In the passage given below there are few blanks. Each blank has four alternative words given in options (A), (B),(C) and (D). You have to tell which word will best suit the respective blank. Mark (E) as your answer if No change required.
The idea of the documentary was ....( I ).... by Anubhav in the year 2007 while he was ....( II ).... his undergraduate course ....( III )...... the Western International University, New Delhi, India as a possible ....( IV )... for an annual inter-university competition ...( V )... SIFE (Students in Free Enterprise)....( VI )... his institution rejected his .....( VII ).... on account of non-feasibility. ....( VIII ).... then he is independently working on this documentary and has ....( IX ).... interviewed famous personalities from all walks of ....( X )....
Choose the best word in place of ( I ) from the given passage
Answer: B
Correct answer: conceived
An idea is conceived - formed in the mind - and the passage is naming the moment Anubhav first had it. Accepted, borrowed and taken all imply the idea came from somewhere else, which the rest of the passage contradicts: he goes on to propose it himself.
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Choose the best word in place of ( II ) from the given passage
Answer: A
Correct answer: attending
One attends a course. Arriving and catching do not take a course as object, and noticing would say he merely observed it.
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Choose the best word in place of ( III ) from the given passage
Answer: C
Correct answer: at
A named institution takes at: at the Western International University. In would refer to the building, on is impossible with a university, and as is not a preposition of place.
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Choose the best word in place of ( IV ) from the given passage
Answer: B
Correct answer: entry
What one submits to a competition is an entry, and a possible entry for a competition is the natural phrase. Exit and retirement reverse the sense, and allocation belongs to the distribution of resources.
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Choose the best word in place of ( V ) from the given passage
Answer: A
Correct answer: for
The competition is run for the benefit of the organisation named after the blank, and a competition for SIFE is the reading the sentence supports. Form is a misspelling of from, and if is a conjunction, not a preposition.
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Choose the best word in place of ( VI ) from the given passage
Answer: C
Correct answer: but
The sentence reverses what has gone before: he had an idea and an intended use for it, and then the institution turned it down. But marks that reversal. Except and only cannot open the clause, and yet would need a comma and a different rhythm.
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Choose the best word in place of ( VII ) from the given passage
Answer: B
Correct answer: proposal
What an institution rejects, and what he had put forward as a possible entry, is a proposal. Motion belongs to a formal meeting, angle to a point of view, and news is not something submitted for approval.
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Choose the best word in place of ( VIII ) from the given passage
Answer: A
Correct answer: Since
The blank is followed by then, and since then is the fixed phrase for the period running from a past event to now - which is what the present continuous he is independently working requires. Nearby, convenient and beside are not temporal.
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Choose the best word in place of ( IX ) from the given passage
Answer: D
Correct answer: already
The sentence reports what he has achieved so far in that period, and has already interviewed is the natural pairing with the present perfect. Presently and lastly do not fit that tense, and old is an adjective.
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Choose the best word in place of ( X ) from the given passage
Answer: D
Correct answer: life
All walks of life is a fixed idiom for people of every kind. Live, light and alone do not complete it.
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