IBPS PO/SBI CLERK 2022 Prelims : English Language QUIZ-7

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Question 1:

Some parts of a passage have been jumbled up, and labelled P, Q, R and S. Select the option that gives the correct sequence in which these parts can be rearranged to form a meaningful passage.
Chauvinism is a form of extreme patriotism and nationalism and a belief in national superiority and glory.
P. it can also be defined as "an irrational belief in the superiority or dominance of one's own group or people"
Q. male chauvinism is the belief that men are superior to women
R. it refers to the maintenance of fixed beliefs and attitudes of male superiority
S. moreover, the chauvinist's own people are seen as unique and special while the rest of the people are considered weak or inferior
It is associated with overt or covert depreciation of women.

Question 2:

Some parts of a passage have been jumbled up, and labelled $P, Q, R$ and $S$. Select the option that gives the correct sequence in which these parts can be rearranged to form a meaningful passage.
While we tend to use the terms "sociopath" and "psychopath" interchangeably, they mean different things.
P. every antisocial person does not have psychopathy
Q. psychopathy is the extreme end of the antisocial spectrum
R. while a psychopath is cold and calculating, sometimes even charming
S. when comparing sociopaths vs. psychopaths, most sociopaths are prone to impulsive behaviour and often seen as disturbed or unhinged
But virtually all psychopaths are antisocial.

Question 3:

Some parts of a sentence have been jumbled up, and labelled $P, Q, R$ and $S$. Select the option that gives the correct sequence in which these parts can be rearranged to form a meaningful and grammatically correct sentence.
Tourism brings large amounts
$P$ : of payment for goods and services needed by tourists, accounting
Q: as of 2011 for 30 percent of the world's trade
$R$ : of income into a local economy in the form
S: in services, and, as an invisible export
of goods and services.

Question 4:

Given below are four jumbled sentences. Select the option that gives their correct order.
A. Although I had a fear of water, I thought it was an important skill I should learn.
B. However, what 1 didn't realize was that it would also make me a more confident person.
C. I also thought it would be a good exercise that would make me physically stronger.
D. One of the hardest things I've had to do was to learn how to swim.

Question 5:

Given below are four jumbled sentences. Select the option that gives their correct order.
A. During the celebration, many people display a set of ornamental dolls known as 'Hina' dolls.
B. Hinamatsuri is a celebration of the girls in Japan wishing them a bright future.
C. These royal-looking dolls are dressed in the clothing of the Heian period.
D. These dolls represent the Emperor, Empress and other royal representatives.

Question 6:

Direction :- The sentences given in the question, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Each sentence is labelled with a letter: Choose the most logical order of sentences from among the given choices to construct a coherent paragraph.

A. Troops are slightly less evident in the streets, and the government will soon sanction a mobile-phone service that has been denied for years by security fears.
B. It almost feels like the old days in Srinagar, the summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir where at least 40,000 people have been killed since an insurgency began 14 years ago.
C. Tourists have returned.
D. Nearly 70,000 have come in the past six months to stay in houseboats on the city's Dal Lake and tour the surrounding mountains, more than double the number in the whole of last year.
E. Moderate separatist leaders, as well as mainstream politicians, are talking more positively than before about the need for an end to militancy.

Question 7:

Direction :- The sentences given in the question, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Each sentence is labelled with a letter: Choose the most logical order of sentences from among the given choices to construct a coherent paragraph.

A. Famous generals have a habit of flirting with campaigns, without actually running (remember Colin Powell?).
B. He has also launched his own website (leadershipforamerica.org).
C. The general has been acting like a prospective candidate, making speeches around the country and pontificating on the television about global affairs.
D. But people in Little Rock think it increasingly likely that Mr Clark will take the plunge.
E. And conveniently enough, he has written a new book (on Iraq and terrorism) which comes out in September, around the time that the primaries start to heat up.

Question 8:

Direction :- The sentences given in the question, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Each sentence is labelled with a letter: Choose the most logical order of sentences from among the given choices to construct a coherent paragraph.

A. The second act was the more important: among other things it enabled previously disfranchised blacks in 1973 to elect Mr Jackson as mayor of Atlanta, with the help of a fifth of the white voters, and thus to become the first black mayor of a major southern city.
B. By some measures Mr Jackson had a privileged background.
C. It was 1964 before the Civil Rights Act was passed and 1965 before the Voting Rights Act followed.
D. But their privilege did not extend to the right to vote, nor to sit at the front of buses, nor to eat lunch at counters next to whites.
E. His father, a Baptist minister, came from an influential family in Dallas, his mother from another in Atlanta; both parents had been university-educated.

Question 9:

Direction :- The sentences given in the question, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Each sentence is labelled with a letter: Choose the most logical order of sentences from among the given choices to construct a coherent paragraph.

A. Joana, an actress and student, is white, or at least that is what her birth certificate says.
B. But she considers herself to be "more or less black".
C. She has a white father, a mixed-race mother and skin the colour of cappuccino.
D. Joana's ambiguity about her race is quintessentially Brazilian.
E. Brazil had slavery, but never apartheid or the formal segregation of the American south.

Question 10:

Direction :- The sentences given in the question, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Each sentence is labelled with a letter: Choose the most logical order of sentences from among the given choices to construct a coherent paragraph.

A. Brazilian racism is like a gun at the back of the head rather than one pointed between the eyes, says Jose Vicente, president of Afrobras, an NGO.
B. Brazil's former president, Fernando Henrique Cardoso, a sociologist whose work helped puncture the myth of racial democracy, introduced quotas into the federal administration.
C. Brazil's informal racism has not created a popular civil-rights movement of the sort that rallied black and white Americans during the $1960 \mathrm{~s}$.
D. As the idea spreads, sympathetic whites are growing uneasy.
E. Instead it has created a black movement, composed largely of activist NGOs, which is lobbying government with increasing success.