PREPARATORY QUESTIONS

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PREPARATORY SET-83 (DOUBLE FILLER)

Direction (Qs.1 to 10): There are two different sentences with a blank space in each question. Choose the word from the given options which fits into both the blanks appropriately adding a proper and logical meaning to the sentences.

Question No : 1

(I) Jenny had a special _____, Bill Giannini, who visited each week and took her out for lunch as she became more limited at home.

(II) The secret _____ of former president had her prison sentence cut by two years in a retrial.

(1) Parlance

(2) Highly

(3) Automated

(4) Confidante

(5) Ineluctably

Question No : 2

(I) In the last century the same conflicts led to the First World War and continued to be a bone of _____ throughout the Second.

(II) With his team in _____ for a Champions League place, he has been one of the best performing English centre-backs anywhere.

(1) Vacillating

(2) Contention

(3) Inchoate

(4) Inarticulate

(5) Growing

Question No : 3

(I) Business Insider consulted with leading career experts to find the most important _____ rules for a collaborative workspace.

(II)       _____ is way more than just which fork and knife to pick to pick up.”

(1) Embrace

(2) Occasion

(3) Reluctant

(4) Entrust

(5) Etiquette

Question No : 4

(I) The Afghan Taliban has spoken of its plans to _____“bilateral relations” with countries around the world.

(II) Government has reaffirmed its commitment to _____ strong ties with the private sector in order to create employment and reduce poverty.

(1) Sodality

(2) Forge

(3) Cabal

(4) Disappointed

(5) Gadfly

Question No : 5

(I) He managed to _____ them both by forming an alliance of parties dominated by the country’s ethnic Malay Muslim majority.

(II) Boda boda motorcyclists are accused of inconveniencing pedestrians by using sidewalks to _____ traffic congestion.

(1) Depress

(2) Surprised

(3) Outmanoeuvre

(4) Shocked

(5) Ceased

Question No : 6

(I) The German health minister has described the coronavirus as a worldwide _____, putting pressure on the laggard WHO to do the same.

(II) Given the globalized spread of the disease, the term _____ is beginning to circulate among officials and the news media.

(1) Depletion

(2) Pandemic

(3) Cooperation

(4) Completion

(5) Tolerant

 

Question No : 7

(I) Students and their parents should not panic but take _____ measures.

(II) While the research is taking place, the Department of Health is reiterating its _____ advice on the use of mobile phones.

(1) Wary

(2) Precautionary

(3) Inarticulate

(4) Domineering

(5) Responsive

Question No : 8

(I) Officials said that the individuals had underlying medical problems that could have made them particularly _____ to the virus.

(II) Older people are more _____ to extremes of heat and cold because of impaired thermoregulation.

(1) Dangerous

(2) Tricky

(3) Procrastinate         

(4) Assembled

(5) Susceptible

Question No : 9

(I) India’s economic slowdown has been _____ long and steep.

(II) There’s a _____ low percentage of women who think these types of calls constitute harassment.

(1) Assimilated

(2) Poured

(3) Disconcertingly

(4) Joyfully

(5) Civilizing

Question No : 10

(2) Confluence (I) The Army in its 2021 fiscal year budget request has asked for a sharp reduction in funding for its _____ wheeled vehicles.

(II) The Ottawa Police Service's _____ unit made the first ever appearance by a Canadian team at an invitation-only international SWATcompetition.

(1) Tactical

(2) Confluence

(3) Bantered

(4) Credible

(5) Malleable