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 blank appropriately.
Question No : 1
By using their authority in the school they continue to _____ that my son is always the one at fault whenever there is a school yard tiff.
(1) insinuate
(2) predict
(3) procrastinate
(4) sure
(5) master
Question No : 2
Her reputation was that she liked to _____ into people’s private lives.
(1) thought
(2) depose
(3) meddling
(4) pry
(5) sniff
Question No : 3
Scientists say there is nothing unusual in the climatic conditions that _____ temperature in this region at this time of the year.
(1) influence
(2) create
(3) hampers
(4) affects
(5) changes
Question No : 4
Historically and even now, one of the missing _____ from India’s strategic debates is the lack of self-awareness.
(1) informations
(2) pieces
(3) bit
(4) chunk
(5) pied
Question No : 5
In the present context of globalisation, the forms of labour dispossession and exploitation are changing and are also _____.
(1) drift
(2) expands
(3) deleting
(4) increases
(5) increasing
Question No : 6
Although he has steady monthly income, he does not know how to _____ his income.
(1) budget
(2) planned
(3) rise
(4) lead
(5) None of these
Question No : 7
More than twenty years have passed _____ I took my first flight.
(1) When
(2) Since
(3) While
(4) As
(5) Whenever
Question No : 8
Scarcely had she entered the room, _____ the phone rang.
(1) Than
(2) As
(3) When
(4) Yet
(5) But
Question No : 9
_____ had the news leaked out than my telephone started ringing.
(1) Hardly
(2) No Sooner
(3) Scarcely
(4) Although
(5) Barely
Question No : 10
A pair of broken glasses _____ on the desk.
(1) is lying
(2) are lying
(3) is laying
(4) are laying
(5) None of these
