Sentence Completion
Sentence Completion Gap Fills Practice and Preparation Test for MBA Entrance, SAT, English, GMAT, CDS, SSC, Pharma and Insurance Exams
Questions
Directions: Choose the word or set of words for each blank that best fits the meaning of the sentence as a whole.
The notion that a parasite can alter the behavior of a host organism is not mere fiction; indeed, the phenomenon is not even _________.
- observable
- real
- comprehended
- rare
- imaginable
Directions: Choose the word or set of words for each blank that best fits the meaning of the sentence as a whole.
Art ________ science, but that does not mean that the artist must also be a scientist; an artist uses the fruits of science but need not ___________ the theories from which they derive.
- precedes … anticipate
- incorporates … understand
- transcends … abandon
- imitates … repudiate
- resembles … contest
Directions: Choose the word or set of words for each blank that best fits the meaning of the sentence as a whole.
In their preface, the editors plead that certain important articles they _________ were published too recently for inclusion, but in the case of many such articles, this _______ is not valid.
- discussed … replacement
- omitted … excuse
- revised … clarification
- disparaged … justification
- ignored … endorsement
Directions: Choose the word or set of words for each blank that best fits the meaning of the sentence as a whole.
Inspired interim responses to hitherto unknown problems, new deal economic stratagems became ________ as a result of bureaucratization, their flexibility and adaptability destroyed by their transformation into rigid policies.
- politicized
- consolidated
- ossified
- ungovernable
- streamlined
Directions: Choose the word or set of words for each blank that best fits the meaning of the sentence as a whole.
Du Bois’ foreign trips were the highlight, not the ________, of his travels; he was habitually on the go across and around the United States.
- idiosyncrasy
- result
- precursor
- culmination
- totality
Directions: Choose the word or set of words for each blank that best fits the meaning of the sentence as a whole.
Actual events in the history of life on Earth are accidental. In that outcome embodies just one _________ among millions; yet each outcome can be ___________ interpreted.
- coincidence … randomly
- relationship … predictably
- fact … readily
- happening .. uniquely
- possibility … rationally
Directions: Choose the word or set of words for each blank that best fits the meaning of the sentence as a whole.
The techniques now available to livestock breeders will continue to be _________, but will probably be __________ by new ones under development.
- fruitful … reversed
- refined …upgraded
- inconvenient … reassessed
- used … supplemented
- harmless … improved
Directions: Choose the word or set of words for each blank that best fits the meaning of the sentence as a whole.
In the machinelike world of classical physics, the human intellect appears ________, since the mechanical nature of classical physics does not ____________ creative reasoning, the very ability that had made the formulation of classical principles possible.
- anomalous … allow for
- abstract … speak for
- anachronistic … deny
- enduring .. value
- contradictory … exclude
Directions: Choose the word or set of words for each blank that best fits the meaning of the sentence as a whole.
The state is a network of exchanged benefits and beliefs, ________ between rulers and citizens based on those laws and procedures that are ________ to the maintenance of community.
- a compromise … inimical
- an interdependence … subsidiary
- a counterpoint … incidental
- an equivalence … prerequisite
- a reciprocity … conductive
Directions: Choose the word or set of words for each blank that best fits the meaning of the sentence as a whole.
Philosophical problems arise when people ask questions that, though very ________, have certain characteristics in common.
- relevant
- elementary
- abstract
- diverse
- controversial
Directions: Choose the word or set of words for each blank that best fits the meaning of the sentence as a whole.
Rumors, embroidered with detail, live on for years, neither denied nor confirmed, until they become accepted as fact even among people not known for their ___________.
- insight
- obstinacy
- introspection
- tolerance
- credulity
Directions: Choose the word or set of words for each blank that best fits the meaning of the sentence as a whole.
Although nothing could be further from the truth, freight railroads have been __________ of ________ the nation’s shift from oil to coal by charging exorbitant fees to transport coal.
- accused … impeding
- proud … accelerating
- guilty … delaying
- conscious … contributing to
- wary … interfering with
Directions: Choose the word or set of words for each blank that best fits the meaning of the sentence as a whole.
While she initially suffered the fate of many pioneers- the incomprehension of her colleagues - octogenarian Nobel laureate Barbara Mc Clintock has lived to _____________ the triumph of her once ____________ scientific theories.
