Sentence completion for surya.doc

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1.)Today Wegener's theory is ____ ; however, he died an outsider treated with____ by the scientific establishment.

A. unsuorted ! aroval

". dismissed ! contemt

#. acceted ! arobation

$. unchallenged ! disdain

%. unrivalled ! reverence

&.)The revolution in art has not lost its steam; it ____ on as fiercely as ever.

A. trudges (a long walk)

". meanders (relax walk,twist or bend)

#. edges (border)

$. ambles (walk slowly)

%. rages (extreme anger)

.)%ach occuation has its own ____ ; ban(ers, lawyers and comuterrofessionals, for eamle, all use among themselves language which outsidershave difficulty following.

A. merits

". disadvantages

#. rewards

$. *argon (specialist language)

%. roblems

+.) ____ by nature, ones so(e very little even to his own family members.

A. garrulous (talking too much)

". e-uivocal (raising doubts)

#. taciturn (silent by nature)

$. arrogant (proudly contemptuous)

%. gregarious (friendly)

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.) "iological cloc(s are of such ____ adative value to living organisms, that wewould eect most organisms to ____ them.

A. clear ! avoid

". meager ! evolve (union-evolve)

#. significant ! eschew (meaningful-to avoid doing sth)

$. obvious ! ossess (easy to see-own sth)

%. ambivalent ! develo (uncertain-change or grow)

/.) The easants were the least ____ of all eole, bound by tradition and ____ bysuerstitions.

A. free ! fettered(free-a chain fastened to sbs feet)

". enfranchised ! re*ected (give sb right to vote-not accepted sth)

#. enthralled ! tied (completely fascinated-tied)

$. inioned 0 limited(restrain sb-limited)

%. conventional ! encumbered (socially accepted-load down)

.)2any eole at that time believed that sices hel reserve food; however,3all found that many mar(eted sices were ____ bacteria, moulds and yeasts.

A. devoid of (lacking of)

". teeming with (full of)

#. imroved by (become better)

$. destroyed by (ruin)

%. active against

4.)5f there is nothing to absorb the energy of sound waves, they travel on ____ ,but their intensity ____ as they travel further from their source.

A. erratically 0 mitigates (doesnot follow a regular way-less unpleasant)

". eternally ! alleviates (last forever-lessen sth)

#. forever ! increases

$. steadily ! stabili6es (stable-make sth stable)

%. indefinitely ! diminishes (unlimited-become smaller)

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7.)The two artists differed mar(edly in their temeraments; 8almer was reservedand courteous, 9ra6er ____ and boastful.

A. hlegmatic (unexcited)

". choleric (person who gets angry easily)

#. constrained (limit the development)

$. tractable (easy to bend)

%. stoic (patient and uncomplaining)

1:.)The intellectual fleibility inherent in a multicultural nation has been ____ inclassrooms where emhasis on "ritish!American literature has not reflected thecultural ____ of our country.

A. eradicated ! unanimity (get rid of sth-all agreeing sth)

". encouraged ! asirations (give sb hope-ambition)

#. stifled ! diversity (check-variety)

$. thwarted ! uniformity (frustrate sth-unchanging)

%. inculcated ! divide (impress on sbs mind-split into parts)

11.)The conclusion of his argument, while ____ , is far from ____ .

A. stimulating ! interesting (develop further-not boring)

". worthwhile ! valueless (enjoyable-not useful)

#. esoteric ! obscure (secret-hard to understand)

$. germane ! relevant (relevant-relavent)

%. abstruse ! incomrehensible (difficult to understand-beyond understanding)

1&.)5n the 2iddle Ages, the ____ of the great cathedrals church) did not enterinto the architects' lans; almost invariably a cathedral was ositionedhaha6ardly in ____ surroundings.

A. situation ! incongruous (state of affairs-unsuitable)

". location ! at (position-very appropriate)

#. ambience ! salubrious (mood of place-pleasant)

$. durability 0 convenient (last for a long time-making life easier)

%. ma*esty ! grandiose (dignity-too complex)


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.)After the accident, the nerves to her arm were damaged and so the muscles____ through disuse.

A. atrohied (decrease in sie)

". contracted (legal agreement)

#. elongated (stretch)

$. invigorated (makes you feel energetic)

%. dwindled (smaller!weaker)

/.)=ome critics maintain that Tennyson's oetry is uneven, ranging from the ____to the ____.

A. sublime ! elevated

". trite ! insired

#. vacuous ! inane

$. succinct ! laconic

%. sonorous ! voluble

. After grafting there is a ____ of lymhocytes in the lymh glands; the newlyroduced lymhocytes then move in to attac( the foreign tissue.

