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Fill in the Blanks

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Fill in the Blanks Questions

Multiple choice

Directions: Fill in the blank with appropriate word from the given options.

The jurors were told to ______.

  1. talk all they wanted

  2. speak freely

  3. make lots of expressions

  4. talk with their minds open

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

'Talk with their minds open' appears to be the intended answer meaning to think freely and openly. However, this is an unusual phrasing; more standard would be 'speak freely' or 'keep an open mind'. Options A and C are too informal ('talk all they wanted') or unnatural ('make lots of expressions'). B ('speak freely') is natural but less specific.

Multiple choice

Directions: Fill in the blank.

When Australian cane toads are _______, they release a venom from glands on the back of their heads that has proven to have hallucinogenic effects on potential predators.

  1. retractable

  2. curious

  3. antagonized

  4. satiated

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

The context mentions that the cane toads release venom when they encounter potential predators or threats. Antagonized means provoked or stimulated, which triggers the defensive response of releasing venom.

Multiple choice

Directions: Fill in the blanks.

Although great care is ______ in the investigation of a crime scene, the rapid deterioration of some forms of evidence demands _________.

  1. desirable, haste

  2. unnecessary, swiftness

  3. required, thoroughness

  4. assumed, attention

  5. common, speed
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Although is used in subordinate clause to present a contrast. It means 'despite the fact'. According to the context, great care is needed in the scene of crime. So, both 'desirable' and 'required' fit here. But only 'haste' fits with 'rapid deterioration' in the second blank as it presents a contrast to 'great care'.

Multiple choice

Directions: Fill in the blanks.

At the turn of the eighteenth century, _______ by increased consumption of tea, coffee and sugar worldwide, sugar overtook tobacco as America's most _______ export.

  1. driven, dangerous

  2. influenced, overlooked

  3. spurred, lucrative

  4. propelled, expensive

  5. hindered, desired
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

The sentence presents the reason for the increased consumption of sugar and its consequence. "Propel" means to drive or push something forwards. It fits the 1st blank here. 'Driven' and 'spurred' also fit the 1st blank. But only 'lucrative' (profitable) fits the 2nd blank. So, option 3 is the correct answer.

Multiple choice

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

Despite his _____ of formal training, members of the industry sought out the designer because he offered solutions based on practical ______ rather than textbooks.

  1. abundance, formulae

  2. absence, theory

  3. battery, hearsay

  4. lack, experience

  5. want, academics
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Lack fits the first blank here. The designer was sought out in spite of his 'lack' of formal training. 'Practical experience' is opposite to 'textbook', so it makes sense in the second blank.

Multiple choice

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

Claiming that they talk _____ of trivial matters, the girls in the outdoors club accuse the school's cheerleaders of being ______.

  1. candidly, vacuous

  2. insightfully, irritating

  3. infrequently, predictable

  4. profoundly, cerebral

  5. incessantly, vapid
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
E Correct answer
Explanation

Accuse means to find fault with; blame. So, we need a negative word in the 1st blank. So, 1, 2 and 3 are eliminated. Cerebral means characterized by the use of the intellect. It doesn't fit the 2nd blank here. Vapid means without liveliness or spirit; dull or tedious; boring. So, it fits the 2nd blank.   

Multiple choice

Directions: Fill in the blanks.

Though the counting method used by the federal census is a seemingly ______ issue, because of its importance in determining funding it is also a politically ______ one.

  1. innocuous, viable

  2. ineluctable, volatile

  3. vital, insignificant

  4. arcane, sensitive

  5. obscure, uninteresting
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

The sentence sets up a contrast or nuance about the federal census. An arcane method implies it is obscure or understood by few, while a sensitive political issue explains why it matters for funding.

Multiple choice

Directions: Choose the best option to complete the following sentence.

The problem of world hunger is ____ in sub-Saharan Africa, where one-third of the population is ____ undernourished.

  1. most palatable, perpetually

  2. bleakest, chronically

  3. most tangible, barely

  4. most serious, never

  5. hardiest, slightly
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

All the options are correct for the 1st blank, but only 'chronically' fits the context for the 2nd blank here. 'Perpetually' is too strong a word here. 'Barely', 'slightly' and 'never' are contrary to the context here.

Multiple choice

Directions: Fill in the blanks.

Malcolm's library was both ______ and _______; he had shelf after shelf of titles on every subject.

  1. monotonous, exhaustive

  2. immutable, extensive

  3. varied, voluminous

  4. heterogeneous, limited

  5. diverse, meager
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Correct Answer: varied, voluminous The phrase 'shelf after shelf of titles on every subject' indicates that there were many shelves and they were all filled with books on different subjects. This implies that library must have numerous (voluminous) books on many subjects (varied). This context is best found in option 3. 

Multiple choice

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

One of the most _______ consequences of the Industrial Revolution was that it wiped out the ______ division of society into church, aristocracy and commoners.

  1. dramatic, arcane

  2. innocuous, ancient

  3. radical, endemic

  4. enduring, esoteric

  5. significant, tripartite
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
E Correct answer
Explanation

Options 1, 3 and 5 fit the 1st blank. Tripartite means divided into or consisting of three parts. It fits with 'division of society into church, aristocracy and commoners' as three divisions have been mentioned here.

Multiple choice

Directions: Fill in the blanks.

The effort to meet the world's growing _____ for energy has led corporations to explore new technologies and look for alternate sources of energy in _____ places.

  1. disingenuous, unexploited

  2. thirst, unlikely

  3. need, desultory

  4. demand, unexpected

  5. desire, amorous
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Correct Answer: thirst, unlikey From the sentence, it is clear that the first blank requires a word which means need. The need for energy has led to people looking for alternate sources of energy in unlikely places. Thus, only option two fits. Need or thirst for energy and unlikely fit the blanks correctly.