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1. Improve the bracketed part of the sentence. The granaries of India are trapped in a dangerous vicious cycle of input use, where increased dumping of fertiliser in the wrong combinations (has rendered) the soil incapable of regenerating itself, which in turn escalates input use.
Options
A. have rendered
B. is rendered
C. had render
D. No improvement

2. Improve the bracketed part of the sentence. Mixed cropping should be encouraged both as a (hedge for) price risk and for its ecological benefits.
Options
A. hedge against
B. hedge of
C. hedge in
D. No improvement

3. Improve the bracketed part of the sentence. The Centre can?t afford to procrastinate any further (at) framing rules to regulate the trading and use of bitcoin and other virtual currencies.
Options
A. on
B. under
C. of
D. No improvement

4. Improve the bracketed part of the sentence. The telecom sector is the backbone to the Digital India vision and it deserves an (enabled) regulatory environment.
Options
A. enabling
B. enable
C. able
D. No improvement

5. Improve the bracketed part of the sentence. The Chairman (send in) all the right signals and we can only hope that his trip will result in rich dividends.
Options
A. send out
B. sent of
C. sent out
D. No improvement

6. Improve the bracketed part of the sentence. Bull markets, John Templeton said, are born on pessimism, grow on scepticism, mature on optimism and (die for) euphoria.
Options
A. die on
B. die at
C. die above
D. No improvement

7. Improve the bracketed part of the sentence. The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) (has decreed) that all MF schemes must adopt the Total Return variants of their chosen benchmarks to measure and disclose their performance.
Options
A. is decree
B. have decreed
C. has decreeing
D. No improvement

8. Improve the bracketed part of the sentence. It is revealing that the gender divide in cognition levels worsens with rise in age, as girls are often compelled to (drop in) of school for a variety of reasons.
Options
A. drop at
B. drop out
C. drop of
D. No improvement

9. Improve the bracketed part of the sentence. There is a compelling case for privatising the airline and freeing (locked at) funds for education and health.
Options
A. locked of
B. locked on
C. locked up
D. No improvement

10. Improve the bracketed part of the sentence. This idea of the impossible (became) even more relevant when we come to the individual, who might consider certain accomplishments impossible without realising that with persistent effort and determination they could be achieved.
Options
A. becoming
B. becomes
C. was became
D. No improvement

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