Directions (1-15): In the following questions a paragraph is given with two blanks. The paragraph is then provided with five options which consist of the words that can fill the given blanks. Choose that option as your answer which can fill the given blanks in the exact order as given in the option. If none of the given options fills the given blanks then choose option (e), ‘None of these’ as your answer.
Q1. With the _______________of a third case of the novel coronavirus (nCoV) infection in the State, Kerala declared the _______________a State calamity.
(a) Accord, Evident
(b) Practice, Minute
(c) Confirmation, Epidemic
(d) Consider, Intend
(e) None of these
Q2. Renowned _______________and senior advocate Fali Nariman has objected to the manner in which the SC turned a review of the Sabarimala case into an _______________to set up a nine-judge Bench.
(a) Jurist, Opportunity
(b) Concern, Commit
(c) Issue, Approach
(d) Establish, Utter
(e) None of these
Q3. A high-level group of Ministers has been _______________on the directions of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to _______________the management of the outbreak.
(a) Conduct, Engage
(b) Obtain, Scarce
(c) Constituted, Review
(d) Policy, Straight
(e) None of these
Q4. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman _______________that the government was not going to repeat past mistakes and try to _______________its way out of the economic slowdown.
(a) Stock, Apparent
(b) Property, Fancy
(c) Concept, Court
(d) Asserted, Splurge
(e) None of these
Q5. In controversial comments, Mr. Hegde had _______________the freedom movement led by Gandhiji and _______________it as an “adjustment” with the British rulers.
(a) Appoint, Passage
(b) Questioned, Described
(c) Vain, Instance
(d) Coast, Project
(e) None of these
Q6. In a major step towards modernizing its _______________, the Delhi police will soon attach Radio-frequency identification (RFID) tags to its _______________weapons to prevent misuse.
(a) Commission, Level
(b) Institute, Affect
(c) Armory, Assault
(d) Render, Appeal
(e) None of these
Q7. The Delhi High Court dismissed a plea which alleged that MPs from the _______________State of Jammu and Kashmir were continuing to hold their seats _______________.
(a) Erstwhile, Illegally
(b) Generate, Theory
(c) Range, Campaign
(d) League, Circumstances
(e) None of these
Q8. Towards the end of his five-minute _______________, Mr. Bharadwaj asked the people to set aside their _______________to political parties when they vote.
(a) Confer, Grant
(b) Speech, Affiliation
(c) Dwell, Entertain
(d) Earnest, Yield
(e) None of these
Q9. Party’s election incharge Sanjay Singh said that AAP would be _______________15,000 meetings across the city in the last phase of the _______________in the next three days.
(a) Wander, Insist,
(b) Knight, Convince
(c) Conducting, Campaign
(d) Inspire, Convention
(e) None of these
Q10. The Congress was _______________the polls on issues that affect the people and development of the city, but the BJP and AAP were trying to polarize Delhiites along _______________lines.
(a) Skill, Harry
(b) Contesting, Communal
(c) Financial, Reflect
(d) Novel, Furnish
(e) None of these
Q11. Delhi Police’s Crime Branch has arrested a _______________for supplying a weapon to the juvenile who had _______________fire on anti-CAA protesters outside Jamia Millia Islamia
(a) Compel, Venture
(b) Territory, Temper
(c) Bent, Intimate
(d) Wrestler, Opened
(e) None of these
Q12. In the present situation, where just _______________against one legislation has turned the campus so unsafe, we are forced to put our _______________first.
(a) Undertake, Majority
(b) Protesting, Safety
(c) Assert, Crew
(d) Chamber, Humble
(e) None of these
Q13. The proposed NPR and NRC will _______________impact 1.77 million homeless people in, National Coalition for inclusive and sustainable Urbanisation said in a _______________.
(a) Scheme, Keen
(b) Liberal, Despair
(c) Tide, Attitude
(d) Adversely, Statement
(e) None of these
Q14. Demanding that CAA be revoked, protesters asked why the right to free speech is _______________only for politicians and not for those _______________constitutional rights.
(a) Justify, Flag
(b) Merit, Concord
(c) Reserved, Seeking
(d) Manifest, Notion
(e) None of these
Q15. A day after an alleged incident of firing was _______________ outside Jamia Millia Islamia (JMI) campus, the Delhi police have not been able to make any _______________in the case.
(a) Scale, Formal
(b) Reported, Breakthrough
(c) Resource, Persist
(d) Contempt, Tour
(e) None of these
Solutions
S1. Ans. (c)
Sol. Confirmation, Epidemic can fill the given blanks in the exact order as given in the option. Hence, option (c) is the right answer choice.
S2. Ans. (a)
Sol. Jurist, Opportunity can fill the given blanks in the exact order as given in the option. Hence, option (a) is the right answer choice.
S3. Ans. (c)
Sol. Constituted, Review can fill the given blanks in the exact order as given in the option. Hence, option (c) is the right answer choice.
S4. Ans. (d)
Sol. Asserted, Splurge can fill the given blanks in the exact order as given in the option. Hence, option (d) is the right answer choice.
S5. Ans. (b)
Sol. Questioned, Described can fill the given blanks in the exact order as given in the option. Hence, option (b) is the right answer choice.
S6. Ans. (c)
Sol. Armory, Assault can fill the given blanks in the exact order as given in the option. Hence, option (c) is the right answer choice.
S7. Ans. (a)
Sol. Erstwhile, Illegally can fill the given blanks in the exact order as given in the option. Hence, option (a) is the right answer choice.
S8. Ans. (b)
Sol. Speech, Affiliation can fill the given blanks in the exact order as given in the option. Hence, option (b) is the right answer choice.
S9. Ans. (c)
Sol. Conducting, Campaign can fill the given blanks in the exact order as given in the option. Hence, option (c) is the right answer choice.
S10. Ans. (b)
Sol. Contesting, Communal can fill the given blanks in the exact order as given in the option. Hence, option (b) is the right answer choice.
S11. Ans. (d)
Sol. Wrestler, Opened can fill the given blanks in the exact order as given in the option. Hence, option (d) is the right answer choice.
S12. Ans. (b)
Sol. Protesting, Safety can fill the given blanks in the exact order as given in the option. Hence, option (b) is the right answer choice.
S13. Ans. (d)
Sol. Adversely, Statement can fill the given blanks in the exact order as given in the option. Hence, option (d) is the right answer choice.
S14. Ans. (c)
Sol. Reserved, Seeking can fill the given blanks in the exact order as given in the option. Hence, option (c) is the right answer choice.
S15. Ans. (b)
Sol. Reported, Breakthrough can fill the given blanks in the exact order as given in the option. Hence, option (b) is the right answer choice.
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