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IBPS SO English Language Paper Set 1
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1

 In the given question, five words are printed in bold and are marked A, B, C, D and E. The positions of some highlighted words may be incorrect and need to be exchanged with another highlighted word to make the sentence correct. Find the pair of word(s) that need to be exchanged. 

 More (A) than a decade ago, Indic fonts (B) were primarily being designed (C) by software (D) developers who sold (E) them as supporting products. 


2

In the given question, five words are printed in bold and are marked A, B, C, D and E. The positions of some highlighted words may be incorrect and need to be exchanged with another highlighted word to make the sentence correct. Find the pair of word(s) that need to be exchanged.

  The migrations (A) of the Partition of India led to the tragic death (B) and displacement of millions of people in what was to become (C) one of the greatest event (D) in history (E).


3

 In the given question, five words are printed in bold and are numbered A, B, C, D and E. The positions of some highlighted words may be incorrect and need to be interchanged with another highlighted to make the sentence correct. Find the word(s) that need to be exchanged. 

  India has to prepare (A)/ for the consequences (B)/ of climate change, with risk (C)/ early warning systems, engineering (D)/ to cope with the fallout and better (E)/ transfer mechanism.


4

In the given question, five words are printed in bold and are numbered A, B, C, D and E. The positions of some highlighted words may be incorrect and need to be interchanged with another highlighted to make the sentence correct. Find the word(s) that need to be exchanged

Companies (A)/ with high market share (B)/ often receive better prices from suppliers (C), as their large (D)/ order volumes increase their purchasing (E)/ power.  


5

In the given question, five words are printed in bold and are numbered A, B, C, D and E. The positions of some highlighted words may be incorrect and need to be interchanged with another highlighted to make the sentence correct. Find the word(s) that need to be exchanged. 

If the world factoring (A) to pursue the current model (B) of economic growth without continues (C) in environmental costs, one million species could go decades (D) in a matter of extinct (E). 


6

 Read the given passage carefully and answer the questions that follow. Certain words are printed in bold to help you locate them while answering some of these.  The Financial Times with a survey concluded that millennials are prioritizing short-term spending over long-term saving. According to one calculation, the average 25-year-old should be saving £800 (or about $1,146) a month over the next 40 years, in order to retire at 65 with an annual income of £30,000. That piece went viral. For all the wrong reasons. As millennials who responded angrily to the article noted, they’re too busy buying groceries or paying rent to even think about being able to have that much money to allocate to a savings account. But ignoring the tone deafness, there is a real problem here.  T Rowe Price recommends that millennials should save about 15% of their incomes for retirement. However, a recent survey found that on average, while they are doing a good job of budgeting and say they have increased their savings in the past 12 months, their actual savings rate is about 8%. Financial planners can puff and huff about results like that. They can argue that millennials don’t realize how much they need to save; that they are succumbing to one of those behavioural finance phenomena by failing to appreciate that yes, one day they, too, will be 65 and need a retirement nest egg. For their part, the millennials might well argue that the rest of us simply don’t understand their new normal.  It has always been true, and remains true today, that a dollar someone puts aside in a tax-sheltered retirement account when he is 25 years old will be worth much, much more then that same dollar would be if he had set it aside at the age of 50, thanks to the fact that it is sitting there are being reinvested, year after year, tax-free. What someone in their 20s loses in absolute wealth, they earn in terms of time. The problem is that there are too many other factors stopping millennials from making that decision to save.  They have got the millennial paradox to contend with. In 2014, the average college student graduated with $33,000 of student debt, according to one calculation. Do you want to be one of those students who defaults on her student debt, just in order to have a few extra bucks to put into her retirement account? Really, not a viable solution; those payments have to be kept up, even if it means there’s no money for a retirement account. The cost of living is climbing, too, led by rental costs, which hit records in many cities last year. On average, millennials who rent nationwide would have had to spend 30% of their monthly income to their landlords. Health insurance? If your company offers it, odds are it’s a benefit that requires you to shoulder a greater portion of the costs of these days. And if you’re older than 26, and paying for your own healthcare, you’ve already discovered that both premiums and deductibles are rising for most policies. Then, there are other expenses like wedding gifts, birthday gifts, parties, clothes, accessories, food, bills, transportation, travel or vacations.  Eventually, some of those pressures will abate – the student debt will be paid down – and millennials will be earning more. But they will be older, and the value of each dollar they save by that stage will be less. In any event, new financial pressures will arrive on the scene, in the form of children, the need to save for a house, to help out ageing parents. Perhaps there is some creative way to tackle this. To the extent that the cost of obtaining an education means 
that millennials can’t start saving for retirement when it’s most advantageous for all of society that they should, maybe there’s a way to restructure or postpone debt payments until later in life as long as graduates begin contributing to their retirement accounts

  What does the author mean by “...They have got the millennial paradox to contend with”? 


7

Which of the following is either a synonym or an antonym of the highlighted word used in the passage?  ABATE 

I. Wane II. Recede  III. Prolong 


8

 Which of the following is not an assumption that supports the arguments presented in the third paragraph? 


9

 Given below is a possible inference that can be drawn from the facts stated in the fourth paragraph. You have to examine the inference in the context of the passage and decide upon its degree of truth or falsity.  'The lack of saving culture will impact on the consumption patterns for millennials.' 


10

 Given below is a possible inference that can be drawn from the facts stated in the fourth paragraph. You have to examine the inference in the context of the passage and decide upon its degree of truth or falsity.  'The financial struggles that millennials face are making them more financially savvy.' 


11

Given below are five statements from the first and the second paragraph. Choose the statement which is grammatically or contextually incorrect. 


12

 Which of the following correctly describes the tone of the last paragraph? 


13

The following question carries two statements with one blank each. Choose the word which would fit in both the blanks.  78.  1) Their teacher was on leave, so they had a day's _______ before their essays were due.  2) The organisation had no ________ from the demands of the workers.  


14

Two sentences with one blank in each, followed by five alternatives, are given. Choose that option as the answer which can fill both the blanks of both the sentences making it grammatically correct and meaningful.

.  A) It is only by observing people in _________ situations that we come to know each other.  B) According to the Shinto doctrine, spirits of the dead can act upon the _________ world.  


15

Two sentences with one blank in each, followed by five alternatives, are given. Choose that option as the answer which can fill both the blanks of both the sentences making it grammatically correct and meaningful. 

  A) Madhurima found ________ in the childhood pictures of her little boy as she turned the pages of the album.  B) After her rough breakup, the soundlessness of nature impressed her and gave _________.