IBPS English Language (Fillers) Quiz: 21st March 2019

Directions (1-15): In each of the following sentences, there is a blank space. Below each such sentence, there are four options with one word each. Fill up the blank with the word that makes the sentence grammatically and contextually correct. If none of the words is a correct fit for the blank, mark (e) as your answer choice.  


Q1. Today’s policymakers fail to understand Nehru’s ------------------------ sensible approach.

Q2. Finance Minister Arun Jaitley recently said that India’s first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, was the “original sinner” who ------------------------------ China over India for permanent membership in the UN Security Council.

Q3. Nehru’s approach to China was --------------------- by realpolitik and not wishful thinking.

Q4. Nehru understood that peace could not be assured in Asia without -------------------------------- a potential great power like China and providing it with its proper place in the international system.

Q5. Nehru refused to consider the American feeler not because he was a wide-eyed Sinophile but because he was well aware that all Washington was -------------------------- in using India for its own ends.

Q6. Had India accepted the American bait, it would have meant ---------------------- enmity with China without the achievement of a permanent seat in the UNSC.

Q7. There is -------------------------- over both the existence of a job crisis and the diagnosis of it.

Q8. It is well established that India is staring at a ---------------------- job crisis.

Q9. India’s job crisis is an --------------------- issue, not a political one.

Q10. India is not unique in ----------------------------- rising joblessness and consequently, income inequality.

Q11. While agrarian distress has slipped into the pre-election discourse as an important political subject, it is -------------------- to ask why the urban question is no less political.

Q12. India’s cities are grappling with acute urban --------------------------- issues relating to jobs, housing, migration, living conditions, mobility, sanitation, climate change and sustainability.

Q13. It is appalling that despite occupying only about 5% of urban land, slum dwellers in cities are labelled as -------------------------------.

Q14. I find it difficult to abide by the narrow-minded attitude of a ---------------------------- person.

Q15. The man was arrested because he refused to ---------------------- with the airline’s no smoking policy.