IBPS PO Main 2016: English Test – Day 3

Directions(1-10): CLOZE TEST

A significant section of Assamese intellectuals, regional (1) press and various outfits is clearly peeved at the Centre’s manoeuvring of the sensitive issue of foreigners. In fact, the call for reprising an ‘80s-like-agitation’ is renting the air. The All Assam Students’ Union has already declared a State-wide (2) programme against the Bill from October 18. For Assamese chauvinist forces, all Bengali-speaking people, irrespective of religious affiliation, are suspected Bangladeshi nationals.The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led government has clearly two reasons at work behind (3) the idea of offering citizenship to the religious minorities in Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan. One, it is simply catering to the Sangh Parivar’s long-running agenda of making India a ‘Hindu state’, and, as an immediate sub-plot of that larger agenda, of treating this country as the ‘natural home’ to Hindus all over the world. Second — and this is of more urgent consideration — the BJP is trying to further (4) its Hindu constituency by (5) the religious divide in a very subtle way in the diverse demography of Assam. Even a cursory look at the Bill would tell us that it straightaway sends the Muslim (6) of the post-1971 stream to a stateless state while giving a safe passage to their Hindu counterparts.
The BJP has factored in the realpolitik in Assam where it has to go for a grand consolidation of the Hindu votes across (7) divides and ethnic identities. Such social engineering proved successful in the last Assembly elections, but to sustain it the party needs to complete the (8) of ‘othering’ the Muslims sooner rather than later. Both the Chief Minister and Finance Minister of Assam are now busy (9) the Assamese constituency how embracing the Bengali Hindu would save the State from the economic and political aggression unleashed by the Muslim Bengalis who are in a majority in nine out of the 30-plus districts.
In this political theatre, the most passive actors are the Partition-hit Bengali Hindus who are the only likely beneficiaries of the Bill. In the absence of any State-wide organisation or leadership of their own, this section, which numbers more than five million, has always preferred to be with the power that be. No surprise then that Bengali Hindus in Assam have become a (10) support base for the BJP.

1?

Directions(1-10): CLOZE TEST

A significant section of Assamese intellectuals, regional (1) press and various outfits is clearly peeved at the Centre’s manoeuvring of the sensitive issue of foreigners. In fact, the call for reprising an ‘80s-like-agitation’ is renting the air. The All Assam Students’ Union has already declared a State-wide (2) programme against the Bill from October 18. For Assamese chauvinist forces, all Bengali-speaking people, irrespective of religious affiliation, are suspected Bangladeshi nationals.The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led government has clearly two reasons at work behind (3) the idea of offering citizenship to the religious minorities in Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan. One, it is simply catering to the Sangh Parivar’s long-running agenda of making India a ‘Hindu state’, and, as an immediate sub-plot of that larger agenda, of treating this country as the ‘natural home’ to Hindus all over the world. Second — and this is of more urgent consideration — the BJP is trying to further (4) its Hindu constituency by (5) the religious divide in a very subtle way in the diverse demography of Assam. Even a cursory look at the Bill would tell us that it straightaway sends the Muslim (6) of the post-1971 stream to a stateless state while giving a safe passage to their Hindu counterparts.
The BJP has factored in the realpolitik in Assam where it has to go for a grand consolidation of the Hindu votes across (7) divides and ethnic identities. Such social engineering proved successful in the last Assembly elections, but to sustain it the party needs to complete the (8) of ‘othering’ the Muslims sooner rather than later. Both the Chief Minister and Finance Minister of Assam are now busy (9) the Assamese constituency how embracing the Bengali Hindu would save the State from the economic and political aggression unleashed by the Muslim Bengalis who are in a majority in nine out of the 30-plus districts.
In this political theatre, the most passive actors are the Partition-hit Bengali Hindus who are the only likely beneficiaries of the Bill. In the absence of any State-wide organisation or leadership of their own, this section, which numbers more than five million, has always preferred to be with the power that be. No surprise then that Bengali Hindus in Assam have become a (10) support base for the BJP.

