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Sentence Fillers Test 4
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Sentence Fillers Test 4
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    The internal social platforms of the organizations are being used like bulletin boards. Most communication lacks soul. The leaders behave like the religious gurus and politicians who appear on the balcony to wave at the fans who have assembled there. They smile, wave and disappear. There is no engagement. It is one-sided communication which is meant________________.

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    Explanation : to convey intimacy, but doesn’t
    Sentence third is correct as per passage theme The new language of leadership.

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    Without realistic purchase prices, utilities could resort to curtailment of renewable power sources on non-technical considerations, affecting investments. Tamil Nadu, a solar leader in the country, resorted to curtailments last year, a phenomenon that___________________500 MW tender. The funding mix for renewables, therefore, should give climate financing an important role.

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    Explanation : has perhaps muted industry interest in its recent
    Sentence second is correct as per passage theme Shining bright

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    Apart from measures to scale up generating capacity, India should take a close look at competitive manufacturing of the full chain of photovoltaics and open training facilities to produce the human resources the industry will need in the years ahead. Renewables and new energy storage technologies are on course to overshadow traditional fossil fuel-based____________________.

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    Explanation : sources of power as the costs decline
    Sentence forth is correct as per passage theme Shining bright.

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    Since the dwarf star is much cooler than the Sun, the dimming of light each time a planet passes or transits___________________Earth unlike in cases when planets transit a Sun-like bright star. Since the initial discovery of three planets was made using the Chile-based Transiting Planets and Planetesimals Small Telescope, the exoplanet system is called TRAPPIST-1.

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    Explanation : Sentence forth is correct as per passage theme Life elsewhere.

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    Only Earth has liquid water in the solar system. Less than a year after scientists announced the discovery of three planets orbiting the dwarf star,___________________searches using several ground-based telescopes, including a 20-day continuous monitoring using the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Spitzer Space Telescope.

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    Explanation : the team found four more through intense
    Sentence first is correct as per passage theme Life elsewhere.

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    The digital media has made every customer and every employee a media house. Everyone is freely airing their views about everything from politics to office gossip. People are impatiently unafraid to ask questions to the high and mighty. They want instant responses. The leaders are not used to this landscape. Media was always meant to be a one-way street and__________________.

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    Explanation : suddenly head-on collisions have become the norm
    Sentence first is correct as per passage theme The new language of leadership.

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    The trend in some emerging economies, including India,__________________renewable energy projects over the last five years. This has implications for equity in the long run, and electricity regulators should fix tariffs taking into account the reduction in the levelised cost of electricity (the average break-even price over a project’s lifetime).

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    Explanation : has been a reduction in public financing of
    Sentence third is correct as per passage theme Shining bright.

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    With a fair possibility of liquid water being present on at least three planets, the focus is now on deciphering the climate and chemical composition of their atmosphere. As a first measure, scientists are keen to know if the planets are Earth-like, by ruling out the presence of hydrogen gas enveloping them. Mass estimates already suggest that the inner six planets might have a rocky composition,___________________have a volatile composition due to the presence of an ice layer or atmosphere.

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    Explanation : Sentence forth is correct as per passage theme Life elsewhere.

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    Besides promoting phase two of the solar parks plan, and powering public facilities such as railway stations and stadia using solar power,__________________that make it easier for every citizen and small business to adopt rooftop solar. This is crucial to achieving the overall goal of 100 GW from this plentiful source of energy by 2022, and to raise the share of renewables in the total energy mix to 40 per cent in the next decade.

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    Explanation : the Centre should put in place arrangements
    Sentence third is correct as per passage theme Shining bright.

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    Leaders have no choice but to learn the new language that is more visual and personal. They have to learn to fall and pick themselves up in front of their followers._________________and always in control. Remember the Japanese proverb, “Fall down seven times, get up eight.”
    That is the new motto of leadership.

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    Explanation : They are used to showing themselves as perfect
    Sentence second is correct as per passage theme The new language of leadership.

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