TARGET IBPS PO PRELIMS 2019 – ENGLISH Day 1
TARGET IBPS PO PRELIMS 2019 – ENGLISH Day 1
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IBPS PO Prelims 2019 – Study Planner Day-1 – Reasoning Ability – CODING & DECODING
- Section : English Language
- Topic : Single Fillers – Cloze Test – Sentence Improvement – Error Spotting
- Time: 45 Minutes
- Questions : 60 Questions
- Level : Easy – Moderate
D.1-20): A sentence is shown in four parts marked as (a), (b), (c) and (d) in each question. Read the sentences carefully and select the part which is grammatically wrong. If every part in the sentence is grammatically correct then, choose ‘No error’ (e) as the answer.
Q.1) Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, (a)/ announced that parliamentary and (b)/ presidential elections will be held in June, (c)/ 17 months ahead of schedule. (d)/ No error. (e)
Q.2) People who identifies (a)/ as Republican are united (b)/ by cultural issues rather (c)/ than narrowly political ones. (d)/ No error. (e)
Q.3) On the ground floor of a (a)/ primary school in Jaipur (b)/ in the state of Rajasthan, five (c)/ dozens pupils wait for the lunch break. (d)/ No error. (e)
Q.4) Patient’s without money (a)/ die before they (b)/ see a specialist at (c)/ the 1,750- bed facility. (d)/ No error. (e)
Q.5) Fox News is one (a)/ of Mr Trump’s main sources (b)/ of policy advices, and (c)/ his comfort blanket. (d)/ No error. (e)
Q.6) Several countries are intrigued by hybrid (a)/ plants where most electricity are (b)/ generated by solar panels, but diesel provides (c)/ the spinning reserves, says Mr Agenbroad. (d)/ No error. (e)
Q.7) A surprise fall in British consumer (a)/ prices to 2.5%, marking a 12-month (b)/ low, did not dampen economists’s expectations of an interest-rate (c)/ rise by the Bank of England in May. (d)/ No error. (e)
Q.8) Most of the (a)/ 20th century British (b)/ politics have enjoyed (c)/ an embarrassment of riches. (d)/ No error. (e)
Q.9) Driving down the backroads (a)/ leading to Petefish’s farm in Claremont, (b)/ rows upon rows of growing (c)/ soybeans can be seen for miles. (d)/ No error. (e)
Q.10) All three of the metrics that (a)/ have had traders fretting are (b)/ signs that financial conditions, (c)/ more broadly, are tightening. (d)/ No error. (e)
Q.11) The president says Amazon (a)/ is charged too little by the (b)/ post office for (c)/ delivery of its good. (d)/ No error. (e)
Q.12) In March the airline had to raise (a)/ fresh capital, sell some aircrafts and (b)/ put its frequent-flyer scheme up for sale (c)/ to avoid breaching banking covenants. (d)/ No error. (e)
Q.13) The essence of Corbynism is the (a)/ rejection of one of the basic tenet of (b)/ British foreign policy: that you side with (c)/ the West, rather than its enemies. (d)/ No error. (e)
Q.14) Dozen of young women (a)/ have been arrested for doffing (b)/ their headscarves in public to (c)/ protest the official dress code. (d)/ No error. (e)
Q.15) All the main pro-European (a)/ Union group came (b)/ together to support this (c)/ cross-party cause. (d)/ No error. (e)
Q.16) Indigenous people (a) are intertwined with the land and (b)/ water and have defended the land and (c)/ water from colonial exploiters for generations. (d)/ No error. (e)
Q.17) To increase (a)/ transparency, some (b)/ state assets is now (c)/ auctioned online. (d)/ No error. (e)
Q.18) The insurances company specifies (a)/ what data it wants, and in what (b)/ format, and Airware’s software (c)/ generates a suitable flight plan. (d)/ No error. (e)
Q.19) In theory Article 7 (a)/ can strip an offending (b)/ country’s of its (c)/ EU voting rights. (d)/ No error. (e)
Q.20) Among the part ZTE (a)/ sources are superfast (b)/ processors from (c)/ Intel and Qualcomm. (d)/ No error. (e)
D.21-30): In each of the following sentences there is a blank space. Below each sentence there are four words denoted by a), b), c) and d). Find out ONE word that fits appropriately in the sentence to make it meaningfully complete. In case no word fits in these sentences, choose option ‘e’ as the answer.
