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Question 1

Direction: In the following passage, there are blanks each of which has been numbered. These numbers correspond to the question numbers; against each question, five words have been suggested, one of which fills the blanks appropriately.    

Traditional bank architecture is based on bank branches. These branches ensure the physical (1) of a customer’s savings. A customer may go there to deposit and withdraw money, (2) loans and (3) other financial transactions. In the past two decades banking architecture has changed. The Automated Teller Machine (ATM) has been a big (4) and credit and debit cards have created new financial spaces. (5) the bank branch has remained the bedrock of the banking system-after all a person needs a bank account in a branch before he can operate a debit or ATM card. This may change as technocrats now (6) cell phones as the new architecture of virtual banks. This has the potential to make branches (7). Cell phone banking looks especially relevant for India since it can penetrate the countryside cheaply and (8). The world over cell phones is spearing at a (9) rate and in India alone, new cell phone connections are growing at the rate of six million a month, a rate of customer (10) that no bank can dream of.
Find out the appropriate word in each case.

Question 2

Direction: In the following passage, there are blanks each of which has been numbered. These numbers correspond to the question numbers; against each question, five words have been suggested, one of which fills the blanks appropriately.    

Traditional bank architecture is based on bank branches. These branches ensure the physical (1) of a customer’s savings. A customer may go there to deposit and withdraw money, (2) loans and (3) other financial transactions. In the past two decades banking architecture has changed. The Automated Teller Machine (ATM) has been a big (4) and credit and debit cards have created new financial spaces. (5) the bank branch has remained the bedrock of the banking system-after all a person needs a bank account in a branch before he can operate a debit or ATM card. This may change as technocrats now (6) cell phones as the new architecture of virtual banks. This has the potential to make branches (7). Cell phone banking looks especially relevant for India since it can penetrate the countryside cheaply and (8). The world over cell phones is spearing at a (9) rate and in India alone, new cell phone connections are growing at the rate of six million a month, a rate of customer (10) that no bank can dream of.
Find out the appropriate word in each case.

Question 3

Direction: In the following passage, there are blanks each of which has been numbered. These numbers correspond to the question numbers; against each question, five words have been suggested, one of which fills the blanks appropriately.    

Traditional bank architecture is based on bank branches. These branches ensure the physical (1) of a customer’s savings. A customer may go there to deposit and withdraw money, (2) loans and (3) other financial transactions. In the past two decades banking architecture has changed. The Automated Teller Machine (ATM) has been a big (4) and credit and debit cards have created new financial spaces. (5) the bank branch has remained the bedrock of the banking system-after all a person needs a bank account in a branch before he can operate a debit or ATM card. This may change as technocrats now (6) cell phones as the new architecture of virtual banks. This has the potential to make branches (7). Cell phone banking looks especially relevant for India since it can penetrate the countryside cheaply and (8). The world over cell phones is spearing at a (9) rate and in India alone, new cell phone connections are growing at the rate of six million a month, a rate of customer (10) that no bank can dream of.
Find out the appropriate word in each case.

Question 4

Direction: In the following passage, there are blanks each of which has been numbered. These numbers correspond to the question numbers; against each question, five words have been suggested, one of which fills the blanks appropriately.    

Traditional bank architecture is based on bank branches. These branches ensure the physical (1) of a customer’s savings. A customer may go there to deposit and withdraw money, (2) loans and (3) other financial transactions. In the past two decades banking architecture has changed. The Automated Teller Machine (ATM) has been a big (4) and credit and debit cards have created new financial spaces. (5) the bank branch has remained the bedrock of the banking system-after all a person needs a bank account in a branch before he can operate a debit or ATM card. This may change as technocrats now (6) cell phones as the new architecture of virtual banks. This has the potential to make branches (7). Cell phone banking looks especially relevant for India since it can penetrate the countryside cheaply and (8). The world over cell phones is spearing at a (9) rate and in India alone, new cell phone connections are growing at the rate of six million a month, a rate of customer (10) that no bank can dream of.
Find out the appropriate word in each case.

Question 5

Direction: In the following passage, there are blanks each of which has been numbered. These numbers correspond to the question numbers; against each question, five words have been suggested, one of which fills the blanks appropriately.    

