PREPARATORY QUESTIONS

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PREPARATORY SET-11 (DOUBLE FILLER)

Directions (Qs.1 to 10): The following question carries a statement with two blanks. From the given options, choose the word that would fit in both the blanks to make the sentence grammatically correct and meaningful.

Question No : 1

I wish I could _____ for the President in those colleges under the University that _____ summer courses for foreign students.

(1) Stand

(2) Run

(3) Offer

(4) Contest

(5) None of the above

Question No : 2

The company attempted to _____ lawmakers to hasten the process, but the police caught them red handed accepting _____ to bring in legalized gambling.

(1) Shopping

(2) Buy

(3) Shop

(4) Bribe

(5) Gather

Question No : 3

During the recession, the usually spendthrift Tania and her _____ had to _____ the resources till the situation improved.

(1) Husband

(2) Manager

(3) Group

(4) Insure

(5) Guard

Question No : 4

The ballet dancers had to _____ special powder to put on their shoes to aide them get a better _____ on the floor.

(1) Procure

(2) Fit

(3) Purchase

(4) Secure

(5) Hold

Question No : 5

The newly appointed mayor had to _____ some of the stringent recruitment conditions to enable most of the candidates to _____.

(1) Apply

(2) Change

(3) Qualify

(4) Moderate

(5) Lessen

Question No : 6

In the absence of relief from the government or judiciary, ________ payment is the only option left to save the telecom industry, which is facing severe ________ stress.

(1) Innocuous, high

(2) Staggered, financial

(3) Criticised, humble

(4) Ordinary, little

(5) None of these

 

Question No : 7

After a white supremacist went on a shooting ________ in two Christchurch mosques last March that resulted in the death of more than 50 people, New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern led from the front with compassion rather than hot-headed ________.

(1) Rampage, rhetoric

(2) Fast, appeased

(3) Sinks, evolves

(4) Piecemeal, fast

(5) None of these

 

Question No : 8

Insurers will have to pay penal interest to the ________ person in case they do not settle claims within 30 days from the date of receipt of the last necessary document for ________.

(1) Polite, docile

(2) Insurance, confined

(3) Insured, settlement

(4) Modern, authenticity

(5) None of these

Question No : 9

As we saw with demonetisation, the solution to black money is not necessarily to ________ cash ________, since most of the old notes came back to the Reserve Bank.

(1) Reject ,affably

(2) Refuse, diminish

(3) Shrink ,decline

(4) Attack, holdings

(5) None of these

 

Question No : 10

________ a small aircraft for a sightseeing flight with three passengers, I once experienced an engine ________.

(1) Piloting, failure

(2) Sudden, wise

(3) Careless, biased

(4) Limiting ,contract

(5) None of these