Sentence Completion
English sentence completion questions for MBA, MCA, NDA, and Law entrance exam preparation
Questions
Directions: The following passage has five blanks numbered 1 to 5. Choose the word from the alternatives (1), (2), (3), (4) and (5) that best fills in the second blank.
The collapse of capital and money market is so (1)_________ that Ministry of Finance is very concerned and this collapse in turn is restricting industrial (2). The government is also wary of the reforms, the (3) _________ reports. It wants a meeting with all concerned to (4) fears about the collapse. The Government is reported to be considering all possible (5)_________ before a decision is arrived.
- production
- policy
- pricing
- scenario
- development
Directions: The following passage has five blanks numbered 1 to 5. Choose the word from the alternatives (1), (2), (3), (4) and (5) that best fills in the third blank.
The collapse of capital and money market is so (1)_________ that Ministry of Finance is very concerned and this collapse in turn is restricting industrial (2). The government is also wary of the reforms, the (3) _________ reports. It wants a meeting with all concerned to (4) fears about the collapse. The Government is reported to be considering all possible (5)_________ before a decision is arrived.
- commission
- committee
- panel
- board
Directions: The following passage has five blanks numbered 1 to 5. Choose the word from the alternatives (1), (2), (3), (4) and (5) that best fills in the fifth blank.
The collapse of capital and money market is so (1)_________ that Ministry of Finance is very concerned and this collapse in turn is restricting industrial (2). The government is also wary of the reforms, the (3) _________ reports. It wants a meeting with all concerned to (4) fears about the collapse. The Government is reported to be considering all possible (5)_________ before a decision is arrived.
- possibilities
- alternatives
- actions
- consequences
- steps
Directions: The following passage has five blanks numbered 1 to 5. Choose the word from the alternatives (1), (2), (3), (4) and (5) that best fills in the fourth blank.
The collapse of capital and money market is so (1)_________ that Ministry of Finance is very concerned and this collapse in turn is restricting industrial (2). The government is also wary of the reforms, the (3) _________ reports. It wants a meeting with all concerned to (4) fears about the collapse. The Government is reported to be considering all possible (5)_________ before a decision is arrived.
- remove
- allay
- dear
- soothe
- remedy
Jose Maria Escriva was an ________ priest who succeeded in opening new ________ horizons for missionary and ________ work.
- excellent, avant-garde, irksome
- execrable, disciplinary, scriptural
- offensive, missionary, proselytize
- exemplary, apostolic, evangelical
- apathetic, proselyte, ecclesiastical
As a phenomenon, apart from what is underneath it all, this interest in ________ experience - or whatever one wants to call it - seems to be a kind of seed - ground from which certain unusual people aside from all the ________ and all the deceivers, certain Masters perhaps, may ________ up.
- <span style="font-size:">transcending, phoneyness, spring
- <span style="font-size:">trailing, shams, widen
- <span style="font-size:">undergoing, literals, hasten
- <span style="font-size:">exhibiting, officials, wave
Directions: The following passage has five blanks numbered 1 to 5. Choose the word from the alternatives (1), (2), (3), (4) and (5) that best fills in the first blank.
The collapse of capital and money market is so (1)_________ that Ministry of Finance is very concerned and this collapse in turn is restricting industrial (2). The government is also wary of the reforms, the (3) _________ reports. It wants a meeting with all concerned to (4) fears about the collapse. The Government is reported to be considering all possible (5)_________ before a decision is arrived.
- colossal
- sharp
- bad
- steep
- high
Directions: Choose the best option to fill in the blanks.
The ________ of religion expressed by Epicures and Lucretius is not altogether easy to understand, if one accepts the conventional accounts of the ________ of the Greek religion and ritual.
- symbolism, enigma
- adulation, interrogation
- hatred, cheerfulness
- trauma, grandness
- implacability, reconnaissance
The inventor had to ________ his idea for several months.
- organize
- sift through
- mull over
- remember
- cogitate
Directions: Choose the best option to fill in the blanks.
The impact of the recently published collection of essays, written during and about the last presidential campaign, is lessened by its timing; it comes too late to affect us with its ________ and too soon for us to read it out of historical ________.
- foresight, anxiety
- veracity, respect
- assuredness, skepticism
- immediacy, curiosity
- revelation, surfeit
Directions: Choose the best option to fill in the blanks.
