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.
Madhya Pradesh has decided to shift its financial year that now runs from April 1 to March 31, to align it with the Gregorian calendar year — that is, January 1 to December 31. The idea is not new and has been floated a few times, before as well as after Independence. Yet, the M.P. government’s move is abrupt as there was no hint of this plan when it presented its 2017-18 Budget a couple of months ago. That it was announced less than 10 days after Prime Minister Narendra Modi asked Chief Ministers to ‘take the initiative’ on suggestions to change the financial year indicates that the desire to be the first to act on his words accounts for the haste. The next State Budget will be presented in December or January, but the State’s transition plan for the changeover isn’t clear beyond its intent to speed up spending of funds earmarked in its Budget for the 12 months until March 2018, so that they are utilised by December 2017. There have been similar instances of BJP-administered States rushing. into reforms where the Centre was reluctant or non-committal — such as labour laws — with little changing on the ground. A fiscal year rejig is not something that can be left to the States alone.
On its part, the Centre had appointed a committee under former Chief Economic Adviser Shankar Acharya on the desirability and feasibility of changing the fiscal year in line with the calendar year, aligning it with the practice in most countries as well as multilateral agencies. Its recommendations are still not in the public domain. The Union Budget was shifted from February 28 to February 1 this year, to ensure that funds are available with ministries from the first day of the financial year. By the same logic, will it be advanced further to November 1 if the financial year starts in January? Otherwise, eager States such as M.P. may start 2018 with a clean slate but will have to wait till February for clarity on the Union government’s priorities for the coming year and till April for Central funds. Going forward with different financial years in the States while taking no action at the Centre would be chaotic. It will, in addition, be a fresh nightmare for firms adapting to the Goods and Services Tax regime that will be introduced in the middle of this financial year. Additional uncertainties and differing tax deadlines for States are not likely to enthuse investors. Getting rid of colonial-era conventions may be necessary to make administration more efficient, but it is equally important to think through the reforms and work out a viable sequence. The Centre must make the Shankar Acharya panel report public, and clarify its own road map so that States and taxpayers may align with it.
1). What is true about new financial year of Madhya Pradesh ?
1. It has been shifted to January 1 to December 31.
2. This idea is not new.
3. The decision to shift financial year of Madhya Pradesh is not shocking.
Answer: D
2). According to the author why the Madhya Pradesh government has decided to shift financial year in less than 10 days after suggestion of Prime Minister Narendra Modi?
1. Madhya Pradesh government want to reform its financial structure as soon as possible.
2. Madhya Pradesh government is already planning for the change in Financial Year.
3. They may have the desire to be the first to follow the suggestion of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Answer: C
3). What is true about labour law?
1. BJP – administered states applied the reform of labour law instantly.
2. Reform of labour laws can not be seen on the ground.
3. Madhya Pradesh applied reform of labour law in a very good manner.
Answer: D
4). What is true regarding new financial year?
1. Feasibility to change fiscal year is not clear.
2. Committee of Shankar Acharya provided its report to the respective state.
3. Union Budget was shifted from February 28 to February 1 to change the fiscal year.
Answer: A
5). What is the main problem before the state if their fiscal year doesn’t match with the fiscal year of central government?
1. Investor will not come in that state.
2. Problem for the firms in adoption of Goods and Service Tax.
3. States will not have any clarity on central government priorities.
Answer: E
Directions (Questions- 06 to 10): 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). Viable
Answer: B
7). Chaotic
Answer: A
8). Rejig
Answer: A
9). Earmarked
Answer: A
10). Abrupt
Answer: B
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”.
The new city’s values will be (1)[predicate] in a shifting set of people no longer bound to place. For millions of new migrants, the future citizens, home will be a job, a quenching of thirst, a place to lie down. Consequently, the public fields of bureaucratic (2)[operation] will only be enablers to migratory tasks, accommodating potential and making physical possibilities happen on the ground when possible. Rather than defining walls and boundaries, the architectural brief too will be informed by these fluid transformations. (3)[into] the new city, the traditional structures of justice and legislature will be forgotten, replaced quickly by people with private needs. The potential for an urban life without buildings will only be generated by a (4)[courage] of migratory forces operating in the city, and encoding something of their own culture, on their own terms. In a culture of (5)[comfort] and spectacle, the idea of architecture as a theatre for settlement will have none of the responsibilities of its glory days. In fact, the architect and planner will be just like another citizen on the run.</span>
11). ?
Explanation:- ‘Grounded’ is the correct option. Here, ‘grounded’ means familarise.
12). ?
Explanation:- ‘Intervention’ is correct, as it means interference.
13). ?
Explanation:- The correct preposition is ‘in’, as it is being referred as ‘the city’.
14). ?
Explanation:- ‘Resolution’ refers to intention and determination, which is perfect here.
15). ?
Explanation:- Here, ‘Expediency’ can be referred to as the advantage, benefit or favourable.
Directions (16-20): 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). No more time can be lost (a)/ in making the (b)/ administrative system for agriculture (c)/ responsive to today needs. (d)/ No error(e)
Explanation:- In this sentence, this particular part, in the word ‘today’, it will have apostrophe(s) with it to give a meaningful sentence. i.e., today’s.
17). Proximity to power and an undisturbed social landscape (a)/ in an otherwise fast urbanizing economy in the State(b)/ helped leaders from these communities go beyond(c)/ its agrarian roots to become new entrepreneurs.(d)/ No error(e)(d)/ No error(e)
Explanation:- Here, the noun ‘leader’ is in plural form, so the pronoun will be ‘their’ in the place of ‘its’.
18). Yet, in order with retain a semblance of the structure (a)/ thatJayalalithaa fostered and perfected, (b)/ the party elite had to find a(c)/ replacement for her, which was a tall task.(d)/ No error(e)
Explanation:- The phrase ‘in order to’ is used wrongly in this part of the sentence.
19). For the ordinary folks outside the (a)/ social media world, the government (b)/ and most corporations are yet very (c)/ complex, corrupt and cruel structures.(d)/ No error(e)
Explanation:- ‘Yet’ will be replaced by ‘still’.
20). Unless the government becomes (a)/ serious in intent and choosing a (b)/ rigorous twofold path, the demise(c)/ of the Indian city will be rapid.(d)/ No error(e)
Explanation:- The verb ‘choose’ is used in wrong tense, as the sentence is in present simple tense, so it will be ‘chooses’.
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