Direction (Qs.1-5): In the questions given below a sentence is given with two blanks in each. Corresponding to each question two columns are given with three words in each column. Which combinations of words from two columns will perfectly fit into the blanks to make the sentence contextually correct and meaningful?
Question No : 1
Pittie started collecting before the luxury of internet resources, _____ on catalogues, stock books and exchanges with other collectors. She dated her stamps by studying the postage rate mentioned and _____ that with historical records of postage rates
(1) (A)-(D)
(2) (B)-(F)
(3) (C)-(F)
(4) (A)-(F)
(5) None of these
Question No : 2
Even in Bengal, a coup in 1487 by a group of warriors like Malik Ambar led to a short-lived ruling _____. Harems in the Deccan featured habshi women-so called after their origins in Abyssinia—and at least two sultans had black begums as _____.
(1) (A)-(D)
(2) (C)-(D)
(3) (B)-(E)
(4) (A)-(F)
(5) None of these
Question No : 3
Most customers are rule-_____ and considerate, Vivekananda emphasizes, agreeing that the minority offer “interesting behavioural challenges” that have made the company’s founders draw _____ on their inner reserves of innovation.
(1) (A)-(D)
(2) (B)-(F)
(3) (B)-(E)
(4) (A)-(F)
(5) None of these
Question No : 4
The tech companies we rely on are _____ us apart, and, with its final season, Silicon Valley takes aim at the concept of the greater good. Pied Piper has finally become a legitimately big organization with something amazing on offer-a _____ internet that gives power to users, not corporations—but Hendricks isn’t sure.
(1) (A)-(D)
(2) (B)-(F)
(3) (C)-(F)
(4) (A)-(F)
(5) None of these
Question No : 5
In May, Deborah Tabart, chairman of the Australian Koala Foundation, a nonprofit based in Brisbane, issued a press release that said koalas “may be functionally _____ in the entire landscape of Australia”. A spate of news reports in November _____ Tabart’s claims
(1) (A)-(D)
(2) (B)-(F)
(3) (C)-(F)
(4) (A)-(F)
(5) None of these