2?

Directions(1-10): CLOZE TEST

A significant section of Assamese intellectuals, regional (1) press and various outfits is clearly peeved at the Centre’s manoeuvring of the sensitive issue of foreigners. In fact, the call for reprising an ‘80s-like-agitation’ is renting the air. The All Assam Students’ Union has already declared a State-wide (2) programme against the Bill from October 18. For Assamese chauvinist forces, all Bengali-speaking people, irrespective of religious affiliation, are suspected Bangladeshi nationals.The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led government has clearly two reasons at work behind (3) the idea of offering citizenship to the religious minorities in Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan. One, it is simply catering to the Sangh Parivar’s long-running agenda of making India a ‘Hindu state’, and, as an immediate sub-plot of that larger agenda, of treating this country as the ‘natural home’ to Hindus all over the world. Second — and this is of more urgent consideration — the BJP is trying to further (4) its Hindu constituency by (5) the religious divide in a very subtle way in the diverse demography of Assam. Even a cursory look at the Bill would tell us that it straightaway sends the Muslim (6) of the post-1971 stream to a stateless state while giving a safe passage to their Hindu counterparts.
The BJP has factored in the realpolitik in Assam where it has to go for a grand consolidation of the Hindu votes across (7) divides and ethnic identities. Such social engineering proved successful in the last Assembly elections, but to sustain it the party needs to complete the (8) of ‘othering’ the Muslims sooner rather than later. Both the Chief Minister and Finance Minister of Assam are now busy (9) the Assamese constituency how embracing the Bengali Hindu would save the State from the economic and political aggression unleashed by the Muslim Bengalis who are in a majority in nine out of the 30-plus districts.
In this political theatre, the most passive actors are the Partition-hit Bengali Hindus who are the only likely beneficiaries of the Bill. In the absence of any State-wide organisation or leadership of their own, this section, which numbers more than five million, has always preferred to be with the power that be. No surprise then that Bengali Hindus in Assam have become a (10) support base for the BJP.

3?

Directions(1-10): CLOZE TEST

A significant section of Assamese intellectuals, regional (1) press and various outfits is clearly peeved at the Centre’s manoeuvring of the sensitive issue of foreigners. In fact, the call for reprising an ‘80s-like-agitation’ is renting the air. The All Assam Students’ Union has already declared a State-wide (2) programme against the Bill from October 18. For Assamese chauvinist forces, all Bengali-speaking people, irrespective of religious affiliation, are suspected Bangladeshi nationals.The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led government has clearly two reasons at work behind (3) the idea of offering citizenship to the religious minorities in Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan. One, it is simply catering to the Sangh Parivar’s long-running agenda of making India a ‘Hindu state’, and, as an immediate sub-plot of that larger agenda, of treating this country as the ‘natural home’ to Hindus all over the world. Second — and this is of more urgent consideration — the BJP is trying to further (4) its Hindu constituency by (5) the religious divide in a very subtle way in the diverse demography of Assam. Even a cursory look at the Bill would tell us that it straightaway sends the Muslim (6) of the post-1971 stream to a stateless state while giving a safe passage to their Hindu counterparts.
The BJP has factored in the realpolitik in Assam where it has to go for a grand consolidation of the Hindu votes across (7) divides and ethnic identities. Such social engineering proved successful in the last Assembly elections, but to sustain it the party needs to complete the (8) of ‘othering’ the Muslims sooner rather than later. Both the Chief Minister and Finance Minister of Assam are now busy (9) the Assamese constituency how embracing the Bengali Hindu would save the State from the economic and political aggression unleashed by the Muslim Bengalis who are in a majority in nine out of the 30-plus districts.
In this political theatre, the most passive actors are the Partition-hit Bengali Hindus who are the only likely beneficiaries of the Bill. In the absence of any State-wide organisation or leadership of their own, this section, which numbers more than five million, has always preferred to be with the power that be. No surprise then that Bengali Hindus in Assam have become a (10) support base for the BJP.

