SSC CGL Tier-2 9-March-2018 English

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.
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The need of the hour is to ______ value based education. The stress should be on the values such as patience, honesty, tolerance, sympathy, and love for fellow brethren and sisters.The students must be indoctrinated to keep values as ______ priority. The youngsters need not only to be taught how to develop their skills,talents, and abilities, they must also be taught how to use these skills, talents and abilities for the ______ and betterment of all. Once values become everyone's priority in life, all the negative aspects of life will automatically ______. The world ______needs people with high values to make it a better place to live in.

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.
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Education is the most important and ______ tool for women empowerment. It makes women aware of their rights and responsibilities. Educational achievements of a woman can have ______ effects for the family and across generations. Most of the girls drop out of schools due to the unavailability of separate toilets for them. The recently launched ‘Swachh Bharat Mission’ focusing on ______ sanitation facilities in schools and every rural household by 2019, can prove to be very ______ in bringing down the ______ of girls dropping out of school.

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.
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When it comes to thinking about how to be happier, many of us ______ about taking more vacations or finding ways to avoid ______ tasks. We may dream about ______ housework and instead doing something fun and ______. However, tasks which don’t make us happy can, over the time, add up to a meaningful life. Even routine activities like talking on the phone, cooking, cleaning, housework, meditating, emailing, praying, waiting for others, and balancing finances appear to bring more ______ to people’s lives, but not happiness in the moment.