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BASE INSTITUTE – NAMAKKAL | www.ibpsguide.com PRACTICE ENGLISH QUESTIONS BASED ON NEW PATTERN – PART- 5

Directions (Q1-10): Four statements are given below, labeled A, B, C and D Among these, some

statements are in logical order and form coherent paragraph From the given options a), b), c), d) and e), choose the option the does not fit into the theme of the paragraph

1) A Picking up where The Hands of History left off, Simon Hoggart‘s brilliant new collection of parliamentary

sketches takes us from the dying days of Tony Blair‘s leadership, through the shadow-filled days of Gordon Brown and on to the utterly bewildering days of that comedy double-act Cameron and Clegg

B Above all, he gives us incisive and witty pen-portraits of those responsible for our plight: the belligerent

Brown, the unintelligible Prescott, the slippery Cameron and the bemused Miliband

C He is a striking representative of a great British tradition, of something we do well, and where he stands with

his own heroes, George Cruikshank and Thomas Rowlandson

D He charts the events that made the news, the fauxpas that should have, and the myriad mistakes that have

landed us all where we are now

a) A

b) B

c) C

d) D

e) All fits to paragraph

2) A Often, those who settled abroad was classified as selfish and self-serving, betraying the homeland

B Even in the West, all that we seem to be aware of, and revel in, are the Indians who have made good, not the

many more working at low-end jobs or in the shadowy grey market

C Now, not only are they more valued but it is their intellectual labour which defines research fashion and

priorities

D Be it literature or films, social science theorizing or managerial/entrepreneurial models – experience abroad is

valorized and sought to be transplanted back home

a) C

b) D

c) A

d) B

e) All fits to paragraph

3) A For this was Dickens with the laughter taken out

B That Great Expectations achieves its seriousness of purpose by sometimes comic means, that the language

bursts with life, that its gusto leaves you breathless and its shame makes the pages curl, that you are implicated in every act of physical and emotional cruelty to the point where you don‘t know who‘s the more guilty, you or Pip, you or Orlick, you or Magwitch, goes without saying if you are a reader of Dickens

C But you would never have guessed any of these things from the BBC‘s adaptation

D We must guess that the BBC is embarrassed by the eccentricity of the writing, the hyperbole of the

characterization, the wild marginalia, and the lunatic flights of fancy?

a) C

b) B

c) A

d) All fits to paragraph

e) None of the above

4) A Doing research is essentially like solving a puzzle

B Puzzles have rules and predetermined solutions

C Research involves extrapolating knowledge to newer territories and unforeseen challenges

D A striking feature of doing research is that the aim is to discover what is known in advance

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a) A

b) C

c) B

d) D

5) A Taking his own ignorance as a given, his style of dogged questioning of every certainty and his huge

influence over the youths of Athens led to his trial, his defiant comment that ―the unexamined life is not worth living for a human being‖, and ultimately to his execution by hemlock

B Socrates established a method of probing into the eternal questions of existence and morality by relentless

inquiry and debate

C His demeanour is gentle and slow, but his endless questioning of moral norms puts him in direct conflict with

authority

D Socrates is never mentioned in this book and it‘s not necessary to know anything about him, but the parallels

are obvious

a) C

b) B

c) D

6) A Our culture is full of assumptions and stereotypes about how the mind works, perhaps none so enduring as

the legend of the ―tortured artist‖

B However, while the final verdict is still out on the issue, both the folk and the scientific evidence provide

tantalizing clues that this legend may be fact

C The image is durable, but science has not yet been able to conclusively verify or disprove it

D Science stamps natural phenomena with a systemic form, and its theories with a natural inevitability

a) A

b) B

c) C

d) D

e) All fits to the paragraph

7) A For me paper wealth and tangible wealth amount to the same thing

B If I get more money, I have more wealth because I can spend the money for other things — real things

C But if we all get more money overnight, as in a shower of money from helicopters, only our paper wealth

increases; our collective tangible wealth doesn‘t change because there aren‘t more things to buy with the

additional money

D If it did, the government could cure poverty and increase nation‘s wealth simply by printing more money

a) C

b) B

c) D

8) A At other times it is the repetitiveness more than the variability of the names that makes them seem less

than distinctive, an impression sometimes heightened by their transparent meaning

