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This quiz consists of questions from various Banking
entrance exams held during the last few years. Leave your answers/ responses in
the comments section below and we’ll soon let you know the correct answers!
Directions (Q. Nos. 1-4) Which of the phrases (1),
(2), (3) and (4) given below should replace the phrase given in bold in the
following sentence to make it meaningful and grammatically correct. If the
sentence is meaningful and correct as it is and no correction is required, mark
(5) as the answer.
1. Some research studies indicate that among
distinguished artists, the rate of depression is ten times as prevalent as in the population at large.
(1) more prevalent than in the
(2) more prevalent as comparing
(3) as prevalent when comparative
(4) more prevalent than the
(5) No correction required
2. House flies that hatch in summer live only about
three weeks, but they who hatch
during winter live longer than six months.
(1) but those who
(2) than those
(3) than they who
(4) but those that
(5) No correction required
3. In the last 50 years, many people have changed their preference from cars to sports
vehicles.
(1) their preference to
(2) their preferencing from
(3) there preference from
(4) their preferring to
(5) No correction required
4. Scientists have suggested that once in every 10
million year or so, a truly colossal object from space cuts on the atmosphere and slams into Earth.
(1) cuts against the atmosphere
(2) cuts the atmosphere
(3) cuts through the atmosphere
(4) cutting on the atmosphere
(5) No correction required
Directions
(Q. Nos. 5-10) Each sentence below has two blanks, each blank indicating that
something has been omitted. Choose the set of words for each blank that best
fits the meaning of the sentence as a whole.
5.
Biological clocks are of ………….. adaptive value to animals since it …………… nervous
and physiological functions of the body.
(1) immense, assumes
(2) great, regulates
(3) ultimate, created
(4) high, engulfs
(5) no, governs
6. Each
occupation has its own …………… ; bankers, lawyers and computer professionals, for
example all use among themselves………….that outsiders find difficult to follow.
(1) merits, incidents
(2) disadvantages, methods
(3) rewards, endearment
(4) jargon, language
(5) problems, fundamentals
7. The two
artists ………….. markedly in their temperaments, one was reserved and courteous,
the other ………….. and boastful.
(1) changed, irritable
(2) similar, jovial
(3) differed, rude
(4) appeared, funny
(5) addressed, ill-tempered
8. Many
people believed that spices help ……….. food; however nutritionists found that
most spices were ………….. of having any effect on growth of microbes present in
the food.
(1) preserve, incapable
(2) produce, impossible
(3) save, preventive
(4) spoil, probable
(5) protect, deprived
9. Despite a
growing …………… that a lot needs to be done to help those without clean water, a
…………… says that more than 34 million people die every year of water borne
diseases.
(1) interest, reason
(2) recognition, report
(3) fantasy, review
(4) authority, legend
(5) turbulence, logic
10.
Water-borne diseases are the most …………..cause of infant
deaths ………….the world.
(1) rare, according
(2) regular, at
(3) related, across
(4) common, throughout
(5) large, around
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Answers
1(1) 2(4) 3(5)
4(3) 5(2) 6(4)
7(3) 8(1) 9(2)
10(4)