Error Spotting & Sentence Completion || VARC || MH-CET 2021 II 24 June

Direction: Out of the five statements given below, only one is grammatically correct. Choose the correct statement as your answer.

Theresa May has __________________ over the Brexit bill after Conservative rebels accepted significant concessions from the government.
I. narrowly avoided a humiliating defeat
II. circumvented a shameful loss
III. painstakingly achieved a victory

Jitendra thinks that he can solve the baffling puzzle, but I can guarantee that he has been ____________.
I. barking at the wrong tree
II. barking up the wrong tree
III. barking on the wrong tree

The climate for journalism in India has grown steadily adverse in the last year, __________________.
I. concludes the India Freedom Report 2017 by the independent media website the Hoot.
II. with a host of perpetrators made reporters and photographers, even editors, fair game as there were murders, attacks, threats, and cases filed against them for defamation, sedition, and internet-related offenses.
III. although the Indian media is expected to play the role of the fourth estate.

In unvaccinated children who get serious cases of diphtheria, the toxin spreads through the bloodstream and __________. 
 I. causes life-threatening damage to heart and kidneys, nerve damage and paralysis.
II. one of 10 children who get diphtheria dies from it.
III. cause tetanus which may develop headaches, and have spasms and a tightening of the jaw muscle, which is why this disease is called “lockjaw”.

Banks may be compelled to engage in a quick-fire sale of stressed assets ___________.
 I. due to arbitrary deadlines on the resolution process.
II. since this will work against the interests of lenders looking to get the best price for their stressed assets.
III. unless the government can solve this problem, the bad loan problem is likely to remain unresolved for some time to come.