Sentence Completion

Because of Jim Carrey's reputation as a comic actor, suited best for playing hilarious roles, the director was…………… considering him for the more serious role of the solemn monk

• discouraged from

• encouraged to

• irrelevant to

• ambivalent of

The problem of______another war has assumed great urgency because of the______of nuclear weapons

• preventing, invention

• precipitating, armament

• stopping, development

• winning, growth

He was the most………..person he had ever met; in fact, his magnanimity knew no limits.

• charitable

• miserly

• reclusive

• prolific

I regret that my remarks seemed_____. I never intended to_____you.

• disparaging, belittle

• inadequate, hurt

• justified, discourage

• unassailable, imitate

Just as television surpassed radio as the major source of entertainment and information for the world, it seems destined that the Internet will eventually………television.

• invigorate

• alter

• eliminate

• supplant

In a large group of people consisting of strangers, Aishwarya often seemed_______and aloof, although among her friends and family she was quite .

• reticent...convivial

• gregarious...outgoing

• detrimental...multifarious

• unattainable.... taciturn

He preaches liberal views but in practice, he is not_____ and is______narrow-minded than almost any other person.

• ambitious, hardly

• tolerant, more

• hard, openly

• approachable, less

Today Wegener's theory is _________; however, he died an outsider treated with _______ by the scientific establishment.

• unsupported – approval

• dismissed – contempt

• accepted - approbation

• unchallenged – disdain

Archaeology is a poor profession; only ____ sums are available for excavating sites and even more ____ amounts for preserving the excavations.

• paltry – meager

• miniscule – substantial

• average - augmented

• judicious – penurious

Each occupation has its own ____ ; bankers, lawyers and computer professionals, for example, all use among themselves language which outsiders have difficulty following.

• merits

• disadvantages

• rewards

• jargon