Direction (Qs.1 to 10): Each sentence below has two blanks, each blank indicating that something has been omitted. Choose the words for each blank that best fit the meaning of the sentence as a whole.
Question No : 1
By _____ the participation of females in the society, India remains more or less a/an _____ society even today.
(1) increasing, divided
(2) decreasing, entangled
(3) resenting, honorable
(4) repressing, patriarchal
(5) boosting, archaic
Question No : 2
The four-hour debate _____ trading of charges and counter-charges between the ruling and the Opposition over the alleged corruption during the Congress _____
(1) included, government
(2) supervised, reign
(3) observed, ownership
(4) witnessed, regime
(5) assembled, tenure
Question No : 3
The political Party not only lost every seat it ____-from elsewhere in the country but also 414 out of the 434 candidates it fielded had to _____ their security deposits.
(1) challenged, condone
(2) disputed, relinquish
(3) debated, surrender
(4) contested, forfeit
(5) fought, lose
Question No : 4
The activists are dismayed at the _____ of police in registering cases under appropriate sections against the accused in the recent ____ at Thinniam in Tiruchi district.
(1) efforts, violence
(2) reluctance, outrage
(3) doubt, atrocities
(4) priority, detention
(5) actions, penetration
Question No : 5
The team of activists, while demanding sterner laws to punish the _____ however, holds the entire population of the village responsible for the inappropriate treatment _____ out to the foreigners.
(1) offenders, delivered
(2) accused, allocated
(3) miscreants, meted
(4) culprits, assigned
(5) convicts, bestowed
Question No : 6
The Indian Medical Association has also written to the state government asking it to start a _____ campaign to break the taboo before _____ diseases become a problem again.
(1) vigorous, eradicated
(2) inactive, remove
(3) weak, improved
(4) strong, remove
(5) tough, eradicate
Question No : 7
At the police checkpoint, the _____ in the car in front of us were asked to _____ their identity cards.
(1) traveller, surrender
(2) passengers, produce
(3) relative, legalise
(4) people, level
(5) conjurers, submit
Question No : 8
He had been _____ to his teacher; consequently, he was _____ in front of the whole class.
(1) honourable, detained
(2) naughty, awarded
(3) kind, detained
(4) distrustful, regained
(5) disrespectful, reprimanded
Question No : 9
The manager was _____ a meeting this morning so he could not meet us until later when he was not so _____.
(1) taking, worried
(2) having, occupied
(3) conducted, busy
(4) experimenting, overjoyed
(5) pertaining, perilous
Question No : 10
If still there are vacancies, then the admission shall be _____ to other students residing within 6 km of the institution. Students residing beyond 6 km shall be _____ only in case vacancies remain unfilled.
(1) offer, admitted
(2) present, confirmed
(3)refused, rejected
(4) taken, admit
(5) offered, admitted