Fill in the blanks...Challenge ..YOURSELF( answers given)

1 Three unknown assailants …….. on motorcycles and opened …….. barely a few metres from where the actor was shooting.

(1) came; shooting
(2) rode; rounds
(3) arrived; fire
(4) approached ; hitting
(5) climbed ; shots

2. The police …… in ….. a car theft case within a matter of two hours of registration of he complaint.

(1) achieved ; solving
(2) victorious ; catching
(3) famed ; arresting
(4) succeeded ; cracking
(5) failed ; assigning

3. The health ministry has approved major expansion of post-graduate seats in key departments of AIIMS to …… the severe …… of specialists across the country.

(1) address ; dearth
(2) cored ; loss
(3) improve ; damage
(4) rectify ; limits
(5) good ; shortage

4. With the …… wedding season, people are leaving no stone unturned to make their wedding cards look …….. .

(1) prolonged ; beyond
(2) ongoing ; special
(3) instant ; great
(4) sudden ; while
(5) estimated ; legible

5. The tourism data ….. that Indians are …… the biggest spenders while on holidays.

(1) says ; within
(2) reveal ; amongst
(3) proclaims ; between
(4) states ; surrounded
(5) speaks ; amid

1. (3) 2. (4) 3. (1) 4. (2) 5. (2) 



Each question below has two blanks,

each blank indicating that something

has been omitted. Choose the set of

words for each blank which best fits

the meaning of the sentence as a whole.


Q.1. The protests were _____ at ______

awareness among the elite and the

educated.

(1) held, generating

(2) aimed, creating

(3) targeted, awakening

(4) focused, building

(5) concentrated, producing


2. While it is ______ possible to inflation index cash entitlements and food

stamps, the ____ nature of food prices

would make it a more difficult process

than envisaged.

(1) theoretically, volatile

(2) absolutely, stable

(3) hypothetically, slow

(4) not, unpredictable

(5) notionally, established


3. The actress is _______ that she has not

only acted opposite her childhood hero,

but has also ______ out a song and

recited a poem on-stage with the living

legend.

(1) overjoyed, belted

(2) morose, sung

(3) ecstatic, written

(4) tense, prepared

(5) elated, made


4. _______ to popular belief that red meat

makes humans ______, scientists have

found that it actually has a calming effect.

(1) Dissimilar, happy

(2) Opposite, intelligent

(3) Contrary, aggressive

(4) Comparable, hostile

(5) Sticking, violent


 5._____ and earlier judgment, the high

courts has directed the state government

to identify natural water resources in the

state and _____ all illegal

encroachments on them.

(1) Remembering, establish

(2) Citing, remove

(3) Cancelling, build

(4) Quoting, destroying

(5) Furthering, maintain


1.(2) 2.(1) 3.(1) 4.(3) 5.(2)

 Each question below has two has two

blanks, each blank indicating that something has

been omitted. Choose the set of words for each

blank which best fits meaning of the sentence as

a whole.


Q1. Behaving in a _____ and serious way,

even in a ____ situation, makes people

respect you.

(1) clam, difficult

(2) steady, angry

(3) flamboyant, tricky

(4) cool, astounding

(5) silly, sound


Q.2. Along with a sharp rise in ____,recession

would eventually result in more men,

women, and children living in _____.

(1) crime, apathy (2) fatalities, poor

(3) deaths, tricky

(4) unemployment, poverty

(5) migrations, streets


Q.3. The government has ______ to provide

financial aid to the ones ______ by

servers floods in the city.

(1) desired, troubled

(2) promised, havoc

(3) failed, affected

(4) wanted, struck

(5) decided, ill


Q.4. An airplane with _____ passengers on

board made an unscheduled ____ as the

airport to which it was it was heading

was covered was covered with thick fog.

(1) Irritable, slip

(2) faulty, stop

(3) variety, halt

(4) tons, wait

(5) numerous, landing


Q.5. Deemed universities _____ huge fees, but

have not been successful in providing

education to our student.

(1) collect, maintaining

(2) pay, better

(3) ask, good

(4) charge, quality

(5) demand, quantitative



answers

1.(1) 2.(4) 3.(3) 4.(5) 5.(4)

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