Question No : 1

The Solar system objects (planets, satellites, comets and asteroids) formed out of this ____ in a gradual manner starting with the formation of grains that _____ to form larger-sized objects that ____ to planetesimals and finally planets through gravitational interactions and collisional accretion processes.

(1) Fracas, coagulated, evolved

(2) Fracas, eschewed, rigmarole

(3) Nebula, eschewed, rigmarole

(4) Nebula, coagulated, evolved

(5) None of these

Question No : 2

The ‘rediscovery’ of his remains became the basis of a ____ that was finally settled in court, and the city of Leicester has been the ____, raking in money from tourists who wish to discover for themselves the ____ of this controversial King.

(1) Controversy, beneficiary, frantic

(2) Dither, pernicious, legacy

(3) Controversy, beneficiary, legacy

(4) Dither, pernicious, frantic

(5) None of these

Question No : 3

Elaborating on the Federal Open Market Committee’s ____ in deciding policy action, Chairman Jerome Powell was ____ that the aim was to provide a measure of insurance, especially given that the outlook ____ the U.S. economy remains favourable.

(1) Malingerer, eloquence, to

(2) Malingerer, emphatic, for

(3) Rationale, eloquence, to

(4) Rationale, emphatic, for

(5) None of these

Question No : 4

In the space of less than three quarters, the Fed has ______ from talking of further rate increases, to being on hold, to finally cutting interest rates as a global economic slowdown is _____ by trade tensions unleashed by U.S. President Donald Trump’s aggressively ____ approach to trade ties.

(1) Piscatorial, exacerbated, ennui

(2) Pivoted, exacerbated, insular

(3) Piscatorial, furlough, ennui

(4) Pivoted, furlough, insular

(5) None of these

Question No : 5

The Fed Chairman, however, finds himself in an _____ situation with the rate reduction satisfying neither the _____ critical President who appointed him in 2018, nor the markets where investors ____ that Mr. Powell had failed to signal the start of a protracted easing cycle.

(1) Unenviable, sharply, fretted

(2) Sedition, sharply, bickered

(3) Unenviable, couch, bickered

(4) Sedition, couch, fretted

(5) None of these

Question No : 6

For me, one of the most _____ scenes is in Elizabeth Jane Howard’s Three Miles Up. The _____ of two friends losing their way on a lonely stretch of canal is unsettling enough, but it’s the more _____ moments of eeriness that give the story its power.

(1) chimerical, palpable, subtle

(2) chimerical, palpable, alacrity

(3) disquieting, premise, alacrity

(4) disquieting, premise, subtle

(5) None of these

Question No : 7

I often _____ to respond. No one should be denied care on account of their ability to pay _____ treatment. Yet this is now a daily reality for many people, due to the _____ privatisation of our healthcare system by successive governments.

(1) fervour, of, sloth

(2) struggle, for, sloth

(3) struggle, for, creeping

(4) fervour, of, creeping

(5) None of these

Question No : 8

But I gradually discovered that all of them were _____ hostile to thoughtful explorations of ecological and climate breakdown. In total, I was _____ to write 26 articles. All but two were spiked. Eventually I realised it was impossible to cover these crucial issues properly without _____ editors.

(1) intensely, commissioned, supportive

(2) rudimentary, sophisticated, supportive

(3) intensely, commissioned, terse

(4) rudimentary, sophisticated, terse

(5) None of these

Question No : 9

As global environment editor _____ the Guardian, I report from the Amazon to the Arctic on the _____ wonders of a rapidly deteriorating world. Along with a growing number of colleagues, I investigate who is _____, who is to blame and who is fighting back.

(1) for, disappearing, elaborate

(2) of, succinct, elaborate

(3) of, succinct, affected

(4) for, disappearing, affected

(5) None of these

Question No : 10

The Springboks’ head coach, Rassie Erasmus, was happy on Tuesday to more than hint _____ his line-up for the final and point out that England could expect more of the same _____ physical, attritional rugby that had taken them to the final day. He is not one given to subterfuge or mind games: the only doubt he looks to put into opponents is whether they are _____ to deal with what they know they will face.

(1) on, remorselessly, premonition

(2) at, remorselessly, equipped

(3) on, hindsight, premonition

(4) on, hindsight, equipped

(5) None of these