Directions (1-5): In each
of the following sentences there are certain blank spaces. Below each sentence
there are five options denoted by the numbers (a), (b), (c), (d), and (e). Find
out which option can be used to fill up the blank (s) in the sentence in the
same sequence to make it meaningfully complete.
Q1.
Sikkim was __________ seriously by the September 2011 earthquake, which
measured 6.9 on the Richter _________.
(a)effected, range
(b)damaged, metre
(c)haunted, calibration
(d)affected, scale
(e)blemished, system
Q2.
India has a vibrant publishing scene, thanks to not only the big publishers but
also a lot of quality- ________ little publishing houses that _________ it
going.
(a)conscious, keep
(b)responsive, put
(c)apprised, retain
(d)mindful, retain
(e)cognizant, enjoy
Q3.
The staunch proponents of economic liberalisation have often __________ that
the relaxation of state ___________ will lead to phenomenal growth of
industries spurred by FDI.
(a)contended, neglect
(b)jumped, inability
(c)hassled, domination
(d)crossed, dominion
(e)argued, control
Q4.
After a relationship __________ over one-and-a-half centuries, on July 14,
Kolkata bid an emotional _________ to a mode of communication called the
telegram.
(a)traversing, farewell
(b)traveling, relation
(c)spanning, adieu
(d)ranging, goodbye
(e)covering, hello
Q5.
__________ the defeat of Tipu Sultan in the Fourth Anglo Mysore War (1798-99)
in Srirangpatnam, the British army ___________ itself in the vicinity of the
old city area of Bangalore.
(a)By, opened
(b)With, garrisoned
(c)To, guarded
(d)In, armoured
(e)For, left
Directions (6-10) : In each
of the following sentences there are two blank spaces. Below each sentence
there are five pairs of words denoted by numbers (a), (b), (c), (d) and (e).
Find out which pair of words can be filled up in the blanks in the sentence in
the same sequence to make the sentence grammatically correct and meaningfully
complete.
Q6. While war has never been
absent from the ____ of man, there have been periods in History which appear
remarkably ____.
(a) archives – ambivalent
(b) posterity – serene
(c) mind – desultory
(d) annals – pacific
(e) life – belligerent
Q7. While the world was ______ to the happenings
in Washington and New york, America’s political class was _______ by the
attacks.
(b) alert, concerns
(c) averse, excited
(d) glued, devastated
(e)
unaware, criticize
Q8. This biography we are given a glimpse of the
young man ____ pursuing the path of the poet despite ____ and rejection slips.
disappointment
(b) tirelessly , encouragement
(c) sporadically , awards
(d) successfully , acclaim
(e) avidly
, achievement
Q9. Archaeology is a poor profession; only ____
sums are available for excavating sites and even more ____ amounts for
preserving the excavations.
(b) miniscule – substantially
(c) highest
– augmented
(d) judicious – penurious
(e) rich- generous
Q10. An essential purpose of the criminal justice
system is to enable purgation to take place; that is, to provide a _______ by
which a community expresses its collective ________ the transgression of the
criminal
(b) disclaimer, forgiveness from
(c) procedure, distaste with
(d) document, disapprobation of
(e) source,
action for
Directions (11-15): In each of the following questions there
is a sentence with a pair of blank spaces, followed by five pair of words.
Choose the pair that can fill up the blanks in the same order. The number of
that pair is your answer.
Q11.
Handicrafts constitute an important _____ of the decentralised sector of
India’s economy and ______ employment to over six million artisans.
(a) factors — aims
(b) extension — plans
(c) segment — provides
(d) supplier — gives
(e) period — projects
Q12. Among a number of
hobbies that one can ______, the hobby of reading is the most useful and ______
(a) develops — accumulative
(b) cultivates — enlightened
(c) nourish — cumulative
(d) absorbs — durable
(e) considers — appreciative
Q13. The quality of _____
between individuals and the organisation for which they work can be ____ to
benefit both the parties.
(a) services — evaluated
(b) interaction — improved
(c) sophistication — developed
(d) resource — appreciated
(e) life — conceptualized
Q14. Part
of the confusion in our societies _______ from our pursuit of efficiency and
economic growth, in the _______that these are the necessary ingredients of
progress.
(a) stems — conviction
(b) derives — evaluation
(c) emerges — consideration
(d) obtains — exploration
(e) extends — planning
Q15. The problem of housing
shortage _______ with the population explosion has also been _______ by this
policy.
(a) coped — highlighted
(b) dispensed — acknowledged
(c) compounded — addressed
(d) threatened — manifested
(e) projected — discussed
SOLUTIONS:
S1.Ans.(d)
Sol. ‘affected, scale’ fits the
sentence appropriately.
S2.Ans.(a)
Sol.
‘conscious, keep’ fits the sentence appropriately.
S3.Ans.(e)
Sol.
‘argued, control’ fits the sentence appropriately.
S4.Ans.(c)
Sol.
‘spanning, adieu’ fits the sentence appropriately where ‘spanning’ means to extend across (a period
of time or a range of subjects) and ‘adieu’ means goodbye.
S5.Ans.(b)
Sol.
‘With, garrisoned’ fits the sentence appropriately where ‘garrisoned’ means a group of troops
stationed in a fortress or town to defend it.
S6. Ans.(d)
Sol. ‘While’ here indicates that
something opposite follows. So, while war has never been entirely absent, there
have been some periods that appear remarkably peaceful. Hence, ‘serene’ or
‘pacific’ might suit the second blank. But serene is coupled with ‘posterity’,
which means ‘future generations’ and so does not fit.
S7. Ans.
(d)
Sol. Option A is incorrect because ‘watching’ is
not followed by ‘to’.
S8. Ans. (a)
Sol. ‘despite’ indicates something contrary. So,
despite the rejection slips he pursues his path doggedly or tirelessly. But
since the ‘and’ links similar things he is getting disappointment along with
the rejection slips, not encouragement.
S9. Ans.(a)
Sol. The
part after the semicolon expands upon the first part of the sentence.
So, since the first part tells us that there is no
money in archaeology, then there will only be small (paltry) amounts for
excavating. Also ‘even more’ indicates that another similar word is required.
Thus, meager also means small.
S10.Ans. (a)
Sol. Here is the task is to determine the communal
reaction to crime. The writer maintains that the criminal justice system of
punishments allows the community to purge itself of its anger, its sense of
outrage at the criminal’s acts. Thus, it provides a catharsis or purgation for
the community.
Remember in double blank sentences, go through the
answers, testing the first word in each choice and eliminating those that do
not fit. In this case you can readily eliminate.
Choices B and D: it is unlikely that an essential
purpose of the criminal justice system would be the provision of either a
disclaimer (denial or disavowal, as in disavowing responsibility for a legal
claim) or a document.
S11.
Ans.(c)
Sol.
‘segment — provides’ is the correct use.
S12.
Ans.(c)
Sol.
‘nourish — cumulative’ is the correct use where cumulative means increasing or increased
in quantity, degree, or force by successive additions.
S13.
Ans.(b)
Sol.
‘interaction — improved’ is the correct use where interaction means influence.
S14.
Ans.(c)
Sol.
‘emerges — consideration’ is the correct use where ‘emerges’ means move out of.
S15.
Ans.(c)
Sol.
‘compounded — addressed’ is the correct use where ‘compounded’ means to make (something bad)
worse and ‘addressed’ means to fix or solve an issue.
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