RBI Assistant Mains 2022: English Language Quiz –6

05/04/2022

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RBI Assistant Mains 2022: 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 RBI Assistant Mains 2022 English Language Quiz to help you prepare better. Candidates will be provided with a detailed explanation for each question in this RBI Assistant Mains 2022 English Language Quiz. This RBI Assistant Mains 2022 English Language Quiz includes a variety of questions ranging in difficulty from easy to tough. This RBI Assistant Mains 2022 English Language Quiz is totally FREE. This RBI Assistant Mains 2022 English Language Quiz has important English Language Questions and Answers that will help you improve your exam score. Aspirants must practice this RBI Assistant Mains 2022 English Language Quiz in order to be able to answer questions quickly and efficiently in upcoming exams.

Directions (1-7): Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below. Certain words are given in bold to help you locate them while answering some of the questions.

With an increased variability of monsoons and rapidly depleting groundwater tables, large parts of India are reeling under water stress. A number of peninsular regions like Bundelkhand, Vidarbha and Marathwada have been facing recurring drought-like situations. Given the enormity of the crisis, at a recent NITI Aayog meeting, Prime Minister Narendra Modi explicated the need to implement innovative water management measures, stressing particularly the importance of rainwater harvesting both at the household and community levels. Here, one intervention that has been tried out in various States, and perhaps needs to be taken up on a bigger scale, is the construction of farm ponds.

Farm ponds can be cost-effective structures that transform rural livelihoods. They can help enhance water control, contribute to agriculture intensification and boost farm incomes. However, this is possible only if they act as rainwater harvesting structures and not as intermediate storage points for an increased extraction of groundwater or diversion of canal water. The latter will cause greater groundwater depletion and inequitable water distribution.

In a recent study on farm ponds in Jharkhand and West Bengal, we found that they aided in superior water control through the harvesting not just of rainfall but also of surface run-off and subsurface flows. Some of them functioned exclusively as recharge points, contributing to groundwater replenishment. They also helped in providing supplemental irrigation in the kharif season and an enhanced irrigation coverage in rabi. The yield of paddy, the most important crop in kharif, stabilised, thus contributing to abundant food availability.

Farm ponds retained water for 8-10 months of the year; thus farmers could enhance cropping intensity and crop diversification within and across seasons. The area used to cultivate vegetables and other commercial crops also increased. Further, figures indicated that the ponds were also a financially viable proposition, with a fairly high Internal Rate of Return, of about 19%, over 15 years.

However, in parts of peninsular India, the idea of a farm pond as an in-situ rainwater harvesting structure has taken a complete U-turn. Here, some of them are benefiting farmers at an individual level, but not contributing to water conservation and recharge. They are being used as intermediate storage points, accelerating groundwater depletion and increasing evaporation losses as the groundwater is brought to the surface and stored in relatively shallow structures.

In Maharashtra, the State government is promoting farm ponds under a flagship programme that aims to dig over one lakh structures by offering a subsidy of up to ₹50,000 per farmer. However, most of them are being constructed without inlet and outlet provisions and their walls are raised above the ground level by only a few feet. They cannot arrest the excess run-off as there is no inlet, and therefore they cannot be used effectively for rainwater harvesting. Further, farmers line them at the bottom with plastic, restricting seepage and converting the ponds into intermediate storage points. Such farm ponds have an adverse impact on the water tables and accelerate water loss. The usual practice here is to lift water from a dug well and/or a bore well, store it in the pond and then draw it once again to irrigate the fields, often using micro-irrigation. While offering secure irrigation facility, this intensifies competition for extraction of groundwater from the aquifer, which is a common pool resource.

In such cases, in the command area of the irrigation project, farmers fill up their farm ponds first when the canal is in rotation and then take it from the pond to the field. This can impede circulation of water. During canal rotation, the aquifer will get recharged because of the return flow of water coming from the irrigated fields. This return flow benefits all, as most of the farmers access water though wells in this command. But if canals fill up the farm ponds first, it restricts their benefits only to the pond owners and, in the long term, reduces the overall return flow at the system level.

Overall, farm ponds can act as effective harvesting structures and also yield healthy financial returns. But if they are promoted merely for on-farm storage of groundwater and canal water, they could accelerate, rather than reduce, the water crisis in the countryside.

As per the given passage, what are the benefits of Farm ponds apart from ground water recharge?

(a) Ensures availability of ample food supply.

(b) Allows addition of new crops to agricultural production.

(d) Leads to increase in existing cultivable area

(e) All of the above.

Answer & Explanation

Ans. e

Exp. The correct answer to the given question can be inferred from the third and fourth paragraph of the given passage in which it is stated that, ‘They also helped in providing supplemental irrigation in the kharif season and enhanced irrigation coverage in rabi. The yield of paddy, the most important crop in kharif, stabilised, thus contributing to abundant food availability. Farm ponds retained water for 8-10 months of the year; thus farmers could enhance cropping intensity and crop diversification within and across seasons. The area used to cultivate vegetables and other commercial crops also increased’. From the given lines all of the given options can be inferred easily. Hence, the correct answer choice is option (e)

What is/are the shortcoming(s) of the government’s flagship programme to promote farm ponds?

