Practice Section 10 question answer - general english mcq Online Quiz (set-1) For All Competitive Exams
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The following questions, you have several passages where some of the words have been left out. Read the passages carefully and choose the correct answer to each blanks with its particular number, out of the five alternatives.
PASSAGE
A friend in need is a friend indeed. A man who stands ____(1)____ his friend in ____(2)____ is a true friend, Selfless love is the base of true friendship. True friends share each other's joy and sorrow, pain and pleasure. They do not fall ____(3)____ in adversity. They have full confidence in each other. They never ____(4)____ each other. ____(5)____ makes friends, adversity tries them. A selfless friend is ____(6)____; a selfish friend is a curse. The first is an angel and the second is a devil. One makes your career while the other ____(7)____ it. True friendship means great self-sacrifice on the part of both. A true friend ____(8)____ pleasure and convenience. He goes cut of his way and faces difficulties in his way with joy and even with pride. Joy and sorrow, success and failure, good fortune and misfortune, are equally ____(9)____ by a pair of true friends. They ____(10)____ the burden of life equally for they feel that they sail in the same boat and that they have to sink and swim together.
Q-1) Find the missing word for the blank (1)?
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Direction:
The following questions, you have several passages where some of the words have been left out. Read the passages carefully and choose the correct answer to each blanks with its particular number, out of the five alternatives.
PASSAGE
A friend in need is a friend indeed. A man who stands ____(1)____ his friend in ____(2)____ is a true friend, Selfless love is the base of true friendship. True friends share each other's joy and sorrow, pain and pleasure. They do not fall ____(3)____ in adversity. They have full confidence in each other. They never ____(4)____ each other. ____(5)____ makes friends, adversity tries them. A selfless friend is ____(6)____; a selfish friend is a curse. The first is an angel and the second is a devil. One makes your career while the other ____(7)____ it. True friendship means great self-sacrifice on the part of both. A true friend ____(8)____ pleasure and convenience. He goes cut of his way and faces difficulties in his way with joy and even with pride. Joy and sorrow, success and failure, good fortune and misfortune, are equally ____(9)____ by a pair of true friends. They ____(10)____ the burden of life equally for they feel that they sail in the same boat and that they have to sink and swim together.
Q-2) Find the missing word for the blank (3)?
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The following questions, you have several passages where some of the words have been left out. Read the passages carefully and choose the correct answer to each blanks with its particular number, out of the five alternatives.
PASSAGE
India's ____(1)____ over the past half century since independence has been unique and ____(2)____ in many ways. Yet the record is ____(3)____ in relation to what the country set out to achieve and could certainly have been ____(4)____. It is ____(5)____ to look at both sides; the alternative is to be ____(6)____ down by unrelieved gloom or unwarranted ____(7)____. The fact is that after eight 5-year plans, about 40 per cent of population is ____(8)____ below the poverty line. The human development indices are ____(9)____ low, placing India at the 126th position in the world table, far below many countries that came into ____(10)____ much later than it did.
Q-3) Choose the correct word which fits the blank (6)?
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Direction:
The following questions, you have several passages where some of the words have been left out. Read the passages carefully and choose the correct answer to each blanks with its particular number, out of the five alternatives.
PASSAGE
India's ____(1)____ over the past half century since independence has been unique and ____(2)____ in many ways. Yet the record is ____(3)____ in relation to what the country set out to achieve and could certainly have been ____(4)____. It is ____(5)____ to look at both sides; the alternative is to be ____(6)____ down by unrelieved gloom or unwarranted ____(7)____. The fact is that after eight 5-year plans, about 40 per cent of population is ____(8)____ below the poverty line. The human development indices are ____(9)____ low, placing India at the 126th position in the world table, far below many countries that came into ____(10)____ much later than it did.
Q-4) Choose the correct word which fits the blank (8)?
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Direction:
The following questions, you have several passages where some of the words have been left out. Read the passages carefully and choose the correct answer to each blanks with its particular number, out of the five alternatives.
