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These Questions are fairly hard enough —difficulty level hard.

1.A,F

If you read the full sentence, you will get sense of the sentence. Our prediction is to "STOP" the unending leaks of radioactive materials from the devastated plant.
Contain means restrain (Tricky one!)

2. A,D

Clue is the word "vulnerable' , so, prediction should be "not good". Worrisome and troublesome matches that.

3.C,D

The pivot word is "Although", So, some people think they are doing great job, others think they are not; so others would likely to doubt them. Questioned and Grilled are synonyms and matches our prediction.

4.C,D

Trigger word is "BUT", Cancer causing agents are in above safety level, but expert think they are not harmful enough. SO Trivial and Inconsequential matches that.

5.A,D

This is so long, but wait, you don't have to jump in the forest to get sense of this blank. "BOTH" is clue as well as "critic says desperation", we can predict that it was needed. Need and Necessity matches.

6.B, F

Fishes are killed, so decline of fishes are visible. COMPELLING means convincing, it works here. And Undeniable means : That cant be disagreed, it works too.

7.A,C

This is tricky one.   Exemplar and Exacting works here..

8.C,D

This is twisty, be careful for pivot word - Although, Hardly. WE can predict that scientist are hardly Unmistakable . INFALLIBLE and FAIL-SAFE works that.

9.A,C

Most trickiest one so far; answer choices are so tempting. Convincing, Warranted, Pragmatic all works here, but Convincing and Warranted are most synonymous. And mind it, thoroughly doesn't work grammatically..

10.B, F

Easy one! Clue is excessive; Fulsome means excessive too, Extraneous too.

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SELECT TWO ANSWER CHOICES THAT, WHEN USED TO COMPLETE THE SENTENCE, FIT THE MEANING OF THE SENTENCE AS A WHOLE AND PRODUCE COMPLETED SENTENCES THAT ARE SIMILAR IN MEANING.

1. But taking a bigger role in a vast and unprecedented cleanup may also be a political gamble for the President, especially if the government proves as unable as TEXON-the failing company- to ____________ the unending leaks of radioactive materials from the devastated plant.

A. Contain 

B. Peddle

C. Depict

D. Distort

E. Mirror

F. Restrain 

2. Tepco’s leadership has been particularly ____________, critics say, since it remains enmeshed in the collusive ties between the government and the industry that many say made the plant vulnerable.

A. Worrisome

B. Justified

C. Warranted

D. Troublesome

E. Dearth

F. Famine

3. Although the advisers said the company was doing a good job cleaning up, other experts and some regulators have _____________ the company’s ability to handle the highly complex decommissioning of reactors.

A. Praised

B. Accolade

C. Questioned 

D. Grilled

E. Recuperate

F. Recover

4.  The amounts of some radioactive materials, like cancer-causing strontium, flowing into the ocean are above safety limits, but experts say that given the size of the plant’s previous releases, the new ones are relatively _____________.

A. Robust

B. Swarthy

C. Trivial

D. Inconsequential

E. Callous

F. Stout 

5. Indeed, the proposed ice wall is seen here as a symbol of both the daunting technological challenges posed by the cleanup, and the ________________— critics say desperation — for creative solutions as the plant, which already stores enough contaminated water to fill 160 Olympic-size swimming pools, is faced with having to store hundreds of more tons every day.

A. Need

B. Brevity

C. Conciseness

D. Necessity

E. Fearsome

F. Voluminous

6. The evidence of decline of fish is _______________ ;  unprecedented blooms of algae blanketed the estuary’s northern reaches for months, killing vast number of fishes that are the essential components of the estuary ecosystem.

A. Tepid

B. Compelling 

C. Lukewarm

D. Penitential

E. Rueful

F. Undeniable

7. In 1979, the Ramones were recording at a studio with the producer Phil Spector, whose work with the Ronettes, the Righteous Brothers and the Beatles had earned him a reputation as both a musical genius and an ____________, combustible egomaniac.

A. Exacting

B. Edifice

C. Exemplar

D. Acerbic

E. Atrocious

F. Incendiary 

8. Although the scientists are renowned to be unerring species to the ordinary people-who hardly take effort to justify the fact they hear, they are hardly ______________.

