In the following passage there are blanks, each of which has been numbered.…
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In the following passage there are blanks, each of which has been numbered. Below the passage, words are suggested against each number, one of which fits the blank appropriately. Find out the appropriate word in each case.
Chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Saturday picked up a broom here to convey his seriousness towards making Uttar Pradesh clean, a day after he expressed regret over the state's poor rating in the cleanliness (1)_________. Accompanied by ministerial colleague Suresh Khanna and other officials, the chief minister arrived at the congested Baloo Addar locality in the heart of the city in Ram Mohan ward and sweeped the (2)__________. Only one city of the state, Varanasi, had figured in the list of 100 clean cities in the government's 'Swachh Survekshan-2017'. Nine others were among the 15 dirtiest districts in the country with Gonda turning out to be the dirtiest city in India. "Although this survey was taken up before we took over, our government has (3) __________ to work in this area and by December 2017 we aim to declare 30 districts and by October 2018 the entire state open defecation-free," he said in the press conference on Friday. He also gave instructions to the municipal staff present on the (4) ____________ to maintain cleanliness and said it was among the top priorities of the government. "Why is the state capital so dirty? It is a matter of concern as to why Lucknow does not figure in the list of 100 clean cities...make all preparations before the (5) __________ of monsoon to clean the drains so that they do not overflow on the streets.
Find out the appropriate word in case 3
(question no 11 till 15 are linked together )
- A.
Clear-cut
- B.
Undisputed
- C.
Unmistakable
- D.
Decided
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Correct answer: D
In a cloze passage, a blank must satisfy two constraints at once: it must fit the grammatical slot (the correct part of speech and verb form demanded by the surrounding sentence structure) and it must carry the meaning the context requires. When the words offered are near-synonyms, the part-of-speech test is usually what settles which one can actually occupy that slot.
The sentence reads: "our government has __________ to work in this area." The auxiliary verb "has" demands a main verb in its past-participle form to build the present-perfect tense ("has + verb-3"), expressing a decision the government has already taken and is now acting on. Among the four words offered, only "decided" is a verb; used here it gives "has decided to work", which is both grammatically correct and matches the passage's sense of a firm commitment to clean up the state.
Cross-check — why the other options don't fit:
"Clear-cut" is an adjective (meaning sharply defined); it cannot occupy the verb slot after "has".
"Undisputed" is an adjective (meaning accepted without question); it likewise cannot serve as the verb the sentence needs.
"Unmistakable" is an adjective (meaning obvious, not able to be confused with anything else); it too fails the verb requirement.
Only "decided" supplies the past-participle verb form the sentence structure requires, confirming it as the word that fits blank (3).