Fill in the blanks & Word Exchange || VARC || MH-CET 2021 II 12 August for CAT & MBA Exams

Question 1

Direction: Two sentences with one blank in each, followed by five alternatives, are given. Choose that option as the answer which can fill both the blanks of both the sentences appropriately.

a) All deck fittings, windows, __________ and doors had been fastened.
b) Had it not been for the tough political circumstances, the intention of the opposition to __________ a plot to assassinate the Pope could have been successful.

Question 2

Direction: Two sentences with one blank in each, followed by five alternatives, are given. Choose that option as the answer which can fill both the blanks of both the sentences appropriately.

a) A way to break the __________ of eating too quickly is to put your knife and fork down after each mouthful.
b) She has a __________ of finishing off other people’s sentences.

Question 3

Direction: Two sentences with one blank in each, followed by five alternatives, are given. Choose that option as the answer which can fill both the blanks of both the sentences appropriately.

a) Trucks that transport construction materials and food now clog the _________ roads.
b) Gabriel strode down the __________ hall to the only open door.

Question 4

Direction: Two sentences with one blank in each, followed by five alternatives, are given. Choose that option as the answer which can fill both the blanks of both the sentences appropriately.

a) I promised to ________-in from time to time as we finished our conversation.
b) Allen had come to the house before she asked Howard to _________ on Yancey.

Question 5

Direction: Two sentences with one blank in each, followed by five alternatives, are given. Choose that option as the answer which can fill both the blanks of both the sentences appropriately.

I. The notion that money makes you happy is a __________ because happiness has nothing to do with wealth.
II. While the business plan sounds good on paper, it is built on the __________ that people will pay thirty dollars to see a movie.

Question 6

Direction: In the given questions, four words are printed in bold and are numbered 1, 2, 3 and 4. Of these, the positions of two of these words may be incorrect and need to be exchanged to make the sentence correct. Find the two words which need to be exchanged. In each case the given sentences is correct, your answer is (E) i.e. 'No exchange required'.

There were signs of rejected (1) from early on but the instructor danger (2) those as mere coincidence, (3) which led to the accident. (4)

Question 7

Direction: In the given questions, four words are printed in bold and are numbered 1, 2, 3 and 4. Of these, the positions of two of these words may be incorrect and need to be exchanged to make the sentence correct. Find the two words which need to be exchanged. In each case the given sentences is correct, your answer is (E) i.e. 'No exchange required'.

The investigation (1) will cast a further shadow on an Indian beer business (2) that already faces stringent tougher (3) and state-level regulation, making it compliance (4) for brewers to expand.

Question 8

Direction: In the given question, four words are printed in bold and are numbered 1, 2, 3 and 4. Of these, the positions of two of these words may be incorrect and need to be exchanged to make the sentence correct. Find the two words which need to be exchanged. In case the given sentence is correct, your answer is (E) i.e. No correction required.

The decision followed the Supreme Court’s liberty (1) that the Governor shall be at observation (2) to decide on the remission application (3) of Perarivalan, one of the convicts (4), “as deemed fit."

Question 9

Direction: In the given question, four words are printed in bold and are numbered 1, 2, 3 and 4. Of these, the positions of two of these words may be incorrect and need to be exchanged to make the sentence correct. Find the two words which need to be exchanged. In case the given sentence is correct, your answer is (E) i.e. No correction required.

We've all come through (1) advertisements when brands take on one another (2), and openly mock the rival brand across (3) print, digital or broadcast media (4).

Question 10

Direction: In the given question, four words are printed in bold and are numbered 1, 2, 3 and 4. Of these, the positions of two of these words may be incorrect and need to be exchanged to make the sentence correct. Find the two words which need to be exchanged. In case the given sentence is correct, your answer is (E) i.e. No correction required.

‘A dragon is no idle fancy,’ (1) wrote Tolkien in 1936, but ‘a potent fantasy (2) of men’s imagination, richer in significance than his barrow is in gold’. The potency (3) has only increased over the last eighty years. Dragons crowd the pages of modern creation; (4) no one needs telling that Daenerys, the Mother of Dragons, holds a crucial place in George R R Martin’s Game of Thrones universe.