Practice Section 3 question answer - general english mcq Online Quiz (set-1) For All Competitive Exams
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
In the decade since reforms were introduced, India has achieved substantial success in the sphere of macroeconomics. Overall growth rate has been ____(1)____ except for the last couple of years. It bears pointing out that we have now come to view a 6 per cent ____(2)____ rate as a slowdown! This is a far cry from pre-reforms rate of growth of 3 per cent. The price level has by and large remained ____(3)____ both as measured by the WPI and CPI. India's ____(4)____ of payments position has been comfortable. Exports, while ____(5)____ some sluggishness this fiscal, have been growing. Imports, in spite of ____(6)____ liberalisation, have not gone out of hand. This is amply reflected in the comfortable current account deficits (CAD); the CAD-to-GDP ratio has remained way below the crisis ____(7)____ that it had achieved in 1991. The rupee has weathered external turbulence rather well even when East Asia was experiencing ____(8)____ difficulties. However, the one unambiguous Achilles' heel of the reforms has been the ____(9)____ state of government finances. One of the two crises that India faced in 1990-91 was the unsustainable imbalance between government revenues and ____(10)____.
Q-1) Choose the correct word which fits the blank (3)?
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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
Man has always considered himself to be the ruler of his planet. This ____(1)____ and the attendant superiority feeling has made him look down ____(2)____ other creatures who co-exist with human on this earth. The so-called civilized human race has ____(3)____ and ill-treated small and large animal species and birds in an attempt to prove his ____(4)____. It is common knowledge that ____(5)____ number of animals have been ____(6)____ for centuries under the ____(7)____ of conducting scientific experiments or for sports. Till recently, in the ____(8)____ of scientific experiments, monkeys and frogs have been ____(9)____ to dis____(10)____ in the laboratory.
Q-2) Choose the missing word for the blank (2)?
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I want to avoid violence. Non-violence ____(1)____ the first article of my faith. It is also the ____(2)____ article of my creed. But I had to ____(3)____ my choice. I had either to submit ____(4)____ a system which I considered ____(5)____ done irreparable harm to my country, ____(6)____ incur the risk of the mad fury ____(7)____ my people bursting forth, when they ____(8)____ the truth from my lips. I ____(9)____ that my people have sometimes ____(10)____ mad. I am deeply sorry for it.
Q-3) Find the missing word for the blank (5)?
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I want to avoid violence. Non-violence ____(1)____ the first article of my faith. It is also the ____(2)____ article of my creed. But I had to ____(3)____ my choice. I had either to submit ____(4)____ a system which I considered ____(5)____ done irreparable harm to my country, ____(6)____ incur the risk of the mad fury ____(7)____ my people bursting forth, when they ____(8)____ the truth from my lips. I ____(9)____ that my people have sometimes ____(10)____ mad. I am deeply sorry for it.
Q-4) Find the missing word for the blank (1)?
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I want to avoid violence. Non-violence ____(1)____ the first article of my faith. It is also the ____(2)____ article of my creed. But I had to ____(3)____ my choice. I had either to submit ____(4)____ a system which I considered ____(5)____ done irreparable harm to my country, ____(6)____ incur the risk of the mad fury ____(7)____ my people bursting forth, when they ____(8)____ the truth from my lips. I ____(9)____ that my people have sometimes ____(10)____ mad. I am deeply sorry for it.
Q-5) Find the missing word for 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
Man has always considered himself to be the ruler of his planet. This ____(1)____ and the attendant superiority feeling has made him look down ____(2)____ other creatures who co-exist with human on this earth. The so-called civilized human race has ____(3)____ and ill-treated small and large animal species and birds in an attempt to prove his ____(4)____. It is common knowledge that ____(5)____ number of animals have been ____(6)____ for centuries under the ____(7)____ of conducting scientific experiments or for sports. Till recently, in the ____(8)____ of scientific experiments, monkeys and frogs have been ____(9)____ to dis____(10)____ in the laboratory.
Q-6) Choose the missing word for the blank (5)?
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PASSAGE
We will be crushed if civil ____(1)____ is started. It will be a ____(2)____ to the clock. The technique of ____(3)____ against it has been ____(4)____ We may have to wait ____(5)____ a year or more, for a suitable ____(6)____ to be created. Any hasty ____(7)____ may result in complete ____(8)____ Labour troubles will ____(9)____ to violence and there will be ____(10)____ discord.
Q-7) Which of the following words fits gap (1)?
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We will be crushed if civil ____(1)____ is started. It will be a ____(2)____ to the clock. The technique of ____(3)____ against it has been ____(4)____ We may have to wait ____(5)____ a year or more, for a suitable ____(6)____ to be created. Any hasty ____(7)____ may result in complete ____(8)____ Labour troubles will ____(9)____ to violence and there will be ____(10)____ discord.
Q-8) Which of the following words fits gap (9)?
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PASSAGE
I want to avoid violence. Non-violence ____(1)____ the first article of my faith. It is also the ____(2)____ article of my creed. But I had to ____(3)____ my choice. I had either to submit ____(4)____ a system which I considered ____(5)____ done irreparable harm to my country, ____(6)____ incur the risk of the mad fury ____(7)____ my people bursting forth, when they ____(8)____ the truth from my lips. I ____(9)____ that my people have sometimes ____(10)____ mad. I am deeply sorry for it.
Q-9) Find the missing word for the blank (2)?
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PASSAGE
I want to avoid violence. Non-violence ____(1)____ the first article of my faith. It is also the ____(2)____ article of my creed. But I had to ____(3)____ my choice. I had either to submit ____(4)____ a system which I considered ____(5)____ done irreparable harm to my country, ____(6)____ incur the risk of the mad fury ____(7)____ my people bursting forth, when they ____(8)____ the truth from my lips. I ____(9)____ that my people have sometimes ____(10)____ mad. I am deeply sorry for it.
Q-10) Find the missing word for the blank (3)?
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