Bank Exams Model Question Papers

TEST ?III :: ENGLISH LANGUAGE
 Directions (Qs. 81?90) : 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 are suggested, one of which fills the 
blank appropriately.  Find out the appropriate word in each 
case.
  Fourteen centuries ago when the world was 
much younger, the ruler of all India, Rajah Balhait, was 
??..(151) about his people.  A new game of dice, called 
hard, had  ???(152) the imagination of his subjects, 
teaching them that chance alone-a-roll of the dice guided 
the  ???(153) of men.  All who played this game of fortune 
lost their ???(155) in the virtues of courage, prudence, 
wisdom and hope.  It bred a fatalism that was  ???(155) the 
spirit of the kingdom. 
  Raja Balhait commissioned Sissa, an 
intelligent courter at his court to find an answer to this  
???(156)   After much  ???(157) the clever Sissa invented 
another game.  Chaturanga, the exact  ???(158) of hard, in 
which the four elements of the Indian army were the key 
pleces.  In the game these pieces-chariots, horses, 
elephants and foot soldiers-joined with a royal counselor 
to defend their king and defeat the enemy.  Forceful ???
(159) was demanded of the players?not luck.  Chaturanga 
soon became more popular than hard, and the  ???(160) to 
the Kingdom was over. 
 
81. (a) concerned 
 (b) confident
 (c) ignorant
 (d) indifferent
 (e) partisan
 Ans: ( a )  concerned
  
82. (a) propelled
 (b) enshrined
 (c) captured
 (d) activated
 (e) enhanced
 Ans: ( c )  captured
  
83. (a) communities
 (b) ways
 (c) abnormalities
 (d) destiny
 (e) groups
 Ans: ( d )  destiny
  
84. (a) bravado
 (b) interest
 (c) peace
 (d) wealth 
 (e) faith
 Ans: ( b )  interest
  
85. (a) appalling
 (b) crushing
 (c) moistening
 (d) promoting
 (e) overwhelming
 Ans: ( e )  overwhelming
  
86. (a) apprehension
 (b) risk
 (c) problem
 (d) game
 (e) destiny 
 Ans: ( e )  destiny
  
87. (a) deliberation
 (b) absorption
 (c) insight
 (d) hesitation
 (e) reluctance
 Ans: ( a )  deliberation
  
88. (a) nature
 (b) equivalent
 (c) picture
 (d) opposite
 (e) replica
 Ans: ( d )  opposite
  
89. (a) prediction
 (b) concentration
 (c) manipulation
 (d) attack
 (e) fortune 
 Ans: ( b )  concentration
 
90. (a) devastation
 (b) anxiety
 (c) impeachment
 (d) nuisance
 (e) threat 
 Ans: ( e )  threat