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Fill in the Blanks

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Fill in the Blanks Questions

Multiple choice

Directions: Choose the word or set of words for each blank that best fits the meaning of the sentence as a whole.

Inspired interim responses to hitherto unknown problems, new deal economic stratagems became ________ as a result of bureaucratization, their flexibility and adaptability destroyed by their transformation into rigid policies.

  1. politicized

  2. consolidated

  3. ossified

  4. ungovernable

  5. streamlined
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

"...their flexibility and adaptability destroyed by their transformation into rigid policies." Ossification means to turn to bone or become rigid and stagnant.

Multiple choice

Directions: Choose the word or set of words for each blank that best fits the meaning of the sentence as a whole.

Actual events in the history of life on Earth are accidental. In that outcome embodies just one _________ among millions; yet each outcome can be ___________ interpreted.

  1. coincidence … randomly

  2. relationship … predictably

  3. fact … readily

  4. happening .. uniquely

  5. possibility … rationally
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
E Correct answer
Explanation

If you see and analyse the word "Yet",it can not be "uniquely" interpreted. So, one "Possibility" among millions' makes sense ; yet each outcome can be "rationally" interpreted.

Multiple choice

Directions: Choose the word or set of words for each blank that best fits the meaning of the sentence as a whole.

The techniques now available to livestock breeders will continue to be ______, but will probably be _______ by new ones under development.

  1. fruitful … reversed

  2. refined …upgraded

  3. inconvenient … reassessed

  4. used … supplemented

  5. harmless … improved
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

A is wrong because of "reverse". You replace something by new one not reverse. B is wrong because refined and upgraded are somewhat synonymous. But indicates that both that blank can not be synonymous. D is correct because it says that available techniques will be used until new ones are added into them to improve them.

Multiple choice

Directions: Choose the word or set of words for each blank that best fits the meaning of the sentence as a whole.

In the machinelike world of classical physics, the human intellect appears _____, since the mechanical nature of classical physics does not _________ creative reasoning, the very ability that had made the formulation of classical principles possible.

  1. anomalous … allow for

  2. abstract … speak for

  3. anachronistic … deny

  4. enduring .. value

  5. contradictory … exclude
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Contradictory doesn't fit in this context and, when paired with exclude, the sentence makes no sense. Opton 1 is correct as the words logically fit into the blanks.

Multiple choice

Directions: Choose the word or set of words for each blank that best fits the meaning of the sentence as a whole.

The state is a network of exchanged benefits and beliefs, ________ between rulers and citizens based on those laws and procedures that are ________ to the maintenance of community.

  1. a compromise … inimical

  2. an interdependence … subsidiary

  3. a counterpoint … incidental

  4. an equivalence … prerequisite

  5. a reciprocity … conductive
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
E Correct answer
Explanation

Reciprocity here refers to exchanged beleifs and benefits; and conducive makes sense in the 2nd blank.

Multiple choice

Directions: Choose the word or set of words for each blank that best fits the meaning of the sentence as a whole.

Philosophical problems arise when people ask questions that, though very ________, have certain characteristics in common.

  1. relevant

  2. elementary

  3. abstract

  4. diverse

  5. controversial
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

 (4) is the right choice as the sentence is suggesting that questions asked by people are varied and not similar. So, "Diverse" fits suitably.

Multiple choice

Directions: Choose the word or set of words for each blank that best fits the meaning of the sentence as a whole.

Rumors, embroidered with detail, live on for years, neither denied nor confirmed, until they become accepted as fact even among people not known for their ___________.

  1. insight

  2. obstinacy

  3. introspection

  4. tolerance

  5. credulity
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
E Correct answer
Explanation

The sentence means that Stories which might not be true, but told with details that make them sound true, are often spread around for years without anyone who knows the truth. After a while everyone thinks they are true, even those people who are normally hard to fool. (not credulous)

Multiple choice

Directions: Choose the word or set of words for each blank that best fits the meaning of the sentence as a whole.

Although nothing could be further from the truth, freight railroads have been __________ of ________ the nation’s shift from oil to coal by charging exorbitant fees to transport coal.

