SENTENCE COMPLETION GATE 2020 STUDY MATERIAL PDF CIVILENGGFORALL

What are Sentence Completion Problems?
Basic Strategies for Sentence
Completion Problems
Exercises, MCQ Questions, Answers and Explanations

WHAT ARE SENTENCE COMPLETION PROBLEMS?

Sentence completion problems test your vocabulary skills as well as your reading ability. Unlike the reading comprehension questions, which require you to read long passages, these problems contain a single sentence expressing a complete idea that can be understood without any additional information. Each sentence contains one or two blanks, indicating that one or two words are missing. You are then presented with five words or phrases, or five pairs of words or phrases if there are two blanks in the sentence. From these choices, you need to select the words or phrases that fit into the blanks to best complete the sentence. To make the correct choice, you will need to be able to understand the main idea of the sentence and the logical structure of the sentence. Next, you will need to know the definitions of the words in the answer choices.

BASIC STRATEGIES FOR SENTENCE COMPLETION PROBLEMS

Strategy 1

The first strategy is to break the sentence down into the main clause and introductory clause or phrase in order to identify the relationship it expresses. For example, consider the following:

In a hospital setting, hand washing is primarily a _______ measure.

(a) prophylactic (b) pseudocyetic (c) protensive (d) propaedeutic

The main clause declares that hand washi ng is primarily a measure. However, preceding the declaration is a condition or constraint expressed in an introductory phrase, “a hospital setting.” This phrase sets the contextual field within which the main clause is to be under stood. I f you generalize from your knowledge, it would seem that any measure promoted in a hospital should result in good health. Only one of the answers would result in this. That is answer (a) in which prophylactic means “prevents disease.”

Strategy 2

A second strategy is to attend to sets, whether a set of synonyms or antonyms or special word groups. For example, consider the following: Even when a______ mother was made available to the infant chimpanzee, the infant detected the ______ and reacted with high anxiety.

(a) hedonistic.. contrivance (b) vagrant.. apostasy (c) veteran.. ruse (d) pretender.. interference

Nothing in a common sense association supports the pairing of hedonistic and contrivance, vagrant and apostasy, veteran and ruse, or pretender and interference. The only set of related words is surrogate (meaning substitute) and substitution.

Strategy 3

Pay attention to the words that control the figurative field of the sentence. Consider the following passage: In seventeenth-century France, private and public opinion portrayed the physician as a vulture of greed, circling the sick and dying, battening off the suffering of the afflicted, and ______the remains of his prey.

(a) spending (b) devouring (c) retreating from (d) decrying

Clearly the correct answer is (b), devouring. The key words that control the figurative field are vulture, circling, and battening. Read the items carefully and make sure that the completed sentence is meaningful, that it makes sense.

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