FILL IN THE BLANKS --2 -- 40 QUESTIONS IBPS PO MAIN/IBPS CLERKS MAIN
In each of the
following sentences there are two blank spaces. Below each sentence there are
five pairs of words. Find out which pair of words can be filled up in the
blanks in the sentence in the same sequence to make it meaningfully complete.
1. Young people may be ______ the ability to read emotions, as
digital devices such as smart phones are ______ their face-to-face social
skills.
a) faking, hiding b)
affecting, stopping c) losing,
limiting
d) falling, hindering e)
mastering, providing
2. ______ are the days when consumers were passive passengers
with little or _______ choice over the design of the product.
a) Went, less b)
Pass, much c)
Gone, no
d) Extinct, nil
e) Lost, so
3. Researchers _______ that eating less meat would help in _______
water resources in dry areas around the world.
a) opine, conserve b)
said, procuring c)
suggest, removing
d) prove, store e)
believe, preserving
4. The Government is _______ on launching a system to strictly
monitor _______ of industrial wastes.
a) keen, treatment b)
thinking, capturing c)
contemplating, cure
d) interested, disposal e)
eager, healing
5. Scientists from across the country have _______ emphasis on
the need to take immediate steps to
_______ the issue of climate change.
a) placed, stop b)
paid, halt c)
given, hold
d) laid, address e)
put, clear
6. The attempt to ________ India’s public
sector undertakings has entered a ________ stage.
a) uplift, professional b)
unite, stumbling c) privatize,
decisive
d) compete, viable e)
control, yielding
7. Companies that are truly ______ will
______ whether they are startups or expansions.
a) enterprising, expand b)
dynamic, result c) motivated, deserve
d) oriented, compete e)
innovative, flourish
8. Today’s valuation systems _____
development with economic ____
a) balance, aspect b)
equate, growth c) relate,
sustenance
d) derive, affairs e)
conjure, action
9. The country is on a huge resource
________, and cannot even ______ its present population.
a) crunch, control b)
drainage, survive c) abuse, suffice
d) overdraft, sustain e)
imbalance, oblige
10. One of the most serious threats to the
forest lies in the _______, ________.
a) massive, encroachments b) faint, ecology c)
dying, animals
d) smuggling animals e)
illegal, hunting
11. The last couple of years have seen an
____ increase in the _____ of air pollution.
a) hectic, sum b)
influential, capacity c)
amazing, addition
d) enormous, quantity e)
alarming, level
12. As the world races towards ___
advancement, natural resources are being ___ by the second.
a) sudden, jolted b)
rapid, depleted c) superb, driven
d) continuous, harassed e)
tremendous, explored
13. The corridor is being _____ with the
assistance and in _______ with reputed international agencies.
a) organized, tandem b)
opened, union c) developed,
symphony
d) planned, consultation e)
equipped, handled.
14. _____ efforts are being made to make
available _______ quantity of power for our industries.
a) Immense, large b)
High, thorough c) Intense, adequate
d) Various, certain e)
Genuine, enormous.
15. There are the institutional ____ who take
a _____ in many leading joint ventures.
a) buyers, share b)
developers, claim c) bidders
slot
d) investors, stake e)
dealers, bargain
16. Probing the _____
of life in India, Mark Tully takes the reader _______ into the country he has
made his home, in his latest book, The
Heart of India.
a) colours, across b)
shades, straight c)
strata, quick
d) nuances, deep e)
strategy, vigorously
17. After the _______ success of his
autobiography Straight UP, Arthur
Daley is back with his second ______ into the world of letters: Back to Basics.
a) miserable, effort b)
happy, trip c) diligent,
career
d) swashbuckling, work e)
runaway, foray
18. A writer-psychoanalyst ___ into the human
psyche and ______ his observations.
a) explains, emits b)
delves, pens c)
explores, enters
d) looks, writes e)
confides, declares.
19. His academic career was ______ by four
years of military service in the First World War, an __ that pushed him to
escape from the contours of traditional academic endeavour.
a) troubled, enigma b)
thwarted, anathema c)
supported, episode
d) interrupted, experience e) assisted, activity.
