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English Questions: Fill in the Blanks Set – 24

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  1. What we have not seen in 2015 — and would be_______to see in 2016 — is a reversion to the Charter and an_______that conflict-prevention is the best diplomacy.
    1) sad, Praise
    2) lucky,  acknowledgement
    3) Shocked, Knowledge
    4) happy, Wise
    Answer & Explanation
    Answer – 2)
    Explanation: lucky,  acknowledgement 

  2. It is, however, necessary to distinguish between developments that just______news and diplomatic initiatives that will______the course of history for the better.
    1) Fake, focus
    2) see , change
    3) make, alter
    4) Made, different
    Answer & Explanation
    Answer – 3)
    Explanation: make , alter 

  3. Looking from the outside, my______ point the Indian intelligentsia is increasingly_______ the West.
    1) vantage, imitating
    2) Relief, Growing
    3) Views, curbing
    4) Belief, creating
    Answer & Explanation
    Answer – 1)
    Explanation: vantage, imitating 

  4. When diplomacy fails or is_______, the wheels of war start to grind. The_______of military action in Iraq, Libya and Syria laid the basis for the emergence of the IS.
    1) hold, aftermath
    2) abandoned, consequences
    3) Forsake, threat
    4) leave, planing
    Answer & Explanation
    Answer – 2)
    Explanation: abandoned, consequences 

  5. The culture from_______which we look at the West and appropriate its thoughts_______ undeniably Indian.
    1) that, continue
    2) beside, certain
    3) with, still
    4) within , remains
    Answer & Explanation
    Answer – 4)
    Explanation: within , remains

  6. The way Christians and Muslims dress in their places of worship is not an________ for other Indians not to dress the way they________do in their temples.
    1) along, generally
    2) dispute, equally
    3) argument, normally
    4) dissipate, specially
    Answer & Explanation
    Answer – 3)
    Explanation: argument, normally 

  7. How the West arranges its own society is not a knockdown argument in_______of its civilisational priority or primacy, or proof of the_______of other ways of organising social life.
    1) agree, scrutiny
    2) favour , inferiority
    3) against, complexity
    4) with, curiosity
    Answer & Explanation
    Answer – 2)
    Explanation: favour , inferiority 

  8. The horrific consequences of the civil war in Syria are still playing out. Clearly, Iraq 2003, Libya 2011, and Syria now,_______the most_______testimony on the failure of diplomacy.
    1) provide,  eloquent
    2) leave , fluent
    3) develop, fast
    4) emphasis, alert
    Answer & Explanation
    Answer – 1)
    Explanation: provide,  eloquent

  9. While this consideration is perhaps_______acceptable, the Indian intelligentsia does not obviously_______in its truth.
    1) specially, trust
    2) abstractly, believe
    3) ideologically, care
    4) logically, listen
    Answer & Explanation
    Answer – 2)
    Explanation: abstractly, believe 

  10. In Libya 2011, council authorisation was________in what later turned out to be a barely________attempt at regime change.
    1) ongoing, unmasked
    2) remaining, revealed
    3) upcoming, represented
    4) forthcoming ,disguised
    Answer & Explanation
    Answer – 4)
    Explanation: forthcoming ,disguised 





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