Paragraph Completion Exercise - III

In each of the following questions a short passage is given with one of the lines in the passage missing and represented by a blank. Select the best answer choices given, to make the passage complete.

Paragraph 1.
__________________________________________________________. A family that creates the kind of free-from-gender-limits environment our women leaders grew up in, will be empowering her to be a leader.

(A) This was a decision with formidable ramifications. In her ethnic group, bearing the name of her grandmother is more than symbolic.
(B) Consequently, her grandmother’s will for Joyce to become something else, to have a different life, was strong.
(C) The ideas were suggested by Joyce, many of these things did not happen.
(D) ‘You go girl’ is a proven hypothesis and a real lesson for the parents and other relatives of young girls.
Answers :
Option- (D) is correct
It suits the meaning and context of the paragraph.

Paragraph 2.
The European economy has performed significantly better than expected this year__________________ .
I. propelled by resilient private consumption, stronger growth around the world, and falling unemployment.
II. Investment is also picking up amid favourable financing conditions and considerably brightened economic sentiment as uncertainty has faded.
III. but the expansion will slow somewhat next year as well as in 2019.

(A) Only I and III
(B) Only II and III
(C) Only III
(D) All of the above
Answers :
Correct Option: A
The European economy has performed significantly better than expected this year, propelled by resilient private consumption, stronger growth around the world, and falling unemployment.
This is contextually meaningful and hence correct.

Paragraph 3.
While, in a sign that the economy remains robust, consumer inflation picked up pace_________________.
I. Some analysts expect price pressure as the government’s crackdown on smog hurts factory output.
II. Beijing is already in the second year of a campaign to reduce high levels of debt, keeping liquidity conditions relatively tight as it seeks to flush out speculative financing.
III. Growth, however, has remained strong this year, thanks to a construction boom that has driven up raw materials prices and in part fed inflationary pressures.

(A) Only I
(B) Only I and III
(C) Only III
(D) None of the above
Answers :
Correct Option: E
The original fragment conveys that growth remains robust. However, the second fragment also states the same but uses however to indicate that the previous fragment conveys the opposite.
This does not make sense and is incorrect.

Paragraph 4.
The communist movement that eventually gave birth to the Russian Revolution ________________.
I. Was premised on the promise of power to the people.
II. Gave rise to a bureaucracy, the rationale of which was to maintain the regime perpetrated by the communist party.
III. Has distilled the revolution – and the idea of revolution more generally – into a single frightening adjective: totalitarianism.

(A) Only I and III
(B) Only I and II
(C) Only II
(D) Only I
Answers :
Correct Option: B
This is dis-jointed. The Communist movement along with distilled do not make sense together. This is incorrect.