PREPARATORY QUESTIONS

FILL IN THE BLANK(S)

PREPARATORY SET-80 (DOUBLE FILLER)

Direction (Qs.1 to 10): Two sentences with one blank in each, followed by five alternatives, are given. Choose that option as the answer which can fill both the blanks of both the sentences.

Question No : 1

(I)  Japan is investing in strengthening bonds with ASEAN countries and Japanese countries recently won a$ 370 million contract to start _____ a new underground railway system in Jakarta.

(II) The cost of _____ space vehicles is high no doubt, but the cost of complying with legal and regulatory paperwork and rules is huge too.

(1) Construction

(2) Manufacture

(3) Launch

(4) Assembly

(5) Building

Question No : 2

(I) Our office decided to organize a party for the _____ couple.

(II) She _____ him in conversation to while away some time.

(1) New

(2) Engaged

(3) Pledged

(4) Held

(5) Encountered

Question No : 3

(I) Boats take more time going against the _____ of the river.

(II) She keeps herself abreast of _____ events.

(1) flow

(2) latest

(3) water

(4) all

(5) current

Question No : 4

(I) Future generations will be left with a _____ of pollution and destruction.

(II) Each of them received a _____ of $ 10000.

(1) legacy

(2) sum

(3) fortune

(4) amount

(5) inheritable

Question No : 5

(I) Many _____ men remarry and have second families

(II) When he was depressed, he felt utterly _____ from reality.

(1) Divided

(2) Separate

(3) Disturbed

(4) Divorced

(5) Destined

Question No : 6

(I) Even in the best, most friendly and simplest relations of life, _____ and commendation are             essential, just as grease is necessary to wheels that they may run smoothly.

(II) Churchgoers _____ God during the service by singing worship songs and expressing their love through prayer.

(1) Condemn

(2) Convict

(3) Chaste

(4) Praise

(5) Define

Question No : 7

(I) Lammasch and his ministers shared their official premises peacefully with the new secretaries of state of the Austrian Republic, by sending out _____ with an appeal for peace     and quiet.

(II) Many of the _____ writers of the 19th Century were former students, the older generation of educated youth who had returned from the countryside.

(1) Acts

(2) Poster

(3) Novel

(4) Column

(5) Argument

Question No : 8

(I) Edmund Kennedy lost his life in 1848, being killed by the natives while attempting to _____ the peninsula of Cape York, from Rockingham Bay to Weymouth Bay.

(II) According to our history teacher, it was no easy matter for the early European travellers to find their way into and _____ Tibet.

(1) Defeat

(2) Climb

(3) Quit

(4) Explore

(5) Contest

Question No : 9

(I) Instead of facing the difficulties, the President _____ to flood the country with demonetization resulting in an aggravated financial crisis.

(II) On the 3rd of May, the Czech Catholics elected Matthias king of Bohemia, but this was contrary to the wishes of both pope and emperor, who _____ to partition Bohemia.

(1) Resolve

(2) Select

(3) Preferred

(4) Established

(5) Terminate

Question No : 10

(I) A troubled student and his PhD guide _____ a way for websites to reduce the incidence of spam which troubled internet users in the 2000s.

(II) One of the biggest drawbacks of concrete is that it often develops cracks and scientists have now _____ self-healing concrete.

(1) Create

(2) Devised

(3) Develop

(4) Thought

(5) Invent