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.   Walpole’s art collection was huge and fascinating , and his novel The Castle of Otranto was never out of print; none of this mattered to the Victorians, who _____him, as, at best,____.

A.      Dismissed ….. Insignificant    B. judged …. Worthwhile    C. revered ….. Talented     D. reviled ….. meager

2.   Having fully embraced the belief that government by persuasion is preferable to government by _______, the leaders of the movement have recently ___ most of their previous statements supporting totalitarianism.

A.      Intimidation …. Issued     B. participation…. Moderated   C.  Coercion…..repudiated     D. demonstration….. deliberated

3.   Longdale and Stern discovered that mitochondria and chloroplasts _____ a long, identifiable sequence of DNA; such a coincidence could be _____only by the transfer of DNA between the two systems.

A.      Manufacture …. Accomplished     B. reveal…… repeated    C. exhibit….. determined    D. share …… explained

4.   Nurturing the Royal Ballet’s artistic growth while preserving its institutional stability has been difficult, because the claims of the latter seem inescapably to ____ development; apparently, attaining artistic success is simpler than______it.

A.      Ensure ….. Promoting     B. inhibit …. Perpetuating    C. undermine ….. Resurrecting     D. modify ….. appreciating

5.   Though feminist in its implications, Rainer’s 1974 film_______ the film-maker’s active involvement later in feminist politics.

A.      Preserved    B. portrayed    C. encouraged    D. antedated

Sentence Completion HE-02

1.       A    The first part sings glory of Walpole, and the second part says, “None of this mattered to the Victorians”. Hence the first blank would be rejected, or “dismissed “and the second part would be irrelevant or “insignificant.” 

2.       C   the first blank is something opposite “ persuasion.” The only such option is “coercion.” 

3.        D   if the required theory talks about a transfer of DNA between the two systems, it means that they “share “it. This fixes the first blank as “share”. None of the other options fit. 

4.        B   The first blank as a negative word, “inhibit” or “undermine”. And “perpetuating” fits better than “resurrecting”. 

5.       D   The film’s implications were feministic, but the filmmaker participated actively in feminist politics only later. Hence the film was a kind of harbinger of things to come, or it “antedated “his active involvement later.