English Questions: Fill in the Blanks Set – 37

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1. Safe drinking water is critical for the safety of our health and that of our children. Even food security does not________into nutrition security in the absence of safe water.
   1) put
   2) description
   3) construe
   4) translate
   

   Answer & Explanation

   Answer – 4)
   Explanation : translate
   
   
2. While it is extremely important to build awareness about what needs to be done at the household level to ensure water safety, it is equally________for us to demand safe drinking water from our public systems of delivery.
   1) conquer
   2) legitimate
   3) just
   4) logic
   

   Answer & Explanation

   Answer- 2)
   Explanation :  legitimate
   
   
3. With multiple agencies present, it is not luculent who is responsible for making the whole system work to respond to the________challenge of delivering safe water to the residents of Delhi.
   1) enormous
   2) forum
   3) method
   4) class
   

   Answer & Explanation

   Answer- 1)
   Explanation :  enormous
   
   
4. The idea in the case of the Najafgarh Drain, for example, is to divert_________sewage coming from the surrounding unauthorised colonies which would otherwise flow into the Najafgarh Drain.
   1) taken
   2) crop
   3) treated
   4) untreated
   

   Answer & Explanation

   Answer- 4)
   Explanation :  untreated
   
   
5. The challenge is even greater in the walled city of Old Delhi, which has________sewers, designed to carry sewage as well as storm water, a legacy that is not in line with current good engineering practice.
   1) single
   2) combined
   3) mixed
   4) doubled
   

   Answer & Explanation

   Answer- 2)
   Explanation : combined
   
   
6. As for the 45 per cent of Delhi which is__________, in any case, sewage travels through the natural stormwater drains to the Yamuna.
   1) unconnected
   2) connected
   3) undivided
   4) divided
   

   Answer & Explanation

   Answer- 1)
   Explanation : unconnected
   
   
7. Even though this again is higher than the national average of 19 per cent for all Indian cities, the installed capacity of the sewage__________system is insufficient to take care of even the area that is covered by the sewerage network.
   1) rebuff
   2) spurning
   3) treatment
   4) dismissal
   

   Answer & Explanation

   Answer- 3)
   Explanation : treatment
   
   
8. In the absence of complete coverage of the city with a sewerage network, natural stormwater________ are being used as sewers.
   1) drains
   2) rivers
   3) walls
   4) oceans
   

   Answer & Explanation

   Answer- 1)
   Explanation : drains
   
   
9. The sewerage networks are________to ensure that sewage from flushed toilets travels through underground sewer pipes until it reaches a sewage treatment plant.
   1) thinks
   2) thoughts
   3) assumed
   4) supposed
   

   Answer & Explanation

   Answer- 4)
   Explanation : supposed
   
   
10. Delhi’s growth has fast_________its ability and willingness to extend the sewerage network and treat its sewage or wastewater.
    1) statue
    2) outpaced
    3) cleared
    4) back
    

    Answer & Explanation

    Answer- 2)
    Explanation : outpaced