A. diminution

". roliferation

#. obliteration

$. aucity

%. attraction

4. >ne ____ the new scheme is that it might actually ____ *ust those alicantsthat it was intended to encourage.

A. highlight of ! stimulate

". feature of ! attract

#. roblem with ! induce

$. attraction of ! intimidate

%. drawbac( of ! daunt

7. #orrution is ____ in our society; the integrity of even senior officials is ____ .

A. growing ! un-uestioned

". endangered ! disuted


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#. ervasive ! intact

$. rare ! corruted

%. rife ! susect

1:. 5n their day to day decision ma(ing, many senior managers do not follow therational model favored by orthodo management eerts, but rather rely onintuitive rocesses that often aear ____ and ____.

A. cerebral ! considered

". heretical ! *udgmental

#. conscientious ! logical

$. irrational ! iconoclastic

%. caricious ! deliberate

11. 3is characteristically ____ views on eamination methods at university levelhave aroused ____ in those who want to introduce innovative and fleibleatterns of assessment.

A. hidebound ! antagonism

". moderate ! anger

#. reactionary ! admiration

$. rigid ! suort

%. accommodating ! annoyance

1&. >ur grandfather was an entertaining ____; he used to ____ us with marvelousanecdotes that we, in our childli(e simlicity, acceted un-uestioningly.

A. rascal ! bore

". orator ! intimidate

#. raconteur ! regale

$. curmudgeon ! surrise

%. tyrant ! stuefy

1. 3e was treated li(e a ____ and cast out from his community.

A. ascetic

". rodigy

#. rodigal

$. ariah

%. tyro

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&. The teacher accused me of ____ because my essay was so similar to that ofanother student.

A. rocrastination

". lagiarism

#. celerity

$. confusion

%. decorum

. We live in a ____ age; everyone thin(s that maimi6ing leasure is the oint oflife.

A. ubi-uitous

". roitious

#. soradic

$. corrut

%. hedonistic

+. Than(fully the disease has gone into ____ ; it may not recur for many years.

A. treatment

". se-uestration

#. -uarantine

$. remission

%. oblivion

. 8eole from all over the world are sent by their doctors to breathe the ure,____ air in this mountain region.

A. invigorating

". soorific

#. debilitating

$. insalubrious

%. aromatic

/. As were many colonial administrators, ?regory was ____ in his (nowledge ofthe grammar of the local language, though his accent was ____ .

A. deficient ! oor

". cometent ! ade-uate

#. faultless ! awful


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$. well!versed ! effective

%. erratic ! eccentric

. Though Adam "ede is resented to us by the author as ____ fiction, there arenone of the life!li(e meanderings of the story of Amos "arton.

A. realistic

". romantic

#. imaginative

$. educational

%. entertaining

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A. receding ! ostensibly

". diminishing ! contentedly

#. increasing ! aarently

$. escalating ! *oyfully

%. subsiding ! felicitously

1&. Although alarmed by the ____ , 8rofessor =ymes had no reason to doubt the____ of his student's results, for this student was nothing if not reliable.

A. conclusions ! folly

". deductions ! imudence

#. imlications ! veracity

$. errors ! truth

%. inferences ! invalidity

1. =crooge, in the famous novel by $ic(ens, was a ____ ; he hated the rest ofman(ind.

A. misanthroe

". hyochondriac

#. hilanthroist

$. hedonist

%. sybarite

&. A businessman must widen his hori6ons; a ____ attitude will get you nowherein this age of global communications.

A. moderate

". etrified

#. arochial

$. diversified

%. comrehensive

. >ur boo(shelves at home dislay a range of boo(s on wide!ranging sub*ectsand in many languages, reflecting the ____ tastes of our family members.

A. anomalous

". limited

#. arcane

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$. furtive

%. eclectic

+. 8lastic bags are ____ symbols of consumer society; they are found whereveryou travel.

A. rare

". ehemeral

#. ubi-uitous

$. fleeting

%. covert

. $r. =tuart needs to ____ his argument with more eerimental data; as itstands his thesis is ____ .

A. suort ! rofound

". bolster ! accetable

#. refine ! satisfactory

$. buttress ! inade-uate

%. define ! succinct

/. After an initially warm recetion by most reviewers and continued ____ byconservative thin(ers, "loom's wor( came under heavy fire.

A. criticism

". endorsement

#. denigration

$. counterattac(

%. refutation

. Through the 17th #entury, the classics of Western #ivili6ation were consideredto be the ____ of wisdom and culture, and an ____ erson ! by definition! (newthem well.

A. foundation ! average

". eitome ! uneducated

#. cornerstone ! obtuse

$. font ! ecclesiastical

%. reository ! educated

4. 5n this biograhy we are given a glimse of the young man ____ ursuing theath of the oet desite ____ and re*ection slis.

