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Fill in the blanks MCQ - Practice Questions with Answers
Solve 30 Fill in the blanks questions for RAS/RPSC preparation.
Practice questions
Q1Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank. We look forward to ______ the coastal museum on our next trip.
In look forward to, the word to is a preposition, so it takes a gerund: look forward to visiting. A bare infinitive, past form, or extra to visit breaks that pattern.
Q2Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank. Keen to protect the frescoes, the curator sealed the burial chamber ______ moisture should damage them.
“Lest” means “for fear that” and correctly names the unwanted harm the curator is guarding against. “So that” would make that harm the purpose of sealing and contradict the stated protective aim; “unless” and “although” do not carry this preventive sense.
Q3Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank. Even the sudden downpour could not _____ the spectators' enthusiasm for the match.
A modal verb such as could is followed by a bare infinitive. Only dampen has that form, and dampen the spectators' enthusiasm is the standard collocation. Dampens, dampened, and to dampen each break the modal-plus-bare-infinitive rule.
Q4Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank. Only a ______ clerk would have spotted the forged seal on the ancient charter.
Discerning means sharp-eyed and discriminating. Spotting a forged seal requires careful perception, so discerning alone fits the context; the distractors imply carelessness or lack of interest.
Q5Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank. A late tackle prevented the winger _____ into the penalty area.
Prevent is followed by from plus a gerund: prevent someone from doing something. The only grammatically and semantically exact fill is from cutting.
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6Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank. It was _____ rare manuscript that museums competed to display it.
7Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank. She had barely any savings; _____, she offered to pay for her friend's ticket.
8Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank. There was ______ petrol left in the tank when we reached the highway toll plaza.
9Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank. After reviewing the data, the astronomers ______ a firm conclusion about the comet's path.
10Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank. The suitcase is light _____ for the child to carry alone.
11Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank. Several nobles were charged _____ plundering the treasury during the famine year.
12Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank. Farmers in the valley usually ______ a living by growing millet and pulses.
13Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank. The young sprinter ______ a new national record in the final heat.
14Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank. The supervisor insisted _____ the inventory before closing the shop.
15Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank. The laboratory report attributed the anomalous readings ______ a fault in the calibration device.