English Aptitude Test on Sentence Completion

Today Wegener’s theory is ____ ; however, he died an outsider treated with ____ by the scientific establishment.

The revolution in art has not lost its steam; it ____ on as fiercely as ever.

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

____ by nature, Jones spoke very little even to his own family members.

Biological clocks are of such ____ adaptive value to living organisms, that we would expect most organisms to ____ them.

The peasants were the least ____ of all people, bound by tradition and ____ by superstitions.

Many people at that time believed that spices help preserve food; however, Hall found that many marketed spices were ____ bacteria, moulds and yeasts.

If there is nothing to absorb the energy of sound waves, they travel on ____ , but their intensity ____ as they travel further from their source

The two artists differed markedly in their temperaments; Palmer was reserved and courteous, Frazer ____ and boastful.

The intellectual flexibility inherent in a multicultural nation has been ____ in classrooms where emphasis on British-American literature has not reflected the cultural ____ of our country.

The conclusion of his argument, while ____ , is far from ____

In the Middle Ages, the ____ of the great cathedrals did not enter into the architects’ plans; almost invariably a cathedral was positioned haphazardly in ____ surroundings.

Unwilling to admit that they had been in error, the researchers tried to ____ their case with more data obtained from dubious sources.

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

The student was extremely foolhardy; he had the ____ to question the senior professor’s judgment.

The formerly ____ waters of the lake have been polluted so that the fish are no longer visible from the surface.

After the accident, the nerves to her arm were damaged and so the muscles ____ through disuse

Some critics maintain that Tennyson’s poetry is uneven, ranging from the ____ to the ____.

After grafting there is a ____ of lymphocytes in the lymph glands; the newly produced lymphocytes then move in to attack the foreign tissue.

One ____ the new scheme is that it might actually ____ just those applicants that it was intended to encourage.

Corruption is ____ in our society; the integrity of even senior officials is ____ .

In their day to day decision making, many senior managers do not follow the rational model favored by orthodox management experts, but rather rely on intuitive processes that often appear ____ and ____.

His characteristically ____ views on examination methods at university level have aroused ____ in those who want to introduce innovative and flexible patterns of assessment.

Our grandfather was an entertaining ____; he used to ____ us with marvelous anecdotes that we, in our childlike simplicity, accepted unquestioningly.

He was treated like a ____ and cast out from his community.

The teacher accused me of ____ because my essay was so similar to that of another student

We live in a ____ age; everyone thinks that maximizing pleasure is the point of life.

Thankfully the disease has gone into ____ ; it may not recur for many years

People from all over the world are sent by their doctors to breathe the pure, ____ air in this mountain region.

As were many colonial administrators, Gregory was ____ in his knowledge of the grammar of the local language, though his accent was ____

Though Adam Bede is presented to us by the author as ____ fiction, there are none of the life-like meanderings of the story of Amos Barton.

There is a general ____ in the United States that our ethics are declining and that our moral standards are ____ .

Homo sapiens, the proud splitter of the atom, inventor of the electronic computer, ____ of the genetic code may be humbled by a lowly ____ of the sewers and soils – the microbe.

After centuries of obscurity, this philosopher’s thesis is enjoying a surprising ____ .

The threat of war, far from ____ , lay heavily in the air, and the villagers, while ____ going about their normal activities, were unable to shake off the feeling of impending catastrophe

Although alarmed by the ____ , Professor Symes had no reason to doubt the ____ of his student’s results, for this student was nothing if not reliable.

Scrooge, in the famous novel by Dickens, was a ____ ; he hated the rest of mankind.

A businessman must widen his horizons; a ____ attitude will get you nowhere in this age of global communications.

Our bookshelves at home display a range of books on wide-ranging subjects and in many languages, reflecting the ____ tastes of our family members.

Plastic bags are ____ symbols of consumer society; they are found wherever you travel.

Dr. Stuart needs to ____ his argument with more experimental data; as it stands his thesis is ____ .

