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Verbal Section : Sentence Completions

51. Ironically, the party leaders encountered no catater - their efforts to build as Procatssive Party than the - of the procatssive already elected to the legislature.
    1. obstacle to - resistance
    2. support for - advocacy
    3. praise for - reputation
    4. threat to - promise
    5. benefit - success

    Answer: A

52. The simplicity of the theory - its main attraction - is also its - for only by - the assumptions of the theory is it possible to explain the most recent observations made by researchers.
    1. glory - rejecting
    2. liability - accepting
    3. undoing - supplementing
    4. downfall - considering
    5. virtue - qualifying

    Ans : C

53. Not only the - are fooled by pcopagandas we can all be misled if we are not -
    1. people - mature
    2. ignorant - cynical
    3. masses - cautious
    4. uncultured - concerned
    5. gullible - wary

    Answer: E

54. -- merciful by nature, he was - toward the murderer.
    1. although - unmoving
    2. while - unjust
    3. truly - indicative
    4. though - kind
    5. albeit - implacable

    Answer: E

55. When the news of his - with the enemy become known, he was hanged in -
    1. collusion - effigy
    2. conversation's - earnest
    3. involvement - martyrdom
    4. complacency - retaliation
    5. bickering - response

    Answer: D

56. That the Third Battalion's fifty percent casually rate transformed its assault on Hill 306 from a brilliant stratagem into a debacle does not - eyewitness reports of its commander's extra-ordinary - in deploying his forces.
    1. invalidate - brutality
    2. gainsay - cleverness
    3. underscore - ineptitude
    4. justify - rapidity
    5. corroborate -determination

    Ans : B

57. No longer - by the belief that the world around us was expressly designed for humanity, many people try to find intellectual - for that lost certainty in astrology and in mysticism.
    1. satisfied - reasons
    2. reassured - justifications
    3. restricted - parallels
    4. sustained - substitutes
    5. hampered - equivalents

    Ans : D

58. In eighth-century Japan, people who - wasteland were rewarded with official ranks as part of an effort to overcome the shortage of - fields.
    1. cultivated - domestic
    2. located - desirable
    3. conserved - forested
    4. reclaimed - arable
    5. irrigated - accessible.

    Answer: D

59. Clearly refuting sceptics, researchers have - not only that gravitational radiation exists but that it also does exactly what the theory- it should do.
    1. assumed - deducted
    2. estimated - accepted
    3. supposed - asserted
    4. doubted - warranted
    5. demonstrated - predicted.

    Answer: E

60. Melodramas, which presented stark oppositions between innocence and criminality, virtue and corruption, good and evil, were popular precisely because they offered the audience a world - of -
    1. deprived - polarity
    2. full - circumstantiality
    3. bereft - theatricality
    4. devoid - neutrality
    5. composed - adversity.

    Answer: D