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Fill in the Blanks

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Fill in the Blanks Questions

Multiple choice

Directions: Choose the option that fills up the blanks most correctly.

The appointed day has come, and India stands ________ again, after long ________ and struggle, awake, vital free and independent.

  1. free, ecstasy

  2. forward, bliss

  3. forth, slumber

  4. here, reduction
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Terms 'ecstasy' and 'bliss' shall be incorrect if used in the second blank. 'Reduction' doesn't make any sense, but 'slumber' meaning sleep or a nap is good enough to be used in the second blank. Also, 'stand forth' is the correct expression in context to the subject presented in the sentence.

Multiple choice
Directions: For the following question, choose the option that fills up the blank most correctly.
A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light, which flashes across his mind from within, more than the luster of the _________ of bards and sages.

  1. epilogue

  2. firmament

  3. borne

  4. façade

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

The essence of this sentence is that a man should be self-reliant, he should recognize his own thoughts and accordingly act upon them, instead of acting on the infinite thoughts of other poets and philosophers. Therefore, the blank must be replaced by the word that suggests the infinite meaning. 'Firmament' is the sky, viewed poetically as a solid arch or vault, thereby, depicting the vastness or boundless of the sky. Hence, (2) is the answer.

Multiple choice

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

He _________ himself never about consequences, about interests, he gives an independent, genuine verdict.

  1. relinquishes

  2. cumbers

  3. palliates

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

'Never' in first part of the statement and 'genuine verdict' in second part of the statement implies that the blank must be replaced by a negative connotation. Of all these options, 'cumbers' (to burden in a troublesome way) in (2) fits our prediction and gives a cogent meaning to the sentence. Hence, (2) is the answer.

Multiple choice

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

The beautiful fables of the Greeks, being proper creations of the imagination and not of the fancy, are universal _________.

  1. vainglories

  2. prevarications

  3. verities

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

The second part of the sentence 'being proper… the fancy' provides the clue for the blank. Therefore, the blank characterizes the universal reality or truth of these fables. Thus, 'verities' (a principle, belief etc taken to be fundamentally and permanently true) fits our prediction. Hence, (3) is the answer.

Multiple choice

Directions: Choose the best option and fill in the blank.

In the last three hundred years, man has created a magnificent industrial society, produced machines that do much of the work for him and _______.

  1. gathering an ever-increasing knowledge of the universe

  2. an ever-increasing knowledge of the universe has been gathered

  3. gathered an ever-increasing knowledge of the universe

  4. has gathered an ever-increasing knowledge of the universe

  5. did gather an ever-increasing knowledge of the universe
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

'Created...produced...gathered'.

Multiple choice

Directions: Choose the best option and fill in the blank.

At the beginning of economic growth, there are changes ________, in the work that they perform and in the manner in which they live.

  1. in what people consume

  2. in the pattern of what people consume

  3. in people's consumption pattern

  4. in the consumption pattern of people

  5. in the pattern of consumption of people
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

'In the pattern...in the work...in the manner'.