Introduction
English Knowledge is an important section in the employment-related competitive exams in India. In particular, exams like IBPS, SBI and other bank related employment exams have English Language questions along with Reasoning and Quantitative Aptitude. The English Language section primarily has questions related to the Paragraph Reading, Reading Comprehension, Cloze Test, Antonyms, Synonyms, Grammar, Sentence Rearrangement etc. This article Bank Exams English Language - Prelims Quiz presents the model questions related to some English Language topics.
Quiz
Directions Q (1 - 6): Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below it. Certain words are given in bold to help you locate them while answering some questions.
Recent events - the UP government's waiver of farmer loans, dramatic protests by Tamil Nadu farmers in Delhi and a warning from the RBI Governor against loan waivers - have once again brought farm loan to write-offs under public glare.
Farm loans may be crop loans or investment loans taken to buy equipment. Both farmers and banks reap a good harvest when all is well. But when there is a poor monsoon or natural calamity, farmers may be unable to repay loans. The rural distress in such situations often prompts States or the Center to offer relief - · reduction or complete waiver of loans. Essentially, the Center or States take over the liability of farmers and repay the banks. Waivers are usually selective - the only certain loan types, categories of farmers or loan sources may qualify.
Agriculture in India has been facing many issues - fragmented land holding, depleting water table levels, deteriorating soil quality, rising input costs, low productivity. Add to this vagary of the monsoon. Output prices may not be remunerative. Farmers are often forced to borrow to manage expenses. Also, many small farmers not eligible for bank credit borrow at exorbitant interest rates from private sources, When nature riders roughshod over debt-ridden farmers in the form of erratic monsoon and crop failures, they face grim options. Indebtedness is a key reason for the many farmer suicides in the country.
Loan waivers provide some relief to farmers in such situations, but there are debates about the long-term effectiveness of the measure. Critics demand to make agriculture sustainable by reducing inefficiencies, increasing income, reducing costs and providing protection through insurance schemes. They point out that farm loan waivers are at best a temporary solution and entail a moral hazard -even those who can afford to pay may not, in the expectation of a waiver. Such measures can erode credit discipline and may make banks wary of lending to farmers in the future. It also makes a sharp dent in the finances of the government that finances the write-off. A blanket waiver scheme is detrimental to the development of credit markets. Repeated debt-waiver. programmes distort households' incentive structures, away from productive investments and towards unproductive consumption and willful defaults. These willful defaults, in turn, are likely to disrupt the functioning of the entire credit system.
The real crisis for Indian farmer is that he or she is not in control of the produce, unlike other businesses, and is dependent on a cartel of traders to fetch a decent price. The cartel makes money in case of good or bad crop season as their margins remain intact. In fact, in case of a crop failure, the trader profit margin rises whereas the farmer is in distress without a remunerative price. The Government - Center, and States - have repeatedly failed to break the cartelization and their effort to create farm infrastructure through cold stores have helped the corporate sector more than the farmers. Except for some farmers in Maharashtra and Punjab, most of the cold stores built with the help of the Government subsidy are owned by corporate. So, now these corporate the buying produce in farms at cheap rates, keep them in cold stores repackage them and sell them in malls in cities at thrice the purchase price. Neither the farmer gains nor the consumer.
To be sure, the agriculture sector needs government support but loan waivers are not the solution. On the contrary, expenditure on loan waivers will eventually leave less fiscal space for public expenditure in agriculture. India needs massive investment in areas such as irrigation, water conservation, better to rage facilities, market connectivity and agricultural research. The problems in Indian agriculture are structural. They need. long term solutions. Loan waivers will only end up complicating the problem, The Indian economy has suffered a lot due to competitive populism in the past. It's time parties and governments address the real issues.
1. According to the passing age, why there is a need for living the loans of the farmers?
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A. So that the agricultural sector and economy do not get affected
B. Incapability of farmers to repay the loans due to natural disasters.
C. Private firms pressurize to repay the loans.
D. to meet the long term solutions of farmers.
E. All of the above
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A. It can abrade credit regulation and may make banks wary of lending to farmers in the future.
B. It leads to less involvement of farmers for credit benefit from banks in the future.
C. the loan waiver scheme perverts the house holds incentive structure and leads to unproductive consumption.
D. Both (B) and (C) are correct.
E. All are true.
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A. Only i is correct
B. Only ii is correct
C. Both (i) and (ii) are correct
D. Both (ii) and (iii) are correct
E. All are correct
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A. Need for farmer loan write-offs.
B. The hazards of farm loan waivers.
C. The real crises of Indian farmers.
D. A Blanket waiver scheme.
E. A Dramatic protests by Tamil Nadu farmers.
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A. For the rural distress, The Center or States take over the culpability of farmers and repay the banks.
