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English Questions: Fill in the Blanks Set – 30

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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. They are in a state of disrepair and are visibly__________in the public services they provide, with alarming__________for public health.
    1) enough, source
    2) deficient, consequences
    3) adequate, origin
    4) ample, rise
    Answer – 2)
    Explanation: deficient, consequences

  2. Whether it is the severe air pollution in Delhi, traffic congestion in Bangalore, the floods in Chennai or the garbage__________in a number of cities, technology provides only a_________part of the solution.
    1) help, big
    2) assistance
    3) aid, large
    4) menace, miniscule
    Answer – 4)
    Explanation: menace, miniscule

  3. Public-private partnership works best when it is based on an open and transparent arrangement, with a__________assignment of risks, backed by an_________dispute-resolution mechanism.
    1) lucid, impotent
    2) explicit, weak
    3) clear, effective
    4) definite, useless
    Answer – 3)
    Explanation: clear, effective

  4. During his stints as Home Minister and later as Foreign Minister, he enjoyed a reputation of being both__________and__________.
    1) procrastinating, reasonable
    2) decisive, pragmatic
    3) indecisive, idealistic,
    4) indefinite, unreasonable
    Answer – 2)
    Explanation: decisive, pragmatic

  5. Its successive_________reflect different stages of Nepali peacemaking, from ideological__________to integration of the Maoist army to a democratic republic to pluralism, gender equality and devolution.
    1) uncommonness, refusal
    2) infrequency, opposition
    3) irregularity, dissension
    4) iterations, reconciliation
    Answer – 4)
    Explanation: iterations, reconciliation

  6. I believe now, through our past____________experiences, we must prepare___________for future challenges.
    1) peaceable, openly
    2) kind, familiarly
    3) kindly, commonly
    4) bitter, ourselves
    Answer – 4)
    Explanation: bitter, ourselves

  7. We often use the cliché “art transcends all boundaries” with__________, ___________to the fact that it really does not.
    1) instability, conscious
    2) imbalance, concerned
    3) aplomb, oblivious
    4) disproportion, aware
    Answer – 3)
    Explanation: aplomb, oblivious

  8. The Urur engagement pushes for the overcoming of these feelings by its open environment where people share__________experiences that_________the sharp boundaries of ‘us’ and ‘them’.
    1) aesthetic, overcome
    2) displeasing, concerned
    3) ugly, unflappable
    4) hideous, moved
    Answer – 1)
    Explanation: aesthetic, overcome

  9. This socio-cultural experiment has led to__________questions and few answers; that is what keeps it__________, We continue to seek direction.
    1) small, life
    2) numerous, alive
    3) lacking, animate
    4) little, deceased
    Answer – 2)
    Explanation: numerous, alive

  10. While everyone wants to_________considerable wealth to their progeny, __________sets in while it comes to government borrowing even as it involves a burden on the future generations.
    1) return, farsightedness
    2) receipts, hypermetropy
    3) bequeath, myopia
    4) proceeds, hypermetropia
    Answer – 3)
    Explanation: bequeath, myopia