Direction (1-10): In each of the following sentence there are two blanks spaces. below each sentence there are five pairs denoted by numbers 1), 2) ,3), 4) and 5). Find out which pair of words can be filled up in the blanks in the sentence in the same sequence to make it meaningfully complete.
1. He will discharge the _________ of the Governor of Mizoram in _________ to his own duties as Governor of West bengal and Bihar.
1. concern, reduction
2. province, loss
3. function, addition
4. operation, withdrawal
5. responsibility, subtraction
2. This highest French civilian _______ was presented by the French Ambassador Francois Richier on _________ of the President of the French Republic.
1. harmony, tact
2. conformity, quality
3. concurrence, unity
4. agreement, division
5. distinction, behalf
3. The Yoga, guru Baba Ramdev was in news _______ State Government of haryana decided to ______ status equivalent to a Cabinet Minister.
1. as, accord
2. on, rapport
3. of, pact
4. for, concert
5. while, opposition
4. On 14 April 2015, Indian e- commerce major Flipkart ________ of discussions with Airtel for joining the Airtel Zero programme which allows users to ______those internet based applications which are registered with Airtel without paying any data charges.
1. continued, conclude
2. pulled out, access
3. get, target
4. take, outlet
5. stay, ingress
5. A day after _________ the new income tax return form with _______ changes like reporting foreign travels and details of all bank accounts, a top finance ministry official said that the new form will be reviewed and revised.
1. notifying, significant
2. circulating, denoting
3. withholding, minor
4. collecting, trivial
5. mentioning, rich
6. There is a _______ shift underway in manufacturing, _______ out The Economist.
1. paradigm, points
2. inferior, put
3. unbiased, call
4. legalise, brief
5. vocational, turn
7. The knowledge and service _______ of the final value ________ a manufactured product would go up, and the labour cost would go down.
1. trifling, for
2. disapproval, of
3. content, of
4. equitable, for
5. restriction, in
8. This agrarian crisis ________ in the great famines of 1943 and 1967, following which a major ________ to acquire self-sufficiency in agriculture ushered in the 'Green Revolution' in the 1970s.
1. subordinated, creation
2. rigging, move
3. subjective, mark
4. culminated thrust
5. oppose, call
9. Universities have to not just train manpower but create new knowledge, ________ as ________ of new production ideas.
1. passionate, infirm
2. booming, time
3. burgeoning, right
4. wirth, feel
5. serving, hubs
10. The financial ecosystem must __________ to mediate funds towards knowledge acquisition, knowledge creation and __________ of knowledge into production.
1. evolve, conversion
2. useful, demand
3. excite, transaction
4. exonerate, scramble
5. infirm, affirm
