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Fill in the Blanks

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Fill in the Blanks Questions

Multiple choice

Choose the most appropriate word to fill in blank (viii).

Directions: Read the following paragraph carefully.

Man is born free but everywhere he is in chains. These are the chains put (i) _____ him by laws and rules of society. (ii) _____ must find his freedom of action with discipline for his own (iii) _______ and for the good of the whole community. It may appear that discipline hinders freedom, but we should (iv) _______ that freedom does not mean license to do anything. It does not mean unchecked liberty to do what one (v) ____. Freedom involves (vi) _______ duties. Unless we look after these duties, there can be no real freedom in any civilized society. Man (vii) _______ in society. He must follow (viii) _____ rules if he wants to enjoy real freedom.

  1. its

  2. it

  3. itself

  4. himself
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A Correct answer
Explanation

The sentence 'He must follow (viii) _____ rules' requires a possessive adjective to show whose rules are being followed. 'Its' refers to society's rules. 'It' is a pronoun, 'itself' is reflexive, and 'himself' refers to the wrong noun.

Multiple choice

Choose the most appropriate word to fill in blank (vi).

Directions: Read the following paragraph carefully.

Man is born free but everywhere he is in chains. These are the chains put (i) _____ him by laws and rules of society. (ii) _____ must find his freedom of action with discipline for his own (iii) _______ and for the good of the whole community. It may appear that discipline hinders freedom, but we should (iv) _______ that freedom does not mean license to do anything. It does not mean unchecked liberty to do what one (v) ____. Freedom involves (vi) _______ duties. Unless we look after these duties, there can be no real freedom in any civilized society. Man (vii) _______ in society. He must follow (viii) _____ rules if he wants to enjoy real freedom.

  1. some

  2. much

  3. more

  4. less
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A Correct answer
Explanation

'Freedom involves (vi) _______ duties' - 'some' is the only quantifier that works grammatically and logically. 'Much' is for uncountable nouns, 'more' requires a comparison, and 'less' is the opposite of what the sentence intends.

Multiple choice

Choose the most appropriate word to fill in blank (vi).

Directions: Read the following paragraph carefully.

Nature (i) _____ an inexhaustible source of sweetness and beauty. All the sweetness and beauty (ii) ________ by man is only a poor imitation of nature’s original beauty. Nature offers (iii) _____ all the sweetness and glory of form, colour, sound and sight etc. What can be (iv) _____ than the soft petals of a newly (v) ______ rose? No music made by man (vi) ______ as soothing as the gentle (vii) ____ of a sparkling stream (viii) ______ through a landscape.

  1. could be

  2. can be

  3. would be

  4. way be
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B Correct answer
Explanation

 The tense of the passage is present. So. option 2 is the correct answer. Option 4 is out of context and is incorrect.

Multiple choice

Choose the most appropriate word to fill in blank (iii).

Directions: Read the following paragraph carefully.

Nature (i) _____ an inexhaustible source of sweetness and beauty. All the sweetness and beauty (ii) ________ by man is only a poor imitation of nature’s original beauty. Nature offers (iii) _____ all the sweetness and glory of form, colour, sound and sight etc. What can be (iv) _____ than the soft petals of a newly (v) ______ rose? No music made by man (vi) ______ as soothing as the gentle (vii) ____ of a sparkling stream (viii) ______ through a landscape.

  1. we

  2. our

  3. us

  4. ourselves
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C Correct answer
Explanation

'Nature offers (iii) _____ all the sweetness' requires an object pronoun after the verb 'offers'. 'Us' is the correct object form. 'We' is subject, 'our' is possessive, and 'ourselves' is reflexive.

Multiple choice

Choose the most appropriate word to fill in blank (vii).

Directions: Read the following paragraph carefully.

Nature (i) _____ an inexhaustible source of sweetness and beauty. All the sweetness and beauty (ii) ________ by man is only a poor imitation of nature’s original beauty. Nature offers (iii) _____ all the sweetness and glory of form, colour, sound and sight etc. What can be (iv) _____ than the soft petals of a newly (v) ______ rose? No music made by man (vi) ______ as soothing as the gentle (vii) ____ of a sparkling stream (viii) ______ through a landscape.

  1. will murmur

  2. murmuring

  3. murmured

  4. have murmured
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B Correct answer
Explanation

'the gentle (vii) ____ of a sparkling stream' - 'murmuring' is a gerund acting as a noun to describe the sound. 'Will murmur' is future, 'murmured' is past tense, and 'have murmured' is present perfect - none fit as a noun.

Multiple choice

Directions: Select the correct option to fill in the blank in the following sentence.

The boys _______ a match instead of doing their homework.

  1. are playing

  2. play

  3. have playing

  4. have played
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A Correct answer
Explanation

Present Continuous Tense is used to express the idea that something is happening now. Continuous form has to be used to maintain parallelism with the rest of the sentence. Option 3 is incorrect as 'have' is used with third form of verb or with 'been + base form of verb + ing'.