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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)



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