English: Sentence Fillers — Set 68 (IBPS PO 2017 Pattern)

Directions(1-10): 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. I spend a lot of time interviewing celebrities, and the contrasts between public and non-public persona is always interesting. Odious trolls prove to be quite charming real life; nice-guy comedians ______________ to be dicks; daytime TV presenters turn out to be wonderfully complex. But there’s something I’ve been noticing recently when I’ve interviewed people who have become famous through social media: influencers, YouTubers, make-up vloggers, etc. They are, quite often, exactly the same in real life as they are on social media. But it’s frequently hard to tell where person ends and persona begins, as if their success is the result of some process of digital natural selection, or, more ominously, a mass formatting of the human soul.
   a. shift away
   b. turn out
   c. come out
   Both a & b
   Both b & c
   Both c & a
   Only a
   All are Correct
   Option B
   

    

2. The cliff-edge has moved a tiny bit further away, but it’s still there. Britain will not crash out of the European Union next Friday, thanks to a last act of clemency by the 27 nations we’re about to leave behind. But crashing out remains a possibility, even a likelihood. It might not be a deliberate choice made by the people of these islands, but rather an accident – the product of a series of decisions that were taken and, more often, not taken. Just as the imperial powers stumbled into a war no one wanted in 1914, so the risk remains that we will not ______________ the cliff that looms ahead of us, but stumble over it.
   a. leap out
   b. pop out
   c. jump off
   Both a & b
   Both b & c
   Both c & a
   Only b
   All are Correct
   Option E
   

    

3. Arriving at the EU summit this week, Theresa May had that purposeful air of a school superintendent ______________ the drive to the Addams family mansion, determined that Wednesday and Pugsley should be enrolled in a conventional educational establishment without delay. Some long hours later, May staggered back down the drive much as that school superintendent might, short of having no shoes and an actual bat in her electrocuted hair.
   a. walking up
   b. get away
   c. belly up
   Both a & b
   Both b & c
   Both c & a
   Only a
   All are Correct
   Option D
   

    

4. Seven days from Britain ______________ without a deal, the EU used the summit to take back control. We have been given a fortnight’s extra grace to get our shit together – which was almost the formal wording on the communique. The anonymous briefing from the EU side was marginally less forgiving than napalm warfare. “It was 90 minutes of nothing,” one EU source said of May’s performance. “She didn’t even give clarity if she was organising a vote. Asked three times what she would do if she lost the vote, she couldn’t say. It was fucking awful. Dreadful. Evasive even by her standards.”
   a. nodding off
   b. crashing out
   c. breaking out
   Both a & b
   Both b & c
   Both c & a
   Only b
   All are Correct
   Option D
   

    

5. The best thing to have happened to the career of William Sitwell, the then-editor of Waitrose magazine, was the scandal he caused when he sent a highly unprofessional, juvenile email to a freelance journalist, Selene Nelson, who was pitching an article on vegan food. “How about a series on killing vegans, one by one. Ways to trap them? How to interrogate them properly? Expose their hypocrisy? Force-feed them meat,” he asked her. He was obliged to resign. As a result of the furore, he was ______________ by the Telegraph as its new food critic, with a front-page launch and expensive publicity shoot.
   a. gave in
   b. picked up
   c. snapped up
   Both a & b
   Both b & c
   Both c & a
   Only c
   All are Correct
   Option B
   

    

6. Last June, the scandal merchant Isabel Oakeshott was exposed for withholding a cache of emails detailing Leave.EU co-founder Arron Banks’ multiple meetings with Russian officials, which might have been of interest to the Electoral Commission’s investigation into the financing of the Brexit campaign. During the following days she was invited on to Question Time and other outlets, platforms she used to extol the virtues of Brexit. By contrast, the journalist who exposed her, Carole Cadwalladr, has been largely ______________ by the BBC.
   a. frozen out
   b. drove away
   c. forced out
   Both a & b
   Both b & c
   Both c & a
   Only a
   All are Correct
   Option E
   

    

7. The Conservative MP Mark Francois became hot media property the moment he made a complete ass of himself on BBC News. He ______________ a letter from the German-born head of Airbus that warned about the consequences of Brexit, while announcing: “My father, Reginald Francois, was a D-Day veteran. He never submitted to bullying by any German, and neither will his son.” Now he’s all over the BBC.
   a. tore apart
   b. ripped up
   c. cared for
   Both a & b
   Both b & c
   Both c & a
   Only b
   All are Correct
   Option A
   

    

8. These vicious attacks on minority communities will keep happening unless we bust the myths behind their hatred. In the Conservative party, we cannot give cover in any way to those Islamophobes, even if they vote for us. We need to ______________ on hate at the source and expel it from our midst. We must set clear guidelines as to what is acceptable and then enforce them with 100% effectiveness. Full stop.
   a. clamp down
   b. bring off
   c. crack down
   Both a & b
   Both b & c
   Both c & a
   Only c
   All are Correct
   Option C
   

    

9. This week, when welfare officers in Arizona visited the house of the woman who runs Fantastic Adventures, a channel that has ______________ more than 250m views, they found a household of traumatised children who alleged they had been pepper-sprayed and locked in cupboards for forgetting their lines. Online, meanwhile, they were shown doing endlessly jolly things and performing like ponies.
   a. gave up
   b. piled up
   c. racked up
   Both a & b
   Both b & c
   Both c & a
   Only a
   All are Correct
   Option B
   

    

10. She was a liberal in the sense that she believed people should make their own decisions and repudiated all forms of supernatural authority, but this belief was balanced by a concept of authority and of duty to families and society. This came out clearly in her attitude towards assisted dying. She favoured it, but not so much on grounds of individual freedom as on a fairly ruthless assessment of the use of old people. She would rather ______________ money to her children, she said, than have it wasted on her decrepitude. This straightforward attack at the unmentionable centre of the problem was entirely characteristic.
    a. pass on
    b. put together
    c. put across
    Both a & b
    Both b & c
    Both c & a
    Only b
    All are Correct
    Option C