English Questions: Fill in the Blanks 72

Direction (1-10): In each question below a sentence 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 gender budget is organized in two parts, A and B. Our analysis excludes Part B, which lists schemes where 30% of funds are ________________ at women, because not all ministries have provided a rationale for the ____________________ of scheme expenditures included in it, as noted by the Centre for Budget and Governance Accountability (CBGA) in a recent report.
   planned, anomaly
   aimed, proportion
   proposed, chaos
   designed, hog
   All are correct
   Option B
   

    

2. China’s working age population has been declining since 2012 and is projected to _______________ by almost a quarter by 2050. This is not a slope, it is a cliff edge. The government’s about-face is unlikely to help much. The causal links between rising prosperity and declining fertility have been conclusively __________________ .
   wince, standard
   diminish, customed
   contract, fixed
   shrink, established
   All are correct
   Option E
   

    

3. There have been efforts to come up with a regulatory solution to _________________ the impact of fake news on our social and political discourse. Many have called for the tech companies most closely identified with facilitating its ___________________ to be held accountable.
   alleviate, decline
   mitigate, proliferation
   relieve, abatement
   assuage, contraction
   All are correct
   Option B
   

    

4. Temkin _________________ some ethical commentators by maintaining that there is nothing repugnant in certifying x to be better than y in at least the one respect of equality, even though—and as he was very careful to point out—y might well be judged to be better than x from an “all-things-_________________” perspective.
   indignant, deliberated
   impatient, reasoned
   outraged, considered
   incensed, intended
   All are correct
   Option E
   

    

5. The RPOs make it compulsory for all large consumers of energy to __________________ that a certain percentage of that energy mix is from renewable sources such as wind and solar. The compulsion is like a/an ___________________ subsidy boost to the renewable sector. It generates demand for a sector in its infancy.
   ensure, implicit
   guarantee, expressed
   promise, specified
   confirm, declared
   All are correct
   Option A
   

    

6. Anticipate and prevent privacy-invasive events before they happen. Just because a firm’s information practices are legal doesn’t mean that they’re _______________ . PbD calls for thinking about whether consumers and regulators might ________________ negatively to new uses of information.
   judicious, relinquish
   wise, react
   prudent, recieve
   shrewd, ask
   All are correct
   Option B
   

    

7. Situs is the Latin word for position or site. In law, situs of a business is where the business is __________________ for legal purposes. Situs is __________________ in determining the jurisdiction of a business.
   placed, crucial
   situated, delicate
   found, grave
   located, critical
   All are correct
   Option E
   

    

8. India’s waste ________________ presents numerous social and environmental challenges for urban local bodies (ULBs), whose _______________ covers MSW management. Most noticeably, urban waste has significant effects on our health. There is then the invisible plight of the thousands of informal ragpickers who sustain their livelihoods by collecting, sorting, and trading waste.
   predicament, prerogative
   dilemma, obligation
   difficulty, qualification
   plight, liability
   All are correct
   Option A
   

    

9. You can understand the skittishness. Drivers already make up 80% of Uber’s costs. In the three months to December, the ridehailer _______________ in fares totaling $11 billion. After giving drivers their cut, Uber ____________ revenue of $2.2 billion. But with the company still subsidizing fares in growth markets, it posted a fourth-quarter net loss of $1.1 billion.
   sloped, failed
   pitched, excluded
   raked, netted
   slanted, grossed
   All are correct
   Option C
   

    

10. A village is considered electrified if at least 10% of its households are electrified, among other conditions. ______________electrification, on the other hand, refers to deepening the electricity infrastructure to provide ______________ to the remaining un-electrified houses.
    Intense, egress
    Intensive, access
    Thorough, issue
    Profound, avulsion
    All are correct
    Option B