Practice Multiple fillers - general english mcq Online Quiz (set-2) For All Competitive Exams
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In each of the following sentences there are blank spaces. Below each sentence there are five set of words denoted by the numbers (a), (b), (c), (d) and (e). Find out which set of words can be filled up in the blanks in the sentence in the same sequence to make it grammatically correct.
Q-1) It takes singular skill and ascertain ruthlessness, however, to make capital of the smallest advantages, and Federer and Serena, and to a marginally_________ extent Nadal and Venus, did precisely that. Federer, who missed six months last year with an injury, knew he could not allow Nadal time and space. With his opponent looking in excellent physical condition, Federer could not ________to be drawn into long, bruising rallies; he had to dictate the ________of play.
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Tempo means the rate or speed of motion or activity.
Q-2) Higher oil price-led inflation will bring back into focus the high excise duties on petroleum products that have __________the Centre’s tax kitty over the past couple of years. Those duties were raised when prices were low to __________consumers from an upward price shock, the government had argued. Cutting those duties will upset _________calculations, but leaving them untouched will impose its own costs.
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Option (e) is true.
Annihilate means to destroy.
Q-3) Consider innovations like the India Stack which _______ Aadhaar authentication, e-KYC, esign, Digital Locker and UPI_______ mobile payments to ___________ cashless, paperless and presence-less transactions.
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“combines , interoperable, provide”, fits the blanks most perfectly. Interoperable means (of computer systems or software) able to exchange and make use of information.
Q-4) Mr. Trump could either fight back or make peace. Two days after Mr. Flynn’s resignation, he has signaled both. He attacked the intelligence agencies on Twitter on Wednesday, while the White House_________ that the promised détente with Russia was over. But Mr. Flynn has set in motion a process that is unlikely to be controlled by a seemingly __________ administration like Mr. Trump’s. With chaos engulfing his government, Mr. Trump will be forced to __________.
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Refute means disapprove.
Abrogate means to evade.
Directions:
In each of the following sentences there are blank spaces. Below each sentence there are five set of words denoted by the numbers (a), (b), (c), (d) and (e). Find out which set of words can be filled up in the blanks in the sentence in the same sequence to make it grammatically correct.
Q-5) While bilateral ties have been _________for decades, the defence and security partnership is clearly the new driver for ties between the two governments; the signing of the strategic partnership agreement was the highlight of the UAE leader’s visit. The _________of this partnership are now being set: joint military exercises, joint manufacturing and purchase of equipment and spare parts from India, as well as ________on fighting terror.
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Contour means an outline representing or bounding the shape or form of something.Robust means strong and healthy; vigorous.
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In each of the following sentences there are four blank spaces. Five pairs of words are given below each sentence. 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.
Q-6) The worst market sell-off in _____________ history may be around the corner. Just don’t blame China alone for it. Since 2007, the aggregate size of central banks’ balance sheets has tripled to $22 trillion; _____________ by asset repurchases to stave off a deeper crisis. After Lehman Brothers’ collapse _____________ a rout, the biggest central banks around the world _____________ ‘quantitative easing’, or huge wads of cheap money, to encourage investment and bolster confidence.
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In each of the following sentences there are four blank spaces. Five pairs of words are given below each sentence. 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.
Q-7) Access to the right infrastructure, both digital and physical, _____________ an issue for most SMEs, particularly traders and retailers. We see that large ecommerce companies now provide warehousing facilities for retailers to store and catalogue their inventory, even extending in-house logistics teams or third-party logistics support. This has also created _____________ for cataloguing startups that help sellers list their products online and manage inventory _____________ marketplaces. It’s not enough to go e-tail, sellers have realised, without going digital. Today _____________ before, they all transact online. This creates a much easier and transparent digital ecosystem in which to operate.
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Directions:
In each of the following sentences there are four blank spaces. Five pairs of words are given below each sentence. 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.
Q-8) This seems counterintuitive but is a growing leadership challenge. High performance and individual happiness cannot stay _____________, notwithstanding the hardliner view that workplaces are about business success alone. It _____________ helps the individual nor eventually the organisation. It is not just about engagement levels at a workplace, which _____________ a short-term issue. It is about a Happiness Quotient, a bedrock of long-term effectiveness and _____________ high performance. How can we create Happier Workplaces, not just successful ones? Places where there is a sense of joy and fulfilment, of trust and collaboration. And yes, tasks get delivered without a ringmaster’s presence.
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Directions:
In each of the following sentences there are four blank spaces. Five pairs of words are given below each sentence. 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.
Q-9) The core of the Chinese economic policy is to create jobs at _____________ cost, as long as basic raw material costs are covered. The banks, _____________, are funded by the People’s Bank of China, which prints currency notes to _____________ that this cycle continues as it brings in the dollars, generates jobs and ensures that China can continue its breakneck speed of economic growth. The same holds for infrastructure. The banks _____________ tons of companies who build ghost cities, highways to nowhere and buildings that no one occupies because the investment growth remains high and no one looks at economic returns.
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Directions:
In each of the following sentences there are four blank spaces. Five pairs of words are given below each sentence. 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.
Q-10) Ultimately, any such formal recognition must be informed by experiences from real-life content removal requests. In Europe, where the right to be forgotten _____________, many of the data-deletion requests involve the _____________ past criminal behaviour. Nearly 20% of the requests were for removal of reportage relating to fraud, and 12% for allegations relating to child pornography. The question now is _____________ protection of individual privacy is _____________ important than the protection of an uncensored internet.
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Directions:
In each of the following sentences there are four blank spaces. Five pairs of words are given below each sentence. 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.
