English Language

Fill in the Blanks

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Fill in the Blanks Questions

Multiple choice

Directions: Choose the correct sentence to complete the dialogue.

Servant: “Master, I want leave for a week as I have to go to my village to see my ailing mother.” Master: “______________.”

  1. I hope you are fine

  2. Oh! You may go. Take these five hundred rupees. You may need them.

  3. Ok! But you have not given me an appropriate reason for leave
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Only option 2 makes sense here as the reason for leave was appropriate.

Multiple choice

Directions: Choose the correct sentence to complete the dialogue.

On seeing a blind man carrying a lantern in his hand, a thoughtless boy said: “O fool! Day and night must be the same for you. Why do you carry a lantern?” Blind man: “_____________.”

  1. It is for others, so that they can see me

  2. It is to light the way for others

  3. Both (1) and (2)
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Option 3 is the correct answer because both (1) and (2) are the correct answers as per the context of the dialogue.

Multiple choice

Complete the following sentence.

The king called the beggar in and ___________ him a seat near him.

Directions: Read the passage and answer the question that follows.

An old beggar reached the gate of the king’s palace. He told the gateman to go and tell the king that his brother had come to see him. The gateman thought that he must be a distant brother of the king. On getting the information, the king called the beggar in and offered him a seat near him. He said to the king, “Hello, older brother! How are you?” The king smilingly said, “I am very comfortable. How about you?” The beggar answered, “I am a little bit in trouble. The palace in which I reside, has worn itself out. It can fall anytime. I had thirty two servants. All of them have left me one by one. All the five queens have also grown old.

On hearing this, the king ordered to give one hundred rupees to the beggar. The beggar said, “one hundred rupees are very less.” At this the king said, “This time the kingdom has faced a drought”. The beggar said, “Come with me across the seven seas. There are gold mines. As soon as I step into the oceans, they will get dry up. You have already seen the power of my feet.” Then the king ordered that the beggar be paid one thousand rupees. After the beggar left, the king said, “The beggar was very wise. Fortune has two sides – king or pauper. From this angle, he called me his brother. By the worn out palace, he referred to his old body; thirty two servants were his teeth and five queens were his senses. He said that as soon as he put a foot in my kingdom, his coffers went dry. That is why I was giving him one hundred rupees. On seeing his wisdom, I gave him one thousand rupees. Tomorrow, I shall appoint him my advisor. Many a time, people looking very simple are very deep. So, a person should be understood not by his dress, but by his character.”

  1. provided

  2. offered

  3. awarded
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Option 2 is the correct answer as it is mentioned in the third line of the passage.

Multiple choice

Complete the following sentence.

The king gave a lesson that a person should be judged ______.

Directions: Read the passage and answer the question that follows.

An old beggar reached the gate of the king’s palace. He told the gateman to go and tell the king that his brother had come to see him. The gateman thought that he must be a distant brother of the king. On getting the information, the king called the beggar in and offered him a seat near him. He said to the king, “Hello, older brother! How are you?” The king smilingly said, “I am very comfortable. How about you?” The beggar answered, “I am a little bit in trouble. The palace in which I reside, has worn itself out. It can fall anytime. I had thirty two servants. All of them have left me one by one. All the five queens have also grown old.

On hearing this, the king ordered to give one hundred rupees to the beggar. The beggar said, “one hundred rupees are very less.” At this the king said, “This time the kingdom has faced a drought”. The beggar said, “Come with me across the seven seas. There are gold mines. As soon as I step into the oceans, they will get dry up. You have already seen the power of my feet.” Then the king ordered that the beggar be paid one thousand rupees. After the beggar left, the king said, “The beggar was very wise. Fortune has two sides – king or pauper. From this angle, he called me his brother. By the worn out palace, he referred to his old body; thirty two servants were his teeth and five queens were his senses. He said that as soon as he put a foot in my kingdom, his coffers went dry. That is why I was giving him one hundred rupees. On seeing his wisdom, I gave him one thousand rupees. Tomorrow, I shall appoint him my advisor. Many a time, people looking very simple are very deep. So, a person should be understood not by his dress, but by his character.”

  1. by his clothes

  2. by his riches

  3. by his character

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

Option 3 is the correct answer as it is mentioned in the last line of the passage.

Multiple choice

Directions: The following question contains a paragraph with a sentence or phrase missing, indicated parenthetically. From the alternatives, select the sentence or phrase that best provides the missing link.

Antitrust laws are intended to maintain competition among business firms. A 'trust' consists of two or more companies that collude in order to control the supply or price of a product or service. (______). This forbade any business combination or practice that interfered with free competition or promoted monopoly.

  1. Most states have laws that prevent the formation of trusts.

  2. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has the authority to break up price-fixing arrangements between companies.

