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This quiz consists of questions from various Banking
entrance exams papers of previous years. Leave your answers/responses in the
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Directions (Q. 1-11): 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.

           Prima
facie, there is much cause (1) cheer. Provisional data gleaned from the
latest Census (2) that India’s literacy level has soared: India’s
effective literacy rate jumped from 9.2% to (3) 74.04%.

           Significantly, literacy rate improved
sharply among females compared (4) males. Thus, while effective literacy
rate for males rose from 75.26% to 82.14%-a rise of 6.9%- literacy rates for
females climbed from 53.67% to 65.4870, an 11.8% increase.

            That
is (5) news indeed. But this data masks a few worrying concerns. First,
the data relates to effective literacy, and (6) literacy. Measuring effective
literacy in India means (7) anyone who can read and write his or her own
name. (8), if Ram knows how to read and write the three letters of his
name, and Sita knows how to (9) and write the four letters of her name,
they get included in the (10) of effective literates. This is not the
way developed countries (11) literacy.

1.    (1) of                    (2) at      
           (3)
upon          (4) for     
              (5) off

2.   (1) show              (2) speak  
          (3) site            (4) seek                (5)
strive

3.  (1) cross               (2) decline           (3) reach         (4) increase         (5) double

4.  (1) to                    (2)
against            (3) for             (4) of                     (5) at

5.  (1)
worrying        (2) expected         (3) new          (4) old            (5) heartening

6.  (1) also               (2) nor     
            (3) not           (4) ineffective        (5) masked

7.  (1)
excluding       (2) rejecting        (3)
encouraging        (4) including    

(5) subjecting

8.  (1)
Since           (2) Thus     
           (3) There    
    (4) Provided             (5)
Even

9.  (1)
speak             (2) say               (3) tell              (4)
read                     (5) point

10.  (1)
process            (2) dynamic             (3) style             (4) development         (5) category

11.  (1)
reduce            (2) increase            (3) enhance       (4) entertain     

 (5) define

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Answers 

1(4)   
2(1)    3(3)    4(1)   
5(5)      6(3)     7(4)     
8(2)     9(4)      10(5)     
11(5)