PREPARATORY QUESTIONS

MATCHING TWO COLUMNS

PREPARATORY SET-63

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

On Saturday, the 2020 presidential candidate Joe Biden _____his calls for curbs on the military-style weapons, telling supporters in a funding email: “The American people may be running out of tears, but we cannot run out of strength and _____to get something done.”

(1) (A)-(D)

(2) (B)-(F)

(3) (C)-(F)

(4) (A)-(F)

(5) None of these

Question No : 2

Samoa has lifted a six-week state of emergency after the infection rate from a measles outbreak that has _______the country started to come under control. The South Pacific nation has been _______by the highly infectious disease, which has killed 81 people, most of them babies and young children, and sickened more than 5,600 others.

(1) (A)-(D)

(2) (C)-(D)

(3) (B)-(E)

(4) (A)-(F)

(5) None of these

Question No : 3

During this period she battled with anger and frustration at both the traffic and the _______senselessness of politics. She tried various strategies for endurance (earplugs, white-noise generation, alcohol), as well as for _______(mindfulness meditation, Buddhist mantras, affirmations of loving kindness), but found them of limited use.

(1) (A)-(D)

(2) (B)-(F)

(3) (B)-(E)

(4) (A)-(F)

(5) None of these

Question No : 4

A far-left Labour party served up a recipe of predictions of disaster to _______the fairy lights of the holiday season – and suffered calamity at the polls. More broadly, liberals (and not just the Lib Dem kind) need to think about how unattractively _______they have become and what they might do about it.

(1) (A)-(D)

(2) (B)-(F)

(3) (C)-(F)

(4) (A)-(F)

(5) None of these

Question No : 5

One key reason Johnson has _______ is his ambition and direction. This is being linked with a less attractive character trait, namely _______.

(1) (A)-(D)

(2) (B)-(F)

(3) (C)-(F)

(4) (A)-(F)

(5) None of these