Fill in the Blanks - IX

Each sentence in the questions has one or two blanks, each blank indicates that something has been omitted. Beneath the sentence are four lettered words or sets of words. Choose the word or set of words for each blank that best fits into the meaning of the sentence as a whole

Ques 1. To encourage colonial peoples in their aspirations to attain independence before it is ........ proved that a .............. state will evolve instead of anarchy is unforgivable.
(a) unchanged, formidable
(b) certainty, sympathetic
(c) succinctly, redoubtable
(d) incontrovertibly, viable
(e) unequivocally, mobile
Ques 2. Human memory is not ............. especially on ancienty happenings that smack of the .............. .
(a) infallible, mythological
(b) dependable, simple
(c) confidant, fanciful
(d) reliable, inventive
(e) noteworthy, fanciful
Ques 3. Athletes have so perfected their techniques in track and field events that the ........... becomes ............ before record books can be published.
(a) announcement, public
(b) meet, official
(c) time, authentic
(d) fantastic , commonplace
(e) result, universal
Ques 4. Like the .......... part of an iceberg, much of what is really interesting in the capital is not...... .
(a) inner, known
(b) submerged, visible
(c) greater, dangerous
(d) upper, viable
(e) lower, penetrable
Ques 5. Hence the word sophistry has an unfavourable ......... and means arguing deceitfully, attempting to turn a poor case into a good one by means of clever but ................ reasoning.
(a) denotation, ingenuous
(b) meaning, ingenious
(c) connotation, specious
(d) significance, vague
(e) impact, cogent

Ques 6. He warned the workers against supporting these antisocial policies, which he declared would ............ rather than ............. the plight of the common people.
(a) rescue, destroy
(b) encourage, defy
(c) aggravate, alleviate
(d) empower, improve
(e) protract, inhibit
Ques 7. The defense proposes to show that the incident that the prosecution so ........... rejects as did indeed take place, is indeed historical fact.
(a) blithely, undesirable
(b) cavalierly, apocryphal
(c) cautiously, factual
(d) persuasively, ignorance
(e) positively, inevitable
Ques 8. We have criticized our university students for preferring the security of political silence and the safety of ............ to the excitement of social ............ and humanitarian action.
(a) acquiescence, dissent
(b) college, adventure
(c) concealment, revolution
(d) tolerance, antagonism
(e) security, insecurity
Ques 9. The practice of painting slogans on rock faces, once a thriving industry in Britain, has fallen into ............. but there has recently been a/an ........... in Country Antrim.
(a) oblivion, demand
(b) misuse, artisan
(c) disfavor, puheaval
(d) mediocrity, surfeit
(e) disuse, recrudescence
Ques 10. Curiously enough the very passages which set out to clarify only .........; the details are served up in ................... three-page paragraphs which stupefy the reader.
(a) adumbrate, excessive
(b) obscure, succinct
(c) mystify, stimulating
(d) disturb, compact
(e) obfuscate, monolithic
Ques 11. Oddly enough .............. the prestige of the United States in such countries as Britain, France and Italy is considered important here, Congress has been ............. about supplying funds to the U.S. Information Agency in these countries.
(a) in as much as, chary
(b) since, delaying
(c) while, generous
(d) whereas, wasteful
(e) although, niggardly
Ques 12. The increasing revival of dramatic classics is, to one critic, ............... ; it seems to him a sign of the ............. of the modern theatre.
(a) Inconceivable, revival
(b) deplorable, anemia
(c) suspicious, resurgence
(d) astounding, uselessness
(e) incomprehensible, fatuousness

Answers :
(1) (d), (2) (a), (3) (d), (4) (b), (5) (c),
(6) (c), (7) (b), (8) (a), (9) (e), (10) (e),
(11) (e), (12) (b).