B The heroines of two different myths may have the same name, while the heroine in two versions of the same

myth will have a different name

C This apparent contradiction reflects the two poles of the heroine‘s situation: to be little more than a name in a

genealogy, or to be distinct, to suffer, sometimes even to achieve immortality

D On the other hand, a few of the most familiar figures have names that are significant and distinctive

a) D

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b) C

c) B

9) A More specifically, it is human beings alone who operate in their everyday activities with an understanding

of Being and are able to reflect upon what it means to be

B But to think of Being in this way would be to commit the very mistake that the capitalization is supposed to

help us avoid

C If we look around at beings in general-from particles to planets, ants to apes-it is human beings alone who are

able to encounter the question of what it means to be

D This gives us a way of understanding statements such as ―Dasein is ontically distinguished by the fact that, in

its very Being, that Being is an issue for it.‖

a) B

b) C

c) A

d) D

10) A a As far as we know, death is a great emptiness for us-a threshold beyond which we can directly perceive

nothing

B Such a threshold is inseparable from the sacred, which aids us in our struggles to reconcile our inherent

limitedness with our convictions

C Nevertheless, that which is beyond the threshold of death is unavailable to us in any direct or unmediated

fashion

D Granted, we readily project our fantasies into, and live out of faiths in relation to this void

a) A

b) B

c) C

d) D

e) All fits to the paragraph

Explanations:

1) Answer: c)

Option c) is the one which is not part of the logical paragraph since others are explaining about a review of a book by Simon Hoggart which was about the political culture and politicians and the book talks about the

political reasons of our plight and the mistakes of the big politicians But option c) does not fit since it stands out

as heroes and tradition represent positive ideas that are contradictory to the rest of the sentences

2) Answer: d)

Option d) is the one which is not part of the paragraph since it states that we are only aware of Indians who are doing well in foreign countries and not the ones engaged in low end jobs; While the other three sentences are about the people‘s situation in the past and compares the situation to the present scenario who settled in abroad and also citing examples of various fields which value international concepts and theories

3) Answer: e)

Statement D is the one which is not part of the logical paragraph since it talks about guessing with respect to BBC; where others are describing about the BBC‘s adaptation of Great Expectations and elaborates the virtues of Great Expectations, also introduces a contrast by presenting a comparison of the book with its BBC‘s adaptation

4) Answer: b)

Option b) is the one which is not part of the logical paragraph as we see that other options are talking about feature and the aim of research and also comparing the aspect of research with solving a puzzle But option b)

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talks about research as an extrapolation and is not in sync with the characterization of research as essentially a process of discovering what is known in advance

5) Answer: a)

Option a) is the one which is not part of the logical paragraph since others states the method employed by

Socrates which summarizes the consequences of the method in terms of his increased influence over the youth as well as his execution because of those methods and also states that the book (in question) never mentions

Socrates directly but the parallelism between the protagonist (of the book) and Socrates is obvious But option a) does not match with these lines because of the tense inconsistency between it and the other lines and moreover option a) is a repetition of the idea already mentioned in sentence A

6) Answer: d)

Option d) is the one which is not part of the paragraph since it states about the science and its natural phenomena and theories with respect to natural inevitability; While the other three sentences are contribute to the discussion

on the ―tortured artist‖ and issues over the culture and stereotypes and also explaining about the scientific

evidences

7) Answer: c)

Option c) is the one which is not part of the logical paragraph since in others the author is talking about money and its true value He discusses two cases; i.e what happens when he gets more money and the author wants to explain what all is considered as money and also talks about the second scenario when everybody gets money (becomes rich) But option c) is not linked to all these lines because a link is missing The link should be that increase in money does not increase the wealth of the nation i.e money does not represent the wealth of the nation Thus the ‗it‘ in statement D does not have an antecedent

8) Answer: e)

Statement A is the one which is not part of the logical paragraph since it talks about variability of the names which have not been talked about in any of the options and make them less distinctive; where others are

describing about the different myths, contradiction and significance between heroines and about their uniqueness

in name

9) Answer: a)

Option a) is the one which is not part of the logical paragraph since others explain the concept of Being and states that it is human beings alone who can associate themselves with the question of what it means to be which further elaborates the same; also refers to the concept of Being But option a) is logically incorrect because it talks about capitalization which has not been introduced in the previous lines Nothing has been mentioned about the theory of capitalization that can help in understanding that why it is incorrect to think of Being in this way

10) Answer: b)

Option b) is the one which is not part of the logical paragraph as we see that other options are describing the death as a great void which we cannot directly perceive (though we try to ―live out of faiths in relation to this void‖) But option b) talks vaguely about our inherent limitedness without connecting such ―limitedness‖ with death or mortality

Directions (Q 11-20): Which of the words/phrases (a), (b), (c) and (d) given below should replace the words/phrases given in bold in the following sentences to make it meaningful and grammatically correct?

