Fill in the blanks given in each question with appropriate and most suitable option:
Q1. A big hurdle to developing new treatments is that there can be a big gap between a drug’s effectiveness in the laboratory, compared with the ____of the human body. Several research labs have recently uncovered ways bacteria can ____the standard test, making______ microbes appear susceptible to treatment.
A) complications, escape , exposed
B) abstruseness , evade , violable
C) complexity, obtrude , insusceptible
D) complexity, elude , invulnerable
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Option D
Explanation:
Complexity – the state or quality of being intricate or complicated.
abstruseness – not easy to understand
invulnerable – impossible to harm or damage.
obtrude – become noticeable in an unwelcome or intrusive way.
insusceptible – invulnerable
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Q2. In fact, the new administration should____ and focus on a few such areas where it can _____results, rather than ______ more than it can chew.
A) determine , provide , eating down
B) identify , deliver , biting off
C) recognize , yield , munching
D) discover , abort , eat
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Option B
Explanation:
bite off more than you can chew is an idiom meaning to try to do something that is too difficult for you.
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Q3. The growth story in these countries is illustrative for India. It also helps that the world markets are______ by India’s democracy______ growth trajectory revved up by recent bold economic______ such as the goods and services tax (GST).
A) depressed , uplifted , affairs
B) enervate , nourished , activities
C) buoyed , nurtured , initiatives
D) encouraged , cultured , endeavors
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Option C
Explanation:
Enervate – tire / wear out
buoyed – encourage
nurtured – nourished
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Q4. With their beauty, mystery and transcendence, they can help lift our lives above the _________and dirt associated with the plains_______. Till today, to ________a mountain is seen as a human and spiritual feat.
A) Purity, nearby, confront
B) Grime, below, conquer
C) Refinement, above, requisite
D) Trajectory, region, extort
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Option B
Explanation:
Grime – uncleanness / dirt
Trajectory – way / course
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Q5. For those of us who want a clean Brexit and who champion freedom and innovation rather than socialism, the election result was a _______disappointment. It reduced the party that most embraces free enterprise to a minority in the House of Commons and leaves us with a diminished and humiliated government less likely to win crucial concessions from a European Union emboldened to be more _________ — all against a background of teenager-murdering____________.
A) Great, cautious , system
B) Heartbreaking, vigilant, administration
C) Shattering, punitive , theocracy
D) Huge, beneficial, anarchy
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Option C
Explanation:
punitive – concerning punishment
theocracy – a system of government in which priests rule in the name of God or a god.
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Q6. The meeting between Narendra Modi and Donald Trump went well by all accounts. They joked, they ______and, yes, they hugged. The first lady _________welcomed the Indian prime minister, even took him on a _______tour.
A) Bantered, graciously, guided
B) Praised, grudgingly, reminiscence
C) Flattered, listlessly, remarkable
D) Relegate, viciously, world
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Option A
Explanation:
bantered – to tease
graciously – willingly, assenting; pleasantly
grudgingly – under protest
viciously – in a cruel or violent manner
reminiscence – memories / recollections
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Q7. India’s 1983 World Cup cricket victory in England, its first, _____________a nation. Sponsorships and other income is huge, training is top______. With its current performances, badminton should get that sort of eyeballs and funding. This could be the _______of a smash hit for Indian badminton.
A) Comfort, closure, end
B) Compose, enigma, loathe
C) Confine, upheaval, arouse
D) Galvanized, notch, beginning
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Option D
Explanation:
loathe – to hate
enigma – mystery / puzzle
Galvanized – awakening / stimulating
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Q8. Vivekananda ________this capacity to accommodate spiritual diversity when he said all rivers flow to the same ocean. Hindutva is the _______of this spirit of accommodation, although its ________seek to appropriate Vivekananda. This spiritual accommodation helped people of these non-Hindu faiths become integral parts of Indian society.
A) Articulated, antithesis, proponents
B) Questioned, similarity, challengers
C) Directed, foundation, feud
D) Disdained, balance, reinforce
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Option A
Explanation:
Articulate – speak fluently and coherently
antithesis – converse / reverse
feud – dispute
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Q9. Indian badminton is witnessing a _________as its shuttlers are consistently ___________the world’s best. India now __________of six shuttlers among the top 50 in the world.
A) Variation, attaining, claims
B) Renaissance, beating, boasts
C) Boost, mounting, quashes
D) Transformation, impending, perjures
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Option B
Explanation:
Renaissance – revival / rebirth
quashes – cancel / reverse
impending – coming/ pending
perjury – lying under oath
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Q10. In Kerala many urban centres are facing a sanitation crisis, with _______waste in public places being linked to diseases as in Delhi. Over in Bengaluru the waste management crisis regularly _________ itself these days in the foaming, burning Bellandur lake. The underperformance of city corporations is_____________.
A) Putrefying, manifests, inexcusable
B) Excess , maintains, excusable
C) Peculiar, evades, reasonable
D) Domestic, flinches, defensible
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Option A
Explanation:
Putrefying – decomposing
flinch – start / reconcile
manifest – obvious / noticeable
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