English: Sentence Fillers Set 15(IBPS PO 2017 Pattern)

The following sentence fillers/fill in the blanks are based on the pattern that was asked in IBPS PO Prelims on 8th October 2017. 

Directions: In each question a sentence is given followed by a blank. Each blank is followed by three options and you have to determine which option can be used in place of blank to make it a meaningful sentence and mark it as your answer.

1. What truly sets apart India’s higher judiciary is the ____to select its very own: through that cosy cabal of a clique that we call the “collegium”.
   i. Favourable freedom
   ii. Enviable freedom
   iii. Desirable liberty
   A) Only i
   B) Only ii
   C) Only iii
   D) None of these
   E) All are correct
   
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      Option E
   Explanation: enviable = arousing or likely to arouse envy.
   
2. This is a freedom ____ from a rather tortuous reading of the Constitution some decades ago when the Supreme Court decided that the collegium would predominate over judicial appointments, to the near exclusion of all other stakeholders.
   I. Pushed out
   ii. Ferreted out
   iii. Given out
   A) Only i
   B) Only ii
   C) Only iii
   D) None of these
   E) All are correct
   
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      Option B
   Explanation: ferreted out= to fetch sth out
   
3. All of this forces us to ask that _________question: how do we judge our judges? For this, we must have some measurable metric of merit, and a transparent one at that.
   I. Perpetually puzzling
   ii. Eternally enigmatic
   iii. Temporarily puzzling
   A) Both I nad ii
   B) Both ii and iii
   C) Both I and iii
   D) Only i
   E) All are correct
   
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      Option A 
4. Given that the collegium has operated in a____________ for more than two decades now, this is nothing short of revolutionary.
   I. Mask of privacy
   ii. shroud of secrecy
   iii. Cloak of confidentiality
   A) Only i
   B) Only ii
   C) Both I and ii
   D) Both ii and iii
   E) All are correct
   
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      Option D
   Explanation: shroud = a length of cloth or an enveloping garment in which a dead person is wrapped for burial.
   
5. Given the ____of some decisions, it is well-nigh impossible to locate the “ratio” of a decision (legal terminology for the operative part of a judgment).
   I. volubility
   ii. verbosity
   iii. brevity
   A) Only i
   B) Only ii
   C) Both I and ii
   D) Both I and iii
   E) All are correct
   
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      Option C
   Explanation: verbosity = the fact or quality of using more words than needed; wordiness.
   
6. Grossly____________, industrial policy has been anathema to market-led growth strategies.
   I. misunderstood and maligned
   ii. Misinterpreted and defamed
   iii. Confounded and libelled
   A) Only i
   B) Only ii
   C) Both ii and iii
   D) Both I and ii
   E) All are correct
   
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      Option E
   
7. Arguably, the huge increase in import dependence and the low level of FDI into the manufacturing sector can both be linked to the market failures associated with non-strategic trade and investment liberalisation, _________both domestic and foreign producers’ incentives to undertake production locally.
   I. which have negated
   ii. That has nullified
   iii. Which have neutralized
   A) Only i
   B) Only ii
   C) Both I and ii
   D) Both I and iii
   E) All are correct
   
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      Option D
   Explanation: negated = nullify; neutralized
   
8. This has been ___signing free trade agreements (FTAs) on the basis of an argument that participation in FTAs will enable Indian firms to become part of global value chains (GVCs) and improve their export capabilities.
   I. Compounded by
   ii. exacerbated by
   iii. Inflamed by
   A) Only i
   B) Only ii
   C) Only iii
   D) Both I and iii
   E) All are correct
   
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      Option E
   Explanation: exacerbated = make (a problem, bad situation, or negative feeling) worse.
   
9. To ensure this, financing mechanisms must be designed in ways that ______to avoid rent-seeking behaviour and inefficiency.
   I. Proceed political interventions
   ii. preclude political leverage
   iii. Impede political complications
   A) Only i
   B) Both I and ii
   C) Only ii
   D) Both ii and iii
   E) All are correct
   
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      Option C
   Explanation: preclude = prevent from happening; make impossible.
   
10. If there is _____a system as serving much more than efficiency, to include affordability and equity as well, the response will be different.
    I. A persuasion to preceed
    ii. An impulse to conceptualize
    iii. An urge to visualise
    A) Only I
    B) Only ii
    C) Only iii
    D) Both ii and iii
    E) All are correct
    
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       Option D
    Explanation: visualize = form a mental image of; imagine.