IBPS Clerk Prelims Mock Test - 5 - Banking Exams MCQ

A passage has been given below. Read the following carefully and answer the questions that follow. Some words and phrases have been highlighted to help you find the same while answering certain questions:

Absenteeism, low employee morale, low productivity, high staff turnover, high medical claims, excessive sick leaves have all contributed to the worrying scenario experienced by most companies. Encountering stress at the workplace has become a common phenomenon and the biggest human resource challenge. Research in the current year has shown that (10)-(20) percent of any workforce works at only 15-20% capacity due to personal difficulties. Moreover, while in the United States, is spent per person per annum on health-related services, adopting a programme to provide the solution called cut down costs to almost $418 per person, per annum.

India is one of the most unfortunate countries in the world as far as health is concerned. “It may be a financial problem for most corporations but more importantly it is also the approach towards generating better employee health.” “The employer today thinks that he has accomplished a feat in providing adequate health care facilities for his workforce. While every company continues to face a variety of human resource challenges that affect employees’ productivity and, thus, ultimately company profits, little has been done to address the issue. A comprehensive range of services that optimize and maintain the psychological and social health of the company’s human infrastructure has been missing in most corporations, he added. Over two-thirds of office visits to physicians were due to stress. “Every day we have 150 new patients who are developing heart related afflictions, all due to the high stress at the workplace.”

At times like this, “one should not go by the rule book alone, one has to pay need to one’s conscience, if the company is earning profits, plough some of that back to the employees. An eight to nine hour working day was termed a good day at work at present a 12 to 16 hour working day “leaves one feeling unsatisfied. Many organizations find their very existence to be in doubt and numerous voluntary retirement schemes from 1944 onwards is a pointer to this.” It was pointed out that while management staff problems were more related to wrong eating habits, lack of exercise, overweight, blood pressure and ulcers, workmen had problems more related to their living conditions, poor hygienic habits, financial and family problems.

Q. What is needed to meet the human resource challenge?

A passage has been given below. Read the following carefully and answer the questions that follow. Some words and phrases have been highlighted to help you find the same while answering certain questions:

Absenteeism, low employee morale, low productivity, high staff turnover, high medical claims, excessive sick leaves have all contributed to the worrying scenario experienced by most companies. Encountering stress at the workplace has become a common phenomenon and the biggest human resource challenge. Research in the current year has shown that (10)-(20) percent of any workforce works at only 15-20% capacity due to personal difficulties. Moreover, while in the United States, is spent per person per annum on health-related services, adopting a programme to provide the solution called cut down costs to almost $418 per person, per annum.

India is one of the most unfortunate countries in the world as far as health is concerned. “It may be a financial problem for most corporations but more importantly it is also the approach towards generating better employee health.” “The employer today thinks that he has accomplished a feat in providing adequate health care facilities for his workforce. While every company continues to face a variety of human resource challenges that affect employees’ productivity and, thus, ultimately company profits, little has been done to address the issue. A comprehensive range of services that optimize and maintain the psychological and social health of the company’s human infrastructure has been missing in most corporations, he added. Over two-thirds of office visits to physicians were due to stress. “Every day we have 150 new patients who are developing heart related afflictions, all due to the high stress at the workplace.”

At times like this, “one should not go by the rule book alone, one has to pay need to one’s conscience, if the company is earning profits, plough some of that back to the employees. An eight to nine hour working day was termed a good day at work at present a 12 to 16 hour working day “leaves one feeling unsatisfied. Many organizations find their very existence to be in doubt and numerous voluntary retirement schemes from 1944 onwards is a pointer to this.” It was pointed out that while management staff problems were more related to wrong eating habits, lack of exercise, overweight, blood pressure and ulcers, workmen had problems more related to their living conditions, poor hygienic habits, financial and family problems.

Q. Which of the following words can replace the word “need” as highlighted above?

A passage has been given below. Read the following carefully and answer the questions that follow. Some words and phrases have been highlighted to help you find the same while answering certain questions:

Absenteeism, low employee morale, low productivity, high staff turnover, high medical claims, excessive sick leaves have all contributed to the worrying scenario experienced by most companies. Encountering stress at the workplace has become a common phenomenon and the biggest human resource challenge. Research in the current year has shown that (10)-(20) percent of any workforce works at only 15-20% capacity due to personal difficulties. Moreover, while in the United States, is spent per person per annum on health-related services, adopting a programme to provide the solution called cut down costs to almost $418 per person, per annum.

