Directions (Q.1 - 10): In each of the following sentences there are two blank spaces. Below each sentences there are five pairs of words denoted by (a), (b), (c), (d) and (e). Find out which pair of words can be filled up in the blanks in the sentence in the same sequence in the same sequence to make it meaningfully complete.
1. It is time all nations _____________ their shoulders in the fight against terrorism for the _____________ of humanity.
a) measured, survival
b) reflexed, upliftment
c) forwarded, weight
d) showed, restoration
e) lent, sake
2. The scars left ______________ by insurgency have not yet _____________.
a) across, softened
b) beyond, covered
c) aside, erased
d) behind, healed
e) beside, recovered
3. Rain water harvesting and water conservation hold ____________ potential in helping us _____________ the chronic problem of depletion of ground water and shortage of drinking water.
a) worthy, tackling
b) immense, overcome
c) strong, dealing
d) sufficient, drive
e) required, solving
4. _____________ evil and obnoxious, child labour is a worldwide _____________.
a) Though, phenomenon
b) Being, saga
c) Despite, occurence
d) although, history
e) sounding, incident
5. Dowry, though _____________ by law, has grown to monstrous ______________ after four decades of legislation.
a) abolished, practice
b) rebuked, image
c) hindered, system
d) prohibited, proportions
e) affected, evil
6. The present system of _____________ with the complaints of judicial misconduct is _____________ in secrecy.
a) dealing, shrouded
b) tackling, indulged
c) fighting, based
d) scrutinising, immersed
e) handling, marked
7. The executive or the judiciary ___________ cannot ______________ the rot in the judicial system.
a) therefore, suppress
b) itself, operate
c) alone, stem
d) thereby, control
e) however, dismiss
8. Coalition politics in India still has a long way to go before it _____________ into a ____________ political alternatives.
a) graduates, progressing
b) matures, dependable
c) shapes, combined
d) turns, bargaining
e) contributes, national
9. Unless ______________ replaces rhetoric both in India and Pakistan, talks between them will not make ____________.
a) action, success
b) sincerity, fruitful
c) recognition, start
d) ideology, sense
e) pragmatism, headway
10. There is no denying that an atmosphere of intolerance ____________ ___________ large parts of the world.
a) pervades, over
b) hovers, round
c) breeds, almost
d) affects, inside
e) prevails, above
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