If the sentence is correct as it is and „No improvement required‟, mark (e) as the answer

11) The actress was regulated to wear an alcohol- checking bracelet and offer to random weekly drug testing after she refused to appear for a court date last week

a) Planned, observing, suggest, declined

b) Prepared, screening, recommend, snubbed

c) Intended, testing, present, excused

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d) Ordered, monitoring, submit, failed

e) No improvement required

12) As far as the issue of land encroachment in villages is concerned, people will have to make a start from their villages by sensitizing and educating the villagers about this issue

a) Problem, worried, create, humanizing

b) Concern, afraid, build, enlightening

c) Difficulty, frightened, craft, refining

d) Trouble, bothered, generate, taming

13) The power tax had already been raised twice in the last 15 months and the Electricity Board had also charged additional monthly charges under consumers

a) Due, hoisted, put, to

b) Tariff, increased, levied, on

c) Excise, heaved, imposed, for

d) Expunge, boosted, forced, from

14) Till a few years ago, while the technology for mobile phone was expanded and used separately, it was not linked to the growth of PC or the web

a) When, as, improved, related

b) Once, where, inflated, associated

c) Until, though, developed, connected

d) But, even as, made bigger, unrelated

15) In the recent international discussions conducted under the UNFCCC the industrialized countries have labeled upon developing countries to add to the global attempt to address climate change

a) Negotiations, called, contribute, effort

b) Debate, termed, donate, endeavor

c) Conference, described, adjoin, venture

d) Consultation, identified, attached, idea

16) The recent sharp rise in risk premium on long-term bonds issued by several industrial countries suggests that markets no longer consider sovereign debt low risk

a) Current, given, proposes, take

b) Modern, provided, advises, get

c) Present, offered, recommends, obtain

d) Contemporary, granted, implies, attain

17) When she secured our coasts, she battled for her customers, and grouped our ships loaded with wealth, which we had purchased for her by our industry

a) Protected, combated, assembled, obtained

b) Shielded, struggled, amassed, procured

c) Defended, fought, convoyed, acquired

d) Fortified, conflicted, gathered, found

18) Since then, the stock markets have restrained, as it came to be felt that this huge package will only offer a breather and not tackle the basic causes that fetched about the crisis in the first place

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a) Moderated, provide, address, brought

b) Released, present, deal with, carried

c) Controlled, affords, concentrate on, took

d) Restricted, grant, focus on, conceded

19) The Prime Minister is eager to execute the Right to Education Act and the HRD ministry has been granted with adequate budgetary distribution to meet the demand

a) Fanatical, carry out, permitted, division

b) Intense, accomplish, allowed, circulation

c) Dedicated, bring, contributed, transmission

d) Keen, implement, provided, allocation

20) When you are losing and out, that is when you need others to whip up your spirits, you need a few words of support with the help of which you will be in a better position to reclaim your lost self-confidence

a) Behind, lash, confidence, retrieve

b) Down, lift, encouragement, regain

c) Downward, boost, hope, recover

d) Sliding, haul, assurance, pick up

Explanations:

11) Answer: d)

Ordered – arrange (something) in a methodical or appropriate way

Monitoring – observe and check the progress or quality of (something) over a period of time; keep under

systematic review

Submit – present (a proposal, application, or other document) to a person or body for consideration or judgment Failed – (of a person) unsuccessful in a particular activity

12) Answer: e)

Issue – problem for debate or discussion

Concerned – worried, troubled, or anxious

Make – form (something) by putting parts together or combining substances; construct; create

Educating – give intellectual, moral, and social instruction to (someone, especially a child), typically at a school

or university

13) Answer: b)

Tariff – a tax or duty to be paid on a particular class of imports or exports

Increased – become or make greater in size, amount, or degree

Levied – impose a tax, fee, or fine on

On – supported by (a surface)

14) Answer: c)

