English Language

Fill in the Blanks

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Fill in the Blanks Questions

Multiple choice

Directions: Select the option that fills in the blanks most suitably (in the same order).

And it was Clive who was given the job of __________ the __________ that was known as the black hole of Kolkata.

  1. avenging, tragedy

  2. revenging, incidence

  3. placating, doom

  4. punishing, hooligans

  5. managing, comedy

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

Use of 'the black hole' gives clue to some negative filler for the second blank. 'Avenging' the 'tragedy' makes coherent sense.

Multiple choice

Directions: Select the option that fills in the blanks most suitably (in the same order).

Letters to the editor should be ________ in style and quite ________.

  1. low, high

  2. florid, torrid

  3. lucid, objective

  4. absolute, perfect

  5. formal, concise

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

This option contains words 'lucid' and 'objective', which are appropriate to be used in context of letter to the editor. This is a perfect match for describing characteristics of letter to editor. 

Multiple choice

Directions: Choose the best option to fill in the blanks.

The ________ of religion expressed by Epicures and Lucretius is not altogether easy to understand, if one accepts the conventional accounts of the ________ of the Greek religion and ritual.

  1. symbolism, enigma

  2. adulation, interrogation

  3. hatred, cheerfulness

  4. trauma, grandness

  5. implacability, reconnaissance
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

'Not easy to understand' makes it necessary for the two fillers to be antonymous. Both the suggested fillers meet the requirement. Given the 'cheerfulness' of conventional accounts of their religion, the philosophers' hatred is what is surprising. 

Multiple choice

Directions: Choose the best option to fill in the blanks.

The impact of the recently published collection of essays, written during and about the last presidential campaign, is lessened by its timing; it comes too late to affect us with its ________ and too soon for us to read it out of historical ________.

  1. foresight, anxiety

  2. veracity, respect

  3. assuredness, skepticism

  4. immediacy, curiosity

  5. revelation, surfeit
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

The impact of the publication of the essays about the presidential campaigns is less than what it might have been, had it been published either earlier or much later than at present. If it had been published earlier, it would have had the merit of topicality. If it had been published much later, it would have had historical value. The pair of words which gives this meaningful sense to the sentence is ‘immediacy’ and ‘curiosity’. 

Multiple choice

Directions: Choose the best option to fill in the blanks.

When what “Mark Twain” was writing was in circuit with his ________ perceptions he was superb; the breaking of the circuit always threw him into extemporization, which meant that fiction fell away into ________ and satire into ________.

  1. wildest, tranquility, staid

  2. faulty, rationality, slack

  3. minimising, frugality, parody

  4. deepest, extravaganza, burlesque

  5. keen, prodigality, asinine
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

The first part of the sentence is positive, whereas the latter part is comic or derisive, as is indicated by the word ‘satire’ in the latter part of the sentence. ‘Deepest’ perception makes the positive part, while ‘extravaganza’ and ‘burlesque’ make the latter 

Multiple choice

Directions: Choose the best option to fill in the blanks.

If every perception is a case of knowledge, then evidently there are no _____, and where there is an empirical _____, say between Jones who finds the wind chilly and Smith who finds it warm, both must in a sense be right.

  1. apparition, agreement

  2. datum, congruity

  3. illusions, disagreement

  4. facts, dispute

  5. assertions, accidence
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

'Illusion' or misconception would suit lack of knowledge and hence, replace the first blank. Also, “disagreement” replaces the second blank because two people have different perception of the same thing. 

Multiple choice

Directions: In the following sentence, there are two blank spaces. Find out which pair of words can be used to fill in the blanks in the sentence in the same sequence to make the sentence meaningful and complete.

Shakespeare's ________ of Richard III is so ________ that it is difficult to imagine that the ruler had been dead for more than a century before the Bard cast him as the central character in one of his plays.

  1. caricature, inventive

  2. expression, droll

  3. depiction, vivid

  4. rendition, candid

  5. treatment, poignant

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

The first part of the sentence (containing both missing words) must explain why it is difficult to imagine that Richard III had been dead for so long when Shakespeare wrote the play. A vivid (lifelike or realistic) depiction (characterization or description) of the ruler would provide just such an explanation. 

