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Verbal Section : Sentence Completions

11. To meet all - a source of - electrical power was added to the train's engine.
    1. Integuments - parallel
    2. possibilities - incidental
    3. amenities - diverse
    4. contingencies - auxiliary
    5. conveniences - automatic.

    Answer: D

12. Since the escaping vapors proved to be highly - measures were at once taken for the - of the experiments.
    1. Volatile - ratification
    2. Observable - insulation
    3. Gaseous - reduction
    4. Noxious - cessation
    5. Incriminating - destruction.

    Answer: D

13. Eric Fromm does not agree that man is - in Freudian sexual dilemmas for if the - that man creates can be changed for the better, there is hope that the state of man can be changed as well.
    1. Tortured - goals
    2. Trapped - institutions
    3. Caught - symbols
    4. Engulfed - life
    5. Confused - meanings.

    Answer: B

14. Despite assorted effusion to the contrary, there is no necessary link between scientific skill and humanism, and quite possibly, there may be something of a - between them.
    1. dichotomy
    2. congruity
    3. reciprocity
    4. fusion
    5. generosity

    Answer: E

15. The most technologically advanced societies have been responsible for the catatest - indeed savagery seems to be indirect proposition to -
    1. inventions - know-how
    2. wars - viciousness
    3. triumphs - civilizations
    4. atrocities - development
    5. catastrophes - ill-will

    Answer: D

16. Sponsors of the bill were-because there was no opposition to it within the legislative, until after the measure had been signed into law.
    1. well-intentioned
    2. persistent
    3. detained
    4. unreliable
    5. relieved.

    Answer: B

17. Ecology, like economics, concerns itself with the movement of valuable - through a complex network of producers and consumers.
    1. nutrients
    2. dividends
    3. communications
    4. artifacts
    5. commodities.

    Answer: C

18. Having fully embraced the belief that government by persuasion is preferable to government by - the leaders of the movement have recently - most of their previous statements supporting totalitarianism.
    1. proclamation - codified
    2. coercion - repudiated
    3. participation - moderated
    4. intimidation - issued
    5. demonstration - deliberated.

    Answer: B

19. It would be difficult for one so - to be led to believe that all men are equal and that we must disregard race, color and creed.
    1. tolerant
    2. democratic
    3. broadminded
    4. emotional
    5. intolerant.

    Answer: E

20. Many philosophers agree that the verbal aggression of profanity in certain redical newspapers is not - or childish, but an assault on - essential to the revolutionary's purpose.
    1. insolent - sociability
    2. trivial - decorum
    3. belligerent - fallibility
    4. serious - propriety
    5. deliberate - affectation.

    Answer: B