India is one of the most unfortunate countries in the world as far as health is concerned. “It may be a financial problem for most corporations but more importantly it is also the approach towards generating better employee health.” “The employer today thinks that he has accomplished a feat in providing adequate health care facilities for his workforce. While every company continues to face a variety of human resource challenges that affect employees’ productivity and, thus, ultimately company profits, little has been done to address the issue. A comprehensive range of services that optimize and maintain the psychological and social health of the company’s human infrastructure has been missing in most corporations, he added. Over two-thirds of office visits to physicians were due to stress. “Every day we have 150 new patients who are developing heart related afflictions, all due to the high stress at the workplace.”

At times like this, “one should not go by the rule book alone, one has to pay need to one’s conscience, if the company is earning profits, plough some of that back to the employees. An eight to nine hour working day was termed a good day at work at present a 12 to 16 hour working day “leaves one feeling unsatisfied. Many organizations find their very existence to be in doubt and numerous voluntary retirement schemes from 1944 onwards is a pointer to this.” It was pointed out that while management staff problems were more related to wrong eating habits, lack of exercise, overweight, blood pressure and ulcers, workmen had problems more related to their living conditions, poor hygienic habits, financial and family problems.

Q. What has the research in the current year proven?

A passage has been given below. Read the following carefully and answer the questions that follow. Some words and phrases have been highlighted to help you find the same while answering certain questions:

Absenteeism, low employee morale, low productivity, high staff turnover, high medical claims, excessive sick leaves have all contributed to the worrying scenario experienced by most companies. Encountering stress at the workplace has become a common phenomenon and the biggest human resource challenge. Research in the current year has shown that (10)-(20) percent of any workforce works at only 15-20% capacity due to personal difficulties. Moreover, while in the United States, is spent per person per annum on health-related services, adopting a programme to provide the solution called cut down costs to almost $418 per person, per annum.

India is one of the most unfortunate countries in the world as far as health is concerned. “It may be a financial problem for most corporations but more importantly it is also the approach towards generating better employee health.” “The employer today thinks that he has accomplished a feat in providing adequate health care facilities for his workforce. While every company continues to face a variety of human resource challenges that affect employees’ productivity and, thus, ultimately company profits, little has been done to address the issue. A comprehensive range of services that optimize and maintain the psychological and social health of the company’s human infrastructure has been missing in most corporations, he added. Over two-thirds of office visits to physicians were due to stress. “Every day we have 150 new patients who are developing heart related afflictions, all due to the high stress at the workplace.”

At times like this, “one should not go by the rule book alone, one has to pay need to one’s conscience, if the company is earning profits, plough some of that back to the employees. An eight to nine hour working day was termed a good day at work at present a 12 to 16 hour working day “leaves one feeling unsatisfied. Many organizations find their very existence to be in doubt and numerous voluntary retirement schemes from 1944 onwards is a pointer to this.” It was pointed out that while management staff problems were more related to wrong eating habits, lack of exercise, overweight, blood pressure and ulcers, workmen had problems more related to their living conditions, poor hygienic habits, financial and family problems.

Q. Which of the following will be the same in meaning as ‘feat’ as used in the passage?

Direction: A part of the following sentence is given within brackets. Choose the option that improves the bracketed part of the sentence:

Q. After reaching Banaras, Pritham (bathed) in the Ganges to cleanse his sins.

Direction: A part of the following sentence is given within brackets. Choose the option that improves the bracketed part of the sentence:

Q. Dinesh told me that he would have reacted differently (were) he been in my place.

Direction: A part of the following sentence is given within brackets. Choose the option that improves the bracketed part of the sentence:

Q. He led a simple life (though) being insanely rich.

Direction: A part of the following sentence is given within brackets. Choose the option that improves the bracketed part of the sentence:

Q. The essay written by Ramu was (better than) as the one written by Prabhu.

Direction: A part of the following sentence is given within brackets. Choose the option that improves the bracketed part of the sentence:

