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 architects of New York’s early skyscrapers, hinting here at a twelfth-century cathedral, there  at  a fifteenth- century  palace, sought to leginitimize the city’s social strivings by _____ a history the city did not truly_____ 

A.      Revealing …… deserve       B. displaying …..   Desire     C. evoking …..possess    D. preserving ……. Experience

2.   Opponents of the expansion of the market economy, although in _____, continued to constitute _____ political force throughout the century.

A.      Error……an inconsequential     B. retreat ….. a powerful    c. disarray….. a disciplined   D. jeopardy…… an ineffective

3.   Queen Elizabeth 1 has quite correctly been called a _____ of the arts, because many young artists received her patronage.

A.      Connoisseur       B. critic     C. friend     D. scourge

4.   Scientists who are on the cutting edge of research must often violate common sense and make seemingly ____ assumptions because existing theories simply do not_____ newly observed phenomena.

A.      Radical…. Confirm     B. vague…. Incorporate    C. absurd ….. explain      D. mistaken…. Reveal

5.   Neither the ideas of philosophers not the practices of ordinary people can, by themselves _______ reality; what in fact changes reality and kindles revolution is the _____ of the two.

A.      Constitute ……. Divergence    B. affects…….aim    C. transforms …. Interplay    D. preserve …. Conjunction

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1.       C    Here, a bit of general knowledge comes into the picture. America of today      doesn’t have any “history” worth speaking of (they would have had a glorious history, if Indians were still ruling). Hence when architects use twelfth-century and fifteenth –century designs, they are trying to appropriate history that country didn’t have. The only pair to fit here is “evoking …. Possess.” 

2.        B    Focus on the second blank – it can’t be “inconsequential” or “ineffective “. Now the first blank can’t be “command” and “retreat” is better than “disarray”. 

3.       C     who gives patronage to young artists? Obviously a “friend” of art. (A connoisseur will enjoy art, but not necessarily patronize artists.) 

4.       C   The first blank is something akin to illogical (since it apparently deviates from common sense) and the second blank has to be “explain”,.

5.       C     the first blank has to be a synonym of “change”, because of the later part of the sentence –what in fact changes reality. So the first blank can be affect, transform or alter. And “interplay” fits better in the second blank than any other word.