Fill in the Blanks Questions and Answers

Answer: B

The pair is board / bored: writing too many things on the board could make the students get bored.

The first blank needs a noun for the surface a teacher writes on, which is board. The second follows "get", which here takes an adjective describing a state (get tired, get bored); bored means weary from lack of interest.

The two words are homophones, which is the trap. "Bored / board" swaps them, "board / board" makes the students turn into planks, and "bored / bored" puts an adjective where the noun for the writing surface is needed.

Answer: B

The right pair is 'broke out' and 'to do'. A conflict or war is said to break out when it begins suddenly, which suits 'As soon as the conflict broke out in Sudan'. The second blank needs an infinitive that stands in for the earlier action, 'will continue to do so', meaning go on running the control room. 'Broke down' describes a failure of a machine or talks, 'broke up' means an ending or separation, and 'broke away' means separating from a group, so none of them fits a conflict that begins. 'Continue be doing', 'continue doing so' without 'to' and 'continue do so' are also ungrammatical or awkward in the remaining options.

Answer: C

The correct pair is 'against' and 'to carry out'. People take part in revolts against something such as increasing taxes and food scarcity, so the first blank needs 'against'. The second blank follows 'means and programmes', which take an infinitive of purpose, 'to carry out full-scale measures'. 'Across', 'beside' and 'through' do not express opposition to taxes, so they are wrong for the first blank. 'Carry out' without 'to' and 'carried out' do not give a correct structure after 'programmes', and 'carrying out' would not fit the sense of aims and capacity.

Answer: D

The correct option is 'dispersed' and 'using'. Seeds in sowing are scattered or dispersed in the field. The second sentence says sowing can be done by hand or by using seed drilling machines, and the word 'using' completes 'by ... seed drilling machines'. 'Assimilated' means absorbed, and 'working' does not take a machine as its object in this way. 'Spread' with 'holding' does not describe operating machines, and 'circulated' is used for liquids, air or news, not seeds, which also makes 'extending' unsuitable here.

Answer: B

The word that fits is 'strong'. A river current is described as strong when it has great force, which makes it hard to row a boat against it. 'Heavy' is used for weight or rain, not for the force of a current. 'Great' describes size or importance and is not used in this collocation, and 'durable' means lasting a long time, which has nothing to do with the force of water.

Answer: A

The correct word is 'clean'. After 'made' in the sense of forcing someone to do something, the verb that follows takes the bare infinitive, without 'to': 'Mother made me clean the room thoroughly'. The structure also matches the parallel verb 'fold' in the same sentence. 'Cleaned' is a past form, 'to clean' wrongly adds 'to' after made, and 'cleaning' would need a different construction.

Answer: B

The word that fits is 'still'. In 'Anne was still angry when she reached home' the word 'still' means that she had not stopped being angry. 'Stale' describes food that is no longer fresh, 'till' is a preposition or conjunction that needs a following time, and 'vastly' means to a great extent and does not go with a state of mind in this way. So 'still' is correct.

Answer: A

The word 'realistic' fits the blank. 'Be realistic in approach with time management' means to set practical aims about time. The words 'imaginative', 'fictional' and 'invented' all stand for what is not real or practical, and the phrase 'in approach with time management' calls for a practical attitude, so they do not fit.

Answer: C

The word 'inception' completes the sentence. 'Before the inception of dedicated Night mode' means before it began or was introduced. 'Conception' means forming an idea and 'realization' means understanding or achieving something, and neither goes with a feature being introduced in phones. 'Conservation' means protection of resources. So 'inception' is the correct word.

Answer: B

The preposition is 'at'. We say 'at the end of March' for a point of time, as in 'at the end of the month'. 'On' is used with days and dates, 'in' with months and years as a whole ('in March'), and 'by' means not later than a time, which does not make sense with 'birthday is'. So 'at' is right.