1.Promising that Metro Rail will ________the northern parts of the city in three years, Chief Minister said that a major portion of Chennai Metro Rail’s ________and underground construction works were completed.
a) cover, shorted
b) cross, lowered
c) abide, lifted
d) traverse, elevated

2.We must prevent endangered wild animal species from becoming __________ in order that our future generation may _______ the great diversity of animal life.
a) rare, escape
b) outdated, know
c) extinct, enjoy
d) powerful, protect

3.Moreover, a fact-finding mission ________ by BSN to India in January this year strongly recommended that the French group should go it alone, and not hand over________ to an Indian partner.
a) constituted, authority
b) retarded, submit
c) sponsored, power
d) dispatched, control

4.The gradual increase in public________ over three days of Premier Futsal now, means the sport, and the fancy, amusing form it’s been presented in, is well __________ up to.
a) turnout, warmed
b) source, known
c) basis, heated
d) cause, confused

5.All India Gems and Jewellery Trade Federation has said that it will conduct workshops in 60 cities across the country to create _______ among jewellers on norms of excise duty________ and other trade related practices.
a) heedlessness, effectuation
b) alertness, defection
c) unawareness, blunder
d) awareness, implementation

6.More_______, even though the two sides have not yet signed the ground rules, they have to_______ by it in Punjab, Rajasthan and Gujarat since there is practically nothing else to go by.
a) aberrant, quit
b) anomalistic, resist
c) curiously, abide
d) anomalous, shun

7.International Monetary Fund (IMF) chief Christine Lagarde says that Britain’s vote to quit the European Union (EU) has _______significant uncertainty into the global economy but is nevertheless unlikely to cause a world_________.
a) removed, regression
b) injected, recession
c) detached, retrocession
d) adjoined, progress

8.Despite chest-thumping about diversity and difference, displayed in Republic Day parades and other________ that showcase nationalism, Indians seem to take________ in and demand some level of homogeneity.
a) occasions, pride
b) sporadic, docility
c) functions, meekness
d) events, mortification

9.Is it the pollution that makes many__________people reach for masks every time they step out of their homes?
a) pitfall
b) protected
c) precipice
d) vulnerable

10.Any kind of ethnocentrism, fostered by pride in the self and in________ towards others, only divides people, not unites them in their________.
a) respect, similarity
b) prejudices, diversity
c) fairness, identicalness
d) justice, sameness