1.The protests were ……… at ……… awareness among the elite and the educated.
a) held, generating
b) aimed, creating
c) targeted, awakening
d) focused, building

2.Cancer expert Harpal Singh Kumar, whose parents __________ to India from Pakistan during partition and later moved to Britain, has been ____________ in a royal honours list that includes several Indian-origin individuals who distinguished themselves in various fields.
a) run away, awarded
b) escape, knight
c) comes, awarded
d) fled, knighted

3.The problems faced by a ____ scholar who wishes to use original source materials that are written in an ____ foreign language.
a) renowned, easy
b) scientific, difficult
c) common, organised
d) literary, unfamiliar

4.Sweden has said it expects to expel up to 80,000 migrants whose asylum ____________ will likely be rejected, as another 24 people including children ____________ in a desperate bid to reach Europe.
a) demands, flooded off
b) requests, drowned off
c) charges, immersed
d) petition, drowned off

5.The women’s ____ has succeeded in legitimizing the economic and political ____ of women on their own behalf.
a) leap, activity
b) movement, activism
c) participant, involvement
d) criteria, place

6.Australian prosecutors allege a teenage suspect _______________ with a British accomplice ways to pack a Kangaroo with ______________ before setting it loose on police officers.
a) talked, sensitive
b) argued, dynamite
c) discussed, explosives
d) associated, sensitive

7.The act was more significant for ________________ Dalits and other prohibited Hindus full rights to enter temples. It also _____________ that no person must enter a temple without a bath.
a) permitting, commands
b) refusing, directs
c) rejecting, agrees
d) allowing, dictates

8.Every state should have its ___________ rescue force at their disposal. As ____________ happen without any warning.
a) particular, tragedy
b) dedicated, accident
c) expert, misfortune
d) Specialized, disasters

9.Economic experts say that big ticket investments might be _____________ but they will not _____________ the required employment.
a) glamorous, generate
b) attractive, make
c) good, create
d) useful, build

10.Before the government forces could ___ from the attack, the enemy ___ yet another attack.
a) hover, landed
b) consider, declared
c) retain, pertained
d) recover, launched