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 ( 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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In the following passage there are blanks, each of which has been numbered. These numbers are printed below the passage and against each, five words are suggested, one of which fits the blank appropriately. Find out the appropriate word in each case.
In economics, the term recession generally describes the reduction of a country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) for at least two quarters. A recession is...( I )...by rising unemployment, increase in government borrowing,...( II )..., of share and stock prices, and falling investment. All of these characteristics have effects on people. Some recessions have been anticipated by stock market declines. The real estate market also usually...( III )...before a recession. During an economic decline, high...( IV )... stocks such as financial services, pharmaceuticals and tobacco...( V )...to hold up better. However, when the economy starts to recover growth, stocks tend to recover faster. There is significant disagreement about how health care and utilities tend to...( VI )... In 2008, an economic recession was suggested by several important indicators of economic downturn. These...( VII )...high oil prices, which led to...( VIII )...high food prices due to a dependence of food production on petroleum, as well as using food crop products such as ethanol and biodiesel as an...( IX )...to petroleum; and global inflation; a substantial credit crisis in which well ...( X )... investment banks as well as commercial banks in various nations came under pressure, and signs of contemporaneous economic downturns in major economics of the world, a global recession.
Choose the best word in place of ( I ) from the given passage
Answer: E
Correct answer: characterized
A recession is characterized by is the standard formula for listing the features that define something, and by after the blank fixes it. Depict and encompass would not take is… by in this way, and imagined and visualized would make the recession a matter of perception.
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Choose the best word in place of ( II ) from the given passage
Answer: D
Correct answer: decrease
The blank sits in a list of the signs of recession, alongside rising unemployment, more government borrowing and falling investment. All of these are bad news, so share and stock prices must fall too. Increase and abundance would break the pattern.
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Choose the best word in place of ( III ) from the given passage
Answer: A
Correct answer: weakens
The real estate market does something before a recession, and everything else in the paragraph points downward. Strengthens reverses it, awakens and initiates do not describe a market's decline, and volatile is an adjective.
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Choose the best word in place of ( IV ) from the given passage
Answer: B
Correct answer: yield
High yield stocks is the term of art for shares that pay large dividends, and the examples given - financial services, pharmaceuticals, tobacco - are the classic defensive, high-yielding sectors.
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Choose the best word in place of ( V ) from the given passage
Answer: C
Correct answer: tend
The sentence says these stocks hold up better as a rule rather than always, and tend to is the phrase for that. Are would need a different complement, and want and yearn credit the stocks with intentions.
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Choose the best word in place of ( VI ) from the given passage
Answer: B
Correct answer: recover
The sentence before says stocks recover faster once growth returns, and this one reports disagreement about health care and utilities - that is, about how they behave in the same recovery. Distribute, wait and fight do not describe the behaviour of a sector.
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Choose the best word in place of ( VII ) from the given passage
Answer: D
Correct answer: included
These refers to the indicators just mentioned, and the blank introduces the list that follows, so it must be a finite past-tense verb meaning comprised. Encompass is present tense and would not agree with the past narrative, and numbered would count them rather than name them.
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Choose the best word in place of ( VIII ) from the given passage
Answer: C
Correct answer: abnormally
The blank modifies the adjective high, so it must be an adverb; fearful, dangerous, healthy and nutritious are all adjectives and cannot modify another adjective.
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Choose the best word in place of ( IX ) from the given passage
Answer: A
Correct answer: alternative
The phrase is an alternative to petroleum, and to after the blank settles it: alternative takes to, whereas substitute takes for. Element and integral do not fit the sense of a replacement fuel.
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