English Language Quiz For IBPS Clerk Prelims 2023-24th August

Directions (1-10): 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.

Q1. Once upon a time, two friends were (1) through the desert. During some point of the (2) they had an argument, and one friend slapped the other one in the face. The one who got slapped was (3), but without saying anything, he wrote in the sand, “Today my best friend slapped me in the face.” They kept on walking (4) they found an oasis, where they (5) to take a bath. The one, who had been slapped, got (6) in the quicksand and started drowning, but the friend saved him. After the friend (7) from the near drowning, he wrote on a stone, “The friend who had slapped and saved his best friend asked him, “After I hurt you, you wrote in the sand and (8) you write on a stone, why?” The other friend (9), “When someone hurts us, we should write it down in sand where winds of forgiveness can erase it away. But, when someone does something good for us, we must (10) it in stone where no wind can ever erase it.”

(a) crawling

(b) speaking

(c) swimming

(d) walking

(e) dancing

Q2. Once upon a time, two friends were (1) through the desert. During some point of the (2) they had an argument, and one friend slapped the other one in the face. The one who got slapped was (3), but without saying anything, he wrote in the sand, “Today my best friend slapped me in the face.” They kept on walking (4) they found an oasis, where they (5) to take a bath. The one, who had been slapped, got (6) in the quicksand and started drowning, but the friend saved him. After the friend (7) from the near drowning, he wrote on a stone, “The friend who had slapped and saved his best friend asked him, “After I hurt you, you wrote in the sand and (8) you write on a stone, why?” The other friend (9), “When someone hurts us, we should write it down in sand where winds of forgiveness can erase it away. But, when someone does something good for us, we must (10) it in stone where no wind can ever erase it.”

(a) journey

(b) sand

(c) running

(d) border

(e) hunt

Q3. Once upon a time, two friends were (1) through the desert. During some point of the (2) they had an argument, and one friend slapped the other one in the face. The one who got slapped was (3), but without saying anything, he wrote in the sand, “Today my best friend slapped me in the face.” They kept on walking (4) they found an oasis, where they (5) to take a bath. The one, who had been slapped, got (6) in the quicksand and started drowning, but the friend saved him. After the friend (7) from the near drowning, he wrote on a stone, “The friend who had slapped and saved his best friend asked him, “After I hurt you, you wrote in the sand and (8) you write on a stone, why?” The other friend (9), “When someone hurts us, we should write it down in sand where winds of forgiveness can erase it away. But, when someone does something good for us, we must (10) it in stone where no wind can ever erase it.”

(a) dead

(b) captured

(c) presentable

(d) missing

(e) hurt

Q4. Once upon a time, two friends were (1) through the desert. During some point of the (2) they had an argument, and one friend slapped the other one in the face. The one who got slapped was (3), but without saying anything, he wrote in the sand, “Today my best friend slapped me in the face.” They kept on walking (4) they found an oasis, where they (5) to take a bath. The one, who had been slapped, got (6) in the quicksand and started drowning, but the friend saved him. After the friend (7) from the near drowning, he wrote on a stone, “The friend who had slapped and saved his best friend asked him, “After I hurt you, you wrote in the sand and (8) you write on a stone, why?” The other friend (9), “When someone hurts us, we should write it down in sand where winds of forgiveness can erase it away. But, when someone does something good for us, we must (10) it in stone where no wind can ever erase it.”

(a) as

(b) until

(c) from

(d) with

(e) through

Q5. Once upon a time, two friends were (1) through the desert. During some point of the (2) they had an argument, and one friend slapped the other one in the face. The one who got slapped was (3), but without saying anything, he wrote in the sand, “Today my best friend slapped me in the face.” They kept on walking (4) they found an oasis, where they (5) to take a bath. The one, who had been slapped, got (6) in the quicksand and started drowning, but the friend saved him. After the friend (7) from the near drowning, he wrote on a stone, “The friend who had slapped and saved his best friend asked him, “After I hurt you, you wrote in the sand and (8) you write on a stone, why?” The other friend (9), “When someone hurts us, we should write it down in sand where winds of forgiveness can erase it away. But, when someone does something good for us, we must (10) it in stone where no wind can ever erase it.”