A. Immoral

B. Rogue

C. Infallible

D. Fail-safe

E. Mistakable

F. Incorrect

9. Even though the critics publish voluminous reviews deriding the current system that is employed to find fault, they give anything but ___________solutions.

A. Convincing

B. Thoroughly

C. Warranted

D. Pragmatic

E. Trifling

F. Trivial

10. The exacting musician discouraged anything excessive, yet his followers had received with__________accolade written in play-card.

A. Euphoric

B. Fulsome

C. Enthusiastic

D.Acerbic

E. Bitting

F. Extraneous

SOLUTIONS:

ANSWERS OF SENTENCE EQUIVALENCE DRILL-1

 

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9-10=165-170
7-8=155-165
4-6=145-155
1-3=130-145

In Reading comprehension, It is crucial to know why right answer right, wrong answers wrong. Today, I am going to describe the wrong answer choices and types of it. Later, a short reading comprehension along with question with answer will be provided to better understand the strategy of applying wrong answer choices. Eliminating the wrong answer choices is important for difficult question ,especially for the inference question. Do not pick a response simply because it is a true statement. Although true, it may not answer the question posed.

TYPES OF WRONG ANSWER CHOICES:

BROAD SCOPE:

Sometimes the scope is broader than the passage states. For example, if a passage discusses about genetic engineering, the broad scope could be biology. So broad scope is wrong.

NARROW SCOPE:

Narrow scope means the answer choice captures with specific topic rather than the broader scope the passage illustrates., For instance, If the passage discusses about Biology and the answer choices discuss about genetic engineering , then, this answer choice will be narrow scope, so it is incorrect.

OUT OF SCOPE: 

Some answer choices are out of scope which is not discussed in the passage. For example, any answer choice that bring the concern of biology whereas the passage discuss about physics, then it will be out of scope.

EXTREME WORDS: 

Sometimes wrong answer choices might have extreme words( like always, all, only etc), but they are wrong. The tone of the answer should be usually modest (like some, many, might).

DISTORTION:

Many answer choices which are wrong may distort the answer choice, for example, If the passage says "he goes to school", then the distorted choice will say "he doesn't go to school""

TRAP ANSWER:

These answer choices are the most tempting choice which lure students to get puzzled, but be aware of this trap answer which may sound like the right answer but not.

PARTIALLY CORRECT:

Some answer choices are correct but partially. These are wrong. Be careful about these half right-half wrong  choices.

APPLICATION OF STRATEGY:

During the construction of the Quebec Bridge in 1907, the

bridge’s designer, Theodore Cooper, received word that the

suspended span being built out from the bridge’s cantilever

was deflecting downward by a fraction of an inch (2.54

centimeters). Before he could telegraph to freeze the project,

the whole cantilever arm broke off and plunged, along with

seven dozen workers, into the St. Lawrence River. It was the

worst bridge construction disaster in history. As a direct result

of the inquiry that followed, the engineering “rules of thumb”

by which thousands of bridges had been built around the

world went down with the Quebec Bridge. Twentieth-century

bridge engineers would thereafter depend on far more

rigorous applications of mathematical analysis.

Which one of the following statements can be properly inferred from the passage?

(A) Bridges built before about 1907 were built without thorough mathematical analysis and, therefore, were         unsafe for the public to use.

(B) Cooper’s absence from the Quebec Bridge construction site resulted in the breaking off of the cantilever.

(C) Nineteenth-century bridge engineers relied on their rules of thumb because analytical methods were       inadequate to solve their design problems.

(D) Only a more rigorous application of mathematical analysis to the design of the Quebec Bridge could have prevented its collapse.

(E) Prior to 1907 the mathematical analysis incorporated in engineering rules of thumb was insufficient to completely assure the safety of bridges under construction.

Answer and explanation:
A. DISTORTION: THE Passage never says that prior to 1907 , the brides were made without mathematical analysis.
B. OUT OF SCOPE: THE passage never mentioned that.
C. ONE WORD WRONG: This answer choice mentions 19th century, But is there
in the passage?
D. EXTREME WORDS: While the passage suggests that a more rigorous application of mathematical analysis would have prevented the collapse of the bridge, it offers no evidence that it is the only way the collapse could have been prevented.
E.CORRECT:Thus, (E) is the correct response.

