SBI Clerk Pre-English Language Quiz – 14

SBI Clerk Pre-English Language Quiz

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Directions (1-7): Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below it.

THE 10th India-ASEAN summit held in New Delhi on December 20-21 was a high-profile event attended by all the heads of state of South-East Asia, barring the Philippines, which was represented by its Vice-President.

India’s relationship with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is today one of the cornerstones of its foreign policy. India’s serious engagement with the ASEAN started in the 1990s with the “Look East” policy under Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao. A “dialogue partnership” was established with the grouping in 1992. This engagement was later elevated to the status of annual bilateral summits from 2002. The 2012 Delhi summit, with the theme “ASEAN-India Partnership for Peace and Shared Prosperity”, also marked the 20th anniversary of the establishment of formal relations between India and the regional grouping. The summit was also held against the background of the tensions that have erupted in the region owing to the territorial disputes in the South China Sea between China and some ASEAN member countries such as Vietnam and the Philippines. The issue has created a few noticeable fissures within ASEAN as was evident from what transpired during the recent summit of the grouping in Phnom Penh.

China, too, had opened a full dialogue partnership with the regional grouping, in 1991. China has been ASEAN’s biggest trading partner for the last three years. In 2011, two-way trade between China and South-East Asia stood at $336 billion. In comparison, India-ASEAN bilateral trade, though growing fast, is comparatively modest, at $70 billion in 2011. South-East Asia has been registering very high growth rates. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, in his opening speech at the New Delhi summit, said that India and ASEAN countries had a combined population of over 1.8 billion and a combined gross domestic product of $3.8 trillion.

The India-ASEAN free trade agreement (FTA), signed in 2009, was upgraded by agreements in services and investment. The two sides are confident that bilateral trade will reach $100 billion a year by 2015. The dramatic political changes in Myanmar have especially enthused Indian officials. The Indian government is giving a lot of emphasis to the proposed “Trilateral Highway” that would link the north-eastern States of the country by road to Myanmar and Thailand and onward to Cambodia and Laos. United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, during a recent visit to Yangon, said that Washington wanted Myanmar rather than China to be the transport corridor between India and the broader ASEAN region.

India is adopting a cautious policy on the disputes involving China and some of its neighbours in South-East Asia. Top officials say that ASEAN countries have a history of solving disputes through dialogue. They claim that India and China are not rivals in the region and that there is plenty of space for both countries to cooperate and do business in the region. India’s “Look East” policy, they point out, incorporates balanced multilateralism. India, along with the U.S., Australia, Japan, South Korea, China and Russia hold meetings with ASEAN leaders regularly at the annual East Asia Summit, which has emerged as an important dialogue forum in the region. Manmohan Singh, however, did state that India-ASEAN relations, although essentially economic, were “also becoming increasingly strategic”.

Attempts by the Philippines to make ASEAN take a stand on the South China Sea dispute at the summit in Phnom Penh did not succeed. Cambodian Foreign Ministry officials said at the time that the grouping had decided “that they would not internationalise the South China Sea [dispute] from now on”. Officials of Vietnam and the Philippines disputed the claims of consensus put forward by the Cambodian hosts and instead accused Phnom Penh of succumbing to Chinese pressure. Other ASEAN member-countries accused Hanoi and Manila of adopting an overly aggressive stance towards Beijing and of trying to push the grouping towards a regional order led by the U.S.

China’s position is that it is willing to resolve the disputes amicably by talking to the countries that have territorial claims in the South China Sea. In 2002, ASEAN and China had agreed to a non-binding Declaration on the Conduct of Parties (DOC) in the South China Sea, which broadly called for the peaceful diplomatic resolution of the disputes. Vietnamese Prime Minister Tan Dung had asked for India’s support for the full implementation of the DOC. Vietnam, along with the Philippines, is of the opinion that Beijing, by stepping up aggressive naval patrolling in 2010, has violated the spirit in which the DOC was signed. The Chinese side blamed Vietnam and the Philippines for making provocative moves in the areas under dispute, by giving out contracts for oil and gas exploration to foreign companies, including Indian ones.

  1. What does author mean by the statement that India’s relationship with ASEAN is one of the cornerstones of its foreign policy?

(a) ASEAN Summit is a high profile summit where all heads of South-East Asian Nations participate.
(b) India’s relationship with ASEAN started with the “Look East” policy.
(c) India’s relationship with ASEAN is an important feature that establishes the formal relations between India and the regional grouping.

(d) ASEAN summit aims to bring International Peace and Prosperity against the backdrop of growing tensions among the nations.
(e) All of these.

Answer & Explanation
Ans. c

Exp. Referring to the second paragraph of the passage we can conclude that India’s relationship with ASEAN is one of the cornerstones of its foreign policy as it helps to build bilateral relations with South East nations. Hence sentence (c) is true in context of the passage.

  1. What efforts from India would make a stronger link between India-ASEAN?

(I) India is giving stress on the “Trilateral Highway” that would link the north-eastern States of the country by road to Myanmar and Thailand and onward to Cambodia and Laos.
(II) India is giving emphasis on building the stronger links with the biggest trading Partner, China.

(III) India is promoting the India-ASEAN Free trade agreements in services and investments.

