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Welcome to Online English Section with explanation in AffairsCloud.com. Here we are creating question sample in FILL IN THE BLANK, which is BASED ON IBPS PO/CLERK/LIC AAO/RRB & SSC CGL EXAM and other competitive exams.

  1. Noting that “an issue like this has arisen never before”, the Supreme Court on Monday decided to hear arguments for _______to a Constitution Bench a plea challenging the restriction on women aged between 10 and 50 years to enter the ________Sabarimala temple in Kerala.
    1) causing, obscure
    2) blocking, noted
    3) referring, famed
    4) accusing, famous
    5) alluding, unknown
    Answer – 3)
    Explanation : referring, famed

  2. The water level in the Godavari _________near the danger mark at Bhadrachalam town with all its tributaries in spate in the upper reaches of the river posing flood threat to around 19 villages comprising several riverside _________in Bhadrachalam division.
    1) hovered, habitations
    2) slumped, holes
    3) descended, domiciles
    4) followed, dwellings
    5) lifted, cavities
    Answer – 1)
    Explanation : hovered, habitations

  3. Tense moments_______at the Government Observation Home for Boys in Kellys on Monday afternoon after over 35 _____escaped from the home reportedly following a clash between two groups of boys.
    1) failed, tenants
    2) prevailed, inmates
    3) collapsed, residents
    4) busted, occupants
    5) triumphed, outpatients
    Answer – 2)
    Explanation : prevailed, inmates

  4. The Dowleswaram Barrage started receiving heavy _______from Monday evening and irrigation officials announced the first warning around 7 p.m. and said the second warning could be expected tonight if the water level crossed 11.75 ft. at the_______.
    1) outflows, cannonade
    2) effluences, storm
    3) confluents, twaddle
    4) floods, vacate
    5) inflows, barrage
    Answer – 5)
    Explanation : inflows, barrage
    Cannonade –Intense and continuous artillery fire.

  5. By using computer ________and data collected by the NASA’s Cassini and Huygens mission, researchers have revealed that under Titan-like cold environmental conditions, polyimine is ________and can absorb the sun’s energy and become a possible catalyst for life.
    1)models, flexible
    2) modals, tractable
    3) inferiors, malleable
    4) forms, brittle
    5) patterns, inflexible
    Answer – 1)
    Explanation : models, flexible

  6. Entry of mediocre students into Australia is likely to be ¬¬-_________with new norms making educational institutions responsible for the genuineness of their admissions which will be ________in their ratings.
    1) unlimited, mirrored
    2) limited, unreflect
    3) unrestricted, selected
    4) restricted, reflected
    5) allowed, ignored
    Answer – 4)
    Explanation : restricted, reflected

  7. Malappuram’s experience of adults and young adults being ________to diphtheria infection has prompted doctors and health workers to undertake an_________vaccination campaign.
    1) guarded, exhaustive
    2) invulnerable, complete
    3) vulnerable, intensive
    4) invincible, incomplete
    5) unguarded, extensive
    Answer – 3)
    Explanation : vulnerable, intensive

  8. Commerce and Industry minister Nirmala Sitharaman held talks with her Russian ________Denis Manturov on measures to boost _________trade and investment ties including in sectors such as high-end engineering.
    1) agreement, mutual
    2) collaborator, biased
    3) partner, multilateral
    4) mate, unilateral
    5) counterpart, bilateral
    Answer – 5)
    Explanation : counterpart, bilateral

  9. Google launched a program on Monday to train two million ___________in India on Android, its mobile operating system, in the next three-year period and this is aimed at _________them to make innovative mobile applications on the platform.
    1) contractors, crippling
    2) developers, enabling
    3) creators, disabling
    4) maintainers, disallowing
    5) outliners, allowing
    Answer – 2)
    Explanation : developers, enabling

  10. The court accepted the writ petition filed on behalf of five associated banks of the SBI and ___________the unions (SSBEA and AIBEA) and its members from going _______with the strike, said State Bank of Travancore in a statement.
    1) unrestrained, before
    2) uncontrolled, next
    3) controlled, aback
    4) restrained, ahead
    5) unchecked, after
    Answer – 4)
    Explanation : restrained, ahead
    Restrained – Keep under control; keep in check.





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