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This quiz consists of questions from
various Banking entrance exams held during the last few years. Leave your
answers/ responses in the comments section below and we’ll soon let you know
the correct answers!

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

There once was a time when people thought of the
environment, they though of its beauty. 
But now as the natural beauty of the earth ….(1)…. many people around
the world have ….(2)…. up to the realities of just how fragile our earth
actually is.  Central to this issue is
pollution, which involves the introduction of ….(3)…. substances into the air,
land and water.  Although pollution has
been occurring ….(4)…. the earth’s history, the rate by which the human species
have ….(5)…. to the amount of pollution that has entered our environment over
the ….(6)…. so many years far ….(7)…. the earth’s inherent ability to heal
itself.

Alongwith pollution, mass deforestation has
also ….(8)…. a growing problem to the health of our environment.  The ….(9)…. of forests without sufficient
reforestation has gradually worn down nature’s natural defense against air
pollution, desertification and soil nutrient loss.  This loss has reached to a point that we are
now ….(10)…. a world in the near future without tress, which would ultimately
mean a world without people.

1. 
(1) disappears         (2) demolishes        (3) stops                 (4) destroys          (5) remains

2. 
(1) backed               (2) built                    (3) broken                 (4) woken             (5) realized

3. 
(1) adverse             (2) evil                      (3) insecure              (4) worse             (5) harmful

4. 
(1) never                (2) throughout         (3) always                 (4) forever             (5) everywhere

5. 
(1) evolved             (2) promoted  
      (3) contributed         (4) encouraged     (5) imparted

6. 
(1) recent                (2) ancient    
         (3) departed              (4) past                 (5)
coming

7. 
(1) exceeds              (2) outnumbers      (3)
continues           (4) expands            (5) matches

8. 
(1) answered          (2) comprise          (3) posed                  (4) solved              (5) resulted

9. 
(1) expansion         (2) finishing          (3) withdraw             (4) missing              (5) cutting

10. 
(1) expressing       (2) facing             (3) overcoming            (4) venturing         (5) wishing

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Answers 

1(1)    2(4)    3(5)   
4(2)    5(3)      6(4)    
7(1)      8(3)     9(5)     
10(2)