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.       Rhetoric often seems to ______ over reason in a heated debate, with both sides ____ in hyperbole.

A.      Cloud….. subsiding     B. prevail ……. Yielding     C.  Triumph … engaging     D. reverberates …. Clamoring

2.       The new biological psychiatry does not deny the contributing role of psychological factors in mental illnesses, but posits that these factors may act as a catalyst on existing physiological conditions and ____ such illnesses.

A.      Disguise    B. impede    C. constrain       D. precipitate

3.       While she initially suffered the fate of many pioneers – the incomprehension of her colleagues- octogenarian Noble laureate Barbara McClintock has lived to ________ the triumph of her once_____ scientific theories.

A.      Descry……. Innovative      B. regret ….. Insignificant    c. perpetuate ….. tentative     D. savor……heterodox

4.       No one is _____about Stephens: he inspires either uncritical adulation or profound ____in those who work for him.

A.      Neutral …. Antipathy     B. infuriated…. Aversion    C. worried ….. Anxiety    D. enthusiastic ….. veneration

5.   Hampshire’s assertions far from showing that we can ____ the ancient puzzles about objectivity, reveal the issue to be even more _____ than we had thought.

A.      Adapt…… pressing     b. dismiss….. Relevant    C. rediscover    ….. Unconventional   D. address….. elusive

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1.       C    The first part is something akin to “win”. So it can be “prevail” or “triumph”, and “engaging” is a better option for the second blank.

2.       D    What does a catalyst do? It doesn’t start the process by itself, it “precipitates” it.

3.       D      Initially she suffered which means at the end she won. Hence the first blank is something akin to “enjoy” and second one would be “rejected “. The only similar pair available is “savour “and “heterodox”.

4.           A   he inspires either uncritical adulation or profound ___. This blank has to be opposite of adulation, which is “antipathy” or “aversion”. And since this is an “either …. Or “situation, no one can be “neutral”, everyone will have to take a side.

5.           B   the first blank needs some word such as “reject” and the second one “appropriate “. The only such pair available is “dismiss” and “relevant”.