NTSE General English - Fill in the Blanks
Exam Duration: 45 Mins Total Questions : 30
However, the group's long-term strategy is to ---------- on the core sector business connected with infrastructure and energy.
- (a)
breed
- (b)
develop
- (c)
concentrate
- (d)
depend
I think they allow their children too much .....
- (a)
liberality
- (b)
latitude
- (c)
lassitude
- (d)
levity
At one point, it looked as if an area of agreement would ...... specially over the issue of productivity linked wages.
- (a)
develop
- (b)
come out
- (c)
emerge
- (d)
grow
Do you know ....... ?
- (a)
where she comes from
- (b)
where does she come from
- (c)
where from she comes
- (d)
from where does she come
He is so ...... that he immediately believe my story of ghosts.
- (a)
innocent
- (b)
credulous
- (c)
vociferous
- (d)
credible
The robbers were arrested and ....... prison yesterday
- (a)
brought into
- (b)
brought to
- (c)
taken into
- (d)
taken to
This book is a useful ..... to our library.
- (a)
discovery
- (b)
asset
- (c)
addition
- (d)
arrival
He is so ..... to light that he never leaves the house without sunglasses.
- (a)
insensitive
- (b)
sensitive
- (c)
afraid
- (d)
immune
The ...... of the Minister's statement cannot be verified by people who have no access to official records.
- (a)
veracity
- (b)
verbosity
- (c)
ambiguity
- (d)
validity
Colgate has also set an ambitious aim of ..... on 8% value shared of tooth paste market by the end of first years .
- (a)
cornering
- (b)
soliciting
- (c)
disturbing
- (d)
keeping
When their examinations are over, the children gleefully ...... the books they had been reading.
- (a)
shelve
- (b)
sidetrack
- (c)
overthrew
- (d)
abandon
Raj is ...... small to start playing cricket now.
- (a)
very
- (b)
much
- (c)
too
- (d)
more
The luggage was ...... heavy for him to lift.
- (a)
much
- (b)
as
- (c)
so
- (d)
too
The pilot had been warned about the storm, before he ......
- (a)
took away
- (b)
took up
- (c)
took over
- (d)
took off
Hardly had he arrived ...... it started raining.
- (a)
before
- (b)
when
- (c)
than
- (d)
after
I ...... a car to be absolutely necessary these days.
- (a)
consider
- (b)
regard
- (c)
think
- (d)
agree
The king ...... the rebel.
- (a)
excused
- (b)
forgave
- (c)
pardoned
- (d)
none of these
I shall call ...... you tomorrow.
- (a)
at
- (b)
on
- (c)
with
- (d)
by
We had a ...... of warm weather in February.
- (a)
time
- (b)
spell
- (c)
length
- (d)
phase
A woman came in with a baby who, she said .........a safety pin.
- (a)
was just swallowing
- (b)
swallowed
- (c)
had just swallowed
- (d)
just swallowed
The Hubble Space Telescope will search for planets around the stars, a key to the ...... extraterrestrial life, and examine interstellar dust and gases out of which stars are born.
- (a)
perception
- (b)
discovery
- (c)
enquiry
- (d)
quest
He is a very careful person; he never takes side but remains.....
- (a)
impartial
- (b)
unbiased
- (c)
neutral
- (d)
prejudiced
This brand of TV is quite inferior ...... that one.
- (a)
than
- (b)
to
- (c)
with
- (d)
over
We had to pay more taxi fare because the driver brought us by a ....... route.
- (a)
circular
- (b)
circumscribed
- (c)
longest
- (d)
circuitous
He was accused .......... stealing his aunt's necklace.
- (a)
for
- (b)
with
- (c)
of
- (d)
on
In a changing and ..... unstructured business environment, creativity and innovation are being ...... demanded of executives.
- (a)
highly, extremely
- (b)
progressively, increasingly
- (c)
increasingly, moderately
- (d)
excessively, rapidly
It being a/an ....... issue, it is not correct to introduce questions of morality in to the debate.
- (a)
moral
- (b)
immoral
- (c)
amoral
- (d)
irrelevant
He is too dull ..... this problem.
- (a)
solving
- (b)
to solving
- (c)
to solve
- (d)
solves
An employment advertisement should ....... the number of vacancies.
- (a)
provide
- (b)
specify
- (c)
contain
- (d)
declare
The criminal seems to have acted in ..... the three others.
- (a)
collusion
- (b)
coalition
- (c)
collision
- (d)
cohesion
