Sentence Completion
Sentence completion test covers questions for competitive exam preparations like SAT.
Questions
Directions: Choose the correct pair to fill the blanks in the given sentence.
As the young generation finds itself _____ in the cobweb of mechanical lifestyles, the strings of a very special bond seem to _____.
- trapped, weaken
- inveigled, wane
- trapped, dilate
- enticed, mend
- trammeled, weaken
Directions: Choose the correct pair to fill the blanks in the given sentence.
Making borrowing more expensive by raising interest rates may address the issue of higher prices and would help _____ a fall in the rupee, but would most likely _____ growth further.
- obstruct, boost
- suppress, stop
- contain, spur
- arrest, hurt
- surge, advance
Directions: Choose the correct pair of words to fill the blanks in the given sentence.
The rising inflation has added to the array of problems for the government ______ to steer the country out of an economic _____.
- struggling; chaos
- combative; situation
- battling; mess
- battling; predicament
- supporting; shambles
Directions: Choose the correct pair to fill the blanks in the given sentence.
_____ around the world is the kind of _______ he is known for.
- Communicating, spice
- Gallivanting, people
- Flying, virtue
- Gallivanting, caprice
- Communicating, caprice
Directions: Choose the correct pair of words to fill the blanks in the given sentence.
The enemies of socialism never ceased to _____ at its supposed attachment to regimentation and _____.
- applaud; uniformity
- sneer; freewheeling
- sneer; uniformity
- applaud; anarchy
- endorse; orientation
Directions: Choose the correct pair to fill the blanks in the given sentence.
Science fiction is a literary _______ which postulates a change from conditions as we know them and follows the implications of these changes to a ______.
- masterpiece, decisive point
- imagination, fantasy
- genre, logical end
- piece, vertical end
- novel, climax
Directions: Choose the correct pair to fill the blanks in the given sentence.
Though we Indians are multi-lingual, multi- religious, our identities are ______, our personalities scattered and our loyalties ______.
- battered, spread
- broken, united
- integrated, grouped
- splintered, divided
- smashed, segregated
Directions: Choose the correct pair of words to fill the blanks in the given sentence.
The thought of a nuclear _____ sparked off by a misunderstanding poses an awesome _____.
- device; reverberation
- holocaust; spectre
- explosion; calamity
- war; probability
- holocaust; resonance
Directions: Choose the correct pair to fill the blanks in the given sentence.
After the speaker was _______ for voicing a radical opinion, the audience expected her stance to ______, but she continued in the same vein.
- complimented, shift
- admonished, continue
- exhorted, correct
- admonished, change
- indicted, appease
Directions: Choose the correct pair of words to fill the blanks in the given sentence.
I do not socialize with the people I work ____, I have my own set of friends and I intend to keep some sort of _____ between my friends and my work.
- on; differentiation
- off; differentiate
- with; differentiation
- along; differentiate
- with; proximity
Directions: Choose the correct pair of words to fill the blanks in the given sentence.
It is a wonder that so many people complain about the ____ of urban life, but do not do anything to ____ it.
- blessings; amend
- drudgery; rectify
- travails; impair
- drudgery; worsen
- gains; amend
Directions: Choose the correct pair to fill the blanks in the given sentence.
Experts say that carbon dioxide is ideal for ______ fires involving electrical appliances or petrol, but it has no post-fire security and the flame may ______.
- enkindling, reignite
- smothering, extinguish
- dousing, reignite
- incinerating, start
- lighting, blaze
Directions: Choose the correct pair to fill the blanks in the given sentence.
The Muzaffernagar riots are a condemnation of the littleness of the mind, ______ of the heart, and smallness of imagination that is ______ us all.
- pettiness, afflicting
- quibbling, tormenting
- timidity, animating
- magnanimity, vexing
- benevolence, pestering
Directions: Choose the correct pair to fill the blanks in the given sentence.
We can be linguistically settled but politically homeless, culturally at home but intellectually _____, professionally stable but emotionally _____.
- genial, estranged
- restless, tractable
- morose, complacent
- alienated, nomadic
- restive, weird
Directions: Choose the correct pair to fill the blanks in the given sentence.
Simple arithmetic tells us that there is more _____ than _____.
- improvisation, improvement
- imitation, innovation
- impracticality, knowledge
- improbability, probability
- improvement, creation