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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.

In addition to being socially responsible, what does the author want the banks to be.

The question below consists of a set of labelled sentences. These sentences, when properly sequenced form a coherent paragraph. Select the most logical order of sentences from among the options.

P: While it is good to see SEBI taking a serious view of leaks and initiating suo motu action, bringing the perpetrators to book through such old-fashioned methods 0may be an uphill task.
Q: But recent episodes of suspected insider trading through WhatsApp groups, in which analysts shared prescient tip-offs about upcoming results for top listed companies, reveals that the framework remains porous.
R: The Ministry of Corporate Affairs and the Securities Exchange Board of India (SEBI) have lately redoubled their efforts to put in place a water-tight governance framework for listed firms.
S: Initiating a probe into this episode, SEBI has interrogated analysts, conducted raids on stock brokers and deployed search-and-seizure powers to confiscate laptops and mobile phones.

Out of the four alternatives, choose the one which can be substituted for the given words/sentences and click the button corresponding to it.

One who tends to patronize, rebuff or ignore people regarded as social inferiors and imitate, admire people regarded as social superiors

In the following questions, the sentence given with blank to be filled in with an appropriate word. Select the correct alternative out of the four and indicate it by selecting the appropriate option.

Language, they say, is the _____ through which human beings perceive the world. If so, English is perhaps the most _____ lens through which to see animals. It has _____ a cross eyed view of birds, beasts, fish and fowl. The very word “animal” can _____ the brutish and the sensual. Animal _____ imply baseness and vulgarity.
It has _____ a cross eyed view of birds, beasts, fish and fowl.

If a perfectly competitive firm can increase its profits by increasing its output, then that firm's product's _____.

In the following question, the sentence given with blank to be filled in with an appropriate word. Select the correct alternative out of the four and indicate it by selecting the appropriate option.

At the same _________ the bell struck and school was dismissed.

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

A period of time during which a person that might have a disease is kept away from other people so that the disease cannot spread

In the following question, out of the given four alternatives, select the one which is opposite in meaning of the given word.

Extant