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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
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Directions (Q. 1-15):  In the following passage there are blanks,
each of which has been lettered. These letters are printed below the passage
and against each, five words are suggested, one of which fits the blank
appropriately without changing its meaning. Find out the appropriate word in
each case.

Many kinds of insects are (1) and larger animals learn to (2) eating them. It is in the (3)
of these insects to show a (4) flag
of some kind. The typical wasp, for example (5) a conspicuous colour pattern of black and yellow (6) on its body. This is (7) distinctive that it is easy for a (8) animal to remember it. After a few
unfortunate experiences it quicly learns to (9) insects bearing this pattern. Other, unrelated, poisonous
insect species may also carry a similar pattern. They become members of what
has been called a ”warning club’.

The important point for us, in the present (10) is that some harmless species of
insects have taken (11) of this
system by developing colour patterns similar to those of the poisonous members of
the ‘warning club’. Certain innocuous flies, for instance, (12) black and yellow bands on their bodies that mimic the colour
patterns of the wasps. By becoming (13)
members of the ‘warning club’ they reap the benefits without having to (14) any real poison. The killers dare
not attack them, even though they would, in reality, make a (15) meal.

1.  (a)
flying                (b) conspicuous        (c) vulnerable        (d) big          (e) poisonous

2.  (a)
desist               (b) adjust                 (c)
prefer             (d) avoid             (e)
nurture

3.  (a)
habit                 (b) interest             (c)
goodwill          (d) welfare         (e) help

4.  (a)
dangerous       (b) ambiguous         (c) warning          (d) coloured      (e) safety

5.  (a)
reveal              (b)
paints                 (c)
flashes              (d)
carried         (e) loaded

6.  (a)
bands             (b)
pieces                  (c) paint                  (d) colours       (e) clothes

 7.  (a) so                   (b)
extremely           (c) normally             (d) too              (e) very

8.  (a)
bold               (b)
pray                     (c) chased           (d) predatory  (e) hunted

9.  (a)
hate               (b) love                    (c)
approach           (d) abstain    (e) avoid

10.  (a)
text              (b) premise             (c)
context                 (d) day          (e) view

11.  (a)
profit             (b) yield                (c) disadvantage          (d) ride         (e) advantage

12.  (a)
display            (b) indicates         (c) announce             (d) weal           (e) bears

13.  (a)
unregistered    (b) fake            (c) honorary           (d) sycophant     (e) original

14.  (a)
transport         (b) inject            (c) possess                (d) earn        (e) load

15.  (a)
troublesome       (b) delicious            (c) indigestible           (d) hazardous          (e) cheap

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Answers 

1(e)   
2(d)    3(a)    4(c)  
 5(a)      6(a)    
7(a)      8(d)     9(e)     
10(c)    11(e)     12(a)    
13(b)     14(c)      15(b)