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
At this stage of the game, Iran is pretty _____ to do something about ending the _____ and they believe that by escalating terrorist attacks they will be able to do that. So I think we can expect more such _____ going forward.
(1) abandon, relinquish, shoulder
(2) desperate, sanctions, situations
(3) abandon, relinquish, situations
(4) desperate, sanctions, shoulder
(5) None of these
Question No : 2
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
Question No : 3
The _____ took place a day after official statistics forecast 5% growth for this year, the slowest in 11 years. The unions are calling for an end to contractual labour, higher pay, and a _____ to the disinvestment of state-owned enterprises. In Calcutta protesters set fire to vehicles, including a police van, and _____ government property and buses. Police responded with a baton charge and fired teargas and rubber bullets. At least 55 people were arrested.
(1) strike, halt, ransacked
(2) rudimentary, peripheral, ransacked
(3) rudimentary, peripheral, foundation
(4) strike, halt, foundation
(5) None of these
Question No : 4
The former Renault-Nissan chair Carlos Ghosn likened his arrest by Japanese _____ to the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor as he spoke publicly for the first time since his _____ escape from Japan. In an animated presentation to the global media in Beirut, Ghosn said his prosecution on charges of financial misconduct was politically motivated, the result of an _____ conspiracy involving “malevolent” Nissan executives and even the Japanese government.
(1) prosecutors, audacious, trifling
(2) token, negligible, trifling
(3) token, negligible, elaborate
(4) prosecutors, audacious, elaborate
(5) None of these
Question No : 5
He accused Nissan executives in Japan of _____ with prosecutors and the government in a “systematic campaign by a handful of _____ actors to destroy my reputation and _____ my character”
(1) infinitesimal, ring fence, impugn
(2) colluding, malevolent, shield
(3) infinitesimal, ring fence, shield
(4) colluding, malevolent, impugn
(5) None of these
