Question No : 1

In adolescence, Graham Greene found relief from _____ by playing Russian roulette. In the 1950s, he sought distraction from his manic depression through multiple foreign trips to _____ spots around the world.

(1) Rein, good

(2) Boredom, goad

(3) Rein, turbulent

(4) Grasp, turbulent

(5) None of these

Question No : 2

This trip has a possible secondary focus, keeping his eyes and ears to Fidel Castro’s year-old _____ against Fulgencia Batista’s military regime _____ behalf of his wartime employer, MI6.

(1) Obliviousness, for

(2) Insurrection, on

(3) Insurrection, for

(4) Obliviousness, on

(5) None of these

Question No : 3

He also wanted to _____ his bets because Columbia Pictures needed permission from the local _____ (whoever was in charge of Cuba) top film a third of Our Man in Havana in the city itself.

(1) Hedge, authorities

(2) Annihilation, authorities

(3) Hedge, stalemate

(4) Annihilation, stalemate

(5) None of these

Question No : 4

Mann’s broadside _____ The New Republic to write an editorial in April 1936 praising him: “It is news in the international republic of letters when Thomas Mann comes out in _____ to the new Germany”.

(1) Impasse, spinster

(2) Prompted, spinster

(3) Impasse, opposition

(4) Prompted, opposition

(5) None of these

Question No : 5

Partially flooded by the Tennessee Valley Authority, the cave is closed to _____ the spread of white-nose syndrome, a devastating fungus that can affect hibernating bats. But visitors can still paddleboard across Nickajack Lake to watch the bats fly out of the cave’s mouth each sunset, _____ up their supper of mayflies and stoneflies in the muggy summer dusk.

(1) Turnstile, rancid

(2) Reduce, rancid

(3) Reduce, swooping

(4) Turnstile, swooping

(5) None of these

Question No : 6

We must be rest assured that our sorrow, if any, are short-lived and a period of joy_________ us. Such thinking will always maintain our_______ and peace of mind.

(1) Begets, dream

(2) Befits, body

(3) Awaits, equipoise

(4) Merits, life

(5) None of these

Question No : 7

Our _____ to understand the process of learning underlying behaviour change are _____ by the facts.

(1) Nature, determined

(2) Scope, preceded

(3) Attempt, complicated

(4) Limitations, moderated

(5) None of these

Question No : 8

Man is _____. He likes to know how things work. The search for understanding is ______ in its own right.

(1) Evolving, prophetic

(2) Inquisitive, prophetic

(3) Appreciative, fundamental

(4) Curious, philosophical

(5) None of these

Question No : 9

If a junior executive rejects his professional development and ____ education, he can easily and quickly become obsolete in a world changing at ______ rates.

(1) Management, voluminous

(2) Higher, vulnerable

(3) Better, supreme

(4) Continuing, dizzying

(5) None of these

Question No : 10

When interpersonal problems _____ but are not dealt with, the organization’s productivity inevitably _____.

(1) Surface, develops

(2) Focus, increases

(3) Exist, diminishes

(4) Develop, exhibits

(5) None of these