English Questions: Fill in the Blanks 100

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.

  1. 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, Atomistical
    customs, Partial
    usages, Holistic
    wont, Abbreviated
    All are Correct
    Option C

     

  2. 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, exceed
    refund, impose
    reimburse, retract
    reward, coax
    All are Correct
    Option B

     

  3. 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, infiltrators
    certain, subversives
    affable, saboteur
    amicable, sprinklers
    All are Correct
    Option A

     

  4. 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, intervened
    attention, fitted
    scrutiny, effected
    oversight, implemented
    All are Correct
    Option D

     

  5. 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, steadfast
    tightness, resolute
    manoeuvre, staunch
    browbeat, stalwart
    All are Correct
    Option C

     

  6. 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, rugged
    shady, severe
    endorsed, tough
    censored, arduous
    All are Correct
    Option C

     

  7. 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, congruous
    hitch, akin
    impediment, identical
    deterrent, assorted
    All are Correct
    Option D

     

  8. 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, entire
    sacrifice, intact
    forgo, sound
    oblate, pristine
    All are Correct
    Option B

     

  9. 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, maintained
    negotiator, reduced
    referee, blemished
    adjudicator, amended
    All are Correct
    Option D

     

  10. 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, behind
    disinclination, behind
    relish, behind
    abhor, behind
    All are Correct
    Option C

     


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