PREPARATORY QUESTIONS

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PREPARATORY SET-13 (SINGLE FILLER)

Direction (Qs.1 to 10): In each of the following sentence, there is a blank given. Below the sentences, there are five options with a word fitting in each. Fill up the sentence with the word given in the space so as to make the sentence grammatically and contextually correct.

Question No : 1

The country’s sorry fate today has a lesson for everyone, as it exposes how wrong decisions can _____ havoc on the social and economic fabric of a nation.

(1) Leash

(2) Cajole

(3) Wreck

(4) Wreak

(5) Curtail

Question No : 2

_____ after his accident, the injured man wasn’t able to leave the house without assistance from family members

(1) Hilarious

(2) Cadence

(3) Homebound

(4) Frayed

(5) Brusque

Question No : 3

While the Indian government has decided to gamble taxpayer money on exploration of mineral deposits, it has not _____ private sector exploration.

(1) Outlawed

(2) Inoculated

(3) Sustained

(4) Generalized

(5) Furnished

Question No : 4

The World Wide Web was originally _____ as an open platform on which everyone could contribute content so that it could be freely accessed by everyone else.

(1) Believed

(2) Furnished

(3) Entitled

(4) Envisaged

(5) Palliated

Question No : 5

Companies are _____ unwilling to address problematic cultures or are even in denial about them.

(1) Real

(2) Majority

(3) Neglect

(4) Often

(5) None of the above

Question No : 6

Work is more entertaining for your brain–and therefore makes you more alert–when you _____ as many of your senses as possible.

(1) recommend

(2) minor

(3) engage

(4) sentiment

(5) None of these

Question No : 7

If you are following _____ fasting then I recommend that you eat a lunch that has at least 30 grams of fat in it.

(1) dealing

(2) anger

(3) poured

(4) intermittent

(5) None of these

Question No : 8

The world’s most innovative companies prosper by _____ on the divergent associations of their founders, executives, and employees.

(1) achieve

(2) stabilize

(3) capitalizing

(4) aimed

(5) None of these

Question No : 9

To _____ your own observational skills, watch how certain customers experience a product or service in their natural environment.

(1) fragile

(2) service

(3) sharpen

(4) script

(5) None of these

Question No : 10

To improve your networking skills, contact the five most creative people you know and ask them to share what they do to _____ creative thinking.

(1) stimulate

(2) tout

(3) ponder

(4) novice

(5) None of these