ENGLISH QUIZ - 12

                                             English Quiz For AAO | Bank Exams 

Directions (Q.1 - 15): In the following passage at certain points, you are given a choice of four words marked as (a), (b), (c) and (d). Choose the best word out of these four.

Our scientific spirit must be shocked not only by the (1)......of fabulous (2)......and (3)......poverty, but also by those of intense holiness and (4)......superstition. In our relations with one another, we have (5)......to apply scientific and social wisdom. The failure is (6).......large (7)....  our society. Some social (8).......like untouchability are (9)......simply because the spirit in us is oppressed by the force of (10)....... . These are practiced by (11).......kind persons, who have ceased to feel and whose understanding is (12).......any tradition. There are millions in our country today who use scientific (13)...... and yet (14).......superstition as mystical revelation and adhere to absurd social customs (15).....the name of tradition. 

1.

a) phenomenon 

b) contrasts 

c) existence

d) comparison 

2. 

a) property 

b) prosperity

c) resources

d) wealth

3. 

a) common

b) rampant

c) grovelling

d) growing

4. 

a) religious

b) blind

c) popular

d) prevailing

5. 

a) attempted

b) refused

c) succeeded

d) failed

6.

a) writ

b) written

c) wrought

d) wrapped

7.

a) in

b) on

c) among

d) for

8.

a) abuses

b) ceremonies

c) function

d) obligations

9.

a) allowed

b) approved

c) tolerated

d) resisted

10.

a) opinion

b) habit

c) society

d) custom

11.

a) fairly

b) very

c) otherwise

d) somewhat

12.

a) stupefied

b) sanctioned

c) subsidized

d) substantiated

13.

a) discoveries

b) devices

c) apparatus

d) machines

14.

a) consider

b) decry

c) declare

d) revere

15.

a) on

b) for

c) in

d) with

Answers: C - C - D - A - D
               A - B - A - C - B
               A - B - B - A - C