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LIC AAO/SBI PO Pre Mini Mock-23

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Question 1

Direction: Read the given passage carefully and answer the questions that follow.

Compostable and biodegradable plastics could add to marine pollution because there is no infrastructure in place to make sure they break down correctly, a committee of MPs have warned.

The use of alternatives to plastic is being adopted by many food and drink companies, takeaway coffee venues, cafes and retailers. But experts giving evidence to MPs on the environment, food and rural affairs committee said the infrastructure required to deal with the new packaging was not in place and there was a lack of consumer understanding about these alternatives.

Much of the compostable packaging produced for the UK market only degrades in industrial composting facilities, rather than in-home composting – but not all is sent to these facilities. Environmental NGOs told the committee that the rapid introduction of such alternatives could actually increase plastic pollution.

Juliet Phillips, of the Environmental Investigation Agency, said: “If a biodegradable cup gets into the sea, it could pose just as much of a problem to marine life as a conventional plastic cup.” The environmental think tank Green Alliance said there was evidence that the term biodegradable made consumers think it was fine to discard it into the environment, which would make pollution on land and at sea even worse.

Neil Parish, chair of the Commons select committee, said: “In the backlash against plastic, other materials are being increasingly used as substitutes in food and drink packaging. “We are concerned that such actions are being taken without proper consideration of wider environmental consequences, such as higher carbon emissions. “Compostable plastics have been introduced without the right infrastructure or consumer understanding to manage compostable waste.”

Disposable, single-use plastics used for packaging food and drink – particularly cigarette butts, plastic drinking bottles, plastic caps, food wrappers, grocery bags, plastic lids, straws and stirrers – are the most common single use plastics found in the environment, according to a 2018 UN report.

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/environment

In the given question, the first sentence of the given passage has been divided into four parts. Read the sentence to find out whether there is an error in it. The error, if any, will be in one part of the sentence. The part carrying the error will be your answer. If the given sentence is correct as it is, mark the answer as ‘No error’. Ignore the errors of punctuation, if any.

Question 2

Direction: Read the given passage carefully and answer the questions that follow.
Compostable and biodegradable plastics could add to marine pollution because there is no infrastructure in place to make sure they break down correctly, a committee of MPs have warned.
The use of alternatives to plastic is being adopted by many food and drink companies, takeaway coffee venues, cafes and retailers. But experts giving evidence to MPs on the environment, food and rural affairs committee said the infrastructure required to deal with the new packaging was not in place and there was a lack of consumer understanding about these alternatives.
Much of the compostable packaging produced for the UK market only degrades in industrial composting facilities, rather than in-home composting – but not all is sent to these facilities. Environmental NGOs told the committee that the rapid introduction of such alternatives could actually increase plastic pollution.
Juliet Phillips, of the Environmental Investigation Agency, said: “If a biodegradable cup gets into the sea, it could pose just as much of a problem to marine life as a conventional plastic cup.” The environmental think tank Green Alliance said there was evidence that the term biodegradable made consumers think it was fine to discard it into the environment, which would make pollution on land and at sea even worse.
Neil Parish, chair of the Commons select committee, said: “In the backlash against plastic, other materials are being increasingly used as substitutes in food and drink packaging. “We are concerned that such actions are being taken without proper consideration of wider environmental consequences, such as higher carbon emissions. “Compostable plastics have been introduced without the right infrastructure or consumer understanding to manage compostable waste.”
Disposable, single-use plastics used for packaging food and drink – particularly cigarette butts, plastic drinking bottles, plastic caps, food wrappers, grocery bags, plastic lids, straws and stirrers – are the most common single use plastics found in the environment, according to a 2018 UN report.
Source: https://www.theguardian.com/environment

Why could biodegradable plastics add to marine pollution?
A) A proper infrastructure to ensure the correct breakdown of the plastics does not exist.
B) The amount of waste is too huge to get decomposed easily.
C) The consumers lack understanding about the alternatives.

