Fill in the Blanks - I

In each of the following sentences there are two blank spaces in the given sentences. Below each sentence there are five pair of words denoted by numbers (a), (b), (c), (d) and (e). Find out which pair of words can be filled up in the blanks in the sentence in the same sequence to make the sentence meaningfully complete

Ques 1. Our latest battle plan ...... some projects ....... at saving the earth’s biological diversity.
(a) finishes, stirring
(b) covers, aimed
(c) finances, looking
(d) encloses, looked
(e) excludes, arriving

Ques 2. Unless the authorities adopt the principle .......... the strategies cannot become.......... .
(a) whole-heartedly, successful
(b) fully, defunct
(c) finally, obsolete
(d) legitimately, noteworthy
(e) ligically, trivial

Ques 3. Trying to .......... a team without a good and simple system is like trying to drive a car without a steering wheel ..........
(a) form, working
(b) place, exploratory
(c) organise, empowering
(d) make, guidance
(e) achieve, developmental

Ques 4. .......... members of a group often .......... influence the outcome of a consensus forecast.
(a) Fixed, exert
(b) Majority, rightly
(c) Oral, legitimately
(d) Minority, Inadvertently
(e) Dominant, unduly

Ques 5. Transforming .......... bureaucracies into dynamic, this task of customer-driven organisations is .......... under prevailing circumstances.
(a) ideal, important
(b) lazy, undesirable
(c) inefficient, challenging
(d) civilised, ineffective
(e) lethargic, insurmountable

Answers :
(1) (b),
(2) (a),
(3) (a),
(4) (e),
(5) (c)