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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).

His party has received the worst _______ since independence and his position as party president has become __________.

  1. below, powerless

  2. impetus, impressive

  3. support, fettered

  4. drubbing, precarious

  5. setback, vulnerable
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

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

Multiple choice

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

It is further ________ by the fact that a newspaper is as much an advertising medium as a vehicle for day to day ________.

  1. substantiated, knowledge

  2. destroyed, training

  3. deepened, business

  4. aggravated, progress

  5. compounded, news
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

The sentence talks about two main uses of newspapers, one of which is given as advertising and the other should be news, i.e. knowledge or information. 

Multiple choice

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

The role of Extra Sensory Perception (ESP) in ________ us about the ________ events is sometimes not clearly ________.

  1. telling, know, seen

  2. clarifying, occurrence, seen

  3. warning, future, understood

  4. warning, past, appreciated

  5. alerting, coming, defined
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

‘Warning’ us about the ‘future’ events, makes coherent sense, as does (the role of ESP) not clearly ‘understood’. 

Multiple choice

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

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

  5. head high, strains
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Only a negative word will go along with ‘and struggle’. ‘Slumber’ fits in and this leads to ‘awake’ now and ‘stand forth’ again’. 

Multiple choice

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

You have said that art is ill, that Picasso is ________ and that his paintings are only a ________ for him.

  1. mad, therapy

  2. useless, joy

  3. good, beauty

  4. harmless, solution

  5. redundant, pastime
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

The statement should have all the fillers in the same flow as the idea goes in expression ‘art is ill’. ‘Useless’ seems to fit in as does his art only being a ‘joy’ for him. 

Multiple choice

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

Do you see in this very mixed phenomenon any ________ of a new ________ for modern civilisation, a new possibility of ________?

  1. sight; concern; mass

  2. reflux; budding; life

  3. hope; flowering; growth

  4. wane; profusion; evolution

  5. apprehension; problem; redundancy
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

In option (3), all the three fillers are in the same flow – a hope; a new flowering; a new possibility of ‘growth’.

Multiple choice

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

Hume is not content with reducing the ________ of a causal connection to experience of frequent conjunction; he proceeds to argue that such experience does not ________ the expectation of similar conjunctions in the future.

  1. instance; rationalise

  2. evidence; justify

  3. boundaries; preclude

  4. validity; extend

  5. conclusion; exculpate
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Hume is not content with reducing the ‘evidence’ (proof) of a causal connection (cause and effect) that is linked to experience of 'frequent conjunctions' (two things occurring together). There is no rational explanation (justification) to expect similar conjunction in future (as there is no 'evidence' of such causal connection).

Multiple choice

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

The Great Train Robbery appeared almost ________ compared to the ________ wave of terror that swept over Belgium in the early 1980s.

  1. lacerated, disastrous

  2. excusable, unarmed

  3. innocuous, sterile

  4. harmless, brutal

  5. incendiary, nocuous
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

The clue word in the sentence is 'compared', which implies that the two blanks must display two contrasting features. ‘Harmless’ and ‘brutal’ present such a contrast.

Multiple choice

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

The ________ freemasons retained this classification in their so–called degrees; Freemasons also start out as ________ and then rise by ________ to the status of journeyman and master.

  1. ruinous; inured; increments

  2. speculative; apprentices; degrees

  3. inquisitive; veteran; accretion

  4. apathetic; novice; crescents

  5. oblivious; aspirants; upgradation
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

The first filler regarding ‘freemason’ can’t be negative. ‘Speculative’ and ‘inquisitive’ both fit the first blank. The operative word for the second blank is 'rise'. ‘Apprentices’ will rise by ‘degrees’ to become masters. 

Multiple choice

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

The use of laser technology is not as simple as it sounds; it has proved very ________ to use satellites to position equipment in space that can destroy the ________ controls of enemy aircraft.

  1. herculean; random

  2. difficult; steering

  3. facile; navigating

  4. conducive; manageable

  5. cretinous; instrumental
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

'Not as simple as it sounds' implies that laser technology has proved to be ‘herculean’ or ‘difficult’. ‘Steering controls of aircraft' fits in the given sentence.

Multiple choice

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

It would seem that absolute qualities in art ________ us that we cannot escape viewing works of art in ________ of time and circumstance.

  1. edify; an exemplar

  2. frighten; truancy

  3. confuse; a welter

  4. elude; a context

  5. abash; consonance
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Option (4): ‘That we cannot escape’ means that the second part of the statement explains the concept in the first part. Absolute qualities in art 'elude' us means that we cannot escape ‘in a context of time and circumstance’.

Multiple choice

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

The international art market is ________ with forged works of art, some of which are so convincing that even the experts can be ________.

  1. awash; deceived

  2. emphasise; staunched

  3. featured; questioned

  4. figured; unsuspected

  5. malingered; humbugged
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

 Option (1): The international art market is flooded or ‘awash’ with fake masterpieces or ‘forged art’. Some of these appear so genuine that even experts may be ‘deceived’. 

Multiple choice

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

Among the properties of individual things, some are _____, other accidental; the accidental properties of a thing are those it can lose without losing its _____ such as wearing a hat, if you are a man.

  1. deliberate; property

  2. benevolent; demeanour

  3. enforced; personality

  4. essential; identity

  5. gradual; characteristic
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

‘Essential’ contrasts with ‘accidental’ as a type of property. Those it can lose without losing its ‘identity’ also makes sense.

Multiple choice

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

It is one of the paradoxes in the ways of earth and sea that that a process seemingly so _____, so _____ in nature can result in an act of creation.

  1. destructive; catastrophic

  2. ruinous; serendipitous

  3. calamitous; salutary

  4. formulative; constructive

  5. devastating; noxious

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

Option (1): The operative word in this sentence is “paradox”, which presents a contrast. As the process has ‘paradoxically’ resulted in an act of creation, the process has to be destructive. As both the blanks are in continuity, both should be negative. The suggested fillers here eminently meet the requirement.

Multiple choice

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

'My Experiments with Truth' is a/an ________ autobiography in which the author traces his fight against _____, his _____ succumbing, his devotional attachment to India and God and his people.

  1. flamboyant; temptations; frequent

  2. ostentations; enticement; sporadic

  3. conceited; incentives; incessant

  4. unpretentious; temptations; intermittent

  5. emulous; determinants; occasional
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

'My Experiments with Truth' and ‘devotional attachment to India and God and his people‘ suggest that a positive word fills the first blank. Also, the fight has to be against evil. ‘Unpretentious’ meaning simple; therefore replaces the first blank and ‘temptations’ fills the second.