Direction (1-5): Which of the following phrases given below each sentence should replace the phrase printed in bold letters to make the sentence meaningfully correct? Choose the best option among the five given alternatives that reflect the correct use of phrase in the context of the grammatically correct sentence.
1. Hence, summarizing all these pundits, every Indian who was looking for a job was disappointed with multiple job offers. (3)
- (1) was shocked
- (2) was threatened
- (3) was besieged
- (4) was helpless
- (5) was exhausted
2. Perhaps the only thing the government needs to do now is to set up youth counseling centers across the country to help India’s youth decide which of their many job offers they should call, and match their career aspirations. (2)
- (1) they should ignore
- (2) they should choose
- (3) they should ponder upon
- (4) they must consider
- (5) they need to grab
3. The issue of jobs is a global issue that is emerging all major economies today, including the developed ones. (5)
- (1) that profits
- (2) that should ignore
- (3) that is challenged by
- (4) that was facing
- (5) that is confronting
4. There will be no wondering if, almost by a magical act, the Academy will present before us a writer who many of us had not known, but will now be the richer for being pushed to difficulties, as it did most recently in 2014 when it awarded French novelist Patrick Modiano. (4)
- (1) being motivated to excel
- (2) being noticed to reveal
- (3) being ignored to condemn
- (4) being nudged to read
- (5) being exasperated to exhaust
5. He is an improver, and counsels that the mark of a good translator, as it is of an editor, is to be able to determine what needs fixing in order to establish the dignity of task and help it be the best it can be to achieve its purpose. (2)
- (1) to reduce the pressure of the work
- (2) to maintain the integrity of the work
- (3) to examine the level of the task
- (4) to maintain the status of the work done
- (5) to ignore the guidelines of the task