In the following passage, some words have been deleted. Read the passage carefully and select the most appropriate option to fill in each blank. Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav is an (1) _________ by the Government of India to celebrate and remember 75 years of independence and the beautiful history of its people, culture and achievements. This Mahotsav is (2) _________ to the people of India, who have not only been instrumental in bringing India this far in its evolutionary journey but also (3) _________ the power and potential to realise Prime Minister, Narendra Modi's (4) _________ of activating India 2.0, fuelled by the spirit of Aatmanirbhar Bharat. The formal journey of Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav began on 12 March 2021, beginning a (5)______ to our 75th anniversary of independence and will finish a year later on 15 August 2023.
Select the most appropriate answer for blank number 4.%
- (a)vision
- (b)design
- (c)control
- (d)graphics
Answer
Why
Correct — A. The blank is possessed — Narendra Modi's ___ of activating India 2.0 — and it is the thing the people's power and potential are to realise.
Realise a vision is the standing pair, and a vision is a picture of how someone wants the future to look. India 2.0 is that kind of future picture.
Vision also takes of followed by an -ing phrase, which is the shape printed here — option (a).
Why the others are wrong
- (b)design — Design wants a different frame: a design for something, or a plan to do something. It also names a pattern, and neither a pattern nor a scheme is realised.
- (c)control — Control is power over something, not a picture of the future, and control of activating India 2.0 is not English. Realise does not pair with it either.
- (d)graphics — Graphics are drawings and images on a page or screen. The word belongs to design and printing, while the sentence needs something a leader holds and others fulfil.
Concept
An abstract-noun blank is decided by the words on either side of it.
To the left is the possessive Modi's; to the right is of activating India 2.0; and earlier in the sentence sits the verb realise, which governs whatever fills the blank.
A word meaning an imagined future state satisfies all three at once, and vision is the ordinary word for that. Learn realise a vision the way you learn a phrasal verb, as one unit.
India 2.0 is the passage's own slogan, not a technical term, so the blank is filled by the register of the sentence and not by any knowledge of the programme.
Key facts
- Vision here means an imagined future state, and it collocates with realise and share.
- Vision of takes an -ing phrase, as in a vision of building a new city.
- Design collocates with for, as in a design for growth, and is not realised.
Study next
Common traps
- Picking design because it also means a plan, without testing it in the of -ing frame.
- Reading India 2.0 as a technology term and reaching for graphics.
- Filling the blank before reading realise, the verb that governs it.
One cloze passage mixes noun blanks and verb blanks: in this paper blanks 1, 4 and 5 take nouns (English Q.21, Q.24 and Q.25) while blanks 2 and 3 take verbs (English Q.22 and Q.23).
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