{"id":14767,"date":"2019-11-13T10:55:16","date_gmt":"2019-11-13T05:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/race4job.com\/blog\/?p=14767"},"modified":"2019-11-13T10:55:16","modified_gmt":"2019-11-13T05:25:16","slug":"english-language-questions-for-ibps-clerks-41","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.race4job.com\/blog\/english-language-questions-for-ibps-clerks-41\/","title":{"rendered":"English Language Questions for IBPS Clerks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Directions (1-5): Read the following<br \/>\npassage and answer the questions that follow:<br \/>\nNature is like business. Business<br \/>\nsense dictates that we guard our capital and live from the interest. Nature\u2019s<br \/>\ncapital is the enormous diversity of living things. Without it, we cannot feed<br \/>\nourselves, cure ourselves of illness or provide industry with the raw materials<br \/>\nof wealth creation. Professor Edward Wilson, of Harvard University says,<br \/>\n\u201cThe folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us is the ongoing<br \/>\nloss of genetic and species diversity. This will take millions of years to<br \/>\ncorrect.\u201d<br \/>\nOnly 150 plant species have ever<br \/>\nbeen widely cultivated. Yet over 75,000 edible plants are known in the wild. In<br \/>\na hungry world, with a population growing by 90 million each year, so much <strong>wasted<\/strong><br \/>\npotential is tragic. Medicines from the wild are <strong>worth<\/strong> around 40<br \/>\nbillion dollars a year. Over 5000 species are known to yield chemical with<br \/>\ncancer fighting potential Scientists currently estimate that the total number<br \/>\nof species in the world is between 10-30 million with only around 1.4 million<br \/>\nidentified.<\/p>\n<p>The web of life is torn when<br \/>\nmankind exploits natural resources in short-sighted ways. The trade in tropical<br \/>\nhardwoods can destroy whole forests to extract just a few commercially<br \/>\nattractive specimens. Bad agricultural practice <strong>triggers<\/strong> 24<br \/>\nbillion tonnes of top soil erosion a year losing the equivalent of 9 million<br \/>\ntonnes of grain output. Cutting this kind of unsuitable exploitation and<br \/>\ninstituting \u201csustainable utilisation\u201d will help turn the<br \/>\nenvironmental crisis around.<\/p>\n<p>[WATU 316]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Directions (1-5): Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow: Nature is like business. Business sense dictates that we guard our capital and live from the interest. Nature\u2019s capital is the enormous diversity of living things. Without it, we cannot feed ourselves, cure ourselves of illness or provide industry with the raw materials [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.race4job.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.race4job.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.race4job.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.race4job.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.race4job.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14767"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.race4job.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14768,"href":"https:\/\/www.race4job.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14767\/revisions\/14768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.race4job.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.race4job.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.race4job.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}