English Test for IBPS Clerk 2018 Prelim Exam Set – 31

Directions(1-5): Which of the phrases (A), (B), (C), (D) given below each sentence should replace the phrase printed in bold to make the sentence grammatically correct? If the sentence is correct as it is, mark (E) ie ‘No correction required’ as the answer.

1. He admitted admiringly that he had never come across a painting which did not please him more.
   pleased him more
   would have pleased him
   had not pleased him more
   had been pleased him any more
   No correction required
   Option A
   

    

2. It has always been better to use preventive measures than to cure illness.
   had always been
   is always
   was always
   would have always been
   No correction required
   Option B
   

    

3. He had deliberately kept the matter pending so that people should be bribed him.
   could be bribed
   should bribe
   could be bribing
   should have bribed
   No correction required
   Option B
   

    

4. Because of a shortage the government had appealed people to be extravagant with water.
   for being extravagant
   to be saving
   to be economical
   to be economic
   No correction required
   Option C
   

    

5. He was found absorbing in his studies when I reached there.
   was to find absorbed
   was found absorbed
   had been found absorbing
   had to be found absorbing
   No correction required
   Option B
   

    

Directions(6-10): The following sentences have to be arranged in the proper sequence, so as to form a meaningful paragraph. On the basis of your sequencing, answer the questions that follow

A. Left-leaning pundits argued then that the increasing diversity of the electorate was good for Democrats, and that the country was ready for a counter-revolution.
B. For those who played a part in the transformation of the Democratic Party from the low of Walter Mondale losing all but Minnesota and Washington, DC in 1984 and Bill Clinton’s victory in 1992, the argument activists are having now is horribly familiar.
C. By the end of Ronald Reagan’s presidency, Democrats viewed the Gipper as a celebrity lightweight who had hypnotized the rubes.
D. The party was not trusted on the economy and was associated with stances on welfare, gay rights and the death penalty that too many voters found strange or threatening.
E. “Nothing shocks a political party more than losing a national election it expects to win,” says Bill Galston, now at the Brookings Institution, a think-tank, and then an influential thinker about how Democrats could revitalise.
F. After that defeat, Mr Galston wrote an essay called “The Politics of Evasion”, in which he argued that Democrats were ignoring what voters were telling them.
G. Once he was gone, in 1988, they expected to take back the White House, a hunch that hardened into a certainty when polls showed their nominee, Michael Dukakis, 17 points up five months before the election.

6. After the rearrangement of sentences, what will be the second sentence?
   A
   B
   C
   D
   F
   Option C
   B-C-G-A-E-F-D

    

7. After the rearrangement of sentences, what will be the fourth sentence?
   A
   B
   C
   D
   E
   Option A
   B-C-G-A-E-F-D

    

8. After the rearrangement of sentences, what will be the first sentence?
   A
   B
   C
   D
   E
   Option B
   B-C-G-A-E-F-D

    

9. After the rearrangement of sentences, what will be the Last sentence?
   A
   B
   C
   D
   E
   Option D
   B-C-G-A-E-F-D

    

10. After the rearrangement of sentences, what will be the Fifth sentence?
    A
    B
    C
    D
    E
    Option E
    B-C-G-A-E-F-D