4?

Directions(1-10): CLOZE TEST

A significant section of Assamese intellectuals, regional (1) press and various outfits is clearly peeved at the Centre’s manoeuvring of the sensitive issue of foreigners. In fact, the call for reprising an ‘80s-like-agitation’ is renting the air. The All Assam Students’ Union has already declared a State-wide (2) programme against the Bill from October 18. For Assamese chauvinist forces, all Bengali-speaking people, irrespective of religious affiliation, are suspected Bangladeshi nationals.The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led government has clearly two reasons at work behind (3) the idea of offering citizenship to the religious minorities in Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan. One, it is simply catering to the Sangh Parivar’s long-running agenda of making India a ‘Hindu state’, and, as an immediate sub-plot of that larger agenda, of treating this country as the ‘natural home’ to Hindus all over the world. Second — and this is of more urgent consideration — the BJP is trying to further (4) its Hindu constituency by (5) the religious divide in a very subtle way in the diverse demography of Assam. Even a cursory look at the Bill would tell us that it straightaway sends the Muslim (6) of the post-1971 stream to a stateless state while giving a safe passage to their Hindu counterparts.
The BJP has factored in the realpolitik in Assam where it has to go for a grand consolidation of the Hindu votes across (7) divides and ethnic identities. Such social engineering proved successful in the last Assembly elections, but to sustain it the party needs to complete the (8) of ‘othering’ the Muslims sooner rather than later. Both the Chief Minister and Finance Minister of Assam are now busy (9) the Assamese constituency how embracing the Bengali Hindu would save the State from the economic and political aggression unleashed by the Muslim Bengalis who are in a majority in nine out of the 30-plus districts.
In this political theatre, the most passive actors are the Partition-hit Bengali Hindus who are the only likely beneficiaries of the Bill. In the absence of any State-wide organisation or leadership of their own, this section, which numbers more than five million, has always preferred to be with the power that be. No surprise then that Bengali Hindus in Assam have become a (10) support base for the BJP.

5?

Directions(1-10): CLOZE TEST

A significant section of Assamese intellectuals, regional (1) press and various outfits is clearly peeved at the Centre’s manoeuvring of the sensitive issue of foreigners. In fact, the call for reprising an ‘80s-like-agitation’ is renting the air. The All Assam Students’ Union has already declared a State-wide (2) programme against the Bill from October 18. For Assamese chauvinist forces, all Bengali-speaking people, irrespective of religious affiliation, are suspected Bangladeshi nationals.The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led government has clearly two reasons at work behind (3) the idea of offering citizenship to the religious minorities in Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan. One, it is simply catering to the Sangh Parivar’s long-running agenda of making India a ‘Hindu state’, and, as an immediate sub-plot of that larger agenda, of treating this country as the ‘natural home’ to Hindus all over the world. Second — and this is of more urgent consideration — the BJP is trying to further (4) its Hindu constituency by (5) the religious divide in a very subtle way in the diverse demography of Assam. Even a cursory look at the Bill would tell us that it straightaway sends the Muslim (6) of the post-1971 stream to a stateless state while giving a safe passage to their Hindu counterparts.
The BJP has factored in the realpolitik in Assam where it has to go for a grand consolidation of the Hindu votes across (7) divides and ethnic identities. Such social engineering proved successful in the last Assembly elections, but to sustain it the party needs to complete the (8) of ‘othering’ the Muslims sooner rather than later. Both the Chief Minister and Finance Minister of Assam are now busy (9) the Assamese constituency how embracing the Bengali Hindu would save the State from the economic and political aggression unleashed by the Muslim Bengalis who are in a majority in nine out of the 30-plus districts.
In this political theatre, the most passive actors are the Partition-hit Bengali Hindus who are the only likely beneficiaries of the Bill. In the absence of any State-wide organisation or leadership of their own, this section, which numbers more than five million, has always preferred to be with the power that be. No surprise then that Bengali Hindus in Assam have become a (10) support base for the BJP.

