UPSC CSAT : Sentence Completion Home Exercise -03, DIRECTIONS for questions 21 to 25

Friday 13 February 2015

Sentence Completion Home Exercise -03, DIRECTIONS for questions 21 to 25

21.   The action and characters in a melodrama can be so immediately ______ that all observers can hiss the villain with an air of smug but enjoyable _____,
A.      Spurned ….. Boredom    B. forgotten ….. Condescension     C. classified ….self –righteousness    D. plausible ….. guilt

22.   Although Mount Saint Helens has been more ______ during the last 4,500 years than any other volcano in the contemporaneous United States, its long dormancy before its recent eruption ___ its violent nature.

A.      Awe-inspiring ….. Restrained    b. gaseous….. confirmed   C. explosive……. Belied   D. familiar    …. Moderated

23.   At first, I found her gravity rather intimidating; but, as I saw more of her, I found that _____ was very near the surface.
A.      Seriousness   B. confidence    C. laughter      d. poise

24.   Cryogenic energy storage has the advantage of being suitable in any _____, regardless of geography or geology, factors that may _____ both underground gas storage and pumped hydroelectric storage.
A.      Location ….. Limit    B. climate…… deter   C. site….. forebode      D. proportion…..typify

25.   Compared mathematically to smoking and driving, almost everything else seems relatively risk-free, ____ almost nothing seems worth regulating.
A.      Yet     B. since     C. so     D. even though

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21.       C    What can be enjoyable?  Not boredom, guilt or skepticism. And though “condescension” kind of fits, “forgotten” doesn’t. 

22.         C   Before it recently erupted. Mount Saint Helens was dormant for a long time. Thus the second blank has to be “belied”. 

23.         C   the blank will be something opposite to “gravity” in meaning.  The only word here is “laughter”. 

24.         A   The first blank cannot be site, proportion or surface (because of the “in” just before that).  But “factors” don’t “deter “the storage. 

25.         C    the blank needs a word for continuation of the sentence in the same direction. “So “first here well.  
 
 

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