UIIC AO English Quiz, FREE PDF & Live Quiz Practice

1. Directions: Rearrange the following sentences to form a coherent paragraph.

A. Yet this convenience has also increased the volume of personal data that firms collect and process.
B. Digital services have made routine transactions faster and more convenient for consumers.
C. As a result, regulators and companies are paying greater attention to privacy-by-design practices.
D. These practices aim to minimise unnecessary collection and protect information throughout its life cycle.
E. The challenge is therefore to preserve the benefits of digitalisation without weakening individual privacy.

Which sentence should be FIRST after rearrangement?

2. The committee (A) praised the proposal for being financially (B) sustainable, but asked the team to (C) clarify how the benefits would be (D) allocated across regions and (E) beneficiaries.

3. Match Column I with Column II to form a grammatically and contextually correct sentence.

Column I:
A. Although the pilot project was small
B. The bank strengthened its verification process
C. Since rainfall had been deficient

Column II:
D. farmers in the district expected a lower harvest
E. it generated useful evidence for a larger rollout
F. thereby reducing the scope for identity-related fraud

4. Choose the sentence(s) in which the word “address” is used correctly.

I. The policy seeks to address gaps in insurance coverage.
II. Please address the parcel to the regional office.
III. The speaker addressed the concerns raised by employees.

5. Passage:

Many organisations once treated cybersecurity mainly as a technical problem handled by specialised teams. That view is changing. As more operations move online, a security incident can interrupt sales, customer service, payments and even physical operations. Cybersecurity is therefore increasingly viewed as a business-continuity issue.

What is the central idea of the passage?

6. Passage:

Many organisations once treated cybersecurity mainly as a technical problem handled by specialised teams. That view is changing. As more operations move online, a security incident can interrupt sales, customer service, payments and even physical operations. Cybersecurity is therefore increasingly viewed as a business-continuity issue. This shift has practical consequences. Firms are mapping critical processes, identifying the systems on which those processes depend and preparing alternatives for periods of disruption.

Why are firms mapping critical processes?

7. Passage:

Insurance works by pooling risk. A large number of policyholders pay premiums into a common fund, and claims are paid from that pool when covered losses occur. The model depends on uncertainty at the individual level but relative predictability across a sufficiently large group.

According to the passage, why can insurance pools function effectively?

8. Passage:

Technology is changing how insurers estimate and manage risk. Data from connected devices, digital transactions and other sources can help firms price some risks more precisely. However, greater precision also raises questions. If risk categories become too narrow, people with higher expected losses may face very high premiums or find coverage difficult to obtain.

What potential problem can arise from extremely narrow risk categories?

9. Passage:

Technology is changing how insurers estimate and manage risk. Data from connected devices, digital transactions and other sources can help firms price some risks more precisely. However, greater precision also raises questions.

The word “precision” most nearly means:

10. Directions: Fill the blank in the sentence.

An organisation that waits too long to speak may allow rumours to _____, but a rushed statement based on incomplete facts can also cause harm.

11. Directions: Fill the blank in the sentence.

Updates should be issued at _____ intervals, even when there is little new information, because silence may be interpreted as a lack of control.

12. Directions: Fill the blank in the sentence.

Messages should use _____ language rather than technical jargon, particularly when the audience is broad.

13. Directions: Fill the blank in the sentence.

Spokespersons must also avoid _____ promises that cannot be kept.

14. Identify the part containing an error.

(A) Neither the branch manager nor the officers / (B) was willing to approve the request / (C) without verifying the supporting documents / (D) submitted by the applicant. / (E) No error

15. Identify the part containing an error.

(A) The report not only explains the causes / (B) of the decline but also suggests / (C) several measures that could / (D) helps restore demand. / (E) No error

16. Identify the part containing an error.

(A) Each of the applicants / (B) were asked to carry / (C) an original identity document / (D) to the interview venue. / (E) No error

17. Identify the part containing an error.

(A) One of the reasons for the delay / (B) were the repeated changes / (C) requested by the client / (D) during the final review. / (E) No error

18. Identify the part containing an error.

(A) The number of complaints / (B) have fallen steadily since / (C) the new grievance process / (D) was introduced last year. / (E) No error

19. The insurer introduced stricter checks to _____ fraudulent claims while ensuring that genuine customers were not _____ by unnecessary delays.

20. The board asked management to _____ the proposal again because several cost assumptions appeared too _____.

21. The project was completed on time because responsibilities were clearly _____ and progress was _____ every week.

22. A strong control system should not only _____ errors but also help the organisation _____ them early.

23. The new process has helped the bank to reduce down the average time required to open an account.

Replace the underlined phrase “to reduce down”:

24. No sooner had the announcement been made when customers began calling the helpline.

Replace the underlined word “when”:

25. The committee found the revised plan more preferable than the original one.

Replace the underlined phrase “more preferable than”:

26. In the sentence “The regulator adopted a prudent approach to the emerging risk,” the word “prudent” is closest in meaning to:

27. Choose the antonym of scarce in the context “Skilled technicians were scarce in the region.”

28. Four sentences form a coherent paragraph and one is unrelated. Identify the odd sentence.

A. The company began measuring electricity use across its offices.
B. It then identified buildings with unusually high consumption.
C. Engineers adjusted cooling schedules and replaced inefficient lighting.
D. As a result, energy use fell without reducing working hours.
E. The company’s founder enjoys collecting historical maps.

29. Choose the sentence that correctly changes the voice without changing meaning.

“The audit team will review the controls next week.”

30. Choose the grammatically correct sentence.