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Fill in the Blanks

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Fill in the Blanks Questions

Multiple choice

Which of the options given below best completes the following sentence?

She will feel much better if she _________.

  1. will get some rest

  2. gets some rest

  3. will be getting some rest

  4. is getting some rest
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

It is a conditional sentence s + will + verb (1) + if + s + Present indefinite tense So (B) gets some rest. Other types of conditional sentence –

  1. If + verb (2nd) + _______ would + verb (1)
  2. If + s + had + verb (3rd) + would/could/might have + verb(3rd)
Multiple choice

Choose the most appropriate word from the options given below to complete the following sentence. If you are trying to make a strong impression on your audience, you cannot do so by being understated, tentative or_____________.

  1. hyperbolic

  2. restrained

  3. argumentative

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

The mean of the sentence indicates a word that is similar to understand is needed for the blank place. Therefore, the best option is restrained which means controlled or reserved.

Multiple choice

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

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

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

The first part of the sentence highlights the positive part whereas the latter part is broadly comic or derisive, as indicated by the word 'satire' in latter part of the sentence. 'Extravaganza' and 'burlesque' in option (4) substantiates the blank, hence the answer.

Multiple choice
Directions: Select the option that fills in the blanks most suitably (in the same order).
To know the Old and New Testaments by heart and be able to recite them ________, forward or backward or begin at random anywhere in the book, and recite both ways, is no ________ mass of knowledge, compared to a pilot's massed knowledge of the Mississippi and his ________ facility in the handling of it.

  1. waveringly, rampant, dynamic

  2. glibly, extravagant, marvelous

  3. vacillatingly, exuberant, wonderful

  4. wobbly, scarce, entertaining

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

Out of all the options for the first blank; 'glibly' is the only word that substantiates the first blank, as the clue is given by forward or backward in the sentence. Checking the sentence for the other two blanks, 'extravagant' and 'marvelous' gives meaning to the whole sentence, thereby, confirming that (2) is the answer.

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 a 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

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

Option (2) gives sense to the sentence as it is the ‘evidence’ or proof of a causal connection that is linked to experience. Also, ‘justify’ indicates the strictness of Hume’s evidence which does not rely on an experience to validate future expectations. Hence, option (2) is the correct answer.

Multiple choice

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

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

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

The first operative word in this sentence is 'then', which provides an explanation to what precedes it. Of all these options, (3) and (1) fits our prediction. 'Apparition' means anything that appears unexpected or in an extraordinary way esp. a strange figure appearing suddenly and thought to be a ghost, whereas illusions that means a false idea or misconception would fit our prediction better and hence replaces the first blank. The second operative word is 'say', that provides an example to the clause that precedes it. As the example is contrasting, hence 'disagreement' replaces the second blank. Hence, (3) is the answer.