English Quiz for IBPS PO Mains – Set 12

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

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on
Saturday ______ (1) a Budget that put boosting growth before painful reforms,
slowing the pace of fiscal deficit cuts and seeking to put – ______ (2) and
foreign capital to work. In his first full-year Budget since Prime Minister
Narendra Modi’s landslide election victory ______ (3) May, Jaitley said India’s
economy was about to take off. Modi tweeted that the Budget would “further
reignite our growth engine”. Billed as a test of the nationalist premier’s
willingness to ____ (4) a $2 trillion economy with a bloated public sector and
weak private investment, the Budget was short on structural reforms and contained
revenue targets some called unrealistic. It drew a__ (5) reception from
economists, with some calling it a path to an investor friendly India, but
______ (6) seeing a missed opportunity to tackle deep-seated structural
problems. Jaitley promised higher investment in India’s decrepit roads and
railways, offered the ______ (7) of tax cuts to global companies and the stick
of tighter______(8) to get Indian tycoons to invest at home rather than stash
wealth abroad. Tax evaders face ______ (9) sentences of up to 10 years, he
warned. The tax changes and tougher enforcement would raise $2.5 billion next
year, he said. Tax receipts overall would rise 15 percent and government asset
sales would raise $11 billion – goals that past experience ______ (10) may be
hard to meet.

1. 1) announced 2) proclaimed 3) decree 4) stated 5)
publicize

2. 1) family 2) domestic 3) familial 4) household 5)
domicile

3. 1) most recent 2) very last 3) last 4) end 5) final

4. 1) improvement 2) restructuring 3) reorganization 4)
reform 5) development

5. 1) uniform 2) assertive 3) minor 4) magical 5) mixed

6. 1) others 2) extra 3) further 4) supplementary 5) spare

7. 1) bribe 2) carrot 3) lure 4) candy 5) bite

8. 1) system 2) convention 3) rules 4) laws 5) policy

9. 1) penitent 2) dungeon 3) confined 4) jail 5) detaining

10. 1) showing 2) showed 3) shown 4) show 5) shows