General English (NABARD Assistant Manager - 2)

Find out the appropriate word/phrase in each case and fill in the blank (iv).

Directions: Read the passage and answer the following question.

Depending upon how humanity chooses to use it, technology can enhance or ____(i) any aspect of life. The realm of interpersonal communication generally feels this impact first. Many times throughout history, humanity has changed its modes of communication as society itself has ____(ii). As people began to spread out geographically, verbal communication turned to writing to make it more ____(iii). Then, people invented ways of carrying both conversation and written communication between their communities to keep in ____(iv) with one another as travel became simpler. With the advent of the telephone, people began to wonder if picking up the receiver to call one another would eventually ___(v) out other forms of communication. So far, as families and friends have moved away from one another, the telephone, even its cellular form, has allowed humanity to ___(vi) the necessary links among its members. Naturally, now that computers, instant and text messaging, and other forms of communication have found their way into the world, people not familiar with these technologies wonder what they will do to the human race. Etiquette experts and those raised on writing formal letters often ___(vii) that e-mail and text message lingo will replace the language of pen and paper. This will not _____(viii) and both methods of communication can survive to enhance humans enjoyment of one another's company,  if the next generation learns how to ____(ix) both. Each form of communication can survive with its own rules as people learn which situations in life ___(x) for which level of formality and which of the people they spend time with can connect better with which type of language.