Traditional bank architecture is based on bank branches. These branches ensure the physical (1) of a customer’s savings. A customer may go there to deposit and withdraw money, (2) loans and (3) other financial transactions. In the past two decades banking architecture has changed. The Automated Teller Machine (ATM) has been a big (4) and credit and debit cards have created new financial spaces. (5) the bank branch has remained the bedrock of the banking system-after all a person needs a bank account in a branch before he can operate a debit or ATM card. This may change as technocrats now (6) cell phones as the new architecture of virtual banks. This has the potential to make branches (7). Cell phone banking looks especially relevant for India since it can penetrate the countryside cheaply and (8). The world over cell phones is spearing at a (9) rate and in India alone, new cell phone connections are growing at the rate of six million a month, a rate of customer (10) that no bank can dream of.
Find out the appropriate word in each case.

Question 6

Direction: In the following passage, there are blanks each of which has been numbered. These numbers correspond to the question numbers; against each question, five words have been suggested, one of which fills the blanks appropriately.    

Traditional bank architecture is based on bank branches. These branches ensure the physical (1) of a customer’s savings. A customer may go there to deposit and withdraw money, (2) loans and (3) other financial transactions. In the past two decades banking architecture has changed. The Automated Teller Machine (ATM) has been a big (4) and credit and debit cards have created new financial spaces. (5) the bank branch has remained the bedrock of the banking system-after all a person needs a bank account in a branch before he can operate a debit or ATM card. This may change as technocrats now (6) cell phones as the new architecture of virtual banks. This has the potential to make branches (7). Cell phone banking looks especially relevant for India since it can penetrate the countryside cheaply and (8). The world over cell phones is spearing at a (9) rate and in India alone, new cell phone connections are growing at the rate of six million a month, a rate of customer (10) that no bank can dream of.
Find out the appropriate word in each case.

Question 7

Direction: In the following passage, there are blanks each of which has been numbered. These numbers correspond to the question numbers; against each question, five words have been suggested, one of which fills the blanks appropriately.    

Traditional bank architecture is based on bank branches. These branches ensure the physical (1) of a customer’s savings. A customer may go there to deposit and withdraw money, (2) loans and (3) other financial transactions. In the past two decades banking architecture has changed. The Automated Teller Machine (ATM) has been a big (4) and credit and debit cards have created new financial spaces. (5) the bank branch has remained the bedrock of the banking system-after all a person needs a bank account in a branch before he can operate a debit or ATM card. This may change as technocrats now (6) cell phones as the new architecture of virtual banks. This has the potential to make branches (7). Cell phone banking looks especially relevant for India since it can penetrate the countryside cheaply and (8). The world over cell phones is spearing at a (9) rate and in India alone, new cell phone connections are growing at the rate of six million a month, a rate of customer (10) that no bank can dream of.
Find out the appropriate word in each case.

Question 8

Direction: In the following passage, there are blanks each of which has been numbered. These numbers correspond to the question numbers; against each question, five words have been suggested, one of which fills the blanks appropriately.    

Traditional bank architecture is based on bank branches. These branches ensure the physical (1) of a customer’s savings. A customer may go there to deposit and withdraw money, (2) loans and (3) other financial transactions. In the past two decades banking architecture has changed. The Automated Teller Machine (ATM) has been a big (4) and credit and debit cards have created new financial spaces. (5) the bank branch has remained the bedrock of the banking system-after all a person needs a bank account in a branch before he can operate a debit or ATM card. This may change as technocrats now (6) cell phones as the new architecture of virtual banks. This has the potential to make branches (7). Cell phone banking looks especially relevant for India since it can penetrate the countryside cheaply and (8). The world over cell phones is spearing at a (9) rate and in India alone, new cell phone connections are growing at the rate of six million a month, a rate of customer (10) that no bank can dream of.
Find out the appropriate word in each case.

Question 9

Direction: In the following passage, there are blanks each of which has been numbered. These numbers correspond to the question numbers; against each question, five words have been suggested, one of which fills the blanks appropriately.    

