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MISSION BANKING 2023 English Language Quiz 

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Directions (1-7): 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 of the questions.

In the summer of 1856, Nathaniel Hawthorne visited a decaying English manor house known as Stanton Harcourt, not far from Oxford. He was struck by the vast kitchen, which occupied the bottom of a 70-foot tower. “Here, no doubt, they were accustomed to roast oxen whole, with as little fuss and ado as a modern cook would roast a fowl,” he wrote in an 1863 travelogue, Our Old Home.

Hawthorne wrote that as he stood in that kitchen, he was seized by an uncanny feeling: “I was haunted and perplexed by an idea that somewhere or other I had seen just this strange spectacle before. The height, the blackness, the dismal void, before my eyes, seemed as familiar as the decorous neatness of my grandmother’s kitchen.” He was certain that he had never actually seen this room or anything like it. And yet for a moment he was caught in what he described as “that odd state of mind wherein we fitfully and teasingly remember some previous scene or incident, of which the one now passing appears to be but the echo and reduplication.”

 

When Hawthorne wrote that passage there was no common term for such an experience. But by the end of the 19th century, after discarding “false recognition,” “paramnesia,” and “promnesia,” scholars had settled on a French candidate: “déjà vu,” or “already seen.”

 

The fleeting melancholy and euphoria associated with déjà vu have attracted the interest of poets, novelists, and occultists of many stripes. St. Augustine, Sir Walter Scott, Dickens, and Tolstoy all wrote detailed accounts of such experiences. (We will politely leave aside a certain woozy song by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young.)

 

Most academic psychologists, however, have ignored the topic since around 1890, when there was a brief flurry of interest. The phenomenon seems at once too rare and too ephemeral to capture in a laboratory. And even if it were as common as sneezing, déjà vu would still be difficult to study because it produces no measurable external behaviors. Researchers must trust their subjects’ personal descriptions of what is going on inside their minds, and few people are as eloquent as Hawthorne. Psychology has generally filed déjà vu away in a drawer marked “Interesting but Insoluble.”

 

During the past two decades, however, a few hardy souls have reopened the scientific study of déjà vu. They hope to nail down a persuasive explanation of the phenomenon, as well as shed light on some fundamental elements of memory and cognition. In the new book The Déjà Vu Experience: Essays in Cognitive Psychology (Psychology Press), Alan S. Brown, a professor of psychology at Southern Methodist University, surveys the fledgling subfield. “What we can try to do is zero in on it from a variety of different angles,” he says. “It won’t be something like, ‘Boom! The explanation is there.’ But we can get gradual clarity through some hard work.”

 

  1. The passage is primarily concerned with

(a)Examining a concept which is difficult to define

(b)Detailing the factors that have contributed to the use of a term among scientists and academicians

(c)Evaluating the pro and cons of a new concept

(d)Summarizing an old experience

(e)Detailing a scientific study

Answer & Explanation
Ans. a

Exp. The passage is concerned with the topic ‘deju vu’ that is difficult to study as it produces no measurable external behaviors. Hence statement (a) is true. The passage is not concerned with the strengths and weaknesses of any concept as mentioned in option (c).

 

  1. Which of the following best describe the organization of the passage?

(a)A concept is defined and is followed by details of the concept

(b)A generalization is stated and is then followed by instances that support the generalization

(c)An example of a concept is given and then followed by the explanation of the concept

(d)A theory is proposed and then followed by examples

(e) A paradox is states, discussed and left unresolved

Answer & Explanation
Ans. c

Exp. Option (a), (b), (d) and (e) are not true as the definition of the concept, theory or paradox is not mentioned, instead an example of the concept (Hawthorne) is given.  Here from the passage, it can be stated that Hawthorne’s example has been set in the discussion of déjà vu. Hence statement (c) is relevant.

 

  1. The author implies that which of the following accounts for the reasons why déjà vu was once difficult to capture in a laboratory.

(a) The social nature of the term made it uninteresting for academicians and laboratory workers

(b) The subjective nature of déjà vu makes it difficult to measure

(c) The term déjà vu is embedded in Psychology and therefore cannot be studied in the laboratory

(d) The phenomenon seems at once too rare and too ephemeral

(e) The uninteresting nature of the term made it unattractive to academicians

Answer & Explanation
Ans. d

Exp. Option (a) is not true as social nature of the term attracted the interests.

Though options (b) and (d) both are relevant but statement (d) is more potent.

Refer to the lines “The phenomenon seems…….external behaviors”. Hence option (d) is true in context of the passage.