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A. doggedly ! disaointment

". tirelessly ! encouragement

#. soradically ! awards

$. successfully ! acclaim

%. unsuccessfully ! failure

7. All %uroean countries are see(ing to diminish the chec( uon individual ____which state eaminations with their ____ growth have bought in their train.

A. rights ! liberating

". liberties ! emowering

#. sontaneity ! tyrannous

$. foibles ! inevitable

%. creativity ! soorific

1:. 5n (eeing with his own ____ in international dilomacy, #hurchill roosed aersonal meeting of heads of government, but the effort was doomed to failure,as the temer of the times was ____ .

A. ideas ! luralistic

". redilections ! inimical

#. aversions ! hostile

$. imulses ! amicable

%. maims ! salacious

11. The wall and floor decorations created by 5ndian housewives are usually____ , remaining hours, days, or at most, wee(s before being worn off by humanactivity or weather and relaced by new ____ .

A. erennial ! drawings

". ehemeral ! designs

#. trivial ! urchases

$. imermanent ! furnishings

%. innovative ! ictures

1&. The subtle shades of meaning, and still subtler echoes of association, ma(elanguage an instrument which scarcely anything short of genius can wield with

____ and ____ .

A. confidence ! aloofness

". definiteness ! certainty#. sincerity ! hoe

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$. conservatism ! alacrity

%. elo-uence ! ruthlessness

. To reach =imonville, the traveller needs to drive with etreme caution along the____ curves of the mountain road that climbs ____ to the summit.

A. serentine ! steely

". *agged ! steadily

#. gentle ! reciitously

$. shady ! steadily

%. hair!raising ! languidly

&. The cric(et match seemed ____ to our guests; they were used to watchingsorts in which the action is over in a coule of hours at the most.

A. unintelligible

". inconse-uential

#. interminable

$. imlausible

%. evanescent

. >ur resent accountant is most ____ ; unli(e the revious _____ incumbent, hehas never made a mista(e in all the years that he has wor(ed for the firm.

A. unorthodo ! heretical

". deendable ! assiduous

#. unctilious ! ainsta(ing

$. asinine ! diligent

%. meticulous ! unreliable

+. The refugee's oor gras of %nglish is hardly an _____ roblem; she can attendclasses and imrove within a matter of months.

A. imlausible

". insuerable

#. inconse-uential

$. evocative

%. in*udicious

. We areciated his ____ summary of the situation; he wasted no words yetdelineated his osition most ____ .

A. comrehensive @ inade-uately

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". succinct @ direfully

#. cogent @ ersuasively

$. verbose @ concisely

%. grandilo-uent @ elo-uently

/. 3is musical tastes are certainly ____ ; he has recordings ranging from classicaliano erformances to roc( concerts, *a66 and even #hinese oera.

A. antediluvian

". eclectic

#. harmonious

$. sonorous

%. da66ling

. 5 cannot conclude this reface without ____ that an early and untimely deathshould have revented 8ersius from giving a more finished aearance to hiswor(s.

A. re*oicing

". lamenting

#. affirming

$. commenting

%. mentioning

4. "efore his marriage the $u(e had led an austere eistence and now regardedthe affectionate, somewhat ____ behavior of his young wife as simly ____ .

A. restrained ! desicable

". childish ! elevating

#. layful ! sublime

$. frivolous ! uerile

%. unleasant ! delightful

7. Wilson ____ that human beings inherit a tendency to feel an affinity and awefor other living things, in the same way that we are ____ to be in-uisitive or torotect our young at all costs.

A. argues ! encouraged

". maintains ! trained

#. contends ! redisosed

$. fears ! taught

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%. demurs ! genetically rogrammed

1:. The ond was a lace of ree( and corrution, of ____ smells and of oygen!starved fish breathing through laboring gills.

A. fragrant

". evocative

#. dolorous

$. resonant

%. fetid

11. There have been great ____ since his time, but few others have felt sostrongly the ____ of human eistence.

A. essimists ! futility

". s(etics ! ealtation

#. heretics ! sagacity

$. otimists ! tremulousness

%. cynics ! *oy

1&. While war has never been absent from the ____ of man, there have beeneriods in 3istory which aear remar(ably ____.

A. archives ! ambivalent

". osterity ! serene

#. mind ! desultory

$. annals ! acific

%. life ! belligerent

1. The candidate _____ when as(ed why he had left his last *ob; he did not wantto admit that he had been ____ .

A. demurred ! romoted

". confided ! banned

#. dissembled ! dismissed

$. re*oiced ! wrong

%. hesitated ! lauded

&. Tennyson was a well!loved oet; no other oet since has been so ____ .

