Fill in the Blanks Questions

Multiple choice
  1. pettiness, afflicting

  2. quibbling, tormenting

  3. timidity, animating

  4. magnanimity, vexing

  5. benevolence, pestering

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Correct; the adjectives 'smallness' and 'littleness' suggest a matching adjective 'pettiness' and all these are afflicting us.

Multiple choice
  1. genial, estranged

  2. restless, tractable

  3. morose, complacent

  4. alienated, nomadic

  5. restive, weird

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Correct; both the words are appropriate. We are intellectually estranged and emotionally lost and disturbed.

Multiple choice
  1. improvisation, improvement

  2. imitation, innovation

  3. impracticality, knowledge

  4. improbability, probability

  5. improvement, creation

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Only the phrase more imitation (copy) than innovation (creating original) makes sense here as 'innovation' and 'imitation' stand in direct contrast to each other. This is not the case with the other options. So, option 2 is the correct answer.

Multiple choice
  1. will have left

  2. shall have left

  3. will leave

  4. shall be leaving

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

The tense of the sentence is Future Perfect Tense. It refers to an action that will be completed at some point of time in the future. The subject is first person singular. Hence'shall have left is the appropriate option.

Multiple choice
  1. were returning

  2. had returned

  3. returned

  4. return

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

The tense of the sentence is Past Perfect.The sentence can be divide in two parts. In such sentence as these, the tense of the sentence is Simple Past. Here, second form of verb is used. Hence'returned' is the correct option.

Multiple choice
  1. had arrived

  2. arrived

  3. has arrived

  4. arrives

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

The tense of the sentence is Past Perfect. The sentence can be divide in two parts In such sentence as these, the second tense of the sentence is Simple Past. Here, second form of verb is used. Hence'arrived' is the correct option.