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November 29, 2015

General English Practice Test for IBPS Clerks V Online Exam

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Directions (Q. 1 - 5) : Read each sentence to find out whether there is any grammatical mistake/ error in it. The error, if any, will be in one part of the sentence. Mark the number of that part with error as your answer. If there is 'No error, mark (5) as your answer.

1. Though many companies (1)/ believe that it is quality not price that sells their products, (2)/ they also know the facts (3)/ that advertising sells. (4)/ No error (5)

2. Eat has the selectional restriction (1)/ that it must be following by a kind of food, (2)/ so 'I eat sky' (3) / is not possible. (4)/ No error (5)


3. There was (1)/ no way he could (2)/ keep going (3)/ below all that pressure. (4)/ No error (5)

4. It was not until morning (1)/ that the sheer scale (2)/ of the damage (3)/ could be seen. (4)/ No error (5)

5. Trade sanctions (1)/ were imposed (2)/ against any country (3)/ that refuses to sign the agreement. (4)/ No error (5)

Directions (Q. 6-10) : Which of the phrases (1), (2), (3), and (4) given below each sentence should replace the phrase underlined in the sentence to make it grammatically correct? If there is no error mark (5) No correct-ion required as your answer.

6. You'll have to study any books on Freud before writing a paper on psychoanalysis.
  1. Much books
  2. few books 
  3. some books 
  4. more books
  5. No correction required 
7. A European visitor to the Far East must accommodate self from the habits of life that may seem very strange to him. 
  1. Himself to 
  2. his self to
  3. himself for 
  4. his self from 
  5. No correction required 
8. He joined postgraduate course in the same college in which he had studied for the three previous years.  
  1. from previous three years
  2. during the previous three years
  3. three years previous 
  4. during the three previous years 
  5. No correction required 
9. She always manage to hurt her mother's feelings. 
  1. do manage 
  2. does manage 
  3. did manages 
  4. do managed 
  5. No correction required 
10. It is the people who matters in a democracy. 
  1. whom matters 
  2. whose matters 
  3. whose matter 
  4. who matter 
  5. No correction required 
Directions (Q. 11-15) : Each question below has a blank/ two blanks, each blank indicating that something has been omitted. Choose the word/ set of words from the five options for each blank that best fits the meaning of the sentence as a whole. 
11. We were surprised to know that our friend was of royal ______________.
  1. dissent
  2. decent 
  3. descent 
  4. dissuade
  5. dispute 
12.  _____________ of the highly educated people is a huge _____________ on the country's resources.
  1. Fight, draw 
  2. Position, aspect 
  3. Plight, drain 
  4. Struggle, issue 
  5. Rank, exhaust 
13. No _____________ reasons have been given for the sudden flight of refugees _____________ this area.
  1. proper, for 
  2. correct, along 
  3. suitable, among 
  4. valid, from 
  5. compelling, counter 
14. The modern of _____________ communication have _____________  distance. 
  1. ways, deep 
  2. methods, destroyed 
  3. paths, shortened 
  4. means, annihilated 
  5. gadgets, developed 
15. These remarks about the dominance of casteism in elections are quite _____________ to the present _____________ . 
  1. apposite, position 
  2. opposite, fact 
  3. relevance, media 
  4. significance, party 
  5. applaudable, generation 
Directions (Q. 16 - 20) : Rearrange the following six sentences (A), (B), (C), (1)), (E) and (F) in a proper sequence to form a meaningful paragraph and then answer the questions given below. 
A) These days technology has revolutionized the very concept of a wrist watch. 3 
B) Almost a majority of the people wear a watch worn round the wrist, it measures time in minutes, hours etc. 1
C) The day is not far when we shall have a little TV fitted into a wrist watch. 4
D) A wrist watch may be wound or automatic. 2
E) Wrist watches have become an integral part of human beings, due to their utilities. 6
F) One may have a choice of leather or metal of gold or silver while choosing a strap for the wrist watch. 5

16. What is the LAST sentence after rearrangement ?
1)A 2)B 3)C 4)E 5)F

17. What is the THIRD sentence after rearrangement ?
1)A 2)B 3)D 4)F 5)E

18. What is the FIFTH sentence after rearrangement ?
1)A 2) C 3) D 4) E 5) F

19. What is the FIRST sentence after rearrangement ?
1) B 2) A 3) C 4) D 5) E

20. What is the FOURTH sentence after rearrangement ?
1) A 2) B 3) C 4) D 5) F

Directions (Q. 21-30) : In the fol-lowing passage there are blanks, each of which has been numbered. These numbers are printed below the pass-age and against each, five words/ phrases are suggested, one of which fits the blank appropriately. Find out the appropriate word/ phrase in each case and mark your answer.

The international fight against Islamic State moved up a (21) on Saturday as Turkish police arrested a Belgian suspect heading for Syria in connection with (22) week's Paris attacks, hours after the UN Security Council unanimously   (23) all its members to combat the extremist group.

A day after the EU imposed (24) new external border controls. authorities in Belgium raised the alert level in the capital to level four - signifying a "serious and imminent threat" as the   (25) for the remaining jihadi who killed 130 people in Paris entered its second week. The presumed ringleader of the Paris attacks, Abdelhamid Abaaoud, a 28-year-old Belgian national of Moroccan origin, was (26) to have been in Syria but died in a ferocious seven-hour gunfight (27) police at a rundown apartment in St-Denis, north of Paris, on Wednesday. Another (28) member of the unit, Salah Abdelslam, a 26-year-old Frenchman living in Brussels, is the subject of an international manhunt. His brother, Brahim, who blew him-self up in the attacks, spent time in a Belgian prison with Abaaoud, while a third Molenbeek resident, Bilal Hadfi, was also among the Paris suicide bombers. Belgian Special Forces (29) four people in the capital's Place du Grand Sablonon Saturday afternoon, while the Brussels Metro system is expected to be shut down until Sunday afternoon at the earliest. Shops (30) closed, some shopping malls were shuttered, professional football was cancelled, conceits were called off and music venues, museums, and galleries shut their doors for the weekend.

21. 1) gear 2) ahead 3) above 4) always 5) alone

22. 1) lost 2) last 3) late 4) lastly 5) lasted

23. 1) urge 2) urging 3) urged 4) pledged 5) plead

24. 1) tight 2) treat 3) tread 4) tough 5) track

25. 1) hate 2) hurt 3) heat 4) hurt 5) hunt

26. 1) thought 2) thinking 3) think 4) thinned 5) thanked

27. 1) from 2) with 3) for 4) form 5) firm

28. 1.) suspense 2) suspect 3) suspected 4) suspecting 5) suspects

29. 1) convicted 2) allowed 3) acquitted 4) arrested 5) prosecuted

30. 1) are to 2) will be 3) will been 4) have been 5) were 

Key :
  1. 3
  2. 2
  3. 4
  4. 5
  5. 4
  6. 3
  7. 1
  8. 2
  9. 2
  10. 4
  11. 3
  12. 3
  13. 4
  14. 4
  15. 1
  16. 4
  17. 1
  18. 5
  19. 1
  20. 3
  21. 1
  22. 2
  23. 3
  24. 4
  25. 5
  26. 1
  27. 2
  28. 3
  29. 4
  30. 5
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