English Test for IBPS PO 2018 Prelim Exam Set – 9

Directions(1-5): In each question a sentence is given followed by a blank. Each blank is followed by three options and you have to determine which option can be used in place of blank to make it a meaningful sentence and mark it as your answer.

  1. Although some adjustment of tone or allegiances seemed likely, following Greig’s appointment, the prediction was for a more gradual process, one more respectful, superficially, at least, to the myth of Dacreish genius. Remainers, reduced to parsing the Daily Mail’s internal appointments for glimmers of nation-saving hope, _______________ manage expectations.
    a. were prodded to
    b. are requested to
    c. were urged to

    Both a & c
    Both b & c
    Both c & a
    Only b
    All are Correct
    Option C

     

  2. This weekend, two films based on real-life attempts to steal millions of pounds of valuables are in cinemas across the country. King of Thieves covers the tale of the Hatton Garden burglary, in which £14m of jewels, gold and money was stolen by a bunch of mainly ______________ criminals over the Easter weekend in 2015. American Animals explores the botched robbery of valuable books by a quartet of students in Kentucky in 2004.
    a. elderly career
    b. old job
    c. old professional

    Both a & b
    Both b & c
    Both c & a
    Only a
    All are Correct
    Option D

     

  3. God moves in mysterious ways. The Archbishop of Canterbury is of mortal flesh. Justin Welby’s hellfire sermon about the “evils” of capitalism, which won him repeated ovations from his congregation of trade unionists, was a speech very much of its time. In both its content and its contradictions, the Church of England’s senior prelate was channelling not so much the infinite divine as a highly contemporary and ________________ about what has happened over the past decade.
    a. earthly mood
    b. materialistic mood
    c. comfortable mindset

    Only a & b
    Both b & c
    Both c & a
    Only a
    All are Correct
    Option A

     

  4. Audin was a 25-year-old mathematician and communist who _______________ of the Algerian nationalists (the Front de Libération Nationale), then fighting a war against their French colonial masters. In 1957, he was arrested and disappeared without a trace. Since then, his family had been fighting to find out what really happened to him. Last week, they found out as Macron finally handed them an official document, drafted by lawyers and historians, which held the French authorities directly responsible for Audin’s death.
    a. was a supporter
    b. were a supporter
    c. be a supporter

    Both a & b
    Both b & c
    Both c & a
    Only a
    All are Correct
    Option D

     

  5. Because to know Salisbury, a city that with its market square and medieval streets and Constable-inspiring views seems to be a _________________ of all Englishness, is to grasp this story in a way that the government shows no sign of doing. Because it’s not just the tourist honey pot it at first seems – it’s also the heart of the British military establishment.
    a. brewed grit
    b. distilled essence
    c. purified elixir

    Both a & b
    Both b & c
    Both c & a
    Only b
    All are Correct
    Option B

     

  6. Directions(6-10): 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.

  7. If you would have taken the medicine, you could have gone to school today.
    If you would take
    Had you taken
    If you would be taking
    If you been taking
    No correction required
    Option B

     

  8. Earning lots of money is one of the desires which are never satisfied.
    which are never satisfy
    who are never satisfied
    who is never satisfies
    which is never satisfied
    No correction required
    Option D

     

  9. The passage was so difficult that I could not comprehend it in the first reading.
    as difficult that
    so difficult as
    as difficult as
    very difficult that
    No correction required
    Option E

     

  10. Besides his wife, his children and other relatives also attends the function.
    too attends
    also attending
    also attended
    too attending
    No correction required
    Option C

     

  11. Good leaders are always attentive towards his subordinates’ needs.
    A good leader is
    Good leaders is
    Some good leader are
    All good leaders are
    No correction required
    Option A

     


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