Fill in the Blanks-Test 2

A recent report predicts __ shifts in the global economic __ by 2050 — six of the seven largest economies will be emerging economies led by China and India.

In an extremely warm speech, Tillerson highlighted a number of points of __ between the two erstwhile ―democracies‖.

While designating India and the US as―the two __ of stability‖, Tillerson was quite __ on the implications of China‘s rise.

After __ Pakistan for harbouring terrorists in his August speech, Trump
recently praised Pakistan for the help it provided in securing the release of an
American woman and her family from the Haqqani network‘s__.

The __ aspect of US policy on South Asia has involved maintaining a balance
between India and Pakistan and this has been so even in a period of __ bilateral
progress over the last two decades.

Directions: Pick out the most appropriate pair of words to complete the given sentences.

The habit is so __ in its working that even the government arms __ to be aware of repetition.

Marxist literary criticism is a __ term __ literary criticism based on socialist and dialectic theories.

The Aadhaar Card, Form AS 26 and the network of taxpayers online, the email, the __ banking transactions, have all given the I-T department weapons they can __ to use without resort to search and seizure.

The first task of deconstruction would be to find and __ these oppositions inside a
text or a corpus of texts; but the final objective of deconstruction is not to __ all oppositions, because it is assumed they are structurally necessary to produce sense.

Household investment has remained a __, rather than private corporate investment,
as is commonly__.

Marxism aims to __ the concept of work through creating a classless society built
on control and __ of the means of production.

There is no __the fact that the present income tax law __radical re-adaptation.

The event __a change in belief __socialist ideals in government and society.

The thought behind Marxist Criticism is that works of literature are mere products
of history that can be __by looking at the social and material conditions in which
they were__.

Every search of the residential and business __of the taxpayer involves an __of his privacy.

Directions: Pick out the most appropriate pair of words to complete the given sentences.

The __ succession from mother to son is related to the very __ of the Congress.

The real challenge for Mr. Gandhi is not winning the Congress leadership, but positioning himself as a __ in the way of the Modi__.

What he projected as a stand in keeping with public opinion came across as an __act by a __ against a Prime Minister beholden to him for staying in power.

Although Manson was __ of first-degree murder in 1971, he escaped capital punishment after California __ the death penalty a year later.

Rather than the liberal counterculture movement of the 1960s, his __ philosophy bears a disturbing resemblance in some respects with the far-right or alt-right brand of neo fascism that has __ in certain pockets of U.S. politics recently.

He too spoke of ―race war‖ and __ up altright materials online, indulging in the very same __ race-ramblings that Manson did.

The legacy of Manson should serve, if anything, as a __ reminder to liberal America that the pillars on which their __ democracy was built must never be taken for granted.

Our nation must confront the __ facts of its history rather than glorious versions of
an __ past.

It‘s an __ and uniquely British perspective, which achieves the seemingly impossible – casting Britain‘s empire as a great moral achievement, and its collapse as an act of casual __, without any hint at the irreconcilability of the two.

There are the centuries of statesanctioned criminal activity: the remarkable __ by supposed heroes such as Francis Drake, one of the most __ pirates in history, and Robert Clive, who pillaged Bengal to great personal gain.