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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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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Sentence Completion Home Exercise -03, DIRECTIONS for questions 11 to 15

11.       Some paleontologists debate whether the diversity of species has ____since the Cambrian period, or whether imperfections in the fossil record only suggest greater diversity today, while in actuality there has been either _____ or decreased diversity.

A.      Changed …… escalation     B. increased …… stasis C. expanded ….. Discontinuity    d. declined …. Reduction

12.       It was not only the _____ of geologists that _____ earlier development of the revolutionary idea that the Earth’s continents were moving plates; classical physicists, who could not then explain the mechanism, had declared continental, movement impossible.

A.      Indecisiveness ….. Challenged    B. radicalism….. deterred  C. conservatism…… hindered   D. assumptions…… hastened

13.       It is puzzling to observe that Jones’s novel has recently been criticized for its ___ structure, since commentators have traditionally argued that its most obvious _____ is its relentlessly rigid, indeed schematic, framework.

A.      Attention to ….. preoccupation    B. lack of …. Flaw   C.  parody of ….. disparity   D. violation of ….. contradiction

14.       Until the current warming trend exceeds the range of normal climatic fluctuations there will be, among scientists, considerable ____ the possibility that increasing levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide can cause long-term warming effects.

A.      Interest in   B. uncertainty about   c. enthusiasm for    D. worry about

15.   Politeness is not a ____ attribute of human behavior, but rather a central virtue, one whose very existence is increasingly being _____ by the faddish requirement to “speak one’s nun

A.      Superficial …. Threatened   B. pervasive   …. Undercut    C. worthless …. Forestalled    d. precious …. Repudiated 

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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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Sentence Completion Home Exercise -03, 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 words that best fit the meanings of the sentence as a whole.

1.       While not completely nonplussed by the unusually caustic responses from members of the audience the speaker was nonetheless visibly ____ by their lively criticism.

A.      Humiliated    B. discomfited    C. deluded   D. disgraced

2.       Having no sense of moral obligation, Shipler was as little subject to the ____ of conscience after he acted as he was motivated by its ____ before he acted.

A.           Rewards …. Chastisement     B. balm….. Eloquence     c. reproaches …. Promptings   d. ridicule …. Allure

3.       The idealized paintings of nature produced in the eighteenth century are evidence that the medieval _______ natural settings had been _____ and that the outdoors now could be enjoyed without trepidation.

A.      Affection for ….. Surmounted   B. concerns about ….. Regained   C. affection for …. Surmounted   D. disinterest in …. Alleviated

4.       Her ____ should not be confused with miserliness; as long as I have known her, she has always been willing to assist those who are in need.

A.      Frugality   B. intolerance   C. apprehension   D. diffidence

5.       After thirty years of television, people have become speed watchers”; consequently, if the camera lingers, the interest of the audience____

A.      Broadens   B. begins.  C.   varies     d. flags

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