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This quiz consists of questions from
various Banking entrance exams held during the last few years. Leave your
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Directions (Q. Nos. 1-8) 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. People discovered the alternate sources
of energy when fossil fuel reserves starts
to deplete.
(a)
start to deplete
(b)
starting to deplete
(c)
started to deplete
(d)
start with deplete
(e)
No correction required
2. Despite its attractiveness, investing
abroad is being risky owing to the
shortage of regulations to protect investors.
(a)
might be risk
(b)
have been risky
(c)
can be as risky as
(d)
can be risky
(e)
No correction required
3. The new air fare allows both an adult
and a child to fly for the price of one ticket, in order to encouraging travellers during summer.
(a)
encourage travellers during summer
(b)
encourages travellers is summer
(c)
encourage travellers on summer
(d)
encouraged travellers during summer
(e)
No correction required
4. According to a court ruling, the owner
of polluted land is liable for the clean up of the property even if the owner did not have the responsibility of that
pollution.
(a)
is not responsible for
(b)
responsibility is not there for
(c)
did have the responsibility of
(d)
has not been in charge of
(e)
No correction required
5. Some research studies indicate that
among distinguished artists, the rate of depression is ten times as prevalent as in the population at
large.
(a)
more than prevalent in the
(b)
more prevalent as comparing
(c)
as prevalent when comparative
(d)
more prevalent than the
(e)
No correction required
6. House flies that hatch in summer live
only about three weeks, but they who hatch during winter live longer than six months.
(a)
but those who
(b)
than those
(c)
than they who
(d)
but those that
(e)
No correction required
7. In the last 50 years, many people have
changed their preference from cars
to sports vehicles.
(a)
their preference to
(b)
their preferencing from
(c)
there preference from
(d)
their preferring to
(e)
No correction required
8. 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.
(a)
cuts against the atmosphere
(b)
cuts the atmosphere
(c)
cuts through the atmosphere
(d)
cutting on the atmosphere
(e)
No correction required
Directions (Q. Nos. 9-10) 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.
9. Biological clocks are of ……… adaptive
value to animals since it ……… nervous and physiological functions of the body.
(a)
immense, assumes
(b)
great, regulates
(c)
ultimate, created
(d)
high, engulfs
(e)
no, governs
10. Each occupation has its own ……;
bankers, lawyers and computer professionals, for example all use among
themselves ……… that outsiders find difficult to follow.
(a)
merits, incidents
(b)
disadvantages, methods
(c)
rewards, endearment
(d)
jargon, language
(e)
problems, fundamentals
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Answers
1(c) 2(d) 3(a)
4(a) 5(a) 6(d)
7(e) 8(c) 9(b)
10(d)