Q. After the failure of the recent product, the team decided to go back to the (living room).

Direction: A part of the following sentence is given within brackets. Choose the option that improves the bracketed part of the sentence:

Q. Fathima tried to (warp her head around) relativity theory.

Direction: A part of the following sentence is given within brackets. Choose the option that improves the bracketed part of the sentence:

Q. After a long and tiring day, Suresh decided to hit the (wall).

Direction: A part of the following sentence is given within brackets. Choose the option that improves the bracketed part of the sentence:

Q. Banu warned her sub-ordinate to get his (mind) together soon.

Direction: A part of the following sentence is given within brackets. Choose the option that improves the bracketed part of the sentence:

Q. Shalini told me that she was on leave since she was feeling under the (Sun) that day.

Direction: A part of the following sentence is given within brackets. Choose the option that improves the bracketed part of the sentence:

Q. When Rajesh was about to perform, Vikram wished him luck by saying “(Break a leg), Rajesh”.

Fill in the blanks with the appropriate words given in the options in order to make them complete and meaningful.

As a large number of COVID-19 cases are _______ being reported in Kerala, the team will _______ the state’s ongoing efforts in COVID-19 management

Fill in the blanks with the appropriate words given in the options in order to make them complete and meaningful.

Q. The actress called Simone a ‘_____ model’ and thanked her for normalizing _______ mental health first.

Fill in the blanks with the appropriate words given in the options in order to make them complete and meaningful.

Q. This assessment policy was _______ after several _______ of consultations with various stakeholders.

Fill in the blanks with the appropriate words given in the options in order to make them complete and meaningful.

Q. Naturally, _______ of these women has built a reputation all her own, and each is deserving ______ praise for their accomplishments.

Direction: Fill in the blanks with an appropriate word.

During the reign of Simeon, second son of Boris, which lasted from 893 to 927, Bulgaria reached a very high level of power and prosperity. Simeon, called the Great, is looked on by Bulgarians as their most _______ (1) ________ monarch and his reign as the most brilliant period of their history. He had spent his childhood at Constantinople and been educated there, and he became such an admirer of Greek civilization that he was nicknamed Hèmiargos. His instructors had done their work so well that Simeon remained _________ (2) _______ by the glamour of Constantinople throughout his life, and, although he might have laid the foundations of a solid empire in the Balkans, his one ambition was to conquer Byzantium and to be recognized as basileus—an ambition which was not to be fulfilled. His first campaign against the Greeks was not very fruitful, because the latter summoned the Magyars, already settled in Hungary, to their aid and they attacked Simeon from the north. Simeon in return called the Pechenegs, another _______ (3) ______ Tartar tribe, to his aid, but this merely resulted in their definite establishment in Rumania. During the twenty years of peace, which strange to say filled the middle of his reign (894-913), the internal development of Bulgaria made great ________ (4) ________. The administration was properly organized, commerce was _________ (5) ________, and agriculture flourished. In the wars against the Greeks which occupied his last years he was more successful, and _______ (6) ______ a severe defeat on them at Anchialo (the modern Ahiolu) in 917; but he was still unable to get from them what he wanted, and at last, in 921, he was ________ (7) ______ to proclaim himself basileus and autocrat of all Bulgars and Greeks, a title which nobody else recognized. He reappeared before Constantinople the same year, but effected nothing more than the customary devastation of the suburbs. The year 923 witnessed a solemn ________ (8) ______ between Rome and Constantinople; the Greeks were clever enough to prevent the Roman legates visiting Bulgaria on their return journey, and thereby administered a _______ (9) ______ to Simeon, who was anxious to see them and enter into direct relations with Rome. In the same year Simeon tried to make an _______ (10) ________ with the Arabs, but the ambassadors of the latter were intercepted by. the Greeks, who made it worth their while not to continue the journey to Bulgaria.

Q. What will come at a place of ___1___.

Direction: Fill in the blanks with an appropriate word.

