Sentence Completion Test 3

Here, the infant mortality rate moves from a higher level (200) to a lower level (14). Hence, declined.

The word “ransom” gives us the clue. A ransom is the money ($10,000) that has to be paid to the kidnapper (here, “servant”) so that he will set free the person kidnapped (here, the “five-year-old boy”).

The actress, wearing a dark gray suit and open-necked shirt, sat through the proceedings looking nervous throughout, occasionally frowning as her lawyer spoke with the judge.

If the particles need no wounding then spanning is their natural property, so the filler for second plant should be synonymous to natural or internal. ‘Radical’ means drastic, ‘'intrinsic’ is inbuilt or internal, ‘intangible’ is something that is not available in the physical form, ‘hypothetical’ is assumed. Thus, ‘intrinsic’ will be the filler for the second gap.

You can lead Monica by the nose. That is, you can have complete control over her. Now, this is possible only when Monica be a simpleton. A ‘simpleton’ is a person who is not very intelligent and can easily be fooled.

‘Peruse’ means to read. A perusal (reading) of “Solzhenitsyn’s works” will “bring home to him” (make him understand) the truth about “Freedom” in Russia — that freedom is only nominal; it is, in fact, “restrictive”.

An incubus is a male devil supposed to have sex with a sleeping woman. Broadly, incubus means a very worrying problem. In literary usages, as in the given sentence, it means a bad dream and is synonymous with incubus.

Word ‘ignominiously’ suits the content of the sentence. ‘Ignominiously’ means causing public shame. The other three answer choices are incorrect as they don’t fit in properly.

Vision is a dream, aberration is deviation from the standard behaviors, outcry is severe complaints and senility is condition in old age, momentary can either be aberration or vision, but in the sense of sentence, it is something that calls for some adjustments from others, it will, therefore, be aberration.

The word ‘preponderance’, means ‘greater than other in amount influence or importance’ which suits the content of the sentence. Other answer choices are grammatically incorrect.