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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 several
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.

           Rural
healthcare in India is (1) by a huge gap between supply and demand.
Currently, rural healthcare needs are (2) either by limited government
facilities and private nursing homes, which have not been able to keep pace
with increasing demand (3) by a number of quacks who practice medicine
in rural areas. The quality of infrastructure is usually poor and people (4)
up having to go to nearby large cities if they need high quality care. Rural
India deserves better, since the ability to pay has gone up over the last few
years, driven by growth in income and penetration of government healthcare
programs. Increasing demand (5) with the failure of existing
infrastructure to scale, has resulted in rural healthcare (6) a large
under- served market. The absence of a viable business model (7)
conversion of the huge rural expenditure on health into an economic activity
that generates incomes and (8) the poor. It is this (9) that
entrepreneurs are looking to (10).

1.   (1)
performed         (2) displayed          (3) furthered        (4) characterized               (5) made

2.   (1) stopped
             (2)
met             (3) elevated           (4) discussed                         (5) set

3.  (1)
also                     (2) nor                (3) but              (4) or             (5) and

4.  (1) end                 (2) give                  (3) fed               (4) start          (5)
set

5.  (1)
couple           (2) combined       (3) mentioning       (4) engaged                          (5) resulting

6.  (1)
become        (2) happening       (3) being        (4) exists        ( 5) is

7.  (1) to            (2) makes          (3) so           (4) ceasing          (5) prevents

8.  (1)
generates       (2) supplies       (3) lists         (4) turns         (5) serves

9.  (1) gap             (2) truth         (3) progress          (4) catastrophes      (5) divides

10. (1)
fills            (2) access             (3) plug             (4) form             (5) distance

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Answers 

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