Directions (Q. 1-5): In each of the following sentences there are two blank spaces. Below each sentence there are five pairs of words denoted by numbers 1), 2), 3), 4) and 5). Find out which pair of words can be filled up in the blanks in the sentence in the same sequence to make it meaningfully complete.
1. _______ by popular support, the Supreme Court of Pakistan is trying to ______ its independence. (3)
(1)empowered, sentence
(2)governed, stamp
(3)backed, assert
(4)marked, rebel
(5)geared, influence
2.One lesson that must be drawn from the grisly _____ of fake encounter killings is the need to ______ the police from its political masters. (2)
(1)incidence, govern
(2)episode, insulate
(3)crime, motivate
(4)theory, widen
(5)malaise, revolt
3. MP’s should, by all means, take the government to ____ when it fails in _____ its responsibilities. (5)
(1)book, abdicating
(2)proceedings, depicting
(3)query, driving
(4)criticism, abiding
(5)task, discharging
4. No political party can claim ____ to the trend of holding up parliamentary _____ on some pretext or the other. (1)
(1)exception, proceedings
(2)emancipated, debates
(3)above, sessions
(4)freedom, functions
(5)supreme, dealings
5. It is pointless to legislate wellmeaning laws if there is no fair and effective ____ to ___ them. (4)
(1)monitoring, realising
(2)transparency, forward
(3)methodology, sentencing
(4)mechanism, implement
(5)screening, process
