Which of the phrases could fit in blank (I) to make the statement grammatically correct and contextually meaningful?

roughly form the entities of modern-day
merely on territorial extent of its sovereignty
cursory survey of them
religious intermingling to new level of exploration
none of these

Correct answer: cursory survey of them

Solution

The sentence says it may be useful to take just a brief look at the events. "Cursory survey of them" fits both grammatically and contextually. The other options do not match the structure or meaning.

Related IBPS PO English questions

We have in America a collection of speech that is neither American, Oxford English, nor colloquial English, but a mixture of all three.
Alice Walker’s *The Temple of My Familiar*, far from being a tight, focused narrative, is instead a circuitous novel that roams freely and imaginatively over a half-million...
Jayashree was habitually so accommodating and erratic that her friends could not understand her sudden hostile outburst against her employers.
The village headman was unlettered, but he was no fool; he could see through the sophistry of the businessman’s proposition and promptly turned him down.
Directions (Q121–125): In each of the following questions, a short passage is given with one of the lines missing and represented by a blank. Select the best of the five answer choices given to make the passage complete and coherent. The Time Traveler (for so it will be convenient to speak of him) was expounding a recondite matter to us. His grey eyes shone and twinkled, and his usually pale face was flushed and animated. The fire burned brightly, and the soft radiance of the incandescent lights in the lilies of silver caught the bubbles that flashed and passed in our glasses. Our chairs, being his patents, embraced and caressed us rather than submitted to be sat upon, and there was that luxurious after-dinner atmosphere when thought roams gracefully free of the trammels of precision. (__________)
Let us understand the definition of metaphysics, a purely speculative science, which occupies a completely isolated position and is entirely independent of the teachings of experience. It deals with mere conceptions—not, like mathematics, with conceptions applied to intuition—and in it, reason is the pupil of itself alone. It is the oldest of the sciences. (__________)

⚔️ Practice IBPS PO English free + battle 1v1 →