Dear readers,
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. 1-5) Each question below has
two blanks. Choose the set of words for
each blank that best fits the meaning of the whole sentence.
1. To ………. the problems of the region it is
……… to interact with the local people.
(a) discover-necessity
(b) understand-essential
(c) research-advice
(d) manage-needful
(e) focus-better
2. ……… investing in technology, the company
has been ……… to compete globally.
(a) For-trying
(b) Despite-gradual
(c) While-clear
(d) Since-enable
(e) By-able
3. The incident has ……. severe damage to
the ………. of the employees.
(a) resulted-optimism
(b) led-emotions
(c) produced-conduct
(d) contributed-integrity
(e) caused-morale
4. You have unfairly ………… his success to
the fact that he is well ………..
(a) reduced-behaved
(b) doubted-adjusted
(c) excused-educated
(d) called-connected
(e) rated-known
5. The root ……… of slow reduction in
poverty is ………… of investment in agriculture.
(1) purpose-increase
(b) reason-hike
(c) cause-lack
(d) effect-incidence
(e) consequence-plunge
Directions (Q. 6-10) Which of the phrases
(1), (2), (3) and (4) given below each statement should replace the phrase
printed in bold in the sentence to make it grammatically correct? If the sentence is correct as it is given and
“No correction is required”, mark (5) as the answer.
6. It would be worthwhile to educate
teenagers about the consequences of drinking
to drive.
(a) drunk for driving
(b) drunk and driving
(c) drink to drive
(d) drinking and driving
(e) No correction required
7. Hearing rumours of a fraud, investors begun to pull out their money in panic.
(a) beginning pulling out
(b) began pulling in
(c) will begin by pulling
(d) began to pull out
(e)
No correction required
8. He did not invest wisely and has lost
his entirely life savings.
(a)
entire life saving
(b)
live savings entirely
(c)
saving for entire life
(d)
entire lifetime of savings
(e)
No correction required
9. There is a large number of employees whom took the option of voluntary
retirement.
(a)
who is taken
(b)
which taken
(c)
who took
(d)
that will be taken
(e)
No correction required
10. According to our analysis, allocation
for the agriculture sector being high
from last year.
(a)
is as high
(b)
is higher than
(c)
was higher to
(d)
can be high
(e)
No correction required
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Answers
1(b) 2(e) 3(e)
4(e) 5(c) 6(d)
7(d) 8(a) 9(c)
10(b)