Sentence Completion Home Exercise -03, DIRECTIONS for questions 6 to 10

 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 words that best fit the meanings of the sentence as a whole.

6.       Once a ducking has identified a parent, the instinctive bond becomes a powerful _____ for additional learning since, by ____ the parent; the duckling can acquire further information that is not genetically transmitted.

A.      Impulse …. Surpassing    B. referent …. Recognizing    C. force…. Acknowledging     D. channel …. Mimicking

7.        The paradoxical aspect of the myths about Demeter, when we consider the predominant image of her as a tranquil and serene goddess, is her ______ search for her daughter.

A.      Extended    B. agitated     C. comprehensive   D. motiveless

8.       During the opera’s most famous aria the tempo chosen by the orchestra’s conductor seemed ___ without necessary relation to what had gone before.

A.      Tedious    B. melodious    C. capricious   D. compelling

9.       Winsor McCay, the cartoonist, could draw with incredible _________: his comic strip about Little Nemo was characterized by marvelous draftsmanship and sequencing.

A.      Sincerity    B. efficiency   C. virtuosity    D. rapidity

10.       Prudery actually draws attention to the vice it is supposed to ___; the very act that forbids speech or prohibits sight ___ what is hidden.

A.      Condemn……. Distorts   B. increased   …. Stasis   C. expanded ….. Discontinuity    D. declined …. Reduction

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6.       D     How do you acquire information that is not generically transmitted? By “mimicking “. Which fits in the second blank? 

7.       B   the blank requires a word which is opposite of tranquil and serene (because the sentence starts with the “paradoxical” aspect). The only such word here is “agitated “. 

8.       C   So, the tempo seems incongruous or unrelated to what had gone before.  A good word for that is “capricious”. 

9.       C   Draftsmanship and sequencing are two different aspects of a comic strip. And a person who can deftly handle both will be called a “virtuoso”. 

10.          C  Prudery tries to suppress the evil by ignoring it. But the sentence claims that this is counterproductive. The more you “repress” it, the more it is “dramatized”.