Choose the right option :
1. As the boat __________ all those onboard fortunately managed to reach the bank of the river __________ with the help of the life boats.
(a)capsized, drowned
(b)fell,, harmlessly
(c)dropped, uninjured
(d) deceased, unhurt
(e) sank,, safely
2. Ashima __________ her team with a lot of skill and the__________ Increase In the sales by the team is a measure of her success.
(a)dominates, poor
(b)condemns, sudden
(c)manages, significant
(d)directs, worthless
(e)overpowers, exceptional
3. On being asked for the passport he __________ to his dismay that he had __________ to bring it along with him to the airport.
(a)shocked, failed
(b)realized, forgotten
(c)pleaded, neglected,
(d)understood, lost
(e)recognized, missed
4. Helen quickly __________ the career ladder and is now the __________ managing director, the company has ever appointed.
(a) Jumped, shortest
(b) entered,, oldest
(c)started, Junior most
(d)climbed, youngest
(e)ascended, inexperienced
5. A famous economist says that the government should do more to __________ jobs in the area in order to curb the __________ rate of unemployment.
(a)create, rising
(b)need, increasing
(c)employ, high
(d)invent, growing.,
(e)generate – slowing
6. Centre should __________ministries, whose functions __________ with the state ministries to save money, deliver efficiency and avoid duplication of work.
(a) finish, diffe
(b)establish, contradict
(c)constitute, matches
(d)abolish, overlap
(e)block, vary
7. Many people __________ genetically modified food but the reality is that all the food that we eat has been genetically modified naturally by thousands of years of __________
(a)praise, manipulation
(b)grow, mismanagement
(c)criticize, farming
(d)avoid, experience
(e)condemn, abuse
8. Given that only seven percent of the country’s labor force the organised sector, training options __________for the unorganized sectors should also be__________
(a)available, enhanced
(b)absent, improved
(c)lacking, sustained
(d)existing, restricted .
(e)offered, limited
9. Government initiatives and participation of many industrial houses in __________ loans to the villager have led to the __________ of the farmers.
(a)providing, plight
(b)disbursing, betterment
(c)denying, revitalization
(d) subsidizing, suffering,
(e) taking, advancement
10. Indians will __________one fourth of total work force in the next five years but India needs to introspect whether its education system is __________ for these demographic dividends.
(a)become, adequate
(b)consist, incompetent
(c)constitute, unequipped
(d)represent, sound
(e) comprise, prepared