Until – up to (the point in time or the event mentioned)

Though – despite the fact that; although

Developed – grow or cause to grow and become more mature, advanced, or elaborate

Connected – bring together or into contact so that a real or notional link is established

15) Answer: a)

Negotiations – discussion aimed at reaching an agreement

Called – (of a person) pay a brief visit

Contribute – give (something, especially money) in order to help achieve or provide something

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Effort – a vigorous or determined attempt

16) Answer: e)

Recent – having happened, begun, or been done not long ago or not long before; belonging to a past period of time comparatively close to the present

Issued – supply or distribute (something)

Suggests – put forward for consideration

Consider – think carefully about (something), typically before making a decision

17) Answer: c)

Defended – resist an attack made on (someone or something); protect from harm or danger

Fought – take part in a violent struggle involving the exchange of physical blows or the use of weapons

Convoyed – (of a warship or armed troops) accompany (a group of ships or vehicles) for protection

Acquired – buy or obtain (an object or asset) for oneself

18) Answer: a)

Moderated – make or become less extreme, intense, rigorous, or violent

Provide – make available for use; supply

Address – think about and begin to deal with (an issue or problem)

Brought – come to a place with (someone or something)

19) Answer: d)

Keen – having or showing eagerness or enthusiasm

Implement – put (a decision, plan, agreement, etc.) into effect

Provided – make adequate preparation for (a possible event)

Allocation – the action or process of allocating or distributing something

20) Answer: b)

Down – toward or in a lower place or position, especially to or on the ground or another surface

Lift – raise to a higher position or level

Encouragement – the action of giving someone support, confidence, or hope

Regain – obtain possession or use of (something) again after losing it

Directions (Q 21-30): In each of the following sentences there are two blank spaces Below each sentence there are four words denoted by numbers a), b), c) and d) Find out ONE word that to be fitted in both the sentences I and II and another word that fit to the sentence III and to make it meaningfully complete In case no word is fit to these sentences, option 'e' is the answer

21) I At one point, it looked as if an area of agreement would _ especially over the issue of

productivity linked wages

II Studies show that riots _ mainly in those cities where disorderly tactics can work - where riots

stand a chance of getting results other than all-out repression

III Because the _ public wanted to believe the killer was off the streets, they never questioned the

arrest of an innocent man

a) Come out, innocent

b) Develop, naive

c) Emerge, credulous

d) Grow, vociferous

e) Appear, credible

22) I The political candidate often tries to _ his rival as a wealthy man who is out of touch with the

common people

II The drawings on the cave walls the lives of the earliest men on the planet

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history

a) Highlight, antidote

b) Follow, immorality

c) Offer, antagonism

d) Present, depravity

e) Depict, antithesis

23) I He hoped to _ a response from his inquiry to the publisher so he could release his new novel

II If you want to business from them, you‘ll have to communicate at their level

III The computer company has made a pledge to bring technology to people in the underdeveloped

regions of Africa

a) Seek, modern

b) Solicit, primitive

c) Implore, new

d) Entreat, innovative

e) Request, existing

24) I Moreover, a fact finding mission _ by BSN to India in January this year strongly recommended

that the French group should go it alone, and not hand over control to an Indian Partner

II Bala went into a small reception room, one door of which led into a study, the very one from which the

Russian Emperor had him on his mission

III The earth is at present in great danger of becoming uninhabitable because of _ environmental

pollution which is going on at an incredible rapid pace

a) Constituted, gigantic

b) Comprised, inhuman

c) Represented, stupendous

d) Dispatched, colossal

e) Characterized, enormous

25) I The plane with a crew of five _ earlier from Cali, 500 kilometers south- east of Bogota

II In the marriage ceremony of the ancient Incas, the couple was considered officially wed when they

their sandals, and handed them to each other

III Now, the management graduate can expect to have a prosperous life on a income without having to

depend on finding a place in family business having to tend the paternal estates

a) Took off, regular

b) Took away, professional

c) Take up, meaningful

d) Took over, dependable

e) Took up, steady

26) I She dropped the bowl and watched as glass shards started to _ on the kitchen floor

