Sentence Completion Mock Test for CAT Examination

Download and practise the Asked Questions from the sentence completion question for CAT Exam Old Papers. Verify your expected answers with the original sentence completion question for CAT Solved Question Papers.

Refer to the sentence completion question for CAT Model Papers along with the answers. Check our website for more sentence completion questions for CAT Last 10 years Question Papers.

The sentence completion question from CAT Previous Papers is available here for free download. Download the sentence completion question for CAT Old Question Papers PDF along with the answers.

Sentence Completion Mock Test for CAT Examination

1. ________ and ugly though it was – the jeep ________ in radiance – became in my mind a chariot and Dante rather than the mentally dumb – Shankar – sat beside me on the flaming road.
1) Hideous – transformed
2) Porcine – viewed
3) Dented – sanctified
4) Unwieldy – bathed

2. An author usually takes _________ with the depiction of the reality of his time – but a good author does not merely look at the glory – he looks also at the sheer _______.
1) pain – spirit
2) liberties – pathos
3) restraint – mockery
4) credit – sophistication

3. The lonely traveler ________ his bosom in a free flow of __________.
1) petrified – diatribe
2) lightened – malice
3) distended – prolixity
4) bared – emotion

4. The rustic women looked at the robots that moved like human beings with _______ but _______ eyes.
1) wide – incredulous
2) appalled –intimidating
3) keen – languorous
4) perceptive – indifferent

5. According to the saints – life is a ______ of growth and _____________.
1) panoply – decomposition
2) sojourn – opportunity
3) farrago – jubilation
4) culmination – progression

6. In a brilliantly woven narrative – with facts as the ______ and imagination as the ________ – the author delves deep into the complex relationship between his main characters.
1) proof – testimony
2) warp – weft
3) base – adornment
4) thread – colour

7. Darjeeling is largely built in that _______ semi-chalet style so dear to Victorian pleasure seekers – and imposes upon its _____________ of people a desire to cling to the old-world charm.
1) archetypal – mélange
2) picturesque – refectory
3) strange – milieu
4) aerial – menagerie

8. He found himself alone with his ___________ in the darkness and realised that he was not the _________ he considered himself to be.
1) sketches – hermit
2) thoughts – loner
3) dreams – loser
4) needs – soldier

9. The scolding he received from his father had _____ his spirits for a while but soon he was his _______ old self.
1) sobered – naughty
2) jolted – introspective
3) cramped – voracious
4) dampened – exuberant

10. The fate of a million villagers ___________ on the performance of this _________ who – while being one of them was unusually self-respecting.
1) hinged – yokel
2) relied – artist
3) rested – lad
4) stuck – creature

11. In a fresh _______ to the bribery scandal – accounting firm PD has said that ABC Corporation Ltd. made sizeable payments to __________ companies.
1) revelation – suspected
2) juncture – litigious
3) twist – fictitious
4) bend – fraudulent

12. The __________ crowd at Naroda Patia went on the __________ after a mini-truck ran over a youth.
1) motley – defensive
2) congregated – attack
3) distressed – aggressive
4) unruly – rampage

13. Bustling and friendly – Parr is the __________ of the depressing and _________ Blackpool landlady of yore.
1) epitome – sullen
2) antithesis – infamous
3) image – curious
4) symbol – retiring

14. The arrested man was held without charge, without ________ without being allowed to get in touch with a lawyer, or even the Dutch consulate until at last he made _______ admissions which provided the probable cause for holding him.
1) indictment – vague
2) arraignment – damaging
3) pleas – credible
4) sustenance – incriminatory

15. Among the properties of individual things, some are _________, others accidental, the accidental properties of a thing are those it can lose without losing its ________ such as wearing a hat, if you are a man.
1) deliberate – property
2) benevolent – demeanour
3) enforced – personality
4) essential – identity

16. The Renaissance broke down _____ the scholastic system, which had become an _________ straitjacket.
1) rigid – intellectual
2) strict – apocryphal
3) hackneyed – anamalous
4) simplistic – indulgent

17. The novel has been translated into 20 languages and ___________ quite a few times __________ both the stage and the screen.
1) adapted – at
2) abridged – in
3) scripted – to
4) adapted – for

18. Diasporic literature may seem to occupy a curious ________ world, weaving tapestry that is at once _________ and far away.
1) midway – commonplace
2) Western – alien
3) contradictory – recognizable
4) claustroph0bic – striking

19. Director Todd Phillips’ movie Starsky and Hutch – has enough well-timed inventiveness to keep you alert and ________, if not exactly ________.
1) agitated – active
2) mystified – submerged
3) entertained – gripped
4) distracted – disillusioned

20. With the government gradually _________ state subsidies from money-losing media outlets, the Chinese press has to work really hard in order to stay __________.
1) intending – stable
2) diverting – competitive
3) removing – contemporary
4) withdrawing – solvent

21. Rather than being a passive observer of what is going on, the camcorder can sometimes ________ behaviour and, thus, ___________ situations that might not otherwise have occurred.
1) restrict – eradicate
2) trigger – create
3) affect – correlate
4) engender – reproduce

22. He had been ____________ enough to the pilgrims during the journey, but he had not his wife’s __________, and had spent much of his time reading.
1) surly – geniality
2) obsequious – charm
3) benign – generosity
4) polite – gregariousness

23. When he turned to his team-mates for support, he encountered a reef of curious, ___________ faces all gazing at him with __________ eyes.
1) inscrutable – keen
2) reflective – wooden
3) purposeful – compassionate
4) quaint – vacant

24. In Florence, Lorenzo’s successor, his son Piro, showed none of his father’s political tact or ___________ , and under Sovonorala’s influence the city was soon __________ to a harsh, hell-fearing regime.
1) diplomacy – elevated
2) acumen – subjected
3) ingenuity – led
4) reign – congregated