During the reign of Simeon, second son of Boris, which lasted from 893 to 927, Bulgaria reached a very high level of power and prosperity. Simeon, called the Great, is looked on by Bulgarians as their most _______ (1) ________ monarch and his reign as the most brilliant period of their history. He had spent his childhood at Constantinople and been educated there, and he became such an admirer of Greek civilization that he was nicknamed Hèmiargos. His instructors had done their work so well that Simeon remained _________ (2) _______ by the glamour of Constantinople throughout his life, and, although he might have laid the foundations of a solid empire in the Balkans, his one ambition was to conquer Byzantium and to be recognized as basileus—an ambition which was not to be fulfilled. His first campaign against the Greeks was not very fruitful, because the latter summoned the Magyars, already settled in Hungary, to their aid and they attacked Simeon from the north. Simeon in return called the Pechenegs, another _______ (3) ______ Tartar tribe, to his aid, but this merely resulted in their definite establishment in Rumania. During the twenty years of peace, which strange to say filled the middle of his reign (894-913), the internal development of Bulgaria made great ________ (4) ________. The administration was properly organized, commerce was _________ (5) ________, and agriculture flourished. In the wars against the Greeks which occupied his last years he was more successful, and _______ (6) ______ a severe defeat on them at Anchialo (the modern Ahiolu) in 917; but he was still unable to get from them what he wanted, and at last, in 921, he was ________ (7) ______ to proclaim himself basileus and autocrat of all Bulgars and Greeks, a title which nobody else recognized. He reappeared before Constantinople the same year, but effected nothing more than the customary devastation of the suburbs. The year 923 witnessed a solemn ________ (8) ______ between Rome and Constantinople; the Greeks were clever enough to prevent the Roman legates visiting Bulgaria on their return journey, and thereby administered a _______ (9) ______ to Simeon, who was anxious to see them and enter into direct relations with Rome. In the same year Simeon tried to make an _______ (10) ________ with the Arabs, but the ambassadors of the latter were intercepted by. the Greeks, who made it worth their while not to continue the journey to Bulgaria.

Q. What will come in a place of ___2___.

Direction: Fill in the blanks with an appropriate word.

During the reign of Simeon, second son of Boris, which lasted from 893 to 927, Bulgaria reached a very high level of power and prosperity. Simeon, called the Great, is looked on by Bulgarians as their most _______ (1) ________ monarch and his reign as the most brilliant period of their history. He had spent his childhood at Constantinople and been educated there, and he became such an admirer of Greek civilization that he was nicknamed Hèmiargos. His instructors had done their work so well that Simeon remained _________ (2) _______ by the glamour of Constantinople throughout his life, and, although he might have laid the foundations of a solid empire in the Balkans, his one ambition was to conquer Byzantium and to be recognized as basileus—an ambition which was not to be fulfilled. His first campaign against the Greeks was not very fruitful, because the latter summoned the Magyars, already settled in Hungary, to their aid and they attacked Simeon from the north. Simeon in return called the Pechenegs, another _______ (3) ______ Tartar tribe, to his aid, but this merely resulted in their definite establishment in Rumania. During the twenty years of peace, which strange to say filled the middle of his reign (894-913), the internal development of Bulgaria made great ________ (4) ________. The administration was properly organized, commerce was _________ (5) ________, and agriculture flourished. In the wars against the Greeks which occupied his last years he was more successful, and _______ (6) ______ a severe defeat on them at Anchialo (the modern Ahiolu) in 917; but he was still unable to get from them what he wanted, and at last, in 921, he was ________ (7) ______ to proclaim himself basileus and autocrat of all Bulgars and Greeks, a title which nobody else recognized. He reappeared before Constantinople the same year, but effected nothing more than the customary devastation of the suburbs. The year 923 witnessed a solemn ________ (8) ______ between Rome and Constantinople; the Greeks were clever enough to prevent the Roman legates visiting Bulgaria on their return journey, and thereby administered a _______ (9) ______ to Simeon, who was anxious to see them and enter into direct relations with Rome. In the same year Simeon tried to make an _______ (10) ________ with the Arabs, but the ambassadors of the latter were intercepted by. the Greeks, who made it worth their while not to continue the journey to Bulgaria.

Q. What will come in a place of ___3___.

Direction: Fill in the blanks with an appropriate word.

