PREPARATORY QUESTIONS

FILL IN THE BLANK(S)

PREPARATORY SET-88 (SINGLE FILLER)

Direction (Qs.1 to 10): A sentence with one blank is given, indicating that something has been omitted. Choose the word that best fits the meaning of the sentence as a whole.

Question No : 1

Each business activity _____ employment to people who would otherwise be unemployed.

(1) taking        

(2) finds          

(3) create        

(4) provides    

(5) given

Question No : 2

Economic independence and education have _____ women more assertive.

(1) prepared   

(2) made         

(3) marked      

(4) resulted     

(5) adjusted

Question No : 3

In the modern world, the _____ of change and scientific innovation is unusually rapid.

(1) supplies     

(2) context      

(3) pace           

(4) fantasy      

(5) requirement

Question No : 4

The unprecedented economic growth of China has _____ worldwide attention.

(1) perceived  

(2) proposed   

(3) neither       

(4) astonished 

(5) attracted

Question No : 5

Computers are useless _____ you know how to use them.

(1) Therefore  

(2) If   

(3) Hence        

(4) Could        

(5) Unless

Question No : 6

I can’t decide whether I’ll opt for Chemical Engineering _____ Medical Technology in college.

(1) Until          

(2) And           

(3) Nor           

(4) Or  

(5) Rather

Question No : 7

Sophie is clearly exhausted, _____ she insists on dancing till dawn.

(1) As  

(2) Or  

(3) Nor           

(4) Yet 

(5) Neither

Question No : 8

Key programs will continue to function _____ their funding has ongoing authorization and doesn’t depend on annual approval by Congress.

(1) Because     

(2) If   

(3) Once          

(4) Since          

(5) Despite

Question No : 9

In his interview, the Prime Minister pointed out that GST and demonetization weren’t the only reforms he had undertaken, _____ these were the most talked-about.

(1) Till 

(2) Though      

(3) Then          

(4) Than          

(5) While

Question No : 10

More than twenty years have passed _____ I took my first flight.

(1) When         

(2) Since          

(3) While         

(4) As  

(5) Whenever