Crack IBPS Exam 2017 - English Scoring Part (Day-6)

Crack IBPS Exam 2017 - English Scoring Part (Day-6):

Dear Readers, Nowadays most of the aspirants are facing huge trouble to score good marks in English and so they can't increase the overall marks. To score high you need to practice more and more standard questions daily. “Practice does not make perfect, Only Perfect Practice makes perfect”.

Here in English Scoring Part we are providing 10 Questions in Reading Comprehension, 5 Questions in Cloze Test, 5 Questions in Error Spotting, total 20 questions in 15 Minutes. By practicing these questions regularly you can increase your calculation speed and it will help you to increase your score.

Directions (Q. 1-10): Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions. Certain words/ phrases are given in bold to help you locate them while answering some of the questions.
Man’s unrelenting quest to chart out the precise pattern of his ancestry got a lightning jolt of excitement this month. Fossil hunters have dated a tranche of jaw, tooth and skulls, unearthed at different periods since the 1960s, from a cave in Jebel Irhoud, Morocco. These have been proffered as proof of the oldest known humans. The pair of research papers reported in Nature suggests that science may have grossly underestimated the age of humanity. Until last month, the consensus was that humans were about 2,00,000 years old. This discovery pushes the history of human evolution back to at least 3,00,000 years.
There are multiple reasons why this is significant. One, it shows the extremely inventive methods that archaeologists and paleo-anthropologists tap to date human history. Here they used electron spin resonance dating that tells you how long a sample — in this case the enamel from the teeth — had been exposed to the radiation from the surrounding sediment in which it was buried. The age was computed by measuring the atoms with unpaired electrons (free radicals) which were created by the ambient radiation. The other technique employed was thermo-luminescence. Accompanying the bones were flints that were probably used to make fire. When heated, electrons are released from those rocks and over time solar radiation replenishes those electrons. In a lab, such stones are heated again and — based on the number of electrons — scientists can figure out how long ago those stones were first fired.
In 2010, scientists extracted DNA from Neanderthal bones and were able to sequence the entire genome of that species, which is considered our most mysterious cousin. From this we know that 2-4% of DNA in Europeans and Asians is of Neanderthal provenance and that there was a far deeper connect between the two species than was previously assumed.

1.what makes the fact strong that human were about 3,00,000 years old?
1. Research paper reported in Nature.
2. Electron spin resonance dating used to date human history.
3. Thermo luminescence technique were used to date human history.

1).EXPALNATION- According to passage these 2 techniques helps to tell that humans were 3,00,000 old.
Answer: E

2. What can be the title of passage?

2). EXPALNATION- in all the passage origin of humanity is discussed where several methods used to determine.
Answer: A

3). Which is true according to passage?
1. Fossil hunters dated fossils found in 1960.
2. Nature tells that science may have underestimated age of humanity.
3. A whole new story created after the dating of fossils found in Morocco.

3). EXPALNATION- 1 is wrong because fossil have found since 1960.2nd and 3rd is true according to passage.
Answer: E

4). what was concluded after 2010? 1. Some part of DNA in Asians and Europeans is of Neanderthal provenance.
2. Experiment told that age of humanity is 3,00,000 years old.
3. 2 most inventive method introduced.

4).EXPALNATION- After 2010 only one thing was concluded which is mentioned in 1.
Answer: A

5). How the age can be calculated by electron spin resonance dating?
1. By measuring the atoms with unpaired electrons.
2. By heating the enamel of teeth.
3. By measuring the number of electrons.

