Close Test Quiz For Bank and SSC CGL 8/3/2016

#everydayquiz #10Questions #6 minutes

seed quality is an..(1)..aspect of crop production. For ages, farmers have traditionally been selecting and..(2)..good quality seed, since it was in their interest to do so. They knew and understood the importance of quality seed in production.

However, with the advent of green revolution technology, based..(3)..on high-yielding dwarf varieties of wheat and rice, mainstream thinking changed. Agricultural scientists, for reasons that remain..(4)..,began to doubt, the ability of farmers to maintain seed quality..(5)… Aided by the World bank, the ministry of agriculture launched of national seeds project in 1967. Under the project, spreed into three phases, seed processing plants were..(6)..up in nine states. Six states were covered under phase three. All the huge processing plants were..(7)..to do was to provide ‘certified’ seeds of food crops, mainly self-pollinating crops, to farmers. In mid-1980s, the international rice research institute (IRRI) in the philippines concluded a study which..(8)..that there was hardly any difference in the crop yields from transplanted rice and form the crop shown by broadcasted seeds. one would wonder why, in the first instance, were the, farmers,asked to..(9)..over to transplanting paddy? The answer is simple-probably, to help the mechanical industries grow. since rice, is the staple food in Asia, tractor sales could any grow if there was a way to move the machine in the rice fields. No wonder, the sales of tractors,puddlers, reapers and other associated..(10)..soared in the rice growing areas.

1. 1) Irrational
   2) main
   3) brilliant
   4) important
   5) empathetic
2. 1) maintaining
   2) trusting
   3) selling
   4) processing
   5) creating
3. 1) necessarily
   2) exceptionally
   3) primarily
   4) regularly
   5) truly
4. 1) unexplained
   2) doubt
   3) some
   4) true
   5) sad
5. 1) himself
   2) sometimes
   3) proper
   4) improve
   5) themselves
6. 1) established
   2) created
   3) set
   4) wound
   5) thought
7. 1) tried
   2) mattered
   3) meaning
   4) supposed
   5) expect
8. 1) renounced
   2) showed
   3) meaning
   4) supposed
   5) expect
   
   
   
9. 1) shift
   2) make
   3) turn
   4) mull
   5) switch
10. 1) sell
    2) equipment
    3) people
    4) technique
    5) creatures

1.4
2.1
3.3
4.1
5.5
6.3
7.4
8.2
9.5
10.2

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