Traditional bank architecture is based on bank branches. These branches ensure the physical (1) of a customer’s savings. A customer may go there to deposit and withdraw money, (2) loans and (3) other financial transactions. In the past two decades banking architecture has changed. The Automated Teller Machine (ATM) has been a big (4) and credit and debit cards have created new financial spaces. (5) the bank branch has remained the bedrock of the banking system-after all a person needs a bank account in a branch before he can operate a debit or ATM card. This may change as technocrats now (6) cell phones as the new architecture of virtual banks. This has the potential to make branches (7). Cell phone banking looks especially relevant for India since it can penetrate the countryside cheaply and (8). The world over cell phones is spearing at a (9) rate and in India alone, new cell phone connections are growing at the rate of six million a month, a rate of customer (10) that no bank can dream of.
Find out the appropriate word in each case.

Question 10

Direction: In the following passage, there are blanks each of which has been numbered. These numbers correspond to the question numbers; against each question, five words have been suggested, one of which fills the blanks appropriately.    

Traditional bank architecture is based on bank branches. These branches ensure the physical (1) of a customer’s savings. A customer may go there to deposit and withdraw money, (2) loans and (3) other financial transactions. In the past two decades banking architecture has changed. The Automated Teller Machine (ATM) has been a big (4) and credit and debit cards have created new financial spaces. (5) the bank branch has remained the bedrock of the banking system-after all a person needs a bank account in a branch before he can operate a debit or ATM card. This may change as technocrats now (6) cell phones as the new architecture of virtual banks. This has the potential to make branches (7). Cell phone banking looks especially relevant for India since it can penetrate the countryside cheaply and (8). The world over cell phones is spearing at a (9) rate and in India alone, new cell phone connections are growing at the rate of six million a month, a rate of customer (10) that no bank can dream of.
Find out the appropriate word in each case.

Question 11

Direction: Read the sentence to find out whether there is an error in it. The error, if any, will be in one part of the sentence. The number corresponding to that part will be your answer. If the given sentence is correct as given, mark option E, i.e. "No error" as the answer. Ignore the errors of punctuation. 
The Government administration is required to undergo (1)/ a radicle (2)/ transformation (3)/ for better service orientation. (4)

Question 12

Direction: Read the sentence to find out whether there is any error in it. The error, if any, will be in one part of the sentence. The number of that part is the answer. If the given sentence is correct, the answer is E, i.e., "No error". Ignore errors of punctuation, if any.
We have (1)/ standard accounting procedures (2)/ that are on the line (3)/ with the internationally accepted norms. (4)

Question 13

Direction: Read the sentence to find out whether there is any error in it. The error, if any, will be in one part of the sentence. The number of that part is the answer. If the given sentence is correct, the answer is E, i.e., "No error". Ignore errors of punctuation, if any.
Our country's performance (1)/in the last few national and international games (2)/ has been fairly ordinary (3)/ and below our stature. (4)

Question 14

Direction: Each question below has two blanks, each click indicating that something has been omitted. Choose the set of words for each blank that best fits the meaning of the sentence as a whole.
Skeptics would not ________ that the earth actually moves, let alone that it ________ around the sun.

Question 15

Direction:In the following question, out of the given alternatives, select the idiom/phrase similar in meaning to the given word/phrase.
Between a rock and a hard place

Question 16

Direction:In the following question, out of the given alternatives, select the idiom/phrase similar in meaning to the given word/phrase.
Out of the woods

Question 17

Direction: In the following question, out of the given alternatives, select the idiom/phrase similar in meaning to the given word/phrase.

On one's knees

Question 18

Direction: In the following question, out of the given alternatives, select the idiom/phrase similar in meaning to the given word/phrase.
Break the back of something

Question 19

Direction: Each sentence below has two blanks, each blank indicating that something has been omitted. Choose the set of words for each blank that best fits the meaning of the sentence as a whole.
Despite a growing______________ that a lot needs to be done to help those without clean water, a ____________ says that more than 34 million people die every year of water borne diseases.

Question 20

Direction: Each question below has two blanks, each blank indicating that something has been omitted. Choose the set of words for each blanks that best fits the meaning of the sentence as a whole
Helen quickly _______ the career ladder and is now the _________ managing director, the company has ever appointed.
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