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) Which of the phrases (1), (2), (3)
and (4) given below each sentence should replace the phrase given in bold in
the following sentence to make the sentence is correct as it is and “No
correction is required”, mark (5) as the answer.

1. After enjoying one of the biggest successes of Indian
cinema, the actor is pulled the brakes on his career.

(a) has putting brake

(b) has  pulled the
brakes

(c) is braking

(d) is put brakes

(e) No correction required

2. Many of our tinsel town beauties will hit the panic button if they didn’t have at least one movie in
hand.

(a) would hit panicky buttons

(b) would hit the panic button

(c) will be hitting panic buttons

(d) have hit panicky button

(e) No correction required

3. Alarm to declining marriage figures and increasing divorce rates, the government has
come up with a novel way to tackle the issue.

(a) Alarmingly on

(b) Alarming as

(c) Alarms with

(d) Alarmed by

(e) No correction required

4. The two sisters dropped
in to watch the film with none other than their father.

(a) dropping in for

(b) dropped by as

(c) drop on to

(d) dropped in for

(e) No correction required

5. The researchers found that children with lung disease are at increase risk for developing a
second type of pneumonia.

(a) were at increased risk

(b) is increasingly risking

(c) is  increased
risky

(d) are increasingly risky

(e) No correction required

Directions (Q. 6-10) Each question below has two blanks,
each blank indicating that something has been omitted.  Choose the set of words for each blank which
best fits the meaning of the sentence as a whole.

6. What goes into
making a marriage can only be ……… by trial and error and couples are best left
to ……. out what works.

(a) discovered, translate

(b) regulated, find

(c) learnt, figure

(d) seen, thrash

(e) experienced, judge

7. The producer
is known to ………. With new stars and fresh talent and though there have been a
few hits and misses, this filmmaker totally ……… for the new breed.

(a) try, demands

(b) experiment, vouches

(c) sign, goes

(d) produce, promises

(e) work, supports

8. The Government
stated that it has the ……. right to use as much force as was necessary to
regain control of areas ……… by terrorists.

(a) free, marked

(b) practical, left

(c) fundamental, infest

(d) basic, undertaken

(e) legitimate, dominated

9. Obesity and
alcohol ……. together to …….. the risk of liver disease in both men and women.

(a) act, increase

(b) result, aggravate

(c) taken, arrest

(d) put, heighten

(e) mix, lower

10. There were
screams, chills and thrills …….. at the discotheque the other night as the
director along with the producers hosted a party to ……… the success of their
latest horror flick.

(a) combined, downplay

(b) alike, mourn

(c) experiences, mark

(d) galore, celebrate

(e) risen, generate

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Answers 

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