Fill in the Blanks: Exercise-5

Overview:


Questions and Answers Type:MCQ (Multiple Choice Questions).
Main Topic:English Verbal Ability.
English Verbal Ability Sub-topic:Fill in the Blanks Questions and Answers.
Number of Questions:10 Questions with Solutions.

Directions: The following questions have two blanks, each blank indicating that something has been omitted. Choose the set of words for each blank that best fits the meaning of the sentence as a whole.


  1. Vision is usually _______ most effectively when many different _______ are used.

    1. developed, manifestations
    2. adapted, organisations
    3. communicated, vehicles
    4. exhibited, forms
    5. described, thought


Answer: (d) exhibited, forms

Solution: These are the best-suited words for the sentence.

  1. People who have been through diffecult, painful and not very _______ change efforts often end up _______ both pessimistic and angry conclusions.

    1. successful, drawing
    2. meaningful, projecting
    3. reliable, evolving
    4. strong, following
    5. challenging, lamenting


Answer: (a) successful, drawing

Solution: These are the best-suited words for the sentence.

  1. The human mind is never _______, it advances or it _______.

    1. absolute, diminishes
    2. dynamic, stops
    3. perfect, disintegrates
    4. stationary, retrogrades
    5. happy, decomposes


Answer: (d) stationary, retrogrades

Solution: These are the best-suited words for the sentence.

  1. If misery is the effect of ill fortune, it ought to be pitied, if of _______ to be _______.

    1. virtue, criticised
    2. calamity, reverenced
    3. virtue, protected
    4. vice, reverenced
    5. virtue, reverenced


Answer: (e) virtue, reverenced

Solution: These are the best-suited words for the sentence.

  1. It would be impossible for us to continue living in this world if each of us _______ exactly what fate had in _______ for him.

    1. follow, plan
    2. appreciate, strategy
    3. design, anticipation
    4. visualize, hidden
    5. knew, store


Answer: (e) knew, store

Solution: These are the best-suited words for the sentence.

  1. It is the _______ of selfishness for men, who fully _______ in their own case the great advantages of good education, to deny these advantages to women.

    1. parody, demand
    2. height, appreciate
    3. height, assimilate
    4. degree, appreciate
    5. level, advance


Answer: (b) height, appreciate

Solution: These are the best-suited words for the sentence.

  1. The learner should be _______ to take a small first step one that will provide immediate success and _______ the learning.

    1. encouraged, reinforce
    2. forced, organise
    3. directed, reorganise
    4. cautioned, reinforce
    5. encouraged, acknowledge


Answer: (a) encouraged, reinforce

Solution: These are the best-suited words for the sentence.

  1. His death _______ more tributes than have been paid at the _______ of any other human being in history.

    1. brought, passing
    2. directed, helm
    3. delivered, description
    4. invited, living
    5. acknowledged, perpetuation


Answer: (a) brought, passing

Solution: These are the best-suited words for the sentence.

  1. Only with executive _______ can the organisation concentrate its energies on _______ competitive advantage over time.

    1. position, embarking
    2. deployment, directing
    3. contingent, fabricating
    4. commitment, sustaining
    5. satisfaction, moulding


Answer: (d) commitment, sustaining

Solution: These are the best-suited words for the sentence.

  1. All the performances of human art, at which we look with praise or wonder, are _______ of the restless ________ of perseverance.

    1. manifestations, pronouncement
    2. projections, component
    3. instances, force
    4. proofs, humanity
    5. visions future


Answer: (c) instances, force

Solution: These are the best-suited words for the sentence.