ICICI Bank Placement Paper - Verbal Ability Questions

ICICI Bank Placement Paper – Verbal Ability Questions

• Choose the correct antonym for the words given below:

1. INVOKE

a. Answer
b. Summon
c. Supplicate
d. Implore

2. SUBSIDENCE

a. Decline
b. Abatement
c. Ebb
d. Enlargement

3. DEPLETED

a. Sapped
b. Effete
c. Destitute
d. Augmented

• Choose the correct synonym for the words given below:
1. CATHEXIS

a.Crest
b.Missive
c.Cathouses
d.Bizarre

2. FARCEUR

a.Quipster
b.Relativity
c.Plato
d.Attitude

3. EUCLIDEAN

a.Occlude
b.Compile
c.Breath - taking
d.Portent

• The following sentence is split into 4 parts; choose the part that has grammatical error.

a.He had built
b.almost nothing in America
c.but writing the fabulous
d.cult book ‘Delirious New York’

• Which of the following phrases A, B, C and D given below each sentence should replace the word/ phrase which is underlined in the sentence to make it grammatically correct?
1. Since Shilpa was overburdened with work, Deepa decided to gave her hand.

a.Give her a hand
b.Giving hands
c.Gave her hands
d.Giving her handful
e. No correction required

2. Shashi tried as hard he would to win the race but failed to do so.

a.Hardly so as
b.As hard as he could
c.As hardly as he could
d.So hard that could
e. No correction required

3. Since Riya did not want to be disturbed while studying, she left the phone off hooks.

a.For the hook
b.Off the hook
c.Off hooking
d.Of hook
e. No correction required

• In each of the following question four words are given of which two words are most nearly the same or opposite in meaning. Choose the correct option and find the two words which are most nearly the same or opposite in meaning and indicate the number of the correct letter combination, by darkening the appropriate oval in your answer sheet.

1.
i. Valued
ii. Forlorn
iii. Magnetic
iv. Cherished

a.3 – 4
b.2 – 4
c.1 – 4
d.1 – 2
e.2 – 3

2.
i. Exceptional
ii. Vague
iii. Ordinary
iv. Custom
a.2 – 4
b.1 – 2
c.2 – 3
d.3 – 4
e. 1 – 4

3.
i. Troubled
ii. Apparent
iii. Remote
iv. Secluded

a.1 – 3
b.2 – 3
c.1 – 4
d.3 – 4
e. 2 – 4

• Rearrange the following six statements 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 in the proper sequence to form a meaningful paragraph and answer the questions given below.

i. Each team’s performance was evaluated according to its final position relative to its four competitors.
ii. The study examined how a company’s ability to notice when competitors were reacting to its strategic moves affected its performance.
iii. Competitive decisions were made in several rounds, which allowed each team time to analyse and interpret their rival’s reactions in the study.
iv. Based on a simulation called mark Strat 2, the study placed 5 teams in charge of competing companies in a hypothetical durable goods industry.
v. In other words, if you know that the competition opened the Y office in response to your opening the X office, will you be more successful?
vi. The authors of the study are professors at North-eastern and Stanford universities.

1. Which of the following statements will you arrange first?

a.i
b.iii
c.ii
d.iv
e.vi


2. Which of the following should be the fourth sentence after rearrangement?
a.ii
b.i
c.vi
d.iv
e. v

3. Which of the following should be the last sentence while rearranging?
a.vi
b.v
c.i
d.iii
e. ii

4. Which of the following should be the second sentence while you are rearranging?
a.iv
b.v
c.i
d.iii
e. vi

• In the following passage there are blanks which have been numbered. These numbers are printed below in the passage and against each number there are 5 options given. Choose the correct option and fill in the blank with the appropriate word.

If you work in a 1 organization, even now you are probably being evaluated in 2 of these capabilities though you may not know it. If you are applying for a job, you are 3 to be scrutinized through this lens, though, again, no one will tell you so explicitly. 4 your job, understanding how to cultivate these capabilities can be 5 for success in your career. If you are part of a management team, you need to consider whether your organisation fosters these competencies or 6 them. To the degree your organisation climate nourishes these competencies; your organisation will be more 7 and productive. You will 8 your group’s intelligence, the synergistic interaction of every person’s best talents. If you work for a small organisation or for yourself, 9 ability to perform at peak depends to a great extent on your having these abilities – though almost certainly you were never 10 them in school. Even so, your career will depend, to a greater or lesser extent, on how well you have mastered 11 capacities.

1.
a.Small
b.Prime
c.Large
d.Minor

2.
a.Point
b.Joined
c.Fact
d.Terms

3.
a.Mostly
b.Expected
c.Likely
d.Estimated

4.
a.Whichever
b.However
c.whenever
d.Whatever

5.
a.Essential
b.Important
c.Critical
d.Crucial

6.
a.Encourage
b.Average
c.Discourages
d.Implicate

7.
a.Affective
b.Affect
c.Effective
d.Effect

8.
a.Maximum
b.Maximise
c.Determine
d.Extreme

9.
a.Your
b.You
c.Yourself
d.Our

10.
a.Teach
b.Teaches
c.Teaching
d.Taught

11.
a.Those
b.This
c.These
d.Their

• Each of the questions below is followed by two statements, labelled 1 and 2 in which certain data is given. In these questions you do not actually have to compute an answer, but rather you have to decide whether the data given in the statements are sufficient for answering the questions. Using the data given in the statements plus your knowledge of mathematics and everyday facts you are supposed to choose the correct option.

