GAT General (NTS) chapter 2: Verbal · Sentence completion MCQs with answers
By Team Megalecture · Updated 4 Nov 2026
30 exam-style questions on Verbal · Sentence completion, each with the answer and a short explanation. Ten of them are below to try. The chapter test draws ten fresh questions each time and is marked the moment you finish, with your score by topic.
Ten Verbal · Sentence completion questions with answers
Try each one, then open the answer. These ten stay the same; the test draws new ones every time.
1. Choose the words that best complete the sentence. Rather than ______ the criticism, the author ______ it, revising the chapters her reviewers had found weakest.
A
accepting … rejected
B
ignoring … overlooked
C
welcoming … embraced
D
dismissing … welcomed
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Answer: D. 'Rather than' sets the two blanks against each other, and the revision shows she took the criticism on board: rather than dismissing it, she welcomed it. 'Accepting … rejected' contradicts the revising.
2. Choose the word that best completes the sentence. The novelist's later works were ______ by critics who had praised her earlier books, and sales fell sharply.
A
dismissed
B
acclaimed
C
translated
D
serialised
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Answer: A. The critics 'had praised' the earlier books and sales then fell, so the later books were treated badly: dismissed. 'Acclaimed' would not make sales fall.
3. Choose the word that best completes the sentence. Because the old road was so ______, the journey that should have taken an hour took nearly three.
A
scenic
B
direct
C
congested
D
familiar
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Answer: C. The journey took three times as long, so the road was blocked with traffic: congested. A direct road would make the journey shorter.
4. Choose the words that best complete the sentence. The committee's decision was ______ rather than ______: it followed the rules exactly but ignored the hardship it would cause.
A
humane … correct
B
hasty … considered
C
correct … humane
D
illegal … fair
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Answer: C. The colon gives the two qualities in order: following the rules exactly makes the decision correct; ignoring the hardship makes it not humane. The first option reverses them, and 'hasty' contradicts following the rules exactly.
5. Choose the words that best complete the sentence. So ______ was the demand for the new phone that shops ______ their stock within hours of opening.
A
weak … sold
B
great … discounted
C
modest … cleared
D
great … exhausted
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Answer: D. 'So ... that' links a cause to a result: demand so great that stock was used up (exhausted) within hours. Weak or modest demand would not clear the shelves, and great demand gives no reason to discount.
6. Choose the word that best completes the sentence. The speaker's remarks were so ______ that half the audience had left before he reached his main point.
A
concise
B
long-winded
C
moving
D
brief
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Answer: B. People left before he reached the point, so he took far too long to get there: long-winded. 'Concise' and 'brief' are the opposite.
7. Choose the word that best completes the sentence. Experts warned that the ______ growth of the city had outpaced its supply of clean water.
A
gradual
B
planned
C
limited
D
rapid
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Answer: D. Growth that outpaces the water supply is growth that is too fast: rapid. Gradual or limited growth would give the supply time to keep up.
8. Choose the words that best complete the sentence. The report was ______ in its criticism of the department but ______ about what should be done instead, offering no concrete proposals.
A
gentle … detailed
B
lengthy … specific
C
scathing … vague
D
scathing … precise
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Answer: C. 'Offering no concrete proposals' fixes the second blank as vague, and 'but' needs the first to contrast with it: fierce (scathing) in criticism, vague on solutions. 'Precise' and 'detailed' contradict the lack of proposals.
9. Choose the words that best complete the sentence. The historian's account is ______ but not ______: it covers every year of the reign, yet it never asks why events happened as they did.
A
thorough … analytical
B
brief … complete
C
biased … partial
D
readable … long
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Answer: A. The colon explains the pair in order: covering every year makes the account thorough; never asking why makes it not analytical. 'Biased … partial' are synonyms, so 'but not' would make no sense.
10. Choose the word that best completes the sentence. The minister's promise to cut taxes while doubling spending struck most economists as ______.
A
modest
B
overdue
C
untenable
D
conventional
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Answer: C. Cutting taxes and doubling spending at the same time cannot be sustained, so economists found the promise impossible to defend: untenable.
Chapter test. Ten questions from Verbal · Sentence completion, drawn fresh each time, about ten minutes.
Practice mode. The right answer and the explanation after every question, with no clock. Exam mode keeps the marks until the end and runs a timer.
Hints. One tap for a nudge, a second to remove two wrong options.
My mistakes. Every question you get wrong is kept, and leaves the list once you get it right.
Verbal · Sentence completion: questions students ask
How many Verbal · Sentence completion MCQs are there?
30, each with the answer and a short explanation, across 1 topics: Sentence completion. Every chapter test draws ten of them, so you can take it many times.
Is the GAT General (NTS) chapter 2 test free?
Yes. The test, the answers and the explanations are free and need no sign-up. Sign in only if you want your scores kept across devices.
How is the chapter test marked?
The moment you press Finish: your score, the right answer and an explanation for every question, and the ones you got wrong saved in My mistakes to retry.