25. Leonardo took up town planning and produced a massive scheme for rebuilding all of Milan with airy __________ and an impeccable _________ system for keeping the city clean.
1) comets – stabling
2) patios – rotary
3) boulevards – sewage
4) monasteries – planning

26. When I design a shoe, I keep __________ the points in mind, so that it __________ the feet as the wearer walks.
1) sole – massages
2) focus – renovates
3) tender – activates
4) pressure – balances

27. After _______ on Canada’s comedy circuit over a four-year period, the renowned actor relocated to Los Angeles and became a _________ at Mitzi Shores Comedy Store on the famed Sunset Strip.
1) stinting – performer
2) prevailing – fixture
3) reigning – manager
4) lampooning – comedian

28. There are only five __________ in the musical scale, but their _________ are so many that they cannot all be heard.
1) notes – fermentations
2) units – fragments
3) units – cells
4) notes – variations

29. _______ of illiteracy from a nation that is set to become the most populated in the world is by no easy.
1) Countering – task
2) Driving – measure
3) Curbing – way
4) Eradication – means
5) Removal – point

30. It is time to _______ ongoing programmes and ___________ new horizons.
1) value – choose
2) speculate – experiment
3) reject – consider
4) scrutinize – impound
5) assess – seek

31. This approach would _______ the enormous illiteracy problem to be _______ in a holistic manner.
1) enable – tackled
2) focus – viewed
3) envision – dealt
4) combine – judged
5) review – countered

32. The _______ of criminalization of polities needs to be _________ far more seriously.
1) lacuna – dealt
2) issue – addressed
3) system – broken
4) continuation – suppressed
5) process – diverted

33. It would be proper for India to judge Pakistan by its ________ rather than ______.
1) credentials – potentials
2) culture – polities
3) actions – words
4) promises – assurances
5) nature – behaviour

34. The students _________ not reach on time _______ of the transport strike.
1) can – as
2) may – account
3) should – for
4) will – despite
5) could – because

35. They were _________ to vacate that house as ________ as possible.
1) asked – soon
2) shown – early
3) found – fast
4) told – later
5) ordered – easy

36. The teacher _________ the concept by ________ practical examples.
1) showed – telling
2) liked-citing
3) explained – quoting
4) found – looking
5) that – before

37. The manager told us ________ Ramesh was very anxious _______ the meeting.
1) about – in
2) like- during
3) said- after
4) the – for
5) that – before

38. She did not tell ________ that she ________ attended the party.
1) someone – have
2) him – not
3) anyone – had
4) her – can
5) no one – has

39. In an effort to provide ________ for higher education to all, most of the universities have been providing education without adequate infrastructure, thus churning out _______ graduates every year.
1) chances – fresh
2) platform – capable
3) opportunities – unemployable
4) prospects – eligible
5) policy – incompetent

40. The move to allow dumping of mercury _________ an outcry from residents of the area who ________ that high levels of mercury will affect their health and destroy ecologically sensitive forest area.
1) resulted – insist
2) provoked – fear
3) incited – determined
4) activated – accept
5) angered – believe

41. Evert as the ________ elsewhere in the world are struggling to come out of recession, Indian consumers are splurging on consumer goods and to ________ this growth, companies are investing heavily in various sectors.
1) economies – meet
2) countries – inhibit
3) governments – measure
4) nations – inflict
5) companies – counter

42. Drawing attention to the pitfalls of __________ solely on Uranium as a fuel for nuclear reactors, Indian scientists warned that Uranium will not last for long and thus research on Thorium as its _________ must be revived.
1) using – substitute
2) believing – replacement
3) depending – reserve
4) reckoning – option
5) relying – alternative

43. Weather officials have __________ below-normal rains this year. If the predictions come true, farm output could ___________ as most of India’s farmlands depend on rainwater for irrigation.
1) forecasted – shrank
2) forecast – shrank
3) forecast – shrink
4) predicted – expand
5) predictions – wan

44. It is the role of the state to __________ crime and protect people and property. If the state is unable to prevent a crime it falls upon the state to _________ the victim.
1) prevent – support
2) preventing – encourage
3) prevent – supporting
4) forbid – discourage
5) forbid – discouraging

45. A person who is clean and tidy in how he dresses up commands better ________ from those around him than those “who have a _________ and unkempt appearance.
1) respectful – slovenly
2) respect – slovenly
3) respected – untidy
4) respect – tidy
5) respect – careful

46. Today – we have achieved a milestone by completing 60 years of independence. It’s now the time for everyone or every Indian to undergo _______ of the achievements we already made and also those that are to be still __________.
1) self-introspection – achiver
2) self-examination – achieve
3) introspection – achieved
4) search – found
5) cross-inspection – made

47. Education is an essential means of ________ women with the knowledge, skills and self-confidence necessary to fully __________ in the development process.
1) Empower – include
2) empowering – participate
3) empowered – participating
4) empowerment – participate
5) strengthening – participate

48. It is a well-known _________ that the lover of the sea craves for dry land, the age-old ________ to be where we are not.
1) belief – antipathy
2) anomaly – demiurge
3) credo – inspiration
4) contention – duplicity
5) paradox – yearning

49. The practice of painting slogans on rock faces – once a thriving industry in Britain, has fallen into but there has recently been a/an ________ in Country/Antrim.
1) oblivion – demand
2) misuse – artisan
3) disfavour – upheaval
4) mediocrity – surfeit
5) disuse – recrudescence

50. Curiously enough the very passages, which set out to clarify only ________ the details are served up in ________ three page paragraphs which stupefy the reader.
1) adumbrate – excessive
2) obscure – succinct
3) mystity – stimulating
4) disturb – compact
5) obfuscate – monolithic