PASSAGE
A friend in need is a friend indeed. A man who stands ____(1)____ his friend in ____(2)____ is a true friend, Selfless love is the base of true friendship. True friends share each other's joy and sorrow, pain and pleasure. They do not fall ____(3)____ in adversity. They have full confidence in each other. They never ____(4)____ each other. ____(5)____ makes friends, adversity tries them. A selfless friend is ____(6)____; a selfish friend is a curse. The first is an angel and the second is a devil. One makes your career while the other ____(7)____ it. True friendship means great self-sacrifice on the part of both. A true friend ____(8)____ pleasure and convenience. He goes cut of his way and faces difficulties in his way with joy and even with pride. Joy and sorrow, success and failure, good fortune and misfortune, are equally ____(9)____ by a pair of true friends. They ____(10)____ the burden of life equally for they feel that they sail in the same boat and that they have to sink and swim together.
Q-5) Find the missing word for the blank (6)?
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The following questions, you have several passages where some of the words have been left out. Read the passages carefully and choose the correct answer to each blanks with its particular number, out of the five alternatives.
PASSAGE
Economic backwardness of a region is ____(1)____ by the co-existence of unutilized or underutilized ____(2)____on the one hand, and ____(3)____natural resources, on the other. Economic development essentially means a process of ____(4)____ change whereby the real per capita income of an economy ____(5)____ over a period of time. Then, a simple but meaningful question arises: what causes economic development? Or what makes a country developed? This question has absorbed the ____(6)____ of scholars of socio-economic change for decades. Going through the ____(7)____ history of developed countries like America, Russia and Japan, man is essentially found as ____(8)____ in the process of economic development. Japan, whose economy was ____(9)____ damaged from the ravages of the Second World War, is the clearest example of our time to ____(10)____ kingpin role in economic development.
Q-6) Which of the following words fits gap (6)?
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Direction:
The following questions, you have several passages where some of the words have been left out. Read the passages carefully and choose the correct answer to each blanks with its particular number, out of the five alternatives.
PASSAGE
India's ____(1)____ over the past half century since independence has been unique and ____(2)____ in many ways. Yet the record is ____(3)____ in relation to what the country set out to achieve and could certainly have been ____(4)____. It is ____(5)____ to look at both sides; the alternative is to be ____(6)____ down by unrelieved gloom or unwarranted ____(7)____. The fact is that after eight 5-year plans, about 40 per cent of population is ____(8)____ below the poverty line. The human development indices are ____(9)____ low, placing India at the 126th position in the world table, far below many countries that came into ____(10)____ much later than it did.
Q-7) Choose the correct word which fits the blank (10)?
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Direction:
The following questions, you have several passages where some of the words have been left out. Read the passages carefully and choose the correct answer to each blanks with its particular number, out of the five alternatives.
PASSAGE
A friend in need is a friend indeed. A man who stands ____(1)____ his friend in ____(2)____ is a true friend, Selfless love is the base of true friendship. True friends share each other's joy and sorrow, pain and pleasure. They do not fall ____(3)____ in adversity. They have full confidence in each other. They never ____(4)____ each other. ____(5)____ makes friends, adversity tries them. A selfless friend is ____(6)____; a selfish friend is a curse. The first is an angel and the second is a devil. One makes your career while the other ____(7)____ it. True friendship means great self-sacrifice on the part of both. A true friend ____(8)____ pleasure and convenience. He goes cut of his way and faces difficulties in his way with joy and even with pride. Joy and sorrow, success and failure, good fortune and misfortune, are equally ____(9)____ by a pair of true friends. They ____(10)____ the burden of life equally for they feel that they sail in the same boat and that they have to sink and swim together.
Q-8) Find the missing word for the blank (9)?
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The following questions, you have several passages where some of the words have been left out. Read the passages carefully and choose the correct answer to each blanks with its particular number, out of the five alternatives.
