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Dear Students, As we’ve all seen the drastic change in the pattern of Questions asked in English Section, Gone are the days when we used to predict types and no. of questions asked in the clerk and PO exam..but now every single day Questions are changing. IBPS is surprising all of us by asking CAT Exam pattern Questions.
So now we’ve decided to help and guide all of you to Sail through these unpredictable Bank Exams.
Every day, we’ll provide Quizzes based on the new pattern and some other new type of Questions that also might be asked in the upcoming exams. The best thing you can do is to be well prepared and familiar with all possible type of questions. We’ll also post the tricks and approach to nail unexpected pattern questions.
Directions (1-15): In each of the following questions, a word has been used in sentences in four different ways. Choose the option corresponding to the sentence in which the usage of the word is INCORRECT or INAPPROPRIATE.
Q1. Kick
(a) The management dealt with his haughtiness by kicking him upstairs.
(b) The employees kicked around when downsizing was suggested.
(c) The sales manager had to kick five per cent back to the purchase manager.
(d) Rather than go out tonight, I plan to kick back in front of the TV.
(e) None of the above
Q2. Work
(a) She was in her work clothes when I met her.
(b) She took up small jobs and worked her way in college.
(c) They could not work out an agreement even after several hours of wrangling.
(d)In her free time, she engages herself in social work.
(e) None of the above
Q3. Hack
(a) I just can’t hack all the noise of the crackers in Diwali.
(b) The personnel database of the firm was hacked.
(c) The bridge hacked the river in two.
(d) She hacked down all the weeds in her garden.
(e) None of the above
Q4. Clear
(a) The water was clear and one could see the bottom of the lake.
(b) The instructions to the questions were not quite clear to the students.
(c) The writer’s style was simple and elegant, as well as clear.
(d) Among the audience were the farmers of the north–a clear cultural group.
(e) None of the above
Q5. Value
(a) He is now declared an outlaw with a value on his head.
(b) He had nothing of value to speak in the meeting.
(c) At that price, you seem to have got good value.
(d) He is driven by material rather than human values.
(e) None of the above
Q6. Attend
(a) People were angry that the police did not attend their complaints on time.
(b) We camped for the night at a campsite attended by forest officers.
(c) Ministers attend upon the king.
(d) The speech was attended by wild applause.
(e) None of the above
Q7. Open
(a) Please keep an hour open for me on Friday; I need your help.
(b) Their hostilities eventually erupted with open war.
(c)These items are in open stock.
(d) We were not impressed by his open confessions.
(e) None of the above
Q8. Suggest
(a) The title of the film suggested its subject matter.
(b) My imagination suggested the explanation you only hinted at.
(c) The measures they initiated suggested that bankruptcy was imminent.
(d) Such a crime suggests apt punishment.
(e) None of the above
Q9. Understand
(a) The policeman understood the murderer.
(b) I understand that your fee will be Rs. 1000.
(c) The teacher understands her pupils.
(d) He understands finance.
(e) None of the above
Q10. Become
(a) Her clothes become her.
(b) What has become of the old house?
(c) What becomes to such a man in the end?
(d) It ill becomes you to complain.
(e) None of the above
Q11. Deal
(a) He has a great deal of support from the people.
(b) His father deals in diamonds.
(c) Deal with this complaint the way you feel fit.
(d) She was asked to deal three books to each student.
(e) None of the above
Q12. See
(a) I can’t understand what she sees in him.
(b) I can still see through my daughter as she was years ago.
(c) The last fifty years have seen sweeping changes in technology.
(d) She could not see the task through as she fell ill.
(e) None of the above
Q13. Know
(a) Millions in our country have known poverty for generations.
(b) She knows to write well.
(c) We do not yet know the solution to this problem.
(d) Many top politicos were in the know of the scam for a very long time.
(e) None of the above
Q14. Look
(a) She is looking really pretty in that pink dress.
(b) We are looking at the possibility of relocating.
(c) We look to have good year in the B-School.
(d) The business seems to be looking up this year.
(e) None of the above
Q15. Mean
(a) The average of 3, 4, 5, 8, and 10 is 6 whereas the mean is 5.
(b) I believe, I was meant to teach.
(c) His criticism of others is often petty and mean.
(d) His being physically handicapped makes his selection to the B-school no mean feat.
(e) None of the above
