English Questions: Fill in the Blanks Set – 79

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1. An effective humanitarian response requires predictable and_____________funding to_____________the necessary investments in nutrition, livelihoods and food security.
   1) feared, build
   2) assured, underpin
   3) doubted, establish
   4) doubtful, hinge
   5) uncertain, predicate
   

   Answer & Explanation

   Answer – 2)
   Explanation : assured, underpin
   
   
2. It is critical that it acts on this_____________and that it puts in place the programs needed to end the region’s_____________marginalization.
   1) limited, loath
   2) commitment, persistent
   3) bound, relenting
   4) hindered, surrendering
   5) confined, yielding
   

   Answer & Explanation

   Answer – 2)
   Explanation : commitment, persistent
   
   
3. Given that the denial and destruction of economic_____________has been at the heart of the_____________, there is no better way to deliver a peace dividend than to invest in education.
   1) affliction, submission
   2) opportunity, insurgency
   3) mischance, obedience
   4) infelicity, subordination

   5) visitation, acquiescence
   

   Answer & Explanation

   Answer – 2)
   Explanation : opportunity, insurgency
   
   

4. Once occupation began in 1940, Soviet forces began_____________Estonians of their Western mentality and memory by_____________some 26 million books.
   1) catastrophe, unclean
   2) anxiety, unsterile
   3)  cataclysm, unsanitary
   4) debacle, contaminated
   5) stripping ,destroying
   

   Answer & Explanation

   Answer – 5)
   Explanation : stripping ,destroying
   
   
5. He maintained hope, however, that, while culture could not cure humans of their destructiveness, it could help us to limit these_____________, at least in our_____________outer world.
   1) speculation, bootlegged
   2) soundness, proscribed
   3) saneness, excluded
   4) instincts, shared
   5) misery,censured
   

   Answer & Explanation

   Answer – 4)
   Explanation :instincts, shared
   
   
6. Estonia had_____________its independence, and I was_____________a kind of resolution for my mother, who had been taken as a young girl to a gulag.
   1) verboten, marbles
   2) illicit, reverse
   3) regained, seeking
   4) casuality, lucidity
   5) excluded, induction
   

   Answer & Explanation

   Answer – 3)
   Explanation : regained, seeking
   
   
7. As technology, globalization, and many other factors continue to_____________work, one_____________will be the need for soft skills, or “skills for life.”
   1) discernment, steadfast
   2) redefine, constant
   3) rationalization, perpetual
   4) bootleg, unvarying
   5) interdicted, homogeneous
   

   Answer & Explanation

   Answer – 2)
   Explanation : redefine, constant
   
   
8. When jobs are unfilled for too long, they are more likely to be permanently_____________to countries with lower labor costs or a better-_____________talent pool.
   1) accident, adversity
   2) outsourced, suited
   3)  stabled, stable
   4) prohibited, consistent
   5)  continual, equable
   

   Answer & Explanation

   Answer – 2)
   Explanation : outsourced, suited
   
   
9. Whatever approach we take must be collaborative and comprehensive,-_____________that young people learn the soft skills they will-_____________need for all future scenarios.
   1) laudatory, generally
   2) ensuring, actually
   3) complimentary,  praising
   4) annoyance, penetrating
   5) Gibralter, monochrome

   Answer & Explanation

   Answer – 2)
   Explanation : ensuring, actually
   
   

10. Every student developing soft skills today could-_____________change the world for the better in the-_____________to come.
    1) inference, intellect
    2) disparaging, exacting
    3) potentially, decades
    4)  tribulation, trouble
    5) humbling, hypercritical
    

    Answer & Explanation

    Answer – 3)
    Explanation : potentially, decades