English Language Quiz For Bank Mains Exam 2024-31st January

Directions (1-5): Each of the following questions has a paragraph from which one sentence/clause/phrase has been deleted. From the given options, choose the one that completes the paragraph in the most appropriate/coherent way.

Q1. _________________________ of Gabriela Moura, a student from Paraisópolis, a favela in the city of São Paulo, and Roberto Inglese, a lawyer from the prosperous neighbourhood of Morumbi ,But on October 7th the two paulistanos were united in their choice for Brazil’s president: Jair Bolsonaro, a far-right former army captain.

(a) Such sentiments have brought Mr Bolsonaro to the verge
(b) Although the heart
(c) It took 178 years before a person
(d) Though a steep hill and a concrete wall divide the worlds
(e) Jamal Khashoggi’s disappearance and the crumbling

Q2. Reserve Bank of India retained its policy interest rate at 6.5% yesterday, making it an outlier among Asian central banks facing similar challenges. __________________________________________________________. The BSE Sensex ended yesterday at 34,376.99 points, lower by 2.25%. During the week it fell 5.11%, the largest weekly fall in 31 months. The rupee closed at 74.23 against the US dollar yesterday. It’s fallen more than 14% since January, making it the worst performer among major Asian currencies. Yet, RBI didn’t raise interest rate to defend the rupee.

(a) It has shown up in an outflow this year of foreign portfolio investment.
(b) Domestic factors seem under control.
(c) There is dissonance between RBI’s outlook and recent events in financial markets.
(d) According to RBI inflation in key food items remains “exceptionally soft at this juncture.”
(e) None of these

Q3. Modi came to power with one major foreign policy goal: to deal with the China problem. The China problem is simply that India’s northern neighbor presides over an economy five times India’s and is not particularly friendly. _________________________________________________________________________-, balance Chinese power by cultivating the US, Japan, Australia and Vietnam, and stiffen India’s stance on border negotiations. Along the way, he tried to shame Beijing over its veto of UN sanctions on Pakistani terrorists and its blocking of India’s Nuclear Suppliers Group membership. He also snubbed President Xi Jinping over the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).

(a) Non-alignment would have made things easier with China
(b) India assured China it would not intervene in the Maldives.
(c) First, Doklam had been no victory at all, as China bolstered its military presence
(d) The Modi solution was to increase India’s visibility internationally
(e) None of these

Q4. ____________________, Maine Senator Susan Collins waited until the final words of her more than 30-minute floor speech Friday to announce her intention to vote to confirm Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. Moments after she finished, West Virginia Democrat Joe Manchin used the less elevated platform of Twitter to say that he, too, will vote to confirm.

(a) That is a low thought but this was very much on,
(b) With no small sense of the dramatic moment,
(c) With Alaska Republican Lisa Murkowski defecting for reasons apparently known only to her,
(d) Senator Collins agreed with some of Judge Kavanaugh’s positions,
(e) In short, the speech was a U.S. Senator weighing a nominee’s objective,

Q5. Finance minister Arun Jaitley did the right thing _________________________ that the government is mindful of the current account deficit (CAD) and would maintain fiscal discipline. He has promised yet more measures to contain CAD. We would urge caution. It is not a good idea to selectively raise import duties or levy quantitative restrictions on specific items.

(a) To selectively discriminate and raise import duties or levy quantitative restrictions on specific items
(b) By refusing to reduce the high interest rates on the bank loans,
(c) To curb imports across the board,
(d) By reassuring the investor community
(e) With threatening investors of legal action

Solutions

S1. Ans. (d)
Sol. Gabriela Moura is the name of a student from a place Paraisopolis, which is a favela in the city of Sao Paulo, while Robertao Inglese is a lawyer from the prosperous neighbourhood of Morumbi.
Favela [noun]: a Brazilian shack or shanty town; a slum.
The places where Gabriela Moura and Robertao Inglese live are completely different, rather opposite, from the financial point of view. The second sentence uses the conjunction ‘but’ and informs that the two Paulistanos, though lives in a completely opposite town from financial point of view, were united in their choice for
Brazil’s president.
The phrase/clause filling the blank must illustrates or complement or introduces this contrast.
Among the given options, only option (d) appropriately illustrates this divide.
Though a steep hill and a concrete wall divide the worlds of the two mentioned personalities, still they were united in their choice for Brazil’s president.
The options (a), (b), (c) and (e) are out-of-context and irrelevant.
Hence, the correct answer is the option (d)

S2. Ans. (c)
Sol. The most appropriate phrase/sentence to complete the paragraph is “There is dissonance between RBI’s outlook and recent events in financial markets” as the paragraph is describing about the policies of Reserve bank of India and how there is disharmony between its policies and the happenings of the financial market. All the other sentences do not fit in the context of the paragraph. Hence, the option (c) is the most suitable answer choice.

S3. Ans. (d)
Sol. The most appropriate phrase to complete the paragraph is “The Modi solution was to increase India’s visibility internationally” as the paragraph is describing about the issues of India with China. It has further mentioned the steps initiated by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi regarding this issue. Drawing a hint from the latter part of the paragraph that has described several initiatives taken by Modi, the given blank can be filled in the similar context. Likewise option (d) suggests Modi’s solution in reference to China’s issue. All the other phrases are either grammatically incorrect or contextually meaningless. Thus, option (d) becomes the most viable answer choice

S4. Ans. (b)
Sol. The sentence which goes in line with intention of the senator is the second option hence option (b) is correct.
The option (c), (d) and (e) are out of context and irrelevant. The option (b) is correct. The hint for the same can be derived from the phrase ‘waited until the final words…’. The phrase implies the dramatic aspect of the situation.
Hence, the option (b) is the correct answer.

S5. Ans. (d)
Sol. Among the given options, only option (d) gels well both contextually and grammatically with the preceding and the later part of the blank. The other options, i.e., the options (a), (b), (c) and (e) are irrelevant and out-of-context.
Hence, the correct answer is the option (d).