English: Sentence Fillers/Para Completion Set 18

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. Pakistan’s interlocutors are not always clear with the Americans on what they want. They__
   I. used  to do certainties
   ii. very easily accept what the Americans are saying
   iii. depend on America
   A) only i
   B) only ii & iii
   C) only iii
   D) All of these
   E) None of these
   
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      Option B 
2. The Pradhan Mantri Sahaj Bijli Har Ghar Yojana (‘Saubhagya’) launched in September, which_
   I. claims to ensure electrification of all willing households
   ii. expects the poor to pay the bills without providing any subsidy
   iii. is too ambitious a project
   A) only i
   B) only ii & i
   C) only ii & iii
   D) Only iii & i
   E) None of these
   
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      Option D
   
3. Anglo-Saxon literature, encompasses the surviving literature written in Old English in Anglo-Saxon England, _____ in England c. 450, after the withdrawal of the Romans, and “ending soon after the Norman Conquest” in 1066.
   I. is also told in such later Scandinavian works
   ii. in the period after the settlement of the Saxons and other Germanic tribes
   iii. in all there are about 400 surviving manuscripts from the period
   A) only i
   B) only ii
   C) only iii
   D) All of these
   E) None of these
   
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      Option B 
4. After the Norman conquest of England in 1066, the written form of the Anglo-Saxon language became less common.__________, French became the standard language of courts, parliament, and polite society.
   I. Under the influence of the new aristocracy
   ii. Under the implications of the new establishment
   iii. Under the purgation of the new trash
   A) only ii & i
   B) only ii
   C) only ii
   D) only i
   E) None of these
   
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      Option A 
5. The study of world history, as distinct from national history, has existed in many world cultures. However, early forms of world history, ______
   I. were not truly global
   ii. provoking the transfer of Heaven’s mandate to a new ruler
   iii. were limited to only the regions known by the historian
   A) only ii
   B) only ii & iii
   C) only iii & i
   D) only ii & i
   E)  None of these
   
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      Option C 
6. In recent years, the relationship between African and world history has shifted rapidly from one of antipathy to one of engagement and synthesis. Reynolds (2007) surveys the relationship between African and world histories, with an emphasis on the tension between ___ emphasis on connections and exchange across regional boundaries.
   I. the beginning of globalization
   ii. the area studies paradigm
   iii. the growing world-history
   A) only iii
   B) only iii & i
   C) only ii & i
   D) only ii & iii
   E) None of these
   
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      Option D 
7. Even as early as the Prehistoric period, the roots of modern globalization could be found. Territorial expansion by our ancestors to all five continents was___.
   I. a wide range that stretched from India
   ii. an increased capital and labor mobility coupled with decreased transport costs
   iii. a critical component in establishing globalization.
   A) only i
   B) only ii
   C) only iii
   D) All of these
   E) None of these
   
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      Option C 
8. The inhabitant of London could order by telephone, sipping his morning tea, the various products of the whole earth, and reasonably expect their early delivery upon his doorstep. Militarism and imperialism of racial and cultural rivalries________. What an extraordinary episode in the economic progress of man was that age which came to an end in August 1914.
   I. were produced for the merchandise trade grew
   ii. were little more than the amusements of his daily newspaper
   iii. were just Portfolio investment, but no trade-related
   A) only i
   B) only ii
   C) only iii
   D) All of these
   E) None of these
   
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      Option B 
9.  A century later there was a domestic safety net in most emerging countries so that banking panics were changed into situations where the debts of an insolvent banking system were taken over by the government. The recovery from banking crisis is another key difference. It has ___.
   I. tended to begin earlier in the recent period
   ii. occurred under the fixed exchange rates
   iii. not the typical crisis episode a hundred years ago
   A) only ii & i
   B) only ii
   C) only iii & i
   D) only iii
   E) None of these
   
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      Option C 
10. The flows information were an important downside in 19th century. Prior to the Transatlantic cable and the Radiotelephone, it____ to go from one place to another. So this means that it was very difficult to analyze the information.
    I. used to take very long for information
    ii. distinguish good and bad credits
    iii. played a very important role
    A) only i
    B) only ii
    C) only iii
    D) All of these
    E) None of these
    
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       Option A