IBPS RRB Officer Scale 1 Model Paper 5

Directions (151 -160): In the following passage there are blanks each of which has been numbered. These numbers are printed below the passage and against each five words are suggested, one of which fits the blank appropriately. Find out,the appropriate word in each case,
  In an upper class drawing room in Mumbai, a dozen or’ so (151) the city’sintelligentsia is (152) on the dregs of what was a live-wire party an hour ago.Poets, editors, writers, film makers, all card-carrying members of the rich and powerful, not at this late hour, on their ninth drink, are (153) in what Indians are best known to do: media-bashing, armchair criticism and name-calling.
  Inevitably the talk turns toTehelka, and its managing director and editorrinchief,Tarun Tejpal, and the party’ quickly degenerates into an orgy of guilt andshame and that peculiar habit of the Indian intelligentsia: passing the buck, withevery one present attacking his neighbour for not supporting Tejpal more. It is atrait Tejpal is (154) with and has been telling me about in the weeks preceding thisinterview.
  “Often at parties-when someone (155) me ‘great job, cany on what you aredoing’, and showers with me staggering praise, staggering love, staggering (156)just smile and let it pass as I don’t want to score a brownie point and say, ‘andwhat about you boss, what will you do ?”
  This lightly-tossed sentence with the slightest hint of a dark’chuckle is theonly time I have seen Tejpal allow for bitterness, though I have been (157) him forweeks for sings of it. Because, tor a man who has been the victim of the most(158) government witch-hunts in recent years, Tejpal is astonishingly devoid of(159) You expect him to rage, to spew fire, to heap scorn and anger at his enemies,and instead, what you encounter, is a man in whose eyes you see only compassionand a weary understanding of the nature of the beast.
  The abiding irony in all this is that unlike his armchair supporters in themiddle class, who rave and rant on his behalf,, but do nothing else, Tejpal displaysforbearance. ‘The fact that I am essentially a literary animal and that my entiresensibility has been shaped by literature has helped. I1 m not a black-and-whiteperson. I’m a (160) who understands the greys,” he says to me at a coffee shop,over tea.