Q.21) Athletics _______a collection of sporting events that involve competitive running, jumping, throwing, and walking.
a) is
b) are
c) were
d) have
e) None of the above.
Q.22) __________are also experimenting with drone-based photography.
a) Scientist as well as researchers
b) Journalist with environmental groups
c) Scientist along with researchers
d) Journalist in addition to researchers
e) None of the above.
Q.23) Older people ________ not the only ones making such moves.
a) is
b) are
c) was
d) has
e) None of the above.
Q.24) The change that _______ has brought to the top of Labour nationally has done little to alter the party’s course locally.
a) Mr Corbyn
b) Mr Mars and Mr Senthil
c) girls
d) people
e) None of the above.
Q.25) In Manchester itself, the council has a different _________.
a) facts
b) ideas
c) approaches
d) approach
e) None of the above.
Q.26) The travel ban has been withdrawn and resuscitated several ______in response to legal challenges.
a) year
b) day
c) times
d) time
e) None of the above.
Q.27) Poland ________ three times as much from EU funds as it pays in, and those subsidies go disproportionately to PiS’s rural supporters.
a) attain
b) receives
c) receive
d) obtain
e) None of the above.
Q.28) Greater Manchester has a few _______ to choose from.
a) models
b) variety
c) design
d) picture
e) None of the above.
Q.29) Around _________ of those employed there are foreign-born or refugees.
a) one-thirds
b) two-fourth
c) two-thirds
d) two-third
e) None of the above.
Q.30) The vast majority are unarmed surveillance aircraft of various_________.
a) shape and sizes
b) shapes and size
c) shape and size
d) shapes and sizes
e) None of the above.
D.31-35): In the following passage, one or two words have been left out in some of the sentences shown by blank spaces, each of which is indicated by a series of numbers. Find the suitable word from the given options marked as (a), (b), (c), (d) and (e) against each number and fill up the numbered blanks with the appropriate option to make the paragraph meaningfully complete.
In 1931 Mahatma Gandhi ridiculed the idea that India might have universal primary education “inside of a century”. He was too pessimistic. Since 1980 the share of Indian teenagers who have had no schooling has fallen from about half to less than one in ten. That is a big, if belated, ____ (31) ____ for the country with more school-age children, 260m, than any other. Yet India has failed these children. Many learn precious little at school. India may be famous for its elite doctors and engineers, but half of its nine-year-olds cannot do a sum as simple as eight plus nine. Half of ten-year-old Indians cannot read a ____ (32) ____ meant for seven-year-olds. At 15, pupils in Tamil Nadu and Himachal Pradesh are five years behind their (better-off) peers in Shanghai. The average 15-year-old from these states would be in the bottom 2% of an American class. With few old people and a falling birth rate, India has a youth ____ (33) ____: 13% of its ____ (34) ____ are teenagers, compared with 8% in China and 7% in Europe. But if its schools remain lousy, that demographic ____ (35) ____ will be wasted.
Q.31)
a) accessible
b) benign
c) success
d) paramount
e) noxious
Q.32)
a) modish
b) peerless
c) adroit
d) paragraph
e) sparse
Q.33)
a) bulge
b) adverse
c) obligatory
d) misty
e) conducive
Q.34)
a) prudential
b) inhabitants
c) bilateral
d) rebellious
e) preferable
Q.35)
a) buoyant
b) prevalent
c) outright
d) affable
e) dividend
D.36-40): 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 correction is required’, mark (e) as the answer.
Q.36) Most of the specie on sale in Tomohon have seen populations crash because of overhunting.
a) species, has
b) specie, is
c) species, have
d) species, was
e) No correction is required.
Q.37) On May 23, the central government issued a regulations banning the sale of cattles for slaughter through animal markets.
a) regulation, cattle
b) regulation, cattles
c) regulations, cattle
d) notifications, cattle
e) No correction is required.
Q.38) Efforts to boost Mr Xi are reaching unprecedented heights.
a) Effort, were
b) Efforts, was
c) Efforts, is
d) Effort, are
e) No correction is required.
Q.39) Liu Lei were waiting to buy a car for more than seven year.
a) have been, years
b) has been, years
c) was, year
d) is, year
e) No correction is required.
Q.40) If the dutiful daughter-in-law leave the cooking unattended for a minute, her spiteful sister-in-law will toss in a heaped tablespoon of salt to ruin it.
a) attends, sister-in-law’s
b) leave, sister-in-laws
c) attend, sisters-in-law
d) leaves, sister-in-law
e) No correction is required.
