UPSC CSAT : Sentence Completion Home Exercise -03, DIRECTIONS for questions 16 to 20

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Friday, 13 February 2015

Sentence Completion Home Exercise -03, DIRECTIONS for questions 16 to 20

16.   Though dealers insist that professional art dealers can make money in the art market, even an ___ knowledge is not enough: the art world is so fickle that stock- market prices are ____ by comparison.
A.      Amateur’s …… sensible   B. expert’s ….. Erratic    C. investor’s ….. Boomerang    D. insider’s ….. predictable

17.   Without the psychiatrist’s promise of confidentiality, trust is _____ and the patient’s communication limited; even though confidentiality can thus be seen to be precious in therapy, moral responsibility sometimes requires willingness to _____ it.
A.      Implicit…. Extend    B. ambiguous …. Apply      C. impaired ….. Sacrifice    D. assumed …. Examine

18.   The state is network of exchanged benefits and beliefs, _____ between rulers and citizens based on those laws and procedures that are __ to the maintenance of community.
A.       A compromise …. Inimical    B. interdependence….. subsidiary   C. a counterpoint…. Incidental    D. a reciprocity…… conducive

19.   Charlotte Salmon’s biography is a reminder that the _____ currents of private life, however diverted dislodged or twisted by public events retain their hold on the ____ recording them.
A.      Transitory ….. Culture    B. dramatic….. Majority    C. overpowering …… individual    d. conventional….. audience

20.   While the delegate clearly sought to ______ the optimism that has emerged recently. She stopped short of suggesting that the conference was near collapse and might produce nothing of significance.
A.      Substantiate    B. dampen   C. encourage    D. elucidate  

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16.         D   Everyone knows that the stock market is unpredictable. But the sentence compares the art world with stock market, and the tone is that the stock market is more rational, or “sensible “or “predictable” But “insider’s “fits better in the first blank. 

17.         C   Psychiatrists collect the murkiest details of lives of the famous in course of their career. Thus, unless they promise confidentiality, people would be rather weary in opening up to them. This decides the first blank- “impaired “. 

18.          D  Focus on the second blank. The state is _____ to the maintenance of community. The only word that fits here is “conducive”. 

19.          C   who can record the currents of private life?   Of course the individual who faced them.   Thus the second blank has to be “individual.” 

20.          B    She felt that the conference was a flop show, and tried to “dampen “the optimism.  

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