Fill in the Blanks - XI

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. For some years past, French governments had been .................. and divided, and French parliaments had been incoherent and..............
(a) inarticulate, responsive
(b) untable, domineering
(c) weak, inchoate
(d) many, few
(e) vacillating, irresponsible
Ques 2. Scientific imagination is a specific intellectual power that is ..................... in every population that has learned to be ................... about the mechanisms governing the physical world.
(a) encouraged, wary
(b) evoked, self-deprecatory
(c) latent, curious
(d) growing, self-possessed
(e) language, diffident
Ques 3. In diplomatic .................. the ................. sought by on government from another to the name of a proposed ambassador is known as an “agreement.”
(a) dealing, understandings
(b) parlance, assent
(c) circles, permission
(d) channels, condition
(e) language, interpretation
Ques 4. Camille Pissarro, eldest of France’s great impressionist ................ that included Monet, Manet, Rennoir, and Degas, was both the movement’s ......... and its saint.
(a) cabal, doyen
(b) sodality, gadfly
(c) entity, defector
(d) hierarchy, patriarch
(e) brotherhood, demon
Ques 5. The westerlies normally cross the United States at altitudes from 10,000 to 50,000 feet along the Canadian border, acting as a ............... to Arctic winds and giving the Middle Atlantic States relatively ..............winters.
(a) counterpart, unsettled
(b) propellant, mild
(c) counterpart, unsettled
(d) buffer, temperate
(e) deterrent, cold

Ques 6. But even Mr. Moses, one of the most ......... public servants of our time, is at a loss to convey in words the size, the imaginative engineering............. that built this contribution to the welfare of family and industry.
(a) tongue-tied, miracle
(b) dedicated, appositeness
(c) unappreciated, technique
(d) public-spirited, skill
(e) articulate, ingenuity
Ques 7. Among the younger people there are complaints that the sight of ex-Nazis flourishing recommends ......... to youth, that it instills, instead of needed moral values, the dubious precept that ............. is the best policy.
(a) precepts, intolerance
(b) desperation, dishonesty
(c) emulation, honesty
(d) cynicism, expediency
Ques 8. Even as ................. machines free men from drudgery, they .................... displace men from jobs.
(a) automated, simultaneously
(b) robotlike, unwillingly
(c) animated, ineluctably
(d) accelerated, seemingly
(e) antiquate, understandably
Ques 9. To cross the Rubicon means to take a final ......... step which may have dangerous .......... .
(a) hazardous, precedent
(b) unwarranted, potentialities
(c) inconsequential, concomitants
(d) well-considered, implications
(e) irrevocable, consequences
Ques 10. 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
Ques 11. For nearly a century the ........... travellers chech has been the nearest thing to an internationals currency yet devised by man, and has guided generations of Americans and other tourists through the ...... of foreign exchange.
(a) useful, excesses
(b) surreptitious, complexities
(c) plausible, maze
(d) sacrosanct, fluctuations
(e) ubiquitous, labyrinth
Ques 12. If it were true that enduring lesson are learned from ..................... errors, Broadway would be the repository of.............. theatrical wisdom.
(a) accidental, occult
(b) egregius, sublime
(c) dubious, profound
(d) dramatic, lasting
(e) stupid, attennuated

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