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Welcome to Online English Section with explanation in Affairs Cloud.com. Here we are creating question sample in sentence fillers, which is BASED ON SBI PO/IBPS PO/CLERK/LIC AAO/RRB & SSC CGL EXAM and other competitive exams !!!

  1. The internal social platforms of the organizations are being used like bulletin boards. Most communication lacks soul. The leaders behave like the religious gurus and politicians who appear on the balcony to wave at the fans who have assembled there. They smile, wave and disappear. There is no engagement. It is one-sided communication which is meant________________.
    1) have not addressed their immediate needs
    2) calls for humility and accountability
    3) to convey intimacy, but doesn’t
    4) Trucking is an excellent example
    5) None of Above
    Answer – 3)
    Explanation : to convey intimacy, but doesn’t
    Sentence third is correct as per passage theme The new language of leadership.

  2. Without realistic purchase prices, utilities could resort to curtailment of renewable power sources on non-technical considerations, affecting investments. Tamil Nadu, a solar leader in the country, resorted to curtailments last year, a phenomenon that___________________500 MW tender. The funding mix for renewables, therefore, should give climate financing an important role.
    1) difference in comparison with the solar system
    2) has perhaps muted industry interest in its recent
    3) was made using the Chile-based Transiting Planets
    4) focus is now on deciphering the climate and chemical composition of their atmosphere
    5) None of Above
    Answer – 2)
    Explanation : has perhaps muted industry interest in its recent
    Sentence second is correct as per passage theme Shining bright

  3. Apart from measures to scale up generating capacity, India should take a close look at competitive manufacturing of the full chain of photovoltaics and open training facilities to produce the human resources the industry will need in the years ahead. Renewables and new energy storage technologies are on course to overshadow traditional fossil fuel-based____________________.
    1) extraterrestrial life has just become more focussed
    2) while the one with a low density
    3) Less than a year after scientists announced
    4) sources of power as the costs decline
    5) None of Above
    Answer – 4)
    Explanation : sources of power as the costs decline
    Sentence forth is correct as per passage theme Shining bright.

  4. Since the dwarf star is much cooler than the Sun, the dimming of light each time a planet passes or transits___________________Earth unlike in cases when planets transit a Sun-like bright star. Since the initial discovery of three planets was made using the Chile-based Transiting Planets and Planetesimals Small Telescope, the exoplanet system is called TRAPPIST-1.
    1) them using digital and physical mapping
    2) is crucial to avoid future flooding events
    3) nor is it the only instance of the
    4) before the star could be easily recorded from
    5) None of Above
    Answer – 4)
    Explanation : Sentence forth is correct as per passage theme Life elsewhere.

  5. Only Earth has liquid water in the solar system. Less than a year after scientists announced the discovery of three planets orbiting the dwarf star,___________________searches using several ground-based telescopes, including a 20-day continuous monitoring using the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Spitzer Space Telescope.
    1) the team found four more through intense the team found four more through intense
    2) storage technologies are on course to overshadow traditional fossil fuel-based
    3) much depend on the government to think creatively
    4) On the one hand, the traditional arrangements
    5) None of Above
    Answer – 1)
    Explanation : the team found four more through intense
    Sentence first is correct as per passage theme Life elsewhere.

  6. The digital media has made every customer and every employee a media house. Everyone is freely airing their views about everything from politics to office gossip. People are impatiently unafraid to ask questions to the high and mighty. They want instant responses. The leaders are not used to this landscape. Media was always meant to be a one-way street and__________________.
    1) suddenly head-on collisions have become the norm
    2) also has an acute shortage of quality jobs
    3) social attraction of what are considered low-quality jobs to attract more workers
    4) to debate whether this is actual fascism or whether these are ‘footsteps of fascism’
    5) None of Above
    Answer – 1)
    Explanation : suddenly head-on collisions have become the norm
    Sentence first is correct as per passage theme The new language of leadership.

  7. The trend in some emerging economies, including India,__________________renewable energy projects over the last five years. This has implications for equity in the long run, and electricity regulators should fix tariffs taking into account the reduction in the levelised cost of electricity (the average break-even price over a project’s lifetime).
    1) to be a shift in the disease patterns from communicable to non-communicable,
    2) itself calls for re-gearing the health-care system
    3) has been a reduction in public financing of
    4) low levels of institutional support, and the loneliness and depression associated
    5) None of Above
    Answer – 3)
    Explanation : has been a reduction in public financing of
    Sentence third is correct as per passage theme Shining bright.

  8. With a fair possibility of liquid water being present on at least three planets, the focus is now on deciphering the climate and chemical composition of their atmosphere. As a first measure, scientists are keen to know if the planets are Earth-like, by ruling out the presence of hydrogen gas enveloping them. Mass estimates already suggest that the inner six planets might have a rocky composition,___________________have a volatile composition due to the presence of an ice layer or atmosphere.
    1) that needs to be vigorously pursued
    2) the Centre should put in place arrangements that make it
    3) utilities could resort to curtailment of renewable power sources on non-technical considerations
    4) while the one with a low density may
    5) None of Above
    Answer – 4)
    Explanation : Sentence forth is correct as per passage theme Life elsewhere.

  9. Besides promoting phase two of the solar parks plan, and powering public facilities such as railway stations and stadia using solar power,__________________that make it easier for every citizen and small business to adopt rooftop solar. This is crucial to achieving the overall goal of 100 GW from this plentiful source of energy by 2022, and to raise the share of renewables in the total energy mix to 40 per cent in the next decade.
    1) or healthcare services and tailored accommodation spikes
    2) multiple models for elder care, such as universal or widely accessible
    3) the Centre should put in place arrangements
    4) extraterrestrial life has just become more focussed
    5) None of Above
    Answer – 3)
    Explanation : the Centre should put in place arrangements
    Sentence third is correct as per passage theme Shining bright.

  10. Leaders have no choice but to learn the new language that is more visual and personal. They have to learn to fall and pick themselves up in front of their followers._________________and always in control. Remember the Japanese proverb, “Fall down seven times, get up eight.”
    That is the new motto of leadership.
    1) they believe, have not addressed their immediate needs
    2) They are used to showing themselves as perfect
    3) to renegotiate the deals of trade and immigration favorable
    4) in the near future they will form a coalition of some sort of center-right governments
    5) None of Above
    Answer – 2)
    Explanation : They are used to showing themselves as perfect
    Sentence second is correct as per passage theme The new language of leadership.