Practice Section 2 question answer - general english mcq Online Quiz (set-1) For All Competitive Exams

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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-1)   We want to be seen as ‘givers’. But the yagna is as much about ‘getting’. Not taking but getting. So yagna is not _____________ a contract, that is the cornerstone of modern management, and contract as an idea comes from Abrahamic _____________, not the Vedas. The deity is under no contractual obligation for there is no regulatory authority out there to _____________ we can petition in case of breach of contract. It is all about trust between the buyer and the seller, the seeker and the hoarder. When there is decent exchange, relationships _____________ and society prospers. That is the direction in which the first hymn of the Veda takes us.

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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-2)   They’re trying to disrupt (even create) industries, and emerge as the ‘mutations’ of this decade. This mindset has been further _____________ the sudden ease in raising large amounts of venture capital funding, even compared to just three years ago. But the problem with growth is that it blinds you. It makes you feel that it’s the only thing that _____________. The infamous fall of Fab.com is a _____________ to all startups which think they can just keep expanding categories and geographies by throwing money at the problem. What these startups don’t realise is that they’re growing just for the sake of growth. And with this approach, they will never win the battle. Only those few startups which understand how to ‘grow naturally’ will _____________. The rest will become extinct.

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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-3)   Now, conventional western wisdom holds that by raising or lowering interest rates, central banks can curb or _____________ inflation. Apart from the immediate impact of rate changes, central bankers supposedly _____________ the power to anchor future inflationary expectations by signalling the future course of interest rates. _____________, some economists believe that the central bank _____________ only one aim: to target inflation, and not get distracted by other tasks like influencing GDP growth or exports.

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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-4)   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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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-5)   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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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 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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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)   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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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)   The current migrant _____________ also brings to light the insecurities and selfish disposition of us humans. The people, who ought to support us, comfort us, cheer us in times of distress, give us a _____________. These are the people who speak the same language, adorn the same garb, practise the same rituals, celebrate the same festivals, indulge in same nosh, pray to the same God- but give us apathy when we seek their _____________. The 5 wealthiest countries of the Arabian Peninsula namely Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar, Kuwait and Bahrain- none of these lousy rich economies _____________ considered offering a roof to the homeless Syrians. They take comfort in the fact that they financially support refugee camps in Jordan, Turkey and Lebanon, thus doing their bit.

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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-9)   Another reason that makes shoulders droop is faulty organisation design. Maybe jobs are not clearly sculpted. _____________ people are stepping on too many toes. Accountabilities are _____________. There may be a formal organisation structure but a stronger informal power structure is what _____________ works. Are the rank and file getting conflicting messages from too many stakeholders? Could the structure and responsibilities be better _____________, both in letter and spirit? Every team has issues of power, influence and politics. Could yours be getting to be a victim of it and living with unhappiness?

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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-10)   Xi is widely accepted as the most authoritarian Chinese leader since Deng Xiaoping. Some _____________ labelled him as a 21st century Mao Zedong. _____________, this control freak ideology has limits in keeping the lid on underlying problems. The series of ‘administrative interventions’ ordered by Xi in the past few weeks _____________ the bearish stock market, put a floor on the renminbi’s depreciation, and prevent capital flight _____________ that the strongman method of crisis-response does not compensate for fundamental economic weaknesses.

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