English: Fill in the Blanks for IBPS PO Prelims – Set 44

Directions: Pick out the most appropriate pair of words to complete the given sentences.

1. We need to apply the __ of social business to solve __ of inequality and unemployment.
   A) factual, problems
   B) strength, problems
   C) potential, problems
   D) existent, problems
   E) None of these
   
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      Option C
   Explanation: potential = having or showing the capacity to develop into something in the future; 
   
2. As he travelled across the world, Yunus found that low-income people in the world’s richest nations were __from the same problems the poor __in poorer nations.
   A) woe, eluded
   B) suffering , faced
   C) torture, mugged
   D) refusing, visaged
   E) None of these
   
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      Option B
   Explanation: suffering = the state of undergoing pain, distress, or hardship; faced= confront and deal with or accept.
   
3. For too long, we’ve __the __of poverty, unemployment, and environmental destruction, as if these are natural calamities
   A) tolerated , persistence
   B) verboten, cessasion
   C) vetoed, apathy
   D) prohibited, termination
   E) None of these
   
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      Option A
   Explanation: tolerated= allow the existence, occurrence, or practice of (something that one dislikes or disagrees with) without interference; persistence=the fact of continuing in an opinion or course of action in spite of difficulty or opposition.
   
4. Social business offers __that are available neither to profit-maximising companies nor to traditional__.
   A) advantages , avarice
   B) advantages , malices
   C) advantages , charities
   D) advantages , animosities
   E) None of these
   
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      Option C
   Explanation: advantage = a condition or circumstance that puts one in a favourable or superior position.
   
5. A social business owner who __a product or service that helps the poor or benefits society in some other way may be able to attract a __market by using social networking and other online tools to spread the word.
   A) plans, narrow
   B) devises , wide
   C) fabricates, bare
   D) concocts,  slight
   E)  None of these
   
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      Option B
   Explanation: devises= plan or invent (a complex procedure, system, or mechanism) by careful thought;
   
6. Humankind as a whole is living in a time of __prosperity, __in part by revolutions in knowledge.
   A) thin, consolidated
   B) unparalleled, fuelled
   C) inferior, forwarded
   D) ordinary, corroboratorted
   E) None of these
   
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      Option B
   Explanation:  unparallel= exceptional; fuelled= sustain or inflame (an intense feeling).
   
7. Since the June 2008 __in global food prices, prices have continued to__, reaching another record high in 2011.
   A) peak , fluctuate
   B) nadir, flutter
   C) tumble, vibrate
   D) plunge, undulate
   E) None of these
   
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      Option A
   Explanation: peak = reach a highest point, either of a specified value or at a specified time; fluctuate=  rise and fall irregularly in number or amount.
   
8. We need to consider how the __of the world economy and, in particular, of the system whereby food is produced and distributed has led us to today’s__.
   A) collapse, dilemma
   B) abbreviation, dilemma
   C) advance, dilemma
   D) evolution, dilemma
   E) None of these
   
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      Option D
   Explanation: evolution = the gradual development of something.; dilemma= a situation in which a difficult choice has to be made between two or more alternatives, especially ones that are equally undesirable.
   
9.  India’s decision to expand security __to Kabul has a nuanced geopolitical__.
   A) constipation, rumour
   B) inhibition, agonized
   C) assistance, message
   D) liability, flout
   E) None of these
   
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      Option C 
10. The decision to enhance security training comes coupled with an India-Afghanistan trade fair __by USAID, that will __ Afghanistan’s Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah and other ministers to Delhi this week.
    A) mentored, obnoxious
    B) opposed, dismal
    C) opposed, desirable
    D) sponsored , welcome
    E) None of these
    
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       Option D