IBPS PO Mains 2016 - English Language

1.		Please select the most appropriate option, out of the five options given for each of the following sentences, which, in your view, should be grammatically and structurally correct. Please note that the meaning & context of the sentence must not change.

If you try to understand the concept in the class you will not only remember it but also will not be able to put to use while solving even the difficult exercises.

If you tried to understand the concept of the whole class, you will not only remember it, but also can put to use while solving even the difficult exercises.

If you tried to understand the concept in the class, you would not only remember it but also can put it to use while solving even the difficult exercises.

If you tried to understand the concept in the class, you would not only remember it but also could put it to use while solving even the difficult exercises.

None is true.

2.

Twelve million youth enter the Indian work force every year. Eighty per cent of these youth are unskilled.

(A) While eighty per cent ………

(B) Since twelve million ……….

(C) Of the twelve million ……….

Only (A)

Only (C)

Only (A) and (B)

All (A), (B) and (C)

None of these

3.

Directions (16-20): Which of the pair of phrases (a), (b), (c) and (d) given below should replace the phrase given in bold in the following sentence to make the sentence grammatically meaningful and correct? If the sentence is correct as it is and no correction is required, mark (e) as the answer.

According to author Dishantgautam, a novel is difficult to write when compared to a play is like going for an election where one has to appeal to a thousand people at a time whereas in a book one appeals to one only person.

simpler, running in

faster, voting through

easier, running for

fool proof, voting on

No correction required

4.

Directions (Q. 1-5) : Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below it.

The finance ministry on Monday said the Union budget would be growth-oriented, implicitly signaling that it will address the investment crisis in the Indian economy.

“Given the fiscal constraints and other parameters under which the government has to function, the effort of the government is to present a budget which is growth-oriented, that maintains the momentum of growth and tries to develop on it,” economic affairs secretary Shaktikanta Das said in an interview with DD News uploaded on YouTube on Monday.

According to Das, the budget will also detail new measures to support ongoing programmes such as Start-up India, Standup India, Make In India, Digital India and the Skill mission – all of which have a strong focus on creating jobs.

Finance minister Arun Jaitley will be presenting his third budget on 29 February at a time when private investment has dried up and the exchequer has had to incur higher expenditure due to implementation of the One Rank One Pension scheme for the armed forces and the recommendations of the Seventh Pay Commission.

That may cramp the government’s ability to accelerate public investment to revive economic growth while sticking within the confines of its fiscal deficit targets. Some parts of the government believe that the emphasis should be on growth and not fiscal consolidation. Other parts, and the Reserve Bank of India, believe the finance minister should adhere to his fiscal commitments made in the last budget.

Without revealing whether the government will digress from the path of fiscal consolidation, Das said the government’s priority is to take a balanced view on “the expenditure requirement to keep our growth momentum and to what extent we can borrow’. Care Ratings chief economist MadanSabnavis said the government has to increase its allocation for public investment on infrastructure to stimulate growth. “I expect government to spend Rs.10,000-20,000 crore additional amount on infrastructure. Given nominal GDP (gross domestic product) is not expected to expand significantly, the leeway for the government to spend more may not be there while keeping fiscal deficit within 3.7-3.9% of GDP. So I don’t expect a big-bang push for infrastructure spending given the fiscal constraint,” he said.

The finance ministry revealed more contours of its budget when minister of state for finance JayantSinha, also in an interview to DD News, said the four pillars of the budget will be poverty eradication, farmers’ prosperity, job creation and a better quality of life for all Indian citizens. ‘This budget will be a forward looking budget that will ensure that India will continue to be a haven of stability and growth in a very turbulent and choppy global economic environment,” he added.

The government has been contemplating tax incentives to companies in the manufacturing sector, including tax deductions on emoluments paid to new employees, to encourage firms to step up hiring and create jobs under its Make in India initiative. The government published suggestions that it has received internally from various government departments and other stakeholders on the mygov.in website, seeking further ideas and comments from the public.

Suggestions being considered by the government include financial incentives, tax incentives under the Income Tax Act, 1961, and subsidies for equipping employees with job skills, and upgrading and improving employment exchanges. Another suggestion is to expand the scope of the tax deduction currently available to companies that add at least 10% to their workforce in a year by lowering the threshold. This incentive is available only in cases of employees who earn less than Rs.6 lakh a year.

(The topic of the Passage asked in the exam was based on Infrastructure Investment)

What is the main objective of the government to create the Union Budget?

It should meet the requirements of the society.

It should be under some fiscal constraints.

It should be growth oriented.

It should meet the requirements of a developed country.

It should change the momentum of growth.

5.		Please select the most appropriate option, out of the five options given for each of the following sentences, which, in your view, should be grammatically and structurally correct. Please note that the meaning & context of the sentence must not change.

If I have enough money I would have backpack around Europe. But unfortunately I was broken.

If I have had enough money, I would have done backpack around Europe. But, unfortunately I am broke.

If I had enough money I would backpack around Europe. But, unfortunately I am broke.

If I have enough money I would backpack around all over the Europe. But unfortunately I am broke.

None is true.

6.		After two years, high inflation moderated in the later part of 2011-12 in response to past monetary tightening and growth deceleration. High inflation had adverse consequences on welfare and on saving and investment, particularly household saving in financial assets. The most serious consequence of inflation is____ As growth slowed down, in part due to high inflation, it further reduced the welfare of the common man through adverse impact on employment and incomes.

its destructive allocation impact on the industries that were lately coming up.

its negative impact on the rich and high-profile people.

its adverse distributional impact on the poor, people without social security and pensioners.

its wayward consequences on the public distribution system meant for the poor.

its unfavourable bearing on day to day commodities that are used by the common man.

7.

Food inflation is touching twenty per cent. The government will have to tighten monetary policy to prevent further rise.

(A) Although food inflation is ………

(B) With the tightening of monetary ……….

(C) Given that food inflation ……….

Only (A)

Only (B)

Only (C)

Only (A) and (B)

None of these

8.

What is/are the primary reasons behind the current economic slowdown?

(A) Slow rate of capital expansion

(B) Tardy investment in infrastructure as well as plant and machinery

(C) A rapid increase in the cases of corruption, and decreased FDI

Only (A)

Both (A) and (B)

Either (A) or (B)

Both (B) and (C)

All (A), (B) and (C)

9.		Five statements are given below, labelled a, b, c, d and e. Among these, four statements are in logical order and form a coherent paragraph/passage. From the given options, choose the option that does not fit into the theme of the passage.

India has 13 of the 20 most polluted cities in the world, according to the World Health Organization.

The government should redouble its efforts to combat climate change, which will naturally slash not just greenhouse-gas emissions but particulates as well.

Every year, more than half a million people are estimated to die prematurely because of air pollution.

While air quality tends to worsen around this time of year as millions of Indians light firecrackers to celebrate the Diwali festival, the problem isn’t limited by season or geography.

This week, air pollution in New Delhi has been truly off the charts: Tiny particulates, which are especially deadly, topped 999 micrograms per cubic meter—40 times what is considered safe and beyond what the scale was designed to measure.

10.		EMBEZZLE

Misappropriate

Balance

Remunerate

Clear

Perfection