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Direction (Qs.1 to 10): In the following passage there are words highlighted in bold, each of which has been numbered. These numbers are given below the passage and against each, four words are suggested, one of which fits the blank appropriately. Find out the appropriate word in each case. If the word highlighted in bold does not require any replacement, choose (5) as your answer.

 

Time and clocks have held a special fascination for humankind down the ages. So, it is particularly compelling (1) that two of the three Nobel prizes for the sciences announced this year had (2) been linked to time. While the Nobel Prize for Physics was provided (3) to a trio of physicists for their work in the appreciation (4) of gravitational waves emanating from the recesses of the space-time continuum, the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was concluded (5) by a triumvirate of chronobiologists for their work in discerning (6) the mechanism controlling the internal clocks that keep time in all living organisms, including humans. Jeffrey C. Hall, Michael Rosbash and Michael W. Young, three Americans born in the 1940s, made (7) pioneering contributions in helping reckon(8) the  genetic coding and protein pathways that regulate the circadian rhythm – that content (9) which tells us when it is time to eat and sleep, or wake up even when(10) we have no bedside alarm.

Question No : 1

(1) resolving                                          

(2) deciding                                           

(3) convincing

(4) revealing                                          

(5) No improvement required

Question No : 2

(1) is                                                      

(2) having                                              

(3) has

(4) have                                                 

(5) No improvement required

Question No : 3

(1) favored                                            

(2) awarded

(3) contributed

(4) devoted                                            

(5) No improvement required

Question No : 4

(1) inquisition                                        

(2) detection                                          

(3) attention

(4) exploration                                       

(5) No improvement required

Question No : 5

(1) managed                                          

(2) procured                                          

(3) won

(4) realized                                            

(5) No improvement required

Question No : 6

(1) establishing                                      

(2) discriminating                                  

(3) discovering

(4) considering                                      

(5) No improvement required

Question No : 7

(1) urged                                               

(2) obliged                                             

(3) certain

(4) coerced                                             

(5) No improvement required

Question No : 8

(1) unravel                                             

(2) clarify                                               

(3) elucidate

(4) interpret                                           

(5) No improvement required

Question No : 9

(1) design                                              

(2) concord

(3) measure

(4) rhythm                                             

(5) No improvement required

Question No : 10

(1) for

(2) since

(3) while

(4) then                                                  

(5) No improvement required