English Quiz - 54 | SBI | IBPS

Directions (Q.1 - 10): In each of the following sentences there are two blanks spaces. Below each sentence there are five pairs of words denoted by letters (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 to make it meaningfully complete.

1. The United States has ___________ on a programme of secret ____________ on biological weapons.

a) proceeded, agenda

b) embarked, research

c) delivered, inspection

d) flagged, elimination 

e) participated, spying

2. US has ______________ sanctions _____________ by the US congress against India in the wake of its nuclear tests in 1998.

a) lifted, sanctioned

b) banned, order

c) abolished, against

d) waived, imposed

e) removed, rebuked

3. Our policy-makers have been trying to _____________ the evil of casteism for the past 50 years, but to no ____________.

a) mitigate, avail

b) root, result

c) uproot, significance

d) curb, achievement

e) focus, success

4. The authorities must ____________ into _____________ before the situation gets out of control.

a) prepare, time

b) indulge, planning

c) plunge, scene

d) strike, middle

e) swing, action

5. In the past, India has been ____________ the international community to _____________ a united stand against terrorism.

a) ordering, develop

b) praying, prepare

c) urging, adopt

d) voicing, appeal

e) applying, mark

6. If a government cannot ____________ the security of the life and property of the citizens, it has no __________ to rule.

a) afford, policy

b) ensure, right

c) approve, power

d) signal, authority

e) order, direction

7. There should be the ____________ to _____________ quality education in government schools.

a) expertise, control

b) faculty, need

c) conviction, judge

d) confidence, delivering 

e) will, impart

8. India's stand should be practical and _____________ in the _____________ of international law.

a) rooted, principles

b) basically, legality

c) partial, frame

d) emphatic, arena

e) secular, dealing

9. The US is _____________ displeased by the momentum ____________ by the anti-war movement.

a) hardly, gained

b) quiet, evolving 

c) seriously, publicized 

d) utterly, favoring

e) obviously, acquired

10. They are seemingly not _____________ if such preferential treatment ____________ to sectarianism and inefficiency. 

a) amused, generates

b) bothered, leads

c) irked, questions

d) hurt, meets

e) astonished, gathers

Answers

1. (b)
2. (d)
3. (a)
4. (e)
5. (c)
6. (b)
7. (e)
8. (a)
9. (e)

10. (b)