Fill in the Blanks

As we are talking about the early morning light, the filler cannot be ‘brilliance’ or ‘harshness’ or 'glare'. And since the light makes the room larger and cosier, ‘transformed’ will be the best word for the second blank. Extirpated means to destroy/abolish. This does not fit with the rest of the sentence. Hence, the answer is (5).

The first part of the sentence highlights the positive aspect, whereas the latter part is negative as indicated by 'most undignified diseases'. It implies that some positive effort has gone into handling something negative.  So, the word 'tackling' best suits here.

Here, the key word is ‘worst’. We can easily rule out options (1), (2) and (3). And ’precarious’ is a better expression in the second place.

Jury means a group of judges. Jury is a colleective noun. Thus, here it acts as a single unit. Hence, we use 'has', rather than 'have'.

'Women' is plural for 'woman'. Hence, it needs plural verb.

'The majority' means singular subject. Hence, it needs singular verb.

In case of 'some', verb used is either singular or plural depending upon the nearest subject. Here the nearest subject is 'books', i.e. plural subject. So, verb used should be plural.

In case of correlative conjunction 'neither - nor', the verb relates to the second subject. Hence, we use the verb "Is". This is especially the case when we have a choice of two items as indicaed by "tea nor coffee".

'The growing percentage' is singular subject. Hence, it needs singular verb.

'Public' is singular collective noun. Hence, here we need singular verb.

'Most of' is followed by plural verb.

Here the subject is 'the major problem', i.e. singular subject. Hence, it needs singular auxiliary verb.

'People' means plural noun. Plural noun takes plural verb. Hence, we use like and play.

'Children' is plural for 'child'. Hence, here we need plural verb.

Conjunction 'and' means plural subject, and it always takes plural verb.