IBPS PO Mains 2016 - English Language

1.		Direction (36-40); 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.

Although I already knew the answer and he invited me to visit him often, since I just have seen her in the square, I was never determined to yield this point.

Although I have already known the answer and he invited me to visit him often but since I just have seen her in the square, I was not determined to yield this point.

Although I knew the answer already, and he has often invited me to visit him, since I just have seen her in the square, I am never determined to yield this point.

Although I already know the answer and he often invited me to visit him , since I have just seen her in the square, I am determined never to yield this point.

None is true.

2.

The government has decided to install renewable energy devices at prominent sites. Citizens will be more aware of their benefits.

(A) The government’s decision ………..

(B) Deciding to instal ……….

(C) By making citizens ……….

Only (A)

Only (A) and (B)

Only (B)

Only (C)

None of these

3.		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.

I have been ill for fortnight and the Management and the school sports committee as well prefer to elect me the Captain of school team. Initially I thought that it is only in a fun but I was wrong.

I had been ill for the fortnight and the Management and the school sports committee preferred to elect me the Captain of school team. Initially I thought that it was only in a fun but I was wrong.

I have been ill for a fortnight and the Management as well as the school sports committee prefers to elect me Captain of school team. Initially I thought that it was only in fun but I was wrong.

I was ill for fortnight thus the Management as well as the school sports committee preferred to elect me the Captain of school team. Initially I thought that it was only in a fun but I was wrong.

All are true

4.		Alice Walker’s The Temple of My Familiar, far from being a tight, focused Narrative, is instead a cheaper novel that roams freely and imaginatively over a half million

traditional , a chronological

provocative , an insensitive

forceful , a concise

focused , an expansive

circuitous , a discursive

5.

Directions (Q. 11-15): In each of the following questions five options are given, of which one word is most nearly the same or opposite in meaning to the given word in the question. Find the correct option having either same or opposite meaning.

Prodigy

Pauper

Despondent

Demure

Wanton

Epitome

6.		Jayashree was habitually so docile and erratic that her friends could not understand her sudden hostile her employers.

accommodating…outburst against

erratic…envy of

truculent…virulence toward

hasty…annoyance toward

apologetic…hostile

7.		Where is it expected to invest by government to stimulate growth?

On infrastructure

On governments plans.

On fiscal management

On manufacturing sector

On social development.

8.		Let us understand the definition of metaphysics, a purely speculative science, which occupies a completely isolated position and is entirely independent of the teachings of experience. It deals with mere conceptions--not, like mathematics, with conceptions applied to intuition--and in it, reason is the pupil of itself alone. It is the oldest of the sciences. (

And it would struggle to survive without the architecture of mathematical support that it draws its strength from

Yet it continued to baffle mankind because of its abstractions

But it has never had and never will have the good fortune to attain to the sure scientific method

And it would still survive, even if all the rest were swallowed up in the abyss of an all-destroying barbarism

This critical science is not opposed to the dogmatic procedure of reason in pure cognition; for pure cognition must always be dogmatic

9.		CORPULENT

Lean

Gaunt

Emaciated

Obese

Nobble

10.		Nondescript

Conducive

Discern

Tantamount

Defined

Emancipate