During the reign of Simeon, second son of Boris, which lasted from 893 to 927, Bulgaria reached a very high level of power and prosperity. Simeon, called the Great, is looked on by Bulgarians as their most _______ (1) ________ monarch and his reign as the most brilliant period of their history. He had spent his childhood at Constantinople and been educated there, and he became such an admirer of Greek civilization that he was nicknamed Hèmiargos. His instructors had done their work so well that Simeon remained _________ (2) _______ by the glamour of Constantinople throughout his life, and, although he might have laid the foundations of a solid empire in the Balkans, his one ambition was to conquer Byzantium and to be recognized as basileus—an ambition which was not to be fulfilled. His first campaign against the Greeks was not very fruitful, because the latter summoned the Magyars, already settled in Hungary, to their aid and they attacked Simeon from the north. Simeon in return called the Pechenegs, another _______ (3) ______ Tartar tribe, to his aid, but this merely resulted in their definite establishment in Rumania. During the twenty years of peace, which strange to say filled the middle of his reign (894-913), the internal development of Bulgaria made great ________ (4) ________. The administration was properly organized, commerce was _________ (5) ________, and agriculture flourished. In the wars against the Greeks which occupied his last years he was more successful, and _______ (6) ______ a severe defeat on them at Anchialo (the modern Ahiolu) in 917; but he was still unable to get from them what he wanted, and at last, in 921, he was ________ (7) ______ to proclaim himself basileus and autocrat of all Bulgars and Greeks, a title which nobody else recognized. He reappeared before Constantinople the same year, but effected nothing more than the customary devastation of the suburbs. The year 923 witnessed a solemn ________ (8) ______ between Rome and Constantinople; the Greeks were clever enough to prevent the Roman legates visiting Bulgaria on their return journey, and thereby administered a _______ (9) ______ to Simeon, who was anxious to see them and enter into direct relations with Rome. In the same year Simeon tried to make an _______ (10) ________ with the Arabs, but the ambassadors of the latter were intercepted by. the Greeks, who made it worth their while not to continue the journey to Bulgaria.

Q. What will come in a place of ___4___.

Direction: Fill in the blanks with an appropriate word.

During the reign of Simeon, second son of Boris, which lasted from 893 to 927, Bulgaria reached a very high level of power and prosperity. Simeon, called the Great, is looked on by Bulgarians as their most _______ (1) ________ monarch and his reign as the most brilliant period of their history. He had spent his childhood at Constantinople and been educated there, and he became such an admirer of Greek civilization that he was nicknamed Hèmiargos. His instructors had done their work so well that Simeon remained _________ (2) _______ by the glamour of Constantinople throughout his life, and, although he might have laid the foundations of a solid empire in the Balkans, his one ambition was to conquer Byzantium and to be recognized as basileus—an ambition which was not to be fulfilled. His first campaign against the Greeks was not very fruitful, because the latter summoned the Magyars, already settled in Hungary, to their aid and they attacked Simeon from the north. Simeon in return called the Pechenegs, another _______ (3) ______ Tartar tribe, to his aid, but this merely resulted in their definite establishment in Rumania. During the twenty years of peace, which strange to say filled the middle of his reign (894-913), the internal development of Bulgaria made great ________ (4) ________. The administration was properly organized, commerce was _________ (5) ________, and agriculture flourished. In the wars against the Greeks which occupied his last years he was more successful, and _______ (6) ______ a severe defeat on them at Anchialo (the modern Ahiolu) in 917; but he was still unable to get from them what he wanted, and at last, in 921, he was ________ (7) ______ to proclaim himself basileus and autocrat of all Bulgars and Greeks, a title which nobody else recognized. He reappeared before Constantinople the same year, but effected nothing more than the customary devastation of the suburbs. The year 923 witnessed a solemn ________ (8) ______ between Rome and Constantinople; the Greeks were clever enough to prevent the Roman legates visiting Bulgaria on their return journey, and thereby administered a _______ (9) ______ to Simeon, who was anxious to see them and enter into direct relations with Rome. In the same year Simeon tried to make an _______ (10) ________ with the Arabs, but the ambassadors of the latter were intercepted by. the Greeks, who made it worth their while not to continue the journey to Bulgaria.

Q. What will come in a place of ___5___.

Direction: Fill in the blanks with an appropriate word.