- descry … innovative
- regret .. insignificant
- perpetuate … tentative
- enjoy … authoritative
- savor … heterodox
Directions: Choose the word or set of words for each blank that best fits the meaning of the sentence as a whole.
Changes of fashion and public taste are often __________ and resistant to analysis, and yet they are among the most ________ gauges of the state of the public’s collective consciousness.
- transparent ….useful
- ephemeral …sensitive
- faddish … underutilized
- arbitrary … problematic
- permanent … reliable
Directions: Choose the word or set of words for each blank that best fits the meaning of the sentence as a whole.
A leading chemist believes that many scientists have difficulty with stereochemistry because much of the relevant nomenclature is _________ , in such a way that it combines concepts that should be kept ____________.
- obscure … interrelated
- specialized … intact
- subtle … inviolate
- descriptive … separate
- imprecise … discrete
Directions: Choose the word or set of words for each blank that best fits the meaning of the sentence as a whole.
A war, even if fought for individual liberty and democratic rights, usually requires that these principles be ________, for they are __________ the regimentation and discipline necessary for military efficiency.
- espoused … contrary to
- suppressed … fulfilled through
- suspended … incompatible with
- followed … disruptive of
- rejected … inherent in
Directions: Choose the word or set of words for each blank that best fits the meaning of the sentence as a whole.
In many science fiction films, the opposition of good and evil is portrayed as a _________ between technology, which is ___________, and the errant will be of a depraved intellectual.
- fusion … useful
- struggle … dehumanizing
- parallel … unfettered
- conflict … beneficent
- similarity … malevolent
Directions: Choose the word or set of words for each blank that best fits the meaning of the sentence as a whole.
Although often extremely critical of the medical profession as a whole, people are rarely willing to treat their personal doctors with equal _________.
- impetuosity
- sarcasm
- mockery
- contempt
- condescension
Directions: Choose the word or set of words for each blank that best fits the meaning of the sentence as a whole.
Ironically, Carver’s precision in sketching lives on the edge of despair ensures that his stories will sometimes be read too narrowly, much as Dickens’ social - reformer role once caused his broader concerns to be ___________.
- ignored
- reinforced
- contradicted
- diminished
- diversified
Directions: Choose the word or set of words for each blank that best fits the meaning of the sentence as a whole.
As painted by the constable, the scene is not one of bucolic ________; rather it shows a striking emotional and intellectual _________.
- intensity … boredom
- complacence … detachment
- serenity … tension
- vitality … excitement
- nostalgia … placidity
Directions: Choose the word or set of words for each blank that best fits the meaning of the sentence as a whole.
Some palaeontologists debate whether the diversity of species has _________ since the Cambrian period or whether imperfections in the fossil record only suggest greater diversity today, while in actuality there has been either __________ or decreased diversity.
- changed … escalation
- increased .. stasis
- expanded … discontinuity
- declined … reduction
- improved … deviation
Directions: Choose the correct set of words to fill the blanks.
New research on technology and public policy focuses on how seemingly _____________ designs feature, generally overlooked in most analyses of public works, projects or industrial machinery, actually __________ social choices of profound significance.
- insignificant, mask
- inexpensive, produce
- innovative, represent
- ingenious, permit
- inopportune, hasten
Directions: Choose the correct set of words to fill in the blanks.
Even though the general’s carefully qualified public statement could hardly be _________, some people took ________ it.
- respected, liberties with
- inoffensive, umbrage at
- faulted, exception to
- credited, potshots at
- dismissed, interest in
Directions: Choose the word or set of words for each blank that best fits the meaning of the sentence as a whole.
As Juanita argued, this new code of conduct is laughable; its principles are either _________, offering no wisdom but the obvious, or are so devoid of specific advice as to make almost any action _________.
- irresolute … unlikely
- corroborative … redundant
- platitudinous … justifiable
- homogeneous … impartial
- labyrinthine … unacceptable
Directions: Choose the word or set of words for each blank that best fits the meaning of the sentence as a whole.
Liberty is not easy, but far better to be an ________ fox, hungry and threatened on its hill, than a __________ canary, safe and secure in its cage.
- unfriendly …fragile
- aging … young
- angry … content
- unfettered … well-fed
- imperious .. lethargic