English Questions: Fill in the Blanks 59

Directions: Each sentence below is given with two blanks. Each question is followed by four options with two words in each. You have to select that option as your answer which can fill both the blanks of the sentence respectively.

1. The regulatory architecture is globally framed by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision—a committee of bank supervisors consisting of members from representative countries. Its ________________ is to strengthen the regulation, supervision and practices of banks and _________________ financial stability.
   dictate, blemish
   decree, blight
   mandate, enhance
   behest, abate
   All are correct
   Option C
   mandate = an official order or commission to do something. enhance = intensify, increase, or further improve the quality, value, or extent of.

    

2. Padmavat team was unlikely to wait much longer for theatrical release after the changes are __________________, given the financial stakes involved. Atul Mohan, editor of trade magazine Complete Cinema, said that the year’s busy film ______________starts this weekend.
   abrupt, docket
   amalgamated, nullify
   combined, scratch
   incorporated, schedule
   Option D
   incorporated = take in or contain (something) as part of a whole; include. schedule = included in or planned according to a schedule.

    

3. Sentiment remained ________________ on sustained capital inflows and widespread buying by retail investors _________________expectations of encouraging third quarterly earnings, to be announced this week, brokers said.
   glum, surrounded by
   despondent, exclusive
   sanguine, before
   upbeat, amid
   All are correct
   Option D
   

    

4. Higher crude oil prices are an ______________ headwind, while the tailwinds are higher consumption as the states implement pay revisions, higher exports as the world economy ______________ and a pick-up in investment demand as business optimism recovers.
   obvious, strengthens
   apparent, buttresses
   manifest, energizes
   conspicuous, invigorates
   All are correct
   Option E
   

    

5. Even as the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC) was completing its first year of existence, the cat was set among the _________________with the promulgation of an ordinance restricting the promoters’ ability to bid for their _____________assets. Much has since been said, both for and against this.
   doves, feminine
   pigeons, stressed
   squabs, adjourn
   birds, accentuated
   All are correct
   Option B
   

    

6. the government and Reserve Bank of India are on the same page for effective resolution of the problem of bad debt and improving overall financial discipline in the way business is _________________ in India. A number of features of the IBC and the pronouncements of various high courts and Supreme Court motivate us to look at this latest _____________in a positive manner.
   behaved, destiny
   conducted, effort
   carried out, coast
   led, apathy
   All are correct
   Option B
   

    

7. Problems such as _______________poverty and inequality, poor health, and environmental degradation that the SDGs aim to solve are _____________issues. They have multiple interacting causes. They cannot be solved by any one actor.
   persistent, systemic
   deciduous, chaotic
   caducous, amorphous
   docile, ordered
   All are correct
   Option A
   persistent = continuing firmly or obstinately in an opinion or course of action in spite of difficulty or opposition. systemic = relating to a system, especially as opposed to a particular part.

    

8. German officials greet every French government proposal by mentally computing its cost for German taxpayers. And, behind every German counter-proposal, French officials see a _____________to hide behind rules and regulations so that the German ______________can have their cake and eat it.
   vitiate, ordinaries
   gambit, trade
   ploy, elites
   idle, commonalities
   All are correct
   Option C
   

    

9. Europe’s impasse is largely due to a _______________between opposing desires, objectives, and concerns: German fears of Greco-Latin _________________ will always trump French fears of German empire-building, and vice versa.
   draw, rule-bender
   standoff, rule-bending
   impasse, rule-bend
   affable, bender
   All are correct
   Option B
   standoff = a deadlock between two equally matched opponents in a dispute or conflict. rule-bending = Not any change, adjustment, or exception to a rule

    

10. Language is what distinguishes us from other species; without it, we are mere ______________. While lying often pays, if we all lied all the time, language would become _____________.
    monsters, dilapidated
    stock, present
    beasts, obsolete
    man, modern
    All are correct
    Option
    beasts = an animal, especially a large or dangerous four-footed one. obsolete = no longer produced or used; out of date.