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A. lioni6ed

". attac(ed

#. decried

$. oetical

%. abhorred

. The arliamentary session degenerated into ____ with oliticians hurling ____at each other and refusing to come to order.

A. mayhem ! banter

". disarray ! leasantries

#. tran-uillity ! invectives

$. chaos ! ahorisms

%. anarchy ! insults

+. The admiral ____ his order to attac( when he saw the white flag raised by theenemy sailors; he was relieved that he could bring an end to the ____ .

A. reiterated ! hostilities

". countermanded ! fighting

#. commandeered ! truce

$. renounced ! hiatus

%. confirmed ! aggression

. 5n a fit of ____ she threw out the valuable statue simly because it hadbelonged to her e!husband.

A. i-ue

". goodwill

#. contrition

$. edantry

%. rudence

/. 2any 1th century buildings that are still in eistence have been so ____ bysuccessive owners that the original layout is no longer ____ .

A. reserved ! visible

". modified ! aarent

#. decimated ! enshrouded

$. salvaged ! re-uired

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%. neglected ! aroriate

. =ince ancient times sculture has been considered the ____ of men; womenscultors have, until recently, consistently met with ____.

A. right ! accetance

". domain ! arobation

#. domicile ! ridicule

$. realm ! condolence

%. rerogative ! oosition

4. ____ action at this time would be inadvisable; we have not yet accumulatedsufficient eertise to warrant anything other than a ____ aroach.

A. reciitate ! cautious

". hesitant ! wary

#. vacillating ! circuitous

$. decisive ! firm

%. onderous ! direct

7. 2any biologists have attemted to ____ the conditions on earth before lifeevolved in order to answer -uestions about the ____ of biological molecules.

A. mimic ! fitness

". standardi6e ! shaes

#. relicate ! reactions

$. simulate ! origin

%. ameliorate ! evolution

1:. 3arding was unable to ____ the results of the survey; although entirelyuneected, the figures were obtained by a mar(et research firm with an ____reutation.

A. accet ! eerless

". discount ! imeccable

#. fault ! mediocre

$. counter ! unenviable

%. believe ! fine

11. The -uantum theory was initially regarded as absurd, unnatural and ____ withcommon sense.

A. consanguineous

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". discernible

#. incomatible

$. deciherable

%. consistent

1&. $o not be fooled by her ____ manner; her suerficial ____ belies herworldliness.

A. ingenuous ! roficiency

". worldly ! simlicity

#. unsohisticated ! naivet

$. gregarious ! isolation

%. off!hand ! serious

1. The success of the business venture ____ his eectations; he never thoughtthat the firm would roser.

A. confirmed

". belied

#. nullified

$. fulfilled

%. ratified

&. 9or centuries there was no ___ between their descendents; in fact ____ strifecontinued until modern times.

A. eace ! internecine

". hostility ! intermittent

#. malevolence ! intense

$. amity ! contrived

%. difference ! feudal

. The *ournalist ____ the efforts of the drug s-uad to control drug eddling,claiming that they had actually ____ the roblem.

A. commended ! increased

". lauded ! intensified

#. decried ! solved

$. derecated ! eacerbated

%. noted ! caused

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+. =ince the Bomans failed to ____ the tribes in Corthern "ritain, they built a wallto ____ the tribes.

A. con-uer ! alienate

". imress ! intimidate

#. sub*ugate ! eclude

$. acify ! enrage

%. neutrali6e ! barricade

. The rofessor became increasingly ____ in later years, flying into a ragewhenever he was oosed.

A. taciturn

". voluble

#. subdued

$. contrite

%. irascible

/. Although the dee sea has a tyically ____ fauna, near vents in the sea bedwhere warm water emerges live remar(able densities of invertebrates and fish.

A. verdant

". uni-ue

#. lush

$. allid

%. sarse

. Their bantering tal( seemed ____, but in fact it mas(ed an underlying ____ .

A. hostile ! antiathy

". amicable ! antagonism

#. *ovial ! assumtions

$. easerating ! frustrations

%. friendly ! geniality

4. The new nomenclature was so ____ that many chemists referred to revert tothe older trivial names that were at least shorter.

A. succinct

". cumbersome

#. irrational

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$. facile

%. systematic

7. %ven though the auditors ____ the accountant, his reutation was ____ by theallegations of fraud.

A. vindicated ! enhanced

". indicted ! blemished

#. betrayed ! ruined

$. eonerated ! tarnished

%. cleared ! condoned

1:. 2any so!called social laywrights are distinctly ____ ; rather than allowing themembers of the audience to form their own oinions, these writers force a

viewoint on the viewer.

A. conciliatory

". rolific

#. iconoclastic

$. didactic

%. contumacious

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