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English Questions: Fill in the Blanks Set – 20

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  1. The episode in UP________the vital principle that while projects for sweeping change are indeed the way out of problems that bedevil Indian________, the devil is always in the details.
    1. free, rules
    2. illustrates ,  democracy
    3. hide, communism
    4. obscure, system

    Answer – 2. illustrates ,  democracy

  2. The chief justice sent back the________ , citing the_________of the candidate to the chief minister.
    1. discouragement, immediacy
    2. disapproval,  contiguousness
    3. recommendation,  proximity
    4. condemnation

    Answer –3. recommendation,  proximity

  3. These clubs have also________their pattern and style of play in such a way that the abilities and output of their two key players and goal-scorers in Messi and Ronaldo have been ________.
    1. equal, remark
    2. arranged, unique
    3. managed, specific
    4. designed , maximised

    Answer – 4. designed , maximised

  4. These advantages are lacking in a national set-up, where the team________are drawn from a more limited pool and their frequency of playing and training together is limited________ to the almost perennial club football.
    1. crowd, consider
    2. squads , compared
    3. individual, be quiet
    4. one, confabulate

    Answer – 2. squads , compared

  5. The State’s earlier regulatory Act on jallikattu was ________as an anthropocentric law that was________to the eco-centric law against cruelty to animals.
    1. recollect,  nice
    2. recall, good
    3. dismissed ,  repugnant
    4. learn, friendly

    Answer – 3. dismissed ,  repugnant

  6. The office of the Lokayukta is a________development in Indian politics and the selection process cannot exhibit________of the sort seen in UP.
    1. progressive , arbitrariness
    2. system, disinterest
    3. decrease, impartiality
    4. decline, unenthusiasm

    Answer – 1. progressive , arbitrariness

  7. A government insisting on a single Lokayukta candidate________old fears of the office becoming an________authority, which may itself become a centre of corruption.
    1. remind, critical
    2. remember, democratic
    3. recalls , autocratic
    4. forgetfulness, authority

    Answer – 3. recalls , autocratic 

  8. A reasonable democratic________is built on the premise of________candidates for almost all posts.
    1. differences, many
    2. criteria, few
    3. progress, single
    4. process,  multiple

    Answer – 4. process,  multiple

  9. The entire system was_______, it suggested, and therefore, the anti-corruption authority had to_______ outside it.
    1. invalid, dismiss
    2. corrupt, exist
    3. culprit, insist
    4. mistake, Pressure

    Answer – 2. corrupt, exist

  10. Critics persist in attributing Messi’s________to his partnership with Luis Suarez and Neymar in the Barca attack and hold up his less________international performances as evidence.
    1. contribution, attractive
    2. participation, performed
    3. success ,  impressive
    4. victory, pleasurable

    Answer – 3. success ,  impressive