English Test for IBPS Clerk 2018 Prelim Exam Set – 10

Directions(1-5): In each of the following questions there are sentences. There is error in one of the parts. Mark the option which contains error parts as your answer. If no part contains error mark option E as your answer.

1. (A) Alongside the results of last week’s US midterms came the passing of San Francisco’s Proposition C, /(B) a measure that will tax firms with an annual turnover of more than $50m (£44m) /(C) to raise an estimated $300m extra a year to help address homelessness. Last Tuesday, 60% of voters backed it: though the proposal is now snarled up in a constitutional dispute, /(D) its approval marks a big moment for a city whose housing crisis has become a matter of urgency.
   A
   B
   C
   D
   NE
   Option E
   

    

2. (A) In one of his most famous and controversial bons mots, the historian AJP Taylor claimed /(B) that the first world war was “imposed on the statesmen of Europe by railway timetables” – the fixed and fiendishly complex /(C) transport schedules that underpinned the military mobilisation plans of the great powers. A century after that terrible conflict’s end, /(D) I wonder if the authority of the timetable is going to work its mischief once again. Though Brexit can scarcely be compared to a great global conflict, it is increasingly obvious that – whatever form it will take – it will be worse than the status quo.
   A
   B
   C
   D
   NE
   Option D
   will take = takes

    

3. (A) Now the members of the Bruges Group – founded in February 1989 – see themselves, rightly or wrongly, /(B) as the heirs of late-period Thatcherism, and take their name from the speech, /(C) widely interpreted as Eurosceptic, that she has given the previous September. Their sacred text is this well-known passage: /(D) “We have not successfully rolled back the frontiers of the state in Britain, only to see them reimposed at a European level with a European super-state exercising a new dominance from Brussels”, which members can (and do) recite verbatim at the slightest prompting.
   A
   B
   C
   D
   NE
   Option C
   has = had

    

4. (A) This is a story about a murder and a journalist who was transformed from reporter to suspect. /(B) At its heart is a tragedy and, although there are elements of farce, they fail to elicit a smile, let alone laugh. /(C) Little about the case makes sense. Truly, to quote Winston Churchill’s /(D) famous description of Russia, we are dealing with “a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma”.
   A
   B
   C
   D
   NE
   Option B
   laugh = a laugh

    

5. (A) On Friday lunchtime, I left the bright streets of the West End of London – goodbye Piccadilly, /(B) farewell Leicester Square – and along with a few dozen other souls took a seat in the /(C) flickering dark of a cinema to watch Peter Jackson’s They Shall Not Grow Old. Jackson’s film, which restores colour and speech to real footage of the war on the western front, /(D) is both a technical miracle and a shattering human spectacle.
   A
   B
   C
   D
   NE
   Option B
   took = took up

    

Directions(6-10): The following six 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. They look you straight in the eye, these lads and pals, our grandfathers and great-grandfathers with their rotten teeth and mugs of tea, as if they had waited all this century to be liberated from sepia.

B. Our understanding of the First World War is a collective memory of the memory of others.

C. But here it is, revived.

D. “Colour seems to be a little exhausted just now.”

E. It always seemed natural that those memories, preserved in every family’s photo albums, had the full spectrum of life bombed out of them.

F. That was not only a retrospective judgment. “I again work more in black and white than colour,” Paul Klee noted in trying to paint the war in 1917.

6. Which would be the second sentence after rearrangement ?
   A
   F
   C
   B
   E
   Option E
   B-E-F-D-C-A

    

7. Which would be the fourth sentence after rearrangement ?
   A
   B
   C
   D
   E
   Option D
   B-E-F-D-C-A

    

8. Which would be the third sentence after rearrangement ?
   A
   F
   B
   C
   E
   Option B
   B-E-F-D-C-A

    

9. Which would be the last sentence after rearrangement ?
   A
   B
   C
   D
   E
   Option A
   B-E-F-D-C-A

    

10. Which would be the first sentence after rearrangement ?
    A
    B
    C
    D
    E
    Option B
    B-E-F-D-C-A