UPSC CDS English Cloze Test Part 2 Questions

The Nobel Prize for Chemistry this year is a tribute to the power of ___(1)____ (a) evolution, (b) devolution, (c) revolution, (d) involution, The laureates harnessed evolution and used it in the ___(2)____ (a) microscope, (b) field, (c) market, (d) laboratory, with amazing results. Frances H. Arnold, an American who was given one-half of the prize, used ‘directed evolution’ to ___(3)___ (a) inhibit, (b) synthesize, (c) hamper, (d) hold back, variants of naturally occurring enzymes that could be used to ___(4)___ (a) constitute, (b) sink,(c) manufacture,(d) resolve, biofuels and pharmaceuticals. The other half went to George P. Smith, also of the U.S., and Sir Gregory P. Winter, from the U.K., who evolved antibodies to ___(5)____ (a) combat, (b) support, (c) observe, (d) invite, autoimmune diseases and even metastatic cancer through a process called phage display.