the word from the given options which fits into both the blanks
appropriately without altering their meanings.

 

Q6. (1) The ___________ of traffic
accidents and drunk driving was attributed to the opening of the new downtown
mall.

(2) The gradual ___________ of terror
over many years left hundred dead and thousands wounded.

 

(a)accretion

(b)increase

(c)enlargement

(d)accessory

(e)None of the above

 

Q7. (1) Abraham Lincoln’s _____________
Proclamation declared freedom to slaves in the south.

(2) Hoping to be free from her guardians, the teenager requested _____________
from the court.

(a)abolition

(b)autarchy

(c)exemption

(d)immune

(e)emancipation

 

Q8. (1) It was feared that there could
be a __________________ unsettling of established governments and a new
political order could come into being, oriented away from the traditional
leadership of the region.

(2) The _____________migration of the bird species occurs every year
around the same time, when they all migrate to a warmer climate

(a)comprehensively

(b)wholesale

(c)voluminous

(d)extensive

(e)haphazard

 

Q9. (1) The French President Emmanuel
Macron’s new centrist party is ______________ poised for a landslide victory in
the parliamentary elections.

(2) The opinion of parliament on two other questions during the session
was, ______________, influenced by events in France.

 

(a)evidently

(b)seemingly

(c)ostensibly

(d)apparently

(e)All of the above

 

Q10. (1) Parliament takes pride in asserting
the supremacy of the institution, at times even ignoring what it perceives as
judicial _______________ in its functioning.

(2) It would have been enough to have cured the whole Roxburghe Club
from _______________ with libraries and books forever and ever.

 

(a)concern

(b)examining

(c)tracing

(d)meddling

(e)quest

 

Directions (11-15): Which of the phrases (a), (b), (c) and (d)
given below each sentence should replace the phrase printed in bold letters to
make the sentence grammatically correct? If the sentence is correct as it is,
mark (e) i.e., “No correction required” as the answer.

Q11. Gandhi’s non-violent methods envisage that nature ought to be handled
in a mild manner, much against modern technology’s onslaught on nature to help
technology achieve its goal.

(a)envisaged how nature should handled

(b)have envisage the handling of the
nature

(c)did envisage the natures handling

(d)envisage that nature can be handle

(e)No correction required

 

Q12. Various forms of traditional wisdom
about practical solutions of different problems are considered by
environmentalists as more prudent than
offered in modern technology.

(a)to be more prudent than the ones
offered by

(b)more prudent than those offered by

(c)to be prudential as compared to

(d)that it is more prudent than what
offered in

(e)No correction required

 

Q13. Indian agriculture comes over a long way since Independence,
with chronic food scarcity giving way to self-sufficiency in grain despite a
two-and-a-half fold increase in population.

(a)has been coming a long way after
Independence

(b)have grown a long way after
Independence

(c)had gone a longer way after
Independence

(d)has come a long way since
Independence

(e)No correction required

 

Q14. North Korea is believed to be
developing an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) capable of carrying a nuclear warhead and reaching mainland United
States.

(a)which is capable of carrying a
nuclear war

(b)which can carry a nuclear warhead

(c)that is capable of carrying out a
nuclear war

(d)capable of carrying out a nuclear war

(e)No correction required

 

Q15. The dramatic decision by Saudi
Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Egypt and Yemen of suspending diplomatic ties to Qatar could have far-reaching
economic and geopolitical consequences.

(a)suspending the ties of diplomacy with

(b)by suspending diplomatic ties of

(c)to suspend diplomatic ties with

(d)with the suspension of diplomatic
ties in

(e)No correction required

SOLUTIONS:

 

S1. Ans. (e)

Sol. Clam up means to refuse to speak.

 

S2. Ans. (d)

Sol. “are being tracked” is the correct
phrase replacement.

S3. Ans. (c)

Sol. 
brush up on means to improve, refresh one’s knowledge of something

 

S4. Ans. (b)

Sol. Curtail means reduce in extent or quantity; impose a restriction
on.

 

S5. Ans. (e)

Sol. The sentence is grammatically
correct.

S6. Ans. (a)

Sol. Accretion means a thing formed or added by gradual growth or
increase.

S7. Ans. (e)

Sol. Emancipation means the fact or process of being set free from
legal, social, or political restrictions; liberation.

S8. Ans. (b)

Sol. Wholesale means done on a large scale; extensive.

S9. Ans. (e)

Sol. All the given options fit into the
blanks appropriately as all four words mean the same i.e. so as to give the
impression of having a certain quality; apparently.

S10. Ans. (d)

Sol. Meddling means interfering in something that is not one’s concern.

S11. Ans. (e)

Sol. The given sentence is grammatically
correct.

S12. Ans. (a)

Sol. “to be more prudent than the ones
offered by” is the correct phrase replacement to make the sentence
grammatically correct.

S13. Ans. (d)

Sol. “has come a long way since
Independence” is the correct phrase replacement as the sentence is in Present
Tense. Hence (d) is the correct option.

S14. Ans. (e)

Sol. The given sentence does not require
any correction as it is grammatically correct.

S15. Ans. (c)

Sol. “to suspend diplomatic ties with”
is the correct phrase replacement to make the sentence grammatically correct.

 

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