Dear Students,
English Section is a topic that is feared by most of the candidates appearing in the IBPS PO Exam. Though the sheer number of concepts and rules may seem intimidating at first, with discipline and the right approach, it is not difficult to master these concepts and their application to questions. Through such English Quizzes, we will provide you all types of high-level questions to ace the questions based on new pattern English section of banking exams.
Directions (1-10): Which of the phrases (a), (b), (c) and (d) given below should replace the phrase given in bold in the following sentences to make the sentence grammatically meaningful and correct. If the sentence is correct as it is and there is no correction required (e) as the answer.
Q1. A city is more than a place to live, it had embodied a dreaming and the possibilities of a dream. Sometimes a city acquires the status of a myth, becomes a character in a novel.
(a) it will embodies a dream and the possibility of dream
(b) it have been embodies a dream and the possibilities of a dream
(c) it embodies a dream and the possibilities of a dream
(d) it embodied a dream and the possibilities of a dream
(e) No correction required
Q2. There is a sense of loss, a silence of mourn which no amount of political bluster and brand bravura can conceal.
(a) a silence of mourning that not some amount of political bluster
(b) the silence of mourning in which no amount of politically bluster
(c) an silence for mourning those no amount of political blusters
(d) a silence of mourning which no amount of political bluster
(e) No correction required
Q3. The State Medical and Health Department has organised a series of outreach camp and nutrition days, especiality for the underprivileged sections in the urban areas.
(a) a series of outreach camp and nutrition day, especially for the underprivileged sections in the urban areas.
(b) a series of outreach camps and nutrition days, especially for the underprivileged sections in the urban areas.
(c) a series of outreach camps and nutrition days, especially for the underprivilege sections in the urban areas.
(d) a series of outreach camps and nutrition days, especially for an underprivileged sections on the urban areas.
(e) No correction required
Q4. The government have been failed to meet their target revenue over recent years and a major reason for it was the trafficking of illegal liquor from neighbouring states.
(a) The government had been failing to meet its target revenue over recent years
(b) The government had failing to meet its target revenue over recent years
(c) The government has been failing to meet its target revenue over recent years
(d) The government is been failing to meet its target revenue over recent years
(e) No correction required
Q5. The recent introduction of the Goods and Services Tax (GST), which is the most significant overhaul of the taxation system in India ever, aims to achieved an unified market across the nation for the first time.
(a) aims at achieving the unified market across the nations for the first time
(b) has been aimed to achieve a unified market across the nation at the first time
(c) aims to achieve an unified market across the nation for the first time
(d) aims to achieve a unified market across the nation for the first time
(e) No correction required
Q6. It wants to transform India in a manufactured, investment and research and development hub and consequentially, there would also be an increase in revenue generation.
(a) It wants to transform India into a manufacturing, investment and research
(b) It wants to transform India into an manufacturing, investmenting and research
(c) It want to transform India into a manufacturing, investment and research
(d) It wanted to transform India in an manufacturing, investment and research
(e) No correction required
Q7. Tax administrators in India have for long implemented enforcement-based strategies and it is only in recent years that there has been a shift in stance to service-based strategies.
(a) strategies and it was only in recent years that there has been a shift in stance to service-based strategies.
(b) strategies and it had only in recent years that there has been a shift in stance to service-based strategies.
(c) strategies and it is only in recent years that there had been a shift in stance to service-based strategies.
(d) strategies and it was only in recent years that there is been a shift in stance to service-based strategies.
(e) No correction required
Q8. Bitcoin is just one of the applications for the technology, whose use had been testing across industries.
(a) whose use were being tested across industries.
(b) whose use is being tested across industries.
(c) whose use is been tested across industries.
(d) whose use had being tested across industries.
(e) No correction required
Q9. Non-financial players have been looked for ways about leveraging the opportunities that blockchain offers.
(a) Non-financial players has been looking for ways to leverage the opportunities
(b) Non-financial players have being looking for ways to leverage the opportunities
(c) Non-financial players have been looked for ways to leverage the opportunities
(d) Non-financial players have been looking for ways to leverage the opportunities
(e) No correction required
Q10. An increase in the price of a stock, for instance, might cause short sellers to rush to buy the stock in order at preventing farther losses on their short position.
(a) sellers to rush to buy the stock in order to prevent further losses on their short position.
(b) sellers to rush to buy the stocks in order at prevent further losses on there short position.
(c) sellers to rush to buy the stock in order to prevent further looses on their short position.
(d) sellers to rush to buy the stock in order to prevent further losses on their short position.
(e) No correction required
Directions (11-15): In the following sentences each contains two blanks, indicating that something has been left out of the sentence. Each answer choice contains one word or a set of words. Select the word or set of words, that, when inserted in the blank(s), best fits the context of the sentence.
Q11. For more than two years now, _______ had been going on in connection with the ________ World Bank aid.
(a)activation, changes
(b) negotiations, projected
(c)discussions, ruled
(d) references, result
(e) project, new
Q12. A high-level committee is currently _______ on the issue whether or not cryptocurrencies should be _________ in India.
(a)deciding, uploaded
(b)popup, viewing
(c) deliberating, banned
(d)promoted, read
(e) referred, styled
Q13.The usually quiet City streets, were alive with singing ____ wending their way towards the Central Station throughout the _______.
(a) crowds, night
(b)birds, manner
(c)songs, week
(d)people, losses
(e) No correction required
Q14. The sudden increase in _________ for the stock causes its _______ to shoot up temporarily in the absence of additional supply.
(a) amount, size
(b)money, aim
(c) demand, price
(d)supply, style
(e) No correction required
Q15. The happy event was looked anxiously forward to by the ______ of Madras who had three months ago bid them farewell with anger on their brow and tears in their _______.
(a)man, dreams
(b) people, eyes
(c)crowd, pupil
(d) mob, glass
(e) No correction required
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