Sunday, July 22, 2007

July 21st, 2007[ SENTENCE COMPLETION]

choose the correct answers from the given choices

1) Some of the world’s most notorious criminals put on a_______________of piety and respectability.

2) Speaking in riddles and dressed in old robes, the artist gained a reputation as something of an____________________

3) The________________between the French and the English regularly erupted into open warfare.

4) The_____________________of penicillin was unsurpassed when it was first introduced; the drug completely eliminated almost all bacterial infections for which it was administered.

5) The___________________of the Sun King’s court is evident in the lavish decoration and luxuriousness of his palace at Versailles.

6) The Ayatollah Khomeini’s____________________of our President and people whipped up the frenzy of the Iranian “students.”

7) The countess complained that the vulgar peasants lacked the__________________appropriate for a visit to the palace.

8) The form and physiology of leaves vary according to the______________________in which they develop: for example, leaves display a wide range of adaptations to different degrees of light and moisture.

9) The imposition of harsh taxes was the____________________that finally brought on the revolution.

10) The repetition of a sound or letter in two or more words in a sequence is an_______________________

a) alliteration b) antipathy c) catalyst d) decorum e) efficacy f) enigma g) environment h) ostentation i) veneer j) vilification

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