Practice Section 8 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
After ten years of ____(1)____ inflation, prices have hiked 7.5% in the third week of July. This looks scary—after all, Indians had got used to prices crawling up by 2% in the last two years, and a 10-year average inflation rate of about 5%—but you shouldn't worry. This burst of inflation is the result of three factors that have come together unexpectedly, are unlikely to ____(2)____ for long and are unlikely to ____(3)____ up together again: a____(n)____ ____(4)____ rise in global oil prices, a monsoon that arrived late and a spike in global metal prices. North Sea crude has crossed $42 per barrel, driven up by low petroleum ____(5)____ and soaring demand in the US as war production heats up. Oil markets are also spooked by the ____(6)____ of Russian oil supplies falling on the back of the YukosSibneft probe. There's little that the government can do to ____(7)____ users from soaring oil prices—indeed, it shouldn't, if it wants to ____(8)____ efficiency. Higher transport costs have pushed up rates of vegetables and fruits. Farm produce could also get affected by rains that arrived too late for kharif sowing. China is ____(9)____ up steel and other metals from all over the world to ____(10)____ a construction boom ahead of the 2008 Olympics, making metal prices soar all over the world, and sparking inflation in India.
Q-1) Find the blank (3)?
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PASSAGE
Many parents greet their children's teenage yerars with needless dread. While teens ____(1)____ assault use with heavy-metal music, ____(2)____ outlandish clothes and spend all ____(3)____ time with friends, such ehavior ____(4)____ adds upto full-scale revolt. Teenage ____(5)____, according to psychologist. Laurence Steinberg, has been ____(6)____ exaggerated. Sociologist Sanford Dornbusch agrees. "The ____(7)____ that teenagers inevitably rebel is a ____(8)____ that has the potential for great family ____(9)____," says Dornbusch. He believes the notion can ____(10)____ communication during this critical time for parents to influence youngsters.
Q-2) Find the missing word for the blank (1)?
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PASSAGE
Many parents greet their children's teenage yerars with needless dread. While teens ____(1)____ assault use with heavy-metal music, ____(2)____ outlandish clothes and spend all ____(3)____ time with friends, such ehavior ____(4)____ adds upto full-scale revolt. Teenage ____(5)____, according to psychologist. Laurence Steinberg, has been ____(6)____ exaggerated. Sociologist Sanford Dornbusch agrees. "The ____(7)____ that teenagers inevitably rebel is a ____(8)____ that has the potential for great family ____(9)____," says Dornbusch. He believes the notion can ____(10)____ communication during this critical time for parents to influence youngsters.
Q-3) Find the missing word for 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
In the past, it was thought learning knowledge took place in school and for some also in further education. Then it was a matter of ____(1)____ practical skills at work at the beginning of a career, and with a bit of luck, that ____(2)____ it. Now things have changed. Global competition is ____(3)____ the shelf-life of products and the knowledge and skills that ____(4)____ behind them. The pace of change can be ____(5)____. Knowledge that was leading edge at one minute can become ____(6)____ the next. Therefore, it is the ____(7)____ rather than knowledge that is the key. Successful organizations have to learn, adapt and change continuously as do the ____(8)____ within them. This is ____(9)____ in the rapid growth of knowledge workers. It is ____(10)____ all levels of organisations.
Q-4) Choose the correct answer from the given options to fill the blank with number (2)?
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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
In the past, it was thought learning knowledge took place in school and for some also in further education. Then it was a matter of ____(1)____ practical skills at work at the beginning of a career, and with a bit of luck, that ____(2)____ it. Now things have changed. Global competition is ____(3)____ the shelf-life of products and the knowledge and skills that ____(4)____ behind them. The pace of change can be ____(5)____. Knowledge that was leading edge at one minute can become ____(6)____ the next. Therefore, it is the ____(7)____ rather than knowledge that is the key. Successful organizations have to learn, adapt and change continuously as do the ____(8)____ within them. This is ____(9)____ in the rapid growth of knowledge workers. It is ____(10)____ all levels of organisations.
Q-5) Choose the correct answer from the given options to fill the blank with number (4)?
