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Sentence Completion

Description: Sentence Completion
Number of Questions: 25
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Tags: English MBA UPSC Bank. B.Ed M.Ed Sentence Completion (Gap fills) Idioms and Phrases
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Directions: Fill in the blank.

An employment advertisement should ______ the number of vacancies.

  1. provide

  2. specify

  3. contain

  4. declare


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

 “Specify’ is the correct word which refers to “mention or state”.

Directions: Fill in the blank.

Dowry is no longer permitted by law even in _______ marriages.

  1. natural

  2. conventional

  3. love

  4. polygamous


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Even in Conventional marriage refers to “traditional “marriage “polygamous” refers to “having many wives”

Directions: Fill in the blank.

Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson is considered to be the greatest biography _____ written.

  1. not

  2. without

  3. ever

  4. never


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Correct idiomatic phrase is “greatest ever”

Directions: Fill in the blank.

Contemporary economic development differs ______ from the Industrial Revolution of the 19th century.

  1. usually

  2. specially

  3. literally

  4. markedly


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

The sentence here refers to the vast difference today and in 19th century thus showing contrast therefore the correct word is “markedly”

Directions: Fill in the blank.

The good products are often ______ alot.

  1. bury

  2. inters

  3. sold

  4. exhume


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

“Sold' is the correct answer. 'Exhume' refers to “dig out” which is out of context.

Directions: Fill in the blank.

More men adore the sun rising than the sun _______.

  1. shining

  2. setting

  3. darkening

  4. brazening


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

'Sun rising' goes hand in hand with the word “Sun setting”

Directions: Fill in the blank.

We were brought up in a village and my grandfather was a simple _______ and quite illiterate.

  1. pheasant

  2. peasant

  3. pleasant

  4. man


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

The word “ peasant” refers to” simple farmer “ who was literate.

Directions: Fill in the blank.

Children below the age of 12 can be tried only by the ______ Court.

  1. supreme

  2. high

  3. district

  4. juvenile


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Juvenile refers to “for children” or childlike. thus it is the correct answer. 

Directions: Fill in the blank.

It is time that professors came down from their _____ towers and studied the real needs of the students.

  1. gold

  2. silver

  3. clock

  4. isolated


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

 Isolated is the correct answer in reference to the sentence which means the professors should first understand the actual need of the student.

Directions: Fill in the blank.

Everyone was _______ by surprise when the announced her plan to marry that boy.

  1. moved

  2. shaken

  3. taken

  4. deadened


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

“taken by “ is the correct phrase

Directions: Fill in the blanks.

Women should be paid the same as men when they do the same job, for surely, what is sauce for the _______ is sauce for the _______.

  1. goose, gander

  2. cock, hen

  3. fox, vixen

  4. duck, doe


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

The correct proverb” what is good sauce for a goose, is good for a gander” which refers to “What is suitable for a woman is suitable for a man”

Directions: Fill in the blank.

The bloodbath that _____ the assassination is now part of history.

  1. ensued

  2. led

  3. dissipated

  4. anticipated


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

”ensued” refers to “follow in order” which is the best answer. Whereas “dissipated refers to “scatter in all direction.” Anticipated refers to “waiting eagerly for” thus out of context. 

Directions: Fill in the blank.

Our ______ lived in caves and used crude implements.

  1. ancients

  2. ancestors

  3. antecedents

  4. antipodes


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Correct word is “ancestors” other options are out of context “antecedent” refers to “prior events” and antipodes refer to opposite each other.

Directions: Fill in the blank.

His bad driving almost _____ an accident.

  1. created

  2. caused

  3. resulted

  4. made


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

“Cause“ something

Directions: Fill in the blank.

Known as a devout and serious person; she also has a ____ sense of humour.

  1. better

  2. plentiful

  3. quick

  4. good


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Good sense of humor is the correct phrase 

Directions: Fill in the blank.

Ravi was always _____ of the good fortune of others.

  1. miserable

  2. irritable

  3. greedy

  4. envious


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Envious refers to “jealous”

Directions: Fill in the blank.

The victim tried to tell us what had happened but his ____ were not audible.

  1. assailants

  2. sounds

  3. letters

  4. words


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Words were not clear. An assailant refers to “person who attacks “which is out of context. 

Directions: Fill in the blank.

Continuous unemployment has induced in the people a kind of ______ which is most depressing.

  1. laziness

  2. encouragement

  3. satisfaction

  4. anger


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Note the word “depressing “ qualities which lead …thus “laziness”

Directions: Fill in the blank.

I am sorry that I have been unable to find a suitable vacancy for you. The _____ is that most of the vacancies require technical qualification that you do not possess.

  1. difficulty

  2. trouble

  3. atmosphere

  4. offer


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Difficulty is the most suitable answer. Other options are out of context.

Directions: Fill in the blank.

My very thoughts were like the _____ rustle of dead leaves.

  1. lively

  2. funny

  3. welcome

  4. ghostly


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Note the word “dead leaves” thus the best word related to it is “ghostly”

Directions: Fill in the blank.

Two of the fugitives managed to remain free by adeptly avoiding the _______ of the police.

  1. pursuit

  2. discovery

  3. following

  4. expression


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Pursuit refers to “search”

Directions: Fill in the blank.

Survival of mankind itself is in danger due to _____ of atomic weapons.

  1. perpetuation

  2. regularisation

  3. provocation

  4. proliferation


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

perpetuation-“enduring for ever” regularization-to make regular.

Provocation-instigate.

Proliferation-rapid and often excessive speed or increase in thus it the correct answer 

Directions: Fill in the blank.

The writer, like a spider, _____ a web; the creatures caught in the web have no substance, no reality.

  1. spins

  2. catches

  3. writes

  4. compiles


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Spider “spins web”.

Directions: Fill in the blanks.

______ my knowledge, Mr. Ashok has a prejudice ______ foreigners.

  1. In, for

  2. As, towards

  3. For, at

  4. To, against


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

“In” my knowledge “for” foreigners

Directions: Fill in the blank.

The police _______ him of stealing a car.

  1. charged into

  2. warned

  3. accused

  4. threatened


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Accused refers to “charged of guilt”

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