Question No : 1

The Reserve Bank of India and the National Sample Survey Office have come under pressure in recent months, and the latest move on SEBI adds to this _____ trend of independent agencies being _____ by the government.

(1) doomsday, subordinated

(2) worrisome, slugfest

(3) worrisome, subordinated

(4) doomsday, slugfest

(5) None of these

Question No : 2

The building had been _____ with plastic barricades and a Chinese government _____ above the front door had been covered with a plastic shield, Reuters news agency reported.

(1) fortified, benignant

(2) fortified, emblem

(3) perilous, emblem

(4) perilous, benignant

(5) None of these

Question No : 3

As chairman of the House Oversight Committee, Mr Cummings has _____ a series of investigations _____ the Trump administration's policies, including its handling of migrants at detention centres.

(1) instigated, into

(2) nibbled, to

(3) nibbled, on

(4) innocuous, to

(5) None of these

Question No : 4

Lightning _____ triggers fires in the region but this year they _____ worsened by summer temperatures that are higher than average because of climate change.

(1) dissidence, has been

(2) lampoon, had been

(3) dissidence, had been

(4) frequently, have been

(5) None of these

Question No : 5

Its chairwoman told the BBC that while she _____ that there is a great prize to be _____ she is anxious about the damage she says Brexit has done to recruiting scientists.

(1) agrees, sanguine

(2) agrees, warped

(3) rebuts, sanguine

(4) rebuts, grasped

(5) None of these

Question No : 6

After three days of covering up the cause of the crash of a Ukrainian airliner near Tehran, the Iranian armed forces admitted that they ________ the plane for an incoming missile and shot it down, killing all 176 people on ________.

(1) Inspire, confusion

(2) Pursue, compel

(3) Mistook, board

(4) False, line

(5) None of these

Question No : 7

The House of Representatives at last sent the articles of ________ for Donald Trump to the Senate, which will allow his ________ to start.

(1) Impeachment, trial

(2) Meagre, opposite

(3) Disappointment, high

(4) Broken, delicate

(5) None of these

Question No : 8

The year 2020 opened with two sets of announcements on coal, the world’s most widely used ________ fuel that has a 38 per cent share in global electricity ________.

(1) Sequential, shout

(2) Scarce, utilization

(3) Protest, revive

(4) Energy, generation

(5) None of these

Question No : 9

A few days later, the new law that ________ coal mining rights from captive usage and puts traders and users on a par when it comes to ________ of coal mines, was notified.

(1) Repulsive, unbecoming

(2) Tenacity, toughness

(3) Delinks, allocation

(4) Abandon, lose

(5) None of these

Question No : 10

The minister is of course ________ to his own views on Amazon but nevertheless what they reveal on the subject of the investment climate and indeed the government’s view of business in general are ________.

(1) Negligible, minor

(2) Entitled, disquieting

(3) Sketchy, confined

(4) Leaves, shuns

(5) None of these