One dark night a Darvesh ___________ passing by a dry well.
Answer: B
Correct answer: happened to be
Happen to be reports something that occurred by chance, which suits a chance encounter with a well at night.
Wasnt reverses the sense and is misspelt, and discovered in and found to do not fit passing by.
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The prisoner showed no _________ for his crimes.
Answer: C
Correct answer: remorse
Remorse is regret for one's own wrongdoing, and it is what a prisoner would be expected to show.
Hatred, anger and obstinacy are all feelings a prisoner might have, but none of them is regret, which is what for his crimes calls for.
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Real friends, genuinely wanting the best for the organisation, ___________ different garbs.
Answer: A
Correct answer: come in
Come in different garbs means to appear in different guises - friends are not always recognisable as such.
Clad in, dressed in and clothed in are all past participles needing are before them, so none can stand as the finite verb the sentence lacks.
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The car we were travelling in _________ a mile from home.
Answer: B
Correct answer: broke down
A vehicle that stops working breaks down.
Break off is to stop speaking or to sever, break into is to enter by force, and break up is to end a relationship or a gathering.
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as many of the plants depend upon pollination that happens through bees, the disappearance of these bees is leading to expenditure for artificial pollination methods thereby posing a -------- to agro based industries and farmers as well.
Answer: A
Correct answer: threat
Losing the bees that pollinate crops endangers them, and what is posed is a threat.
Hurdle is an obstacle to be got over rather than a danger; surplus reverses the sense, and disappearance already appears earlier in the sentence.
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Frost uses this fork in the road to represent a point in the man’s life where he has to choose the_________ he wishes to take in life.
Answer: C
Correct answer: direction
Choosing a road means choosing a direction, and the sentence says the man must choose the one he wishes to take in life.
Choices would repeat the previous sentence, fork is the point of decision rather than what is chosen, and both is impossible at a fork.
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