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English Questions: Fill in the Blanks Set – 52

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Welcome to Online English Section with explanation in AffairsCloud.com. Here we are creating question sample in FILL IN THE BLANK, which is BASED ON IBPS PO/CLERK/LIC AAO/RRB & SSC CGL EXAM and other competitive exams.

  1. Under the archaic Motor Vehicles Act and the Indian Penal Code, the police adopt________ methods to determine ‘driver fault’, rather than look at________ factors including bad road design and failure of civic agencies to maintain infrastructure while fixing responsibility for accidents.
    1) simplistic, composite
    2) complex, simplex
    3) hazardous, rigid
    4) diminished, ravish
    5) simonised, rough
    Answer – 1)
    Explanation : simplistic, composite

  2. This is a colossal planning failure, and governments should at least now draw up integrated plans to make cities and growing towns________ to weather events and disasters.
    1) inflexible
    2) stunned
    3) privilege
    4) resilient
    5) hard
    Answer – 4)
    Explanation : resilient

  3. The European Championship football tournament began in Paris on Friday, and its successful_______ needs the help of France’s________ and security personnel.
    1) conduct, workers
    2) occasion, ministers
    3) function, managers
    4) creation, agencies
    5) management, advisers
    Answer – 1)
    Explanation : conduct, workers

  4. Proof of this is available from_______ events such as unprecedented flooding in Chennai in 2015 and in Mumbai some years ago.
    1) favorable
    2) fortunate
    3) astonish
    4) comforting
    5) catastrophic
    Answer – 5)
    Explanation : catastrophic

  5. It must have come as no small relief for Conservative MPs that neither of the two women who now remain in the race for________ Street had anything directly to do with the coldly calculated_________ of their once principal contender.
    1) prize, promotion
    2) Downing, elimination
    3) adore, confirmation
    4) cherish, establishment
    5) respect, legalization
    Answer – 2) 
    Explanation : Downing, elimination

  6. Somaru is 25 years old and typical of what constitutes media in the hinterland, where a host of________in the districts supply news to multiple Hindi publications.
    1) quality
    2) reads
    3) reader
    4) stringers
    Answer – 4) 
    Explanation : stringers

  7. The fact that the PM’s degrees in question were__________ over four decades ago, when electronic records did not exist, makes it easier to increase the confusion.
    1) presumed
    2) issued
    3) regard
    4) critics
    Answer – 2)
    Explanation : issued

  8. The opinions of some legal experts that now the_______ of the Election Commission on the disqualification is just a formality added_______ to their mill.
    1) decision, grist
    2) deferment, breakable
    3) deferral, dainty
    4) delay, delicate
    5) indecision, effete
    Answer – 1)
    Explanation : decision, grist

  9. In essence, the law of office of profit was introduced to end the_______between the duty of a member of the_______ towards the House and public and his personal interest.
    1) peace, dissemination
    2) concord, dispersion
    3) conflict, legislature
    4) agreement, diffusion
    5) calm, circulation
    Answer – 3)
    Explanation : conflict, legislature

  10. A funny argument heard on a_______television channel held that it was wrong and illegal for the Arvind Kejriwal-led Delhi government to create these posts without the_______ of a law.
    1) sunken, investigation
    2) obscured, interrogatory
    3) invisible, inquisition
    4) inconspicuous, interrogation
    5) prominent, backing
    Answer –  5) 
    Explanation : prominent, backing