Directions (1-5) : Each question below has two blanks, each blank indicating that something has been omitted Choose the set of words for each blank which best fits the meaning of the sentence as a whole.
1. ……… their golden years of love and togetherness, the couple ……… all their guests at their fiftieth wedding anniversary. (1)
(1) Celebrating, welcomed
(2) Remembering asked
(3) Rejoicing, promised
(4) Commemorating, brought
(5) Observing, greeted
2. A new law has been passed starting that no actor would be allowed to shoot beyond twelve hours in a day and those who …….. this norm would henceforth be …….. for it. (3)
(1) followed, punished
(2) accompanied, reprimanded
(3) flouted, penalized
(4) defied, applauded
(5) obeyed, disciplined
3.Since it does not have the ……. To do anything beyond sending out notices, the corporation has now decided to take steps to attach movable properties such as cars so that people take the notices more ……….. (5)
(1) authority, appropriately
(2) influence, justly
(3) guts, sincerely
(4) pressure, gravely
(5) power, seriously
4. We can feel morally………. When someone insults us-as long as we do not ……. Upon those feelings by burning down houses. (2)
(1) challenged, stand
(2) outraged, act
(3) bound, build
(4) obliged, think
(5) violated, harp
5. Human beings are biological ……….; they need to be grounded in time and place or else they come …….. (5)
(1) things, forward
(2) souls, back
(3) organisms, unhinged
(4) features, undone
(5) creatures, again
