CAT VERBAL SECTION : SENTENCE COMPLETION SAMPLE QUESTIONS - 1 :  

DIRECTIONS:

Each sentence below has one or two blanks. Each blank shows that something has been omitted. Under each sentence five words are given as choice. Choose the one correct word for each blank that best fits the meaning of the sentences as a whole.

1. The fact that the_______________ of confrontation is no longer as popular as it once was _______________ procatss in race relations.
         1. insidiousness - reiterates
         2. practice - inculcates
         3. glimmer - foreshadows
         4. technique - presages
         5. reticence - indicates

Answer : D

2. A child should not be _______________ as being either very shy or over _______________ agcatssive.
         1. categorized
         2. instructed
         3. intoned
         4. distracted
         5. refrained

Answer : A

3. President Anwar el _______________ Sadat of Egypt, disregarding - criticism in the Alab world and in his own Government, _______________ accepted prime minister Menahem Begin's invitation to visit Israel in order to address the Israeli parliament.
         1. acrimonious - formally
         2. blemished - stiffly
         3. categorical - previously
         4. malignant - plaintively
         5. charismatic - meticulously

Answer : A

4. In his usual _______________ manner, he had insured himself against this type of loss.
         1. pensive
         2. providential
         3. indifferent
         4. circumspect
         5. caustic

Answer : D

5. We never believed that he would resort to _______________ in order to achieve his goal; we always regarded him as a _______________ man.
         1. charm - insincere
         2. necromancy - pietistic
         3. logic - honorable
         4. prestidigitation - articulate
         5. subterfuge - honest

Answer : E

6. The Sociologist responded to the charge that her new theory was _______________ by pointing out that it did not in fact contradict accepted sociological principles.
         1. unproven
         2. banal
         3. superficial
         4. complex
         5. heretical

Answer : E

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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

Answer : C

11. 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

Answer : B


12. 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

Answer : D


13. 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


14. 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


15. 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


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