English Quiz Set - 6

                           English Quiz For LIC AAO

Directions (Q.1 - 10): In each of the following sentences, there are two blanks spaces. Below each sentences there are five pair of words denoted by numbers (a), (b), (c), (d) and (e). Find out which pair of words can be filled up in the blanks in the sentences in the same sequence to make the sentence meaningfully complete.

1. Our latest battle plan _____ some projects _____ at saving the earth's biological diversity.

a) Finishes, Stirring

b) Covers, Aimed

c) Finances, Looking

d) Encloses, Looked

e) Excludes, Arriving

2. Unless the authorities adopt the principles _____ the strategies cannot become ______.

a) Whole-heartedly, Successful

b) Fully, Defunct

c) Finally, Obsolete

d) Legitimately, Noteworthy 

e) Logically, Trivial

3. Trying to _____ a team without a good and simple system is like trying to drive a car without a steering wheel _____.

a) Form, Working

b) Place, Exploratory

c) Organise, Empowering

d) Make, Guidance

e) Achieve, Development

4. _____ members of a group often _____ influence the outcome of a consensus forecast.

a) Fixed, Exert

b) Majority, Rightly

c) Oral, Legitimately

d) Minority, Inadvertently

e) Dominant, Unduly

5. Transforming _____ bureaucracies into dynamic, this task of customer-driven organisations is _____ under prevailing circumstances.

a) Ideal, Important

b) Lazy, Undesirable

c) Insufficient. Challenging

d) Civilised, Ineffective

e) Lethargic, Insurmountable

6. The deputy manager _____ to resign because all his proposals were _____ down by his superiors. 

a) Planned, Thrown

b) Gave, Held

c) Began, Kept

d) Willing, Knocked

e) Threatened, Turned

7. The counter clerk was very busy and _____ not pay _____ to Sameer's request.

a) Can, Help

b) Could, Cooperation

c) Had, Cash

d) Did, Attention

e) Certainly, Acceptance

8. He was initially _____ at the suggestion but was soon _____ it himself.

a) Anger, Rejecting

b) Shocked, Advocating

c) Impressed, Neglecting

d) Thrilled, Propagating

e) Suspicious, Trusting

9. Shalini was not _____ by the criticism and paid no _____ even when her best friend talked against her.

a) Bothered, Attention

b) Troubled, Brained

c) Threatened, Warning

d) Deterred, Heed

e) Shaken, Indication

10. She was _____ because all her plan had gone _____.

a) Happy, Selected

b) Dejected, Splendidly

c) Distraught, Awry

d) Frustrated, Magnificently

e) Tolerant, More

Ans: B - A - A - E - C - E  - D - B - A - C