IBPS PO English Language Quiz – 3

17/08/2022

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IBPS PO English Language Quiz

Aspirants have a strong possibility of scoring well in the English Language section if they practice quality questions on a regular basis. This section takes the least amount of time if the practice is done every day in a dedicated manner. In this article, we have come up with the IBPS PO English Language Quiz to help you prepare better. Candidates will be provided with a detailed explanation for each question in this IBPS PO English Language Quiz. This IBPS PO English Language Quiz includes a variety of questions ranging in difficulty from easy to tough. This IBPS PO English Language Quiz is totally FREE. This IBPS PO English Language Quiz has important English Language Questions and Answers that will help you improve your exam score. Aspirants must practice this IBPS PO English Language Quiz in order to be able to answer questions quickly and efficiently in upcoming exams.

Directions (1-5): Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given

below them. Certain words are given in bold to help you locate them while answering some of the questions.

The entire model of most social media sites—especially Facebook— is inherently flawed. People and businesses produce, as well as consume, the content on these sites. These sites decide who sees what content algorithmically through artificial intelligence (AI)-driven code. For instance, if you start clicking ‘Like’ on posts that are right-leaning, the newer posts you see on your Facebook page will continue to become even more right-leaning until you are flooded with rightwing propaganda. This type of micro-customisation leads us to live in our bubble zones and consume more of the same type of content, which reinforces existing prejudices.

This is made worse by bots, which are automated accounts that will comment on every post from people who espouse ideas the bot creators want to promote. Bots are very difficult to differentiate from a normal user at first glance. Because of such bot armies, hashtags and posts can go viral very quickly. But these bots are feeding us artificially hyped content on the ‘trending’ and ‘popular near you’ sections of these sites. So, if an agency puts out a fake piece of news, and it gets then further promoted by these bot armies, it gets amplified many times more than the clarification, or the actual facts.

In all this din and noise, opinions get formed, groups get created, votes get cast. As a result, a product gets sold or vilified, or a politician wins an election that they may have otherwise lost. And this is precisely what Cambridge Analytica (CA) stands accused of doing. The current scandal started with a Cambridge University psychologist Aleksandr Kogan who built an app called ‘thisisyourdigitallife’. This Facebook app gave Kogan access not only to the data of Facebook users who used the app, but also of the people they were connected to. This led to the personal data of nearly 50 million Facebook users being accessible to Kogan.

While Kogan claimed to Facebook that this was being done purely for research purposes, it is now alleged that he went ahead and sold this information to CA. One of the co-founders of this company was chief strategist on the Donald Trump presidential election campaign Steve Bannon. CA allegedly used this information to do very specific targeted advertising and spread pro-Trump and anti-Clinton propaganda during the US presidential 2016 elections.

In the wake of this scandal, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg admitted in a CNN interview that they were informed about this way back in 2016. What they did was to ask Kogan and CA to delete all of the data they had acquired. CA issued them an official confirmation that all of the data had been deleted. Facebook did not undertake to validate this forensically, or involve law enforcement, or inform the 50 million affected users, or even investigate which other apps might have tried to pull off a similar stunt. And this is what makes the entire saga that much more sordid.

We now live in a highly virtualised world. For every event in our lives, our first thought is to post about it online. We don’t realise that Facebook and other social media apps hoover up a tremendous amount of information about our calls, emails, messages, locations, search items, videos we watch online, articles we read, things we buy online. Using this information, it becomes trivial for them to know what makes someone happy or sad, or what someone’s political and religious views are, etc.

Instead of protecting this private data, the very business model of these companies is built on using this information to feed us content that manipulates us into believing things that organisations want us to believe, and buying things that marketers want us to buy. It might be a good idea to begin paying attention to the #deletefacebook movement. And may be even join it.

According to the passage, what is the role of artificial intelligence in social media sites?

(a) They help to point out the flaws in the computer programs.
(b) They develop or produce the social media sites.
(c) They decide what posts we see.
(d) Both (a) and (b)
(e) All are correct

Answer & Explanation

Ans. c

Exp. According to paragraph 1, “These sites decide who sees what content algorithmically through artificial intelligence (AI)-driven code.”, which concludes what posts we see, AI manipulates us in seeing us only those things we like or we hate and thus manipulates us in thinking whether we are on the right side or not.

According to passage, what are bots?

(a) An area of computer science that emphasizes the creation of intelligent machines.
(b) A computer program that runs automated tasks over the internet.
(c) A computer machine behaving in a mechanical or unemotional manner.
(d) A computer software using various control systems for operating equipments.
(e) All of the above

Answer & Explanation

Ans. b

Exp. We can conclude from the mentioned lines of paragraph 2 “But these bots are feeding us artificially hyped content on the ‘trending’ and ‘popular near you’ sections of these sites.”

that bots are computer program that runs automated tasks over the internet.

According to the passage, what does bots do?

(I) Bots can make the news more interesting.
(II) promote the ideas over internet letting people to adopt them.
(III) make the content go viral very easily.