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(b)
(c)
(d)
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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
After ten years of ____(1)____ inflation, prices have hiked 7.5% in the third week of July. This looks scary—after all, Indians had got used to prices crawling up by 2% in the last two years, and a 10-year average inflation rate of about 5%—but you shouldn't worry. This burst of inflation is the result of three factors that have come together unexpectedly, are unlikely to ____(2)____ for long and are unlikely to ____(3)____ up together again: a____(n)____ ____(4)____ rise in global oil prices, a monsoon that arrived late and a spike in global metal prices. North Sea crude has crossed $42 per barrel, driven up by low petroleum ____(5)____ and soaring demand in the US as war production heats up. Oil markets are also spooked by the ____(6)____ of Russian oil supplies falling on the back of the YukosSibneft probe. There's little that the government can do to ____(7)____ users from soaring oil prices—indeed, it shouldn't, if it wants to ____(8)____ efficiency. Higher transport costs have pushed up rates of vegetables and fruits. Farm produce could also get affected by rains that arrived too late for kharif sowing. China is ____(9)____ up steel and other metals from all over the world to ____(10)____ a construction boom ahead of the 2008 Olympics, making metal prices soar all over the world, and sparking inflation in India.
Q-6) Find the blank (1)?
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(b)
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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
After ten years of ____(1)____ inflation, prices have hiked 7.5% in the third week of July. This looks scary—after all, Indians had got used to prices crawling up by 2% in the last two years, and a 10-year average inflation rate of about 5%—but you shouldn't worry. This burst of inflation is the result of three factors that have come together unexpectedly, are unlikely to ____(2)____ for long and are unlikely to ____(3)____ up together again: a____(n)____ ____(4)____ rise in global oil prices, a monsoon that arrived late and a spike in global metal prices. North Sea crude has crossed $42 per barrel, driven up by low petroleum ____(5)____ and soaring demand in the US as war production heats up. Oil markets are also spooked by the ____(6)____ of Russian oil supplies falling on the back of the YukosSibneft probe. There's little that the government can do to ____(7)____ users from soaring oil prices—indeed, it shouldn't, if it wants to ____(8)____ efficiency. Higher transport costs have pushed up rates of vegetables and fruits. Farm produce could also get affected by rains that arrived too late for kharif sowing. China is ____(9)____ up steel and other metals from all over the world to ____(10)____ a construction boom ahead of the 2008 Olympics, making metal prices soar all over the world, and sparking inflation in India.
Q-7) Find the blank (10)?
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(b)
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PASSAGE
Many parents greet their children's teenage yerars with needless dread. While teens ____(1)____ assault use with heavy-metal music, ____(2)____ outlandish clothes and spend all ____(3)____ time with friends, such ehavior ____(4)____ adds upto full-scale revolt. Teenage ____(5)____, according to psychologist. Laurence Steinberg, has been ____(6)____ exaggerated. Sociologist Sanford Dornbusch agrees. "The ____(7)____ that teenagers inevitably rebel is a ____(8)____ that has the potential for great family ____(9)____," says Dornbusch. He believes the notion can ____(10)____ communication during this critical time for parents to influence youngsters.
Q-8) Find the missing word for the blank (2)?
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PASSAGE
Many parents greet their children's teenage yerars with needless dread. While teens ____(1)____ assault use with heavy-metal music, ____(2)____ outlandish clothes and spend all ____(3)____ time with friends, such ehavior ____(4)____ adds upto full-scale revolt. Teenage ____(5)____, according to psychologist. Laurence Steinberg, has been ____(6)____ exaggerated. Sociologist Sanford Dornbusch agrees. "The ____(7)____ that teenagers inevitably rebel is a ____(8)____ that has the potential for great family ____(9)____," says Dornbusch. He believes the notion can ____(10)____ communication during this critical time for parents to influence youngsters.
Q-9) Find the missing word for the blank (8)?
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PASSAGE
Many parents greet their children's teenage yerars with needless dread. While teens ____(1)____ assault use with heavy-metal music, ____(2)____ outlandish clothes and spend all ____(3)____ time with friends, such ehavior ____(4)____ adds upto full-scale revolt. Teenage ____(5)____, according to psychologist. Laurence Steinberg, has been ____(6)____ exaggerated. Sociologist Sanford Dornbusch agrees. "The ____(7)____ that teenagers inevitably rebel is a ____(8)____ that has the potential for great family ____(9)____," says Dornbusch. He believes the notion can ____(10)____ communication during this critical time for parents to influence youngsters.
Q-10) Find the missing word for the blank (9)?
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