Mixed English Questions Set 18 (New Pattern)

This set contains New Pattern English Questions for various upcoming exams like SBI PO, IBPS PO, Clerk and insurance exams.

Directions (1-5): In each of the following questions a short passage is given with one of the lines in the passage missing and represented by a blank. Select the best out of the five answer choices given, to make the passage complete and coherent.

Access to funding for litigation has become a critical component of class action cases in Australia. This is because it provides the necessary financing for this form of expensive and complex litigation. Yet its unregulated nature may expose consumers to the risk of the funder becoming insolvent or simply failing to pay legal fees – or, if a class action is lost, the defendant’s costs. (……………………………………………………………………………)
A) Consumers are reluctant to buy high priced goods as a result of this unregulated nature of the law.
B) Funding to such parties must be stopped as it creates a lot of excess burden on the government.
C) To create regulations that cover this, the courts and regulators need to pay attention to unsuccessful class actions.
D) The judicial conflict over these executive orders highlights public opinion on both the role of the courts and the perception of conflict between national security and freedom of religion.
E) Other major recommendations included setting up of special courts and wherever possible woman judges and magistrate be appointed in each district to handle DV cases.

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Option C
Explanation: The passage is about litigation funding. (A form of funding where a firm finances its costs through a third party. ) Class action in the passage means – (A “class action” lawsuit is one in which a group of people with the same or similar injuries caused by the same product or action sue the defendant as a group.)
Now Option A is about high priced goods. Not the answer
Option B, talks about funding to party, and this creates burden on government. But govt. is not responsible for funding.
Option C tells the next step what should be done as per the context of the passage
Option D talks about executive order and national security and religion. Option E talks about women judges and appointment of judges. SO not the answer.
(……………………………………………………………………… ). The basic right of people to escape from war, persecution and poverty would be accepted as a given, and no one would have their life determined by their place of birth. But we don’t live in this world, and national borders continue to block the freedom of people to move. Around the world, protectionism is on the rise, as people are told to blame outsiders for threatening their way of life and, more importantly, stealing their jobs.
A) We live in a world full of hatred and dislike.
B) In an ideal world, we would all be able to freely move wherever we wanted
C) Internationalism assumes the existence of nations and works to create alliances and solidarities across national borders.
D) A maritime approach to monitoring immigration could very well become the usage of unarmed drones, helicopters and patrol vessels to survey.
E) National borders should be protected from terrorist groups as the threat of attacks by them is increasing day by day.

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Option B
Explanation: The passage talks about how the world has become a restricted place to live in. The reason is international borders. We can get the blank statement by looking at the 2^nd line after the blank i.e ” But we don’t live in this world ….” It means some sort of world has been already introduced earlier. Option B and Option C can fill the blank as per this condition. Between B and C, Option B suits the best as it talks exactly in coherence with the passage.
The way traditional economics measures the environment, or in many instances doesn’t, is a long standing problem. For decades, our primary measure of economic activity, gross domestic product (GDP) has measured “progress” without accounting for the cost borne by the environment, nor the substantial benefits we receive from it. In politics and economics we regularly use the word “capital” to mean assets like buildings or cash. (…………………………………………………………..) Nature is an asset.
A) Economics has made its way in everyone’s life.
B) Assets are important for our survival.
C) Interlinking of GDP and environment should be avoided.
D) This decade long method should be abolished and a new system which inculcates technology must be introduced.
E) This should extend to the environment too.

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Option E
Explanation: Passage talks about considering environment and nature also while measuring the economic activity of a country. Option A is vague and does not matches with the next statement with the blank. Option B is also vague. Option C talks the opposite. Option D talks about introducing technology. Option E fits the blank and is also matching with the previous and the next sentence after the blank.
(…………………………………………………………………………………). Hence, their sense of what’s happening in the economy has a flow on effect.If they feel confident, they might spend a bit extra or go into debt. If they don’t, they won’t leave their job to start a risky venture. Surveying how consumers feel, then, can provide a useful snapshot of how an economy is faring right now, and in the near future.
A) Consumers should not be confused with buyers as both are completely different if seen from a a producers view.
B) Manufacturers play an important role in the success of a product.
C) Consumers are key players in the economy, they purchase goods and services, supply labour and make savings and investment decisions
D) Despite being less successful than its competitor in the recent past, Company X has shown that it will not lag behind anyone, by introducing new set of products.
E) Consumers have no sense of what a good product is and what a bad one is.

