English Quiz on IBPS PO VI Mains – 2


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Directions for questions 1 to 8: In each of the following
sentences, a part of the sentence is underlined. Beneath each sentence, four
different ways of phrasing the underlined part are indicated. Choose the best
alternative among the four.
1. It was us who
had left before he arrived
.
a. we who had left before time he had arrived.
b. us who had went before he arrived.
c. us who had went before had arrived.
d. we who had left before he arrived.
2. The MP rose up
to say that in her opinion, she thought the Women’s Reservation Bill should be passed
on
unanimously.
a. rose to say that she thought the Women’s Reservation Bill
should be passed
b. rose up to say that, the Women’s Reservation Bill should
be passed on
c. rose to say that, in her opinion, she thought that the
Women’s Reservation Bill should be passed
d. rose to say that, in her opinion, the Women’s Reservation
Bill should be passed on
3. Mr Pillai, the president of the union and who is also a member of the community
group
, will be in charge of the negotiations.
a. since he is a member of the community group
b. also being a member of the community group
c. a member of the community group
d. in addition, who is a member of the community group
4. Since the advent of cable television, at the beginning of
this decade, the entertainment
industry took
a giant stride forward in our country.
a. this decade saw the entertainment industry taking
b. this decade, the entertainment industry has taken
c. this decade, the entertainment industry had taken
d. this decade, the entertainment industry took
5. His mother made great sacrifices to educate him, moving
house on three occasions, and severing
the thread on her loom’s shuttle whenever Mencius neglected his lessons to make
him understand the need to persevere
.
a. severing the thread on her loom’s shuttle whenever
Mencius neglected his lessons to make him understand the need to persevere.
b. severed the thread on her loom’s shuttle whenever Mencius
neglected his lessons to make him understand the need to persevere.
c. severed the thread on her loom’s shuttle whenever Mencius
neglected his lessons to make him understand the need for persevering.
d. severing the thread on her loom’s shuttle whenever
Mencius neglected his lessons to make them understand the need to persevere.
6. If you are in a three-month software design project and, in two weeks, you’ve put together a
program that solves part of the problem
, show it to your boss without
delay.
a. and, you’ve put together a program that solves part of
the problem in two weeks
b. and, in two weeks, you’ve put together a program that
solves part of the problem
c. and, you’ve put together a program that has solved part
of the problem in two weeks
d. and, in two weeks, you put together a program that solved
only part of the problem
7. Many of these environmentalists proclaim to save nothing less than the
planet itself.
a. to save nothing lesser than
b. that they are saving nothing lesser than
c. to save nothing less than
d. that they save nothing less than
8. Bacon believes that the medical profession should be
permitted to ease and quicken death where the end would otherwise only delay for a few days and at the cost of great
pain.
a. be delayed for a few days
b. be delayed for a few days and
c. be otherwise only delayed for a few days and

d. otherwise only delay for a few days and
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