(a) Only (I) is true
(b) Only (II) is true
(c) Both (I) and (II) are true
(d)Both (I) and (III) are true

(e) All are true

Answer & Explanation
Ans. d

Exp. As indicated in fourth paragraph that India has upgraded the FTA and is giving emphasis on the “Trilateral Highway”, which clearly explains the efforts by India to make the link strong. Hence both sentences (I) and (III) are correct.

  1. Which of the following statements is/ are correct regarding “Look East” policy?

(I) “Look East” policy was established under the Prime Minister of India P.V. Narasimha Rao only after its serious engagement with ASEAN in 1990s.
(II) With “Look East” policy, India got seriously engaged in Association of Southeast Asian Nations.
(III) “Look East” incorporates balanced multilateralism.

(IV) “Look East” policy aims to solve the disputes among the nations.

(a) Both (II) and (III) are correct
(b) Both (II) and (IV) are correct
(c) Only (I), (II) and (III) are correct

(d) Only (II), (III) and (IV) are correct

(e) All are correct

Answer & Explanation
Ans. d

Exp. Sentence (I) is not correct as according to the first paragraph India got serious engagement with the ASEAN with the “Look East” policy under Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao. All other statements can be well verified from the passage. Hence option (d) is the right choice.

  1. How do Vietnam and Philippines want to resolve the disputes of South- China Sea?

(I) Vietnam and Philippines do not want China to pressurize the Cambodian hosts against internationalising the South China Sea dispute.

(II) They want India to support them for implementing the Declaration on the Conduct of Parties, which is for the peaceful diplomatic resolution of the disputes.
(III) Vietnam and Philippines want the South East Asian countries to discuss and resolve the South China Sea dispute in the summit.

(a) Only (I) is true
(b) Only (II) is true
(c) Both (I) and (II) are true
(d)Both (I) and (III) are true

(e) All are true

Answer & Explanation
Ans. e

Exp. Refer to the last paragraph of the passage, we find that all of the given statements are true in context of passage. Hence (e) is the correct option.

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

(a) Strengthening the bilateral relations among the nations
(b) Balancing the relations among the nations
(c) Resolving the disputes
(d) The South China Sea Dispute: The issue to resolve
(e) From “Look East” Policy to ASEAN summit.

Answer & Explanation
Ans. b

Exp. If we see the passage as a whole then we find that no other theme will fit the passage than “Balancing the relations among the nations” as the passage talks about ASEAN summit which aims Peace and Shared Prosperity and hence balancing the relations through trade and investments among the nations. Hence option (b) is the correct choice

  1. What is the author’s tone in context of the passage?

(a) Reflective
(b) Cynical
(c) Critical
(d) Argumentative
(e) Narrative

Answer & Explanation
Ans. c

Exp. The author’s tone is ‘Critical’ as the author is giving his opinion regarding the ASEAN summit held in Phnom Penh

  1. Which of the following is not correct regarding China?

(a) China does not want to internationalise the South-east China sea Dispute.
(b) China had opened a full dialogue partnership with the regional grouping in 1991
(c) China wants to be the transport corridor between India and the broader ASEAN region.
(d) China is the ASEAN biggest trading partner.
(e) All are correct

Answer & Explanation
Ans. e

Exp. All the given statements about China are correct in context of the passage. Hence (e) is the correct option.

Directions (8-10): In each of the following sentence there are three blank spaces. Below each sentence there are five options and each option consists of three words which can be filled up in the blanks in the sentence to make the sentence meaningful and grammatically correct.

  1. Rivers, it seems, have gone out of the lives of large numbers of people in India, in cities surely. They do become part of public_________________, but only as items of disputes between riparian states, or as beneficiaries — or victims — of large projects or when they go into _______________and cause havoc, sometimes even when they run dry. But the river as a part of people’s day-to-day experiences is________________ a matter of public conversation.

(a) ignorance, deluge, hardly
(b) speech, shortage, seldom
(c) discourse, spate, rarely
(d) sermon, paucity, scracely
(e) talk, inundation, frequently

Answer & Explanation
Ans. c

Exp. Spate means a sudden flood in a river.

Paucity means present in small amount.

  1. The Ganga is one such sorry ____________ of garbage. Over the three decades, much money has gone into cleaning this cesspool: More than Rs 1,800 crore under the Ganga Action Plan in its various avatars. The current government ________________ to spend more than 10 times this amount: Rs 20,000 crore over five years on the Namami Gange Project. But the project that took off last year is ________________on its predecessor in very few respects.

(a) holder, aspires, weakening
(b) receptacle, intends, improvement
(c) container, expects, deterioration
(d) chest, ignore, progress
(e) repository, neglect, enhancement

Answer & Explanation
Ans. b

Exp. Receptacle means container that is used to put or keep the things in.

  1. The policy to implement legislation for the ______________of generic drugs by doctors is a good move, no doubt. But the _______________shown by the government in bringing this measure is odd and populist. It is extremely important to reduce the ________________of health-related costs on common people.

(a) prescription, haste, burden
(b) medication, delay, load
(c) recipe, hurry, comfort
(d) interdiction, bustle, strain
(e) avoidance, alacrity, trouble

Answer & Explanation
Ans. a

Exp. Interdiction means action of prohibiting something.

Alacrity means eagerness.

Haste means excessive speed or urgency of movement or action; hurry.

 

 

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