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Sentence Completion 2

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Directions: Choose the best option to fill in the blanks.

Do you see in this very mixed phenomenon any ________ of a new ________ for modern civilisation, a new possibility of ________?

  1. sight; concern; mass

  2. reflux; budding; life

  3. hope; flowering; growth

  4. wane; profusion; evolution

  5. apprehension; problem; redundancy


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

In option (3), all the three fillers are in the same flow – a hope; a new flowering; a new possibility of ‘growth’.

Directions: The following passage has five blanks numbered 1 to 5. Choose the option from the alternatives (1), (2), (3), (4) and (5) to fill blank 1.

A serendipitous (1) __________ of Journey is that Nabisco now has the information it needs to create a 'full portfolio view' of new development projects. Senior managers quickly and easily see what they have in the pipeline and (2) __________ whether the company has the right product mix for the near and long terms. Putting together or (3) __________ a rolling eighteen-month aggregate plan used to be an enormous task that required someone to check with all project teams, track down numbers and (4) __________ information together manually, Journey does this automatically by generating a web-based report that lays out project (5) __________ along a timeline. In addition to this high-level view, managers get project-specific information by drilling down on a project.

  1. discovery

  2. benefit

  3. blemish

  4. chance

  5. affect


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

The paragraph is about a programme that furnishes all the needed information. ‘Serendipitous’ means something that was not planned, but was found by accident and is fortunate. So, only benefit fits here.   Hence, option (2) is the correct answer. 

Directions: The following passage has five blanks numbered 1 to 5. Choose the option from the alternatives (1), (2), (3), (4) and (5) to fill blank 3.

A serendipitous (1) __________ of Journey is that Nabisco now has the information it needs to create a 'full portfolio view' of new development projects. Senior managers quickly and easily see what they have in the pipeline and (2) __________ whether the company has the right product mix for the near and long terms. Putting together or (3) __________ a rolling eighteen-month aggregate plan used to be an enormous task that required someone to check with all project teams, track down numbers and (4) __________ information together manually, Journey does this automatically by generating a web-based report that lays out project (5) __________ along a timeline. In addition to this high-level view, managers get project-specific information by drilling down on a project.

  1. updating

  2. wanting

  3. knitting

  4. rolling

  5. gathering


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

‘Knitting’ would be rendered redundant by the use of ‘putting together’. ‘Wanting’, ‘rolling’ or ‘gathering’ are logically or grammatically inappropriate.

Hence, option (1) is the correct answer.

To know the Old and New Testaments by heart and be able to recite them _____, forward or backward, or begin at random anywhere in the book, and recite both ways, is no _____ mass of knowledge, compared to a pilot's massed knowledge of the Mississippi and his ________ facility in the handling of it.

  1. waveringly; rampant; dynamic

  2. glibly; extravagant; marvelous

  3. vacillatingly; exuberant; wonderful

  4. wobbly; scarce; entertaining

  5. gawkily; prolific; inherent


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Option (2): 'Glibly' is the only word that goes with knowing the Old and New Testaments by heart and reciting them forward or backward. This cramming up is no 'extravagant' mass of knowledge compared to a pilots 'marvelous' handling.

Directions: Choose the best option to fill in the blanks.

Hume is not content with reducing the ________ of a causal connection to experience of frequent conjunction; he proceeds to argue that such experience does not ________ the expectation of similar conjunctions in the future.

  1. instance; rationalise

  2. evidence; justify

  3. boundaries; preclude

  4. validity; extend

  5. conclusion; exculpate


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Hume is not content with reducing the ‘evidence’ (proof) of a causal connection (cause and effect) that is linked to experience of 'frequent conjunctions' (two things occurring together). There is no rational explanation (justification) to expect similar conjunction in future (as there is no 'evidence' of such causal connection).

Directions: The following passage has five blanks numbered 1 to 5. Choose the option from the alternatives (1), (2), (3), (4) and (5) to fill blank 2.

A serendipitous (1) __________ of Journey is that Nabisco now has the information it needs to create a 'full portfolio view' of new development projects. Senior managers quickly and easily see what they have in the pipeline and (2) __________ whether the company has the right product mix for the near and long terms. Putting together or (3) __________ a rolling eighteen-month aggregate plan used to be an enormous task that required someone to check with all project teams, track down numbers and (4) __________ information together manually, Journey does this automatically by generating a web-based report that lays out project (5) __________ along a timeline. In addition to this high-level view, managers get project-specific information by drilling down on a project.

  1. withstand

  2. acknowledge

  3. understand

  4. resolve

  5. challenge


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Managers gain from the programme, so they are able to ‘see’ and ‘understand’.

Hence, option (3) is the correct answer.

Directions: Choose the best option to fill in the blanks.