  1. accused … impeding

  2. proud … accelerating

  3. guilty … delaying

  4. conscious … contributing to

  5. wary … interfering with
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

A Freight railroads have been accused (criticized) of impeding (blocking, preventing) the nation's shift from oil to coal by charging exorbitant fees to transport coal.C Freight railroads have been guilty (convicted) of delaying (postponing) the nation's shift from oil to coal by charging exorbitant fees to transport coal.If someone is guilty, then there is no disagreement about the truth. If someone is accused, then there can be disagreement. So, the first fits the logic of the sentence.

Multiple choice

Directions: Choose the word or set of words for each blank that best fits the meaning of the sentence as a whole.

While she initially suffered the fate of many pioneers- the incomprehension of her colleagues - octogenarian Nobel laureate Barbara Mc Clintock has lived to _____________ the triumph of her once ____________ scientific theories.

  1. descry … innovative

  2. regret .. insignificant

  3. perpetuate … tentative

  4. enjoy … authoritative

  5. savor … heterodox
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
E Correct answer
Explanation

Here, savor refers to repute. As "incomprehension" suggests that earlier reputation was not build. Heterodox restates the earlier statement "incomprehension" as it means not in accordance with established or accepted doctrines or opinions. So, option 5 makes sense here.

Multiple choice

Directions: Choose the word or set of words for each blank that best fits the meaning of the sentence as a whole.

Changes of fashion and public taste are often __________ and resistant to analysis, and yet they are among the most ________ gauges of the state of the public’s collective consciousness.

  1. transparent ….useful

  2. ephemeral …sensitive

  3. faddish … underutilized

  4. arbitrary … problematic

  5. permanent … reliable
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Changes of fashion and public taste are often aephemeral (short-lived) and resistant to analysis, and yet they are among the most  sensitive (fits with gauges) gauges of the state of the public’s collective consciousness.

Multiple choice

Directions: Choose the word or set of words for each blank that best fits the meaning of the sentence as a whole.

A leading chemist believes that many scientists have difficulty with stereochemistry because much of the relevant nomenclature is _________ , in such a way that it combines concepts that should be kept ____________.

  1. obscure … interrelated

  2. specialized … intact

  3. subtle … inviolate

  4. descriptive … separate

  5. imprecise … discrete
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
E Correct answer
Explanation

A leading chemist believes that many scientists have difficulty with stereochemistry because much of the relevant nomenclature is imprecise (vague or ill-defined) , in such a way that it combines concepts that should be kept discrete (secret).

Multiple choice

Directions: Choose the word or set of words for each blank that best fits the meaning of the sentence as a whole.

A war, even if fought for individual liberty and democratic rights, usually requires that these principles be _____, for they are _______ the regimentation and discipline necessary for military efficiency.

  1. espoused … contrary to

  2. suppressed … fulfilled through

  3. suspended … incompatible with

  4. followed … disruptive of

  5. rejected … inherent in
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

A war, even if fought for individual liberty and democratic rights, usually requires that these principles be suspended (temporary give up) for they are incompatible with (as doesn't go with) the regimentation and discipline necessary for military efficiency.

Multiple choice

Directions: Choose the word or set of words for each blank that best fits the meaning of the sentence as a whole.

In many science fiction films, the opposition of good and evil is portrayed as a _________ between technology, which is ___________, and the errant will be of a depraved intellectual.

  1. fusion … useful

  2. struggle … dehumanizing

  3. parallel … unfettered

  4. conflict … beneficent

  5. similarity … malevolent
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Opposition cannot be called fusion or similarity though struggle or conflict are correct. Dehumanizing doesn't fit here whereas Beneficent refers to be beneficial.

Multiple choice

Directions: Choose the word or set of words for each blank that best fits the meaning of the sentence as a whole.

Although often extremely critical of the medical profession as a whole, people are rarely willing to treat their personal doctors with equal _________.

  1. impetuosity

  2. sarcasm

  3. mockery

  4. contempt

  5. condescension
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Here, "extreme criticism" refers to the word contempt. Moreover, "treat with mockery or treat with sarcasm" do not make any sense.