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Fill in the Blanks

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Fill in the Blanks Questions

Multiple choice

Directions: For the following question, choose the option that fills up the blank most correctly.

If baseball is serious about ________ performance-enhancing drugs, it will adopt policies as tough as those in track and field.

  1. giving up

  2. rooting out

  3. setting off

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

Obviously, performance-enhancing drugs should not be used by any sportsperson, so, baseball executives would be serious in rooting them out. Hence, (2) is the answer.

Multiple choice

Directions: For the following question, choose the option that fills up the blank most correctly.

The river was ________ and changed its course after every downpour.

  1. stagnant

  2. abstemious

  3. capricious

  4. antediluvian

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

The latter part of the sentence provides a clue for the blank. As the river changed its course after every downpour, this implies that river was tending to change abruptly and without any apparent reason. As 'capricious' means unpredictable, thus, (3) is the answer.

Multiple choice

Directions: For the following question, choose the option that fills up the blank most correctly.

According to Jeffrey, a novelist should not _____________, for sermonizing has no place in good fiction.

  1. grim

  2. chagrin

  3. interpret

  4. preach
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

The word 'for' in this sentence means 'because'. The phrase 'for sermonizing has no place in good fiction' indicates that the missing word just preceding it must mean the same as sermonize. Among the choices, it is 'preach' which has this meaning, and hence (4) is the answer.

Multiple choice

Directions: Select the option that fills the maximum number of blanks.

A. The local people are always friendly _____ tourists. B. As you grow older your attitude _____ death changes. C. She turned her back _____ the sun. D. Look _____ the sea.

  1. from

  2. for

  3. against

  4. towards
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

The word suitable to fit in blanks in sentences A, B and D is 'towards' and the word suitable to fit in blank in sentence C is 'against'. Therefore, option (4) is the answer.

Multiple choice

Directions: Select the option that fills the maximum number of blanks.

A. _____ a bunch of untrained recruits into an efficient fighting force. B. _____ the pieces of a broken axle. C. Some metals _____ better than others. D. They won the argument by sheer _____ of numbers.

  1. weld

  2. tweak

  3. cock

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

For first three sentences A, B and C, the word suitable to fill in the blank is 'weld' and there is no word suitable to fill in the fourth blanks, therefore, only term 'weld' as given in option (1) is suitable to give us correct answer.

Multiple choice

Directions: For the following question, choose the option that fills up the blank most correctly.

In a way, science might be described as _________ thinking applied to nature, we are looking for natural conspiracies, for connections among apparently _________ data.

  1. national, onerous

  2. imaginative, original

  3. abstract, obscure

  4. paranoid, disparate
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Here again, the second missing word is easier to spot. ‘Looking for connections among apparently – data’ indicates that the author is implying that the data, at first look, do not appear to have any connections. The missing word must therefore mean disconnected. Among the choices for the second missing word, it is disparate that has this meaning. Paranoid means a mental state in which one has a fixation that there is conspiracy against him all around. This word logically completes this ironic sentence, in which the author means that ‘scientists think that nature is indulging in conspiracies against them, hiding the connection that they are looking for in apparently disconnected data’. So, (4) is the answer

Multiple choice

Directions: For the following question, choose the option that fills up the blank most correctly.

It is perilously easy to decry so _________ a historical figure without trying to understand the motives for his reprehensible actions.

  1. exemplary

  2. villainous

  3. efficacious

  4. prosaic

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

(To decry means to condemn). What is the appropriate word that can describe a person who had indulged in reprehensible (meaning highly abhorrent) actions? Among the choices, it is only villainous which is a suitable adjective for such a person. So, (2) is the answer. Prosaic means common, mundane.

Multiple choice

Directions: The following sentence has a blank space and four words or groups of words are given after the sentence. Out of these four choices, select the word or group of words which you consider the most appropriate for the blank space and mark your choice on the Answer Sheet.

To the dismay of all the students, the class monitor was _____berated by the Principal at a school assembly.

  1. critically

  2. ignominiously

  3. prudently

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

The word ignominiously means in a way that causes public disgrace or shame, which fits the context of a student being berated at a school assembly. Critically, prudently, and fortuitously do not carry the connotation of public humiliation required by the sentence.

Multiple choice

Directions: The following sentence has a blank space and four words or groups of words are given after the sentence. Out of these four choices, select the word or group of words which you consider the most appropriate for the blank space and mark your choice on the Answer Sheet.

There are_____parked outside than yesterday.

  1. fewer cars

  2. few cars

  3. less cars

  4. a small number of cars
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Cars are countable nouns, so the quantifier fewer must be used instead of less. Few cars would imply a negative or insufficient amount, whereas fewer cars is the correct comparative form when comparing to yesterday.