(a) Insufficient funds allocation for the programme

(b) Lack of foresight while designing and implementation.

(d) Both (a) and (c)

(e) None of these.

Answer & Explanation

Ans. b

Exp. The correct answer to the given question can be inferred from the sixth paragraph of the given passage in which it is stated that, ‘most of them are being constructed without inlet and outlet provisions and their walls are raised above the ground level by only a few feet. They cannot arrest the excess run-off as there is no inlet, and therefore they cannot be used effectively for rainwater harvesting. Further, farmers line them at the bottom with plastic, restricting seepage and converting the ponds into intermediate storage points’. From this we can infer option (b) clearly. Also, there are insufficient facts to support the option (a) and (c). Hence, the correct answer choice would be option (b).

Which of the following statement(s) is/are false in context of the given passage?

(a) The problem of lower water table has captivated the entire country.

(b) Farm ponds can help in the process of water control.

(d) Farm ponds are a viable investment option

(e) None of these.

Answer & Explanation

Ans. c

Exp. From the given options, only option (c) is incorrect. The evidence in support of the given argument can be found from the fourth paragraph of the given passage in which it is stated that, ‘The area used to cultivate vegetables and other commercial crops also increased.’ So, the correct answer choice would be option (c)

“Farm ponds can not only be a boon but also can have reversed effects in process of water conservation”. As per the given passage which of the following statement(s) support(s) the given fact?

(a) Used as an intermediate storage leads to evaporation losses

(b) Underlining the boundary of the ponds reduces seepage

(d) Both (a) and (b)

(e) None of these.

Answer & Explanation

Ans. d

Exp. The correct answer to the given question can be inferred from the fifth and sixth paragraph of the given passage in which it is stated that, ‘They are being used as intermediate storage points, accelerating groundwater depletion and increasing evaporation losses………… farmers line them at the bottom with plastic, restricting seepage and converting the ponds into intermediate storage points.’ From the given statements, both option (a) and (b) can be inferred whereas there is no mention of the option (c) in the entire passage. Hence, the correct answer choice would be option (d).

Which of the following is similar in meaning to ‘IMPEDE’ as used in the passage?

(a) Intensify

(b) Thwart

(d) Augment

(e) None of these.

Answer & Explanation

Ans. b

Exp. Impede means delay or prevent (someone or something) by obstructing them; hinder.

From the given options, only option (b) is similar in meaning to the given word whereas option (a) and (d) are antonym of the given word. Hence, the correct answer choice is option (b)

Objurgate means rebuke severely; scold.

Which of the following is opposite in meaning to ‘INEQUITABLE’ as used in the passage?

(a) Impartial

(b) Preferential

(d) Retrograde

(e) None of these.

Answer & Explanation

Ans. a

Exp. Inequitable means unfair; unjust.

From the given options, only option (a) is opposite in meaning to the given word. Also, option (b) and (c) are synonym of the given word. Hence, the correct answer choice would be option (a)

Retrograde means reverting to an earlier and inferior condition.

Which of the following is opposite in meaning to ‘ENORMITY’ as used in the passage?

(a) Immensity

(b) Extent

(d) Expanse

(e) None of these.

Answer & Explanation

Ans. c

Exp. Enormity means the great or extreme scale, seriousness

From the given options, option (c) is antonym of the given word whereas option (a) and (d) are synonym of the given word. Hence, the correct answer choice would be option (c)

Extent means the particular degree to which something is or is believed to be the case

Directions (8-10): In each of the following sentences, there is a blank space. Below in each sentence, there are four words out of which one can be used to fill the blank to make the sentence grammatically and coherently correct. Find the most appropriate word that fit into the blank contextually.

The UN report will be a key scientific input into _____________ climate and environment negotiations

(a) revival

(b) recurred

(d) forthcoming

(e) None of these.

Answer & Explanation

Ans. d

Exp. Taking hint from the sentence preceding the blank it can be clearly seen that the appropriate filler for the given blank would be either ‘calming’ or ‘forthcoming’. But ‘calming’ fails to impart an appropriate meaning to the given sentence. Hence, the correct answer choice would be option (d)

Scientific studies have shown that alternative grains like millets and sorghum could help the country __________ better with the impact of global heating on agriculture

(a) realise

(b) cope

(d) join

(e) None of these.

Answer & Explanation

Ans. b

Exp. As the given sentence is suggesting the alternative grains to deal with impact of global heating on agriculture, so the best alternative from the given option would be ‘cope’ which will make the given sentence contextually meaningful as well as grammatically correct. Hence, the correct answer choice would be option (b)

After the ___________ floods in Bihar and Assam, it’s now the turn of five other states to be battered by unrelenting rain and floods.

(a) severe

(b) harsh

(d) catastrophic

(e) All of these.

Answer & Explanation

Ans. e

Exp. All of the given words can be used to fill the given blank as they are acting as adjective to the floods. Hence, the correct answer choice would be option (e)

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