Sentence Completion Questions and Answers

Answer: B

The answer is the more I like it: The longer I live here, the more I like it.

This is the double comparative, 'the + comparative ..., the + comparative ...', which shows two things increasing together, as in the sooner, the better. Once the first half begins 'The longer', the second half must also begin with 'the' and a comparative.

'I like it more' and 'more I like it' break the paired pattern by dropping 'the', and 'I like more it' also has the wrong word order, putting 'more' between the verb and its object.

Answer: D

Apparently, the author of the sentence and his friends were under the impression that the woman was supporting its favour, what would they have newly learnt about her support to the program? Obviously that such support was only half-hearted. The phrase, "It was less than whole-hearted" expresses just this, and is the answer.

Answer: A

Correct answer: pellucid

Formerly signals that the water used to be the opposite of what pollution has made it. Since the fish are no longer visible from the surface, the water must once have been clear.

Pellucid means transparently clear. Muddy and stagnant describe the polluted state, not the earlier one, and tranquil refers to stillness, which has no bearing on whether fish can be seen.

Answer: C

The use of the phrase 'divulging his frank opinions' implies that the employee did not agree with the proposals of the company. But if he felt intimidated, what would he do with these opinions? He would either keep them to himself or merely hint at them, being afraid of expressing them openly, Chary of (meaning being cautious about) is the phrase which conveys this meaning, and is the .answer.

Answer: A

Correct answer: commodities

The sentence rests on the analogy ecology, like economics, so the missing word has to work in both fields. It also has to fit valuable and to be something that moves through a network of producers and consumers.

Commodities does all three: economics moves goods, ecology moves matter and energy through food chains, and both are described in the language of production and consumption. Nutrients is true of ecology alone and so breaks the analogy the sentence is built on; dividends and communications belong to neither network.

Answer: B

The use of the conjunction although indicates an implied contrast within the sentence. The latter part of the sentence says that, when tempered with other elements, the substance referred to could be stored safely in metal containers. So, the first part should mean that the normal property of the substance is to corrode metal containers. Among the choices, it is only the word caustic that has this meaning, and is the answer.

Answer: A

The first part of the sentence means that, in folk art, intense feeling of the artist takes precedence over technical mastery. This will obviously make it easier for the artist to communicate his emotion to the viewer directly. Among the given choices, it is facilitates that has this meaning, and is the answer.

Answer: A

The committee mentioned in the sentence has obviously studied some specific problems, and has offered suggestions to solve them. If the committee has also warned that the non-implementation of these suggestions would eventually render the problems insoluble, it means that, according to it, these problems would become worse with the passage of time. Among the choices, exacerbated is the only word which has this meaning, and is the answer. (Insurmountable and insoluble have the same meaning: therefore, it is not logical to say that 'insurmountable problems would eventually become insoluble problems' would eventually become insoluble. So, (B) is not the appropriate choice.

Answer: D

The sentence refers to the relative impacts of cultural and biological influences on cross-cultural diversity (meaning diversity in culture within the same population). The second port says categorically that the fact is that, in countless aspects of human existence, it is the cultural programming that overwhelmingly accounts for cross-population variance. Since this is contrasted with the notion hinted in the first part of the sentence (by the use of the phrase 'discredited by the fact'), that notion must be either that it is the biological influences that have such an overwhelming impact, or that the biological influences have at least as strong an impact as cultural influences over cross-cultural diversity. Among the choices, the word equally lends the second of these meanings to the given sentence, and is the answer.

Answer: A

Correct answer: implications - veracity

The last clause settles the second blank: the student was nothing if not reliable, so Symes had no reason to doubt the truthfulness of the results. Veracity is that word, and impudence and folly are not qualities one would doubt in results at all.

Although then requires the first blank to be troubling. What alarms him is what the results might mean - their implications. Errors would fit the alarm but contradict the second half, since errors are precisely a reason to doubt the results.