PASSAGE
Although the European Union is in the midst of an economic recovery, long-term unemployment – joblessness and job-seeking that lasts at least a year – _____(1)_____ stubbornly high in many of the countries that were hardest hit by the 2008 financial crisis and its aftermath. Unfortunately, the European Commission's proposals for addressing the problem are in many cases _____(2)_____ . Europe needs far more _____(3)_____ labor-market policies to spur job creation and reduce long-term unemployment, which can be particularly _____(4)_____ for society. As we have seen, unemployment has been an important factor in the rise of populist parties that are now threatening social _____(5)_____ , democracy, and the rule of law in Europe. According to Eurostat, the statistical arm of the European Commission, ten million people across the EU's 28 member states were suffering from long-term unemployment in 2016.
Of these, around eight million are in the eurozone, and more than a quarter are 50 and over. For young people, a university education or _____(6)_____ training can insure against long-term unemployment, at least when sufficient jobs are available. But for people who are 50 or older, the termination of a work contract all too often leads to _____(7)_____ joblessness. For example, among unemployed Europeans 50 and over, 60.3% have been unemployed for more than a year; but for all unemployed Europeans of working age, that number falls significantly, to 46.6%. Behind these statistics are individual stories of personal tragedy, self-doubt, _____(8)_____ , and lost faith in society. Consider the case of a 53-year-old chief IT officer with a doctorate who was laid off from a medium-size Austrian company. While unemployed, he sent out hundreds of job applications. But on the few _____(9)_____ when he was called in for an interview, employers first told him he was "too expensive" or "overqualified." Discrimination based on age, though illegal in the EU, is a routine _____(10)_____ . The fact is that the labor market does not work properly for prospective workers at the end of their prime years. But that needs to change if we are going to restore trust in our political system. Those who are willing and able to work deserve support so that they do not end up permanently excluded from opportunities to do so.
Q-9) Which of the following words exactly fits gap (1)?
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remains – the parts left over after other parts have been removed, used, or destroyed.
Direction:
The following questions, you have several passages where some of the words have been left out. Read the passages carefully and choose the correct answer to each blanks with its particular number, out of the five alternatives.
PASSAGE
Although the European Union is in the midst of an economic recovery, long-term unemployment – joblessness and job-seeking that lasts at least a year – _____(1)_____ stubbornly high in many of the countries that were hardest hit by the 2008 financial crisis and its aftermath. Unfortunately, the European Commission's proposals for addressing the problem are in many cases _____(2)_____ . Europe needs far more _____(3)_____ labor-market policies to spur job creation and reduce long-term unemployment, which can be particularly _____(4)_____ for society. As we have seen, unemployment has been an important factor in the rise of populist parties that are now threatening social _____(5)_____ , democracy, and the rule of law in Europe. According to Eurostat, the statistical arm of the European Commission, ten million people across the EU's 28 member states were suffering from long-term unemployment in 2016.
Of these, around eight million are in the eurozone, and more than a quarter are 50 and over. For young people, a university education or _____(6)_____ training can insure against long-term unemployment, at least when sufficient jobs are available. But for people who are 50 or older, the termination of a work contract all too often leads to _____(7)_____ joblessness. For example, among unemployed Europeans 50 and over, 60.3% have been unemployed for more than a year; but for all unemployed Europeans of working age, that number falls significantly, to 46.6%. Behind these statistics are individual stories of personal tragedy, self-doubt, _____(8)_____ , and lost faith in society. Consider the case of a 53-year-old chief IT officer with a doctorate who was laid off from a medium-size Austrian company. While unemployed, he sent out hundreds of job applications. But on the few _____(9)_____ when he was called in for an interview, employers first told him he was "too expensive" or "overqualified." Discrimination based on age, though illegal in the EU, is a routine _____(10)_____ . The fact is that the labor market does not work properly for prospective workers at the end of their prime years. But that needs to change if we are going to restore trust in our political system. Those who are willing and able to work deserve support so that they do not end up permanently excluded from opportunities to do so.
Q-10) Which of the following words exactly fits gap (2)?
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insufficient – not enough; inadequate.