Questions

The sentences given with blanks are to be filled with an appropriate word(s). Four alternatives are suggested for each question. For each question, choose the correct alternative and click the button corresponding to it.

Your opening paragraph should __________ the reader's attention.

Read the following passage carefully and choose the most appropriate answer to the question out of the four alternatives.

The public sector banks are witnessing in india a period of transition and are at crossroads, where they without giving up social responsibility, should also remain healthy. They need to undertake risky experiments yet perform it innovatively in a way it does not fail. They should make forays into new areas which are rarely tread by them and lose no emerging opportunities. It should be understood that absence of any bad advance is no sign of efficient banking system. It only indicates immense conservatism. However this is no guarantee for profit. There should be a balance between liquidity and risk. Past sins should be forgotten. Novel and pragmatic techniques should be adopted without which banks would be in danger.

What would happen if novel and pragmatic techniques are ignored?

Cuscuta is an example of

Which state in India has the longest coastline?

In the following question, out of the four alternatives, select the alternative which is the best substitute of the phrase.

That which cannot be put out

Persons with type AB blood are sometimes called universal donors.

Improve the bracketed part of the sentence.
When I first saw Ankit, he (was playing) cricket.

In the following question, out of the four alternatives, select the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the idiom/phrase.
Damp squib