multiple fillers section 1 Detailed Explanation And More Example

Question : 1

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.

a) the most - has always been - the best - wouldn’t

b) the more - has always been - the best - wouldn’t

c) the most - has always - the best - wouldn’t

d) the most - has always been - the better - wouldn’t

e) the most - has always been - the best - wouldn’t have been

Question : 2

Over 300 million people in India are _____________ and have no access to electricity. _____________ building grids or nuclear plants, Valley companies like Simpa Networks and Tesla have renewable solar battery packs and can light up every home with 24×7 efficient and low-cost energy. Simpa has already brought solar battery powered electricity to over 10,000 homes in Mathru district in just less than 12 months. These are the kind of new micro-grid and micro-power wall solutions that _____________ the common man’s problem to bring _____________ and clean energy.

a) on-grid - Rather than - will solve - affordable

b) off-grid - Rather than - will solve - affordable

c) off-grid - Rather then - will solve - affordable

d) off-grid - Rather than – will be solved - affordable

e) off-grid - Rather than - will solve - good

Question : 3

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.

a) to be broken - being destroyed - charging - cost them

b) to have broken - been destroyed - charging - cost them

c) to have broken - being destroyed - charging - cost them

d) to have broken - being destroyed - costing - cost them

e) to have broken - being destroyed - charging – charge them

Question : 4

The Americans remain officially optimistic, even if a little impatient, at India’s pace of economic reforms. But when two countries as _____________ as India and the US get together to face complex _____________the world, there will be things that don’t work. The focus, say US officials, is and should be on implementation. Both Barack Obama and Modi are sensitive that past _____________ about the world’s most powerful and the largest democracies walking into the sunset together has begun sounding _____________. When they last met, they agreed to focus on getting things done.

a) mix - restrictions of - rhetoric - hollow

b) mix - restrictions for - rhetoric - hollow

c) diverse - challenges of - oratory – hollowness

d) diverse - challenges of - rhetoric - hollow

e) diverse - challenges of - oratory – hollowness

Question : 5

Companies are acquiring stakes in technologies unrelated to their core business that holds _____________ the future. Google is _____________ such acquisitions, buying the satellite imaging technology firm Skybox Imaging in 2014 for USD 500 million to enhance its project Loon that intends to provide internet access in _____________ of the world. With the acquisition of Nest Labs for USD 500 million, Google showed its _____________ home monitoring. Facebook acquired the Britain-based Ascenta to provide internet access through unmanned aerial vehicles. We are yet to see such high-risk, long-term investment types of acquisitions in India.

a) promise for - well known for - remote parts - appetite for

b) promise of - well known for - remote parts - appetite for

c) promise for - know how to - remote parts - appetite for

d) promise for - well known for - accessible parts - appetite for

e) promise for - well known for - remote parts - appetite to

Question : 6

But our research _____________ that investors cannot operate on divided attention. Major non-market attention-grabbing events overwhelm firm _____________ information carrying strong sentiment. For example, when Hazare was on his fast, a positive news item on Coal India gaining Maharatna status _____________ negative sentiment. Its price fell by almost 2 per cent over the next two days. Around the same period, there was neutral-to positive news on Infosys with officials _____________ in talks to have the IT company set up local presence. Strangely, the stock reported a negative cumulative abnormal return (CAR) of 1 per cent in the two days around the Hazare event.

a) has been shown – in particular - generated - reportedly

b) has shown - specific - generated - reportedly

c) has been shown – in particular - generated - reportedly

d) has shown - specific - develop - reported

e) has shown - specific - develop - reported