Fill in the Blanks Questions

Multiple choice
  1. confidence

  2. optimism

  3. idealism

  4. elation

  5. realism

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

Correct; in the beginning of his profession, the speaker has many ideals.

Multiple choice
  1. lucrative

  2. noble

  3. altruistic

  4. enviable

  5. demanding

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

Correct; the journalists think that their job is very noble because they dish out the evils and miseries of the society.

Multiple choice
  1. erudition

  2. comprehension

  3. ignorance

  4. illiteracy

  5. insight

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

Correct; when the journalists give us 'the opinion of the uneducated', they will obviously keep us in touch with the ignorance.

Multiple choice
  1. scepticism

  2. cynicism

  3. pessimism

  4. agnosticism

  5. optimism

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

Correct; the word means 'to question or doubt all accepted opinions'. The following lines make clear that the journalists give the opinions of the uneducated, which goes against the strain of the first part of the sentence: 'the profession being noble'. So, Charlie's doubt about the journalist's idea of the profession being noble is correct.

Multiple choice
  1. imbeciles

  2. ignominious

  3. buffoons

  4. ignoramuses

  5. tricksters

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

Correct; the word is in sync with the preceding word 'ignorance' as the journalists voice the views of the uneducated who are considered ignorant.

Multiple choice
  1. haphazardly

  2. randomly

  3. prudently

  4. casually

  5. impetuously

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

Correct; as the representatives were chosen by lot, so there was no question of making the decision consciously.

Multiple choice
  1. great

  2. lesser

  3. little

  4. few

  5. huge

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

Correct; the population being very small, there was practically no diversity.

Multiple choice
  1. favoured

  2. condemned

  3. repudiate

  4. detested

  5. derided

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

Correct; the two philosophers did not like democracy because they did not have faith in the wisdom of the mob.

Multiple choice
  1. susceptible

  2. resistant

  3. oblivious

  4. responsible

  5. impervious

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

Correct; this word suggests that in direct democracy, people are easily influenced by those leaders who appeal to their popular desires and prejudices.

Multiple choice
  1. enact

  2. caricatures

  3. mimics

  4. personates

  5. assumes

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

Correct; the word correctly explains that a bots mimic the clicks very expertly and they pass off as real clicks.

Multiple choice
  1. phony

  2. artificial

  3. genuine

  4. pseudo

  5. authentic

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

Correct; the word describes how the tweets or likes are not done by real human beings, but by a software as the humans do.

Multiple choice
  1. advance

  2. restrain

  3. postpone

  4. accelerate

  5. delay

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

Correct; a great number of accounts and tweets on the web delay the human traffic.

Multiple choice
  1. benefits

  2. perils

  3. travails

  4. probabilities

  5. blessings

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

Correct; it is really difficult to distinguish between human traffic and artificial traffic for which the clients have to pay unnecessarily.

Multiple choice
  1. blocked

  2. encouraged

  3. regulated

  4. eclipsed

  5. underestimated

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

Correct; the artificial clicks and accounts by bots have surpassed the human traffic on the web.