READING – FILL IN BLANK

Question 1:

Question 2:
Critical Thinking is a glorious thing. That’s what our public schools are telling kids
and parents. Critical Thinking is said to be Blank 1 with fairness, impartiality,
science, logic, maturity, Blank 2, and enlightenment. If you read some of
the Blank 3 on Critical Thinking, you will have the sense that you are being Blank
4 into a new religion.

inconsistent
ignorance
literature
discarded
welcomed
insanity
rationality
synonymous
Question 3:
Misery contains a possibility of happiness. Life is rarely desperate. One can
usually bring about the changes that are favourable to Blank 1, if one strives for
them. These changes may concern mostly one’s attitude toward a difficult
situation that is largely Blank 2. A smile is a sun-like wonder Blank 3 of a
dandelion that can Blank 4 and multiply on practically barren ground despite
countless Blank 5.

change
bloom
unchangeable
shrivel
reminiscent
benefits
contentment
rigors
pliable

Question 4:
Question 5:
General purpose technologies reshape the nature of production and service
activities Blank 1. They open up new Blank 2 and Blank 3 reorganization of
production. They share characteristics like Blank 4 and applicability across a
range of uses and potential for use in a variety of products and processes. They
alter the skill mix in the economy by biasing it towards higher-skilled people.

opportunities
obstruct
necessitate
irreversibly
disfigurement
factories
elaboration
straightaway

Question 6:
Since the dawn of human civilization, human beings have consistently
been Blank 1 their dream faculty. In the Aryan society too, the dreams Blank
2 the human beings. The coming of Christianity itself was a great event in the
history of mankind. The crucifixion of Jesus was seen in the dreams of the chosen
and Blank 3 who had fathomless faith in Jesus, they had been informed in the
dream that there would be resurrection of Jesus and his sacrifice for the sins of
humanity would not go Blank 4.

misguided
mystified
remembering
blessed
interpreting
believed
wasted
ignore
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Question 8:
Many of us believe that science is something modern (1)_________ the truth is that
man has been using science for a very long time. However, it has had a greater effect
on human lives in the last 25 or 30 years than in the hundreds of years since the
invention of the plough. The (2)________ gifts of science have modern
life (3)_________ and comfortable. But science has at the same time created new
problems. One of these which may become (4)______ in the years to come, is that of
“jet-lag”.

though marvellous exciting worse better ridiculous

Question 9:
Question 10:

Genetically modified foods provide no direct benefit to consumers, the food is not
_________ better or cheaper. The greater benefit, _______ argue, is that genetic
engineering will play a crucial role in feeding the world's _______ population.
Opponents disagree, __________ that the world already grows more food per person
than ever before - more, even, than we can ________.

Consume noticeably proponents burgeoning promising limitless asserting

unrealistically

Question 11:

Question 12: