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Directions (1-15): Pick out the most effective pair of words from the given pair of words to make the sentence/ sentences meaningfully complete.

Q1. Scientists, working to save the earth, have __________ dry water that soaks carbon three times better than water, and hence, helps __________ global warming.

(a) aided, cut

(b) created, combat

(d) produced, increase

(e) requested, wishful

Q2. After the board examinations, students are _______ up for the various entrance examinations _________ for next month.

(a) ready, timed

(b) gearing, scheduled

(d) set, duration

(e) Waiting, rough

Q3. The governmental __________ spurred dramatic improvements in the way waste management is ________ out in many hospitals.

(a) rule, thrown.

(b) plans, conduct

(d) efforts, carried

(e) ascertain, further

Q4. The petitioner had ________ an immediate stay from the Court on allotment of the flats till _________ of investigation into the alleged irregularities.

(a) asked, process

(b) sought, completion

(d) demanded, course

(e) condemns, sudden

Q5. Opportunities _________ when they are seized and ________ when they are not.

(a) gather, evade

(b) needed, reflect

(d) multiply, die

(e) pleaded, neglected

Q6. At the sound of the bell we are _________ to pause, relax our body and become gently _________of our in-breath and out-breath.

(a) asked, thoughtless

(b) requested, wishful

(d) forced, meaningful

(e) prepared, programmed

Q7. _______ to listen to the sounds of nature, we find that we can afterwards carry on with whatever we were doing in a more ________ and loving way.

(a) Feeling, helpful

(b) Waiting, rough

(d) Pausing, attentive

(e) set, duration

Q8. My inward petition was instantly ___________. First, a delightful cold wave descended over my back and under my feet, ___________ all discomfort.

(a) acknowledged, banishing

(b) repudiated, infuriating

(d) decimated, assuaging

(e) asked, thoughtless

Q9. Aruna __________ her team with a lot of skill and the ___________ increase in the sales by the team is a measure of her success.

(a) dominates, poor

(b) condemns, sudden

(d) directs, worthless

(e) needed, reflect

Q10. On being asked for the passport, he ________ to his dismay that he had ______________ to bring it along with him to the airport.

(a) shocked, failed

(b) realized, forgotten

(d) understood, stood

(e) aided, cut

Q11. Helen quickly__________ the career ladder and is now the ___________ managing director, the company has ever appointed.

(a) jumped, shortest

(b) entered, oldest

(d) climbed, youngest

(e) invent, growing

Q12. A famous economist says that the government should do more to ________ jobs in the area in order to curb the ____________ rate of unemployment.

(a) create, rising

(b) need, increasing

(d) invent, growing

(e) built, stop

Q13. After __________ payrolls and tightening perks to cope with the economic slowdown last year, software companies are finding that and management graduates are transferring their _____________ to vocations such as manufacturing and banking.

(a) trimming, loyalties

(b) reducing, accounts

(d) increased, affections

(e) need, increasing

Q14. It is very important to ___________ that when the swine flu virus enters a human body. It takes a minimum of one day to a maximum of eight days for the disease to develop __________.

(a) gauge, extensively

(b) ascertain, further

(d) verify, remarkably

(e) noticed, peculiar

Q15. Auroras are natural light displays in the sky, usually _________ at night, _______ in the Polar regions.

(a) watch, upward

(b) noticed, peculiar

(d) found, most

(e) sought, completion

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