(a) Only (I)
(b) Only (II)
(c) Both (I) and (II)
(d) Both (II) and (III)
(e) All are correct

Answer & Explanation

Ans. d

Exp. Refer the second paragraph of the passage.

Cambridge Analytica (CA) misused the information by

(a) not validating the acquired information.
(b) not deleting the acquired data.
(c) using the information of Facebook users to target specific people.
(d) Both (b) and (c)
(e) All of the above

Answer & Explanation

Ans. c

Exp. As mentioned in the passage, Cambridge Analytica misused the acquired information of psychologist Aleksandr Kogan by using it for specific targeted advertising and spreading pro-Trump and anti-Clinton propaganda during the US presidential 2016 elections.

The disadvantage(s) of social media apps is/are

(I) Its accessibility is easy for everyone.
(II) People’s views and ideas can easily be tracked in these apps.
(III) Personal information are not secure in social media apps.

(a) Only (I)
(b) Only (II)
(c) Both (I) and (II)
(d) Both (II) and (III)
(e) All are correct

Answer & Explanation

Ans. d

Exp. Refer the sixth paragraph “We don’t realise that Facebook and other social media apps hoover up a tremendous amount of information about our calls, emails, messages, locations, search items, videos we watch online, articles we read, things we buy online. Using this information, it becomes trivial for them to know what makes someone happy or sad, or what someone’s political and religious views are, etc.”

Directions (6-10): Which of the following phrases (I), (II), and (III) given below each sentence should replace the phrase printed in bold letters to make the sentence grammatically correct? Choose the best option among the five given alternatives that reflect the correct use of phrase in the context of the grammatically correct sentence. If the sentence is correct as it is, mark (e) i.e., “No correction required” as the answer.

The hearing saw the Centre face repeated rebuke fromthe court for not framing a scheme within the March 29 deadline prescribed by the Supreme Court in its February 16 judgment.

(I) facing criticism from
(II) face repeated rebukes from
(III) face humiliation because of

(a) Only (I)
(b) Both (III) and (II)
(c) Both (II) and (I)
(d) All (I), (II) and (III)
(e) No correction required

Answer & Explanation

Ans. c

Exp. ‘face repeated rebuke from’ is incorrect as it denotes that the Centre was rebuked many times therefore it should be plural of rebuke i.e. ‘rebukes’, therefore expression (II) is correct.

Expression (I) is also grammatically correct and conveys the intended message.

Expression (III) cannot be correct as the Centre has not faced humiliation because of court, it has faced humiliation for its own failure. It was criticized by the Supreme Court.

The statement however also highlighted the fact that the private lender’s board has denied any wrongdoing while the loan being underwritten in accordance with the bank’s credit standards and was extended as part of a consortium involving over 20 banks.
(I) and repeatedly saying about the loan was
(II) while reiterating that the loan was
(III) and gave further information about the loan that it was

(a) Both (II) and (III)
(b) Both (I) and (III)
(c) Only (I)
(d) Only (III)
(e) No correction required

Answer & Explanation

Ans. a

Exp. ‘while the loan being’ is grammatically incorrect and should be replaced with(II) and (III).

Expression (I) is wrong. To make it correct ‘about’ should be replaced with ‘that’.

The investors, however, aren’t quite concerned, as of now, whiletheir holdings in the bank.
(I) at the moment, about
(II) as of now, about
(III) at this time, regarding

(a) Only (II)
(b) All (I), (II) and (III)
(c) Both (II) and (III)
(d) Both (II) and (I)
(e) No correction required

Answer & Explanation

Ans. b

Exp. All the three expressions (I), (II) and (III) are correct.

Official sources told the newspaper that the offer of a formal meeting between Sitharaman and Mattis was made by Washington after the preparatory talks betweenthe Indian and US delegations last month.

(I) during the conservation last month between
(II) amid many discussion in recent months on wide array of topics between
(III) after a series of meetings in

(a) Only (I)
(b) Only (III)
(c) Only (II)
(d) Both (I) and (III)
(e)No correction required

Answer & Explanation

Ans. e

Exp. The sentence is correct as it is and it requires no correction.

(I) cannot be correct as ‘conversation’ is misspelt and written as ‘conservation’. Both these words have different meanings.

(II) cannot be correct as it says that many discussions held therefore ‘discussions’ need to be used instead of ‘discussion’.

Use of ‘in’ in expression (III) is wrong. It should be replaced with ‘between’.

On post-retirement posts, the question of the propriety of those holding high office, especially the post of Chief Justice of India, came to sharp relief of former Chief Justice of India P Sathasivam accepted the post of the governor of Kerala immediately after his retirement.

(I) became a topic of arguments among media and politicians when
(II) came into sharp relief after
(III) come into sharp relief after

(a) only (I) and (II)
(b) only (III)
(c) only (II) and (III)
(d) only (I)
(e)no correction required

Answer & Explanation

Ans. a

Exp. sharp relief: something very noticeable

Both the expressions (I) and (II) are correct.

(III) cannot be correct because the statement is in past tense while in (III) ‘come’ is in present tense

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