Sentence Completion - 1

1. Dominant interests often benefit most from (i) ________ of governmental interference in business, since they are able to take care of themselves if left alone.


A) intensification
B) authorization
C) centralization
D) improvisation
E) elimination



Kagan maintains that an infant’s reactions to its first stressful experiences are part of a natural process of development, not harbingers of childhood unhappiness or (i) _________ signs of adolescent anxiety.

A) prophetic
B) normal
C) monotonous
D) virtual
E) typical




An investigation that is _________ can occasionally yield new facts, even notable ones, but typically the appearance of such facts is the result of a search in a definite direction.



A) timely
B) unguided
C) consistent
D) uncomplicated
E) subjective

It is (i)_________ that so many portrait paintings hang in art museums, since the subject matter seems to dictate a status closer to pictures in the family photo graph album than to high art. But perhaps it is the artistic skill with which the portraits are painted that (ii)_________ their presence in art museums.

Blank (i)	Blank (ii)
surprising	challenges
understandable	justifies
irrelevant	changes

Noting that few employees showed any (i) _______ for complying with the corporations new safety regulations, Peterson was forced to conclude that acceptance of the regulations would be (ii) ______ , at best.

Blank (i)	Blank (ii)
enthusiasm	grudging
indifference	indeterminate
rectitude	unavoidable