multiple fillers section 1 Detailed Explanation And More Example

Question : 1

Indeed, as global pharmaceutical companies themselves come under pressure in their home countries as to just how expensive cutting-edge, patented medicines can be, _____________ generics versions, this is becoming a concern beyond just India. A story that came to _____________ recently was of an Australian academic who began suffering from Hepatitis C, his liver reaching a critical precancerous stage, and realised patented medicines down under _____________ him $100,000 for a course. He made his way to Chennai and bought generics versions of the same drug for less than $1,000. Completely cured, he is now running a _____________ the high price of patented medicines.

a) in relation to - prominence - would cost - campaign against

b) in comparison to - prominently - would cost - campaign against

c) in comparison to - prominence – would have been cost - campaign against

d) in comparison to - prominence - would cost - campaign in favour of

e) in comparison to - prominence - would cost - campaign against

Question : 2

In the Hindu Puranas, the problem is never with wealth. Wealth is a goddess, Lakshmi, one of the _____________, invoked in the Shri Sukta of the Rig Veda for cows and grain and gold and children. The problem is with our relationship with wealth. In the Puranas, Brahma’s son Indra is always chasing wealth. In contrast, Vishnu attracts wealth and Shiva is _____________ to wealth. The wealth chasers are not worshipped; the wealth-attractors and the wealth-ignorers are _____________ in temples. Vishnu is linked to householders and Shiva to hermits. But then Shiva is made to marry a princess of the mountains, Parvati, who is also the goddess of food, Anna-poorna, thus _____________ to the value of food, if not wealth, in human society. Even the hermit who shuns wealth needs food. Thus, production and distribution of food and wealth are separated, though both are seen as key to society.

a) oldest - different - enshrined - drawing attention

b) older - indifferent - enshrined - drawing attention

c) oldest - indifferent – enshrine - drawing attention

d) oldest - indifferent - enshrined - drawing attention

e) oldest - indifferent - enshrined - getting attention

Question : 3

The World Bank’s ‘ease of doing business’ report considers a number of factors in its assessment. These _____________ what it takes to start a business, procuring licences and permits to operate, registering properties, protection of minority investors, certainty in taxation, enforcement of contracts and resolving insolvency. The government _____________ to get India in the top 50 within the next two years. For that to be achieved, for starters, arbitrary bans and diktats need _____________. Meat sellers and businesses, both in the organised and unorganised sectors, have been _____________, as have the food chains selling meat-based food products. With revenues being lost, and unexpected impediments to doing business, this unpredictability and wanton disregard for the interests of businesses hardly bodes well.

a) Take into account - has to be vowed - to ban - affected

b) Take into account - has to be vowed - to ban - affected

c) include - has vowed – to be banned - effected

d) include - has vowed - to ban - affected

e) include - has vowed - to be banned - effected

Question : 4

Violence in the Terai can only make it difficult for that process to materialise. It would be good if all _____________ realise this. There are many in the top Indian leadership who wish to see Nepal enjoy the _____________ multi-party democracy and federalism in full measure. Some of them can surely muster sufficient goodwill in Kathmandu _____________ the Nepalese leadership to set up a Commission to look into the grievances of the Madhesis and the Tharus, especially with respect to _____________ of provinces and adequate representation.

a) concern - fruits of - to persuade - delineation

b) concerned - fruits for - to persuade - delineation

c) concerned - fruits of - to be persuaded - delineation

d) concerned - fruits of - to persuade - delineation

e) concerned - fruits of - to persuade – to deline

Question : 5

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 : 6

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