IBPS RRB Office Assistant Model Paper 6

Directions (146-150) : Read the following passage carefully and answer thequestions given below it. Certain words have been printed in bold type to help youlocate them while answering some of the questions.
‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌Once, there was a boy who was afraid of the dark. He thought that when itwas dark his bedroom filled up with monsters. But there came a time when hewas too old to be allowed to keep sleeping with the light on. That first night hewas paralysed with fear, and his mind was full of monsters. So much so, that hewent over to his wardrobe to get a torch. But when he opened the wardrobe doorhe came face to face with a monster, and he let out the loudest scream in theworld.
‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌The monster was equally shocked. It grabbed its multicoloured hair andstarted crying. The monster cried for so long that the boy’s shock and fear subsided.He calmed the monster as much as he could, and started talking to him, askinghim why he was crying, and what he was doing there. The monster told him itlived in the wardrobe, but never went out, because it was afraid of the boy. Whenthe boy asked for the reason, the monster told that the boy’s face seemed to bethe most horrible thing it had ever seen with eyes, ears and a nose. The boy feltexactly the same way about the monster, who had an enormous head full of hair.
‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌Eventually, they realized that both of them had been afraid of the samething; the unknown. To lose their fear of each other all they had to do was get toknow each other. They applied the same strategy to the other things. Togetherthey travelled the world, seeing lions, tigers, crocodiles and even dragons. It wasthe first time either of them had seen such creatures, but they made the effort toget to know them, and ended up dispelling their fear, and becoming friends. Allkinds of creatures visited the boy’s bedroom each night and, instead of fearingthem he learnt to get to know them and befriend them.
Directions (146-149) : Choose the word which is MOST SIMILAR in MEANINGto the word printed in bold type as used in the passage.