cloze test Model Questions & Answers, Practice Test for ibps clerk prelims

Directions:

Each of the following passages in this section has some blank spaces with four words or groups of words given. Select whichever word or group of words you consider most appropriate for the blank space and indicate your response on the Answer Sheet accordingly.

COMPREHENSION

Ecology, in a very simple term, is a science that _____ (11) the interdependent, mutually reactive and interconnected relationships _____ (12) the organisms and _____ (13) physical environment on the one hand and among the organisms on the other hand. _____ (14) the term 'ecology' was first coined and used by the German biologist Ernst Haeckel in 1869, a few conceptual terms _____ (15) already proposed to reveal relationships _____ (16) organisms and their environment. For example, French zoologist I. G. Hilaire used the term 'ethology' _____ (17) the study of the relations of _____ (18) organisms within the family and society in the aggregate and in the community. British naturalist St. George Jackson Mivart proposed the term 'hexicology' with regard to the study of the relations _____ (19) living creatures to other organisms and their environment as regards the nature of the locality they frequent, the temperatures and the _____ (20) of light which suit them, and their relations to other organisms as enemies, rivals, or accidental and involuntary benefactors.