D.41-45): In each question below, a sentence with four words printed in bold is given. These are lettered as (a), (b), (c) and (d). One of these four words printed in bold may either be misspelt or inappropriate in context of the sentence. Find out the word which is wrongly spelt or inappropriate if any. If all the words printed in bold are correctly spelt and also appropriate in the context of the sentence, mark (e) i.e. ‘All correct’ as your answer.
Q.41) Sunday’s ad-hoc meeting sets the stage for a long-planned gathering of all EU leader on Thursday, where it will be harder to mask Europe’s deep divisions on migration.
a) Sunday
b) set
c) leaders
d) Europe
e) All correct.
Q.42) Dr Zoe Leinhardt, a computational astrophysicist specialising in planet formation at the University of Bristol and who was not involved in the research, welcomed the discovery.
a) computional
b) fees
c) an adults
d) years
e) All correct.
Q.43) Beaumont broke Wyatt’s fastest hundred record, her inning a masterclass of footwork, striking 18 fours and four sixes in a stay of 52 balls.
a) Wyatt
b) innings
c) footworks
d) ball
e) All correct.
Q.44) The unorthodox meetings, boycotted by several EU countries, was called to shore up the conservative coalition government of the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, which is riven by a row over migration.
a) meeting
b) country
c) is
d) rows
e) All correct.
Q.45) Its opening programme was watched by a peak of 3.4 million viewers, surpassing the audience for last year’s final by a million and making it the highest-ever for the channel.
a) programmes
b) viewer
c) year
d) millions
e) All correct.
D.46-50): In each of the following sentences there are two blank spaces. Below each sentence there are four words denoted by a), b), c) and d). Find out ONE word that fits appropriately in both the sentences I and II to make it meaningfully complete. In case no word fits in these sentences, choose option ‘e’ as the answer.
Q.46) I) The influx of ________ of thousands of refugees from Syria, Afghanistan and elsewhere in 2015 has put huge extra pressure on the system.
II) Since its outbreak in late 2015, there have been _______ of knife and car-ramming attacks against Israelis.
a) gross
b) hundreds
c) dozen
d) million
e) None of the above.
Q.47) I) Crows and fruit bat fall in Schedule 5, the _______category.
II) The Environment Ministry nevertheless declared the animal as ______ on February 3.
a) carps
b) pikes
c) vermins
d) vermin
e) None of the above.
Q.48) I) Teachers have ______incentive to help them grasp the curriculum.
II) Although analysts are revising their global growth forecasts upwards, there is ______ sign yet of any rebound in inflation.
a) little
b) several
c) many
d) few
e) None of the above.
Q.49) I) The Prime Minister denied that his Government was fishing in troubled-_________.
II) Any country that interferes in Middle East politics is fishing in troubled _______.
a) poultries
b) water
c) spaces
d) waters
e) None of the above.
Q.50) I) My _________, despite her indifferent health, was still going to work.
II) For close to 30 years, my __________lived sans her husband.
a) mothers-in-law
b) mother-in-law’s
c) mother-in-law
d) mother-in-laws
e) None of the above.
Solutions for TARGE TIBPS PO Prelims Exam 2019 – English Day 1 are
1) No error.
2) a) Replace ‘identifies’ by ‘identify’; Some nouns (People) are singular in form but used as plurals – take plural verbs.
3) d) Replace ‘dozens’ by ‘dozen’; When a definite numeral adjective is added before the following nouns, they take singular form. (Pair, score, gross, stone, hundred, dozen, thousand, million, billion etc)
4) a) Replace ‘Patient’s’ by ‘Patients’; Possessive case is not required here.
5) c) Replace ‘advices’ by ‘advice’; Some nouns are singular in form and take singular verbs.
6) b) Replace ‘are’ by ‘is’; (electricity) Some nouns are singular in form and take singular verbs.
7) c) Replace economists’s by economists’; When a plural noun ends with s, only apostrophe is used, if it does not end with s then apostrophe and “s” are used.
8) c) Replace ‘have’ by ‘has’; Nouns (politics) ending in ‘s’ but singular in number – take singular verbs.
9) c) Replace ‘rows upon rows’ by ‘row upon row’; If a noun is repeated before and after a preposition, then the noun should be used in singular form.
10) e) No error.
