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Bank English Practice Test-1

Directions (Q. 1-10): 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/phrases are suggested, one of which fits the
blank appropriately. Find out appropriate word /phrase in each case.
Greenhouse gases are only (1) of the story when it comes to global warming.
Changes to one part of the climate climate system can (2) additional changes to the
way the planet absorbs or reflects energy. These secondary changes are (3) climate
feedbacks, and they could more than double the amount of warming caused by
carbon dioxide alone. The primary feebacks are (4) to snow and ice, water vapour,
clouds, and the carbon cycle.
Perhaps the most well (5) feedback comes from melting snow and ice in the
Northern Hemisphere. Warming temperatures are already (6) a growing percentage
of Arctic sea ice, exposing dark ocean water during the (7) sunlight of summer.
Snow cover on land is also (8) in many areas. In the (9) of snow and ice, these areas
go from having bright, sunlight-reflecting surfaces that cool the palnet to having
dark, sunlight-absorbing surface that (10)more enrgy into the Earth system and
cause more warming.
1. 1)whole
2)part
5)most
2. 1)raise
2)brings
5)cause
3. 1)sensed
2)called
5)term
4. 1)due
2)results
5)because
5. 1)done
2)known
5)said
6. 1)mastering 2)sending
7. 1)make-shift 2)ceasing
8. 1)dwindling 2)manufactured
5)supplied
9. 1)progress 2)reduced
5)absence
10.1)repel
2)waft
5)access

3)material

4)issue

3)refer
3)nothing
3)reason

4)stop
4)but
4)those

3)ruled

4)bestowed

3)melting
3)troubled
3)descending

4)calming
5)increasing
4)perpetual 5)absent
4)generating

3)existence

4)midst

3)monitor

4)bring

1)2, 2)5, 3)2, 4)1, 5)2, 6)3, 7)4, 8)1, 9)5, 10)4