Contextual Clues - 3 (Gapped Sentences)

C1 Week 2 day - 2 (Mod-2)

10 Questions Published

Questions

Question 1 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Fill in the blanks with appropriate words.
The problem of _______ another war has assumed great urgency because of the _______ of nuclear weapons.

  1. winning, growth
  2. preventing, invention
  3. stopping, need
  4. precipitating, disarmament
Question 2 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Fill in the blanks with appropriate words.
The people in the country think that the politicians _______ the institutions and it is their duty to _______ them.

  1. cautioned, save
  2. ruined, rescue
  3. destroyed, protect
  4. annihilated, sustain
Question 3 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Fill in the blanks with appropriate words.
The reforms are meant to promote _______ in production and distribution and to _______ the national economies into the world economy.

  1. awareness, sustain
  2. speed, align
  3. infrastructure, ink
  4. efficiency, integrate
Question 4 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Fill in the blanks with appropriate words.
While arms dealers have been _______ of violating national laws against forgery or domestic export regulations, only one _______ dealer has been brought to court for the crime of violating a UN arms embargo.

  1. prosecuted, alleged
  2. acquitted, licensed
  3. grilled, acquitted
  4. accused, alleged
Question 5 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Fill in the blanks with appropriate words.
Leisure should be utilized not in _______ away the time saved but in _______ in some pleasurable activity.

  1. wasting, engaging
  2. wishing, absorbing
  3. running, involving
  4. sending, believing
Question 6 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Fill in the blanks with appropriate words.
One of the reasons for not declaring it a drought at the outset is the fact that the country has _______ quantity of food grain in _______.

  1. ample, granary
  2. surplus, drought
  3. enough, store
  4. sufficient, stock
Question 7 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

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The political scene in our country is being _______ by the _______ multi-party system.

  1. altered, historic
  2. spoiled, prevailing
  3. abusive, emerging
  4. questioned, gathering
Question 8 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Fill in the blanks with appropriate words.
On _______ of the enquiry, if it is found that the _______ are true, the enquiry officer will report the matter to the higher authority.

  1. demand, findings
  2. completion, allegations
  3. formation, charges
  4. withdrawal, inferences
Question 9 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

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There was a beautiful and fragrant violet that lived _______ amidst other flowers in a _______ garden.

  1. happily, lonely
  2. sadly, splendid
  3. artificially, classy
  4. shyly, destroyed
Question 10 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Fill in the blanks with appropriate words.
He feared neither his _______ nor his _______.

  1. oppressor, enemies
  2. friends, foes
  3. killers, saviours
  4. tears, blood