Sentence Completion MCQ - Sentence Completion Section 1

16 Revenues are likely to register a dramatic increase if _____________ on the hundred million people who are said to comprise the rising Indian middle class

The right word to precede the proposition 'on' is imposed. Tax is not collected on ....... people. Tax is not placed on people, Tax is not charged on people. Hence, choices (a), (b) and (c) are not the answers. Tax is imposed....... on........

17 The ideas that these companies used seem so simple with________that their competitors will now________themselves for not thinking of them first.

18 Home is _______one has yet to improve.

'Discovery'refers to something that existed
previously and came to knowledge later.
Home is not a discovery.
(b) Home is not a certain. It is a set up which comes into being as a result of a certain composition of various factors.
(c) Home is not a new invention of anyone at any stage of development.
So choice (d) is the best answer. Home is an institution just like 'marriage. Home is a reality only when its members accept certain principles.

19 The safest general characterisation of the European philosophical tradition as it has developed up to now, with all its diverse proponents,is that it consists of a________Plato.

20 The stock market is probably__________ and the way the markets are plunging says a lot about investor confidence.

The key words are 'plunging' and 'investor confidence'. If markets are plunging, investor confidence is low. This aspect is brought out best by choice (c).