Sentence Completion Questions and Answers

Answer: C

Something which is needed for life, even if it is in extremely small quantities, cannot be described as destructive to life, or insignificant to life, or extraneous to life. It can only be described as being essential to life. So (C) is the answer.

Answer: D

The use of the conjunction 'but' implies the existence of a contradiction within the sentence. Monomania means obsession, to the point of madness, with a single task or in any person. But the use of the conjunction but implies that the author of the sentence does not consider Murray's monomania as harmful. So the missing word must have a positive connotation. We can therefore eliminate the choices same (meaning cowardly), tendentious (meaning dishonest) and meretricious (meaning goudy). The statement "his innocuous (meaning harmless) one" does not make any sense. The phrase, "His monomania must be regarded as a beneficent or at least an innocuous one" makes eminent sense. So, (D) is the answer.

Answer: D

Correct answer: violent … calm

Unlike demands a contrast, so the two blanks must be opposites, and both must describe water conditions.

Only violent … calm is a genuine pair of opposites. Pure … clean and sublime … elevated-style pairings are near-synonyms, which the sentence structure forbids; salty … cool and windy … shallow name unrelated properties, so no contrast is set up at all.

Answer: B

The use of conjunction because shows that the first part of the sentence must be logical and consequent result of what is stated in the second part. The missing adjective. In the sentence must therefore describe a person who consistently shows distrust of human nature and human motives. Cynical is the exact word which describes such a person, and is the answer.

Answer: D

The second part of the sentence says that anyone who reads the ambassador's papers slowly and attentively will be richly repaid. The fact that one should read the papers slowly and attentively for getting the full benefit from them implies that what is contained in them is difficult material.

Among the choices, 'The ambassador's papers are not easy reading' is what brings out this meaning clearly and is the answer.

If his papers are not valuable or insightful reading, then no one can be richly repaid by reading them. So, (B) and (C) are wrong. The phrase 'petty reading' is not appropriate for an ambassador's papers.

Answer: A

The person referred to in the sentences is a crusader who wishes to make public servants accountable to people So, What would she have done to the unscrupulous and self-indulgent politicians of the nation? Among the choices, 'exposed them' is the only appropriate choice.

Answer: D

If the technical jargon used by Dr. Chambers could not be understood by anyone except a few of her own co-workers, she mast have been working in highly specialized field and not in a highly unstable, or regarded or controversial or subsidized field. So, (D) is the answer.

Answer: A

The phrase although their pronunciations have changed indicates an implied contrast between the two parts of the sentence. This means that the spellings of the words (referred to in the first part) must have remained unchanged over a period of time. The only word among the choices which means unchanged is preserved, which is the answer.

Answer: D

Correct answer: poor

But reverses the direction of the sentence. The first clause establishes that Nina usually gets good grades, so the last test must have gone the other way.

Excellent would agree with the first clause rather than contrast with it, leaving but with nothing to do. Common and competitive do not describe how well a score turned out.

Answer: A

(Cosmos means universe) The use of the conjunction because implies that the second part of the sentence must be logical consequence of the first part. The first part says that modem scientists find the ancient view of the universe outdated and irrelevant. If so, what will be the nature of their interest in such an outdated and irrelevant view ? Certainly not intrinsic or astronomical or experimental (because astronomical theories, unlike theories of physics or chemistry are not based on experiment, but are based on observation). The phrase 'superfluous interest' does not convey any meaning to the given sentence. "That the modern scientists consider the outdated Greek theory as of only historical interest" completes a cogent sentence So, (A) is the answer.