IBPS RRB Office Assistant Model Paper 7

Directions (121-130) : Read the following passage carefully and answer the questionsgiven below it. Certain words have been printed in bold to help you locatethem while answering some of the questions.
‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌Once upon a time, there was a stork that lived by catching fish”from aparticular tank.’As the years went by, the stork grew older and weaker and itsability to catch fish diministed. At times it would even starve. The stork knewthat it had to do something to survive.
‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌One day it stood by the side of the tank with a very forlorn look On its face.The frogs, fish and crabs wondered why it was not trying to catch any food. A bigcrab asked the stork what the matter was. The stork answered that it was sadbecause all the fish in the tank were going to die and so it would have to starve.The stork said that it had heard that people were going to fill the tank with mudand grow crops over it. The fish were very worried and asked the stork to helpthem.
‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌The stork offered to take all of them to a bigger tank some distance away.But it said that it needed to rest between trips because of old age. It would onlybe able to carry a few fish at a time.
‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌On its first trip, the stork took a beakful offish. It flew to a big rock and hada.good meal. Thereafter, it rested for a while, and when it was hungry again, thestork took a second trip. In this manner, the stork took a trip each time it washungry.
‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌The big crab in the tank also wanted to save itself and it requested the storkto take it too. The stork thought it was a good idea to try a new dish. It agreed totake the crab on its next trip.
‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌After the stork flew up with the crab, the crab looked down to see what thenew surroundings would be like. All it could see was dry land. When the crabquestioned the stork about this, the stork laughed wickedly and pointed to therock below where the crab saw a heap of fish bones. The crab realized that it wasto be the stork’s next meal. So the crab dug its claws into the stork’s neck andwould not let go till the stork fell to the ground and died. The crab then cut off thestork’s head and returned home to show it to all the other fish and share thestory of its adventrue with the st used in the passage.
Directions (121-123) : Choose the word which is MOST SIMILAR in MEANINGto the word printed in bold as used in the passage.