PREPARATORY QUESTIONS

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PREPARATORY SET-15 (THREE FILLER)

Direction (Qs.1 to 5): Each question below contains a statement with three blanks followed by four options. Choose the option that can fill the three blanks and mark it as your answer.

Question No : 1

They told us that there is a _____ increase in the sharing of _____, unverified content which is _____trust in various institutions.

(1) consummate, sensational, eroding

(2) consummate, bombastic, frantic

(3) dramatic, sensational, eroding

(4) dramatic, bombastic, frantic

(5) None of these

Question No : 2

In June, Paul Crossly was sentenced _____ life in jail for pushing 91-year-old former Euro tunnel boss Sir Robert Malpas _____ the tracks at Marble Arch last year, after earlier trying to push another _______, Tobias French, at Tottenham Court Road.

(1) to, onto, commuter

(2) for, onto, commuter

(3) for, into, charade

(4) to, into, charade

(5) None of these

Question No : 3

The IT department had also _____ if the purchase of the south Mumbai, CCI chamber residence of the Kochhars was _____ of provisions of the Benami Transactions (Prohibition) Act, but there was no _____ made.

(1) beseech, delirious, headway

(2) probed, delirious, compel

(3) beseech, violative, compel

(4) probed, violative, headway

(5) None of these

Question No : 4

Rather than tax breaks to _____ demand for electric vehicles, the government should use its funds to make public transport more effective and _____ strengthen the grid, a vital necessity, and build a _____ charging infrastructure for electric-powered mobility.

(1) stimulate, to, distributed

(2) relentless, for, distributed

(3) flippancy, for, pervasive

(4) relentless, to, pervasive

(5) None of these

Question No : 5

As it is, the actual _____ of the revenues of the Centre to the states is a good deal — in excess of ten percentage points, _____ some estimates — below the 42% recommended by the 14th FC, thanks to a _____ chunk of the Centre’s collections, including large dollops from petroleum, being in the form of cesses and surcharges that are not shareable with the states.

(1) crony, by, hanker

(2) devolution, by, sizeable

(3) devolution, with, hanker

(4) crony, with, sizeable

(5) None of these