English Questions For IBPS RRB PO and Clerk Mains 2017

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English Questions For IBPS RRB PO and Clerk Exam 2017

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Directions (1-10): In the following passage there are blanks, each of which has been numbered. These numbers are printed in the passage and against each, five words are suggested, one of which fits the blanks appropriately. Find out the appropriate word in each case.

If you look up in the sky ___(1)__ the day, you see the sun. That ___(2)___ the most dominant in your experience. In the night if you look ___(3)___ , the stars become very dominant in your experience. But both the sun and the stars look puny when ___(4)___ to the immense vastness of the sky. True existence can be likened to the vastness of the sky. The sun, the stars, you and me are all just small happenings. Today, science is ___(5)____ you that even the sun has a lifespan. Eventually, it will burn itself out. So whatever you see as physical existence is just a ___(6)____ happening. The true existence is the vastness, the emptiness that is there, the space.

What you call a person is just like a bubble. This bubble ___(7)____ have a substance of its own. When the bubble bursts, the substance that is inside the bubble, where is it? The air has reclaimed it; the atmosphere has reclaimed it. Similarly, a bubble is formed of an etheric body, pranic body, mental body and physical body. The physical body we can cut away any moment but not the others. Only what you call as existence, can __(8)____ it.
Spiritual process is a deeper way of ____(9)_____you don’t exist anymore. This is not about killing the physical body. The physical body is possible ___(10)____ because of the necessary karmic substances that are there in the form of etheric, pranic and mental bodies. With your awareness, practices, love, and with your devotion, all you are trying to do is destroy the possibility of taking on another body.

Q1.
(a) during
(b) on
(c) for
(d) to
(e) since

Q2.
(a) get
(b) turn
(c) becomes
(d) transform
(e) fetch

Q3.
(a) upon
(b) down
(c) on
(d) up
(e) at

Q4.
(a) seen
(b) regard
(c) come
(d) compared
(e) bring

Q5.
(a) indicates
(b) relying
(c) telling
(d) verify
(e) formed

Q6.
(a) main
(b) small
(c) vast
(d) immense
(e) drastic

Q7.
(a) haven't
(b) might
(c) doesn’t
(d) really
(e) could

Q8.
(a) done
(b) view
(c) performed
(d) do
(e) said

Q9.
(a) transform
(b) processing
(c) saying
(d) ensuring
(e) tell

Q10.
(a) only
(b) primary
(c) main
(d) particular
(e) sole

Directions (11-15): Which of the phrases (a), (b), (c) and (d) given below should replace the phrase given in bold in the following sentences to make the sentence grammatically meaningful and correct. If the sentence is correct as it is and there is no correction required (e) as the answer.

Q11.
I. I phoned a coworker after the meeting to ________ notes.
II. Her scores ________ well with those of the rest of the class.
III.We each did the homework assignment, then _________ answers.
(a) compare
(b) see
(c) get
(d) translate
(e) fetch

Q12.
I. Thousands of applicants are _________ for the same job.
II.We are _________ with companies that are twice our size.
III.Store-bought cookies can't _________ with homemade ones.
(a) forced
(b) said
(c) compete
(d) talking
(e) make

Q13.
I.She has made a ________ of volunteering at a homeless shelter one weekend a month.
II.In actual ________, people sometimes forget to take their medication.
III.Have you been _________ your lines for the play?
(a) decision
(b) reality
(c) practice
(d) life
(e) conditions

Q14.
I. I was walking down the street, minding my own ________, when all of a sudden some man started yelling at me.
II.He had to leave the meeting early because he had to attend to some unfinished ________.
III.Much of the town lost electricity in the storm, but for people with generators it was ________ as usual.
(a) meeting
(b) way
(c) path
(d) business
(e) task

Q15.
I. It is ________ that she never mentioned him.
II.There is a ________ difference in prices between the two stores.
III.A ________ number of customers complained about the service.
(a) important
(b) significant
(c) big
(d) drastic
(e) main