Direction (Qs.1-5): In the questions given below a sentence is given with three blanks in each. Corresponding to each question three columns are given with three words in each column. Which combinations of words from three columns will perfectly fit into the blanks to make the sentence contextually correct and meaningful?
Question No : 1
It is hard to know whether to laugh or cry. But labour is _____ going to have to do very much better than this if it is to _____ out of the electoral _____ into which corbyn led it in December.
(1) (A)-(D)-(I)
(2) (B)-(F)-(H)
(3) (C)-(F)-(G)
(4) (A)-(F)-(G)
(5) None of these
Question No : 2
Our _____with past and future oftentimes causes us to fail to embrace the true joy of living each day, one minute at a time. Some people are inclined to _____their present happiness, by assigning a disproportionate significance to their past. Others escape a meaningful engagement with reality by _____about their future.
(1) (A)-(D)-(I)
(2) (B)-(F)-(H)
(3) (C)-(F)-(G)
(4) (A)-(F)-(G)
(5) None of these
Question No : 3
Numbers on them _____the limited choice we have. Purushartha, that is, self-effort or action, is the act of throwing the dice. The re-action is the number we get and is decided by the _____effect of samskaras _____in our karanasharira, the seed (source code), which is dynamically updated every moment using experiences of the player till then, including all past births. Punya (ladders) and paap (snakes) are the karma phalas (fruits of action).
(1) (A)-(D)-(I)
(2) (B)-(F)-(H)
(3) (C)-(F)-(G)
(4) (A)-(F)-(G)
(5) None of these
Question No : 4
Only when we _____ ourselves from our temporary physical gender will we be freed from the ideological preconceptions that are inevitably _____into discussion on the gender of God. So, in the conventional sense, gender refers to bodily gender, so God is neither. Yet God is both male and female, as seen in the _____of divine couples in Vedic tradition. Krishna is compared to the sun and Radha, to sunshine.
(1) (A)-(D)-(I)
(2) (B)-(F)-(H)
(3) (C)-(F)-(G)
(4) (A)-(F)-(G)
(5) None of these
Question No : 5
Divine Janus is thought to be divomdeus — god of gods, remover of _______and the doorkeeper to the heavens and therefore, the Romans _______him at the beginning of every year, month and morning. From this perspective, New Year celebrations signify overcoming _______and welcoming progressive possibilities.
(1) (A)-(D)-(I)
(2) (B)-(F)-(H)
(3) (C)-(F)-(G)
(4) (A)-(F)-(G)
(5) None of these