Direction: Fill in the blanks with appropriate word to form a meaningful sentence.
Q1. Recent ______ suggest that the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is on the path to re-establishing its_________ .
A) crisis, prospect
B) events, credibility
C) circumstances, praise
D) occasion, praise
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Option B
Explanation: events, credibility
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Q2. The national food processing policy draft brought out by the government for public comments, though good in parts, needs a _______ of some of its key _______ to ensure inclusive growth of this sector.
A) survey, doubts
B) retrospect, disbelief
C) review, tenets
D) policy, terms
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Option C
Explanation: review, tenets
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Q3. The Securities and Exchange Board of India’s (Sebi’s) plan to open the commodity derivatives market to more participants and add new trading products is well advised, even though extreme ______ is _______ while implementing it.
A) vigilance, diverted
B) negligence, avaoided
C) guidance, performed
D) caution, imperative
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Option D
Explanation: caution, imperative
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Q4. The ________ surrounding electronic voting machines (EVMs) refuses to _________ .
A) discussion, hit
B) controversy, die
C) dispute, bear
D) dynamic, end
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Option B
Explanation: controversy, die
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Q5. Vodafone and Idea Cellular have decided to merge in order to __________ in an industry that is seeing its fortunes dip with each ________ quarter.
A) survive, passing
B) handle, crossing
C) endure, appearing
D) progress, proving
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Option A
Explanation: survive, passing
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Q6. The draft of the new model agricultural marketing law, ______ by the government to invite public comments, aims at removing _________ in farm marketing and ensuring just and transparently discovered prices to farmers.
A) poised, transparency
B) mounted, possibility
C) floated, deficiencies
D) hasten, scarcity
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Option C
Explanation: floated, deficiencies
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Q7. A recent notification by the ministry of human resource development making the Aadhaar card mandatory for school-going children to _______ the mid-day meals (MDM) served in government schools has justifiably created a __________ .
A) account, pool
B) avail, furore
C) benefit, rumour
D) serve, anger
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Option B
Explanation: avail, furore
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Q8. The _______ of a letter written by the Indian Banks’ Association requesting the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to relax debt restructuring guidelines is ______ surprising.
A) benefit, frequently
B) author, perfectly
C) timing, hardly
D) adjustment, very
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Option C
Explanation: timing, hardly
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Q9. International Women’s Day on March 8 is meant to celebrate the achievements and contributions of a _______ that has a long history of oppression, and to ________ the importance of gender equality in society.
A) female, take back
B) gender, reiterate
C) woman, nullify
D) person, mimic
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Option B
Explanation: gender, reiterate
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Q10. Given India’s continuing jobs crisis, the government has increasingly ______ to entrepreneurship and start-ups as a possible way of meeting some of young Indians’ aspirations and employment demand that are not being ______ in the current system.
A) cornered, carried
B) expected, recognised
C) turned, fulfilled
D) revised, executed
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Option C
Explanation: turned, fulfilled
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