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Option C
Explanation: The passage states that someone has a sense of what’s happening in the economy. Then the next line says that consumers must be surveyed, It means that the previous line was about consumers and they have sense of what is happening in the economy. So Option C is best suited. Option A talks about two subject i.e consumers and buyers, so it cannot be the answer.
(…………………………………………………………………………………………………)For example, a person sitting in Dubai can have the experience of visiting Taj Mahal in India as a tourist. He will feel himself as part of the crowd and can get different sensorial experiences depending upon the sophistication of the Virtual Reality application. Technologies dealing with virtual reality have started maturing and will be pervasive by the end of this decade. As of now, we are seeing virtual reality shows in amusement parks where people enjoy multi-dimensional virtual experiences.
A) If you’ve ever wanted to fulfill your childhood dream of holding a lightsaber in your hand, online games can be the vehicle to set those fantasies back in motion.
B) Virtual reality for the layman is to be able to reincarnate in a different environment which is completely different from the physical environment.
C) Spatial sound is perhaps the most necessary key for absolute immersion in a game, virtual reality or otherwise.
D) Virtual Reality requires a lot of understanding for developing a real world model.
E) The graphics are less sophisticated than the lush, real-world experiences provided by high-end virtual reality games and simulations.

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Option B
Explanation: Option B , introduces the passage and links with the next statement.

Directions (6-10): 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. Mark (E) as the answer if the sentence is correct and ‘No correction is required’.

We have strong relationships and deepening partnerships with other nation that have been built since decades; none much important than our relationship with India.
A) and deepened, nations that has, along, none like
B) and deep, nations that have, over, none more
C) and deep, nations that have, along, none well
D) and strong, nations that has, by, none alike
E) No Correction Required

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Option B
Explanation: We have strong relationships and deep partnerships with other nations that have been built over decades; none more important than our relationship with India.
It is required that the Budget proposes limited measures to rationalise tax and boosting transparency in the policy-evacuated real estate sector.
A) is highly predictable, relative measures, and absorb, adopted
B) is needed, instantaneous measures, and limit, change
C) is adopted, likely measures, and conduct, unlimited
D) is welcome, several measures, and boost, challenged
E) No Correction Required

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Option D
Explanation: It is welcome that the Budget proposes several measures to rationalise tax and boost transparency in the policy-challenged real estate sector.
The sharpening increase in girl enrolment rating in the states has been boosted hopes of reduced gender disparities over the coming years.
A) high, enrolment rates, has been boosted, reducing gender disparity
B) sharp, enrolment rates, has boosted, reducing gender disparities
C) sharp, enrolment rating, have boosted, reduced gender disparity
D) strict, enrolment rating, have boosted, reduced gender disparity
E) No Correction Required

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Option B
Explanation: The sharp increase in girl enrolment rates in the states has boosted hopes of reducing gender disparities over the coming years.
Newspapers abound from daily reports of cheatings, forgery and counterfeiting so much so that we all tend to think that these happenings are bounded to happen in richer states with huge commercial activities and that such happenings will only increased as the states develop.
A) bound with, so much, bound, can be increased
B) abound with, so much so, are bound, will only increase
C) bound from, so much so, are bounding, would increase
D) abound on as much as, are bounded, will increase
E) No Correction Required

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Option B
Explanation: Newspapers abound with daily reports of cheatings, forgery and counterfeiting so much so that we all tend to think that these happenings are bound to happen in richer states with huge commercial activities and that such happenings will only increase as the states develop.
When Indian campaigners against triple talaq felt tired and disheartened, they must find strengthen in remembering that it was against much taller odds that women won the suffrage; also remembering how dominant patriarchy doesn’t just surrender his privileges but fights hard and dirty to hold to them.
A) start feeling tired, would not find strength, get surrendered, to held on
B) feeling tired, may find strengthening seriously surrender, to hold
C) feel tired, may find strength, just surrender its, to hold on
D) feeling tirem can find strength, surrender to held on
E) No Correction Required

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Option C
Explanation: When Indian campaigners against triple talaq feel tired and disheartened, they may find strength in remembering that it was against much taller odds that women won the suffrage; also remembering how dominant patriarchy doesn’t just surrender its privileges but fights hard and dirty to hold on to them.