Sentence And Paragraph Completion (Theme Based)
Description: Sentence And Paragraph Completion (Theme Based) | |
Number of Questions: 20 | |
Created by: Jayanti Mahajan | |
Tags: Sentence And Paragraph Completion (Theme Based) Sentence and Paragraph Completion (Theme Based) |
Directions: In the following question, an incomplete statement is provided which is most logically completed by one of the given options. Select the proper option.
The fundamental tenets are the same in all religions,
Directions: In the following question, an incomplete statement is provided which is most logically completed by one of the given options. Select the proper option.
The last couple of decades have been witness to a massive 'back to nature' movement in western societies.
Directions: The following question contains paragraph with sentence or phrase missing indicated parenthetically. From the alternatives, select the sentence or phrase that best provides the missing link. As an unseen planet orbits a distant star, the gravitational pull causes the star to move back and forth in space. ( _____ ). The AAT team measures the Doppler shift of stars to an accuracy of 3 metres per second –bicycling speed. This very high precision allows the team to find planets.
Directions: Read following passage and answer the given question. Unseasonableness is a tendency to do socially permissible things at the wrong time. The unseasonable man is the sort of person who comes to confide in you when you are busy. He serenades his beloved when she is ill. He asks a man who has just lost money by paying a bill for a friend to pay a bill for him. He invites a friend to go for a ride just after the friend has finished a long car trip. He is eager to offer services which are not wanted but which cannot be politely refused. If he is present at arbitration, he stirs up dissension between the two parties, who were really anxious to agree. Such is the unseasonable man.
The unseasonable man tends to
Directions: The following question contains paragraph with sentence or phrase missing indicated parenthetically. From the alternatives, select the sentence or phrase that best provides the missing link.
Those who argue that New Delhi must throw in its lot with Washington because _______, have at least got honesty on their side.
Directions: Read following passage and answer the given question. Unseasonableness is a tendency to do socially permissible things at the wrong time. The unseasonable man is the sort of person who comes to confide in you when you are busy. He serenades his beloved when she is ill. He asks a man who has just lost money by paying a bill for a friend to pay a bill for him. He invites a friend to go for a ride just after the friend has finished a long car trip. He is eager to offer services which are not wanted but which cannot be politely refused. If he is present at arbitration, he stirs up dissension between the two parties, who were really anxious to agree. Such is the unseasonable man.
The unseasonable man tends to
Directions: The following question contains paragraph with sentence or phrase missing indicated parenthetically. From the alternatives, select the sentence or phrase that best provides the missing link.
There is no area surrounding medical care that has as many experts, most of them hawking some new vitamin or nutritional supplement that will purport to "burn away fat" or transform me into a "muscled man to be envied". You do not have to go farther than the magazines at your home or office to find the vast variety of weight-loss products out there. Yet there is scant evidence for the claims that they make. (_____). It all comes down to the lax rules and regulations for supplements, which are seen as "foods" in the eyes of our advertising regulation system. Lots of money, lots of advertising and enticement, yet very little evidence or results.
Directions: The following question contains paragraph with sentence or phrase missing indicated parenthetically. From the alternatives, select the sentence or phrase that best provides the missing link.
In 1932, Carl David Anderson discovered the first anti-particle - the positron. By the 1950s the anti-proton and the anti-neutron had been discovered. The importance of these discoveries was not just the fact that a scientific theory had been proven. ( _____ ). This energy of mass annihilation is known as photon energy and it promises to be a major source for our energy requirements in the very near future.
Directions: The following question contains paragraph with sentence or phrase missing indicated parenthetically. From the alternatives, select the sentence or phrase that best provides the missing link.
There are people walking among us who don't care for works of fiction. For them, make-believe makes little sense in a world that is real and far more interesting than (____). In other words they take Oscar Wilde's dictum, “All art is quite useless”, quite seriously.
Directions: The following question contains paragraph with sentence or phrase missing indicated parenthetically. From the alternatives, select the sentence or phrase that best provides the missing link.
Any classical economist will tell you that for India to go beyond 7 per cent GDP growth, the investment rate and capital productivity need to be stepped up. ______. There is some truth in this. Compared to Southeast Asia and the newly industrialised economies, our productivity rates are abysmal, though improving.
Directions: The following question contains paragraph with sentence or phrase missing indicated parenthetically. From the alternatives, select the sentence or phrase that best provides the missing link.
Chinese foreign policy is seeking to make real the central legend that drives official Chinese history - (____) Such unbridled ambition poses a major challenge to international security. At the core of the challenge is the need for discreet limits on the exercise of Chinese power while respecting China’s right to be a world power.
Directions: The following question contains paragraph with sentence or phrase missing indicated parenthetically. From the alternatives, select the sentence or phrase that best provides the missing link.
When you are in sales and you come across a customer, you don’t want to think of that customer as a one time phenomenon. I can remember not too long ago when I was in Banking working as a branch manager, when I would meet with my staff every Monday morning to go over their individual weekly goals. I must say that they were very good sales people, (___). By this I mean, getting all of the customers business. I’m not saying that you should get all of the customers business in one sitting, but at least ask some probing questions so that you may compare your products and pricing to their existing ones.
Directions: In the following question, an incomplete statement is provided which is most logically completed by one of the given options. Select the proper option.
In the European Community countries there has been talk of an energy tax to raise funds
Directions: In the following question, an incomplete statement is provided which is most logically completed by one of the given options. Select the proper option.
“Look before you leap” reflects an attitude expressed in such a saying as
Directions: In the following question, an incomplete statement is provided which is most logically completed by one of the given options. Select the proper option.
The European Economic Community will be a major threat to the
Directions: A brief passage or a statement is given, and a question is asked, based on the information provided by the passage/statement. The question has four alternatives marked 1 to 4. Critically examine them and choose the best answer.
As per the law of floatation, when a body floats in a liquid, the weight of the body must be equal to the weight of the displaced liquid. Which of the following conditions completes the above law?
Directions: A brief passage or a statement is given, and a question is asked, based on the information provided by the passage/statement. The question has four alternatives marked from 1 to 4. Critically examine them and choose the best answer.
Astronomy is the science which studies the origin or nature of the planets, stars and solar system. Scientific study of astronomical matters in the past was handicapped
Directions: A brief passage or a statement is given, and a question is asked, based on the information provided by the passage/statement. The question has four alternatives marked from 1 to 4. Critically examine them and choose the best answer.
It is essential that school children learn improved facts about their country’s history. While teaching history, there has been a difference of opinion whether the young should be told only of the nation’s heroes. The obvious argument is that it would help them to have an appreciation of their virtues. But this ignores the fact that
Directions: A brief passage or a statement is given, and a question is asked, based on the information provided by the passage/statement. The question has four alternatives marked 1 to 4. Critically examine them and choose the best answer.
Which of the following if true, puts a legitimate doubt on the claims of the police?
Police has claimed that with imposition of speed limits, the number of deaths per kilometre driven, on a highway has been reduced substantially. But, there have been protests against the imposition of the speed limit, which itself has not been administered effectively.
Directions: A brief passage or a statement is given, and a question is asked, based on the information provided by the passage/statement. The question has four alternatives marked 1 to 4. Critically examine them and choose the best answer.
In many works of fiction, the heroes and heroines are either authors or actors or social figures. Very rarely is the common man, a plumber or an accountant, portrayed as a hero. The one reason for this would perhaps be