Question No : 1

Gopal was frustrated with Sundar, who could not _____ himself to a deadline. Sundar claimed he was working well without a deadline, but Gopal _____ and finally prevailed.

(1) encourage, enforced

(2) inculcate, ordered

(3) cooperate, stipulated

(4) commit, persisted

(5) declared, pressurised

Question No : 2

Coercion sometimes leads to the _____ of short-term goals, but its drawbacks far _____ its advantages.

(1) realization, damage

(2) appreciation, percolate

(3) accomplishment, outweigh

(4) achievement, crumble

(5) destination, magnify

Question No : 3

Professionals focus their _____ on fulfilling their responsibilities and achieving results, not on _____ a particular image.

(1) planning, devising

(2) leadership, attributing

(3) abilities, contributing

(4) energies, portraying

(5) skills, obtaining

Question No : 4

The _____ of three pillars of sustainable development in public policies in a balanced measure is a difficult _____

(1) collection, duty

(2) association, function

(3) integration, exercise

(4) combination, undertaking

(5) group, act

Question No : 5

The industrial, agricultural, commercial and public services _____ a significant portion of electricity for _____ their demand for final energy.

(1) exhaust, accomplishing

(2) consume, meeting

(3) utilise, conforming

(4) expend, completing

(5) absorb, meeting

Question No : 6

The Federal Reserve cut its _____ interest rate for the third time this year, _____ another quarter of a percentage point to a range of between 1.5% and 1.75%.

(1) destroys, stirring

(2) benchmark, shaving off

(3) marginal, aimed

(4) virtue, protected

(5) None of these

Question No : 7

The _____ of the first modern well in Pennsylvania in 1859 set oil on a path that led to the heart of economics and _____.

(1) danger, looked

(2) substantiate, cited

(3) drilling, geopolitics

(4) surface, resolved

(5) None of these

Question No : 8

Oil fuelled the rise of the West’s consumer culture; it helped _____ who won the Second World War and prompted a global economic _____ in the 1970s.

(1) determine, crisis

(2) aware, infinity

(3) enquired, preparation

(4) prediction, correctness

(5) None of these

Question No : 9

Under a _____ sun, the river of humanity crosses the Simón Bolívar bridge without cease, its flow more _____ than the muddy stream beneath.

(1) react, analysed

(2) pitiless, powerful

(3) succeed, assimilate

(4) direct, passing

(5) None of these

Question No : 10

Keeping to its promise of _____, social media giant Facebook has _____ a new corporate logo almost 15 years after it launched its eponymous social media networking website.

(1) clarity, launched

(2) promptness, strictness

(3) transparency, unveiled

(4) predicted, correctness

(5) None of these