II Knowing that everyone would _ after graduation, she was worried that she would not see her friends

anymore

III He tried to his rude behavior by saying that he was drunk and he didn't know what he was doing

a) Deviate, apology

b) Diverge, excuse

c) Wander, regret for

d) Amble, explain

e) Stroll, explicate

27) I Although the prisoners of war were fed three meals a day, many of them still looked and

hungry

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II Because the puppy had gone unfed for several days, it was now so _ that its bones were visible

through its skin

III He knew everything better than anybody else, and it was an affront to his _ vanity that you

should disagree with him

a) Frivolous, overdrawn

b) Disturbed, overwrought

c) Flippant, overwhelming

d) Agitated, overweening

e) Emaciated, over strung

28) I Deva grew up to be an _ man because his parents never told him the difference between right

and wrong

II During battle, many soldiers become _ and forget the difference between wrong and right while

fighting for their lives

III Because Sarah is disabled, she tends to _ non-disabled people who use handicapped parking

spaces

a) Moral, discard

b) Immoral, neglect

c) Amoral, despise

d) Irrelevant, ignore

e) Extraneous, deride

29) I The rust is by voltaic action; the iron forms the negative pole, the zinc the positive of a voltaic

cell, in which the water is resolved into its constituents, viz

II When the undergrowth of a wood is _, as it often is every few years, it is easy to observe a

considerable difference in the fungi

III State officials refused to _ the official number of residents seriously affected by the contaminated

water supply

a) Cleared away, disclose

b) Cleared out, conceal

c) Cleared off, release

d) Cleared up, obscure

e) Cleared on, hide

30) I Democratic government is based on the of the governed and represents an attempt to make

authority accountable to the people

II Fraud charges were filed after the woman used a friend‘s credit card without her _

III The astronauts became _ on Mars when their rocket broke down soon after landing on the red

planet

a) Approval, abandoned

b) Authorization, trapped

c) Support, ensnared

d) Consent, stranded

e) Endorsement, fascinated

Explanations:

21) Answer: c)

Emerge – move out of or away from something and come into view

Credulous – having or showing too great a readiness to believe things

22) Answer: e)

Depict – show or represent by a drawing, painting, or other art form

Antithesis – a person or thing that is the direct opposite of someone or something else

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BASE INSTITUTE – NAMAKKAL | www.ibpsguide.com 23) Answer: b)

Solicit – ask for or try to obtain (something) from someone

Primitive – a person belonging to a preliterate, nonindustrial society or culture

24) Answer: d)

Dispatched – deal with (a task, problem, or opponent) quickly and efficiently or send off to a destination or for a purpose

Colossal – extremely large

25) Answer: a)

Took off – an instance of becoming airborne or depart hastily

Regular – arranged in or constituting a constant or definite pattern, especially with the same space between individual instances

26) Answer: b)

Diverge – develop in a different direction or separate from another route and go in a different direction

Excuse – a reason or explanation put forward to defend or justify a fault or offense

27) Answer: e)

Emaciated – abnormally thin or weak, especially because of illness or a lack of food

Over strung – (of a person) extremely nervous or tense

28) Answer: c)

Amoral – lacking a moral sense; unconcerned with the rightness or wrongness of something

Despise – feel contempt or a deep repugnance for

29) Answer: a)

Cleared away – removed

Disclose – make (secret or new information) known

30) Answer: d)

Consent – permission for something to happen or agreement to do something

Stranded – (of a boat, sailor, or sea creature) left aground on a shore

Direction (Q 31 - 40): In each of the following questions, a short passage is given with one of the lines in the passage is missing and represented by a blank Select the best out of the five answer choices given to make the passage complete and coherent

31) The destruction of two Japanese cities, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, in August 1945, by the use of atomic bombs shocked and horrified mankind beyond measure Man had discovered a new energy of tremendous power but it was extremely tragic to use it for the destruction of human beings

_ The World War ended, but experiments with atomic energy continued Most of them were confined to the production of better and more powerful atomic weapons such as

hydrogen bombs, cobalt bombs, transcontinental ballistic missiles, etc

a) A very large section of the people of the world stood against the mad race for nuclear armament

b) They demanded an immediate and complete ban on all kinds of nuclear tests and experiments for the purpose

of war

c) The soundness of this view point has appealed to reasonable people and all lovers of peace

d) He also advocated the use of nuclear energy for peaceful purposes, betterment of the poor, and enhancement

of the total wealth of the world

e) The conscience of all right thinking persons was awakened and the problem of the proper use of the new energy became a subject for serious consideration

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