(a) decided

(b) fell

(c) made

(d) want

(e) left

Q6. Once upon a time, two friends were (1) through the desert. During some point of the (2) they had an argument, and one friend slapped the other one in the face. The one who got slapped was (3), but without saying anything, he wrote in the sand, “Today my best friend slapped me in the face.” They kept on walking (4) they found an oasis, where they (5) to take a bath. The one, who had been slapped, got (6) in the quicksand and started drowning, but the friend saved him. After the friend (7) from the near drowning, he wrote on a stone, “The friend who had slapped and saved his best friend asked him, “After I hurt you, you wrote in the sand and (8) you write on a stone, why?” The other friend (9), “When someone hurts us, we should write it down in sand where winds of forgiveness can erase it away. But, when someone does something good for us, we must (10) it in stone where no wind can ever erase it.”

(a) home

(b) stuck

(c) blended

(d) mixed

(e) sitting

Q7. Once upon a time, two friends were (1) through the desert. During some point of the (2) they had an argument, and one friend slapped the other one in the face. The one who got slapped was (3), but without saying anything, he wrote in the sand, “Today my best friend slapped me in the face.” They kept on walking (4) they found an oasis, where they (5) to take a bath. The one, who had been slapped, got (6) in the quicksand and started drowning, but the friend saved him. After the friend (7) from the near drowning, he wrote on a stone, “The friend who had slapped and saved his best friend asked him, “After I hurt you, you wrote in the sand and (8) you write on a stone, why?” The other friend (9), “When someone hurts us, we should write it down in sand where winds of forgiveness can erase it away. But, when someone does something good for us, we must (10) it in stone where no wind can ever erase it.”

(a) separated

(b) leaked

(c) died

(d) recovered

(e) saved

Q8. Once upon a time, two friends were (1) through the desert. During some point of the (2) they had an argument, and one friend slapped the other one in the face. The one who got slapped was (3), but without saying anything, he wrote in the sand, “Today my best friend slapped me in the face.” They kept on walking (4) they found an oasis, where they (5) to take a bath. The one, who had been slapped, got (6) in the quicksand and started drowning, but the friend saved him. After the friend (7) from the near drowning, he wrote on a stone, “The friend who had slapped and saved his best friend asked him, “After I hurt you, you wrote in the sand and (8) you write on a stone, why?” The other friend (9), “When someone hurts us, we should write it down in sand where winds of forgiveness can erase it away. But, when someone does something good for us, we must (10) it in stone where no wind can ever erase it.”

(a) so

(b) how

(c) when

(d) tomorrow

(e) now

Q9. Once upon a time, two friends were (1) through the desert. During some point of the (2) they had an argument, and one friend slapped the other one in the face. The one who got slapped was (3), but without saying anything, he wrote in the sand, “Today my best friend slapped me in the face.” They kept on walking (4) they found an oasis, where they (5) to take a bath. The one, who had been slapped, got (6) in the quicksand and started drowning, but the friend saved him. After the friend (7) from the near drowning, he wrote on a stone, “The friend who had slapped and saved his best friend asked him, “After I hurt you, you wrote in the sand and (8) you write on a stone, why?” The other friend (9), “When someone hurts us, we should write it down in sand where winds of forgiveness can erase it away. But, when someone does something good for us, we must (10) it in stone where no wind can ever erase it.”

(a) called

(b) tell

(c) replied

(d) questioned

(e) asked

Q10. Once upon a time, two friends were (1) through the desert. During some point of the (2) they had an argument, and one friend slapped the other one in the face. The one who got slapped was (3), but without saying anything, he wrote in the sand, “Today my best friend slapped me in the face.” They kept on walking (4) they found an oasis, where they (5) to take a bath. The one, who had been slapped, got (6) in the quicksand and started drowning, but the friend saved him. After the friend (7) from the near drowning, he wrote on a stone, “The friend who had slapped and saved his best friend asked him, “After I hurt you, you wrote in the sand and (8) you write on a stone, why?” The other friend (9), “When someone hurts us, we should write it down in sand where winds of forgiveness can erase it away. But, when someone does something good for us, we must (10) it in stone where no wind can ever erase it.”

(a) talk

(b) push

(c) engrave

(d) add

(e) bury

Solutions

S1. Ans.(d)

S2. Ans.(a)

S3. Ans.(e)

S4. Ans.(b)

S5. Ans.(a)

S6. Ans.(b)

S7. Ans.(d)

S8. Ans.(e)

S9. Ans.(c)

S10. Ans.(c)