English Quizzes, for IBPS PO Mains 2022

Directions (1-5): Rearrange the following sentences in the proper sequence to form a meaningful paragraph and then answer the questions given below. There is a possibility that one of the sentences is inconsistent with the rest of the statements and is not a part of the coherent paragraph, therefore read all the sentences carefully and only then rearrange.

(A) The government’s proposal added fuel to the fire by levying a surcharge on the high-income group coupled with the tax on buyback

(B) Lowering the prospect of a rate cut by the Federal Reserve further played spoilsport

(C) As a mix of global factors and domestic concerns emanating from some of the proposals in the Budget spooked investors.

(D) While the overall negative trend in emerging markets on account of a robust U.S. jobs data

(E) It is a three-year road map for medium term objective to be achieved for improving regulation, supervision of the central bank

(F) The first trading session of the equity markets after the Union Budget saw stocks in a free-fall mode on Monday

(G) And increase in public holding in listed entities dampened investor sentiments

Q1. From the given options, which of the statement does not fit in the passage after rearrangement to make a coherent and meaningful paragraph?
(a) E
(b) G
(c) D
(d) C
(e) None of these.

Q2. Which of the following would be the fourth sentence after rearrangement?
(a) E
(b) A
(c) F
(d) G
(e) None of these.

Q3. Among the following pairs which one of them is formed with two consecutive statements after the rearrangement?
(a) CA
(b) AD
(c) CD
(d) EG
(e) None of these.

Q4. Which of the following would be the penultimate sentence after rearrangement?
(a) A
(b) D
(c) F
(d) E
(e) None of these.

Q5. From the given options, which of the following can fit the above passage after rearrangement to make a coherent and meaningful paragraph?
(a) NBFCs historically were loosely regulated, the situation is now changing, with the central bank proposing new rules to monitor the asset-liability
(b) The RBI lowered the US dollar purchases in May by almost half the purchases in May to just about $2.5 billion as the inflows slowed
(c) The market breadth was also very weak with nearly 2,000 stocks losing ground on the BSE, as against only 534 gainers
(d) The central bank has remained a very passive participant in the forward markets as well
(e) None of these.

Directions (6-10): Read each of the following four sentences to find out whether there is any grammatical mistake/error in it. Choose the sentence with grammatical error as the correct answer. If all the given sentences are grammatically correct then choose “All are correct”.

Q6.
(a) Ben Stokes, who had spoken about how England cannot be denied, rose to the occasion, and his splendid unbeaten 84 helped Eoin Morgan’s men keep pace with Kane Williamson’s unsung heroes.
(b) Ntaganda, known as “the terminator”, was pronounced guilty of 13 counts of war crimes and five of crimes against humanity by the International Criminal Court.
(c) India’s second moon mission, Chandrayaan-2, was pulled in from launch just 56 minutes before its scheduled liftoff on July 15. This was owing to a technical glitch in the GSLV Mark-III rocket launcher.
(d) With the Centre taking a stand against treating them as refugees, a positive ruling is needed from the apex court to prevent their forcible deportation.
(e) All are correct

Q7.
(a) What seems to have touched the popular imagination is that the current launch window ends on July 16 and if this window is missed there could be an indefinite delay in rescheduling the launch.
(b) The near liquidation of the Congress legislature party in Goa, close on the heels of a rebellion of Congress and Janata Dal (Secular) legislators in neighbouring Karnataka, is the latest aftershock of the national election results in May, but it is unlikely to be the last.
(c) I also require the CAGR going forward to be able to cover all my yearly expenses and my RMD with a CAGR of 7%. My dividends provide 3.3% of the portfolio as income, and I need 1.9% more for a yearly distribution of 5.2% plus an inflation cushion of 1.8%.
(d) The conviction follows the ICC’s 2012 sentencing of Thomas Lubanga, the first to be pronounced guilty under the Rome Statute, also pertaining to atrocities during the Congolese conflict.
(e) All are correct

