Directions(1-5): Each question below has some blanks, each blank indicating that something has been omitted. Find out which option can be used to fill up the blanks in the sentence in the same sequence to make it meaning complete. (Source: The Hindu)
1. Fast moving consumer goods companies ________ a slowdown in spending as consumers turned ________ in November due to a cash ________ following the Centre’s demonetisation move. (2)
- (1) harnessed, precocious, flow
- (2) witnessed, cautious, crunch
- (3) challenged, novice, deposit
- (4) plunged, carefree, munch
- (5) felt, horrid, pose
2. If power and position were all that ________, SP supremo might have been able to more evenly distribute the ________ of office and quickly end the crisis ________ his party. (4)
- (1) caters, work, engaging
- (2) matter, issue, loathed
- (3) shatter, causes, demeaning
- (4) mattered, loaves, engulfing
- (5) serious, issues, managing
3. Mr. Obama’s________ will have long-term ________ for U.S.-Russia ties. The rising tensions have ________ fears of a new Cold War. (1)
- (1) policy, implications, reignited
- (2)policies, diction, regained
- (3) agenda, jurisdiction, resolved
- (4) attitude, effect, engaged
- (5) simplicity, ties, rejoiced
4. There is a ________ of interests for Turkey and Russia in finding a peaceful solution. Having seen the U.S. ________ in Iraq and Afghanistan, Russia doesn’t want to get ________ in Syria. (3)
- (1) happening, agenda, involved
- (2) compulsion, manifestation, indulged
- (3) convergence, interventions, stuck
- (4) moderation, agenda, struck
- (5) showbiz, people, struck
5. It is not surprising that Ms. Sasikala lacks popular ________ . Over the last two decades, her ________ over the party and State politics has been carefully and almost wholly ________ from the backroom. (5)
- (1) interest, subject, evacuated
- (2)belief, issues, interspersed
- (3) content, hold, rectified
- (4) hold, interest, into
- (5) appeal, influence, orchestrated