Question 3

Direction: Read the given passage carefully and answer the questions that follow.
Compostable and biodegradable plastics could add to marine pollution because there is no infrastructure in place to make sure they break down correctly, a committee of MPs have warned.
The use of alternatives to plastic is being adopted by many food and drink companies, takeaway coffee venues, cafes and retailers. But experts giving evidence to MPs on the environment, food and rural affairs committee said the infrastructure required to deal with the new packaging was not in place and there was a lack of consumer understanding about these alternatives.
Much of the compostable packaging produced for the UK market only degrades in industrial composting facilities, rather than in-home composting – but not all is sent to these facilities. Environmental NGOs told the committee that the rapid introduction of such alternatives could actually increase plastic pollution.
Juliet Phillips, of the Environmental Investigation Agency, said: “If a biodegradable cup gets into the sea, it could pose just as much of a problem to marine life as a conventional plastic cup.” The environmental think tank Green Alliance said there was evidence that the term biodegradable made consumers think it was fine to discard it into the environment, which would make pollution on land and at sea even worse.
Neil Parish, chair of the Commons select committee, said: “In the backlash against plastic, other materials are being increasingly used as substitutes in food and drink packaging. “We are concerned that such actions are being taken without proper consideration of wider environmental consequences, such as higher carbon emissions. “Compostable plastics have been introduced without the right infrastructure or consumer understanding to manage compostable waste.”
Disposable, single-use plastics used for packaging food and drink – particularly cigarette butts, plastic drinking bottles, plastic caps, food wrappers, grocery bags, plastic lids, straws and stirrers – are the most common single use plastics found in the environment, according to a 2018 UN report.
Source: https://www.theguardian.com/environment

Which of the following is/ are true with reference to the passage?
A) The materials being used substitutes to plastic in food and drink packaging significantly reduce carbon emissions.
B) The people of UK are under the impression that using biodegradable alternatives to plastic can control pollution.
C) A significant amount of compostable packaging produced for the UK market degrades in industrial composting facilities, rather than in-home composting.

Question 4

Direction: Read the given passage carefully and answer the questions that follow.
Compostable and biodegradable plastics could add to marine pollution because there is no infrastructure in place to make sure they break down correctly, a committee of MPs have warned.
The use of alternatives to plastic is being adopted by many food and drink companies, takeaway coffee venues, cafes and retailers. But experts giving evidence to MPs on the environment, food and rural affairs committee said the infrastructure required to deal with the new packaging was not in place and there was a lack of consumer understanding about these alternatives.
Much of the compostable packaging produced for the UK market only degrades in industrial composting facilities, rather than in-home composting – but not all is sent to these facilities. Environmental NGOs told the committee that the rapid introduction of such alternatives could actually increase plastic pollution.
Juliet Phillips, of the Environmental Investigation Agency, said: “If a biodegradable cup gets into the sea, it could pose just as much of a problem to marine life as a conventional plastic cup.” The environmental think tank Green Alliance said there was evidence that the term biodegradable made consumers think it was fine to discard it into the environment, which would make pollution on land and at sea even worse.
Neil Parish, chair of the Commons select committee, said: “In the backlash against plastic, other materials are being increasingly used as substitutes in food and drink packaging. “We are concerned that such actions are being taken without proper consideration of wider environmental consequences, such as higher carbon emissions. “Compostable plastics have been introduced without the right infrastructure or consumer understanding to manage compostable waste.”
Disposable, single-use plastics used for packaging food and drink – particularly cigarette butts, plastic drinking bottles, plastic caps, food wrappers, grocery bags, plastic lids, straws and stirrers – are the most common single use plastics found in the environment, according to a 2018 UN report.
Source: https://www.theguardian.com/environment

With reference to the given passage, which of the following words can replace “discard”?

