Pick out the most effective word(s) from the given words to fill in the blank to make the sentence meaningfully complete.
The ruling party will have to put its own house ...... order.
Answer: A
Correct answer: In
Put one's house in order is a fixed idiom meaning to settle one's own affairs before criticising others.
No other preposition is possible; into would suggest physical movement, which the idiom does not.
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...... of old paintings is a job for experts.
Answer: C
Correct answer: Restoration
Restoration is the technical word for repairing a painting so that it returns to its original state.
Retrieval is recovering something lost, resurrection is raising the dead, and resumption is starting again after a pause.
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During Diwali the shops are ...... of people.
Answer: B
Correct answer: Full
Full of is the pattern the blank demands, since of people follows.
Crowded would fit the meaning but takes with, and busy and bubbling do not take of at all.
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The paths of glory lead ...... to the grave.
Answer: B
Correct answer: But
The line is from Gray's Elegy: the paths of glory lead but to the grave, where but means only.
Straight, directly and in all give a plain sense but lose the restriction - the point is that glory leads nowhere else.
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The telephone ...... several times before I answered it.
Answer: C
Correct answer: Had rung
The ringing was complete before the answering, and both are in the past, so the earlier action takes the past perfect.
Was ringing and would ring do not mark the sequence, and has rung ties a past event to the present, which before I answered forbids.
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He passed the examination in the first class because he ......
Answer: C
Correct answer: had worked hard for it
The passing came after the work, so the earlier action needs the past perfect.
Worked hardly means the opposite - hardly means scarcely, not diligently. The two continuous forms fail to place the work before the result.
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Jawaharlal spent his childhood ...... Anand Bhawan.
Answer: A
Correct answer: At
A named house or institution is treated as a point on the map, so it takes at: at Anand Bhawan.
In would refer to the inside of the building rather than to the place, and on and across are impossible with a house.
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If negotiations are to prove fruitful, there must not only be sincerity on each side, but there must also be ...... in the sincerity of the other side.
Answer: A
Correct answer: Faith
The sentence needs a noun that takes in, and faith in is the natural pairing with sincerity.
Belief is close but reads awkwardly beside sincerity, and substance and certainty do not describe trust in another party.
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I hate sitting ...... him as he always smells of garlic.
Answer: D
Correct answer: Beside
Beside means at the side of; besides means in addition to. Only the first makes sense of sitting next to someone.
Along and at cannot govern a person in this way.
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Some regions of our country still remain ...... to the average man.
Answer: A
Correct answer: inaccessible
Regions that cannot be reached are inaccessible, and the word takes to, which the sentence supplies.
Impenetrable describes something that cannot be got through, such as a forest, rather than a region one cannot get to; impermeable is about liquids, and impossible does not take to the average man in this sense.
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