Q8.
(a) The Goa debacle is as much a harbinger of a further shrinking of the opposition space as it is of the continuing advance of the BJP into more regions and social groups.
(b) India should work with the world community on the voluntary repatriation of the Rohingya and not besmirch its fine record of humane treatment of refugees by pursuing the deportation option without relent.
(c) Although there is robust experimental literature on the conditions that give rise to honest behavior, little is known about how material incentives affect civic honestness, particularly in field settings.
(d) The verdict in Sunday’s Greek elections affords a rare comfort for Europe’s centrists, who, arguably with the exception of Spain in April, have of late ceded ground to populist forces.
(e) All are correct

Q9.
(a) Golden Dawn, the anti-Muslim party that ranked third in the last elections, has been convincingly rejected by voters, with less than the requisite vote share to enter the legislature.
(b) That the Democratic Party is re-litigating these issues in a 21st century primary contest with the same man at the centre is a sign of its inability to evolve a forward-looking agenda articulated in appealing and inspiring idioms.
(c) Given the influx of immigrants and the refugee crisis, the ruling New Democracy and Opposition Syriza party both have a moral responsibility to consolidate the middle ground.
(d) Four years ago, Greece was bearing the brunt of an international bailout, biting austerity measures and a collapsing banking system while on the verge of being ejected from Europe’s single currency zone.
(e) All are correct

Q10.
(a) Economic growth is at a tepid 2% rate as the population continues to be weighed down by reforms to the once generous pension system and spending cuts to the education and health-care budgets.
(b) It’s always very sad and tough when you lose a horse, but he did so much for us and was a just magnificent racehorse. To win five Group Twos is incredibly hard to do and even though he didn’t win a Group One, he couldn’t have gone much closer in the Queen Anne last month.
(c) Mr. Mitsotakis must leverage the goodwill he apparently enjoys with Brussels to shape an asylum policy underpinned by enlightened self-interest and humaneness.
(d) The proposal to raise minimum public shareholding in listed companies from 25% to 35% is also seen as an unnecessary intervention in markets.
(e) All are correct

Solutions

S1. Ans. (a)
Sol. Going through the given sentences we can make pair of sentences on the basis of the sense they are conveying. For example, (A) will be followed by (G) because (A) is talking about the steps taken by Government which is being carried forward in (G). The next logical pair would be (D) followed by (B) because the sentence (D) is talking about the reason of negative trend in emerging markets this is further supported by the rate cut by Federal Reserve as can be understood by the phrase ‘played the spoilsport’. Next pair would be (F) followed by (C) because (C) is highlighting the factors responsible for the fall in stocks as discussed in (F). Having made three pairs (A)(G), (D)(B) and (F)(C). However (E) fails to make a coherent sense with anyone. Now to select the first sentence in the arrangement we have to choose from (A), (D) and (F). But (D) cannot be the first sentence in the rearrangement because of the use of the starter ‘While’. From the remaining two (F) definitely will be the first sentence in rearrangement because in (A) the phrase ‘added fuel to the fire’ gives the hint that some incident must have taken before it and hence cannot be the first sentence. So the correct sequence after rearrangement will be FCAGDB. Hence, the correct answer choice is option (a)

S2. Ans. (d)
Sol. Going through the given sentences we can make pair of sentences on the basis of the sense they are conveying. For example, (A) will be followed by (G) because (A) is talking about the steps taken by Government which is being carried forward in (G). The next logical pair would be (D) followed by (B) because the sentence (D) is talking about the reason of negative trend in emerging markets this is further supported by the rate cut by Federal Reserve as can be understood by the phrase ‘played the spoilsport’. Next pair would be (F) followed by (C) because (C) is highlighting the factors responsible for the fall in stocks as discussed in (F). Having made three pairs (A)(G), (D)(B) and (F)(C). However (E) fails to make a coherent sense with anyone. Now to select the first sentence in the arrangement we have to choose from (A), (D) and (F). But (D) cannot be the first sentence in the rearrangement because of the use of the starter ‘While’. From the remaining two (F) definitely will be the first sentence in rearrangement because in (A) the phrase ‘added fuel to the fire’ gives the hint that some incident must have taken before it and hence cannot be the first sentence. So the correct sequence after rearrangement will be FCAGDB. Hence, the correct answer choice is option (d)

