IBPS Clerk Mains: English Quiz

Directions (Q.1-5): In each of the following sentences, a word or a group of words has been printed in bold. From the five answer choices given below each sentence, pickout one which substitute the bold word/group of words correctly without changing the meaning. If no correction is required, your answer is 5, i.e. no correction required.

1. The striking employees have made the management to accept their demands.

1. accept their demands.
2. to have accepted their demands.
3. to have been accepted their demands.
4. to be accepted their demands.
5. No correction required

2. The government has taken keen interest in bringing about transformation in the lives of poverty-stricken people.

1. The government took keen interest
2. The government will have taken keen interest
3. The government would have been taken
4. The government has been taken interest
5. No correction required

3. How I wish I am the most intelligent man in the world.

1. I had been the most intelligent man
2. I were the most intelligent man
3. I will have been the most intelligent man
4. I shall have been the most intelligent man
5. No correction required

4. His friend tried to play a tricks on him on April Fool's day.

1. tricked
2. played a trick
3. playing a trick
4. play a trick
5. No correction required

5. His business has been gone downhill ever since his friend left for America.

1. went downhill
2. go down hill
3. going downhill
4. going downhills
5. No correction required

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

(A) Wild apricot fruits are attractive, delicious and highly nutritious.

(B) In the Himalayan region of the country, local communities know it by different vernacular names viz 'Chulli', 'Shara', 'Khurmani', 'Chulloo' etc.

(C) Wild apricot is an important tree-borne oil seed of the mild hills and dry temperate region of the country.

(D) For most of them, wild apricot fruit has been serving as an important source of edible oil.

(E) It contains Vitamin A, Carbohydrates, Protein, Phosphorus and Niacin in higher quantity than majority of other common wild and cultivated fruits.

(F) For some families, major portion of the crop is utilized for the preparation of the distilled alcoholic liquor.

(G) The hill farming communities of these regions have been maintaining wild apricot trees on their farmland bunds and adjoining crop land as part of farm forestry/ agro forestry practices.

6. Which of the following is the FIRST sentence after rearrangement?

    1) A        2) B        3) C        4) D       5) E

7. Which of the following is the SECOND sentence after rearrangement?

    1) A        2) B        3) C        4) D        5) F

8. Which of the following is the THIRD sentence after rearrangement?

    1) A        2) B        3) G        4) F        5) E

9. Which of the following is the FOURTH sentence after rearrangement?

    1) A        2) B        3) F         4) G       5) E

10. Which of the following is the LAST sentence after rearrangement?

     1) G        2) B        3) F         4) D       5) E

         
          Answers:

1-1 2-5 3-2 4-4 5-3 (Q.6-10): C A E B G D F 6-3 7-1 8-5 9-2 10-3