Directions (Qs.1 to 10): For each of the questions given below, a sentence is given with one or more blanks. Choose the answer choice that provides the correct word(s) to be filled in the blanks.
Question No : 1
In an _______ front page article in 2003 The Times reported that Mr. Blair, a young reporter on its staff, had _______ journalistic fraud.
(1) Immoralist, organized
(2) Onerous, executed
(3) Audacious, violated
(4) Unprecedented, committed
(5) Euphoric, delivered
Question No : 2
The terrorist attack is a/an _____ reminder of the need to immediately ______ the safe havens and sanctuaries that support and sustain terrorism.
(1) evident, destroy
(2) happy, ravage
(3) stark, dismantle
(4) outright, reprieve
(5) harsh, eradicate
Question No : 3
The ______with which the manager averted the loss was _______ as the company was going through a low phase.
(1) alertness, appraised
(2) dishonesty, praised
(3) thinking, neglected
(4) plan, lost
(5) alertness, praised
Question No : 4
The Government is looking to woo foreign investors to fund 700 tourism ____ projects requiring over Rs.50000 crore during three-day summit to kick _____ on Wednesday.
(1) concerning, up
(2) related, off
(3) affected, in
(4) afflicted, off
(5) concerned, in
Question No : 5
Many members of these families had also _____ their services and were working ______ to attend to the crowd of thousands
(1) rendered, direly
(2) wiped, tirelessly
(3) given, wholeheartedly
(4) offered, relentlessly
(5) accepted, poorly
Question No : 6
Take the example of India as well. In the early 1960s, there were ________ riots in Tamil Nadu against the ________ of Hindi.
(1) duration, elucidate
(2) defer, assistance
(3) widespread, imposition
(4) conceal, optimum
(5) None of these
Question No : 7
The government has finally woken up to the ________ of single-use plastic, though it has ________ short of announcing a blanket ban.
(1) menace, stopped
(2) dislike, demotion
(3) mollify, denial
(4) docile, disturbed
(5) None of these
Question No : 8
Nothing unites Congressmen more than the sight of electoral victory while political ________ brings to the fore ________ in the rank and file.
(1) doubtful, reticent
(2) demotion, timid
(3) confusion, search
(4) wilderness, bickering
(5) None of these
Question No : 9
Biosynthetic versions of human insulin were ________ more than three decades ago and are no longer ________.
(1) accord, silence
(2) deplore, accused
(3) invented, patented
(4) corrupt, weak
(5) None of these
Question No : 10
The Commission ________ that war crimes had indeed been ________ during the military campaign, when about 900 people were killed.
(1) worth, disguising
(2) acknowledged, committed
(3) witnessed, delighted
(4) robust, vivid
(5) None of these