Sentence Completion
Exam Duration: 45 Mins Total Questions : 30
Choose the option that completes the sentence most meaningfully and appropriately.
Athough the industrialist appeared to be boisterous after his meeting with the workers, all his measures later ......... on him.
- (a)
bounced
- (b)
boomeranged
- (c)
succeeded
- (d)
worked well
Choose the option that completes the sentence most meaningfully and appropriately.
Although many people don't like the jobs they do they remain stuck to them for ............. reasons.
- (a)
inexplicit
- (b)
ulterior
- (c)
pecuniary
- (d)
internal
Choose the option that completes the sentence most meaningfully and appropriately.
Colonialism is not appreciable in any way;nonetheless is does some .......... wotk for its own sake that helps the colonized country later on.
- (a)
constrctive
- (b)
destructive
- (c)
instructive
- (d)
unneccessary
Choose the option that completes the sentence most meaningfully and appropriately.
The course introduced recently is quite .......... irt takes care of almost all the needs of learner at this stage.
- (a)
cheap
- (b)
comprehensive
- (c)
exclusive
- (d)
fast
Choose the option that completes the sentence most meaningfully and appropriately.
The peasants and workers are the deprived lot with gaunt and weak body: their ............. condition can be attributed to their low income.
- (a)
diseased
- (b)
emaciated
- (c)
rural
- (d)
neglected
Choose the option that completes the sentence most meaningfully and appropriately.
People gathered in hope of lietening to a fine oratory. Quite the opposite they laft the ground ............
- (a)
satified
- (b)
surprised
- (c)
disappointed
- (d)
comfused
Choose the option that completes the sentence most meaningfully and appropriately.
Educatrion polished her to become cicilized ........ and impressive.
- (a)
eloquent
- (b)
ambiguous
- (c)
hyper corrective
- (d)
insentive
Choose the option that completes the sentnce most meaningfully and appropriately.
In the old system of education when they used to say 'spare the rod and spoil the child', they tried to motivate students by ............ and forgot that it brought ......... and killed enquiry and exploration.
- (a)
punishing .... satisfaction.
- (b)
forcing ... learning
- (c)
inspiring ... following
- (d)
intimidation ........ conformity
Choose the option that completes the sentnce most meaningfully and appropriately.
People in ancient Greece were so ... with war and .... of life that they preferred to kill their handicapped children at birth.
- (a)
fraught ........... uncertainties
- (b)
busy ..... heartlessness
- (c)
o0bsessed . frightened
- (d)
preoccupied .... easiness.
Choose the option that completes the sentnce most meaningfully and appropriately.
The ... that man is the slave of his circumstances makes rather lethargic and ...... to cahllenges of life.
- (a)
creed .... devoted
- (b)
idea .. animated
- (c)
argument ... dedicated
- (d)
belief . listless
Choose the option that completes the sentnce most meaningfully and appropriately.
Although the condition of the town is quite bad in regard to the ... condition of the buildings and roads the property prices are quite ........
- (a)
dilapidated ... exorbitant
- (b)
deplorable ... commendable
- (c)
exalted ... low
- (d)
critical .. reasonable
Choose the option that completes the sentnce most meaningfully and appropriately.
In order to ..... the sense of sight he made it his rule to walk in the street with downcast eyes, .... neither to right nor to left and never behind him.
- (a)
gravity .. glancing
- (b)
satisfy .... moving
- (c)
deprive .. tiliting
- (d)
mortify .. glancing
Choose the option that completes the sentnce most meaningfully and appropriately.
He read the ......... but there was no poetry. Then he read the verses .... but they were no poetry. Finally, he read the flyleaf from the bottom to the top but he found no poetry.
- (a)
verses .... backwards
- (b)
flyleaf ... more
- (c)
words ... reverse
- (d)
book ... forwards
Choose the option that completes the sentnce most meaningfully and appropriately.
This was worse than before the youth grew crimson and ..... his fist, with very appearance of meditated .........
- (a)
closed ... welcome
- (b)
opened ... aggression
- (c)
clenched ... assault
- (d)
raised .. attack
Choose the option that completes the sentnce most meaningfully and appropriately.
