English Quiz For IBPS Exam 2016 |

Directions (1-5): Rearrange the following five sentences
(A), (B), (C), (D) and (E) in the proper sequence to form a meaningful
paragraph and then answer the questions given below.

(A) However, each stage of God must give scope to the whole
range of human abilities; even in the worst situations, a person aspires to do
more than cope.

(B) In stage one, the limit is set by physical
circumstances.

(C) If you are surrounded by threats, to survive is a high
aspiration. This would be true in a shipwreck, a war, a famine, or an abusive
family.

(D) Every stage of God implies a life challenge, which can
be expressed in terms of a higher aspiration.

(E) God exists to inspire us, and we express this through
the aspirations we set for ourselves. An aspiration is the limit of the
possible.

Q1. Which of the following should be the First sentence of
the given paragraph?

(a)E

(b)D

(c)C

(d)B

(e)A

Q2. Which of the following should be the Third sentence of
the given paragraph?

(a)A

(b)B

(c)C

(d)D

(e)E

Q3. Which of the following should be the Fifth sentence of
the given paragraph?

(a)A

(b)C

(c)B

(d)D

(e)E

Q4. Which of the following should be the Fourth sentence of
the given paragraph?

(a)A

(b)C

(c)B

(d)E

(e)D

Q5. Which of the following should be the Second sentence of
the given paragraph?

(a)B

(b)D

(c)A

(d)C

(e)E

Directions (6-10): Rearrange the following five sentences
(A), (B), (C), (D) and (E) in the proper sequence to form a meaningful
paragraph and then answer the questions given below.

(A) Absolute advantage, in economics, is a concept of trade
in which one country can produce a quantity of a product in a more efficient
manner a quantity of a product in a more efficient manner (that is, with fewer
resources of labour, land and/or capital) than another country.

(B) However, this statistics does not carry the implication
that Japan should specialize in steel and the UK should not because Japan might
be even better relative to the UK at other things.

(C) For example, in 1981, Japan produced a ton of steel with
only 9.4 man-hours at a cost of only $502, compared with 16.5 man hours and
$622 in the U.K.

(D) Not only that, but neither absolute nor comparative
advantage are necessarily static for all time: Once, UK steel producers were
more efficient that the Japanese.

(E) The real guide to specialization and to maximizing the
gains from trade is comparative advantage.

Q6. Which of the following should be the First sentence of
the given paragraph?

(a)E

(b)D

(c)C

(d)B

(e)A

Q7. Which of the following should be the Third sentence of
the given paragraph?

(a)A

(b)B

(c)C

(d)D

(e)E

Q8. Which of the following should be the Fifth sentence of
the given paragraph?

(a)A

(b)C

(c)B

(d)D

(e)E

Q9. Which of the following should be the Fourth sentence of
the given paragraph?

(a)A

(b)C

(c)B

(d)E

(e)D

Q10. Which of the following should be the Second sentence of
the given paragraph?

(a)B

(b)D

(c)A

(d)C

(e)E

Directions (11-15): Rearrange the following five sentences
(A), (B), (C), (D) and (E) in the proper sequence to form a meaningful
paragraph and then answer the questions given below.

(A) Their aim was to write about everyday phenomena, and to
use words and images for their primary, stripped-down meanings, without
metaphor, clogged syntax or other forms of ‘poeticizing’.

(B) The acmeists were particularly opposed to the mysticism
and erotic suggestiveness of symbolist writing, and to the experiments of Mayakovsky
and the surrealists.

(C) The idea of cleansing language, of using words for
words’ sake alone, has been a recurring feature of poetry, not least in the
20th century (for example in the work of T.S. Eliot and William Carlos
Williams) but the acmeists, in a way characteristic of artists in the 1910s,
were the only ones to give it a name and a specific agenda.

(D) Acmeism (from Greek ame, ‘point’) was a movement in
Russian poetry of the 1920s led by the writers Niloai Gumilev and Sergei
Gorodetsky, and followed by Anna Akmatova and Osip Mandelstam.

(E) They published a magazine, Apollo, from, 1909-17, and
were denounced by the authorities as decadent and ‘individualist’: socialism demanded realism
of a rather different kind.

Q11. Which of the following should be the First sentence of
the given paragraph?

(a)E

(b)D

(c)C

(d)B

(e)A

Q12. Which of the following should be the Third sentence of
the given paragraph?

(a)A

(b)B

(c)C

(d)D

(e)E

Q13. Which of the following should be the Fifth sentence of
the given paragraph?

(a)A

(b)C

(c)B

(d)D

(e)E

Q14. Which of the following should be the Fourth sentence of
the given paragraph?

(a)A

(b)C

(c)B

(d)E

(e)D

Q15. Which of the following should be the Second sentence of
the given paragraph?

(a)B

(b)D

(c)A

(d)C

(e)E

Solutions

S1. Ans.(b)

Sol. The correct order of the sentences of the given paragraph would be: DEBCA

S2. Ans.(b)

Sol. The correct order of the sentences of the given paragraph would be: DEBCA

S3. Ans.(a)

Sol. The correct order of the sentences of the given paragraph would be: DEBCA

S4. Ans.(b)

Sol. The correct order of the sentences of the given paragraph would be: DEBCA

S5. Ans.(e)

Sol. The correct order of the sentences of the given paragraph would be: DEBCA

S6. Ans.(e)

Sol. The correct order of the sentences of the given paragraph would be: ACBED

S7. Ans.(b)

Sol. The correct order of the sentences of the given paragraph would be: ACBED

S8. Ans.(d)

Sol. The correct order of the sentences of the given paragraph would be: ACBED

S9. Ans.(d)

Sol. The correct order of the sentences of the given paragraph would be: ACBED

S10. Ans.(d)

Sol. The correct order of the sentences
of the given paragraph would be: ACBED

S11. Ans.(b)