During the reign of Simeon, second son of Boris, which lasted from 893 to 927, Bulgaria reached a very high level of power and prosperity. Simeon, called the Great, is looked on by Bulgarians as their most _______ (1) ________ monarch and his reign as the most brilliant period of their history. He had spent his childhood at Constantinople and been educated there, and he became such an admirer of Greek civilization that he was nicknamed Hèmiargos. His instructors had done their work so well that Simeon remained _________ (2) _______ by the glamour of Constantinople throughout his life, and, although he might have laid the foundations of a solid empire in the Balkans, his one ambition was to conquer Byzantium and to be recognized as basileus—an ambition which was not to be fulfilled. His first campaign against the Greeks was not very fruitful, because the latter summoned the Magyars, already settled in Hungary, to their aid and they attacked Simeon from the north. Simeon in return called the Pechenegs, another _______ (3) ______ Tartar tribe, to his aid, but this merely resulted in their definite establishment in Rumania. During the twenty years of peace, which strange to say filled the middle of his reign (894-913), the internal development of Bulgaria made great ________ (4) ________. The administration was properly organized, commerce was _________ (5) ________, and agriculture flourished. In the wars against the Greeks which occupied his last years he was more successful, and _______ (6) ______ a severe defeat on them at Anchialo (the modern Ahiolu) in 917; but he was still unable to get from them what he wanted, and at last, in 921, he was ________ (7) ______ to proclaim himself basileus and autocrat of all Bulgars and Greeks, a title which nobody else recognized. He reappeared before Constantinople the same year, but effected nothing more than the customary devastation of the suburbs. The year 923 witnessed a solemn ________ (8) ______ between Rome and Constantinople; the Greeks were clever enough to prevent the Roman legates visiting Bulgaria on their return journey, and thereby administered a _______ (9) ______ to Simeon, who was anxious to see them and enter into direct relations with Rome. In the same year Simeon tried to make an _______ (10) ________ with the Arabs, but the ambassadors of the latter were intercepted by. the Greeks, who made it worth their while not to continue the journey to Bulgaria.

Q. What will come in a place of ___6___.

Direction: Fill in the blanks with an appropriate word.

During the reign of Simeon, second son of Boris, which lasted from 893 to 927, Bulgaria reached a very high level of power and prosperity. Simeon, called the Great, is looked on by Bulgarians as their most _______ (1) ________ monarch and his reign as the most brilliant period of their history. He had spent his childhood at Constantinople and been educated there, and he became such an admirer of Greek civilization that he was nicknamed Hèmiargos. His instructors had done their work so well that Simeon remained _________ (2) _______ by the glamour of Constantinople throughout his life, and, although he might have laid the foundations of a solid empire in the Balkans, his one ambition was to conquer Byzantium and to be recognized as basileus—an ambition which was not to be fulfilled. His first campaign against the Greeks was not very fruitful, because the latter summoned the Magyars, already settled in Hungary, to their aid and they attacked Simeon from the north. Simeon in return called the Pechenegs, another _______ (3) ______ Tartar tribe, to his aid, but this merely resulted in their definite establishment in Rumania. During the twenty years of peace, which strange to say filled the middle of his reign (894-913), the internal development of Bulgaria made great ________ (4) ________. The administration was properly organized, commerce was _________ (5) ________, and agriculture flourished. In the wars against the Greeks which occupied his last years he was more successful, and _______ (6) ______ a severe defeat on them at Anchialo (the modern Ahiolu) in 917; but he was still unable to get from them what he wanted, and at last, in 921, he was ________ (7) ______ to proclaim himself basileus and autocrat of all Bulgars and Greeks, a title which nobody else recognized. He reappeared before Constantinople the same year, but effected nothing more than the customary devastation of the suburbs. The year 923 witnessed a solemn ________ (8) ______ between Rome and Constantinople; the Greeks were clever enough to prevent the Roman legates visiting Bulgaria on their return journey, and thereby administered a _______ (9) ______ to Simeon, who was anxious to see them and enter into direct relations with Rome. In the same year Simeon tried to make an _______ (10) ________ with the Arabs, but the ambassadors of the latter were intercepted by. the Greeks, who made it worth their while not to continue the journey to Bulgaria.

Q. What will come in a place of___7___.

Direction: Fill in the blanks with an appropriate word.

