Directions (1-15): In each of the following sentences there are two blank spaces. Below each sentence there are five pairs of words denoted by numbers (a), (b), (c), (d) and (e). Find out which pair of words can be filled up in blanks in the sentence in the same sequence to make the sentence grammatically correct and meaningfully complete.
Q1. Despite the fact that existing coal plants are ____ at low efficiencies, the DNEP relies on coal power to sustain the nation’s base load ____ to meet rising energy demand.
(a) having , idea
(b) running, requirement
(c) seeming, scenario
(d) engaging , needed
(e) rehearsing, movement
Q2. Traders generally _______ to trade in the direction of the trend, buying when prices trend up or selling short when prices trend down, and use the _____ to find the right entry and exit points for a profitable trade.
(a) ask, copy
(b) call, product
(c) see, activation
(d) prefer, index
(e) need, notice
Q3. People said that educated Indians ____ agitating for ____ they did not understand.
(a) were, something
(b) was, reference
(c) has, deployment
(d) been, anything
(e) is, view
Q4. These charges are paid by a telecom services provider whose subscriber _____ a call to the service provider whose subscriber _____ the call.
(a) do, edit
(b) try, give
(c) ask, proceeds
(d) makes, receives
(e) demand, require
Q5. The Reserve Bank of India’s Monetary Policy Committee has since inception ________ its unwavering focus on its primary remit: the preservation of ______ stability.
(a) look, which
(b) sustained ,is
(c) retained, price
(d) maintained , money
(e) drawn, amount
Q6. A printed invitation was ________ in the nearby villages and the message was ______ on the social media too.
(a) circulated, keep
(b) dispatched, call
(c) distributed, put
(d) called, designed
(e) designed, style
Q7. The Indian Constitution is built on the words, ideas and ________ of those who led entire movements for the annihilation of caste, with the figure of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar calling into memory the countless others who ________ with him and before him.
(a) struggles, marched
(b) help, is
(c) sweat, was
(d) compromise, been
(e) adjustment, helped
Q8. The drafting committees need to examine the ________ shifts occurring in storage and electric vehicles to promote new ________ in renewable energy.
(a) focus , study
(b) paradigm, technologies
(c) model , technology
(d) shift, preferences
(e) example, view
Q9. Within the Hindu social order that ordains work, occupation, livelihood and status according to birth and ________ individuals from moving away from their pre-ordained status, it is important to _________ the fundamental basis of this status if we are to shed the oppression of caste.
(a) bind, marked
(b) keep, trying
(c) prevent , changed
(d) allow, foreshadow
(e) restrains, question
Q10. Transformation in the automobile ______ could be accompanied by grid- and consumer-level electricity storage at homes, offices and ________.
(a) scenario , marketing
(b) sector, factories
(c) field, huts
(d) view , segment
(e) section , factor
Q11. It is caste discrimination that _________ disturbance of peace and social ________.
(a) pull, disquiet
(b) create, order
(c) causes, unrest
(d) mention, ease
(e) drag, upliftment
Q12. Women have a pre-ordained status in the caste order which saw the ________ of gruesome violence with impunity, something we have still not been able to annihilate effectively even in the constitutional era despite a century and a half of the most powerful critiques against the enslavement of women ________ by anti-caste philosophers.
(a) try, really
(b) rehearsal, somewhat
(c) trial, generally
(d) practice, especially
(e) reality, little
Q13. India has been building up its stored _________ while international oil prices have dropped in the past _____ of years.
(a) reserves, couple
(b) money , much
(c) gift, many
(d) amount , during
(e) edit, few
Q14. The vigour and vitality of the various expressive freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution _______ on the existence of a corresponding ________ of cognitive freedom.
(a) rely, reference
(b) distribute, incept
(c) depends, guarantee
(d) bank, unsure
(e) shift, surged
Q15. India’s energy security does require a large strategic _____ of oil to take care of any vagaries in its international ______ chain.
(a) storage, supply
(b) shortage, technology
(c) reliance, activated
(d) burden , advance
(e) stock, blocking