  3. The first antitrust legislation in the United States was the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890.

  4. In the 1970s, the shortage of petroleum products led to some government regulation of the distribution and sale of gasoline.
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

(1) and (2) are contradictory to the statement, (4) is not related to the statement. Hence (3).

Multiple choice
Directions: The following question contains a paragraph with a sentence or phrase missing, indicated parenthetically. From the alternatives, select the sentence or phrase that best provides the missing link.
Jose Arcadio did not dare to leave the house for several days. It was enough for him to hear the rocking laughter of Pilar in the kitchen to run and take refuge in the laboratory, where the artifacts of alchemy had come alive again with Ursula's blessing. (__________). One afternoon, the boys grew enthusiastic over the flying carpet that went swiftly by the laboratory at window level, carrying the gypsy who was driving it and several children from the village who were merrily waving their hands, but Jose Arcadio Buendia did not even look at it.

  1. He lost his appetite and he could not sleep.

  2. Let them dream, she said.

  3. <div align="justify">Jose Arcadio Buendia received his errant son with joy and initiated him in the search for the philosopher's stone, which he had finally undertaken.

  4. From his accomplice and a communicative person he had become withdrawn and hostile.
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

The last sentence talks to Jose Arcadio Buendia. So, it is but natural that the sentences preceding it should have him in context. This is a direct pointer to option (3). Options (2) and (4) do not fit in the context. If option (1) is selected, then a further reading on to the last sentence indicates that Buendia has been suddenly introduced in the paragraph without prior reference. Hence (3) is the answer.

Multiple choice

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

The Hubble Telescope should be ________ even if that means diverting the shuttle from other tasks and slowing plans to send astronauts to the Moon and Mars.

  1. hidden

  2. winked at

  3. heralded

  4. preserved
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

NASA's most important scientific instrument, the Hubble space telescope would begin to fail a few years from now, hence, this sentence emphasizes on its need to preserve this instrument. The clue comes from the word 'even', the clause that follows it provides an explanation to the blank. This implies that though tough tasks have to be undertaken, Hubble Telescope has to be preserved. Hence, (4) is the answer.

Multiple choice

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

Fascism and communism are the ________ of democracy.

  1. abstracts

  2. exposition

  3. demonstration

  4. antithesis

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

Democracy is the government in which the people hold the ruling power either directly or through elected representatives like we have in India, whereas fascism is a system of government characterized by rigid one-party dictatorship and communism is a system based on the ownership of all property by the community as a whole. As fascism and communism are contrary to democracy, therefore 'antithesis' replaces the blank. Hence, (4) is the answer.

Multiple choice

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

Some of the early attempts to apply eugenics in the human realm were based more on ________ than on understanding.

  1. vapidity

  2. enthusiasm

  3. puerility

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

'Than' sets up a contrast between the blank and understanding. Of all these options, 'enthusiasm' maintains the contrasting prediction, thus, replaces the blank. Hence, (2) is the answer.

Multiple choice

Find the Blank (ii).

Directions: Choose the most appropriate word to fill the numbered blanks.

A blind man, having reclaimed (i) ____________ sight as the result of a remarkable operation, confessed the other day that he was so disappointed (ii) ____________ the world he saw that he wondered whether he was not (iii) ____________ when he was blind. Human beings (iv) ____________ of a different appearance and mould from those with which his imagination had (v) ____________ them. Everything apparently, from motor cars to flower gardens, (vi) ____________short of the glorious images he had made (vii) ____________ them. The gift of sight (viii) ____________ him merely disillusionment.

  1. with

  2. at

  3. over

  4. about
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

The preposition 'disappointed with' is the correct collocation. When expressing disappointment about something or someone, we use 'with' - for example, 'disappointed with the result', 'disappointed with his performance'. This is standard English usage.

Multiple choice

Find the Blank (viii).

Directions: Choose the most appropriate word to fill the numbered blanks.

A blind man, having reclaimed (i) ____________ sight as the result of a remarkable operation, confessed the other day that he was so disappointed (ii) ____________ the world he saw that he wondered whether he was not (iii) ____________ when he was blind. Human beings (iv) ____________ of a different appearance and mould from those with which his imagination had (v) ____________ them. Everything apparently, from motor cars to flower gardens, (vi) ____________short of the glorious images he had made (vii) ____________ them. The gift of sight (viii) ____________ him merely disillusionment.

  1. brings

  2. brought

  3. has brought

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

The passage is narrated in the past tense throughout - 'confessed', 'was disappointed', 'wondered', 'were'. The sentence 'The gift of sight (viii) ____________ him merely disillusionment' requires the past tense 'brought' to maintain consistency with the narrative tense.