Exercise 28: Fill in the Blanks with suitable words- for SSC CGL, CHSL, Bank Po, UPSC & GMAT Exams

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271 Q) How did these things come _____?
(1) about
(2) into
(3) at
(4) down 

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(1) Come about means : to happen. 

272 Q) The news was_________good to be true.
(1) very
(2) too
(3) so
(4) as 

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(2) Look at the sentence. The fact is too evident to require proof. Here, loo' means : more than required. too + adjective + to gives a negative sense. 

273 Q) Rajesh’s car wasn’t___________ Ramesh’s, so we were too exhausted by the time we reached home.......
(1) such comfortable
(2) as comfortable as
(3) comfortable enough
(4) so comfortable that 

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(2) Adverb as .... as... is used when you are comparing two people or things, or two situations. Look at the sentence ; She doesn't play as well as her sister. 

274 Q) Corruption should be _____ out with the utmost vigour.
(1) talked
(2) left
(3) rooted
(4) brought 

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(3) rooted (root out means eradicate) 

275 Q) The sudden change in his behaviour came as a surprise to me, I began____
(1) to cut a sorry figure
(2) to smell a rat
(3) to turn a new leaf
(4) to blow hot and cold 

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(2) To blow hot and cold means: to change your opinion about something often, Cut a... figure means: to have a particular appearance. 

276 Q) I’m not as successful.......she is.
(1) then
(2) as
(3) like
(4) than 

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(2) As....as is an adverb. It is used for comparing two persons or things. He does not play as well as his sister. 

277 Q) The cost of_____is rising rapidly in this city.
(1) being
(2) existing
(3) suiviving
(4) living 

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(4) living 

278 Q) Ram, along with the members of the family and that of his friend, ............................. a movie.
(1) was watching
(2) were watching
(3) have been watching
(4) watch 

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(1) When along with, as well as, together with etc are used, the verb agrees with the number and person of first subject. 

279 Q) All decisions, _________. are likely to be taken by consensus.
(1) anyhow
(2) forever
(3) somehow
(4) however 

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(4) The word however means : (in whatever why) 

280 Q) Just as in a family it is the willing cooperation of its members that ___happiness and contentment, so is it in the larger family of the nation.
(1) brought
(2) will bring
(3) brings
(4) bought

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(3) Here, willing cooperation of its member is antecedent of that'. Hence, singnlar verb should be used.