PREPARATORY QUESTIONS

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PREPARATORY SET-39 (THREE FILLER)

Direction (Qs.1 to 6): 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

More than 9,000 of those fires _____ spotted in the past week. The size of the fires is still unclear, but they _____ over several large Amazon states in northwest Brazil. On August 11, NASA noted that the fires were large enough that they could be _____ from space.

(1) has been, unprecedented, spotted

(2) have been, spread, emasculate

(3) have been, spread, spotted

(4) has been, unprecedented, emasculate

(5) None of these

Question No : 2

_____ of the Kerala Model has been based on its several failures. The foremost is the inability to meet the employment aspirations of the people, pushing them to live under _____ regimes overseas. Second, the laudable public _____ of health and education has been financed by borrowing.

(1) criticism, imperative, animosity

(2) rapport, authoritarian, revamp

(3) rapport, imperative, revamp

(4) criticism, authoritarian, provision

(5) None of these

Question No : 3

Mr. Sibal and his team left Justice Ramana’s court to immediately ____ ____ the CJI court next door where the Ayodhya Bench was about to_____.

(1) thwart, to, assemble

(2) troop, into, assemble

(3) thwart, into, convalesce

(4) troop, to, convalesce

(5) None of these

Question No : 4

I don't want the world to have only one culture – that would be _____, very dull and boring. Hindu culture is needed on earth; Islamic, Christian, Buddhist, Jaina, Chinese, Russian – thousands of cultures are needed because _____ makes life beautiful. Many types of flowers are needed in a garden. Just one type of flower will make the garden_____.

(1) idiotic, variety, monotonous

(2) idiotic, camaraderie, mend

(3) candid, camaraderie, mend

(4) candid, variety, monotonous

(5) None of these

Question No : 5

Danes voiced shock and _____ on Wednesday at U.S. President Donald Trump’s cancellation of a visit to Denmark after his idea to buy Greenland was_____, although Prime Minister MetteFrederiksen said she believed _____ would not be affected.

(1) indiscretion, rebuffed, relations

(2) disbelief, preclude, amity

(3) indiscretion, preclude, amity

(4) disbelief, rebuffed, relations

(5) None of these

Question No : 6

The _____ area at the new campus _____ 1.8 million sq.ft. of office space that can seat 15,000 people, a large space that Amazon planned to use to _____ its operations.

(1) emasculate, includes, consolidate

(2) built-up, includes, consolidate

(3) emasculate, convivial, concede

(4) built-up, convivial, concede

(5) None of these