New Pattern Fill in the Blanks – Practice Exercise questions for Type 2 (Double Blanks)

New Pattern Fill in the Blanks – Practice Exercise questions for Type 2 (Double Blanks)

Choose the appropriate pair of words from the options to suitably fill the blanks in each of the sentences given below so that the sentences make sense, both grammatically and contextually.

1. When you are living with your……values and principles, you can be straightforward, honest and…………..

a) Core, upfront

b) inherited, distinct

c) innate, durable

d) cultural, perceptive

e) inborn, vehement

2. Leadership is one of the world’s oldest…….The understanding of leadership has figured strongly in the …….for knowledge

a) Cultures, desire

b) institutions passion

c) preoccupations, quest

d) subjects, preference

e) undertakings, conviction

3. Tourism has been…….as the …….largest source of foreign exchange earnings

a) established, evolving

b) recognized, single

c) developed, durable

d) projected, valuable

e) appreciated, preparatory

4. The spirit of the New year Eve’s celebration was_______ by the downpour of rains, much to their_______.

(a) aggravated, delight

(b) fired up, joy

(c) dampened, chagrin

(d) blown out, valour

5. In…….democracies matters of national importance are……..without a trace of politics

a) global, listed

b) Perpetual, discussed

c) mature, debated

d) prolific, focused

e) durable, questioned

6. I don’t _______ I shall be _____ to go.

(a) now, able

(b) consider, desirous

(c) think, able

(d) believe, liking

(e) feel, available

7. No organization can hope to…………and grow which has ……….its utility to the society

a) establish, short-lived

b) exist, outlived

c) build, surrendered

d) enlight, relegated

e) function, outnumbered

8. _________ the activities of moneylenders could have an adverse impact on those who ______ access to bank credit.

(a) Encouraging, enjoying

(b) Permitting denied

(c) Confining, entitled

(d) Curbing, lack

(e) cost, value

9. The government has decided not to make any ________ changes in the country’s tax ______.

(a) sweeping, regime

(b) transparent, hike

(c) drastically, net

(d) constitutional, revenue

(e) requirement, necessities

10. The RBI has _________ a statement that the implementation of KYC forms should not lead to the denial of banking _______to customers.

(a) released, asset

(b) issued, services

(c) drafted, clearing

(d) made, tariff

(e) Permitting, denied

11. The new scheme _______ all persons with disabilities defined __________ the Disabilities Act.

(a) discriminates, according

(b) recognizes, beneath

(c) profits, within

(d) covers, under

(e) Encouraging, enjoying

12. The speech ____ with subtle threats has resulted in ______ tension in the sensitive areas of the city.

(a) started, reduced

(b) replete, increased

(c) full, escalating

(d) forced, dissolving

(e) followed, continuous

13. A good management will decide not only the ________ for equipment but also its ____________ for deciding priorities.

(a) need, urgency

(b) usefulness, utility

(c) cost, value

(d) requirement, necessities

(e) deliberate, attracts

14. He is so ____ that everyone is always ______ to help in his work.

(a) helpful, reluctant

(b) aloof, cooperative

(c) adamant, enthusiastic

(d) miserly, ignorant

(e) magnanimous, eager

15. Students who wish to make a career in commerce must be _______ thinkers with a _____ interest in Maths, good reasoning skills and numerical ability.

(a) Rational, keen

(b) Rational , low

(c) Irrational, keen

(d) Irrational, low

(e) Interested, keen

16. Salary and employee benefits at 48% continue to be the top driver for the Indian workforce while _______ an employer, says a ______ survey.

(a) Choosing, recent

(b) Choosing, old

(c) Rejecting, old

(d) Rejecting, recent

(e) Choosing, new

17. In the educational ______, a bachelor’s degree is not the end of education, it is the first ____ of higher education.

(a) Hierarchy, stage

(b) Level, stage

(c) Edifice, end

(d) Edifice, stage

(e) Level, end

18. When analyzing big data, one needs to use ______ technologies, because the existing resources were not built to handle the ____ of data that we generate today.

(a) New, type

(b) Newer, volume

(c) New, quality

(d) Newer, type

(e) New, volume

19. Remuneration ______ on factors such as knowledge and experience, job ____, profile of the firm etc..

(a) Depends, roles

(b) Depends, role

(c) Considers, salary

(d) Considers, role

(e) Depends, salary

20. Already_____ tensions between the ethnic group and the refugees were ______ last was after fresh riots broke out.

(a)reducing, toned down

(b) low, sparked off

(c) attenuated, driven away

(d) escalating, aggravated

21. In architecture, much more than in any of the other fine arts, there is a marked time lag between the ________ of ideas and their ________ in the shape of completed building.

(a) settlement, fruition

(b) creation, welcoming

(c) tradition, modernization

(d) dawn, practicability

(e) emergence, application

22. Even as ________ machines free men from drudgery, they ____ displace men from jobs.

(a) automated, simultaneously

(b) robot like, unwillingly

(c) animated, ineluctably

(d) accelerated, seemingly

(e) antiquate, understandably

23. Though the Oxford English Dictionary is undoubtedly the greatest dictionary ever ______ it is designed for scholars and research workers rather than for the _______ dictionary user.

(a) assembled, assiduous

(b) demonstrated, amateur

(c) projected, omniscient

(d) published, professional

(e) compiled, casual

24. If you kindly bear _____ me for some time, I shall _____ the whole issue.

(a) out, understand

(b) on, solve

(c) for, know

(d) with, clarify

(e) at, inform

25. The issues could be _________ amicably only because of his __________ handling of the situation.

(a) dropped, haphazard

(b) raised, careful

(c) discussed, enthusiastic

(d) suppressed, emphatic

(e) resolved, tactful