S3. Ans. (a)
Sol. Going through the given sentences we can make pair of sentences on the basis of the sense they are conveying. For example, (A) will be followed by (G) because (A) is talking about the steps taken by Government which is being carried forward in (G). The next logical pair would be (D) followed by (B) because the sentence (D) is talking about the reason of negative trend in emerging markets this is further supported by the rate cut by Federal Reserve as can be understood by the phrase ‘played the spoilsport’. Next pair would be (F) followed by (C) because (C) is highlighting the factors responsible for the fall in stocks as discussed in (F). Having made three pairs (A)(G), (D)(B) and (F)(C). However (E) fails to make a coherent sense with anyone. Now to select the first sentence in the arrangement we have to choose from (A), (D) and (F). But (D) cannot be the first sentence in the rearrangement because of the use of the starter ‘While’. From the remaining two (F) definitely will be the first sentence in rearrangement because in (A) the phrase ‘added fuel to the fire’ gives the hint that some incident must have taken before it and hence cannot be the first sentence. So the correct sequence after rearrangement will be FCAGDB. Hence, the correct answer choice is option (a)

S4. Ans. (b)
Sol. Going through the given sentences we can make pair of sentences on the basis of the sense they are conveying. For example, (A) will be followed by (G) because (A) is talking about the steps taken by Government which is being carried forward in (G). The next logical pair would be (D) followed by (B) because the sentence (D) is talking about the reason of negative trend in emerging markets this is further supported by the rate cut by Federal Reserve as can be understood by the phrase ‘played the spoilsport’. Next pair would be (F) followed by (C) because (C) is highlighting the factors responsible for the fall in stocks as discussed in (F). Having made three pairs (A)(G), (D)(B) and (F)(C). However (E) fails to make a coherent sense with anyone. Now to select the first sentence in the arrangement we have to choose from (A), (D) and (F). But (D) cannot be the first sentence in the rearrangement because of the use of the starter ‘While’. From the remaining two (F) definitely will be the first sentence in rearrangement because in (A) the phrase ‘added fuel to the fire’ gives the hint that some incident must have taken before it and hence cannot be the first sentence. So the correct sequence after rearrangement will be FCAGDB. Hence, the correct answer choice is option (b)

S5. Ans. (c)
Sol. From the given sentences, only option (c) is able to make a coherent sense in the rearrangement because the given sentence is talking about the downfall in the market by supporting it with providing facts and figures whereas remaining options fail to do so. Hence, the correct answer choice is option (c)

S6. Ans. (c)
Sol. Here, the error lies in the statement given in option (c), where “pulled in” will be replaced by “pulled back”. “Pulled in” means “(of a vehicle) move to the side of or off the road” and “pulled back” means “to decide not to do something that will probably have bad effects”. Hence, option (c) is the most suitable answer choice.

S7. Ans. (c)
Sol. Here, the error lies in statement given in option (c), where the use of “all” before “yearly expenses” is superfluous. Hence, option (c) is the most suitable answer choice.

S8. Ans. (c)
Sol. Here, the error lies in statement given in option (c), where, “honestness” will be replaced with “honesty” because “honest” is an adjective, whose noun form is “honesty” and not honestness”. Hence, option (c) is the most suitable answer choice.

S9. Ans. (e)
Sol. All the sentences given above are correct and do not require any improvements. Hence, option (e) is the most suitable answer choice.

S10. Ans. (b)
Sol. Here, the error lies in statement given in option (b), where “a just” will be replaced with “just a”. Hence, option (b) is the most suitable answer choice.