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.       The pressure of population on available resources is the key to understanding history; consequently, and historical writing that takes no cognizance of facts is_____ flawed.

A.      Demographic ….. Intrinsically      B. ecological …. Marginally    C. cultural …. Substantively    D. psychological…… philosophically

2.       Manipulating laboratory tissue cultures with hormones is one thing, using hormones  to treat human beings, however, is contingent on whether hormones that ____ in the laboratory can affect ______ organisms, and in predictable ways.

A.      Develop….. Similar    B. succeeds ….. Simpler    C. fails ….. cellular    D. work …… whole

3.       Few of us take the pains to study our cherished convictions; indeed, we almost have a natural ____ doing so.

A.      Aptitude for     B. repugnance to    C. interest in    D. ignorance of

4.       The wonder of De Quincey is that although opium dominated his life, it never ____ him; indeed, he turned its use to ______ when he published the story of its influence in the London Magazine.

A.      Overcame….. Altruism    B. intimidated…… triumph    C. distressed …… pleasure     D. conquered …. Gain

5.       Freud derived psychoanalytic knowledge of childhood indirectly: his ______ childhood processes form adult._____.

A.      Reconstructed …. Memory       B. condoned …. Experience     C. incorporated…. Behavior    D.  Released ….. monotony

Sentence Completion HE-02

 1.       A    The key for the first blank is right in the beginning- The pressure of “population”. Hence the first blank has to be “demographic”. 

2.           D      tissues are the constituent parts of an organism. This gives clue for the second blank- whether hormones can affect “whole” organism of not is the question. And “work” fits very well in the first blank. 

3.       B   looking at the tone of the sentence, the blank should be something meaning “aversion to”. The only option that fits is “repugnance to”. 

4.       D   though opium “dominated” his life, it never ____ him. The blank would be something akin to “controlled”.   The part after the first blanks supports this further. Hence the first blank has to be “conquered “and the second one “gain”. 

5.           A    Freud derived the knowledge “indirectly”, so he didn’t ask the children; he asked the adults and “reconstructed” childhood processes.