Directions (Q.1 - 10): Each question below has two blanks, each blank indicating that something has been omitted. Choose the set of words for each blank that best fits the meaning of the sentence as a whole.
1. After having been friends for more than a decade, they had a ___________ last year and have not ___________ each other ever since.
a) fight, talked
b) argument, met
c) dispute, seen
d) quarrel, admired
e) difference, introduced
2. The workers, several of ___________ had complained about their low wages earlier have now ____________ to move to the count for the labour rights.
a) who, indicated
b) whom, decided
c) which, threatened
d) them, resolved
e) number, warned
3. The hutment dwellers were jubilant when the government ____________ an apartment to each of them at _____________ rates.
a) demolished, fast
b) announced, less
c) provided, high
d) acquired, low
e) promised, subsidised
4. The organization was deeply _____________ by difficulties a decade ago, but the new CEO brought many _____________ changes in it and took it to a new high.
a) indebted, necessary
b) plagued, vital
c) coping, more
d) hurt, critical
e) shaken, inevitable
5. The Prime Minister who is _____________ in his holiday home at the moment said that he was very _____________ by the news of Indian winning the World Cup.
a) visiting, happy
b) residing, obliged
c) intruding, dejected
d) staying, pleased
e) resting, cheerful
6. Biological clocks are of _____________ adaptive value to animal, since it ______________ nervous and physiological functions of the body.
a) immense, assumes
b) great, regulates
c) ultimate, created
d) high, engulfs
e) no, governs
7. Each occupation has its own ____________ bankers, lawyers and computer professionals, for example all use among themselves ____________ that outsiders find difficult to follow.
a) merits, incidents
b) disadvantages, methods
c) rewards, endearment
d) jargon, language
e) problems, fundamentals
8. The two artists ______________ markedly i their temperaments one was reserved and courteous, the other _____________ and boastful.
a) changed, irritable
b) similar, jovial
c) differed, rude
d) appeared, funny
e) addressed, ill-tempered
9. Many people believed that spices help _____________ food however nutrinists found that most spices were _____________ of having any effect on growth of microbe present in the food.
a) perserve, incapable
b) produce, impossible
c) save, preventive
d) spoil, portable
e) protect, deprived
10. Despite a growing ____________ that a lot needs to be done to help those without clean water, a _____________ says that more than 34 million people die every year of water born diseases.
a) interest, reason
b) recognition, report
c) fantasy, review
d) authority, legend
e) turbulence, logic
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