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This quiz consists of actual questions from various
Banking entrance exams held during the last few years. Leave your answers/
responses in the comments section below and soon we’ll 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/phrases are suggested, one of which fits
the blank appropriately. Find out the appropriate word/phrase in each case.

           Can
an experiment conceived, carried out, and reported in kids-speak with
pencil-coloured figures and hand-written tables by schoolchildren aged 8 to 10
years get published in a highly rated international journal following a
peer-reviewing process? Twenty-seven school children from a primary school in
UK have proved this is (1) if a simple but novel scientific question
raised is (2) in a scientific way. Their paper was published in the
Royal Society’s Biology Letters journal. Their (3) was that bumble-bees
can use a “combination of colour and spatial relationships in deciding which
colour of flower to forage from.” Considering that our understanding of
how bees perceive coloured patterns and scenes is inadequate, this inspiring outcome
has shown that schoolchildren guided by gifted teachers can think and (4)
out experiments like any hard-wired scientist. For these kids, doing science
changed their (5) of the subject. Science also became “cool and
fun.” This refreshing approach turns the spotlight on the best methods of
teaching science. The (6) learning system adopted by most schools in
India, even classroom study combined with some laboratory work with pre-defined
outcomes, does very little to (7) curiosity and interest in science. Is
that one of the (8) why out-of-the-box thinking that produces
path-breaking science rarely comes out of Indian laboratories? The children at
the UK school had their gifted teacher to guide them. Scientists from India’s
space and atomic energy departments and in some other places where serious
science is done can take a (9) out of the school’s book and (10)
the way in engaging with school pupils and getting them to do real science.

1. (1) done        
           (2) unlikely       (3)
potential            (4) promising            (5) possible

2. (1) questioned      
 (2) said               (3)
retorted              (4)
answered           (5)
address

3. (1) question             (2) finding         (3)
methodology     (4) result                   (5) studies

4. (1) wage                   (2) create          (3) execute                (4) carry                  (5) attempt

5. (1) option                (2) lives              (3) visual                   (4) demands            (5) perception

6. (1) revolutionary      (2) radical          (3) rote                 (4) adequate              (5) bore

7. (1) stimulate       
     (2) simulate       (3) make              (4)
peek                       (5) judge

8. (1) cause                   (2)
root                (3) reasons          (4) issues                   (5) sources

9. (1) thread                 (2) leaf                (3) example          (4) look                       (5)
pages

10 (1) lead           
       (2)
start                (3) deliver            (4) paved                    (5) ahead

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Answers 

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