MISSION BANKING 2023 English Language Quiz – 4

MISSION BANKING 2023 English Language Quiz

English Language is a part of almost all major competitive exams in the country and is perhaps the most scoring section also. Aspirants who regularly practice questions have a good chance of scoring well in the English Language Section. So here we are providing you with the MISSION BANKING 2023 English Language Quiz to help you prepare better. This MISSION BANKING 2023 English Language Quiz includes all of the most recent pattern-based questions, as well as Previous Year Questions. This MISSION BANKING 2023 English Language Quiz is available to you at no cost. Candidates will be provided with a detailed explanation of each question in this MISSION BANKING 2023 English Language Quiz. Candidates must practice this MISSION BANKING 2023 English Language Quiz to achieve a good score in the English Language Section.

Directions (1- 5): Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below them. Certain words/phrases have been printed in bold to help you locate them while answering some of the questions.

The Chinese were among the first foreigners to do trade with the island of Sumatra. Six hundred years ago, villages would have been but infinitesimal specks in an inconceivably vast and sublime rain forest. In 1416, a Chinese report on Sumatra noted that “There are in the forests immense quantities of wild rhinoceroses, which the king lets catch by men.” The rhinos, the author goes on to explain, would be sent to China as “tribute” to the emperor. Later, in the midst of compiling a list of agricultural products and minerals to be found in Sumatra, the author’s mind drifts back to something even more valuable, and he abruptly ends his list by reminding his Chinese reader: “Besides, there are rhinoceroses.”

There are still rhinoceroses in Sumatra today, perhaps as few as 30, and they are still hunted. According to that 15th century Chinese account, as well as the testimony of early European visitors and explorers, rhinoceroses once swarmed on the island. Yet their population has all been but wiped out. What happened? The answer is pretty straightforward: They were hunted and slaughtered for their horns. Many of those horns were sent to China, where they were used in so-called traditional medicine. The trend continues to this day, and it will continue until the last rhino has been hunted out of Sumatra’s protected areas.

A similar story can be told about another species of Asian megafauna: Tigers. In the 19th century vast swaths of Sumatra and Java were “infested” with tigers, which would pick off mailmen and laborers wandering around the backroads and thde edges of plantations and carry them off into the jungle for dinner. Natives built high spiked palisades around their dwellings to keep tigers out. During the clearing of the forests and swamps of what is now Singapore, it is said that a person would be carried off daily by tigers. In the 1930s, French Captain Henry Baudesson, overseeing the construction of a railway in southern Vietnam, wrote that the tiger’s “supremacy has hardly yet been seriously challenged” in the hinterlands, adding, “In Indo-China the tiger is the hunter and man the hunted. It is estimated that there were 100,000 tigers in the wild in 1900; today their numbers are down to about 3,200. The Javan tiger was declared extinct in the 1980s; the last tiger of China’s Yunnan province was snared and eaten by a poacher in 2009.

Asian elephants have been ruthlessly slaughtered for their ivory across Asia for years, and their numbers are declining. Habitat destruction is probably the key driver for this megafauna’s demise, and their African cousins have it worse due to the fact that their tusks are much bigger and therefore more valuable, but Asian elephants have it bad too. There is thought to be just one or two wild herds remaining in Vietnam, numbering no more than 60 individuals, and several elephants across the border in Cambodia’s Mondulkiri province have been found dead with their tusks sawed off in what might be a troubling new trend in the Kingdom. In the eastern Thai provinces of Rayong and Changseao, local media report almost daily on human-elephant conflicts, and in Myanmar wild elephants are being killed for their skin, which is used to make clothing, jewelry, and, of course, traditional medicine. These products are sold in the border town of Mong La and virtually all of the customers are from China. Elephants were once found as far north as the outskirts of Beijing, but Chinese farmers and elephants don’t get along, and the pachyderms were pushed south or simply killed. In Mark Elvin’s brilliant The Retreat of the Elephants, mention is made of Chinese recipes for barbecued elephant trunk.

 

  1. Why does the author drifted reader’s mind by mentioning the phrase “Besides, there are rhinoceroses.”?

 

(a) The author wanted to end his report abruptly.
(b) The author wanted to give the description of island of Sumatra.
(c) The author wanted to divert the reader’s mind towards the condition of rhinoceros.
(d) Both (a) and (b)
(e) All are correct.

Answer & Explanation
Ans. c

Exp. With respect to the first paragraph of the passage, the author wanted to emphasize on the condition of rhinoceros which is here termed as ‘valuable’ end.

 

  1. What causes the increase in level of poaching of rhinoceros on the island of Sumatra?

(a) The poaching of the Rhinoceros is the latest trend in the North Eastern countries.
(b) The decorative material used by the rhino’s horns is the cause of their hunting and poaching.
(c) The horns of Rhino, which is a keratin material is used as medicine in China
(d) The parts of the rhino are imported and exported for reasonably high price.
(e) All of the above.

Answer & Explanation
Ans. c

Exp. Referring the second paragraph of the passage, we can infer that option (c) is correct. As China is using the horns of the Rhino for traditional medicine.

