Mr. Bhagat, a loco pilot of the Bamanhat-Siliguri Jn. passenger train applied the brakes after spotting a __________ of elephants close to the track between Sivok and Gumla stations in northern West Bengal on August 24 evening. My assistant [Mr. Kumar] spotted the_____ at about 5.35 p.m. The __________ was not visible from my side of the locomotive because of a bend in the track.
Options:
A .  herd
B .  pronouncement
C .  army
D .  fleet
E .  swarm
Answer: Option A Answer: (a)Only the option (a) ‘herd’, upon filling the blanks, satisfy the contextual and grammatical requirements of the blanks. Hence, Option (a) is the correct answer. herd [noun] means ‘a large group of animals, especially hoofed mammals, that live together or are kept together as livestock’; Pronouncement [noun] means ‘a formal or authoritative announcement or declaration’; Army [noun] means ‘a group of soldiers’; Fleet [noun] means ‘a group of ships’; Swarm [noun] means ‘a large group of flying insects’;
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