Close test question 8

 In the following passage, some of the words have been left out. Read the passage carefully and select the correct answer for the given blank out of the four alternatives.
A saint or a satyagrahi is often  put on a ..........., freezing her acts of goodness in time. Goodness acquires an act of fixed quality...........in amber. Rather than ...........a living creature, a saint or an icon becomes  a hoarding, a permanent spectacle or a redundant quotation. Saintliness or heroism becomes  a bundle of pictures in a calendar, a statue ...........inflexibly. Goodness becomes  a stencil fixed ...........time.
A saint or a satyagrahi is often  put on a ...........
Options:
1) pedestal
2) platform
3) plinth
4) podium
Correct Answer: pedestal
QID : 197 ­ In the following passage, some of the words have been left out. Read the passage carefully and select the correct answer for the given blank out of the four alternatives.
A saint or a satyagrahi is often  put on a ..........., freezing her acts of goodness in time. Goodness acquires an act of fixed quality...........in amber. Rather than ...........a living creature, a saint or an icon becomes  a hoarding, a permanent spectacle or a redundant quotation. Saintliness or heroism becomes  a bundle of pictures in a calendar, a statue ...........inflexibly. Goodness becomes  a stencil fixed ...........time.
Goodness acquires an act of fixed quality ...........in amber.
Options:
1) ingrained
2) impacted
3) embedded
4) deep­seated
Correct Answer: embedded
QID : 198 ­ In the following passage, some of the words have been left out. Read the passage carefully and select the correct answer for the given blank out of the four alternatives.
A saint or a satyagrahi is often  put on a ..........., freezing her acts of goodness in time. Goodness acquires an act of fixed quality...........in amber. Rather than ...........a living creature, a saint or an icon becomes  a hoarding, a permanent spectacle or a redundant quotation. Saintliness or heroism becomes  a bundle of pictures in a calendar, a statue ...........inflexibly. Goodness becomes  a stencil fixed ...........time.
Rather than ...........a living creature
Options:
1) being
2) having been
3) had been
4) becoming
Correct Answer: becoming
QID : 199 ­ In the following passage, some of the words have been left out. Read the passage carefully and select the correct answer for the given blank out of the four alternatives.
A saint or a satyagrahi is often  put on a ..........., freezing her acts of goodness in time. Goodness acquires an act of fixed quality...........in amber. Rather than ...........a living creature, a saint or an icon becomes  a hoarding, a permanent spectacle or a redundant quotation. Saintliness or heroism becomes  a bundle of pictures in a calendar, a statue ...........inflexibly. Goodness becomes  a stencil fixed ...........time.
a statue ...........inflexibly.
Options:
1) standing
2) stands
3) stood
4) always stands
Correct Answer: standing
QID : 200 ­ In the following passage, some of the words have been left out. Read the passage carefully and select the correct answer for the given blank out of the four alternatives.
A saint or a satyagrahi is often  put on a ..........., freezing her acts of goodness in time. Goodness acquires an act of fixed quality...........in amber. Rather than ...........a living creature, a saint or an icon becomes  a hoarding, a permanent spectacle or a redundant quotation. Saintliness or heroism becomes  a bundle of pictures in a calendar, a statue ...........inflexibly. Goodness becomes  a stencil fixed ...........time.
Goodness becomes  a stencil fixed ...........time.
Options:
1) of
2) in
3) with
4) about
Correct Answer: in