Exercise-25
Complete the following passage by choosing the most appropriate options from the ones given below
Faced (A)______ a skewed sex ratio and an (B)______ workforce — by 2020, (C) ______ average Indian (D) ______29 years old and the average Chinese being 37, Beijing is (E) ______the rising social cost of limiting one child per family. But on the policy’s thirtieth anniversary, China made no commitment to (F) ______the rule that prevented 400 million births over three decades by forcing most urban Chinese to (G) ______ only one child. Parents were recently warned to register ‘extra’ births before November 1 during the ongoing census to prevent their children from (H) stripped of citizenship benefits.
(A) (a)at (b) with (c) on (d) under
(B) (a)ageing (b) will age (c) age (d) aged
(C) (a)a (b) an (c) the (d) any
(D) (a)would (b) can be (c) may (d) will be
(E) (a)debating (b) debate (c) debated (d)being debated
(F) (a)remove (b) removed (c) will remove (d) removing
(G) (a)have (b) has (c) will have (d) had
(H)(a) be (b) been (c) being (d) is
Answers:
(A) (b) with (B)(a) ageing
(C)(c)the (D)(d) will be
(E) (a) debating (F)(d)remove
(G)(a)have (H)(c)being
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Exercise-26
Complete the following passage by choosing the most appropriate options from the ones given below
He (A) _______ the session with a prayer, prolonging it (B)______ the others join and valley (c) _________with the chants, (D) ______ the cry of the jackals. Time was when he (E) ______ his stories to the accompaniment of musical instruments, but now he (F)_____ himself. The films (G)________ all the fiddlers and singers, who (H)______ no time now-a-days to stand at the back of an old story teller and fill his pauses with music.
(A) (a) begins (b) began (c) has begun (d) is beginning
(B) (a) unless (b) until (c) till (d) until
(C) (a) echoed (b) was echoing (c) echoes (d) is echoing
(D) (a) drowned (b) were drowned (c) are drowning (d) drowning
(E) (a) has narrated (b) narrated (c) had narrated (d) was narrating
(F) (a) depends (b) depended (c) has depended (d) was depending
(G) (a) took away (b) have taken away (c) are taking away (d) took
(H)(a) are having (b) have (c) had (d) has
Answers:
(A) (a) begins (B)(b)until
(C)(c)echoes (D)(d)drowning
(E) (b) narrated (F)(a)depends
(G)(c)have taken away (H)(b)have
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