English Quiz for BOB Manipal and Dena Bank PGDBF 2017 – Set 11

Q. 1– 5

In the upper caste imagination,
reservation is branded   unlike (1)
a welfare programme giving handouts to a set of caste-marked “beneficiaries”.
From this   perspective (2), those who receive this
benefit — the “reserved category” — are deviant exceptions who fall outside the
normal or ‘general category’ of casteless citizens which constitutes the
nation. It is this casteless nation that gives reservation to certain castes to
compensate for the “historical wrongs” done to them in the   latest (3) past, and to help them   transcend (4) their backwardness. Only
when reservation is understood in this way we can make sense of objections such
as: How long will reservations continue? Why is caste and not economic need the
  criterion (5) ? And of forms of protest,
such as a symbolic polishing of shoes and sweeping of streets by youth wearing
stethoscopes or lab coats that reservation provokes from the upper castes.

1. 1) to 2) since 3) for 4) as 5) No correction required

2. 1) idea 2) reality 3) effort 4) benchmark 5) No
correction required

3. 1) distant 2) recent 3) very 4) beyond 5) No correction
required

4. 1) impugn 2) baffle 3) overcome 4) arrest 5) No
correction required

5. 1) change 2) prejudice 3) equation 4) fact 5) No
correction required

Directions (Q. 6-10): In each of
the following sentences there are two blank spaces. Below each sentence there
are five pairs of words denoted by numbers 1), 2), 3), 4) and 5). Find out
which pair of words can be filled up in the blanks in the sentence in the same
sequence to make it meaningfully complete.

6. The primary reason for the chaos that _____ in Indian
cities is planning _____.

1) unfolds, lack 2) usher, chaos 3) prevails, incompetence

4) manipulates, crisis 5) reflects, discord

7. In the ______ of an active media, these struggles would
not have reached out to a large ______.

1) dearth, governance 2) lack, conclusion 3) trial,
proportion

4) absence, multitude 5) rage, populace

8. The state is legally and morally ____ to _____ by its
promises to people.

1) bound, stand 2) earmarked, govern 3) set, appeal

4) confined, deliver 5) stated, reflect

9. The power of the judiciary in a democracy lies in the
_____ that its orders will be _____ by the executive.

1) certainty, enforced 2) basic, subjected 3) emblem, passed

4) manner, tried 5) gamut, directed

10. Our heritage sites have to be professionally _____ to
_____ tourists.

1) managed, attract 2) evolved, trap 3) ascertained, handle

4) offered, drive 5) geared, marvel