Dear readers,

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. 1-5) Each question 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.

1. Centre should …………. ministries whose functions
…………… with the state ministries to save money, deliver efficiency and avoid
duplication of work.

(a) finish, differ          

(b) establish, contradict         

(c) constitute, matches          

(d) abolish, overlap

(e) block,
vary

2. Many people …………… genetically modified food but the
reality is that all the food that we eat has been genetically modified
naturally by thousands of years of …………..

(a) praise, manipulation

(b) grow, mismanagement    

(c) criticize, farming  

(d) avoid, experience

(e) condemn, abuse

3. Given that only seven per cent of the country’s
labour force is in the organised sector, training options ………….. for the
unorganized sectors should also be …………….

(a) available, enhanced

(b) absent, improved 

(c) lacking, sustained 

(d) existing, restricted

(e) offered, limited

4. Government initiatives and participation of many
industrial houses in ………….. loans to the villagers have led to the …………… of the
farmers.

(a) providing, plight

(b) disbursing, betterment     

(c) denying, revitalization      

(d) subsidizing, suffering

(e) taking, advancement

5. Indians will …………… one-fourth of total work force
in the next five years but India needs to introspect whether its education
system is …………. for these demographic dividends.

(1) become, adequate

(b) consist, incompetent        

(c) constitute, unequipped     

(d) represent, sound

(e) comprise, prepared

Directions (Q. 6-10) Which of the phrases (1), (2),
(3) and (4) given below each statement should replace the phrase printed in
bold in the sentence to make it grammatically correct?  If the sentence is correct as it is given and
“No correction is required”, mark (5) as the answer.

6. A twenty-first century economy cannot be held hostage by power cuts nor travel on nineteenth
century roads.

(a) cannot be hold

(b) can either be held

(c) can neither be held

(d) can either be hold

(e) No correction required

7. The company’s philosophy is to make sure that the
employees are happy, have the ability to be intellectually stimulated and contributes towards their growth.

(a)
contribute to their growth

(b)
contribute towards its growth

(c)
contributes towards its growing

(d)
contribute to its growing

(e) No
correction required

8. Even though
many companies are now penetrating rural India, it would help to give India
a real chance of witnessing a double digit GDP growth.

(a) despite
many companies are

(b) as many
company is

(c) besides
many companies are

(d) since,
many companies are

(e) No
correction required

9. Today, governments are introducing more and more
technology into their system to address the needs of citizens at a pace fast then that of manual operations.

(a) faster
than that of

(b) faster
than those for

(c) fast
than that for

(d) more
than that in

(e) No
correction required

10. Making good school education a reality would require major changes in existing
school system with expansion at both secondary and elementary levels.

(a) should
requires major changes

(b) would
requires major change

(c) must
require some changes

(d) require
major changes

(e) No
correction required

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Answers 

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