 

  1. Which of the following would the author of the passage agree to most

(a) Déjà vu was invented and first used by academic psychologists

(b) The scientific study of déjà vu is now complete with many scientist studying

(c) Déjà vu was embraced by poets, novelists, and occultists of many stripes before academic psychologists

(d) Déjà vu is an exact science

(e) There is not a definite definition of Déjà vu

Answer & Explanation
Ans. c

Exp. Refer to the lines “the fleeting melancholy…………….. occultists of many strips”. Other options are irrelevant to the passage.

Option (a) is not true as academic psychologists have ignored the topic rather than using it.

Option (b) is not true as according to the passage, the scientific study of déjà vu is difficult to study.

Déjà vu have attracted the interest of poets, novelists, hence it is not an exact science as mentioned in option (d).

option (e) is not true as definite definition is not mentioned in the passage.

 

Directions (5-6):  Choose the word/group of words which is most similar in meaning to the word/group of words printed in bold as used in the passage.

 

  1. Perplexed

(a) Worried

(b) Elucidate

(c) Rattled

(d) Explicate

(e) Confound

Answer & Explanation
Ans. e

Exp. Perplexed means puzzled or completely baffled. Hence it is similar in meaning to confound which means to cause surprise or confusion in (someone), especially by not according with their expectations. Rattled means making worried, nervous.

 

  1. Ephemeral

(a) transient

(b) elusive

(c) unstable

(d) wanted

(e) indiscernible

Answer & Explanation
Ans. a

Exp. Ephemeral means lasting for a very short time. Hence it has same meaning as transient. Elusive means difficult to find, remember. Indiscernible means unnoticeable.

 

Directions (7): Choose the word/group of words which is most opposite in meaning to the word/group of words   printed in bold as used in passage.

 

  1. Cognition

(a) Ignorance

(b) percipience

(c) imagination

(d)speculation

(e)perception

Answer & Explanation
Ans. a

Exp. Cognition means perception. Hence it is most opposite in meaning to incomprehension. Percipience means perception, hence similar to cognition. 

 

Directions (8-10): Five statements are given below, labeled a, b, c, d and e. Among these, four statements are in logical order and form a coherent paragraph. From the given options, choose the option that does not fit into the theme of the paragraph.

 

  1. (a) Bengali poetry, Urdu poetry, Punjabi and Sindhi poetry do not recognise Partition.
    (b) In India, poetry was free before political freedom.
    (c) It refuses to accept or offer generalised, simplified, totalised versions of life, reality, the world.
    (d) Poetry is a form of dynamic resistance.
    (e) Poets and poetry might today be the last ramparts of conscience.
Answer & Explanation
Ans. c

Exp. Read the sentences, we can infer that sentences BAED form a coherent paragraph while sentence (c) is not a part of the paragraph. As we go through the sentences, we find that the paragraph is about Indian poetry which is free from any politics, while sentence (c) connects poetry with versions of life, the world,which is different from other sentences. Hence sentence (c) is the right choice.

 

  1. (a) As long as there has been an IPL, there has been IPL-baiting.
    (b) Then there are those who’ve undermined the world’s most popular T20 tournament by calling it kitsch entertainment.
    (c) For all the cult following that the glitzy T20 league has won in India over the last decade, there’s also never been a dearth of IPL sceptics.
    (d) T20 is a truly Indian format accidentally discovered by the English.

(e) While some have questioned the veracity and integrity of the matches, dismissing it as cricket’s WWE, others have scoffed at the big sums of money doled out to the undeserving.

Answer & Explanation
Ans. d

Exp. ACEB forms a coherent paragraph. The paragraph talks about the questioning of the authenticity and integrity of the IPL matches while sentence (d) is about the format of IPL. From here we can conclude that sentence (d) is not a part of the paragraph and hence is the right choice.

 

  1. (a) But a better approach would be to accept the dissenting opinion of Justice Ruma Pal in the TMA Pai case under which minority status should be determined in relation to the source and territorial application of the particular legislation against which protection is claimed.
    (b) If it is a parliamentary law, minorities must be defined nationally.
    (c) Thus, Hindus are certainly minority in J&K and no one should deny them this status.
    (d) Since the linguistic basis of state creation is no longer valid after the creation of Telangana, the apex court may re-examine the issue in the context of religious minorities.
    (e) One approach can be to define religious minorities nationally and linguistic minorities on the basis of the state.
Answer & Explanation
Ans. c

Exp. DEAB form a coherent paragraph. The paragraph revolves around the theme of designation of minority which is well settled in a law. While sentence (c) is about Hindus who were minority in J&K, which fails to connect with the paragraph. Hence sentence (c) is not a part of the paragraph.

 

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