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Fill in the Blanks Questions

Multiple choice

Fill in the blanks to show the different groups of animals on the basis of what they eat.

 
A. Animals that eat_______ only. Example.grasshopper,cow
B. Animals that eat_______only. Example.lion,eagle
C. Animals that eat_________. Example.monkey, bear

  1. A - animals, B - plant, C - both plants and animals

  2. A - both plants and animals, B - animals, C - plants

  3. A - plants, B - animals, C - both plant and animals

  4. A - plants, B - both plants and animals,C - animals

  5. None of these
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

This is right answer, as here all options are correct. Grasshopper and cow are plant eating animals. Lion and eagle are animal eating and monkey and bear eats both plant as well as animals.

Multiple choice

Directions: The following question contains paragraph with sentence or phrase missing indicated parenthetically. From the alternatives, select the sentence or phrase that best provides the missing link.

Those who argue that New Delhi must throw in its lot with Washington because _______, have at least got honesty on their side.

  1. hanging on to the apron strings of the world's only super power will take us to the high table of global geo-politics

  2. that is the call of the real politic

  3. the latter alone can legitimately bring us out of the vicious circle of poverty

  4. we are now living in a unipolar world and we have no real option to extricate the situation
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

(1) Only (1) is a rather unsavoury statement, calling a spade a spade.

Multiple choice

Directions: The following question contains paragraph with sentence or phrase missing indicated parenthetically. From the alternatives, select the sentence or phrase that best provides the missing link.

There is no area surrounding medical care that has as many experts, most of them hawking some new vitamin or nutritional supplement that will purport to "burn away fat" or transform me into a "muscled man to be envied". You do not have to go farther than the magazines at your home or office to find the vast variety of weight-loss products out there. Yet there is scant evidence for the claims that they make. (_____). It all comes down to the lax rules and regulations for supplements, which are seen as "foods" in the eyes of our advertising regulation system. Lots of money, lots of advertising and enticement, yet very little evidence or results.

  1. Why are they allowed to make these claims?

  2. A regulatory mechanism needs to be put into place to keep a tab on the rhetorical, unsubstantiated claims.

  3. They even go scot free with ridiculous claims sometimes.

  4. And are there any deterrents or penalties for hoodwinking the gullible with highly bloated claims?
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

(1) Exaggerated claims. Naturally the question:  Why are they allowed to make these claims? Answer is in the next line: lax rules and regulations

Multiple choice

Directions: The following question contains paragraph with sentence or phrase missing indicated parenthetically. From the alternatives, select the sentence or phrase that best provides the missing link.

In 1932, Carl David Anderson discovered the first anti-particle - the positron. By the 1950s the anti-proton and the anti-neutron had been discovered. The importance of these discoveries was not just the fact that a scientific theory had been proven. ( _____ ). This energy of mass annihilation is known as photon energy and it promises to be a major source for our energy requirements in the very near future.

  1. More importantly, a new and unprecedented form of energy had been discovered.

  2. It was rather initiation into a new era and a new definition of energy.

  3. It opened a Pandora's Box for future energy requirements.

  4. The importance was rather in finding a new source of energy.
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

(1) “This energy of mass annihilation” is the clue.

Multiple choice

Directions: The following question contains paragraph with sentence or phrase missing indicated parenthetically. From the alternatives, select the sentence or phrase that best provides the missing link.

There are people walking among us who don't care for works of fiction. For them, make-believe makes little sense in a world that is real and far more interesting than (____). In other words they take Oscar Wilde's dictum, “All art is quite useless”, quite seriously.

  1. the stories and novels of the yore

  2. the contrast provided by fact and fiction

  3. even the greatest work of art

  4. the trivial pursuits of a poet's or a storyteller's imagination.
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

(4) “Far more interesting” than the trivial pursuits of a poet's or a storyteller's imagination; (1) is rather restrictive, (2) unrelated, (3) rather extreme.

Multiple choice

Directions: The following question contains paragraph with sentence or phrase missing indicated parenthetically. From the alternatives, select the sentence or phrase that best provides the missing link.

Any classical economist will tell you that for India to go beyond 7 per cent GDP growth, the investment rate and capital productivity need to be stepped up. ______. There is some truth in this. Compared to Southeast Asia and the newly industrialised economies, our productivity rates are abysmal, though improving.

  1. You cannot depend on foreign remittances alone.

  2. Yet the government has placed optimism on the experience of other nations.

  3. And in this respect, the Asian tigers will beat us hands down.

  4. This appears to be a far cry from the unreasonable expectations.
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

(3) “Compared to Southeast Asia” is the clue.