PREPARATORY QUESTIONS

FILL IN THE BLANK(S)

PREPARATORY SET-35 (DOUBLE FILLER)

Direction (Qs.1 to 10): In each of the following sentence, there are two blank spaces. Below the sentences, there are five options with a pair of words each. Fill up the sentences with the pair of words that make the sentence grammatically and contextually correct.

Question No : 1

State Bank of India chairman Rajnish Kumar on Wednesday said that housing finance companies should behave like housing finance companies and should _____ only on lending to individual retail _____.

(1) started, investors

(2) gave, premise

(3) focus, borrowers

(4) lain, players

(5) None of these

Question No : 2

A constitutional _____ that strips Jammu& Kashmir of statehood and divides it into two territories administered directly by India’s national government came into _____.

(1) sufficient, increased

(2) alternative, depletion

(3) guaranteed, over

(4) amendment, effect

(5) None of these

Question No : 3

If Indian soyabean meal can make little _____ into the Chinese market, it will be a win-win for Indian producers and Chinese _____.

(1) natural, exhausted

(2) conservative, seen

(3) headway,consumers

(4) adaptable, reflection

(5) None of these

Question No : 4

The Titanic is in severe decay caused by salt _____ and metal eating bacteria, Caladan Oceanic, the company overseeing the _____, said in an announcement about the dives.

(1) litigation, expedition

(2) corrosion, amenable

(3) corrosion, expedition

(4) litigation, amenable

(5) None of these

Question No : 5

Meanwhile is the fires are _____ to increase the rate of climate change _____ _____ he Amazon is one of the largest _____ of carbon dioxide on the planet.

(1) antagonistic, repositories

(2) threatening, unbrindle

(3) threatening, respositories

(4) antagonistic, unbrindle

(5) None of these

Question No : 6

“Lives are at stake”, said Ann Marie Benitez of the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health, _____ the loss of screenings for cancer and other diseases that _____ result from the withdrawal, particularly for Latina and black women.

(1) Admonish, would

(2) decrying, will

(3) decrying, would

(4) admonish, will

(5) None of these

Question No : 7

Insolvency courts must get their act together to make the bankruptcy code work for ______ resolution of corporate distress. Protracted distress is a major structural _____ that the financial system, companies and investors face, and should be resolved, to get the wheels of the economy moving.

(1) swift, impediment

(2) swift, adulation

(3) farfetched, adulation

(4) swift, estrange

(5) None of these

Question No : 8

India’s power sector is a _____ candidate for attracting sizeable overseas investment into the country. While a few profitable independent power producers (IPPs) and transmission utilities do exist, the sector’s profitability overall is well below the _____ needed to encourage investment.

(1) orchard, threshold

(2) obsequious, obdurate

(3) prime, obdurate

(4) obsequious, threshold

(5) None of these

Question No : 9

India is believed to be _____ moving forward as an economic entity and not even the currently slowing growth takes away from this _____.

(1) Awareness, Doggedly

(2) Resolutely, Perception

(3) Views, Stubbornly

(4) Strongly, Beliefs

(5) None of these

Question No : 10

It is difficult to think of any part of the world where historic _____ has been removed entirely through the _____ of the oppressed.

(1) Wrong, Intervention

(2) Injustice, Supporting

(3) Inequity, Agency

(4) Unfair, Work

(5) None of these