20. Jones has been around high-level politics
at West-minister since 1968, when _ with what now seems the ____ reporter’s
skill of immaculate shorthand, he became humble Times parliamentary reporter.
a) established, ancient b)
satisfied, futile c) backed, correct
d) equipped, antediluvian e) enjoined, antiquarian
21. History has ______ demonstrated that
monopolies hurt customers and actually _____ a very high cost burden on the
economy.
a) partly, define b) avowedly, bargain c) amply, impose
d) earnestly hurt e)
extensively, find
22. The wide and serious __________ of a
national response to the Kashmiri demand for autonomy should not be
a) consequence, tolerated b) ramification, agreed
c) aftermath, welcomed d)
atmospherics, adhered
e) implications, overlooked.
23. India and China are trying to give a new
______ to their _____ relations.
a) platform, core b)
impetus, bilateral c)
dimension , stretched
d) alternative, concerned e) spirit, collapse
24. Trade between the two countries had
earlier achieved a ______ when they _____ an agreement in 1984 for mutual
cooperation in various areas.
a) momentum, called b)
deadlock made c) flashpoint,
demarcated
d) standpoint, inked e)
breakthrough, signed
25. The small sector is ___ up and
contributing to the national economy in no small ____.
a) gearing, measure b)
vying, effort c)
heading, exercise
d) soaring, tactics e)
bouncing, way
26. In very remote areas____ radio may not be
available and satellite communications may be the only ______.
a) modern, notion b) outdated, source c) distinct, hope
d) conventional, option e)
frequently, way out
27. After the freedom, politics ____ to be a
means of service but instead became a source of _____ gain.
a) vanished, political b)
ceased, material c) stopped, power
d) halted, corrupt e)
diminished, commercial
28. What has been affecting the progress of
______ of elementary education ins not only shortage of funds but also _____ in
expenditure in various programmes.
a) speed, mismanagement b)
spread, allocation
c)
universalisation, extravagance d)
momentum, corruption
e)
pace, deprivation
29. The military and paramilitary personnel
must be _____ with proper ___ to uphold basic human values.
a) trained, awareness b)
educated, skill c) supervised,
humanity
d) humanized, training e)
deployed, utility
30. Copyright law in an ___ of digital
publishing _____ many challenges.
a) atmosphere, confronts b)
era, poses c) age, tackles
d) array, faces e)
arena, fears
31. The environment is a life-sustaining
system ______________ of both living and non living __________________
a) containing, organisms b)
consisting, entities c) commanding, world
d) combination, properties e) blending, particles
32. The ______________ of economic growth
itself brings about rapid and _____________ changes
a) pursuit, profound b)
pace, gradual c) concept,
structural
d) idea, quick e)
ground, lasting
33. Love for the living and a strong
___________ to ____________ life are very important for the fire engineer
a) devotion, support b)
will, appreciate c) impulse, generate
d) persuasion, survive e)
urge, save
34. When development and environment are
____________ it is ______________ that development should be environment
friendly
a) friendly, worthy b)
sustainable, advisable c)
inseparable, evident
d) related, assumed e)
connected, suspected
35. The world’s population is increasing
_____________ and so are people’s ________________ needs
a) hazardly, unwanted b)
rapidly, mounting c) immensely,
concerning
d) violently, alarming e)
relentlessly, perceived
36. Philosophical ____________ of life teach
us to be ____________ with ourselves and with the society
a) norms, obliged b)
preaching, adjusted c)
principles, grouped
d) dimensions, occupied e)
values, content
37. The success of Indian software firms is
due in large _____________ to the _______________ of Software Technology Parks
of India (STPI).
a) areas, onus b)
spectrum, push c) measures, efforts
d) aspect, orientation e)
sense, obligation
38. The _______________ during this century
will be both economical and ecological ________________ to food.
a) factor, phenomenon b)
advent, reach c) hurdle, claim
d) challenges, access e)
objective, certainty
39. Food and drinking water _______________
are _________________ to human security
a) availability, urgent b)
necessity, meant c) safety, connected
d) resources, viewed e)
security, fundamental
40. Water storage tanks and ponds should be
_____________ to _______________ breeding of mosquitoes and made mosquito proof
a) sprayed, stop b)
disinfected, prevent c) covered,
control
d) checked, minimize e)
washed, drive
ANSWERS
11. (e) 12.
(b) 13. (d) 14. (c)
15. (d) 16. (d) 17. (e) 18. (b)
19. (d) 20. (d)
21. (c) 22.
(e) 23. (b) 24. (e)
25. (a) 26. (d) 27. (b)
28. (c) 29. (d) 30. (b)
31. (b) 32.
(a) 33. (e) 34. (c)
35. (b) 36. (e) 37. (c)
38. (d) 39. (e) 40. (b)
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