English Language

Fill in the Blanks

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Fill in the Blanks Questions

Multiple choice

Directions: The sentence below has one or two blanks; each blank indicates that something has been omitted. Beneath the sentence are five words or sets of words. Choose the word or set of words for each blank that best fits the meaning of the sentence as a whole.

The Indian caste system is complicated by the ________ of the caste structure incongruous to the _______ of the local sub castes.

  1. camaraderie – occasions

  2. vagueness – specificity

  3. mileage – teapoy

  4. jaeger – details

  5. ambiguity – handle
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Incongruous means contradictory. Thus, both blanks have to be opposite in meaning which takes us directly to option (2) which is the answer.

Multiple choice

Directions: Select the most appropriate fillers for the blanks such that the sentence makes coherent sense.

At a public meeting where the great masses are gathered together, the best speaker is not he, whose way of ________ a subject is most akin to the spirit of intellectuals who may happen to be present, but the speaker who knows how to win the ________ of the masses.

  1. dealing, laurels

  2. approaching, heart

  3. talking, strength

  4. understanding, mind

  5. impinging, accolades
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Of all the options for the second blank, ‘heart’ or ‘mind’ is appropriate, which leaves us with options (2) and (4) as the possible correct answers. For the first blank, the word ‘approaching’ is more appropriate than ‘understanding’ as at a public meeting, one must approach the subject in such a way that it should win the heart of the masses. Hence, (2) is the answer.

Multiple choice

Directions: Select the most appropriate fillers for the blanks such that the sentence makes coherent sense.

In a way, science might be described as ___________ thinking applied to nature; we are looking for natural conspiracies for connection among apparently ________ data.

  1. rational, hard

  2. imaginative, original

  3. critical, inaccurate

  4. paranoid, disparate

  5. analytical, cognate
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Semi-colon is the operative sign in the sentence; which implies that the second part of the sentence is an explanation to the first part. ‘Conspiracies’ in the second part of the sentence provides clue for the first blank. Only among different or distinct data do we will look for connections, which are provided by the field of science. The filler has to be negative. Then we are looking for connections among apparently unconnected data. ‘Disparate’ (different, dissimilar, diverse) in option (4) means just the same. Therefore, it fits our prediction for the second blank. Hence, (4) is the answer.