Night Class: English Quiz for IBPS PO and Clerk 2017

Directions (1-15): In the following passage, there are blanks, each of which has been numbered. These numbers are printed below the passage and against each, five words are suggested, one of which fits the blank appropriately. Find out the appropriate word in each case.

The experience in cities __(1)___  the country over the last fortnight underscores the need for proactive policy and action for urban resilience. There has been acceleration in the periodicity and intensity of extreme weather events over the last decade.

It is time ___(2)__  governments and urban planners to include vulnerabilities to climate __(3)__  and the risks it poses in __(4)____  decision-making and planning process. This is not to take attention ___(5)____  from the criminal negligence of routine maintenance and callousness amounting to culpable homicide implicit in leaving openings on public streets to the sewer network uncovered.

Climate change ___(6)___  become an added urban challenge. Climate vulnerability assessments should be __(7)____  for any urban development. This would require changes in the planning and development acts in the states: ad-hocism is just not affordable any more. Data collection and sharing it on a __(8)____  platform for assorted urban agencies to access and analyse should be the first step. Simultaneously, the focus must be on ___(9)____  the capacities of urban planners to interpret and use climate data. The urban __(10)___  process must take into ___(11)____  land use patterns, allowing for the protection of wetlands. Accountability, flexibility and _____(12)______  by stakeholders are key to making cities resilient. Therefore, it is essential to ____(13)____  urban local bodies and make them responsible for city planning and development.

Over the next 15 years, India’s urban population is projected to rise to nearly 600 million. Cities ___(14)___  long been responsible for creating wealth and engendering progress. Making cities climate-resilient will not only ___(15)___  threats for urban populations and assets but will have the added benefit of helping businesses and local economies thrive.

Q1. 

(a) in

(b) for

(c) over

(d) across

(e) belong 

Q2. 

(a) for

(b) at

(c) along

(d) towards

(e) to

Q3. 

(a) formed

(b) diversion

(c) change

(d) usage

(e) transformation

Q4. 

(a) her

(b) there

(c) his

(d) its

(e) their

Q5. 

(a) distinct

(b) distance

(c) separation

(d) shift

(e) away

Q6. 

(a) did

(b) has

(c) had

(d) shall

(e) will

Q7. 

(a) conventional

(b) rude

(c) mandatory

(d) negligence

(e) strict

Q8. 

(a) basically 

(b) initially

(c) mere

(d) common

(e) although

Q9. 

(a) captured

(b) building

(c) transformed

(d) ignited

(e) promotion

Q10. 

(a) planning

(b) creating

(c) development 

(d) imaging 

(e) local

Q11. 

(a) conscience

(b) considered

(c) account

(d) pocket

(e) serious

Q12. 

(a) staking

(b) service

(c) deciding

(d) participation

(e) borrow

Q13. 

(a) empower

(b) locate

(c) collected

(d) gathering

(e) extension

Q14. 

(a) has

(b) shall

(c) have

(d) be

(e) had

Q15. 

(a) curbing

(b) reduce

(c) narrowed

(d) confirm

(e) specified

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