English Questions: Fill in the Blanks 53 (IBPS CLERK 2017 Based)

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The given sample of Fill in the blanks is based on IBPS CLERK Prelims 2017 Exam.

Directions : In each of the questions given below a sentence is given with one blank. Below each sentence FOUR words are given out of which two can fit the sentence. Five options are given with various combinations of these words. You have to choose the combination with the correct set of words which can fit in the given sentence.

1. The theory of the objective correlative as it relates to literature was largely developed __the writings of the poet and literary critic T.S. Eliot.
   A. Across
   B. With
   C. Through
   D. Among
   A) Both B and D
   B) Both D and A
   C) Both A and B
   D) Both A and C
   E) None of these
   
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      Option D
2. Formalist followers __ translated the fabula/syuzhet to the concept of story/plot.
   A. Eventually
   B. Totally
   C. Casually
   D. Finally
   A) Both B and A
   B) Both A and D
   C) Both C and B
   D) Both D and B
   E) None of these
   
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      Option B
3. The recording machinery was kept __ screens.
   A. Through
   B. Along
   C. Behind
   D. Beyond
   A) Both C and D
   B) Both C and A
   C) Both D and B
   D) Both A and C
   E) None of these
   
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      Option A
4. History is not an __ “fact,” but a reflection of certain attitudes, preconceptions, and injustices.
   A. Aaptable
   B. Immutable
   C. Entrenched
   D. Flexible
   A) Both A and B
   B) Both B and C
   C) Both B and D
   D) Both D and C
   E) None of these
   
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      Option B
5. Soon we were driving __ a narrow road.
   A. Along
   B. Across
   C. Since
   D. Amid
   A) Both A and C
   B) Both B and D
   C) Both D and C
   D) Both A and B
   E)  None of these
   
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      Option D
6. Revolutionary and incendiary, The Second Sex is one of the earliest __ to confront human history from a feminist perspective.
   A. Efforts
   B. Certainties
   C. Attempts
   D. Causalities
   A) Both A and B
   B) Both B and C
   C) Both A and C
   D) Both D and C
   E) None of these
   
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      Option C
7. You look __you’re angry.
   A. Similar to
   B. As if
   C. Likely as
   D. As though
   A) Both A and D
   B) Both C and D
   C) Both B and D
   D) Both A and B
   E) None of these
   
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      Option C
8. Plot refers to the sequence of events inside a story which __ other events through the principle of cause and effect.
   A. Cause
   B. Affect
   C. Isolate
   D. Perturb
   A) Both A and B
   B) Both C and D
   C) Both B and D
   D) Both B and C
   E) None of these
   
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      Option C
9.  He pointed to a spot __ the concealing trees.
   A. Beyond
   B. Beneath
   C. Against
   D. Past
   A) Both A and B
   B) Both B and C
   C) Both C and D
   D) Both A and D
   E) None of these
   
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      Option D
   
10. De Beauvoir hopes to __ the persistent myth of the “eternal feminine” by showing that it arose from male discomfort with the fact of his own birth.
    A. Establish
    B. Conceal
    C. Contradict
    D. Debunk
    A) Both A and C
    B) Both C and D
    C) Both B and C
    D) Both C and B
    E) None of these
    
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       Option B