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Fill in the Blanks

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Fill in the Blanks Questions

Multiple choice

Directions: Choose the word or set of words that, when inserted in the sentence, best fits the meaning of the sentence as a whole.

His open ________ nature quickly won him ________ wherever he went.

  1. pompous, gratitude

  2. gregarious, chums

  3. shrewd, awe

  4. inane, mercy

  5. newfangled, applause
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Open can be taken as a key word in this sentence as it shows gregarious nature. And through this quality, friends (chums) can be won. So, the answer is (2).

Multiple choice

Directions: Choose the word or set of words that, when inserted in the sentence, best fits the meaning of the sentence as a whole.

The ingenuous appearance of the young sales manager belied his _________ negotiating skills, so that buyers were often floored by his _______________.

  1. sharp, approach

  2. innovative, ingenuity

  3. keen, debonairness

  4. clever, failures

  5. canny, acumen
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
E Correct answer
Explanation

The ingenuous or innocent appearance belies the (opposite of innocent) skills so that the buyers get deceived. A close study of all the options makes option (5) the best.

Multiple choice

Directions: Choose the word or set of words that, when inserted in the sentence, best fits the meaning of the sentence as a whole.

The ___________ has not yet succeeded in bringing about ____________ to the battle-ridden northern territory.

  1. etiquette, manners

  2. orthodoxy, armistice

  3. propaganda, turmoil

  4. accord, tranquillity

  5. adjuration, halt
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

The sentence is about a positive action that has not yet brought something positive to the battle-ridden territory. So, the best given option is (4).

Multiple choice

Directions: Choose the word or set of words that, when inserted in the sentence, best fits the meaning of the sentence as a whole.

They are actually aware of the _________ of any mass protest at this __________ stage, when the nation is at war.

  1. indispensability, grave

  2. futility, captious

  3. calamity, irascible

  4. detonation, awkward

  5. backlash, crucial
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

The sentence tells about a war condition where protest is futile. And the only option that suits in the blanks well is (2).

Multiple choice

Directions: Choose the best out of the available options to fill the blank against the question.

Modern man is heir to the caveman who made his first fire, flaked the first stone tools and _______ on the flesh of the mammoth.

  1. used to live

  2. living

  3. had to live

  4. lived

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

The sentence has three parallel actions in the past: 'made', 'flaked', and the missing verb. All should be in simple past tense to maintain parallel structure. 'Lived' is the correct choice as it matches 'made' and 'flaked'. Options like 'used to live' or 'had to live' break the parallel structure.

Multiple choice

Directions: Choose the best out of the available options to fill the blank against the question.

At the beginning of economic growth, there are changes ________, in the work that they perform and in the manner in which they live.

  1. in what people consume

  2. in the pattern of what people consume

  3. in people’s consumption pattern

  4. in the consumption pattern of people

  5. <font face="Arial">None of these</font>
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

The sentence lists three parallel changes in a specific structure: 'in what people consume', 'in the work that they perform', and 'in the manner in which they live'. Option B 'in the pattern of what people consume' fits this pattern perfectly and is idiomatic. Other options are either grammatically awkward or don't fit the parallel structure.

Multiple choice

Directions: Choose the best out of the available options to fill the blank against the question.

In the last three hundred years, man has created a magnificent industrial society, produced machines that do much of the work for him and _______.

  1. gathering an ever-increasing knowledge of the universe

  2. an ever-increasing knowledge of the universe has been gathered

  3. gathered an ever-increasing knowledge of the universe

  4. has gathered an ever-increasing knowledge of the universe

  5. has been gathering an ever-increasing knowledge of the universe
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

The sentence uses present perfect tense 'has created' and 'has produced' (hidden in 'produced'). To maintain parallel structure, the third item should also use present perfect. However, looking at the structure carefully, it's actually 'has created', 'produced' (simple past), and then we need simple past 'gathered' to match the second verb. Option C maintains the correct tense structure.

Multiple choice

Directions: Choose the best out of the available options to fill the blank against the question.

The mill management declared lock out to minimize its losses arising out of the go slow activities of the workmen and also ___________a lesson that they would not easily forget.

  1. for teaching the unions

  2. to teach the unions

  3. teaching the unions

  4. for the unions to learn

  5. in order to teach the unions
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

The sentence uses the structure 'to X and also to Y' for parallel construction. 'To minimize' appears earlier, so 'to teach' maintains this parallel. 'For teaching' or 'teaching' would break the parallel structure established in the sentence.

Multiple choice

Directions: Choose the best out of the available options to fill the blank against the question.

The air inside a house or office building often has higher concentrations of contaminants ______ heavily polluted outside air.

  1. than does

  2. same as

  3. unlike

  4. like

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

Comparisons with 'than' require auxiliary verbs when comparing subjects. 'Than does' correctly compares 'the air inside' with 'heavily polluted outside air'. 'Than is' would be incorrect because we're comparing subjects, not the air itself.