Sentence Completion - 4 (Hard Level)
A rationality
B flexibility
C diffidence
D disinterestedness
E insincerity
Human nature and long distances have made exceeding the speed limit a (i)_________ in the state, so the legislators surprised no one when, acceding to public demand, they (ii)_________ increased penalties for speeding.
Blank (i) | Blank (ii) |
A) controversial habit | D) endorsed |
B) cherished tradition | E) considered |
C) disquieting ritual | F) rejected |
Serling’s account of his employer’s reckless decision making (i)_________ that company’s image as (ii)_________ bureaucracy full of wary managers.
Blank (i) | Blank (ii) |
A. belies | D. an injudicious |
B. exposes | E. a disorganized |
C. overshadows | F. a cautious |
No other contemporary poet’s work has such a well-earned reputation for (i)_________, and there are few whose moral vision is so imperiously unsparing. Of late, however, the almost belligerent demands of his severe and densely forbidding poetry have taken an improbable turn. This new collection is the poet’s fourth book in six years — an ample output even for poets of sunny disposition, let alone for one of such (ii)_________ over the previous 50 years. Yet for all his newfound (iii)_________, his poetry is as thorny as ever.
Blank (i) | Blank (ii) | Blank (iii) |
A. patent accessibility | D. penitential austerity | G. taciturnity |
B. intrinsic frivolity | E. intractable prolixity | H. volubility |
C. near impenetrability | F. impetuous prodigality | I. pellucidity |
Managers who think that strong environmental performance will (i)_________ their company’s financial performance often (ii)_________ claims that systems designed to help them manage environmental concerns are valuable tools. By contrast, managers who perceive environmental performance to be (iii)_________ to financial success may view an environmental management system as extraneous. In either situation, and whatever their perceptions, it is a manager’s commitment to achieving environmental improvement rather than the mere presence of a system that determines environmental performance.
Blank (i) | Blank (ii) | Blank (iii) |
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eclipse | uncritically accept | complementary |
bolster | appropriately acknowledge | intrinsic |
degrade | hotly dispute | peripheral |
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