some sentence completion questions

[Mervin2008]

I got these sentence completions from the internet,The document which had them did not specify the correct answer so lets please discuss the questions

__________________________________________________ _____

1 Because various methods of birth control are more prevalent in affluent nations, population growth is generally much ---- in rich nations than in poor ones.


A more rapid
B more restrained
C more enduring
D less slow
E more steady

2 Due to its ---- topography and setting, Gibraltar has an unparalleled variety of flora and fauna.


A commonplace
B useful
C serene
D uncommon
E standard


3 The fact that the- of confrontation is no longer as popular as it once was - progress in race relations.


1. insidiousness - reiterates
2. practice - inculcates
3. glimmer - foreshadows
4. technique - presages
5. reticence - indicates


4 A child should not be - as being either very shy or over - aggressive.


1. categorized
2. instructed
3. intoned
4. distracted
5. refrained


5 President Anwar el - Sadat of Egypt, disregarding - criticism in the Arab 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


6 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

7 The most technologically advanced societies have been responsible for the greatest - 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


8 That the Third Battalion's fifty percent casualty 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





9 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

10 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.



11 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.


23. Parts of seventeenth-century Chinese pleasure gardens were not necessarily intended to look -they were designed expressly to evoke the agreeable melancholy resulting from a sense of the - of natural beauty and human glory.
1. great - immutability
2. joyful - mortality
3. conventional - wildness
4. cheerful - transitoriness
5. colorful - abstractness.



24. Despite the - of many of their colleagues, some scholars have begun to emphasize ''pop culture'' as a key for - the myths, hopes, and fears of contemporary society.
1. pedantry - reinstating
2. enthusiasm - symbolizing
3. skepticism - deciphering
4. antipathy - involving
5. discernment - evaluating.


27. The Neolatonists' conception of a deity, in which perfection was measured by abundant fecundity, was contradicted by that of the Aristotelians, in which perfection was displayed in the - of creation.
1. variety
2. economy
3. profusion
4. clarity
5. precision.







28. It is a great - to be able to transfer useful genes with as little extra gene material as possible, because the donor's genome may contain, in addition to desirable genes, many genes with - effects.
1. Disappointment - superfluous
2. Convenience - exquisite
3. Advantage - deleterious
4. Accomplishment - profound
5. Misfortune - unpredictable.



29. While admitting that the risks incurred by use of the insecticide were not - the manufacturer's spokesperson argued that effective - were simply not available.
1. indeterminable - safeguards
2. unusual - alternatives
3. inconsequential - substitutes
4. proven - antidotes
5. increasing - procedures.



30. Human reaction to the realm of thought is often as strong as that to sensible presences; our higher moral life is based on the fact that - sensations actually present may have a weaker influence on our action than do ideas of - facts.
1. emotional - impersonal
2. familiar : symbolic
3. disturbing - ordinary
4. material - remote
5. definitive - controversial.


31 An occasional - remark spoiled the - that made the paper memorable.


1. colloquial
2. trite - clinches

3. urbane - sophisticated
4. hackneyed - originality
5. jovial - fun.



32 Broadway audiences have become inured to - and so - to be pleased as to make their ready ovations meaningless as an indicator of the quality of the production before them.


1. cleverness : eager
2. condescension : disinclined
3. sentimentality : reluctant
4. mediocrity : desperate
5. histrionics : unlikely







33 Nineteenth - century scholars, by examining earlier geometric Greek art, found that classical Greek art was not a magical - or a brilliant - blending Egyptian and Assyrian art, but was independently evolved by Greeks in Greece.


1. conversion - annexation
2. apparition - amalgam
3. stratagem - appropriation
4. paradigm - construct
5. example - synthesis







34 The struggle of the generations is one of the obvious constants of human affairs; therefore, it may be presumptuous to suggest that the rivalry between young and old in western society during the current decade is - critical.


1. archetypally
2. perennially
3. disturbingly
4. uniquely
5. cautiously




35 Unlike the Shakespearean plays, The ''closet dramas'' of the nineteenth century were meant to be - rather than -


1. seen - acted
2. read - acted
3. produced - acted
4. quiet - loud
5. sophisticated - urbane


Can anyone give an explanation of what the sentence means in 30 and 34,I was able to understand all others but those two have left me stumped

[mickgreen58]

Originally Posted by Mervin2008

I got these sentence completions from the internet,The document which had them did not specify the correct answer so lets please discuss the questions

__________________________________________________ _____

Because various methods of birth control are more prevalent in affluent nations, population growth is generally much ---- in rich nations than in poor ones.


A more rapid
B more restrained
C more enduring
D less slow
E more steady

Due to its ---- topography and setting, Gibraltar has an unparalleled variety of flora and fauna.


A commonplace
B useful
C serene
D uncommon
E standard


# The fact that the- of confrontation is no longer as popular as it once was - progress in race relations.


1. insidiousness - reiterates
2. practice - inculcates
3. glimmer - foreshadows
4. technique - presages
5. reticence - indicates


# A child should not be - as being either very shy or over - aggressive.


1. categorized
2. instructed
3. intoned
4. distracted
5. refrained


# President Anwar el - Sadat of Egypt, disregarding - criticism in the Arab 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


# 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

# The most technologically advanced societies have been responsible for the greatest - 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


# That the Third Battalion's fifty percent casualty 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





# 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

# 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.



# 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.

My answers are in bold. The last one is a bit confusing. Maybe a case where you have to know 2nd or 3rd meanings of a word.

[Mervin2008]

Regarding the last one ,I suspect its supposed to be Nutrients,Artifacts are remnants of a age gone past

Can you explain this one :


# That the Third Battalion's fifty percent casualty 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


Why cant it be 2 ,the eyewitness were not able to deny the extraordinary cleverness of the commander ?

[mickgreen58]

Originally Posted by Mervin2008

Regarding the last one ,I suspect its supposed to be Nutrients,Artifacts are remnants of a age gone past

Can you explain this one :


# That the Third Battalion's fifty percent casualty 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


Why cant it be 2 ,the eyewitness were not able to deny the extraordinary cleverness of the commander ?

2 could be correct.

So you don't have the OA's?

[Mervin2008]

No sorry,I got these from from a document on esnsips. and regarding this one


# 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.

The correct answer is 5,found it in one the big book question papers

[ObfuscateOften]

Originally Posted by Mervin2008

I got these sentence completions from the internet,The document which had them did not specify the correct answer so lets please discuss the questions

__________________________________________________ _____

1 Because various methods of birth control are more prevalent in affluent nations, population growth is generally much ---- in rich nations than in poor ones.


A more rapid
B more restrained
C more enduring
D less slow
E more steady

2 Due to its ---- topography and setting, Gibraltar has an unparalleled variety of flora and fauna.


A commonplace
B useful
C serene
D uncommon
E standard

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