5). EXPALNATION- According to the passage in first method detail of measuring the age is given.
Answer: A

Directions (Questions- 06 to 08): Choose the word/group of words which is MOST SIMILAR in meaning to the word/group of words printed in bold as used in the passage.
6. Unrelenting

6). EXPALNATION- Unrelenting means constant or ceaseless.
Answer: A

7. Jolt

7). EXPALNATION- jolt means sudden shock or bump.
Answer: A

8. Replenishes

8).replenishes means to recharge or refill.
Answer: D

Directions (Questions- 9, 10): Choose the word/group of words which is MOST OPPOSITE in meaning of the word/group of words printed in bold as used in the passage.
9. Proffered

9).EXPALNATION- proffered means to agree or suggest in positive way.
Answer: B

10. Ambient

10). EXPALNATION- ambient means atmosphere or surroundings.
Answer: E

Directions (11-15): In the passage given below there are 5 blanks, each followed by a word given in bold. Even blank has four alternative words given in options (A),(B),(C) and (D). You have to tell which word will best suit the respective blank. Mark (E) as your answer if the work given in bold after the blank is your answer i.e “No change required”. North-east Germany is home to a number of neo-Nazi groups. They are small in number, yet their views on the purity of the Aryan race 11.(were) straight out of 1930s Germany. That they have lived in relative obscurity for half a century is due thankfully to the absence of the Internet. However, 12.(in) the last decade or so, their hateful presence is being felt not just in a country inundated with Syrian refugees, but on a host of websites too. Without digitization, the lies they perpetuated would never have 13.( occurred) in public forums, and would have perhaps died off in a few years. But the Internet gave them a larger voice and the power to spew hate in an altogether new medium. The 14.( clouds) of such Internet media are now beginning to be felt in India. A largely illiterate citizenry is more likely to gain information, like the neo-Nazis, without a filter. Whom to believe, how much, and under what circumstance 15.(became) impossible to verify when the source is a tweet, a private opinion, a like. When people look only to private media for factual information and news, chances are that a lie doing the rounds eventually establishes itself as truth.
11. ?

11).The sentence is in simple present tense, and plural form of noun.
Answer: D

12. ?

12). The preposition ‘for’ will be used here as per the meaning of the sentence.
Answer: B

13. ?

13). This verb ‘appeared’ will go with the sentence.
Answer: A

14. ?

14). According to the given passage, the dangers are mentioned here.
Answer: D

15. ?

15).Simple present tense sentence, V1+es/s.
Answer: D

Read each sentence to find out whether there is any grammatical or idiomatic error in it. The error any, will be in one part of the sentence. The number of that part is the answer. If there is no error, the answer is (e):-
16.With this PSLV launch, the ISRO now has the (a)/ confidence to put a number of satellites (b)/ in different orbits in a single mission, (c)/ Mission Director B. Jayakumar said (d) /No Error (e)

16). Correct preposition will be into in place of in.(into different orbits in a single mission)
Answer: C

17.This interpretation was always (a)/ a bit of a stretch as anyone (b)/ who read the nuanced scientific (c)/papers in the original know (d) /No Error (e).

17).EXPLANATION.:- According to the tense of sentence past form of the verb will be used.(papers in the original knew )
Answer: D

18.The paper that put all the recent discoveries (a)/together into a tight and coherent history of migrations (b)/ into India was published just three months ago in a (c)/ peer-reviewed journal called ‘BMC Evolutionary Biology’ (d) /No Error (e)

18).EXPLANATION.:-Here preposition of is missing after all.(The paper that put all of the recent discoveries)
Answer: A

19. So if you want to know the approximate period when (a)/Indo-European language speakers came and rapidly (b)/spread across India, you need to discover the date when Z93 (c)/splintered to its own various subgroups or lineages (d) /No Error (e).

19). EXPLANATION.:- Correct preposition will be into in place of to.(splintered into its own various subgroups or lineages)
Answer: D

20. What is abundantly clear is that we are a (a)/ multi-source civilization, not a single-source one, (b)/drawing their cultural impulses, its tradition (c)/ and practices from a variety of lineages and migration histories (d) /No Error (e).

20). EXPLANATION.:- Here use of there is inappropriate,it will b used.(drawing its cultural impulses, its tradition )
Answer: C