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Welcome to D2G’s English Quiz.
Petty local rivalries have combined with national-level politicking to create an embarrassing situation for Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy: after being invited to preside over a function where Prime Minister Narendra Modi was to ____(1)____ the statue of former Chief Minister R. Sankar, Mr. Chandy was asked to stay away by the organisers, who have formed an alliance with the Bharatiya Janata Party. Whether or not this was done at the ____(2)____ of senior leaders of the BJP, it is clear that the organisers, the Sree Narayana Dharma Paripalana (SNDP) Yogam, a Hindu backward class outfit, will need to take a major part of the blame for putting the Kerala Chief Minister in an awkward position. But, neither the BJP nor the Prime Minister’s Office could have been ____(3)____ of the decision to keep the Chief Minister out. While the statue unveiling was a private function, and the Chief Minister was not required to be invited, it was highly improper to have asked Mr. Chandy to skip the function citing silly excuses after having first invited him. Both the SNDP and the Congress can lay claim to the political legacy of Sankar who served in leadership capacities in the two organisations. But with the SNDP moving towards the BJP, the fight for Sankar’s legacy seems to have got complicated in recent times. Over the days leading up to the unveiling of the statue, the Sangh Parivar had attempted to dig up information about Sankar’s links with the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh in his formative years.____(4)____, for both the SNDP and the BJP, to have a Congress Chief Minister preside over the function would have diminished the political dividends that could be expected from projecting Sankar as a Hindu, backward class Ezhava icon. Whatever the excuses given by SNDP leader Vellappally Natesan to Mr. Chandy, the fact remains that a Congress Chief Minister on the dais would have been politically ____(5)____ for the SNDP and the BJP.
1.
a) publish
b) divulge
c) unveil
d) present
2.
a) behest
b) bidding
c) desired
d) mindful
3.
a) aware
b) conscious
c) witting
d) unaware
4.
a) Apparently
b) palpably
c) Evidently
d) Seemingly
5.
a) convenient
b) inconvenient
c) Comfortable
d) suitable
D.1-10) In the following passage, there are blanks, each of which has been numbered. These numbers we printed below the passage and against each, five words are suggested. One of which fits the blank appropriately. Find out the appropriate word in each case.
Recently the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) ___(1)___ separate reports on poverty. The World Bank report ___(2)___ its benchmark of extreme poverty by 25 cents from $1 per person per day to $1.25 per person a day. The ADB announced an even ___(3)___ benchmark of $ 1.35 per person a day. These new benchmarks are ___(4)___ on surveys in the world’s poorest countries. Experts often like to ___(5)___ that poverty has declined because of economic growth in India and China. This is wrong and ___(6)___In the past twenty-five years the poverty rate in India has ___(7)___ by less than one percentage point a year___(8)___we use a poverty line of $1 per person per day or $1.25 per person per day makes little___(9)___. The number of poor is India is large. The purpose of these statistics is not to dispute, them but to ___(10)___ whether the benefits of economic growth art being shared with the poor.
1)
a) declared
b) released
c) print
d) Issue
e) publish
2)
a) heightened
b) announced
c) raised
d) maintained
e) notified
3)
a) batter
b) significant
c) plausible
d) higher
e) lower
4)
a) based
b) collected
c) inferred
d) derived
e) gathered
5)
a) realise
b) claim
c) discover
d) recommend
e) criticise
6)
a) adverse
b) opposing
c) corrupt
d) rejected
e) misleading
7)
a) deplete
b) plunge
c) declined
d) weaken
e) fell
8)
a) Unless
b) Despite
c) instead
d) Whether
e) Regardless
9)
a) difference
b) effect
c) contrast
d) question
e) option
10)
a) acknowledge
b) suggest
c) care
d) inspire
e) study
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