1. If X and Y are numbers, which weighs more: X blue marbles or Y red marbles?
i. X = 5y
ii. Red marbles weigh 1 gram each

a.If a statement 1 alone is sufficient but statement 2 alone is not sufficient to answer the question asked.
b.If statement 2 alone is sufficient but statement 1 alone is not sufficient to answer the question asked.
c.If both the statements 1 and 2 together are sufficient enough to answer the question asked, but neither statement alone is sufficient
d.If each statement is sufficient by itself to answer the question asked.
e. If statements 1 and 2 together are not sufficient to answer the question asked and additional data specific to the problem is needed.

2. How much did Seema weigh before she started dieting?
i. Seema lost 9 kilos
ii. She now weighs 63 kilos

a.If a statement 1 alone is sufficient but statement 2 alone is not sufficient to answer the question asked.
b.If statement 2 alone is sufficient but statement 1 alone is not sufficient to answer the question asked.
c.If both the statements 1 and 2 together are sufficient enough to answer the question asked, but neither statement alone is sufficient
d.If each statement is sufficient by itself to answer the question asked.
e.If statements 1 and 2 together are not sufficient to answer the question asked and additional data specific to the problem is needed.

• Read the following passage carefully and answer the below mentioned questions carefully that are based on the passage.

Scientists believe that hypertension or high blood pressure is one factor responsible for heart attacks and strokes. High blood pressure, in turn, seems to be an inevitable result of the rapid pace of western life – a pace that gives no indication of slowing down. Since our present standard of living is generally believed to depend on keeping up that pace, it is likely that many people would not want it to slow down. It appears then, that everyday situations of stress, which require physiological adjustments that may lead to hypertension and subsequent heart failure, are a permanent part of western life, and that people’s only recourse lies in learning how to counteract the harmful effects of their physiological responses to such situations.
In general, a person can counteract such effects by regularly eliciting, b psychological means, what is called a “relaxation response”. The relaxation response is an innate, integrated set of physiological changes that are the opposites of the changes involved in the “fight – or - flight” response associated with hypertension. One particularly well – known method of relaxing, called transcendental meditation (TM), decreases the activity of the sympathetic nervous system and thus effectively counterbalances the harmful, environmentally induced fight – or – flight response.

Techniques that elicit the relaxation response should not be confused with bio feedback. Using the biofeedback method, subjects can be made aware of physiological functions that are normally performed unconsciously and can learn to consciously alter those functions. For instance, when a monitoring device “feeds back” to the subject information corresponding to each heartbeat, the subject becomes aware of changes in heart rate and can gain at least partial control over the changes. While biofeedback requires special equipment to monitor physiological processes and can usually focus on only one function at a time, TM requires no monitoring equipment and affects several functions simultaneously. Meditation is known to cause a simultaneous decrease in heart rate and the rates of metabolism and breathing.
Although blood pressure remains unchanged during actual periods of meditation, it has been found that the blood pressure of meditators is, in general, lower than the blood pressure of people who do not practice TM. Recently, individuals with elevated blood pressure who were attending an introductory TM lecture were asked to participate in a study to determine the effects of meditation on high blood pressure. The selected group was asked to postpone the regular practice of meditation for six weeks, so that each person’s exact “pre – meditation” blood pressure could be established. At the end of this period, the subjects began to practice TM on a regular basis. After 9 weeks, it was found that the average blood pressure of the group had dropped from what is considered borderline hypertensive to what is considered a normal range.

1. The author is primarily concerned with?

a.Evaluating a study
b.Outlining a proposal
c.Discussing a remedy
d.Explaining a predicament

2. Which of the following, if true, would most seriously weaken the conclusions of the experiment described in the last paragraph?

a.2 weeks after subjects had stopped meditating; they again exhibited blood pressures in the hypertension range.
b.Many of the subjects were unable to elicit the relaxation response during the 9 week training period.
c.Persons who had not volunteered for the experiment but who had practiced TM for 9 weeks also experienced lowered blood pressure.
d.A group of people who were of the same age as the subjects in the experiment but who had not been trained in TM exhibited normal blood pressures.

3. The author’s attitude towards the pace of western life can best be described as one of:

a.Apology
b.Anxiety
c.Indignation
d.Resignation

4. The relaxation response is:

a.Opposite of the changes of hypertension
b.Innate changes
c.Transcontinental meditation
d.Both a and b

5. According to the passage, changes in which of the following occur during meditation?

i. Heart rate
ii. Metabolic rate
iii. Blood pressure

a.Only i
b.Only iii
c.i and iii only
d.only ii

6. According to the passage, biofeedback techniques permit subjects to:

a.Consciously control physiological functions
b.Elicit the relaxation response
c.Suppress the fight – or – flight response
d.Gain better control over their environments