English Questions For IBPS RRB PO Exam 2017

(Direction 1-5): Please select the most appropriate option, out of the five options given for each of the following sentences, which, in your view, should be grammatically and structurally correct. Please note that the meaning & context of the sentence must not change. 

Q1. 
(a)This is turned out to be one of our most successful projects and we have made quite a large profit from them.
(b) This has turned out to be one of our most successful projects and we have made quite a large profit from it.
(c) This was turned out to be one of our most successful projects and we have made quite an large profit from it.
(d) This had turned out to be one of our most successful projects and we have made quite a larger profit from it.
(e) None is correct

Q2. 
(a)We have received many of the letters from the customers asking us to extend the deadline to repay their loans.
(b) We have received many the letters from the customers asking us to extended the deadline to repay their loans.
(c) We have received many of the letters from the customers asking us to extend the deadline to repay its loans.
(d) We have received many letters from the customers asking us to extend the deadline to repay their loans.
(e) ) None is correct

Q3. 
(a) This state’s unemployment rate has the highest in the nation as many of the manufacturing units closed down in the last decade.
(b) This state unemployment rate was the highest in the nation as many manufacturing units closed down in the last decade.
(c)This state’s unemployment rate is the highest in the nation as many manufacturing units closed down in the last decade.
(d) This state unemployment rates is the highest in the nation as many of the manufacturing units closed down in the last decade.
(e) None is correct

Q4. 
(a) Amit started a small constructions business two years ago when the country enjoyed an construction boom.
(b) Amit started a small construction business two years ago when the country were enjoying a construction boom.
(c) Amit started a small construction business two years ago when the country is enjoying a construction boom.
(d)Amit started small construction business two years ago when the country was enjoying a construction boom.
(e) None is correct

Q5. 
(a)The data shows that the unemployment rate has raised to 6.1 percent, the highest in five years.
(b) The data shows that the unemployment rate has rose to 6.1 percent, the highest in five years.
(c) The data shows that the unemployment rate has risen to 6.1 percent, the highest in five years.
(d) The data shows that the unemployment rate have raisen to 6.1 percent, the highest in five years.
(e) None is correct

Direction (6-15): In each question, the word at the top is used in four different ways, numbered to a to d, Choose the option in which the usage of the word is INCORRECT or INAPPROPRIATE. If all the options are grammatically correct and usage of the given word is appropriate, then select option e.

Q6. Work
(a) They worked it over until they had got it right.
(b) It took him a long time to work through his anger after he lost his job.
(c) She goes to the gym to work out her anger.
(d) Things were going wrong for them but fortunately, it all worked out in the end.
(e) Scientists are working on genetically modified crops and foods.

Q7. Act
(a) The medicine only acts on infected tissue.
 (b) My computer’s acting up; I think I might have a virus
(c) The enzyme acts upon certain proteins
(d) Their anger is acted upon in their antisocial behavior
(e) The police were acting on a tip from an informer and caught the gang red-handed.

Q8. Belong
(a) He doesn’t belong in either world.
(b) She didn’t seem to belong here, way too classy
(c) He belongs to a secret society
(d) Does this disc belong those on the shelf?
(e) Their ideas belong to the nineteenth century and seem old-fashioned now.

Q9. Call
(a) He called them out over awarding contracts to family members.
(b) He called the speaker on several mis-statements of fact.
(c) The concert had to be called in because the singer went down with a bad case of the flu.
(d) I must call her back when we get to the office
(e) The Opposition party called for the minister’s resignation after the scandal broke.

Q10. Blow
(a) The scandal blew over within a fortnight when the press found someone else to attack.
(b) The bomb blew up without any warning.
(c) He blew off in front of everybody
(d) She blew the candles out on her birthday cake
(e) A tree was blow out in the storm.

Q11. Turn 
(a) She turned out the lights and went to bed.
(b) The neighbour’s dog turned on me when I tried to stroke it.
(c) I turned the TV off and went to bed
(d) Tadpoles turned into frogs.
(e) They offered her the job, but she turned it out.

Q12. Walk
(a) She walked away with the first  prize.
(b) He walked me through the procedures.
(c) The film was a bore so I walked out halfway through.
(d) I saw the accident but just walked on as I didn’t want to have to give a statement.
(e) A man walked up to and asked me the time

Q13. Start
(a) They started off the meeting with an attack on our performance
(b) It’s time to start on that bottle of wine
(c) It’s a mess- I think we should just start over.
(d) He started on at me for being late.
(e) We started out early in the morning

Q14. Throw
(a) She threw down her job to go traveling
(b) The prawns she ate at lunch made her throw up and she had to go home early.
(c) The committee threw the proposal out.
(d) I threw on a jacket and rushed outside.
(e) May I throw in with you? My companions left me behind.

Q15. Move
(a) She’s tired of living there and is moving through.
(b) They moved her up to senior management.
(c) She moved on to another company where the salary was considerably better.
(d) They moved into the house as soon as it was ready.
(e) The house was empty for ages, but some new tenants moved in a few weeks ago.

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