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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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the correct answers!

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 are suggested, one of which best fits the
blank appropriately. Find out the appropriate word in each case.

    Twenty years (1) now, nearly 60% of the world’s
population will live in urban areas. The impact of urbanization might not all
be positive on India as urban expansion is happening at a much (2) rate than
infrastructure expansion.

     Sustainability
issues need to be (3) so that economic development is not at the (4) of public
health. Some urban services that ought to be in (5) in a city like water,
electricity, transport etc. need special consideration.

    TERI has put together
a detailed report that (6) sustainability in the provision of basic urban
services in Indian cities.

     (7)
public transport is a major reason for the proliferation of private vehicles on
the road. Respiratory illness in children living in urban areas is on the (8)
with more cases of Asthma being (9) because of pollution. The future of cities
of Indian dreams depends on (10) we can build better cities today.

1.

(a) till

(b) since

(c) from

(d) after

(e) on

2.

(a) faster

(b) slower

(c) changed

(d) speed

(e) quick

3.

(a) speculated

(b) believed

(c) imagined

(d) considered

(e) understand

4.

(a) payment

(b) rate

(c) costs

(d) charge

(e) expense

5.

(a) abundance

(b) large

(c) functional

(d) vicinity

(e) location

6.

(a) bring

(b) emphasizes

(c) speculates

(d) postulates

(e) requests

7.

(a) good

(b) competent

(c) absence

(d) inadequate

(e) sufficient

8.

(a) multiplication

(b) expansion

(c) rise

(d) inflation

(e) grow

9.

(a) produced

(b) develop

(c) composed

(d) resulted

(e) reported

10.

(a) if

(b) whether

(c) unless

(d) provided

(e) weather

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Answers 

1(c)    2(a)    3(d)   
4(e)    5(a)      6(b)    
7(d)      8(c)     9(e)     
10(b)