The Great Train Robbery appeared almost ________ compared to the ________ wave of terror that swept over Belgium in the early 1980s.

  1. lacerated, disastrous

  2. excusable, unarmed

  3. innocuous, sterile

  4. harmless, brutal

  5. incendiary, nocuous


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

The clue word in the sentence is 'compared', which implies that the two blanks must display two contrasting features. ‘Harmless’ and ‘brutal’ present such a contrast.

Directions: Choose the best option to fill in the blanks.

The ________ freemasons retained this classification in their so–called degrees; Freemasons also start out as ________ and then rise by ________ to the status of journeyman and master.

  1. ruinous; inured; increments

  2. speculative; apprentices; degrees

  3. inquisitive; veteran; accretion

  4. apathetic; novice; crescents

  5. oblivious; aspirants; upgradation


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

The first filler regarding ‘freemason’ can’t be negative. ‘Speculative’ and ‘inquisitive’ both fit the first blank. The operative word for the second blank is 'rise'. ‘Apprentices’ will rise by ‘degrees’ to become masters. 

Directions: The following passage has five blanks numbered 1 to 5. Choose the option from the alternatives (1), (2), (3), (4) and (5) to fill blank 5.

A serendipitous (1) __________ of Journey is that Nabisco now has the information it needs to create a 'full portfolio view' of new development projects. Senior managers quickly and easily see what they have in the pipeline and (2) __________ whether the company has the right product mix for the near and long terms. Putting together or (3) __________ a rolling eighteen-month aggregate plan used to be an enormous task that required someone to check with all project teams, track down numbers and (4) __________ information together manually, Journey does this automatically by generating a web-based report that lays out project (5) __________ along a timeline. In addition to this high-level view, managers get project-specific information by drilling down on a project.

  1. deadlines

  2. milestones

  3. benchmarks

  4. goals

  5. targets


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

‘Along a timeline’ would obviously mean ‘milestones’. Milestones means progress or development, i.e. how much is to be achieved within a given time frame.

Hence, option (2) is the correct answer.

Under great handicaps - indeed with an appetite ________ by privation - the westering pioneer cherished the crumbs of book learning and culture.

  1. imbued

  2. whetted

  3. tempted

  4. intimidated


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Option (2): The filler must be the one that stimulates learning because of great handicaps or deprivation. “Whet” meaning 'stimulate', fits in with appetite.

Directions: Choose the best option to fill in the blanks.

The use of laser technology is not as simple as it sounds; it has proved very ________ to use satellites to position equipment in space that can destroy the ________ controls of enemy aircraft.

  1. herculean; random

  2. difficult; steering

  3. facile; navigating

  4. conducive; manageable

  5. cretinous; instrumental


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

'Not as simple as it sounds' implies that laser technology has proved to be ‘herculean’ or ‘difficult’. ‘Steering controls of aircraft' fits in the given sentence.

Directions: The following passage has five blanks numbered 1 to 5. Choose the option from the alternatives (1), (2), (3), (4) and (5) to fill blank 4.

A serendipitous (1) __________ of Journey is that Nabisco now has the information it needs to create a 'full portfolio view' of new development projects. Senior managers quickly and easily see what they have in the pipeline and (2) __________ whether the company has the right product mix for the near and long terms. Putting together or (3) __________ a rolling eighteen-month aggregate plan used to be an enormous task that required someone to check with all project teams, track down numbers and (4) __________ information together manually, Journey does this automatically by generating a web-based report that lays out project (5) __________ along a timeline. In addition to this high-level view, managers get project-specific information by drilling down on a project.

  1. write

  2. motivate

  3. bring

  4. knit

  5. collate


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

The use of ‘together’ rules out ‘write’ and ‘motivate’. ‘Knit together' will be a better phrase in context than ‘bring together’.

Hence, option (4) is the correct answer.

Directions: Choose the best option to fill in the blanks.

It would seem that absolute qualities in art ________ us that we cannot escape viewing works of art in ________ of time and circumstance.

  1. edify; an exemplar

  2. frighten; truancy

  3. confuse; a welter

  4. elude; a context

  5. abash; consonance


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Option (4): ‘That we cannot escape’ means that the second part of the statement explains the concept in the first part. Absolute qualities in art 'elude' us means that we cannot escape ‘in a context of time and circumstance’.

Directions: Choose the best option to fill in the blanks.

The international art market is ________ with forged works of art, some of which are so convincing that even the experts can be ________.

  1. awash; deceived

  2. emphasise; staunched

  3. featured; questioned

  4. figured; unsuspected

  5. malingered; humbugged


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

 Option (1): The international art market is flooded or ‘awash’ with fake masterpieces or ‘forged art’. Some of these appear so genuine that even experts may be ‘deceived’. 

