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प्रश्न
Fill in the blank by choosing the most appropriate option:
There isn't ____________ water in the overhead tank.
विकल्प
little
some
any
lot of
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उत्तर
any
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संबंधित प्रश्न
Fill in the blank with the appropriate option:
Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can _____ the heartless.
Fill in the blank by choosing the most appropriate option.
The passengers were very happy __________ the friendly and warm treatment.
Direction: Fill up the blanks numbered (a) (b) (c) (d) (e) (f) in the passage given below with the most appropriate word from the options given for each blank.
The main objective of art and (a) living is to develop (b) sensibilities and skills of healthful living besides providing a (c) ground for the love of labour, (d) social attitudes and moral values so as to enable the child to be (e) to the ideas of others with humility and sincerity in thought, word, and deed. Love for mankind and helping the needy would (f) at this stage and its culmination would be in terms of attainment of selfless service. 'b' is
For the words below, a contextual usage is provided. Pick the word from the alternatives given that is most appropriate in the given context.
The only __________ touch in his costume was a light-colored necktie.
John said he _______ to play at home
Fill in the blank.
While the disease in a latent state it is almost impossible to determine its existence by ___________.
Fill in the blanks with the best alternative among the four options:
Around the world, forests are being destroyed at a rate of about thirteen million hectares a year and deforestation accounts for an estimated 17% -20% of all global emissions. In addition, forests and other terrestrial carbon sinks play a ___(1)___ role in preventing runaway climate change, soaking up a full 2.6 Gt of atmospheric carbon every year. The destruction of forests, therefore, not only emits carbon -a staggering 1.6 Gt a year, which severely ___(2)___ forests' capacity to absorb emissions from other sources-but also drastically ___(3)___ the amount of forested land available to act as carbon on a sink in the future. However, the effects of deforestation extend beyond carbon. Rainforests ____(4)___ a wide variety of ecosystems services, from regulating rainfall to purifying groundwater and keeping fertile soil from ____(5)____; deforestation in one area can seriously damage food production and ____(6)____ to clean water in an entire region. The value of global ecosystem services has been estimated at 33 trillion USD each year (almost half of global GDP), but these services have been taken for granted without a mechanism to make the market reflect their value. Rain forests are also a home and _____(7)____ of income for a huge number of people in Africa, Asia, and South America. ___(8)____ this, economic pressures frequently drive both local communities and national governments in the developing world to ____(9)____ these forests in ways that are unsustainable, clear-cutting vast areas for fuel, timber, mining, or agricultural land.
1.
(a) tough
(b) Important
(c) vital
(d) biggest
2.
(a) affect
(b) diminish
(c) increases
(d) impairs
3.
(a) plagues
(b) develops
(c) reduces
(d) shortens
4.
(a) sell
(b) offer
(c) give
(d) provide
5.
(a) transforming
(b) decoding
c) erupting
(d) eroding
6.
(a) handiness
(b) excess
(c) availability
(d) access
7.
(a) beginning
(b) source
(c) ways
(d) reference
8.
(a) despite
(b) also
(c) in spite
(d) apart
9.
(a) exploit
(b) encompass
(c) nurture
(d) work
Complete the sentences on the right with appropriate compound nouns related to the two-word verbs used in the sentences on the left.
I. setbacks II. Tip-offs III. passers-by IV. Upbringing
1. The police were waiting for a. Harry had a very the thieves. Someone must strict _____ and was have tipped them off. glad to move away from his parents. 2. As I passed by her house, I b. The engine fault was could see people dancing in the latest of several —the front room. in the development of the car. 3. She was born and brought up c. We received several in central London. _____ that there would be an attempted break-out at the prison. 4. The injury has set back his d. The man was leaning chances of being fit to play out of the window, in the find shouting at ____ in the street below.
Following questions are based on the various Figures of Speech.
Which of the following statements is not an example of epigram?
In the following sentence, there are two blank spaces. Below the sentence, there are four pairs of words. Find out which pair of words can be filled up in the blanks in the sentence in the same sequence to make the sentence meaningfully complete.
Part of the confusion in our societies ________ from our pursuit of efficiency and economic growth, in the ______ that these are the necessary ingredients of progress.
