Thursday, July 2, 2015

Banking Pathway 2015 : English (Mix Quiz)

Directions (Q. 1-10): In the following passage, some of the words have been left out, each of which is indicated by a number. Find the suitable word from the options given against each number and fill up the blanks with appropriate words to make the paragraph meaningful.

The strength of a personal history lies in human detail. The effortless, if understated, descriptions of an elite in a mode of (1) will leave you reeling: judicial (2) where (3) like Justices Bhagwati and Chandrachud caved in (4), the pathetic (5) of almost all Congress politicians, the zeal of civil servants like Navin Chawla who, while being personally (6), fed Sanjay Gandhi’s most destructive institutional tendencies. LK Advani recently said that there had been no (7) for the Emergency. He was stating a deep truth. Not only have very few of the participants admitted their mistake, but, (8) a large number of them, there was also no mistake. They (9) slipped into whatever role the state assigned them, and slipped out when circumstances changed. This is, in part, because social networks (10) all differences of principle.

1.  
1) accomplice
2) complicity
3) ignorance
4) innocence
5) absolve

2.
1) mendacious
2) mendicant
3) mendaciousness
4) truthfulness
5) tenaciousness

3. 
1) disvalue
2) demerit
3) lowland
4) eminences
5) paucity

4. 
1) atrocity
2) atrociousness
3) atrociously
4) horridness
5) repugnant

5. 
1) feebleness
2) invigorate
3) enfeeblement
4) attenuate
5) desiccate

6. 
1) gracious
2) uncongenial
3) courteousness
4) discourteous
5) churlishness

7. 
1) censure
2) repudiation
3) apology
4) indictment
5) defiance

8. 
1) on
2) in
3) with
4) by 
5) for

9. 
1) tiresomely
2) tediously
3) effortlessly
4) banally
5) tedium

10. 
1) elapse
2) surmount
3) surmountable
4) transcended
5) transgress

DIRECTIONS (Q. 11-15): In each one of the following sentences, there are two blank spaces. Below each sentence, there are five pairs of words denoted by numbers (1), (2), (3), (4) and (5). Find out which pair of words can be filled up in the blanks .n the sentence in the same sequence to make it, meaningfully complete.

11. He advised his son not doing anything which is against his conscience.
1) never to do  
2) not done
3) to not doing  
4) no doing of 
5) No correction required

12. Even after talking the matter for hours we could not arrive at a decision.
1) talking to  
2) talking over
3) talked about  
4) talk through
5) No correction required

13. Every employee is entitled to those beneļ¬ts from the late regulations.
1) underneath the later 
2) below the latest 
3) within the lately 
4) under the latest
5) No correction required

14.Recently there has been suddenly increased the price of oil.
1) suddenly increasing 
2) sudden increase from
3) a sudden increase in 
4) increased suddenly 
5) No correction required

15.That company is our rival since it provides similar services to ours in a lowest rate. 
1) with lowest of rate  
2) in low rates 
3) for as lower rates  
4) at lower rates
5) No correction required

Answers..

1. (2)
2. (3)
3. (4)
4. (3)
5. (3)
6. (1)
7. (3)
8. (5)
9. (3)
10. (4)
11. (1)
12. (2)
13. (4)
14. (3)
15. (4)

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