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TEXT COMPLETION EXERCISES:

1.

Earlier time, production statistics for beer are widely------------------, speaking to its lack of standing in the American beverage rotation. Later, however, a number of social and technological advancements made beer an------------------- option for drinkers. Additionally, wages were on the rise, -----------------workers the economic means to purchase a beer pack after work.

Available	Hatred	Depriving
Unavailable	Fashionable	Deceiving
Enviable	Appealing	Affording

2.

A total pessimist, obsessed by the many horrors of world events and especially by man’s cruelty to man and even to animals, Beckett had a -----------------------to our short lives on this planet and our attraction to wars, killing and cruelty and tendency to dominate others. But this -----------------was eerie in the midst of ---------------------vision dominated in his time.

Negative attitude	Obfuscation	Buoyant
Positive vision	Observation	Cynical
Pragmatic view	Jargon	Panglossian

3.

A debut novelist rejected by publishers 47 times has described how he was ------------------- when he found out he had been long-listed for the world’s most prestigious literary prize. Yet, this did nothing for him as publishers remain skeptical about him who is notorious for writing ---------------------story in the time of more -----------------------------society.

Crying	Lustful	Immoral
Dumbfounded	Moral	Puritan
Sadistic	Charismatic	Heretical

4.

It might seem impossible to estimate how many different bugs live in a nearby field—or how many types of birds live in a forest. But wildlife biologists are -----------------determining the number of different species in a given habitat. It might sound challenging but---------------; this can help us understand how healthy the habitat is. Likewise, it has many--------------------- in examining the biodiversity of bugs and other small invertebrates in the nature.

Inured  to	Unchallengeable	Controversies
Floundering in	Important	Cautions
Faltering on	Trivial	Implications

5.

This method does give Reilly ample time to make his project efficient, but it is also ----------- of the retarding effects of the scintillating effect, the aim of which is not so much progress but rather a ----------------exploration of a place’s comic possibilities — in his case, a --------------one, as he has manipulated the method so craftily that no foibles are noticeable.

Beneficiary	Useful	Devious
Dictatorial	Desultory	Exhaustive
Emblematic	Auspicious	Artless

6.

Researchers have successfully---------------- magnetic probes –vacancy centers — a step towards using them to perform quantum calculations. Yet, such magnetic probes are very sensitive to small temperature fluctuations. But researchers have begun to turn that potential ---------------------- into strength by using the probes as precise thermometers, and now many scientists ------------------- employed this technique in their research.

Manipulated	Foibles	Fruitfully
Cracked down	Valor	Sweepingly
Withered	Robustness	Woefully

7.

Memory seems------------------------------:  memories of past hardly adjusts to new memory experienced by human. Now, a new set of experiments, led by MIT neuroscientists Steve Ramirez’s lab, shows that this needn’t be the case. Using a stunning set of molecular neuroscience techniques, these scientists have captured specific memories of past in mice, added new memories to them, and shown that the mice behave -----------------------------with these new, false, implanted memories. Thus, memory engineering might have big ---------------, perhaps someday, in human health and society too.

Untouchable	Row	Drawbacks
Irreconcilable	In accord	Implications
Unaffectionate	Discord	Casualty

8.

 The French mathematical economist Léon Walras anticipated inventing a physics of social behavior that would be comparable to Isaac Newton’s laws of motion.  Walras devised just such a theory, but it was--------------------------. Walras’s theory was based upon a ------------------------rather than a pragmatic thinking. This complicated, assumption-heavy doomed theory led Walras to comment that such idea of inventing a physics of social behavior -----------------------yet provable.

Successfully employed	Fanciful  concept	Improbable
Fatally  flawed	Illustrious theory	Happenstance
Thoroughly researched	Undammed  idea	Fluke

ANSWERS:
1.BCC
2.ABA
3.BAB
4.ABC
5.CBA
6.AAA
7.BBB
8.BAA