English Test for IBPS Clerk 2018 Main Exam Set – 17

Direction (1-5): In each question given below a sentence is given and is divided into three parts a, b and c. For each part a correction statement is also given. You have to determine which part requires correction and mark it as your answer.

1. It’s often said that the holiday season are a time of reflection. For children, Christmas and the days that follow are all about the presents, / staying up late and most of all self-indulgence – or at least, that’s what my non-Jewish friends do to tell me in school. / Of course, in adulthood we continue to enjoy ourselves, but spending time with loved ones and looking back at another year passed also provides an opportunity to take stock and look afresh into the future. It seems Kevin Spacey didn’t get the memo.
   a. It’s often said that the holiday season is a time for reflection. For children, Christmas and the days that follow are all about the presents,
   b. staying up late and most of all self-indulgence – or at least, that’s what my non-Jewish friends used to tell me at school.
   c. Of course, in adulthood we continue to enjoy ourselves, but spending time among loved ones and looking back in another year passed also provides an opportunity to take stock and look afresh into the future. It seems Kevin Spacey didn’t get the memo.
   Both a & b
   Both b & c
   Both c & a
   Only b
   None of these
   Option A
   The Sentence is :- It’s often said that the holiday season is a time for reflection. For children, Christmas and the days that follow are all about the presents, staying up late and most of all self-indulgence – or at least, that’s what my non-Jewish friends used to tell me at school. Of course, in adulthood we continue to enjoy ourselves, but spending time with loved ones and looking back at another year passed also provides an opportunity to take stock and look afresh into the future. It seems Kevin Spacey didn’t get the memo.

    

2. The latest victim of the current high‑street extinction event seems to be HMV (again): 2,200 people might lose their jobs, / and in the current precarious employment climate that in itself is devastating. / But the loss of the sole high-street purveyor of pop music is extra significance, even for someone who was not a fan of the store.
   a. The latest victim of the current high‑street extinction event seems to be HMV (again): 2,200 people might loose his jobs,
   b. and in the current precarious employment climate that in itself will be devastating.
   c. But the loss of the sole high-street purveyor of pop music has extra significance, even for someone who was not a fan of the store.
   Both a & b
   Both b & c
   Both c & a
   Only a
   None of these
   Option B
   The Sentence is :- The latest victim of the current high‑street extinction event seems to be HMV (again): 2,200 people might lose their jobs, and in the current precarious employment climate that in itself will be devastating. But the loss of the sole high-street purveyor of pop music has extra significance, even for someone who was not a fan of the store.

    

3. A visit to Huawei’s HQ in Shenzhen is a glimpse in the way of China’s leadership would like to envision in its future. / About 180,000 workers throng quietly around a pristine campus in the new-build city, / which prizes digital expertise that highly that some outstanding engineers are lured towards special rent deals to work on a campus that looks more like architect-designed Silicon Valley than the crowded factories that feature in much of urban China.
   a. A visit to Huawei’s HQ in Shenzhen is a glimpse into the way China’s leadership would like to envision its future.
   b. Over 180,000 workers throng quietly around a pristine campus in the new-build city,
   c. which prizes digital expertise so highly that some outstanding engineers are lured with special rent deals to work on a campus that looks more like architect-designed Silicon Valley than the crowded factories that feature in much of urban China.
   Both a & b
   Both b & c
   Both c & a
   Only b
   None of these
   Option C
   The Sentence is :- A visit to Huawei’s HQ in Shenzhen is a glimpse into the way China’s leadership would like to envision its future. About 180,000 workers throng quietly around a pristine campus in the new-build city, which prizes digital expertise so highly that some outstanding engineers are lured with special rent deals to work on a campus that looks more like architect-designed Silicon Valley than the crowded factories that feature in much of urban China.

