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SENTENCE COMPLETION
This test is, indeed, very interesting, intriguing and sometimes challenging. Quite often, the answer choices look almost the same and similar. Students should have shrewdness of thinking and soundness of judgement to answer questions of this kind. Most of these questions are based on the common sense approach and the feel of the sentence. This should in time become automatic.
Before attempting the questions, students will have to ask themselves the following questions.
- What does the sentence mean ?
- Which words will best fit in the blanks ?
- What part of speech is needed to fill the blanks?
1. We lost _________ in him because he never _________ the grandiose promises he had made.
- faith, retreated from
- belief, forgot about
- hope, tired of
- trust, reneged on
- confidence, delivered on
Explanation : Choices 1, 2, 3, 4 can be discarded in the first glance. Lack of agreement in meaning between the two words in the pairs compels us to do so. `5' is the correct choice.
2. As a child, she had been _________ by her mother and this experience had left an _________ mark.
- abused, indelible
- scolded, perishable
- loved, erudite
- thrashed, indigent
- inoculated, passive
Explanation : Based on the article, preceding the second blank we can eliminate choices '2' and `5'. By their meaning choices '3' and '4' do not fit in the blanks. Since, the two words 'indelible' and 'mark' are said to be collocations the answer choice '1' claims to be the correct choice.
3. He has _________ tongue, his pinching sarcasm has _________ everyone who has come into contact with him.
- wanton, immunised
- vitriolic, alienated
- pungent, animated
- recalcitrant, humanised
- obsequious, adulated
Explanation : Go for the second blank first. `sarcasm' means saying the opposite of what you mean. When you say 'that will be useful' with sarcasm you mean 'you really thought it would not be useful at all'. Such 'pinching sarcasm' will fetch no friends to you in future. You have thus alienated everyone. Those who are thus "pinchingly sarcastic' have a vitriolic tongue i.e. their words are full of bitterness and hate, and so cause a lot of distress and pain. `2' is the correct choice.
4. The _________ had a _________ effect on the audience.
- martinet, pernicious
- patrimony, depraved
- epilogue, salubrious
- elixir, blatant
- cudgel, brusque
5. One of the things we learned in health class is that when eating, it is important to _________ thoroughly in order for proper _________ to occur.
- rankle, temerity
- transmute, veneration
- masticate, digestion
- mitigate, digestion
- query, power
Explanation : It is obvious that choices '1', '2' and `5' are not pertinent to food matters which the sentence is referring to. Eliminate them. As the word 'Mitigate' in choice '4' gives a distant meaning, it can also be discarded. Hence, the correct choice is '3'.
6. After such _________ meal, we were all quick to _________ Lasya for her delicious cooking.
- fearful, congratulate
- a heavy, thank
- an enormous, console
- a wonderful, applaud
- a delightful, avoid
7. The most technologically advanced societies have been responsible for the greatest _________ ; indeed, savagery seems to be in direct proportion to _________
- wars, viciousness
- catastrophes,
- atrocities, development
- inventions, know-how
- triumphs, civilization.
Explanation : The second part "savagery seems to be in direct proportion to" requires opposite word to 'savagery'. So, choices '1', '2' and `4' can be discarded in the first instance. Since the first part demands a negative word, we can say '3' is the correct answer.
8. In eighth-century Japan, people who _________ wasteland were rewarded with official ranks as part of an effort to overcome the shortage of _________ fields.
- conserved, forested
- reclaimed, arable
- cultivated, domestic
- irrigated, accessible
- located, desirable.
Explanation : The first words of three answer choices '1', '3' and '4' are very close in meaning, and so, they are not a possibility. Since the two words 'arable' and 'fields' are a collocation we can say '2' is the correct choice.
9. While the market moved in a narrow range, software stocks saw another _________ of_________ buying.
- suspense, friendly
- chaos, beguiling
- analogy - oblique
- bout, frenzied
- action, packed
10. I should be sorry to _________ any poet's mind with my _________ wit.
- yield, merciless
- convert, salient
- vex, shallow
- relieve, redolent
- question, imposing
Friends, please read the above lesson properly. In my next post I will share some practice questions of Sentence Completion. Happy Reading :)
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