Night Class: English Quiz for IBPS PO and clerk 2017

English Section is a topic that is feared by most of the candidates appearing in the IBPS RRB Mains Exam. Through the concept of  Night classes, we are providing you all types of high-level questions to ace English Section of banking exams.

Directions (1-5): Rearrange the following six sentences (A), (B), (C), (D), (E) and (F) in the proper sequence to form a meaningful paragraph; and answer the questions given below.

A. India has also renegotiated the much-abused provisions in some of its DTAAs, namely with Switzerland, Mauritius, Cyprus and Singapore.

B. 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.
answer the questions given below them.

C.Though the charter does not by itself create new legal rights, it surely helps in enforcing existing rights.

D. They have further propagated the same intent by the introduction of a citizen’s charter in both direct and indirect tax statutes of India.

E. Capital gains-related issues and exchange of information on taxation matters have been better addressed in these amended agreements.

Q1. Which of the following should be the THIRD sentence after rearrangement?
(a)A
(b)C
(c)D
(d)E
(e)B

Q2. Which of the following should be the fourth sentence after rearrangement? 
(a)B
(b)C
(c)D
(d)E
(e)A

Q3.  Which of the following should be the FIRST sentence after rearrangement?
(a)C
(b)B
(c)E
(d)A
(e)D

Q4. Which of the following should be the LAST (Fifth) sentence after rearrangement?
(a)A
(b)E
(c)D
(d)B
(e)C

Q5.  Which of the following should be the SECOND sentence after rearrangement?
(a)E
(b)A
(c)B
(d)C
(e)D

Directions (6-10): Rearrange the following six sentence (A), (B), (C), (D), (E) and (F) in the proper sequence to form a meaningful paragraph; then answer the questions given below them.

A. There is also an upcoming international collaborative effort, the Global Snow Leopard and Ecosystem Protection Program, involving the countries that make up the range of this graceful animal.

B. If the argument for a downgrade to vulnerable status from endangered is that conservation actions have reduced the threat to the cat, there is an equally persuasive response on how little scientists know about its population health, given its remote habitat in the alpine zones of the Himalayas and trans-Himalayas.

 C. If anything, studies on its vulnerability have to be intensified, and the task of monitoring its entire habitat of high mountains speeded up.

D. As a major range country, India has worked to protect these animals, and even launched a programme on the lines of Project Tiger for its conservation, covering 128,757 sq. km of habitat in Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Sikkim and Arunachal Pradesh.

E. It is vital that this momentum should not be lost merely on account of the technicality that the estimated numbers have crossed the threshold for an ‘endangered’ classification, which is 2,500.

F. The elusive and charismatic snow leopard has lost its endangered status in the Red List of the International Union for Conservation of Nature, causing genuine worry among wildlife biologists, who believe this sends out the wrong signal to those working to protect it.

Q6. Which of the following should be the THIRD sentence after rearrangement?
(a)A
(b)C
(c)D
(d)E
(e)F

Q7. Which of the following should be the FIFTH sentence after rearrangement? 
(a)B
(b)C
(c)D
(d)F
(e)E

Q8.  Which of the following should be the FIRST sentence after rearrangement?
(a)F
(b)B
(c)E
(d)A
(e)D

Q9. Which of the following should be the LAST (SIXTH) sentence after rearrangement?
(a)A
(b)F
(c)D
(d)B
(e)C

Q10.  Which of the following should be the SECOND sentence after rearrangement?
(a)E
(b)A
(c)B
(d)C
(e)D

Directions (11-15): 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 mark (e) as the answer.

Q11. He’s trying to figure down how to earn enough money to go on the trip to Spain.
(a)figure in
(b)figure off
(c)figure about
(d)figure out
(e)No improvement

Q12. There was a war on, so some kids were only sixteen when they joined up.
(a)joined upon
(b)joined on
(c)joined away
(d)joined out
(e)No improvement

Q13. I feel so let up because they promised me a puppy but all I got was a doll.
(a) let in
(b) let down
(c) let out
(d) let on
(e) No improvement

Q14. He didn’t drink enough water so he passed out at the end of the race.
(a)passed off
(b)passed away
(c) passed in
(d) passed down
(e)No improvement

Q15. Don’t buy that. Let’s shop down and see if we can find something cheaper.
(a) shop away
(b) shop through
(c) shop around
(d) shopped round
(e)No improvement

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