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This quiz consists of actual questions from
various Banking entrance exams held during the last few years. Leave your
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Directions (Q. 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.
Depending upon how humanity chooses to use it, technology can enhance or
(1) any aspect of life. The realm of interpersonal communication generally
feels this impact first. Many times, throughout history, humanity has changed
its modes of communication as society itself has (2) As people began to
spread out geographically, verbal communication turned to writing to make it more
(3) ,Then, people invented ways of carrying both conversation and
written communication between their communities to keep in (4) with one
another as travel became simpler. With the advent of the telephone, people
began to wonder if picking up the receiver to call one another would eventually
(5) out other forms of communication. So far, as families and friends
have moved away from one another, the telephone, even its cellular form, has
allowed humanity to (6) the necessary links among its members.
Naturally, now that computers, instant and text messaging, and other
forms of communication have found their way into the world, people not familiar
with these technologies wonder what they will do to the human race. Etiquette
experts and those raised on writing formal letters often (7) that e-mail
and text message lingo will replace the language of pen and paper. This will
not (8) and both methods of communication can survive to enhance humans
enjoyment of one another’s company if the next generation learns how to (9)
both. Each form of communication can survive with its own rules as people learn
which situations in life (10) for which level of formality and which of
the people they spend time with can connect better with which type of language.
1. (1) depressed (2) finish
(3) problem (4) hinder (5) featured
2. (1) evolved (2) destroyed
(3) pledged (4) extinguished (5) waited
3. (1)
expensive (2) subjective (3) easier (4) loud (5) portable
4. (1) lines (2) faith (3) distance (4) touch (5) check
5. (1) pushed (2) cancel (3) shells (4) try (5) turn
6. (1) maintain (2) teleport (3) cut (4) curb (5) regulation
7. (1) dominate
(2) elate (3) worry (4) says (5) mentioning
8. (1) agree (2) happen (3) occurred (4) exist (5) possible
9. (1) forms (2) prove (3) accomplish (4) study (5) example
10 (1) take (2) require (3) jump (4) stands (5) call
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