 

  1. What does the term ‘infested’ suggests in reference to the passage?

 

(a) Hunting and poaching of tigers for their skin, whiskers, fur.
(b) The danger for tigers of being extinct
(c) Area of Sumatra and Java covered with Tigers
(d) The damage caused by the Tigers of the Sumatra and Java
(e) All of the above

Answer & Explanation
Ans. d

Exp. In reference with the passage, the word ‘infested’ refers to damage caused by Tigers by killing the people wandering around the backroads and the edges of plantations. Hence only option (d) is correct.

 

  1. Which of the following is the appropriate title of the passage?

 

(a) Imbalance of ecosystem
(b) Clearing of forests
(c) The continuing trend: Hunting
(d) China Decimating the Wildlife
(e) Endangered Species

Answer & Explanation
Ans. d

Exp. The whole passage revolves around the theme of China’s involvement in trading with the island of Sumatra and Java. Hence option (d) is the correct choice.

 

  1. How it can be inferred that African Elephants’ condition was worse than Asian elephants’?

 

(I) African elephants are more poached for they are more dangerous
(II) The clothing, jewelry and medicines made of African elephants’ skin are more valuable.
(III) The tusk of African elephants are more valuable and bigger than those of Asian elephants.

 

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

Answer & Explanation
Ans. b

Exp. Sentence (III) is the correct choice. Refer the first few lines of last paragraph “Habitat destruction is probably the key driver for this megafauna’s demise, and their African cousins have it worse due to the fact that their tusks are much bigger and therefore more valuable, but Asian elephants have it bad too.”

 

Directions (6-10): In the following paragraph, there is a set of four highlighted words against each number indicated in bold in the beginning of the sentences. One of the given set of words may or may not fit into the statement. Choose the word which is not suitable in the context of the paragraph. If all the four words are correct and feasible, choose (e) i.e. “No error” as your answer. 

 

(6) When electricity first began to be used in the US, generating systems were built in order to power and capture mines, factories and other commercial establishments.  (7) These were “private” power plants building on site to meet the specific energy requirements of a business. In those days, only the very wealthy could afford to have their homes powered by electricity. (8) There was no standardization under all the various companies manufacturing these private generators. As a result, every power plant operated at different voltages or at distinct rates of oscillation depending on whether they were DC or AC systems. (9) In the 1890s, Chicago alone was home to 40 different electric companies, each offering power at 100 to 2,000 volts with their own system of wires crisscrossing overhead across town. (10) It was only when America’s first large-scale power plant were built at the Niagara Falls that thought was given to standardizing the output.

 

  1. (a) electricity

(b) generating

(c) capture

(d) establishments

(e) no error

Answer & Explanation
Ans. c

Exp. Option (c) is the correct choice. All the other given words except option (c) i.e., capture fits appropriately in the theme of the paragraph. The paragraph is describing about the availability and usage of power sources for various establishments. However, the usage of the word “capture” is incorrect as the correct word required here is “illuminate”. Since the sentence is describing about the production of electricity which is to be used in various factories and mines, the correct word that shall provide the sentence a coherence is “illuminate” which means to light something and make it brighter; or something similar in meaning.

 

  1. (a) building

(b) requirements

(c) wealthy

(d) powered

(e) no error

Answer & Explanation
Ans. a

Exp. Option (a) is the correct choice. The sentence is in the past tense thus the usage of the word “building” is grammatically incorrect. To make the sentence grammatically and contextually correct the word required is V3 or past participle form of the verb build which is “built”.  All the other given words in the sentence of the paragraph are correct and make it logical and comprehensible. 

 

  1. (a) under

(b) generated

(c) powered

(d) oscillation

(e) no error

Answer & Explanation
Ans. a

Exp. Option (a) is the correct choice. All the other words given in bold are correct except for option (a). As the preposition “under” used here is incorrect.  Under is used as a preposition, it is similar to below. We use under to talk about something that is below or lower than something else. However, the correct word required here is “across”. Across can be used as a preposition or an adverb. When used as a preposition, it is followed by a noun. Here, “across” is used as a preposition and the noun “companies” acts as the object of the preposition across. Thus, with the help of the given rationale it is clear that the usage of the word “under” is incorrect and should be replaced by “across” making option (a) the correct answer choice.

 

  1. (a) home

(b) offering

(c) system

(d) overhead

(e) no error

Answer & Explanation
Ans. e

Exp. Option (e) is the correct choice. The theme of the paragraph is about the generation, distribution and utilization of energy sources such as electricity. Therefore, all the given words in the sentence are precise to the context of the paragraph making option (e) of no error a viable choice.

 

  1. (a) were

(b) thought

(c) given

(d) output

(e) no error

Answer & Explanation
Ans. a

Exp. Option (a) is the correct choice as in the given sentence the subject “America’s first large-scale power plant” is singular which requires a singular verb to complement it with the rule of subject-verb agreement. Therefore, to make the sentence grammatically correct, replace “were” with its singular form “was”. All the other given words fit aptly into the theme of the paragraph.

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