    

4. I wish I could tell you I’d had some kind of Damascene conversion while listening to Ariana Grande. / In reality, there was just a cold dawning that perhaps the pursuit of men who on some level remind me of my absentee father isn’t a recipe for lasting joy or even particularly original. / If you spent 2018 tapdancing for the validation of someone who you don’t even like very much, switch up next year.
   a. I wish I would tell you I’d had some kind of Damascene conversion while listening to Ariana Grande.
   b. In reality, there is just a cold dawning that perhaps the pursuit of men who on some level reminds me of my absentee father isn’t a recipe for lasting joy or even particularly original.
   c. If you spent 2018 tapdancing for the validation of someone who you don’t even like very much, switch it up next year.
   Both a & b
   Both b & c
   Both c & a
   Only c
   None of these
   Option D
   The Sentence is :- I wish I could tell you I’d had some kind of Damascene conversion while listening to Ariana Grande. In reality, there was just a cold dawning that perhaps the pursuit of men who on some level remind me of my absentee father isn’t a recipe for lasting joy or even particularly original. If you spent 2018 tapdancing for the validation of someone who you don’t even like very much, switch it up next year.

    

5. Just three months earlier, attempting to escape devastating civil war in Syria, the boat he was on with his family collapsed, / just five minutes into the crossing from Turkey to Greece. His wife and two children drowned. / The next morning, his three-year-old son Alan washed up on a beach in Turkey. Pictures of his body were plastered across the world’s front pages.
   a. Just as three months earlier, attempting to escape devastating civil war in Syria, the boat he was in with his family collapsed,
   b. just five minutes to the crossing from Turkey to Greece. His wife with two children were drowned.
   c. The next morning, his three-year-old son Alan washed over on a beach in Turkey. Pictures from his body were plastered across the world’s front pages.
   Both a & b
   Both b & c
   Both c & a
   Only c
   None of these
   Option E
   The Sentence is :- Just three months earlier, attempting to escape devastating civil war in Syria, the boat he was on with his family collapsed, just five minutes into the crossing from Turkey to Greece. His wife and two children drowned. The next morning, his three-year-old son Alan washed up on a beach in Turkey. Pictures of his body were plastered across the world’s front pages.

    

Directions(6-10): In each of the questions below four sentences are given which are denoted by A, B, C and D By using all the four sentences you have to frame a meaningful para. The correct order of the sentences is your answer. Choose from the five alternatives the one having the correct order of the sentences.

6. (A) Bananas cultivated in the Cauvery delta have begun to develop severe salt injury.
   (B) The wetland tracts hitherto considered as devoid of such problem have now shown signs of salt injury by way of marginal scorching characterised by yellow lining.
   (C)The lower leaves get dried up at a faster rate and the number as well as the size of the leaves showed a decline.
   (D)The scorching is so severe that the leaf area gets reduced to even 50 per cent.
   CADB
   CABD
   ADBC
   DCBA
   ABDC
   Option E
   

    

7. (A) Fallow condition of the land favours the loss of valuable top soil by water erosion during monsoon by run-off and loss of soil moisture by evaporation during dry periods.
   (B) This makes inter-culture operations difficult.
   (C)This favours weeds and harbours pests and diseases.
   (D)Most of the farmers keep the land fallow up to the bearing period.
   ABDC
   CDBA
   DCBA
   ACBD
   CDAB
   Option C
   

    

8. (A) The lesions are small, smooth, later enlarge and become slightly depressed.
   (B) Phytopthora blight produces different symptoms on affected plants, depending on the age and the plant part affected.
   (C) Initially, purple to dark necrotic lesions girdle the basal portion of the stem and later occur on the aerial parts of the seedlings.
   (D)The seedling infection commences with the onset of heavy rains during July-August.
   BDCA
   DCBA
   ADCB
   ABCA
   CDBA
   Option A
   

    

9. (A) It is desirable that political parties themselves develop a code of conduct that will sustain the level playing field.
   (B) Any code should evolve more as a healthy convention having the force of a statute.
   (C)It is said that conduct cannot always be laid down by the law.
   (D)As regards giving statutory status to the model code, some have opposed it.
   ABCD
   DCBA
   BDCA
   CADB
   ACBD
   Option B
   

    

10. (A) Social attitudes sometimes lag behind social realities in a period of transition.
    (B) Perhaps it is time for a few determined pushes to begin the first step of reconstructing social structures so that they address modern needs.
    (C) The roles of the primary care-giver in a family needs to be redefined to include male members.
    (D)If the social superstructure does not reflect the current needs then it has to be changed.
    ADCB
    ACDB
    BDCA
    BCDA
    ABDC
    Option B