When what “Mark Twain” was writing was in circuit with his ________ perceptions he was superb; the breaking of the circuit always threw him into extemporization, which meant that fiction fell away into ________ and satire into ________.
- wildest, tranquility, staid
- faulty, rationality, slack
- minimising, frugality, parody
- deepest, extravaganza, burlesque
- keen, prodigality, asinine
Because the House has the votes to override a presidential veto, the President has no choice but to ________.
- abdicate
- abstain
- capitulate
- compromise
- countermand
Directions: Choose the best option to fill in the blanks.
If every perception is a case of knowledge, then evidently there are no ________, and where there is an empirical ________, say between Jones who finds the wind chilly and Smith who finds it warm, both must in a sense be right.
- apparition, agreement
- datum, congruity
- illusions, disagreement
- facts, dispute
- assertions, accidence
Directions: In the following sentence, there are two blank spaces. Find out which pair of words can be used to fill in the blanks in the sentence in the same sequence to make the sentence meaningful and complete.
Shakespeare's ________ of Richard III is so ________ that it is difficult to imagine that the ruler had been dead for more than a century before the Bard cast him as the central character in one of his plays.
- caricature, inventive
- expression, droll
- depiction, vivid
- rendition, candid
- treatment, poignant
Directions: In the following sentence, there are two blank spaces. Find out which pair of words can be used to fill in the blanks in the sentence in the same sequence to make the sentence meaningful and complete.
When listening to a medieval Gregorian chant, the listener does not encounter the composer's individual personality; ________, the chant merely ________ both the musical and religious rules of the period.
- moreover, ricochet
- rather, embodies
- instead, belies
- in other words, reverberate
- for him, reverberates
The subject of the vanishing job has special ________ when considering General Electric, partly because GE jobs were so ________ in another era and partly because the company has earned record profits while eliminating them.
- poignancy, plentiful
- repercussions, sporadic
- contrivance, deficient
- piquancy, sprinkling
- ramifications, abundant
“When there is complete ________ of division between the observer and the observed, then ‘what is’ is no longer ________”.
- truce, existential
- impasse, paramount
- assent, of importance
- cessation, what is
- concurrence, extant
Al Manar, an Arabic channel run by the Hezbollah militia in Lebanon, beams hate - infused ________ across France, and the government has been unable to stop it.
- <span style="font-size:">pretension
- <span style="font-size:">diatribes
- <span style="font-size:">conversance
- <span style="font-size:">blandishment
And is there really anything like a ‘soft killer technology’, or are these ________ simply designed to ________ the general public?
- genteelisms; apprehend
- horns; anticipate
- euphemisms; confuse
- hammer and tongs; derange
- rhetorics; addle
The Age of Enlightenment, one of the greatest periods of history for intellectual activity, showed a proclivity for sophistry and ________argumentation.
- <span style="font-size:">credible
- <span style="font-size:">specious
- <span style="font-size:">gossamer
- <span style="font-size:">effective
While Mrs. Gandhi stood like a ________ against India's natural tendency towards ________ on the basis of caste, religion and ethnicity, she ignored the ________ and left it in the hands of ideologues and Xenophobes who always hated MNCs.
- Himalaya, division, country
- deterrent, fission, economy
- rock, splinter, economy
- rock, disintegration, nation
- Goliath, differentiate, detail
The farmer studied the ________ clouds thoughtfully.
- ominous
- billowing
- gloomy
- feathery
- spreading
Created to defend the ________ and to convert unbelievers in many lands to Christianity, the society of Jesus - better known as the 'Jesuits' - found themselves ________ in political ________ almost from the beginning of their existence.
- <span style="font-size:">Vatican, entangled, foursquare
- <span style="font-size:">pontiff, inculpable, trickery
- <span style="font-size:">papacy, embroiled, skullduggery
- <span style="font-size:">Holy Sec, angelic, impeachment
Because American historians, in their eagerness to present facts and their ________ anxiety to tell the truth, have ________ the literary aspects of their craft.
- <span style="font-size:">bewildered, rated
- <span style="font-size:">laudable, neglected
- <span style="font-size:">erudite, highlighted
- <span style="font-size:">immature, heeded