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Sentence Completion
These questions will prove to be good exercise for some good
practice in sentence completion.

Try to do the questions without looking at the solutions. The time

allotted is 15 mins.

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Fill up the blanks, numbered [1] upto [5], in the two

passages below with most appropriate word from the
options given for each blank.

THE French film industry is more often given to __[1]__

agonising about American cultural imperialism or the
tyranny of the market than to self-congratulation. But this
year, __[2]__ triumph is in the air. It is not just that for the
first time in 21 years the Cannes film festival jury, headed
this time by Sean Penn, awarded its top prize, the Palme
d’Or, to a French film, Laurent Cantet’s “Entre les Murs”
(“The Class”). Another homegrown movie, “Bienvenue
Chez les Ch’tis” (which will be remade for an American
audience as “Welcome to the Sticks”), is set to overtake
James Cameron’s Hollywood blockbuster, “Titanic”, as the
country’s all-time top
box-office hit.

1. (1) cognitive (2) introspective (3) perceptive

(4) volatile (5) random

2. (1) apologetic (2) significant (3) deliberative

(4) unapologetic (5) reluctant

Apart from their tiny budgets, these two films could

scarcely differ more. The first is a __[3]__ documentary
style classroom drama, filmed—like Nicolas Philibert’s
charming 2002 film, “Etre et Avoir” (“To Be and To Have”)
—with real pupils in a real school, this one in a
multicultural quarter of Paris. It is adapted from a book by
François Bégaudeau, based on his experience as a teacher
(he plays a fictionalised version of himself in the film). The
second is a slick, warm, __[4]__ comedy, written by and
starring Dany Boon, a French comic, which overturns
French prejudices about the beer-drinking, rain-soaked
north. Since its release in February, “Bienvenue Chez les
Ch’tis” has notched up a __[5]__ 20m cinema tickets in
France—just short of the 20.7m that “Titanic” secured—
and over $157.6m in receipts.
3. (1) boring (2) egregious (3) gritty
(4) dreary (5) morose

4. (1) redemptive (2) tedious (3) unamenable

(4) dry (5) listless

5. (1) sparse (2) bare (3) staggering

(4)massive (5) laudatory

Answers :
1. 2
2. 4
3. 3
4. 1
5. 3