English Practice Sheet-5
( TARGET-IBPS-PO 2018)
Directions (1-5): Each question below has two blanks, each blank indicating that something has been omitted. Choose the set of words for each blank which best fits the meaning of the sentence as a whole.
Q1. The actress’____ from a chilled out girl off-screen to an intense actor on screen in just a few minutes is ____ amazing.
(a) change, improperly
(b) revolution, just
(c) transformation, simply
(d) adjustment, really
(e) renovation, truthfully
Q2. Considering the ____ of the city to chemical and industrial disasters, the State disaster management authority has decided to constitute an expert study group to analyze all possible threats and suggest_____ to make the city ‘disaster-resilient’.
(a) Vulnerability, measures
(b) Propensity, sketches
(c) Volatility, plans
(d) Regularity, preparations
(e) Instability, maps
Q3. Despite the collapse of efforts to legislate a climate bill, the country has ___international negotiators it remains _____ to reducing carbon emissions over the next ten years.
(a) entrusted, obligated
(b) promised, averse
(c) declared, ignorant
(d) Assured, committed
(e) pledged, attentive
Q4. ____by other singers and musicians, the singer sang his heart out and even __ the young newcomers during their act.
(a) Helped, smiled
(b) Accompanied, cheered
(c) Created, judged
(d) Stopped, applauded
(e) Assisted, greeted
Q5. The health officials were told to ____ the medical officials practitioners about the treatment and immediate medical ___ to be given to swine flu patients.
(a) inform, assistance
(b) enlist, backing
(c) dissuade, aid
(d) apprise, emergency
(e) encourage, help
SOLUTIONS:
1. (c) transformation, simply
2. (a) Vulnerability (Noun) = weakness.
3. (d) assured, committed
4. (b) Accompanied, cheered
5. (e) encourage, help
Directions (6-10): Each question below has two blanks, each blank indicating that something has been omitted. Choose the set of words for each blank which best fits the meaning of the sentence as a whole.
Q6. We can feel morally ____ when someone insults us-as long as we do not ____ upon those feelings by burning down houses.
(a) Challenged, stand
(b) outraged, act
(c) bound, build
(d) obliged, think
(e) violated, harp
Q7. Human beings are biological ___ they need to be grounded in time and place or else they come ____ .
(a) things, forward
(b) souls, back
(c) organisms, unhinged
(d) features, undone
(e) creatures, again
Q8. ___ their golden years of love and togetherness, the couple ____ all their guests at their fiftieth wedding anniversary.
(a) Celebrating, welcomed
(b) Remembering, asked
(c) Rejoicing promised
(d) Commemorating brought
(e) Observing, greeted
Q9. Since it does not have the ____ to do anything beyond sending out notices; the corporation has now decided to take steps to attach movable properties such as cars so that people take the notices more :
(a) authority, appropriately
(b) influence, justly
(c) guts, sincerely
(d) pressure, gravely
(e) power, seriously
Q10. A new law has been passed stating that no actor would be allowed to shoot beyond twelve hours in a day and those who ____ this norm would henceforth be ____ for it.
(a) followed, punished
(b) accompanied, reprimanded
(c) flouted, penalized
(d) defied, applauded
(e) obeyed, disciplined
SOLUTIONS:
6. (b) Out raged (Adjective) = over shocked and angry.
7. (e) creatures, again
8. (a) Celebrating, welcomed
9. (e) Power, seriously
10. (c) Flout (Verb) = defy; to show that you have no respect for a low.
Directions (11-15): Each question below has two blanks, each blank indicating that something has been omitted. Choose the set of words/phrases for each blank that best fits the meaning of the sentence as a whole.
Q11. __ is China the world’s most populous country, with nearly 1.3 billion people, it is also the world’s fastest-growing economy, ___more than fourfold every year.
(a) Not only-expanding
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(b) Merely- developing
(c) Hardly- growing
(d) Surprisingly- flourishing
(e) An example- evolving
Q12. Bangalore has ___ beyond recognition into an IT-propelled metropolis from a laidback city that it ___.
(a) changed – is
(b) developed - should be
(c) constructed - used to be
(d) progressed - claims to be
(e) morphed - once was
Q13. While the agricultural revolution ___ the earth’s surface, the Industrial Revolution is changing the earth’s : ''
(a) changed -as well
(b) suffered – air
(c) benefited-condition
(d) transformed –atmosphere
(e) predicted- circumstances
Q14. The findings of a recent study to ___ the factors which influence successful primary school completion ___ that extreme poverty is responsible for ninety percent of the school dropout cases.
(a) study – proves
(b) establish-examine
(c) construct – show
(d) explore- reveal
(e) reveal - object to
Q15. ____ the concept of environmentally sustainable development ____a quarter-century ago, there is not a single country today which has a strategy to build an eco-economy.
(a) even though- built
(b) although-evolved
(c) besides- took shape
(d) after- still
(e) though-created
SOLUTIONS:
11. (a) Not only- expanding
12. (e) Morp(Verb) = to change into something different.
13. (d) transformed - atmosphere
14. (d) explore - reveal
15. (b) Although-evolved
