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Contextual Clues - 4 (Gapped Sentences)

Practice using contextual clues to select appropriate word pairs that complete gapped sentences at C1 level

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Question 1 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Fill in the blanks with appropriate words.
India will have to go much further in its _______ in order to come _______ with its competitors in South Asia.

  1. policies, strong
  2. reforms, level
  3. attempts, powerful
  4. endeavour, daring
Question 2 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Fill in the blanks with appropriate words.
Much love and _________ had gone into _______ one of the most undignified diseases known to man.

  1. devotion, submerging
  2. sympathy, overpowering
  3. discipline, defeating
  4. dedication, tackling
Question 3 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Fill in the blanks with appropriate words.
_________ mob began to form full of angry men _______ confused threats.

  1. A huge, waving
  2. An ugly, gesturing
  3. A listless, shouting
  4. An enthusiastic, whispering
Question 4 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Fill in the blanks with appropriate words.
Biological clocks are of __________ adaptive value to animals since they _____________ nervous and physiological functions of the body.

  1. immense, assumes
  2. great, regulate
  3. ultimate, created
  4. no, governs
Question 5 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Fill in the blanks with appropriate words.
The factor that keeps a country strong in _______ and happy during peaceful times is unity; it is the most _______ heritage of the people.

  1. devastation, creative
  2. difficulty, risky
  3. poverty, absorbing
  4. adversity, precious
Question 6 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Fill in the blanks with appropriate words.
Any reform aimed at the _______ of illiteracy and poverty must strike at their _______ and not at their consequences.

  1. checking, questions
  2. warning, origin
  3. tackling, youth
  4. eradication, roots
Question 7 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Fill in the blanks with appropriate words.
Despite a growing _________ that a lot needs to be done to help those without clean water, a _______ says that more than 34 million people die every year of water borne diseases.

  1. interest, reason
  2. recognition, report
  3. fantasy, review
  4. authority, legend
Question 8 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Fill in the blanks with appropriate words.

Many people believed that spices help ___________ food; however, nutritionists found that most spices were __________ of having any effect on the growth of microbes present in the food.

  1. preserve, incapable
  2. produce, impossible
  3. save, preventive
  4. spoil, probable
Question 9 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Fill in the blanks with appropriate words.
Cunningness is _______ through abnormal behaviour in various _______.

  1. allowed, kinds
  2. developed, things
  3. removed, people
  4. manifested, ways
Question 10 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Fill in the blanks with appropriate words.

Sitting around eating sandwiches at the meeting’s end, the participants seemed most _______ to have been able to _______ their comments about the topic.

  1. elated, state
  2. grateful, reveal
  3. pleased, articulate
  4. aggressive, guess
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