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This quiz consists of actual questions from various Banking entrance
exams held during the last few years. Leave your answers/ responses in the
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Directions (1-10): In the following passage there are
blanks, each of which has been numbered. These numbers are printed below the
passage and against each, five words/phrases are suggested, one of which fits
the blank appropriately. Find out the appropriate word/phrase in each case.
Greenhouse
gases are only (1) of the story when it comes to global warming. Changes
to one part of the climate system can (2) additional changes to the way
the planet absorbs or reflects energy. These secondary changes are (3) climate
feedbacks, and they could more than double the amount of warming caused by
carbon dioxide alone. The primary feedbacks are (4) to snow and ice, water-vapour,
clouds, and the carbon cycle.
Perhaps the
most well (5) feedback comes from melting snow and ice in the Northern
Hemisphere. Warming temperatures are already (6)
a growing percentage of Arctic-sea ice, exposing dark ocean water during the (7)
sunlight of summer. Snow cover on land is also (8) in many areas. In the
(9) of snow and ice, these areas go from having bright, sunlight-reflecting
surfaces that cool the planet to having dark, sunlight-absorbing surfaces that (10)
more energy into the Earth system and cause more warming.
1. (a) whole (b) part (c)
material (d) issue (e) most
2. (a) raise (b) brings (c)
refer (d) stop (e) cause
3. (a) sensed
(b) called (c) nothing (d) but (e) term
4. (a) due (b)
results (c)
reason (d) those (e)because
5. (a) done
(b) known (c)
ruled (d) bestowed (e) said
6. (a) mastering
(b) sending (c) melting (d) calming
(e) increasing
7. (a) make-shift
(b) ceasing (c) troubled (d) perpetual (e) absent
8. (a) dwindling
(b) manufactured (c)
descending (d) generating
(e) supplied
9. (a) progress (b) reduced (c) existence (d) midst
(e) absence
10. (a) repel
(b) waft
(c) monitor (d) bring (e) access
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Answers
1(b)
2(e) 3(b) 4(a)
5(b) 6(c) 7(d)
8(a) 9(e) 10(d)