Sentence Completion - 2

 Sentence Completion - 2

1.                              More insurers are limiting the sale of property insurance in coastal

areas and other regions --------- natural disasters.     [Ans: E]

a)safe from        b)according to   c)which include    d)despite       e)prone to

               

2.           .                 Roman Regions ------ the Mountain ------ of Masada for three years

before they were able to seize it .       [Ans: C]

a) dissembled------ bastion          b)assailed ---- symbol    c)besieged ----citadel

d) surmounted ------ dwelling    e)honed---- stronghold

3.                        Unlike his calmer, more easy going colleagues ,the senator was---, ready

to quarrel at the slightest provocation.       [Ans: B]

a)whimsical        b)irascible           c)gregarious      d)ineffectual      e)benign

4.        .                   Although historians have long thought of Genghis Khan as a---

potentate ,new research has shown he was -----by many of his subjects.     [Ans: B]

a)tyrannical ----abhorred              b) despotic ----- revered                               c)redundant --- venerated d)jocular -----esteemed                           e)peremptory ----- invoked

5.   .                     Jill was ---by her employees because she often ---them for not working

                hard enough.     Ans:[B]

a) deified ----- goaded                    b) loathed ---- berated         c)disregarded----- eulogized 

d) cherished----- decided                e)execrated ----lauded

6.      .                      Reconstructing the skeletons of extinct species like dinosaurs is ------

            process that requires much patience and effort by palaeontologists.       Ans[E]

a)a nascent         b)an aberrant                   c) a dishevelled          d)a worthless

e)an exacting

7.    7.                      Nearly ------ by disease and the destruction of their habitat , Koalas are

now found only in isolated parts of eucalyptus forester .                      Ans[C]

a)dispersed        b)compiled         c)decimated       d)infuriated        e) averted

   8.     Deep ideological ----and internal power struggles---the government.     Ans[E]

            a) disputes....facilitated                                 b) similarities..... protracted

c) distortions… .accelerated        d) agreements ....stymied           e) divisions .... paralyzed

9.             .             It is ---- that a people so capable of treachery and brutality should also exhibit such a tremendous                  capacity for heroism .             Ans[C]

a)unfortunate                   b)explicable       c)paradoxical     d)distressing      e)appalling

10.                     Despite their fierce appearance, Caymans are rarely -----, and will not attack humans unless                         provoked .                Ans[E]

a)extinct              b)timid                c)domesticated             d)amphibious           e)aggressive