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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.

What would happen if novel and pragmatic techniques are ignored?

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

Dominate

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

To go to somebody's head

In the following question, out of the four alternatives, choose the one which can be substituted for the given words/sentence.

The act of killing a whole group of people, specially a whole race.

A sentence/a part of the sentence is underlined. Four alternatives are given to the underlined part which will improve the sentence. Choose the correct alternative and click the button corresponding to it. In case no improvement is needed, click the button corresponding to "No improvement".

Jane had told me that she hasn't done her homework.

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

To burn the midnight oil

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.

We must join hands and stop corruption which is posing ______ in the development of India.

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

Someone who is incapable of being quietened or pacified.