English Practice Questions with Explanation Based on New Pattern (Odd One Out In Sentence of Paragraph)

English Practice Questions with Explanation (Odd One Out In Sentence of Paragraph) Set-41:

Dear Readers, Here we have given the Practice English Questions with explanation based on new pattern, candidates those who are preparing for upcoming examination can make use of it.

Directions (Q 1 - 10): Five statements are given below, labeled A, B, C, D and E. Among these, four statements are in logical order and form coherent paragraph. From the given options, choose the option the does not fit into the theme of the paragraph.

1). A.The central bank was not expected to tinker with key policy rates in its first monetary policy review of 2017-18 unveiled on Thursday, following its decision to shift from an accommodative to a neutral monetary policy stance in February.

B.This marginal change is aimed at sucking out from the system excess liquidity that remains a lingering concern, despite coming off its peak in the aftermath of the demonetization exercise.

C.The Monetary Policy Committee chaired by Reserve Bank of India Governor Urjit Patel has, in fact, decided to raise the rate at which the central bank borrows funds from banks (the reverse repo rate) by 25 basis points, from 5.75% to 6%, while leaving other policy rates untouched.

D.The efficacy of the RBI’s liquidity management toolkit will impinge on another key concern: inflation, which is expected to climb to 5% by the second half of this fiscal.

E.The RBI has also proposed a new liquidity management tool that awaits government approval, making the draining of surplus liquidity a critical priority all through this year.

a) A

b) B

c) C

d) D

e) All fits to paragraph

2). A.Such is the nature of frenetic cricket calendars that the Indian Premier League has already rolled in, its tenth edition commencing with the match between the defending champion, Sunrisers Hyderabad, and last year’s runner-up, Royal Challengers Bangalore, on April 5.

B.A week after India clinched the Test series against Australia at Dharamsala, the memory of both the fine victory and the bad blood that marred those matches can be pushed to the sidelines.

C.A summer sporting carnival, a domestic tournament with an international flavour, as Rahul Dravid described it, had inexplicably gone beyond its pulsating cricket and virtually prised out the BCCI’s heart.

D.On the field, suspense and sixes, upsets and consistency, flair and acrobatic fielding have all combined to energize the league.

E.Spread over 47 days and featuring 60 matches, the IPL has over the years blended the instant gratification of the Twenty20 format with a sense of longevity, having prospered since its inception in 2008.

a) D

b) B

c) A

d) C

3). A.The UN Charter clearly states that any attack on another country needs Security Council approval unless it is an act in self-defence.

B.The U.S. and other countries could also have put more pressure on Moscow to rein in Mr. Assad, and offered support to the peace process backed by Russia and Turkey. If the last six years of the deadly civil war in Syria offer a concrete lesson, it is that there are no quick fixes to this crisis that has political, sectarian and geopolitical dimensions.

C.On the ground, the U.S. action seems to have cemented the alliance between Moscow and Damascus further, with the former sending a warship to the Mediterranean and threatening to halt a “deconfliction” channel, a hot line between the Russian and U.S. defence ministries to avoid direct confrontation in Syria.

D.The U.S. missile attack on a Syrian airbase, which President Donald Trump ordered after civilians in the rebel-held Idlib province were hit with chemical weapons causing the deaths of at least 80 people, marks a departure in American policy towards the war-ravaged country.

E.Mr. Trump could have waited for the UN to complete its probe into the chemical attack in Khan Shaykhun before initiating military action, while simultaneously working to build a consensus on Syria at the UN Security Council.

a) D

b) E

c) C

d) A

4). A.The Centre assumes a direct role in the reforms, since it will introduce guidelines that bind State governments in several areas, notably in creating a framework for taxicab aggregators, financing insurance to treat the injured and to compensate families of the dead in hit-and-run cases, prescribing standards for electronically monitoring highways and urban roads for enforcement and modernising driver licensing.

B.The Motor Vehicles (Amendment) Bill passed by the Lok Sabha this week will take a little more time to come into force, since it has not cleared the Rajya Sabha in the Budget session.

C.There is a dire need to have clear rules and transparent processes in all these areas, since transport bureaucracies have remained unresponsive to the needs of a growing economy that is witnessing a steady rise in motorisation.

D.But the changes that it proposes to the Motor Vehicles (MV) Act of 1988 are significant.

E.As the IIT Delhi’s Road Safety in India report of 2015 points out, the deterrent effect of law depends on the severity and swiftness of penalties, but also the perception that the possibility of being caught for violations is high.

a) D

b) A

c) E

d) B

e) All fits to paragraph

5). A.But these did not appear to have had a deterrence effect.

B.For Mr. Dhinakaran, the stakes were higher than for any other candidate, desperate as he was for political legitimacy and a possible shot at chief ministership.

C.The order recalled the provisions of the Representation of the People Act, 1951, relating to disqualification of a candidate, and the source of the EC’s own powers, Article 324 of the Constitution.

D.The EC did its best to monitor the electoral process, through an unprecedented number of central observers, flying squad teams, static surveillance teams and video surveillance teams.

E.There was a popular impression that he tried to pay his way to victory by systematically distributing cash, ward-wise, through ministers and party functionaries.

a) E

b) C

c) B

d) A

e) None of these

6). A. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s assurance to visiting Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina of an “early resolution” to the Teesta water dispute has firmly brought the elephant in the room to the fore.

B.Both governments would do well to understand the advice hidden in Sheikh Hasina’s message during a speech where she praised “all parties and all politicians” for coming together and clearing the land boundary agreement (LBA), to swap enclaves India and Bangladesh held in each other’s territory, in 2015.

C.Mr. Modi’s statement, made in the presence of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, has been widely welcomed.

D.The holdout is clearly political; hence the resolution will only come from political dialogue, and must be forged quickly.