After an initially warm reception by most reviewers and continued ____ by conservative thinkers, Bloom’s work came under heavy fire

Through the 19th Century, the classics of Western Civilization were considered to be the ____ of wisdom and culture, and an ____ person – by definition- knew them well.

In this biography we are given a glimpse of the young man ____ pursuing the path of the poet despite ____ and rejection slips.

All European countries are seeking to diminish the check upon individual ____ which state examinations with their ____ growth have bought in their train

In keeping with his own ____ in international diplomacy, Churchill proposed a personal meeting of heads of government, but the effort was doomed to failure, as the temper of the times was ____ .

The wall and floor decorations created by Indian housewives are usually ____ , remaining hours, days, or at most, weeks before being worn off by human activity or weather and replaced by new ____ .

The subtle shades of meaning, and still subtler echoes of association, make language an instrument which scarcely anything short of genius can wield with ____ and ____ .

To reach Simonville, the traveller needs to drive with extreme caution along the ____ curves of the mountain road that climbs ____ to the summit.

The cricket match seemed ____ to our guests; they were used to watching sports in which the action is over in a couple of hours at the most.

Our present accountant is most ____ ; unlike the previous _____ incumbent, he has never made a mistake in all the years that he has worked for the firm.

The refugee’s poor grasp of English is hardly an _____ problem; she can attend classes and improve within a matter of months

We appreciated his ____ summary of the situation; he wasted no words yet delineated his position most ____ .

His musical tastes are certainly ____ ; he has recordings ranging from classical piano performances to rock concerts, jazz and even Chinese opera.

I cannot conclude this preface without ____ that an early and untimely death should have prevented Persius from giving a more finished appearance to his works.

Before his marriage the Duke had led an austere existence and now regarded the affectionate, somewhat ____ behavior of his young wife as simply ____ .

Wilson ____ that human beings inherit a tendency to feel an affinity and awe for other living things, in the same way that we are ____ to be inquisitive or to protect our young at all costs

The pond was a place of reek and corruption, of ____ smells and of oxygen-starved fish breathing through laboring gills.

There have been great ____ since his time, but few others have felt so strongly the ____ of human existence.

While war has never been absent from the ____ of man, there have been periods in History which appear remarkably ____.

The crew of the air balloon ____ the sand bags to help the balloon rise over the hill.

We were not fooled by his ____ arguments; his plan was obviously ____ .

Hawkins is ____ in his field; no other contemporary scientist commands the same respect.

The model paraded in front of the celebrities with ____ ; it was impossible to tell that this was her first assignment

The term lead pencil is a ____ ; pencils are filled with graphite not lead.

The ____ weather forced us to stay indoors.

It will be hard to ____ Leonid now that you have so ____ him

The lectures on quantum physics were invariably ____ ; the lecturer ____ his ill-prepared material in a manner guaranteed to send even the most ardent student to sleep.

Edward was understandably upset that he had lost the position, but he was ____ by the conviction that he had done nothing to ____ the dismissal.

Elinor ____ to counteract her negative feelings, but only succeeded in ____ them.

She was roundly condemned for her ____ ; she betrayed the woman to whom she owed her success.

The progress of the disease is ____ ; it spreads stealthily without any symptoms in the early stages

The candidate _____ when asked why he had left his last job; he did not want to admit that he had been ____ .

Tennyson was a well-loved poet; no other poet since has been so ____ .

The parliamentary session degenerated into ____ with politicians hurling ____ at each other and refusing to come to order.

The admiral ____ his order to attack when he saw the white flag raised by the enemy sailors; he was relieved that he could bring an end to the ____ .

In a fit of ____ she threw out the valuable statue simply because it had belonged to her ex-husband.

Many 17th century buildings that are still in existence have been so ____ by successive owners that the original layout is no longer ____ .

Since ancient times sculpture has been considered the ____ of men; women sculptors have, until recently, consistently met with ____.

____ action at this time would be inadvisable; we have not yet accumulated sufficient expertise to warrant anything other than a ____ approach.