Q-11) Violence in the Terai can only make it difficult for that process to materialise. It would be good if all _____________ realise this. There are many in the top Indian leadership who wish to see Nepal enjoy the _____________ multi-party democracy and federalism in full measure. Some of them can surely muster sufficient goodwill in Kathmandu _____________ the Nepalese leadership to set up a Commission to look into the grievances of the Madhesis and the Tharus, especially with respect to _____________ of provinces and adequate representation.
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Directions:
In each of the following sentences there are four blank spaces. Five pairs of words are given below each sentence. 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.
Q-12) While even the ILO refers only to ‘labour’, the fact is that today’s refugees and migrants are often _____________ labour. They deserve protection from social and political _____________ and economic discrimination in host nations. Be it in Europe or in China, in West Asia or North America, every modern nation must grant the ‘right of entry’ and human security to refugees and migrants, coming _____________ the laws of demographics and the human instinct for survival. Stringent visa systems and immigration laws are a 20th century _____________ that have no place in the 21st.
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Directions:
In each of the following sentences there are four blank spaces. Five pairs of words are given below each sentence. 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.
Q-13) India is displeased with the treatment of the ethnic minorities and _____________ no great effort to conceal this. What are the lessons to be learnt? Constitution-making has to be a _____________ exercise, as it was in India, when every member of the Constituent Assembly _____________ his or her signature to the charter of rights and responsibilities. _____________, if that is not possible, the next best thing may be to get the concurrence of the largest possible majority. This is what the Nepalese have done. They may, rightfully, point out that the vast majority of the Constituent Assembly voted for the Constitution in its present form.
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Directions:
In each of the following sentences there are four blank spaces. Five pairs of words are given below each sentence. 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.
Q-14) This is a revolution spurred not by policy change or government grants but by private capital. The success of these leagues comes from the work of venture capitalists, bankers, business persons, actors, statisticians, an international technical crew and an evolving media, who together have all _____________ these sports with professionalism and a glossy _____________. This is not to say that cricket is losing its lustre. Far from it. Cricket, our national obsession, remains the _____________ sport in India. The 2015 World Cup, despite being played in an ‘inconvenient’ time zone, delivered the best ever ratings for any event on television. But cricket is no longer the only sport occupying the national _____________ anymore.
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Directions:
In each of the following sentences there are four blank spaces. Five pairs of words are given below each sentence. 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.
Q-15) Bridge is _____________ popular card sport in the world with over 100 countries as members of the World Bridge Federation. The estimated number of bridge players exceeds 60 million. But not many know that bridge _____________ the passion of corporate honchos and financial investors. Wall Street loves this cerebral game and some of _____________ players in the US are investors. A bridge buff, Warren Buffet had famously declared, “I _____________ mind going to jail if I had three cellmates who played bridge.” I have had the personal fortune of playing two boards with Bill Gates, some 20 years ago.
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Directions:
In each of the following sentences there are four blank spaces. Five pairs of words are given below each sentence. 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.
Q-16) The ecommerce boom has certainly been good for consumers, but what it has almost _____________ done for sellers is even more phenomenal. India has over 30 million small and medium enterprises which employ 40 per cent of the country’s workforce but _____________ to only 20 per cent of the GDP. There are _____________ for this, but the three main reasons are lack of access to markets and a consumer base, lack of infrastructure, both digital and physical, and most important lack of financing. With the growth of ecommerce a large segment of these SMEs has suddenly received that much-_____________ shot in the arm.
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Directions:
In each of the following sentences there are four blank spaces. Five pairs of words are given below each sentence. 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.
Q-17) Organisations are gradually _____________ the importance of creating strong brands that provide real customer benefits so they can avoid falling prey to commoditisation. In other words, companies are realising that it’s the only way _____________. To a point, marketing and brand building exercises can help _____________ one’s products and services and break the monotony and commoditisation but after that one often needs to turn to innovation and constant technological upgrades _____________ mindshare.
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Directions:
In each of the following sentences there are four blank spaces. Five pairs of words are given below each sentence. 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.
Q-18) Goldman Sachs claimed _____________ no law. That’s precisely the problem. Our societies are _____________ by legal corruption. University professors are in cahoots with pharmaceutical companies that think nothing of _____________ hundreds of thousands of dollars for life and death products that _____________ hundreds. And economists who cannot see past markets support such nonsense.
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In each of the following sentences there are four blank spaces. Five pairs of words are given below each sentence. 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.
Q-19) It is appalling to see how these Gulf nations, floating in wealth, show no compassion or _____________ responsibility of this crisis. It’s indeed a disgrace to the Muslim community who are shying away from taking the onus. How can they turn their backs to their ‘own’ people? Yes, the refugees do need the financial support _____________the pieces of their once beautiful life; no denying that fact. But what they need the most is _____________. A flourishing economy like Kuwait would have been an ideal ground for the abandoned _____________ because of similar customs, language, beliefs. Closing doors to these destitute and asking them to seek asylum elsewhere(EU being the most popular choice) where they are alien to their language, rituals, festivals and customs , reflects the inhumane and insensitive stance of these nations and its leaders.
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Directions:
In each of the following sentences there are four blank spaces. Five pairs of words are given below each sentence. 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.
Q-20) Countries that keep adapting institutions and policies can maintain rapid growth _____________ others, Harvard’s Dani Rodrik has long argued. Strategies that work for moving from low to middle income must change for progress to upper-middle income, or later to high income. Such adaptations are difficult. Hence, discontinuities are far _____________ than sustained growth. Acemoglu and Robinson emphasise the role of institutions — these need to keep _____________ sophistication and quality. Constant improvements _____________ in the quality of government services, transaction and accounting practices, transparency and accountability, and predictability of policies and legal interpretations.
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