Directions (1-5): In each of the following sentence, there are two blank spaces. Below the sentences, there are five options and the blanks are is to be filled with the pair of words given below to make the sentences correct. Fill up the sentences with the correct word.
Q1. (I) The girls recalled their time in jail and ……………… not going to school. Had they been educated they would have been able to argue their case with the police.
(II) Three boys ……………… in an abandoned stone quarry that was filled with water after the recent spell of rain in Mannur village in Belagavi taluk on Sunday.
(a) rebuked, sank
(b) regretted, drowned
(c) reprieved, wetted
(d) apologized, drowned
(e) rebuked, floated
Q2. (I) Seven railway employees, including two engine drivers and three carriage repairing staff, have been placed under…………………
(II) Dalit Mahasabha is planning to stage a series of protests and ……………… in the State this month
(a) suspension, agitations
(b) comprehension, proceedings
(c) apprehension, rallies
(d) skepticism, marching
(e) suspension, proceedings
Q3. (I) Certainly, for all the ……………… calculations that guided Opposition parties and the government at different points to have the Houses disrupted, eventually neither benefits.
(II) A special session before the monsoon session to finish pending business has been ………………..
(a) estimated, solved
(b) complicated, unargued
(c) expeditious, debatable
(d) tentative, simple
(e) expedient, mooted
Q4. (I) But his supporters as well as several international observers have raised questions about the judiciary’s ……………..
(II) The evidence against him is the testimony of an executive of the company, which ………………… got as part of a plea bargain.
(a) stand, conspirators
(b) instance, officials
(c) stance, prosecutors
(d) instance, workers
(e) stand, generals
Q5. (I) Lazing headlines and accounts that followed told us how many people had been killed and injured, about ……………….. acts of arson, of the blocking of trains, closure of shops and the calling in of Central forces in some States.
(II) Affirmative action policies centering on the politics of presence have certainly ………………… to the repair of historical wrongs.
(a) uncountable, collected
(b) invulnerable, participated
(c) innumerable, indulged
(d) innumerable, contributed
(e) numerable, involved
Solutions:
S1. Ans.(b)
Sol. (I) regretted means to be felt sorry. Thus, the accused girls regretted for the act done by them.
(II) drowned means to die from suffocation while immersed in water or other fluid. And,the boys drowned in an abandoned stone quarry.
Sink– to descend or submerge
S2. Ans.(a)
Sol. (I) suspension means act of suspending. Thus, the mentioned staff were placed under the suspension.
(II) agitation means commotion. And, the party here is panning for protest and agitation.
skepticism– doubt
S3. Ans.(e)
Sol. (I) expedient means advisable or desirable. Here, calculations were too expedient.
(II) mooted means debated.
expeditious– speedy
S4. Ans.(c)
Sol. (I) stance means stand or opinion. Thus, here we are talking about the judiciary’s stance i.e. opinion.
(II) prosecutors means the one who do prosecution.
S5. Ans.(d)
Sol. (I) innumerable here refers to the acts of the arsons which caused lots of destruction in the state.
(II) contributed here fits best because the affirmative action policies which have been talked about in the context, have contributed to the repair of the historical wrongs.
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