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Fill in the Blanks (English) : Set-1
1. There are not a single solitary, free-living creatures: every form of life is _________ other forms.
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- a) dependent on
- b) parallel to
- c) overshadowed by
- d) segregated from
Correct Answer: (a)
2. I'll take __________ now as I have another appointment somewhere else.
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- a) departure
- b) my leave
- c) permission
- d) leave from work
Correct Answer: (b)
3. A garden knife is ___________ used for pruning.
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- a) generally
- b) compulsorily
- c) systematically
- d) daily
Correct Answer: (a)
4. Serious threat to our ecology and environment can be __________ with organic cultivation.
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- a) hastened
- b) impeded
- c) aggravated
- d) combated
Correct Answer: (d)
5. 'My India' by Corbett deals _________ the author's familiarity with and love of India.
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- a) in
- b) of
- c) at
- d) with
Correct Answer: (d)
6. As the boat __________ all those on board, he fortunately managed to reach the bank of the river _________ with the help of the life boats.
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- a) fell, harmlessly
- b) dropped, uninjured
- c) capsized, drowned
- d) deceased, unhurt
- e) sank, safely
Correct Answer: (e)
7. Ashima ________ her team with a lot of skill and the __________ increase in the sales by the team is a measure of her success.
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- a) dominates, poor
- b) condemns, sudden
- c) manages, significant
- d) directs, worthless
- e) overpowers, exceptional
Correct Answer: (c)
8. On being asked for the passport he _________ to his dismay that he had __________ to bring it along with him to the airport.
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- a) shocked, failed
- b) realized, forgotten
- c) pleaded, neglected
- d) understood, lost
- e) recognized, missed
Correct Answer: (b)
9. Helen quickly _________ the career ladder and is now the _________ managing director, the company has ever appointed.
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- a) jumped, shortest
- b) entered, oldest
- c) started, junior most
- d) climbed, youngest
- e) ascended, inexperienced
Correct Answer: (d)
10. A famous economist says that the government should do more to ____________ jobs in the area in order to curb the ___________ rate of unemployment.
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- a) create, rising
- b) need, increasing
- c) employ, high
- d) invent, growing
- e) generate, slowing
Correct Answer: (a)
11. The new general manager was able to break the labour management ______________.
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- a) impasse
- b) impossibility
- c) impersonation
- d) improvisation
Correct Answer: (a)
12. Not until a monkey is several year old ____________ to exhibit signs of independence from its mother.
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- a) it begins
- b) does it begin
- c) beginning
- d) and begins
Correct Answer: (b)
13. When asked if he wanted to plead guilty, the accused replied ___________.
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- a) in the appropriate way
- b) in an irrelevant way
- c) in the affirmative
- d) monotonously
Correct Answer: (c)
14. I could not make _________ what he had said.
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- a) up
- b) out
- c) away
- d) sense
Correct Answer: (b)
15. Rahim went cycling _________ it was raining.
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- a) in spite of
- b) although
- c) despite
- d) since
Correct Answer: (b)
16. These essays are intellectually _____________ and represent various levels of complexity.
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- a) revealing
- b) superior
- c) demanding
- d) persistent
Correct Answer: (a)
17. Many women in the developing countries experience a cycle of poor health that ____________ before they are born and persists through adulthood passing from generation to generation.
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- a) derives
- b) establishes
- c) begins
- d) originates
Correct Answer: (d)
18. The Education Minister emphasised the need to discover and develop each student's ______________ talents.
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- a) dormant
- b) potential
- c) hidden
- d) intrinsic
Correct Answer: (d)
19. After the present tax holiday period ends, the power cost to users may become ______________.
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- a) unreasonable
- b) perishable
- c) less
- d) intolerable
Correct Answer: (a)
20. The soldiers were instructed to _____________ restraint and handle the situation peacefully.
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- a) exercise
- b) control
- c) prevent
- d) enforce
- e) remain
Correct Answer: (a)
21. A team of three scientists _____________ an artificial heart that can conduct blood circulation normally.
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- a) had developed
- b) is developed
- c) has developed
- d) have developed
Correct Answer: (c)
22. 'They ___________ park their car there! It's my garden'.
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- a) can't
- b) don't
- c) needn't
- d) doesn't
Correct Answer: (a)
23. She is one maid-servant ___________ is hard to believe.
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- a) what
- b) who
- c) which
- d) whom
Correct Answer: (c)
24. The mother was anxious ___________ the safety of her son.
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- a) on
- b) about
- c) at
- d) upon
Correct Answer: (b)
25. You will have to catch the morning flight, so you ___________ get ready.
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- a) might
- b) would
- c) may
- d) must
Correct Answer: (d)