Directions: Choose the best option to fill in the blanks.

Among the properties of individual things, some are _____, other accidental; the accidental properties of a thing are those it can lose without losing its _____ such as wearing a hat, if you are a man.

  1. deliberate; property

  2. benevolent; demeanour

  3. enforced; personality

  4. essential; identity

  5. gradual; characteristic


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

‘Essential’ contrasts with ‘accidental’ as a type of property. Those it can lose without losing its ‘identity’ also makes sense.

Directions: Choose the best option to fill in the blanks.

It is one of the paradoxes in the ways of earth and sea that that a process seemingly so _____, so _____ in nature can result in an act of creation.

  1. destructive; catastrophic

  2. ruinous; serendipitous

  3. calamitous; salutary

  4. formulative; constructive

  5. devastating; noxious


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Option (1): The operative word in this sentence is “paradox”, which presents a contrast. As the process has ‘paradoxically’ resulted in an act of creation, the process has to be destructive. As both the blanks are in continuity, both should be negative. The suggested fillers here eminently meet the requirement.

Daytime interests are clearly not such far - reaching ________ sources of dreams as might have been expected from the ________ assertions that everyone continues to carry on his ________ business in his dreams.

  1. physical; dogmatic; daily

  2. homey; emphatic; customary

  3. ornate; transcendent; conventional

  4. psychical; categorical; daily

  5. enigmatic; interminable; canonical


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

 Option (4): Dreaming is a 'psychical' activity. 'Categorical' assertions seem to fit the second blank, as does 'daily' business. 

Directions: Choose the best option to fill in the blanks.

'My Experiments with Truth' is a/an ________ autobiography in which the author traces his fight against _____, his _____ succumbing, his devotional attachment to India and God and his people.

  1. flamboyant; temptations; frequent

  2. ostentations; enticement; sporadic

  3. conceited; incentives; incessant

  4. unpretentious; temptations; intermittent

  5. emulous; determinants; occasional


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

'My Experiments with Truth' and ‘devotional attachment to India and God and his people‘ suggest that a positive word fills the first blank. Also, the fight has to be against evil. ‘Unpretentious’ meaning simple; therefore replaces the first blank and ‘temptations’ fills the second.

However, man being man is the only ________ who kills for sport, knowing it to be a sport, thereby ________ all norms of civilized behaviour.

  1. beast; transferring

  2. creature; neglecting

  3. animal; transgressing

  4. brute; desecrating

  5. being; transcending


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Man is the only animal who kills for sport, thereby violating civilised behaviour. ‘Transgressing’ literally means violating.

Over these roads and ________ eagerly streamed the advance agents of civilization.

  1. cascades

  2. tributaries

  3. watercourses

  4. maunders


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Option (3): This sentence highlights a very general statement that almost all the civilization of the world advanced on roads and near water bodies. ”Water courses” is more general and broader term and includes all types of water bodies.

The ________ streams and marshes provided a ________ supply of seafood.

  1. meandering; steady

  2. unpredictable; fixed

  3. seasonal; steady

  4. tidal; limitless

  5. cascading; scarce


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

‘Tidal’ goes most appropriately with seafood.

After a lot of very serious, expensive and ________ laboratory research involving, for instance, telomeres in the chromosomes of certain cells, scientists have ________ there is a link between stress and aging.

  1. esoteric; negotiated

  2. blatant; analysed

  3. arcane; deferred

  4. esoteric; determined

  5. prolonged; surmised


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Option (4): The first blank must be in tandem with ‘serious’ and ‘expensive’ research. ‘Esoteric’ suits the first blank. “Determined” would give sense to the second blank as scientists have discovered something. 

The story is about a normal, happy, affluent American insurance salesman whose family is torn _____ when his wife is killed in a roadside rest stop attack.

  1. expurgated

  2. out

  3. asunder

  4. up

  5. away


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

 Option (3): Torn 'asunder' is the correct idiomatic use for life that is ripped apart.

Then the _________ distinction between Greek and English, between classic and Romantic schools, seems superficial and _________.

  1. flaunted; oblivious

  2. invective; cretinous

  3. approbated; verdant

  4. vaunted; pedantic

  5. aught; extraneous


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

'And' after 'superficial' means that the second filler should bear similarity to superficial. ‘Pedantic’ is an ostentatious display of knowledge or an instance of this. Moreover, 'vaunted' (to brag) characterises the first blank.

The argument seemed endless until Mary arrived and ________ away all the problems. .

  1. conjured

  2. negotiated

  3. argued

  4. settled


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Option (1): The clue word is 'away' after the blank. “Conjured” gives more sense to the blank as it means to cause or effect as if by magic. And 'conjured away' is the correct adverbial usage.

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