Multiple choice

Directions: In the following sentence, there are two blank spaces. Find out which pair of words can be used to fill in the blanks in the sentence in the same sequence to make the sentence meaningful and complete.

When listening to a medieval Gregorian chant, the listener does not encounter the composer's individual personality; _____, the chant merely _____ both the musical and religious rules of the period.

  1. moreover, ricochet

  2. rather, embodies

  3. instead, belies

  4. in other words, reverberate

  5. for him, reverberates
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

The operative word in this sentence is 'merely', which calls for a contrast between the first and the second clause. The first blank should set up that contrast. 'Rather' does it eminently. 'Embodies' fits in coherently. 

Multiple choice

Directions: Fill the gaps in the passage below with the most appropriate words from the options given for each gap. The right words are the ones used by the author. Be guided by the author's overall style and meaning when you choose the answers.

On Nuemann and Morgenstern assume a decision framework in which all options are thoroughly considered, each option being independent of the others, with a numerical value derived for the utility of each possible outcome (these outcomes electing, in turn, all possible combinations of choices). The decision is then made to maximise the expected utility. (1) _____, such a model reflects major simplifications of the way decisions are made in the real world. Humans, not able to process information as quickly and effectively as the model assumes, tend not think (2) _____ as easily as the model calls for; they often deal with a particular option without really assessing its (3) ________ and when they do assess alternatives, they may be extremely nebulous about their criteria of evaluation.

  1. Regrettably

  2. Firstly

  3. Obviously

  4. Apparently

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

The sentence following the blank sums up the idea expressed in the passage above, therefore the blank must begin with 'obviously'. Hence, option (3) is the answer.

Multiple choice

Directions: Fill the gaps in the passage below with the most appropriate words from the options given for each gap. The right words are the ones used by the author. Be guided by the author's overall style and meaning when you choose the answers.

On Nuemann and Morgenstern assume a decision framework in which all options are thoroughly considered, each option being independent of the others, with a numerical value derived for the utility of each possible outcome (these outcomes electing, in turn, all possible combinations of choices). The decision is then made to maximise the expected utility. (1) _____, such a model reflects major simplifications of the way decisions are made in the real world. Humans, not able to process information as quickly and effectively as the model assumes, tend not think (2) _____ as easily as the model calls for; they often deal with a particular option without really assessing its (3) ________ and when they do assess alternatives, they may be extremely nebulous about their criteria of evaluation.

  1. quantitatively

  2. systematically

  3. scientifically

  4. analytically

  5. logistically
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

The phrase in first passage - 'these outcomes electing, in turn, all possible combinations of choices' provides clue for this blank. As a number of combinations are possible and somebody using that model would have to consider only one option at a time, therefore 'quantitatively' in option (1) fits our prediction.

Multiple choice

Directions: Fill the gaps in the passage below with the most appropriate words from the options given for each gap. The right words are the ones used by the author. Be guided by the author's overall style and meaning when you choose the answers.

On Nuemann and Morgenstern assume a decision framework in which all options are thoroughly considered, each option being independent of the others, with a numerical value derived for the utility of each possible outcome (these outcomes electing, in turn, all possible combinations of choices). The decision is then made to maximise the expected utility. (1) _____, such a model reflects major simplifications of the way decisions are made in the real world. Humans, not able to process information as quickly and effectively as the model assumes, tend not think (2) _____ as easily as the model calls for; they often deal with a particular option without really assessing its (3) ________ and when they do assess alternatives, they may be extremely nebulous about their criteria of evaluation.

  1. implications

  2. disadvantages

  3. utility

  4. alternatives

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

In the light of above discussion, 'alternatives' in option (4) replaces the blank cogently, hence the answer.

Multiple choice

Directions: Select the option that fills in the blanks most suitably (in the same order).

The ________ were ______, and every dollar had to be saved for the development of the country.

  1. payments, inconspicuous

  2. revenues, meager

  3. proceedings, petty

  4. incomes, expressive

  5. stipends, middling
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

‘Every dollar had to be saved’ is a catch phrase here. Keeping this phrase in mind, if we compare all the given options, the answer comes out to be (2).