Crack IBPS Exam 2017 - English Scoring Part (Day-13)

Crack IBPS Exam 2017 - English Scoring Part (Day-13):

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.
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. But the changes that it proposes to the Motor Vehicles (MV) Act of 1988 are significant. 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. 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. The bottleneck created by their lack of capacity has stifled regulatory reform in the transport sector and only encouraged corruption. There is some concern that the move to amend the MV Act overly emphasises the concurrent jurisdiction of the Centre at the cost of State powers, but the proposed changes come after a long consultation exercise. A group of State Transport Ministers went into the reform question last year, while the comprehensive recommendations of the Sundar Committee on road safety have been left on the back burner for nearly a decade.It may appear counter-intuitive, but research shows that imposing stricter penalties tends to reduce the level of enforcement of road rules. 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. The amendments to the MV Act set enhanced penalties for several offences, notably drunken driving, speeding, jumping red lights and so on, but periodic and ineffective enforcement, which is the norm, makes it less likely that these will be uniformly applied. Without an accountable and professional police force, the ghastly record of traffic fatalities, which stood at 1,46,133 in 2015, is unlikely to change. On another front, State governments must prepare for an early roll-out of administrative reforms prescribed in the amended law, such as issuing learner’s licences online, recording address changes through an online application, and electronic service delivery with set deadlines. Indeed, to eliminate corruption, all applications should be accepted by transport departments online, rather than merely computerising them. Protection from harassment for good samaritans who help accident victims is something the amended law provides, and this needs to be in place.

1.Which is true regarding passage?
1. Guidelines of Motor Vehicle (Amendment) Bill will introduce guidelines which bind State governments .
2. State government have to create a framework for taxicab aggregators.
3. State government will have the full authority on the toll tax.

1).EXPALNATION- : 1 & 2 are only correct regarding passage.3 can’t be concluded.
Answer: D

2. Why the experience of foreign students in India has not always been a happy one?
1. There is corruption in transport sector.
2. Bureaucrat are unresponsive.
3. Rise in motorization.

2). EXPALNATION- all the three are true regarding passage
Answer: E

3). What is true regarding passage?
1. The stricter the rule get, the harder is their level of enforcement.
2. Recommendations of Sundar committee will be applicable in Motor Vehicle (Amendment) Bill.
3. Effect of law depends on the possibility of being caught.

3). EXPALNATION- recommendations of sundar committee have been left on.
Answer: E

4). What are the measure amendments in Motor Vehicle Act?
1. Enhanced penalties for drunken driving, speeding, jumping red lights.
2. Uniformly applied norms.
3. Accountable and professional police force.

4).EXPALNATION- 2 and 3 are only suggested not the fact.
Answer: A

5). What are the recommendations for state government in the passage?
1. All applications in the transport department must be online.
2. State must roll out reforms mentioned in amended law.
3.Only computerization of applications in transport department will eliminate corruption.

5). EXPALNATION- : 3 is not correct regarding passage.
Answer: D

Directions (Questions- 06,07,08): 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.Stifled

6). EXPALNATION- stifled means suffocated
Answer: D

7. Dire

7). EXPALNATION- dire means serious
Answer: B

8. back burner

8).EXPALNATION- back burner means postpone action or keeping plan in side.
Answer: A

Directions (Questions- 9 to 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. Deterrent

9).EXPALNATION- deterrent means discouragement
Answer: A

10. counter-intuitive

10). EXPALNATION- counter-intuitive means opposite to common sense
Answer: D

Directions (11-15):
It has been correctly said that people rarely (1)[success] unless they have fun in what they are doing. Ask the successful ones, they’ll reply that they enjoy their work. American novelist Pearl S Buck says, “To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.” So, you too should pose the (2)[duplicate] question to yourself. “Am I enjoying what I’m doing? Is it giving me a feeling of contentment and job satisfaction?” If the answer is in the (3)[well] then rest assured success would automatically follow. If not, then it would be hard for you to become “successful” despite all your efforts. There can be many reasons for not enjoying your work. Once you are too focused in the ultimate (4)[payback] of your work and hence you do not tend to enjoy the process. It is akin to not enjoying the journey because you only (5)[has] your destination in mind. Surely, this is a wrong approach.
11. ?

11). ‘Succeed’ is correct as the sentence is in simple past tense.
Answer: C

12. ?

12). ‘same’ goes with the correct meaning in the sentence.
Answer: C

13. ?

13). Affirmative means positive, so it is right.
Answer: A

14. ?

14). ‘outcome’ means results and this is correct with the context.
Answer: D

15. ?

15).present simple sentence and you is there . ‘have’ is used with you & I.
Answer: C

Direction (16 to 20): 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. Russia new foreign policy (a)/ concept paper has some (b)/ significant modifications compared(c)/ to the past.(d)/ No Error(e)

16). In the following part, the possession is shown where apostrophe ‘s’ is missing with the noun i.e., Russia’s.
Answer: A

17. During the past 50 days, not a single(a)/ rich man was seen in queues before(b)/ ATMs and banks whereas the common man (c)/ was put to greatly inconvenient.(d)/ No Error(e)

17).EXPLANATION.:- Here, the adjectives ‘great inconvenience’ are incorrectly used.
Answer: D

18. Teachers are involved(a)/ from the government in a(b)/ lot of official work(c)/ like election duties.(d)/ No Error(e)

18).EXPLANATION.:-The preposition ‘from’ will be replaced by ‘by’.
Answer: B

19. The custom of (a)/ tipping has its (b)/ roots in England(c)/ since more than 200 years. (d)/No Error(e)

19). EXPLANATION.:- The preposition ‘since’ is useless here when it already shows the frequency of the time, i.e., more than. So, ‘since’ will be eliminated.
Answer: D

20. Press is a well known(a)/ fact, but how much (b)/ some dailies yield to (c)/ that was a different matter. (d)/ No Error(e)

20). EXPLANATION.:- The sentence is in present tense, whereas in this part ‘that was’ is used, So ‘it is’ will be used.
Answer: D