11) d) Replace ‘good’ by ‘goods’; Some nouns have different meanings in the singular and the plural. (Good- Benefit, well – being; Goods- Merchandise)
12) b) Replace ‘aircrafts’ by ‘aircraft’; Some nouns exist in the same form in both singular and plural.
13) b) Replace ‘tenet’ by ‘tenets’; ‘one of’ is followed by plural noun.
14) a) Replace ‘Dozen’ by ‘Dozens’; When nouns denoting measurements are not preceded by a numeral and used in general sense, they are used in plural form.
15) b) Replace ‘group’ by ‘groups’; All is followed by plural noun.
16) e) No error
17) c) Replace ‘is’ by ‘are’; Some nouns (assets) are used only in plural form and take plural verbs.
18) a) Replace ‘insurances’ by ‘insurance’. The sentence refers to a single company.
19) c) Replace ‘country’s’ by ‘country’; Possessive case is not required here.
20) a) Replace ‘part’ by ‘parts’; Among is followed by plural noun.
21) a) Nouns ending in `s’ but singular in number – take singular verbs.
22) e) ‘Journalists and environmental groups’.
23) b) Some nouns are singular in form but used as plurals – take plural verbs.
24) a) Here, ‘has’ is singular verb, so ‘noun’ must be singular.
25) d) Indefinite article(a/an) is always followed by singular noun.
26) c) Several is followed by plural noun.
27) b) Singular noun (Poland) takes singular verb.
28) a) ‘few’ always takes plural noun.
29) c) One-third, two-thirds – correct usage.
30) d) Various is followed by plural noun.
31) c) Except ‘c’ all are adjectives.
32) Except ‘d’ all are adjectives.
33) Except ‘a’ all are adjectives.
34) Except ‘b’ all are adjectives.
35) Except ‘e’ all are adjectives.
36) c) Some nouns (species) exists in same form when used both as singular and plural.
37) a) (a regulation) Indefinite articles(a/an) are always followed by singular(countable) noun. Some nouns (cattle) are singular in form but used as plurals.
38) e) No correction is required. Plural noun(efforts) takes plural verb (are).
39) b) Singular noun (Liu Lei) takes singular verb (has been).
40) d) Here, ‘daughter-in-law’ is singular noun, so it takes singular verb (leaves). Hyphenated nouns generally do not have plural form (Except a few). Exceptional cases: Mother – in – law (singular), Mothers – in – law (plural).
41) c) All is followed by plural noun (leaders). ‘meeting’ is singular noun, so it takes singular verb (sets). (Sunday’s and Europe’s- possessive case.)
42) a) computational.
43) b) (Wyatt’s-possessive case; Some nouns are plural in form (innings) but have singular meaning; Some nouns are always used in singular form (footwork) —- ‘Not plural’l.
44) a) In a sentence ‘the verb (was) is singular so subject (i.e. noun-meeting) must be singular. Several is followed by plural noun. Indefinite articles(a/an) are always followed by singular(countable) noun.
45) e) All correct. (‘was’ singular verb is preceded by ‘programme’ (highlighted) so it must be in singular form; ‘year’s’ – possessive case. Indefinite article(a/an) is always followed by singular(countable) noun.
46) b) When a noun denoting number, measure, length, weight etc is preceded by numeral adjective (a numeral), it does not change its form in plural.
Such nouns are: dozen, pair, gross, million, billion, score, hundred, thousand etc.
EX: A Pair of dove, A Two hundred rupee note.
When these nouns are not preceded by numeral adjective(a numeral), plural form of the noun can be used.
EX: Dozens of women, Hundreds of people.
47) d) ‘Some nouns have the same form in singular as well as in plural’.
EX: Deer, fish, crew, carp, pike, trout, aircraft, swine, vermin, etc.
48) a) Countable nouns take adjectives of numbers-two, ten, hundred. etc. Adjective of quantity-many, several, few. etc.
Uncountable nouns take adjectives which do not denote number- little, some, no, a lot, much. etc.
49) d) Some nouns have different meanings in the singular and the plural. (water- a colourless, transparent, odourless, liquid which forms the seas, lakes, rivers, and rain and is the basis of the fluids of living organisms. Waters-Ocean,seas, fish in troubled waters is an idiom)
50) c) ‘mothers-in-law’- is plural form of ‘mother-in-law’. mother-in-law’s- Possessive is not required here. ‘mother-in-laws’ -incorrect usage.
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