Direction: in the following question two columns are given containing three sentences each. In the first column A, B and C sentences are given with one blank in any of the sentences and in the second column D, E and F sentences are given. A sentence from the first column may or may not connect with a sentence from another column to form a grammatically and contextually correct match. You have to select the option that indicate the word which will be filled in the blank and pair/pairs of the sentences that can be joined to form a grammatically and contextually correct match.

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(A) The life history of the poor pastoralists who depended only on their livestock was different. Most often, they did not have the resources to ________bad times, (D) Yamanouchi Pharmaceuticals of Japan and Microsoft have made web-based information system an important part of improving quality and speed of answer to customers' technical questions.

(B) A group of several thousand people marched towards the eastern part of the city and stormed the fortress-prison, the Bastille, (E) in times of war and famine, they lost nearly everything.

(C) Knowledge management can be used to make response to customers faster. (F) where they hoped to find hoarded ammunition. In the armed fight that followed, the commander of the Bastille was killed and the prisoners released.

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IBPS PO Mains Memory Based Paper (Held on:26th November 2022)

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Answer 1

The correct answer is option (4) i.e. tide over, C-D, A-E

Key Points

The correct syntax is:
- "The life history of the poor pastoralists who depended only on their livestock was different. Most often, they did not have the resources to tide over bad times. In times of war and famine, they lost nearly everything."
- "Knowledge management can be used to make response to customers faster. Yamanouchi Pharmaceuticals of Japan and Microsoft have made web-based information system an important part of improving quality and speed of answer to customers' technical questions."

Hence, the correct answer is tide over, C-D, A-E

Additional Information

tide over: help or assistant in difficult time or manage difficult situation.
- example: tide over bad time. (manage bad time)

column - I	column - II
(A) The life history of the poor pastoralists who depended only on their livestock was different. Most often, they did not have the resources to ________bad times,	(D) Yamanouchi Pharmaceuticals of Japan and Microsoft have made web-based information system an important part of improving quality and speed of answer to customers' technical questions.
(B) A group of several thousand people marched towards the eastern part of the city and stormed the fortress-prison, the Bastille,	(E) in times of war and famine, they lost nearly everything.
(C) Knowledge management can be used to make response to customers faster.	(F) where they hoped to find hoarded ammunition. In the armed fight that followed, the commander of the Bastille was killed and the prisoners released.