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Fill in the Blanks

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Fill in the Blanks Questions

Multiple choice

Directions: In the following question, four statements with blanks are given. Choose the option which fills in the blanks, the maximum number of times.

A. The manager was ________ with the task of placating the warring factions of the trade union. B. Soon after the debacle, he was ________ of all his powers and was forced to go on a prolonged leave. C. The government has ________ its equity stake in several PSUs. D. ________ of his authority, he was useless.

  1. assigned

  2. stripped off

  3. put

  4. given
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

While the term suited to fill in the first blank is 'assigned', rest of the blanks can only be filled using term 'stripped off' to make sense. This marks term 'stripped off' given in option (2) as most valid of the given choices.

Multiple choice

Directions: In the following question, four statements with blanks are given. Choose the option which fills in the blanks, the maximum number of times.

A. He behaves as if he is an exceptionally ________ person incapable of understanding even basic Maths. B. The room had a very ________ appearance due to the strange colours used. C. Your ________ replies were music to the professor’s ears. D. In a cosmopolitan society, you cannot afford to be ________ and witless.

  1. dumb

  2. mournful

  3. intelligent

  4. drab
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

The word suitable to fit in sentence A is ‘dumb’. The word suitable for sentence B is ‘drab’. The word required to replace blank in sentence C is ‘intelligent’. The last sentence is appropriately filled in by term ‘dumb’. This marks ‘dumb’, option (1) as word used in most of the blanks.

Multiple choice

Directions: Choose the appropriate word from the options given below and fill in the blank.

And why did the police suspect you? It just does not make any _____ to me.

  1. point

  2. reason

  3. sense

  4. truth
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

The sentence implies that the action occured is not normal which is not understandable by the normal mind. Sense is the knowledge or thinking process that a normal mind possesses. Reason involves a lot more thinking.