Sentence Completion Home Exercise-02, DIRECTIONS for questions 1 to 5:

DIRECTIONS for questions 1 to 5:  Each sentence in this part has one or two missing elements as indicated by a series of dashes. Following the sentence, you will see lettered words or sets of words. Choose the word or set of words that best fits the meanings of the sentence as a whole.

1.       Since she believed him to be both candid and trustworthy, she refused to consider the possibility that his.  Statement had been ____.

A.      Irrelevant     B. facetious     C. insincere     D. critical

2.       The newborn human infant is not a passive figure, nor an active one, but what might be called an actively ____ one, eagerly attentive as it is to sights and sounds.

A.      Adaptive      B. selective       C. inquisitive    D. receptive

3.        Rather than enhancing a country’s security, the successful development of nuclear weapons could serve at first to increase that country’s ______.

A.      Boldness     B. vulnerability   C. responsibility   D. moderation

4.       Despite assorted effusions to the contrary, there is no necessary link between scientific skill and humanism, and, quite possibly, there may be something of a ____ between them.

A.      Generality   B. fusion   C.  Congruity   D. dichotomy

5.       Science advances in _____ spiral in that each new conceptual scheme____the phenomena explained by its predecessors and adds to those explanations.

A.      A discontinuous……. Decries        B. a repetitive…… vitiates    C. a widening …. Embraces       D. an anomalous…… captures

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1.       C     She considered him to be trustworthy, so obviously she will believe in his statements. In other words, accept that his statements can be “insincere”. 

2.       D   The required adjective should mean something that is neither active, nor passive. The key is – eagerly attentive to sights and sounds. The only word that fits here is “receptive”. 

3.       B   The first part- Rather than enhancing a country’s security – indicates that this is not the case. Developing nuclear weapons actually makes a country more “vulnerable.” 

4.       D    there is no necessary link; quite possibly, there may be something of a ___. What can fit in this blank? “Congruity”, “fusion “and “reciprocity” are out, and “generality” is too vague. Hence only dichotomy” is left. 

5.       C   the part after the second blank gives the clue for the first blank – something that keeps on increasing. The only such option available is “a widening.”