Fill in the Blanks Questions and Answers

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.

Answer: D

The preposition is 'within'. 'She will graduate within 2 years' means not later than two years from now. 'Longer' is not a preposition, 'since' needs a past point of time, and 'between' needs two points to be named. So 'within' is the only option that fits.

Answer: C

Script is the written form of a language: the alphabet and the system of symbols by which the language is put in writing. So script and language are closely related, since a language is written in a script. Music, education and games may use language, but they are not related to it in the same direct way, and a sentence beginning with 'Script and language are closely related' is the natural reading. The answer is script, option C.

Scripts such as Devanagari, Roman and Brahmi are systems of writing for languages, and a language can change its script, as Turkish moved from Arabic to Roman letters in 1928.

Answer: B

The first sentence says that books and television are different, and the second says that ______ of them should replace the other. The sense is that no one of the two should take the place of the other, so the word that fits is 'neither', since 'neither of them' means not the one and not the other. 'None' is used for more than two things, 'either of them' would mean that one or the other should replace the other, which is the opposite, and 'both' would make no sense since each would replace itself. The answer is neither, option B.

Answer: D

The sentence says that another meeting is arranged in two weeks, and ______ the problem is getting worse. The word needed shows two things going on at the same time: in the time before the meeting, the problem becomes worse. 'Meanwhile' means in the time between, so it fits. 'Hence' and 'therefore' show a result, but the worsening problem is not the result of arranging a meeting, and 'because' would make the meeting the effect of the worsening and does not fit the grammar of the sentence. The answer is meanwhile, option D.