6?

Directions(1-10): CLOZE TEST

A significant section of Assamese intellectuals, regional (1) press and various outfits is clearly peeved at the Centre’s manoeuvring of the sensitive issue of foreigners. In fact, the call for reprising an ‘80s-like-agitation’ is renting the air. The All Assam Students’ Union has already declared a State-wide (2) programme against the Bill from October 18. For Assamese chauvinist forces, all Bengali-speaking people, irrespective of religious affiliation, are suspected Bangladeshi nationals.The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led government has clearly two reasons at work behind (3) the idea of offering citizenship to the religious minorities in Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan. One, it is simply catering to the Sangh Parivar’s long-running agenda of making India a ‘Hindu state’, and, as an immediate sub-plot of that larger agenda, of treating this country as the ‘natural home’ to Hindus all over the world. Second — and this is of more urgent consideration — the BJP is trying to further (4) its Hindu constituency by (5) the religious divide in a very subtle way in the diverse demography of Assam. Even a cursory look at the Bill would tell us that it straightaway sends the Muslim (6) of the post-1971 stream to a stateless state while giving a safe passage to their Hindu counterparts.
The BJP has factored in the realpolitik in Assam where it has to go for a grand consolidation of the Hindu votes across (7) divides and ethnic identities. Such social engineering proved successful in the last Assembly elections, but to sustain it the party needs to complete the (8) of ‘othering’ the Muslims sooner rather than later. Both the Chief Minister and Finance Minister of Assam are now busy (9) the Assamese constituency how embracing the Bengali Hindu would save the State from the economic and political aggression unleashed by the Muslim Bengalis who are in a majority in nine out of the 30-plus districts.
In this political theatre, the most passive actors are the Partition-hit Bengali Hindus who are the only likely beneficiaries of the Bill. In the absence of any State-wide organisation or leadership of their own, this section, which numbers more than five million, has always preferred to be with the power that be. No surprise then that Bengali Hindus in Assam have become a (10) support base for the BJP.

7?

Directions(1-10): CLOZE TEST

A significant section of Assamese intellectuals, regional (1) press and various outfits is clearly peeved at the Centre’s manoeuvring of the sensitive issue of foreigners. In fact, the call for reprising an ‘80s-like-agitation’ is renting the air. The All Assam Students’ Union has already declared a State-wide (2) programme against the Bill from October 18. For Assamese chauvinist forces, all Bengali-speaking people, irrespective of religious affiliation, are suspected Bangladeshi nationals.The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led government has clearly two reasons at work behind (3) the idea of offering citizenship to the religious minorities in Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan. One, it is simply catering to the Sangh Parivar’s long-running agenda of making India a ‘Hindu state’, and, as an immediate sub-plot of that larger agenda, of treating this country as the ‘natural home’ to Hindus all over the world. Second — and this is of more urgent consideration — the BJP is trying to further (4) its Hindu constituency by (5) the religious divide in a very subtle way in the diverse demography of Assam. Even a cursory look at the Bill would tell us that it straightaway sends the Muslim (6) of the post-1971 stream to a stateless state while giving a safe passage to their Hindu counterparts.
The BJP has factored in the realpolitik in Assam where it has to go for a grand consolidation of the Hindu votes across (7) divides and ethnic identities. Such social engineering proved successful in the last Assembly elections, but to sustain it the party needs to complete the (8) of ‘othering’ the Muslims sooner rather than later. Both the Chief Minister and Finance Minister of Assam are now busy (9) the Assamese constituency how embracing the Bengali Hindu would save the State from the economic and political aggression unleashed by the Muslim Bengalis who are in a majority in nine out of the 30-plus districts.
In this political theatre, the most passive actors are the Partition-hit Bengali Hindus who are the only likely beneficiaries of the Bill. In the absence of any State-wide organisation or leadership of their own, this section, which numbers more than five million, has always preferred to be with the power that be. No surprise then that Bengali Hindus in Assam have become a (10) support base for the BJP.