We have been begging money for this task but it remained ......... ours would be the terrible ...... if we did not succeed.
- (a)
accomplished ... achievement
- (b)
unaccomplished ... humiliation
- (c)
unfulfilled ... idea
- (d)
undecided .... mortification
Choose the option that completes the sentnce most meaningfully and appropriately.
Initially the new entrant found his job .... but as he explored it and did more and more new things he soon started considering it a ..... close to his heart.
- (a)
interesting .... burden
- (b)
uniinteresting ... burden
- (c)
exciting .. job
- (d)
insipid .. assignment
Choose the option that completes the sentnce most meaningfully and appropriately.
The terrible disease a Mumbai doctore had ....... and declared the ....... demise of the eminent leader.
- (a)
announced .... eminent
- (b)
treated .. suspected
- (c)
suspected ... unlikely
- (d)
diagnosed ... iminent
Choose the most appropriate option to fill in the blank.
Lack of .... is basic of good teamwork, but our ability to work with others depends on our....
- (a)
rigidity, compatibility
- (b)
dogmatism, motivation
- (c)
professionalism, vulnerability
- (d)
positivism, flexibility
Choose the most appropriate option to fill in the blank.
The fear.... with feeling incompetent is the fear of neing humiliated, embarrassed and .......... .
- (a)
endowed, criticied
- (b)
afflicated, downtrodden
- (c)
consistent, damaged
- (d)
imbued, exposed
Choose the most appropriate option to fill in the blank.
I am not easily ... by pressures that would interfere with accomplishing the goals of my unit. I stick with my ... .
- (a)
pessimistic, views
- (b)
swayed, convictions
- (c)
discouraged, achievements
- (d)
empowered, organization
Choose the most appropriate option to fill in the blank.
The old place was dingy and ... but it was still serene.
- (a)
gracious
- (b)
beautiful
- (c)
flourishing
- (d)
dilapidated
Choose the most appropriate option to fill in the blank.
After shouting lustily during the cricket match between India and Pakistan, he gfound that his voice had become .....
- (a)
coarse
- (b)
hard
- (c)
hoarse
- (d)
audible
Choose the most appropriate option to fill in the blank.
The room was filled with a ............. selection of furniture.
- (a)
random
- (b)
scattered
- (c)
polished
- (d)
designed
Choose the most appropriate option to fill in the blank.
People in our office are so ............. that the work never gets done in time.
- (a)
energetic
- (b)
lethargic
- (c)
reflective
- (d)
enthusiastic
Choose the most appropriate option to fill in the blank.
We have to tolerate each other's little .......
- (a)
virtues
- (b)
characters
- (c)
foibles
- (d)
qualities
Choose the most appropriate option to fill in the blank.
In his usual ..... manner, he had insured himself against this type of loss.
- (a)
raucously
- (b)
ravishingly
- (c)
rapaciously
- (d)
ravenously
Choose the most appropriate option to fill in the blank.
The law prohibits a person from felling a sandalwood tree even if it grows on one's own land, without prior permission from the government. As poor people cannot deal with the Governent, this legal provision leads to a rip-roaring business for ....... who care neither for the ........ nor for the trees.
- (a)
obstrudes, offends
- (b)
conceal, recedes
- (c)
enjoins, fails
- (d)
effaces, counts
Choose the most appropriate option to fill in the blank.
The best punctuation is that of which the reader is least conscious for when punctuation or lack of it ......... it self, it is usually because it .......
- (a)
conceals, recedes
- (b)
enjoins, fails
- (c)
obtrudes, offends
- (d)
effaces, counts
Choose the most appropriate option to fill in the blank.
Companies that try to improve employees performane by .............. rewards encourage negative kinds of behaviour instead of ........ a genuine interest in doing the work well.
- (a)
conferring, discrediting
- (b)
bestowing, discouraging
- (c)
giving, seeking
- (d)
withholding fostering
Choose the most appropriate option to fill in the blank.
A growing number of these expert professionlas .... having to train foreigners as the students end up ...... the teachers who have to then unhappily contend with no jobs at all or new jobs with drastically reduced pay packets.
- (a)
welcome, assisting
- (b)
resist, challenging
- (c)
resent, replacing
- (d)
are, supplanting