Practice Double fillers - general english mcq Online Quiz (set-2) For All Competitive Exams
Directions:
In each of the following sentence, there are two blank spaces. Below the sentences, there are five options with a pair of words each. Fill up the sentences with the pair of words that make the sentence grammatically and contextually correct.
Q-1) The counter clerk was very busy and ______ not pay ________ to Sameer’s request.
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"Did, attention" is the correct use.
Since the sentence is in past tense, therefore past auxiliary verb (DID) will be used.
ATTENTION: Notice taken of someone or something.
Directions:
In each of the following sentence, there are two blank spaces. Below the sentences, there are five options with a pair of words each. Fill up the sentences with the pair of words that make the sentence grammatically and contextually correct.
Q-2) AH the school students _______ the vicinity will be taken to the nearby theatres _____the festival.
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The following questions consist of a single sentence with one blank only. You are given six words as answer choices and from the six choices you have to pick up two correct answers, either of which will make the sentence meaningfully complete.
Q-3) Many educationists think that the classroom instruction should be made more ________. (1) active (2) lavish (3) grotesque (4) lively (5) opulent (6) vigorous
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Directions:
The following questions consist of a single sentence with one blank only. You are given six words as answer choices and from the six choices you have to pick up two correct answers, either of which will make the sentence meaningfully complete.
Q-4) His ________ inspite of the incriminating evidence surprised all of us. (1) capricious (2) exoneration (3) gumption (4) vindication (5) magniloquence (6) recollection
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Directions:
The following questions consist of a single sentence with one blank only. You are given six words as answer choices and from the six choices you have to pick up two correct answers, either of which will make the sentence meaningfully complete.
Q-5) All of us must endeavour to ________ the miseries of poor. (1) augment (2) elaborate (3) discourage (4) mitigate (5) exhibit (6) alleviate
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Directions:
The following questions consist of a single sentence with one blank only. You are given six words as answer choices and from the six choices you have to pick up two correct answers, either of which will make the sentence meaningfully complete.
Q-6) The clerk had the ________ to contradict his boss. (1) impudence (2) guts (3) guilt (4) remorse (5) audacity (6) revocation
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The following questions consist of a single sentence with one blank only. You are given six words as answer choices and from the six choices you have to pick up two correct answers, either of which will make the sentence meaningfully complete.
Q-7) Leadership defines what the future should look like and ________ people with that vision. (1) aligns (2) develops (3) trains (4) encourages (5) associates (6) transforms
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Directions:
The following questions consist of a single sentence with one blank only. You are given six words as answer choices and from the six choices you have to pick up two correct answers, either of which will make the sentence meaningfully complete.
Q-8) Many democracies resort to ________ methods to control dissidence. (1) disagreeable (2) coercive (3) unsavoury (4) infernal (5) footling (6) distant
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Directions:
The following questions consist of a single sentence with one blank only. You are given six words as answer choices and from the six choices you have to pick up two correct answers, either of which will make the sentence meaningfully complete.
Q-9) The minister’s ________ to the small investors to return to the stock market is timely and ought to be welcomed. (1) plea (2) persuasion (3) extradition (4) exhortation (5) hesitation (6) exudation
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Directions:
The following questions consist of a single sentence with one blank only. You are given six words as answer choices and from the six choices you have to pick up two correct answers, either of which will make the sentence meaningfully complete.
Q-10) The USA is trying to find ________ between the Iraqi version and the information Washington has collected. (1) discrepancies (2) lacunae (3) disparities (4) incongruities (5) conflicts (6) contradictions
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In each of the following sentence, there are two blank spaces. Below the sentences, there are five options with a pair of words each. Fill up the sentences with the pair of words that make the sentence grammatically and contextually correct.
Q-11) Scientific imagination in a specific intellectual power that is ___________ in every population that has learned to be ______ about the mechanisms governing the physical world.
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"Latent, curious" is the correct use.
Latent: Existing but not yet developed
Curious: To be eager to know or learn something.
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In each of the following sentence, there are two blank spaces. Below the sentences, there are five options with a pair of words each. Fill up the sentences with the pair of words that make the sentence grammatically and contextually correct.
Q-12) Facebook ________ after black employees anonymously shared feelings of workplace ________ in an online post.
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The correct answer is A - Apologised, Bias
Meaning: Apologised - to express deep regret for something happened, Bias - Inclination for or against someone
Facebook apologised after black employees anonymously shared feelings of workplace bias in an online post.
Directions:
In each of the following sentence, there are two blank spaces. Below the sentences, there are five options with a pair of words each. Fill up the sentences with the pair of words that make the sentence grammatically and contextually correct.
Q-13) Indians will ________ one-fourth of total work force in the next five years but India needs introspection whether its education system is ________ for these demographic dividends.
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In each of the following sentence, there are two blank spaces. Below the sentences, there are five options with a pair of words each. Fill up the sentences with the pair of words that make the sentence grammatically and contextually correct.
Q-14) Liberalisation has removed all the legal ________ and ________ the floodgates to multinational companies.
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In each of the following sentences there are two blank spaces. Below each sentence there are five pairs of words denoted by numbers (a), (b), (c), (d) and (e). Find out which pair of words can be filled up in the blanks in the sentence in the same sequence to make the sentence meaningfully complete.
Q-15) Generally, ________ students ________ those who are mediocre.
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Directions:
In each of the following sentences there are two blank spaces. Below each sentence there are five pairs of words denoted by numbers (a), (b), (c), (d) and (e). Find out which pair of words can be filled up in the blanks in the sentence in the same sequence to make the sentence meaningfully complete.
Q-16) As long as the bacteria, fungus or virus has enough resource to survive, it can ________ and spread into the environment thereby maximizing its chances of continued ________.
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The correct answer is C - Reproduce, Survival
Meaning: Allocation - The process of sharing out something
As long as the bacteria, fungus or virus has enough resource to survive, it can reproduce and spread into the environment thereby maximizing its chances of continued survival.
Directions:
In each of the following sentences there are two blank spaces. Below each sentence there are five pairs of words denoted by numbers (a), (b), (c), (d) and (e). Find out which pair of words can be filled up in the blanks in the sentence in the same sequence to make the sentence meaningfully complete.
Q-17) The ________ of opinion which emerged at a recently concluded seminar was that the problem of dowry cannot be ________ unless the law against it is made more stringent.
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Directions:
In each of the following sentences there are two blank spaces. Below each sentence there are five pairs of words denoted by numbers (a), (b), (c), (d) and (e). Find out which pair of words can be filled up in the blanks in the sentence in the same sequence to make the sentence meaningfully complete.
Q-18) We will call back the agitation if the Chairman gives an ________ that there will be no ________ of workers.
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Directions:
In each of the following sentences there are two blank spaces. Below each sentence there are five pairs of words denoted by numbers (a), (b), (c), (d) and (e). Find out which pair of words can be filled up in the blanks in the sentence in the same sequence to make the sentence meaningfully complete.
Q-19) We mean by civilisation a way of life in which the wilder ________ of humanity are restrained, the nobler instructs and inclinations are ________ and allowed to prevail.
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Directions:
In each of the following sentences there are two blank spaces. Below each sentence there are five pairs of words denoted by numbers (a), (b), (c), (d) and (e). Find out which pair of words can be filled up in the blanks in the sentence in the same sequence to make the sentence meaningfully complete.
Q-20) The police commissioner may ________ the state government to close five police stations ________ of poor infrastructure and bad location.
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