Sentence Completion Questions and Answers

Answer: B

Correct answer: misanthrope

The semicolon defines the word for you: he hated the rest of mankind. A misanthrope is exactly that - someone who hates humanity.

A philanthropist loves humanity and is the direct opposite; a hypochondriac is preoccupied with his own health; a hedonist pursues pleasure. None of the three has anything to do with hatred of other people.

Answer: A

What the sentence says is that an infant's reactions to its first stressful experiences are part of a natural process of development and are not " harbingers (meaning forerunners of indicators) of childhood unhappiness or.... of adolescent anxiety" The parallel structure employed by the author in this sentence indicates that the missing word must have meaning similar to harbingers. Among the choices, prophetic is the only word with such a meaning and is the answer.

Answer: C

A 'Take home examination' means an examination in which the question paper is allowed to be taken home by a student for being answered by himself, and then submitted to his teacher for valuation). The sentence seeks to contrast the attitudes of two sets of students-those who interpret the honour code strictly, and those who do not consider it wrong to answer the take-home examinations on behalf of other less intelligent students. Obviously, those students who interpret the honour code strictly would hold that no student should attempt to answer the take-home examination on behalf of another student. They would, therefore, not consider the practice of a brighter student answering the home examination of a less bright student as remedial, or irreproachable or irrelevant. They would certainly consider this practice as unconscionable (meaning against one's conscience or immoral). So, (C) is the answer

Answer: D

Correct answer: choleric

The sentence is a balanced contrast: Palmer is given two qualities, Frazer two, and they must oppose each other. Boastful already opposes courteous, so the blank must oppose reserved.

Choleric - hot-tempered, quick to anger - is the opposite of reserved. Constrained, phlegmatic and tractable all suggest restraint, which would make the two artists alike and destroy the contrast the sentence announces.

Answer: B

If the clan system serves as method of checks and balances the natural result will be that any one clan cannot assume authoritarian rule over all the others. So the obvious role of the clan system is to prevent the emergence of such an authoritarian rule. So, (B) is the answer.You can easily verify that none of the other choices lends a logical meaning to the given sentence.