PDF Sentence Completion and Jumbled Paragraphs Worksheet

Jumbled paragraphs
Directions for questions 15: Each question has six sentences which when properly sequenced form a coherent paragraph. While sentences 1 and 6 are fixed in their respective positions, the four sentences in between are jumbled. Choose the most logical order of sentences from among the four given choices to construct a paragraph. 1. 1. a. b. c. d. 6. The psychological obstacles to the restoration of the international association of scientific workers are still too formidable to overcome. They can do this by keeping in touch with like-minded people all over the world. Men of this kind can aid in the great work of restoring the international societies to health. They can also do this by steadfastly championing the international cause in their own spheres. This is because there is a minority whose ideas and feelings are of a more comprehensive kind. Success on a large scale will take time but it will undoubtedly come. 1. cbad 2. dbac 3. bdca 4. bacd As long as the artist is an employed workman he must compromise. At the same time he should not sacrifice his own integrity in doing so. It is a dangerous holding of the balance between two sets of forces. He must never lose touch with life and its requirements. For compromise of that kind is not a concession to a lower order of things. The artist, like a chisel, serves a master, but in doing so he gives his master something he never bargained for. 1. cadb 2. abcd 3. dcba 4. badc The tragedy of the present struggle is that the ends for which people are striving food, work, security and freedom are gifts of science. If people could only understand a little of this possibility in which science offers. But instead we have danger and bloodshed, want and misery. These are gifts which science has put within the reach of all. The resources, knowledge and the ability to build a new world are there. People would become more reasonably impatient of their present state and more capable of changing it. 1. cdba 2. bcda 3. dacb 4. dcab The country abounds in the finest natural productions. But the zealous explorer may come upon its gentler beauties in an incredibly short time. Its pastures and cattle are admirable. The more majestic parts of it are at a distance.
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And the deer are to be met with, in the course of a half a day journey. And the traveler is accompanied, whenever he goes, with music of the singing birds. 1. acdb 2. cabd 3. dcba 4. Cadb Ideas of beauty are among the noblest, which can be presented to the human mind. And which, to the rightly perceiving mind does not present a greater number of beautiful than of deformed parts. Invariably it exacts and purifies it according to their degree. It would appear that we are intended by the creator to be constantly under their influence. Because there is not one single object in nature which is not capable of conveying them. As there is scarcely anything in pure, un-diseased nature, like positive deforming but only degrees of beauty. 1. abdc 3. cabd 2. 4. dcba bcda
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Sentence completion
1. He is having ____________________ relations with everybody because of his _____________________ nature. (amicable, congenial) 2. I have been working hard to _________________ my goal but till now l have not been able to ____________________ anything. (achieve, accomplish) 3. The sudden _________________ of the startled pigeons was because of the __________________ winds. (agitating, fluttering) 4. Initially he was very _____________________ but failure made him ___________________ towards those who were successful. (benevolent, malevolent) 5. The __________________ effect of the medicine will be visible only if you have ____________________ food. (curative, wholesome) 6. They ________________ celebrated Christmas but the x-mas tree was _____________________ decorated. (seldom, whimsically) 7. The ___________________, old man was given a _____________________ sum as compensation. (paltry, feeble) 8. Her ___________________ voice was _____________________ through the night. (piercing, shrill) 9. He ______________________ pompously so as to __________________ his sword. (swaggered, brandish) 10. He _________________ enquired about her health and asked her to stop behaving _________________. (carelessly, solicitously) 11. She was __________________ by a stalker along the ___________________ of her home. (stalked, track)
12. His __________________ English dialect was ______________________ to Canadians. (peculiar, quaint) 13. His reputation as a __________________ contradicts his ____________________ attitude. (chivalric, coward) 14. She shall not ______________________ she is very _____________________ by nature. (rebel, complaisant) 15. The girl performed a _____________________ dance with graceful movements of her ___________________ feet. (sprightly, nimble)

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