During the reign of Simeon, second son of Boris, which lasted from 893 to 927, Bulgaria reached a very high level of power and prosperity. Simeon, called the Great, is looked on by Bulgarians as their most _______ (1) ________ monarch and his reign as the most brilliant period of their history. He had spent his childhood at Constantinople and been educated there, and he became such an admirer of Greek civilization that he was nicknamed Hèmiargos. His instructors had done their work so well that Simeon remained _________ (2) _______ by the glamour of Constantinople throughout his life, and, although he might have laid the foundations of a solid empire in the Balkans, his one ambition was to conquer Byzantium and to be recognized as basileus—an ambition which was not to be fulfilled. His first campaign against the Greeks was not very fruitful, because the latter summoned the Magyars, already settled in Hungary, to their aid and they attacked Simeon from the north. Simeon in return called the Pechenegs, another _______ (3) ______ Tartar tribe, to his aid, but this merely resulted in their definite establishment in Rumania. During the twenty years of peace, which strange to say filled the middle of his reign (894-913), the internal development of Bulgaria made great ________ (4) ________. The administration was properly organized, commerce was _________ (5) ________, and agriculture flourished. In the wars against the Greeks which occupied his last years he was more successful, and _______ (6) ______ a severe defeat on them at Anchialo (the modern Ahiolu) in 917; but he was still unable to get from them what he wanted, and at last, in 921, he was ________ (7) ______ to proclaim himself basileus and autocrat of all Bulgars and Greeks, a title which nobody else recognized. He reappeared before Constantinople the same year, but effected nothing more than the customary devastation of the suburbs. The year 923 witnessed a solemn ________ (8) ______ between Rome and Constantinople; the Greeks were clever enough to prevent the Roman legates visiting Bulgaria on their return journey, and thereby administered a _______ (9) ______ to Simeon, who was anxious to see them and enter into direct relations with Rome. In the same year Simeon tried to make an _______ (10) ________ with the Arabs, but the ambassadors of the latter were intercepted by. the Greeks, who made it worth their while not to continue the journey to Bulgaria.

Q. What will come in a place of___8___.

Direction: Fill in the blanks with an appropriate word.

During the reign of Simeon, second son of Boris, which lasted from 893 to 927, Bulgaria reached a very high level of power and prosperity. Simeon, called the Great, is looked on by Bulgarians as their most _______ (1) ________ monarch and his reign as the most brilliant period of their history. He had spent his childhood at Constantinople and been educated there, and he became such an admirer of Greek civilization that he was nicknamed Hèmiargos. His instructors had done their work so well that Simeon remained _________ (2) _______ by the glamour of Constantinople throughout his life, and, although he might have laid the foundations of a solid empire in the Balkans, his one ambition was to conquer Byzantium and to be recognized as basileus—an ambition which was not to be fulfilled. His first campaign against the Greeks was not very fruitful, because the latter summoned the Magyars, already settled in Hungary, to their aid and they attacked Simeon from the north. Simeon in return called the Pechenegs, another _______ (3) ______ Tartar tribe, to his aid, but this merely resulted in their definite establishment in Rumania. During the twenty years of peace, which strange to say filled the middle of his reign (894-913), the internal development of Bulgaria made great ________ (4) ________. The administration was properly organized, commerce was _________ (5) ________, and agriculture flourished. In the wars against the Greeks which occupied his last years he was more successful, and _______ (6) ______ a severe defeat on them at Anchialo (the modern Ahiolu) in 917; but he was still unable to get from them what he wanted, and at last, in 921, he was ________ (7) ______ to proclaim himself basileus and autocrat of all Bulgars and Greeks, a title which nobody else recognized. He reappeared before Constantinople the same year, but effected nothing more than the customary devastation of the suburbs. The year 923 witnessed a solemn ________ (8) ______ between Rome and Constantinople; the Greeks were clever enough to prevent the Roman legates visiting Bulgaria on their return journey, and thereby administered a _______ (9) ______ to Simeon, who was anxious to see them and enter into direct relations with Rome. In the same year Simeon tried to make an _______ (10) ________ with the Arabs, but the ambassadors of the latter were intercepted by. the Greeks, who made it worth their while not to continue the journey to Bulgaria.

Q. What will come in a place of___9___.