Direction (1-10): In each question below a sentence is given with two blanks in each. 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.
- It can lead to other __________________ , such as running ACs or even charging electric vehicles, including two-wheelers. New gadgets like solar induction cookers do need to be commercialised to gainfully step-up demand for solar rooftop panels. __________________ regulation will need to attend on the power sector, to enable all this.
applications, Atomisticalcustoms, Partialusages, Holisticwont, AbbreviatedAll are CorrectOption C
- States agreeing to run pilots to __________________ the tax paid through a cashback offer — up to 20% of the taxes with a cap of Rs. 100 — to those using RuPay cards or the BHIM app is fine. However, a better way is to facilitate cashless transactions is by cutting the charges that banks __________________ on customers and merchants for transactions.
compensate, exceedrefund, imposereimburse, retractreward, coaxAll are CorrectOption B
- A proposed amendment in 2016 to the Citizenship Act remains __________________ , as it excludes Muslims while offering citizenship to followers of other minority faiths from neighbouring countries. In the wake of the exercise to update the NRC in Assam leaving out four million people in the first draft, Bharatiya Janata Party leaders have called this lot __________________ and promised that non-Muslims would be taken care of, giving Indian citizenship a religious flavour, quite removed from the constitutional scheme of things.
controversial, infiltratorscertain, subversivesaffable, saboteuramicable, sprinklersAll are CorrectOption A
- A viable multi-layered __________________ system involving the government, particularly the women and child departments in the states, and the district administration is required. The local community must be actively involved in these homes and shelters, to provide another level of continuous oversight. No shelter should operate without a licence. A charter of basic facilities and requirements must be developed and __________________ , as part of the licence. Ideally, women should be tasked with running these homes and shelters.
administer, intervenedattention, fittedscrutiny, effectedoversight, implementedAll are CorrectOption D
- Karunanidhi was an orator, an imaginative writer and a literary talent, who earned the title Kalaignar, learned man of the arts. But his success as a politician came not so much from the ability to sway crowds with his words as from his mastery of __________________ and of divining the larger political trend. His opposition to north Indian domination made him a __________________ federalist. Fears of separatism in Tamil Nadu gave way to Tamil parties’ active role in supporting governments at the Centre.
tautness, steadfasttightness, resolutemanoeuvre, staunchbrowbeat, stalwartAll are CorrectOption C
- Sensibly, the plan, __________________ by the managing committee of the Indian Banks’ Association, is not just about bankers protecting their own interests, but also ensuring there is no paralysis in the banking system at a time investment is gradually recovering. The government is under political pressure, after a spate of bank frauds and loans that have turned non-performing, to be seen to act __________________ .
bawdy, ruggedshady, severeendorsed, toughcensored, arduousAll are CorrectOption C
- The way Cairn has been treated is an obvious __________________ for foreign majors. It is one company that can claim to have actually dented India’s oil import bill by discovering hydrocarbons in places that others had failed to. It undertook a consolidation exercise for __________________ companies operating in India’s oil and gas sector, with prior official intimation and no change of beneficial ownership.
preventive, congruoushitch, akinimpediment, identicaldeterrent, assortedAll are CorrectOption D
- Nooyi is famous for saying that a woman cannot have it all, meaning women have to __________________ personal life for achieving professional success. This would remain the case, so long as stereotypes of men’s and women’s roles within the family remain __________________ .
relinquish, entiresacrifice, intactforgo, soundoblate, pristineAll are CorrectOption B
- The Supreme Court is an __________________ of the law, its implementation is not its remit. The NCLT is the right body to resolve corporate insolvency and the court did the right thing to let go of a resolution process that it had taken up on account of the homebuyers’ interest, now that Parliament has __________________ the law to incorporate homebuyers as financial creditors.
conciliator, maintainednegotiator, reducedreferee, blemishedadjudicator, amendedAll are CorrectOption D
- While the GOP can ___________________ at the thought of exposing fence-sitters after Thursday’s election, what it has to face up to, and perhaps correct, is have someone who can pick up the phone and get the numbers. Clean-cut battlelines mean little if the army __________________ you is unprepared.
detest, behinddisinclination, behindrelish, behindabhor, behindAll are CorrectOption C
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