Question 5

Direction: Read the given passage carefully and answer the questions that follow.
Compostable and biodegradable plastics could add to marine pollution because there is no infrastructure in place to make sure they break down correctly, a committee of MPs have warned.
The use of alternatives to plastic is being adopted by many food and drink companies, takeaway coffee venues, cafes and retailers. But experts giving evidence to MPs on the environment, food and rural affairs committee said the infrastructure required to deal with the new packaging was not in place and there was a lack of consumer understanding about these alternatives.
Much of the compostable packaging produced for the UK market only degrades in industrial composting facilities, rather than in-home composting – but not all is sent to these facilities. Environmental NGOs told the committee that the rapid introduction of such alternatives could actually increase plastic pollution.
Juliet Phillips, of the Environmental Investigation Agency, said: “If a biodegradable cup gets into the sea, it could pose just as much of a problem to marine life as a conventional plastic cup.” The environmental think tank Green Alliance said there was evidence that the term biodegradable made consumers think it was fine to discard it into the environment, which would make pollution on land and at sea even worse.
Neil Parish, chair of the Commons select committee, said: “In the backlash against plastic, other materials are being increasingly used as substitutes in food and drink packaging. “We are concerned that such actions are being taken without proper consideration of wider environmental consequences, such as higher carbon emissions. “Compostable plastics have been introduced without the right infrastructure or consumer understanding to manage compostable waste.”
Disposable, single-use plastics used for packaging food and drink – particularly cigarette butts, plastic drinking bottles, plastic caps, food wrappers, grocery bags, plastic lids, straws and stirrers – are the most common single use plastics found in the environment, according to a 2018 UN report.
Source: https://www.theguardian.com/environment
Which of the following is a valid conclusion that can be drawn after reading the passage
A) A biodegradable cup could pose as much of a problem to marine life as a conventional plastic cup.
B) The UK must control its carbon emission.
C) It is high time that we realised the need to find biodegradable alternatives to plastic.

Question 6

Direction: What value should come in place of question mark (?) in the following question?
(0.125)4÷(0.25)3×(0.5)2=(0.5)?-3

Question 7

Direction: What value should come in place of the question mark (?) in the following question?
7825 - 9236 + 5234 = ? × 25

Question 8

Direction: What value should come in place of the question mark (?) in the following question?
(63)2 ÷ (?)2 + 9 = 58

Question 9

Direction: What value should come in place of question mark (?) in the following question.
=?

Question 10

Direction: What value should come in place of question mark (?) in the following question?

Question 11

Direction: Study the following information carefully and answer the questions given below:

There are five persons A, B, C, D and E, each having a different height. E is shorter than only two persons. B is not the tallest. C is taller than A. C is shorter than B.
Who among the following is the tallest?

Question 12

Direction: Study the following information carefully and answer the questions given below:

There are five persons A, B, C, D and E, each having a different height. E is shorter than only two persons. B is not the tallest. C is taller than A. C is shorter than B.
B is taller than how many persons?

Question 13

Direction: Study the information given below and answer the questions based on it.

Six friends - A, B, C, D, E and F in a class who secured top six ranks in an examination. Each student got different ranks from other students. Also, each of these scored different marks. B got two ranks better than A. D got the fifth rank and F got the second rank in the exam. C got a better rank than B and C is not the least ranked in the class. Highest ranked scored 200 marks in the exam and the second lowest scored 90 marks in the exam.
If C scored 150 marks, then how much marks can possibly be scored by F?

Question 14

Direction: Study the information given below and answer the questions based on it.

Six friends - A, B, C, D, E and F in a class who secured top six ranks in an examination. Each student got different ranks from other students. Also, each of these scored different marks. B got two ranks better than A. D got the fifth rank and F got the second rank in the exam. C got a better rank than B and C is not the least ranked in the class. Highest ranked scored 200 marks in the exam and the second lowest scored 90 marks in the exam.
If E got 3 ranks better than B, then how many got better rank than C?

Question 15

Direction: Study the information given below and answer the questions based on it.

Six friends - A, B, C, D, E and F in a class who secured top six ranks in an examination. Each student got different ranks from other students. Also, each of these scored different marks. B got two ranks better than A. D got the fifth rank and F got the second rank in the exam. C got a better rank than B and C is not the least ranked in the class. Highest ranked scored 200 marks in the exam and the second lowest scored 90 marks in the exam.
If the average marks scored by A, D and B together is 80 and B scored 50 marks more than A, then how much marks did A score?
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