ibps-so 2019 · Question 216 of 300

Which one of the following words is most nearly OPPOSITE in meaning to the word promising, as it has been used in the passage? (A) Hopeful (B) Expensive (C) Recent (D) Modest (E) Discouraging Directions (Q13–Q17) : A paragraph upon the manner in which the railways compelled a single reckoning of time upon a country that had until then kept many has been broken up and its sentences set down out of order. The six sentences given below, labelled (A) to (F), form a coherent paragraph when they are arranged in the proper order. Rearrange them and then answer the questions that follow.

1. AThe railway made the difference intolerable, for a timetable that is true at one end of a line is false at the other.
2. BLocal resistance was considerable, a town's clock having until then been the property of the town and not of a company.
3. CBefore the railways came, every town in England kept a time of its own, reckoned from the moment at which the sun stood highest above it.
4. DWhat began as the convenience of a private industry thus became, within a generation, the ordinary time of the whole nation.
5. EThe difference was a small one – Bristol ran some ten minutes behind London – and for the purposes of a coach it did not matter at all. (F) The companies therefore imposed a single time of their own upon every station they served, and set the clocks by a signal sent along the telegraph.Correct