8?

Directions(1-10): CLOZE TEST

A significant section of Assamese intellectuals, regional (1) press and various outfits is clearly peeved at the Centre’s manoeuvring of the sensitive issue of foreigners. In fact, the call for reprising an ‘80s-like-agitation’ is renting the air. The All Assam Students’ Union has already declared a State-wide (2) programme against the Bill from October 18. For Assamese chauvinist forces, all Bengali-speaking people, irrespective of religious affiliation, are suspected Bangladeshi nationals.The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led government has clearly two reasons at work behind (3) the idea of offering citizenship to the religious minorities in Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan. One, it is simply catering to the Sangh Parivar’s long-running agenda of making India a ‘Hindu state’, and, as an immediate sub-plot of that larger agenda, of treating this country as the ‘natural home’ to Hindus all over the world. Second — and this is of more urgent consideration — the BJP is trying to further (4) its Hindu constituency by (5) the religious divide in a very subtle way in the diverse demography of Assam. Even a cursory look at the Bill would tell us that it straightaway sends the Muslim (6) of the post-1971 stream to a stateless state while giving a safe passage to their Hindu counterparts.
The BJP has factored in the realpolitik in Assam where it has to go for a grand consolidation of the Hindu votes across (7) divides and ethnic identities. Such social engineering proved successful in the last Assembly elections, but to sustain it the party needs to complete the (8) of ‘othering’ the Muslims sooner rather than later. Both the Chief Minister and Finance Minister of Assam are now busy (9) the Assamese constituency how embracing the Bengali Hindu would save the State from the economic and political aggression unleashed by the Muslim Bengalis who are in a majority in nine out of the 30-plus districts.
In this political theatre, the most passive actors are the Partition-hit Bengali Hindus who are the only likely beneficiaries of the Bill. In the absence of any State-wide organisation or leadership of their own, this section, which numbers more than five million, has always preferred to be with the power that be. No surprise then that Bengali Hindus in Assam have become a (10) support base for the BJP.

9?

Directions(1-10): CLOZE TEST

A significant section of Assamese intellectuals, regional (1) press and various outfits is clearly peeved at the Centre’s manoeuvring of the sensitive issue of foreigners. In fact, the call for reprising an ‘80s-like-agitation’ is renting the air. The All Assam Students’ Union has already declared a State-wide (2) programme against the Bill from October 18. For Assamese chauvinist forces, all Bengali-speaking people, irrespective of religious affiliation, are suspected Bangladeshi nationals.The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led government has clearly two reasons at work behind (3) the idea of offering citizenship to the religious minorities in Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan. One, it is simply catering to the Sangh Parivar’s long-running agenda of making India a ‘Hindu state’, and, as an immediate sub-plot of that larger agenda, of treating this country as the ‘natural home’ to Hindus all over the world. Second — and this is of more urgent consideration — the BJP is trying to further (4) its Hindu constituency by (5) the religious divide in a very subtle way in the diverse demography of Assam. Even a cursory look at the Bill would tell us that it straightaway sends the Muslim (6) of the post-1971 stream to a stateless state while giving a safe passage to their Hindu counterparts.
The BJP has factored in the realpolitik in Assam where it has to go for a grand consolidation of the Hindu votes across (7) divides and ethnic identities. Such social engineering proved successful in the last Assembly elections, but to sustain it the party needs to complete the (8) of ‘othering’ the Muslims sooner rather than later. Both the Chief Minister and Finance Minister of Assam are now busy (9) the Assamese constituency how embracing the Bengali Hindu would save the State from the economic and political aggression unleashed by the Muslim Bengalis who are in a majority in nine out of the 30-plus districts.
In this political theatre, the most passive actors are the Partition-hit Bengali Hindus who are the only likely beneficiaries of the Bill. In the absence of any State-wide organisation or leadership of their own, this section, which numbers more than five million, has always preferred to be with the power that be. No surprise then that Bengali Hindus in Assam have become a (10) support base for the BJP.

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