1.The country is________ slow to reform as its political class has convinced itself that anything but the most_________ pace will accept the electoral apple cart.
a) cryptically, snug
b) ambiguously, lukewarm
c) concealed, balmy
d) notoriously, glacial

2.The minister felt that the __________ made by the committee was ___________even though similar schemes had worked earlier.
a) decision, gainful
b) choice, profitable
c) recommendation, infeasible
d) election, acceptable

3.The policies adopted by the RBI in the area of priority sector lending are _______up investments in securitisation transactions in the country with _________from banks showing a rise in recent years.
a) pulling, involvement
b) driving,participation
c) curbing, compete
d) forcing, exception

4.After ________the curbs on payments up to Rs.5 crore, the drawing and_________officers have been directed to secure the department’s clearance for releasing sums above this limit.
a) execrably, holding
b) abating, expending
c) waiving, disbursing
d) flapping, depositing

5.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

6.For two decades India has seen a__________ tightening of vehicular emission norms. However, the full__________ of this trend has not been realised because all arms of government have not worked in tandem.
a) disarranged, detest
b) desperate, dearth
c) calibrated, potential
d) confused, impossible

7.India’s first president Rajendra Prasad and the role of Home minister Sardar Patel on the other hand find_________ mention in the post-independence__________ of the book.
a) obscured, point
b) invisible, subject
c) prominent, chapter
d) inconspicuous, subject

8.Rather than separating fact from opinion, whitewashing Nehru_________ by deleting inconvenient truths is_________ to historical vandalism.
a) addition, reverse
b) altogether, tantamount
c) together, opposite
d) become, polar

9.For a country known for its engineering talents and a city with two hundred years of history, the_________ was unnecessary and entirely due to a failure of political leadership.
a) Issue
b) Persists
c) Tragedy
d) Reason

10.Sardar Patel_________ Nehru of the importance of a “uniform national administrative structure with considerable central control”.
a) Privilege
b) Convinced
c) Informed
d) Told