E.It defined both India’s commitment to the Teesta water-sharing agreement and the Central government’s commitment to working with the West Bengal government to conclude the agreement for which the framework was initialled in 2011.

a) E

b) B

c) A

d) C

e) All fits to paragraph

7). A.Ever since the country adopted the new post-monarchy Constitution in September 2015, Madhesi parties have been demanding a redrawing of federal boundaries to reflect the fact that the community, residents of the Terai area, and other minority groups are in a majority in some new provinces.

B.The boycott decision came after the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist-Centre)-led government tabled fresh amendments to the Constitution in Parliament.

C.With Madhesi parties deciding to boycott local polls scheduled for May 14, Nepal is heading for another political crisis.

D.The government led by CPN(M-C) chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal, with the Nepali Congress part of the coalition, came to power in 2016 on the promise of accommodating these demands to the extent possible and forging a reasonable consensus across the political spectrum.

E.Local elections are seen as a way to allow for a much-needed administrative presence everywhere, but this cannot happen without the participation of all political forces, especially Madhesis.

a) B

b) D

c) E

d) A

e) None of these

8). A.An enterprising owner has built a maze of sorts to create a longer walking distance from a highway to his bar.

B.The liquor trade, as the Supreme Court has emphasised, is indeed res extra commercium, something outside the idea of commerce.

C.The point was cited by the court while ordering that liquor sales be prohibited within 500 metres from national and State highways.

D.It exists solely at the discretion of policymakers without any concomitant fundamental right that other businesses enjoy.

E.In a different sense, it only underscores how much the executive is, and ought to be, involved in policy-making on the subject.

a) D

b) A

c) C

d) E

e) None of these

9). A.The State cabinet also decided to waive loans worth Rs.6,000 crore extended to small and marginal farmers that had turned into non-performing assets.

B.Chairing his first cabinet meeting after taking over the reins in Uttar Pradesh, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath approved a write-off on outstanding farmer loans of up to Rs.1 lakh taken before March 31, 2016.

C.The Madras High Court has clearly reached into the the domain of the executive.

D.There was no mention of a bigger plan to ramp up the farm sector, in which U.P. invested just 2.3% of total expenditure in 2016-17 — one of the lowest rates across major States.

E.Together, this package, aimed at fulfilling the Bharatiya Janata Party’s election promise, will cost the exchequer about Rs.36,000 crore.

a) B

b) E

c) A

d) C

e) None of these

10). A. Her end of the conversation was not put out, and the channel reported that it had got the tape directly from the woman.

B.A new Malayalam television channel, Mangalam TV, had debuted on March 26 with a splash.

C.The matter is now under a judicial inquiry, but the resignation recently of a minister in the Kerala government turns the spotlight once again on the tricky journalistic terrain of the sting operation.

D.The ethics of sting operations is among the most fiercely debated issues in journalism.

E.It broadcast an audio recording allegedly of the then Transport Minister of Kerala, A.K. Saseendran, purportedly seeking sexual favours from a woman who had come to him for assistance.

a) D

b) B

c) A

d) C

e) All fits to paragraph

1). Answer: e)

Option e) is the answer since all sentences are fit to paragraph and explains about the monetary policy and the increase in the policy rate in order to suck out from the system excess liquidity, also about the proposal of a new liquidity management tool and the efficacy of the RBI in liquidity management.

2). Answer: d)

Option d) is the one which does not fit to the theme of the paragraph, since it is explaining about a summer sporting carnival which is a domestic tournament; while others are explaining about the test series against Australia at Dharamsala, the nature of frenetic cricket calendars and also about other factors such as consistency, flair and acrobatic fielding.

3). Answer: a)

Option a) is the one which does not fit to the theme of the paragraph, since it is explaining about the U. S missile attack which was ordered by Trump on Syrian airbase and its causes; while others are explaining about the Security Council approval for attack, action of U.S. which cemented the alliance between Moscow and Damascus and some facts about chemical attack & peace process.

4). Answer: c)

Option c) is not belong to the paragraph since others are explaining about the Motor Vehicles (Amendment) Bill and its changes to the Motor Vehicles (MV) Act of 1988 and also about some rules and processes under the bill. But option c) is explaining about the information of IIT Delhi’s Road Safety in India report of 2015 and its effects.

5). Answer: b)

Option b) is the one which is not part of the logical paragraph since others explain about Mr. Dhinakaran, who is a high staked person and about the ways he taken to won the election. But option b) is logically incorrect because it talks about Representation of the People Act, 1951, and its relation with disqualification of a candidate.

6). Answer: e)

Option e) is the answer since all the sentences are fit to the paragraph and explains about the visit of Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to India, welcome ceremony by West Bengal CM and also about the agreement related to Teesta water dispute.

7). Answer:c)

Option c) is not belong to the paragraph since others are explaining about various political forces such as Madhesi parties, Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist-Centre) and their demanding and forging of reasonable consensus over elections. But option c) is explaining about the Local elections with respect to the participation of all political forces, especially Madhesis.

8). Answer: b)

Option b) is the one which is not part of the logical paragraph since others are explaining about the liquor trade and the order emphasized by the Supreme Court in placement of liquor shop in national and State highways. But option b) does not fit since it explains about the enterprising owner and the distance to the bar.

9). Answer: d)

Option d) is the one which is not part of the logical paragraph as we see that other options are explain about the actions taken by Uttar Pradesh, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath in favor of farmers under various factors. But option d) talks about Madras High Court and its reaching of executive domain.

10). Answer: a)

Option a) is the one which is not part of the logical paragraph since others speaks about judicial inquiry and resignation of a minister in Kerala Govt. due to the journalistic terrain of the sting operation. But option a) is logically incorrect because it talks about the ethics of sting operations in Journalism.