B. to regulate the expenses, farmers are forced to borrow.
C. A Blanket waiver scheme detrimental, to the development of debt markets.
D. Loan waivers will end up simplifying the problems of farmers and economy.
E. All are correct.
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A. Only (i) is true
B. Only (ii) is true
C. Both (i) and (iii) are true
D. Both (ii) and (iii) are true
E. All are true
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A. Quirk
B. Unbounded
C. Prohibitive
D. Outrageous
E. Needless
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A. Superfluous
B. Caprice
C. Caprice
D. Trivial
E. lavish
Directions Q (1 - 5): Rearrange the following six sentences (A), (B), (C), (D), (E) and (F) in the proper sequence to form a meaningful paragraph and then answer the questions given below.
A. While the candidature of Bihar Governor Ram Nath Kovind on behalf of the ruling party was a surprise, the response from the opposition in naming former Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar was anything but that.
B. It may have the trappings of an ideological battle, but the 2017 presidential election has become a platform for political messaging.
C. "Look at this fine animal!" he shouted to passers-by. "Have you ever seen a better specimen of a donkey? See how clean and strong it is!
D. With the Bharatiya Janata Party fielding an old party hand from the Dalit community, the opposition parties led by the Congress felt constrained to follow suit.
E. How ever, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BFP president Amit Shah chose someone less known but from a disadvantaged community, with the dear intent of garnering the support of those outside the fold of the National Democratic Alliance, who cannot afford to be seen to be opposing a Dalit
F. They may have hoped that the BJP would field someone front its old guard, in order to set the stage for a contest between a candidate 'swathed in saffron' and one with a secular report card.
1. Which of the following should be the FIRST statement after rearrangement ?
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A. A
B. E
C. B
D. D
E. F
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A. B
B. D
C. E
D. F
E. C
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A. E
B. C
C. A
D. F
E. D
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A. E
B. C
C. A
D. F
E. D
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A. A
B. F
C. C
D. E
E. B
Indiscretions Q (1 - 8): Read each of the following sentences to find out whether there is any error in it. The error, if any will be in one part of the sentence. Choose the incorrect part as your answer. If there is no error, the answer is E. (Ignore, the error of punctuation, if an y).
1.
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A. Having worked
B. for the whole day
C. you could have taken some rest
D. and start work the next day
E. No error
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A. Scarcely had he
B. gone a few steps
C. that he was told by someone
D. that his mother was no more.
E. No error
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A. Seldom
B. ever have l tried my
C. best to defend my friends, who are after
D. all guilty to some extent.
E. No error
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A. Dogs soon know
B. the person whom
C. they are
D. kindly treated.
E. No error
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A. If she had told me that
B. her husband never lived
C. within his means I would not
D. have lent him the money.
E. No error
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A. I could not recall
B. what she has told
C. me about her
D. concern with Moti.
E. No error
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A. There were only two
B. soldiers but each and every
C. soldier was equal
D. to five policemen.
E. No error
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A. The boy was treinbling
B. with anger when she drowned
C. all his books
D. and articles
E. No error
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A. When asked
B. took tea
C. and said that it
D. tasted sweetly
E. No error
Directions Q (1 - 8): ln the following passage there are blanks, each of which has been numbered. These numbers are printed below the passage and against each, five words are suggested, one of which fits the blank appropriately. Find out the appropriate words.
Karl Heinrich Marx (1818-1883) was the last of the great evaluator (1), in the Western intellectual service (2). His ideas exerted (3) a decisive influence on all aspects of human target (4), and transformed the study of history and society. They significant changed anthropology, the arts, cultural studies, history, lT, literature, philosophy, political economy, political theory, and sociology by determining (5) a link between economic and intellectual life. By developing a theory (6) of praxis, i.e. unity of thought and action., Marx brought about a sea change in the entire scheme (7) of the social sciences. However, from its very inception Marxism had to promote (8) criticism and critical acclaim.
1.
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A. heroes
B. critics
C. experts
D. analyzers
E. No Correction
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A. tradition
B. creed
C. convention
D. belief
E. No Correction
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A. threw
B. worked
C. strived
D. executed
E. No Correction
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A. wish
B. purpose
C. endewer
D. pursuit
E. No Correction
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A. installing
B. designating
C. encouraging
D. establishing
E. No Correction
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A. basis
B. conjecture
C. essence
D. nexus
E. No Corrcetion
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A. process
B. methodology
C. policy
D. structure
E. No Corrcetion
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A. relish
B. swallow
C. allow
D. countenance
E. No Corrcetion