English Language Quiz For IBPS | RBI | SBI | NABARD | LIC | 07-10-2023

 

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In the following passage, some of the words have been made bold, each of which is preceded by a letter. Find a suitable word from the options given below that could replace the bold word
so as to make the paragraph meaningful.

India’s ‘water crisis’ took over social media recently. Usually, a delayed monsoon or a drought, (A) ___________ with compelling images of parched lands and queues for water in urban areas raise an alarm in the minds of the public. Similarly, episodes of inter-State river water disputes catch public attention. (B) ___________ , this time, it was somewhat different. Videos and news reports claiming that Indian cities are running out of groundwater went viral. These news items could not have gained the traction but for the fact that they (C) ___________ on a 2018 report of India’s own Niti Aayog, which was titled ‘Composite Water Management Index: A tool for water management.’ The Niti Aayog’s projection was only a means to an end goal: leveraging some (D) ___________ from the Indian States. The report’s central goal was to propose a tool, an index, to monitor the States’ water resource management strategies and providethe necessary course-shift, beyond supply augmentation approaches. The report may have had a lofty goal of promoting ‘cooperative and competitive
federalism’ but was, in reality, a desperate move to engage with the States, in the absence of any (E) __________ leverage to influence their approaches to water resources management. This also (F) ___________ that the fulcrum of any course correction lies with States. Yet, what (G) ___________ us is the question: Just how did such ‘zombie statistics’ gain traction? This is disturbing as it shows there is an absence of (H) ___________ engagement or institutional accountability. India needs to reconsider the institutional processes for dissemination of knowledge (I) ___________ water resource management. There is a certain amount of danger inherent in the casual manner (J) ___________ which knowledge about water resources is legitimised and consumed, particularly in these days of ‘viral’ information.

1-India’s ‘water crisis’ took over social media recently. Usually, a delayed monsoon or a drought, (A) _____ with compelling images of parched lands and queues for water in urban areas raise an alarm in the minds of the public.

Fill in the blank A

1. Combined

2. Along

3. With

4. Multiplied

5. Exacted

(B) ___________ , this time, it was somewhat different. Videos and news reports claiming that Indian cities are running out of groundwater went viral. 

Fill in the blank B

1. Also

2. Similarly

3. However

4. Mostly

5. Notwithstanding

3-These news items could not have gained the traction but for the fact that they (C) ___________ on a 2018 report of India’s own Niti Aayog, which was titled ‘Composite Water Management Index: A tool for water management.’

Fill in the blank C

1. Depended

2. Relied

3. Counted

4. Banked

5. All of the above

4-The Niti Aayog’s projection was only a means to an end goal: leveraging some (D) ___________ from the Indian States.

Fill in the blank D

1. Drama

2. Action

3. Process

4. Smooth

5. Working

5-The report may have had a lofty goal of promoting ‘cooperative and competitive federalism’ but was, in reality, a desperate move to engage with the States, in the absence of any (E) ____ leverage to influence their approaches to water resources management. This also (F) _____ that the fulcrum of any course correction lies with States.

Fill in the blank E

1. Subsidy

2. Monir

3. Help

4. Substantive

5. Perfect

6-The report may have had a lofty goal of promoting ‘cooperative and competitive federalism’ but was, in reality, a desperate move to engage with the States, in the absence of any (E) ____ leverage to influence their approaches to water resources management. This also (F) _____ that the fulcrum of any course correction lies with States.

Fill in the blank F

1. Referred

2. Results

3. Dominates

4. Highlighting

5. Underscored

7-Yet, what (G) ___________ us is the question: Just how did such ‘zombie statistics’ gain traction?

Fill in the blank G

1. Baffled

2. Ensures

3. Hardens

4. Enlightens

5. Irritates

8-This is disturbing as it shows there is an absence of (H) ___________ engagement or institutional accountability.

Fill in the blank H

1. Engage

2. Critical

3. Unused

4. Must

5. Condemn

9-India needs to reconsider the institutional processes for dissemination of knowledge (I) ___________ water resource management.

Fill in the blank I

1. About

2. For

3. With

4. Or

5. And

10-There is a certain amount of danger inherent in the casual manner (J) ___________ which knowledge about water resources is legitimised and consumed, particularly in these days of ‘viral’ information.

Fill in the blank J

1. On

2. In

3. Into

4. Inside

5. Under